You Must Be Joking !! Card Trick
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Easy but fascinating magic trick with with cards. A spectator's card is buried anywhere in the deck and found by a joker every time !!!
This card trick is easy to do and can be learned and performed very quickly. It requires only a simple gimmick and no real sleight of hand or difficult card flourishes, needing only a simple ruffle through the deck to perform a convincing magic card illusion.
Explain to your audience that your pack of cards contains a magic joker that will seek out their chosen card every time. You are now ready to begin the trick.
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Prepare the deck as follows before your performance, out of sight of your audience. Take a joker out of the deck of cards and cut out a corner section as shown in the photo on the left. Place the prepared card on the bottom of the deck. |
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To begin the trick, fan out the deck and invite your spectator to choose any card from the deck. Ask them memorize it and then place it back on top of the deck. |
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Cut the deck once so that you appear to be burying their card in the deck Unknown to them, you are bringing their card next to the prepared joker. |
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Now, hold the deck as shown in the photo and with your finger, riffle through the deck from the bottom to the top of the deck. |
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You will find that the the joker will jump out from the pack. |
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Hold out the pack as shown,
facing your spectator. Their card will be directly in front of
the joker. Use your best acting skills and patter to make the most
of this seemingly impossible feat.
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This card trick really can look amazing and like any cool magic illusion, benefits from you, the magician, having a little practice and thinking up some imaginative patter, before performing the trick in front of an audience.
The use of a good quality pack of playing cards such as Bicycle Brand can help you to get the best handling from the pack when performing tricks and sleights and are a popular choice of all levels of magicians.
