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You forced Michael to choose the king of clubs using a very straightforward technique called the ‘cross-cut force’. This works as follows.

Place your force card, which could be the king of clubs or whichever card you feel is appropriate for your audience, at the very top of the deck. Make sure the back of the force card is uppermost.

When the deck was cut, you directed your friend to place the cards he had removed on the table next to the pile of cards that remained. You then asked him to place those remaining cards (cards that were originally the bottom portion of the deck) on top of and at right angles to the cards he had originally cut off, as in the diagram overleaf.

To make the force work you needed to create a little misdirection. More specifically, you needed to make your audience forget which order the piles of cards were originally in and how they had been subsequently laid out. But once you had messed with their memory a little, you simply lifted off the upper portion of the deck and asked Michael to ‘pick up the card you cut to’. In fact, this was a complete lie, as you were holding the card he had cut to in your hand. What you actually had him do was turn over the card that was originally on top of the deck – the force card.

The force card is placed at the top of the deck.