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    This document describes the construction and use of the "Kismet Envelope", a three-compartment envelope that allows a magician to produce a playing card from one of the compartments. It has three compartments that each hold a playing card. The envelope is easy to construct and use, taking less than two minutes to make. It provides natural handling that allows the magician to open a specific compartment and remove the card within in a convincing manner.

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    This document describes the construction and use of the "Kismet Envelope", a three-compartment envelope that allows a magician to produce a playing card from one of the compartments. It has three compartments that each hold a playing card. The envelope is easy to construct and use, taking less than two minutes to make. It provides natural handling that allows the magician to open a specific compartment and remove the card within in a convincing manner.

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    This document describes the construction and use of the "Kismet Envelope", a three-compartment envelope that allows a magician to produce a playing card from one of the compartments. It has three compartments that each hold a playing card. The envelope is easy to construct and use, taking less than two minutes to make. It provides natural handling that allows the magician to open a specific compartment and remove the card within in a convincing manner.

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    Ted Lesley - The "Kismet" Envelope - Stevens Magic Emporium

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    Ted Lesley – The "kismet"

    Envelope
    (Norman Houghton)

    This “Three-Way-Envelope” is the best we came across. It is easy to


    construct (it takes you less than two minutes); it’s immediately
    reusable and foolproof in its handling.

    Look at the illustrations on the last page. These


    show clearly its construction. It is made from an
    opaque, end-opening envelope measu-ring
    approximately three-and-quarter by four-and-
    three-quarters inches, and has a double partition
    fashioned from one piece of paper, nine inches
    long and folded at the bottom into the shape of
    an uneven “V”. This folded piece must match the
    paper stock from which the envelope is made,
    and is just slightly narrower than the envelope.
    The partition lying on the flap-side of the envelope is roughly an
    eight of an inch shorter than the interior of the envelope; and the
    partition toward the seam-side of the envelope is a quarter of an inch
    shorter than its companion.

    The partitions divide the envelope into three compartments. Each


    compartment is capable of holding a playing card, providing you with
    three “outs”. (Six “outs” are possible, if you were to use three double-
    faced cards, as Mr. Houghton has done in his original “Kismet”
    effect.)

    The greates advantage of the Kismet Envelope ist the natural


    handling its construction makes possible when you wish to remove
    :
    one of the three cards it contains. (With this instructions comes a
    sample Kismet Envelope with three cards already inserted into each
    compartment.)

    Now try this :

    With your palm-down left hand, grasp the envelope from above by
    its opposite long edges, seam-side up and flap opened straight out
    to the right. The thumb is at the near side, the fingers are at the far
    side. If you press the thumb and fingers lightly together, the
    envelope will bow open. As a rule, the two compartments inside will
    bow apart as well, opening the middle compartment. If you now turn
    the envelope mouth down, the card from the center compartment
    will fall out, while the other two cards remain int their compartments,
    pressed against the inside walls of the envelope by the bowed
    partitions.

    To open the top (seam-side) compartment, press lightly down with


    your left forefinger on the center of the envelope, just before the left
    fingers sqeeze the sides. This will curve both paper partitions dwon
    against the flap-side of the envelope, and the top compartment will
    bow open. The cards in the middle and bottom compartments are
    trapped in place, and you can safely tip the top card from the
    envelope.

    If you wish to release the card in the bottom (flap-side)


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    compartment, first press the tip of your right second finger on the
    underside of the envelope, bowing it upward, before squeezing the
    sides with the left fingers. This forces both partitions to curve
    upward against the seam-side of the envelope, and the bottom
    compartment to gape open.

    Should you experience any difficulty in opening the desired


    compartment, you can quickly remedy the problem by inserting your
    right thumb or forefinger into the envelopeand pushing open the
    compartment when required. And if you should find that the center
    compartment consistently refuses to bow open, separate the thwo
    partitions with your fingers, then give the sides of the envelope a
    sharp squeeze, putting a gentle crimp in each partition. This minor
    preparation before the performance will assure that the center
    compartment opens properly when required. During performance, of
    course, you can look into the envelope to make sure that you have
    opened it to the correct section.

    All this is much more difficult to describe than to do. Try it a few
    times and you will immediately see how simple the operation is.

    Tricks and routines with Norman Houghton`s “KISMET ENVELOPE”


    are limited only by your imagination.
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