
A smooth rendition of the Paul Harris Classic with a sweet kicker at the end. Remove the following cards from the deck and place them in the following order from the face: Black Queen, Red Queen, Black Queen, Red King, Black King, Ace, Ace, Ace, Ace, Black King.
- Take the packet into your left hand and count over 7 cards without reversing the order, holding the last three cards as one. Square up maintains a break above the three cards.
- Pushing over the top three cards, flip all the cards above the break face up. A red King should show on the face. Lift the cards above the break, and perform an Elmsley count showing the four Kings. Flip the packet face down and deal the top four cards to the table. The spectator will think it is the four Kings.
- Patter “These are the Queens” as you take the Queen packet into your left hand. As you patter, take the top card into your right hand. Take the next card under the first. Do a three-card block push, placing the cards on the bottom. Place the final card on top of the packet. Flip the cards face up and perform an Elmsley count showing four Queens.
- Tell the spectator that you are going to make the Kings travel one by one into the Queen packet. Tap the Queen packet on the King packet, flip the Queen’s face up, and perform an Elmsley count. Do this casually, not drawing too much attention to the packet. Taking the packet in your left hand, count off three cards and maintain the last two as one displaying three Queens and one King.
- Tap the Kings with the Queen packet, perform another Elmsley count, and count over the cards showing two Queens and two Kings.
- Tap the cards one more time and perform another Elmsley count. This time, only two Kings will be displayed, a fact the spectator will not notice since you will do a quick count-off reveal displaying three Kings and one Queen.
- At this point, there is a slight displacement replacing the red King with the black King. As you hold the spread, let your thumb rest on the face of the Red King. Your right fingers contact the black King from underneath. Move your right hand to the right, taking the Ted Queen and black King with it. The red King is retained by your left thumb and peeled off into the left-hand cards. Revolve both hands palm down to display the backs of the cards. Revolve back palm up. Place the two right-hand cards under the left-hand packet and
- Tell the audience that you will make the last King travel across as you perform one last Elmsley count, displaying four Kings. And, of course, if the Kings have all traveled here, the Queens must have traveled to the tabled packet. Turn the cards on the table face up, displaying the four aces.