Technique: How to take the second card from the top of the deck while giving the illusion of dealing the first one. Very useful for cheating demonstrations - Version 2.  

Technique: How to take the second card from the top of the deck while giving the illusion of dealing the first one. Very useful for cheating demonstrations - Version 1.  

Two spectators each choose a card from a packet of cards cut in half. The choices are clear-cut; the spectators do everything. However, when these two halves of the cards are turned over, they match each other and fit together perfectly to form a single card! No manipulation required. The ideal trick to use your old cards!  

Four thieves, symbolized by the Aces, pass one by one through the deck, then when they are caught by the gendarmes (symbolized by the cards in the rest of the deck), vanish... and gather in the packet chosen by the spectator! The saga of the gendarmes and the thieves, "Renélys style"!