So,
you're going to use something that's a
gimmick and i'll show it to you. You will have to to use some cards in the process of making the
gimmick but it's a pretty cool card trick because what you're doing is having your card selected
and then it ends up in an impossible place. First of all, let me talk about the gimmick.
This card here is actually, what I've done is that there are two cards glued together here:
two of hearts and the seven of hearts. See? These are glued together at the bottom.
And one other little thing I've done to this is the two of hearts is trimmed just slightly.
So it looks pretty normal but if I hold it like this, the two of hearts tends to fly out
before the seven of hearts. Now I happened to choose the seven of hearts but you can use
whatever card you want. But the card that appears someplace else has to be the same card. And so,
in this case, it's the seven hearts. And back here, I have seven of hearts and I have
this gimmick card. It's glued together right here at the bottom. Here's what you do.
You have your gimmick card: the two of hearts with the seven of hearts behind it and make sure that
the opening of the card is this way facing the spectator over here. Now I want you to
listen. Hopefully you'll be able to hear this. But as i go through the cards, now see? I like
to bevel the back of the card. Let's see if I can show that to you. See how I'm beveling it
like this? And that's kind of important because it emphasizes that extra long and short card.
And what you do is you go through with your finger now to hear that little pop. It makes a slightly
different sound when that card, the two of hearts, plops down and reveals the seven of hearts.
Do you hear that?
It just automatically stops there and gives you a pause. So you can perform this two
ways. You can have the spectator as I did in the performance as I'm running through have them say
"stop." And you try and time it so it stops when they say "stop." You want to show that
card. You can also do this the easy way and that would be, remember I'm beveling the deck here.
But you do it the easy way. You just say "hey, we're just going to go through the deck and oh,
there's a card right there." And then you can do this two ways. You can pretend not to know
the card and go from there to not only find the card but to make it travel someplace else. Or
you can do it the way I did and say "I'm gonna change it up. I'm not going to find your card.
We're going to send it someplace. So anyway, you show the card and then close the deck.