Fool your friends with these easy magic tricks.
So
a lot of people think that Harry Houdini was the greatest magician of all time but it turns out he
was actually an escape artist. And we're going to do a little escape artist thing here with
some playing cards. You can see that there's a hole running through the cards right there.
Right there is a hole through the cards. Now let's see if we can do some magic
here. I'm going to bind them up, just as an escape artist might be bound with chains or a straight
jacket. Now we're going to use - let's go with the queen here. The queen's going to act as our escape
artist. If the magic has happened...right about here, the escape artist should be making a move.
I don't know if you can see it there but the escape artist is making a move
let's see how it looks right there, and as you can see, there's a hole that's still intact.
That is our escape artist. Here's how you perform the trick. You're going to have to create
a gimmicked card here. So what I've done is I've taken two queen of clubs. First of all,
I just have four cards here. I use the hole punch to punch a hole. I just happen to have
this key ring along. So this is what I used and I've created this gimmicked card here.
So we have the queen - two queens, that are glued together. The queen here, this is one card here
that's folded in half and has a hole in the top. And we have the second card here.
It's glued on this part together. So that's two thicknesses on this side that are glued here
to there. And this is an intact card but I've cut a portion away so when closed
like this it looks just like an ordinary card. But when pulled back, it's completely open. So
in the beginning, this card goes in here. Now here's what I did.
I started out with the key ring going apparently through all the cards. And I wanted to show it
openly, that this key ring is going through the cards. But of course, it's not going through the
queen. The queen's already free now. I showed the cards and I showed the top card with the hole.
I took these three cards (I don't want to show this one because they're going to see the secret).
So for this display I took the top card. I took the next three cards and then I showed these
cards to have holes in them. I gathered them up. Now I take my key ring and place it through the
hole. I show both sides so people can see and then by taking the center card, which of course is our
gimmick card, it's already free. I think it makes it look harder that it's in between
these other cards. Now let's just slowly draw out the card. Now what I did here was I tried to
keep this card under cover of these two here. And so I'm kind of waiting. So
I kind of pulled these away and what I'm kind of waiting for is for this to clear.
So at this point, I can just flip this down. So what I did was I just kind of flipped it down,
right here, as I was getting ready to pull it out. And then I
turned it over immediately. You could turn it and hold it this way, but they might see it. One of
the reasons why I chose a face card is because it does obscure this line here. But I wouldn't show
this one too openly. I like just showing the back here and showing the hole is intact. And you can
kind of keep your fingers over here because there is a crease right here. Keep it in motion people
won't notice show the hole. And you have a fun trick a card trick with an escape artist theme.
Here's how to perform the floating card. Now I'm using string here for demonstration purposes.
You can use black thread. If you're going to use black thread you're going to have to stand back
a little bit from your crowd and it helps to wear black clothing or very dark clothing. Now
you could perform this a little closer up if you can find hair that is long enough to accomplish
this. Yes, this can be done with hair. Now for the performance that you see on the video i used a
some a professional means so I'm just going to say that you need to talk to a magic dealer. They'll
have a solution for you but I can't go into that in detail on a public type of video like this. But
just talk to a magic dealer. So with the string you can see that I have two pieces of string here
that are connected and there's two of them, one on each side of the card. I just use regular tape
and the other part is taped to a button here. So all you're doing is running your fingers
through and then you can have it lift from a deck of cards or you can have it rise from
your hand. But all you're doing is moving your hand forward which causes the card
to rise up. So I'm, see? I'm just moving my hand forward and it causes the card to rise up.
So again, if you have dark clothing you'll be able to get away using black thread and give yourself a
little distance but that is a levitating or floating card.