Amazing free card levitating stunt. Performed right in front of your spectator. Looks very convincing.Effect: A seemingly random playing card is chosen from the deck and shown to the spectator. The card is then placed flat onto the magician's palm where, after a subtle magic wave of his other hand, the card is seen to visible rise up from his hand. This looks amazing as there seems to be no explanation as to why the card appears to be floating on thin air. The performance and magic secret method are explained in the following video. Make sure and read the magic tips to help you perform this trick to maximum effect at the bottom of this page.
You Need: A deck of cards, glue or clear adhesive tape, clear flexible plastic strip, scissors.How It's Done: Prepare your gimmicked cards as follows. Secure plastic strip to back of card as shown in video.Clear flexible plastic can sometimes be found as part of the packaging of new shirts, used to support the collar. Otherwise there are many other sources of packaging where is should be able to be obtained.The reason for trimming it so that it extends out from each end of the card is so that the thumb base and fingers can easily grip it. This makes the trick a whole lot easier.Pressing lightly on each end of the strip will cause it to arch and raise the playing card.Tips: Practice this trick in front of a mirror to perfect your angles so that the plastic strip is hidden from the spectator as the card is arching.
Torn And Restored
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Effect: A card ( which can even be a signed card ) is ripped into four pieces. The spectator puts a finger on the piecesand the pieces seem to magically restore themselves back into a whole card. !!!
Preparation: Before doing the trick, rip off one fourth of a playing card of the same colour of suit as the one that you will be appearing to tear.
Start the trick with the card facing in front of you and fold it into fourths, creasing the card and then unravelling it. Explain to your audience that doing this makes it easier to tear the card evenly.
Performance: Hold the card in front of you, facing the audience, the extra torn card piece should be pressed by your thumb onto the side of the card that is facing you. Rip down the upper middle of the card stopping at the centre. Now fold down the upper right corner and slide out the corner you ripped of earlier as the piece that was ripped of.
( This should look like you have ripped of the corner from the card - the audience cannot see that the real corner is still attached to the card and folded out of their view .)
Now put the torn piece behind the card again, being held in position with your thumb.
Fold what is now the lower right corner behind the card. As you are bending this piece back, slide the extra piece into view again, pretend to rip it off. Place it behind the card and fold the card in half again.
( really it is still together )
Pretend to rip it in half again, but just slide the loose piece off the pile convincingly to look like it has ripped. Place the piece behind the card which is now folded up.
Now even though the card is not ripped, you can fan the pieces to make it look like three or four pieces. Ask a spectator to place their fingers on the "torn " pieces. As you set the pieces on the table, steal the loose piece with your thumb and hide it in your hand by using a finger palm move.
Misdirect and place the loose piece in your pocket. Now ask the spectator to examine the card and they will find that it is in one piece.
Take a bow, as the audience look completely baffled.
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Effect : The performer asks the spectator to pick a card without him seeing the face and replace it in the pack.The pack is then shuffled and the performer is apparently unsuccessful in locating the card.After a few attempts, the cards are thrown against a window in a fit of rage. On looking at the window, the chosen card is seen to be sticking to it, even more surprising is the fact that the card is on the inside of the window. Here is one explanation of the trick.
Method : This magic trick should be performed in an area with a large window nearby and with the spectator facing away from the window.The spectator is asked to choose a card from a pack, memorize it and without showing you, replace the card in the pack.The pack is then shuffled and and a couple of attempts at "is this your card " tried followed by a look of disbelief when the spectator tells you that it is not their card (this is all part of the magic act as you don''t even need to know the card).After a few attempts you fake an angry outburst and making sure the cards are squared up throw the pack broadside at the window, where they will hit the window and fall to the ground, except the chosen card which is sticking to the window.Your helper was already positioned behind the window and spectator and had an identical pack of cards. He was able to see the chosen card and took the duplicate from his pack.A small piece of looped sticky tape or magicians wax was attached to the duplicate card and it was stuck to the inside of the window.The helper should then have walked away from the window.
This is a really useful sleight which will allow you to appear to make a card vanish. The sleight should enhance your magic trick routines.Vanish a card in thin air, Learn this exciting card sleight here.
Effect: A playing card is held in the magician's hand in clear view of the audience. Suddenly and unexplained, the card vanishes into thin air and the magician's open hand can be seen to be completely empty. Then, just as suddenly as the playing card was vanished, it is plucked out of thin air again and is clearly shown to be in the magician's hand.Method: This card trick is shown and the magic secret explained in the video shown on this page. Don't forget to practice this sleight until you can perform it competently. It takes a lot of practice to make a card vanish but the result is well worth it and it can be incorporated into many card trick routines.
