You'll amaze your friends with these easy magic tricks. I hope you have fun with them.
So
here's how to perform the floating (levitating) card. Now I'm using string here for demonstration
purposes. You can use black thread and 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 professional means so i'm just going to say that you need to talk
to a magic dealer and they'll have a solution for you. But I can't go into this 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 Ihave two pieces of string here that are connected and there's two of them one on each
side of the card. Now 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 on 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 the levitating or floating card.
So
most people think that Harry Houdini was 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. A hole through the cards. Now let's see if we can do some magic here. We're
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. And 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 and i used a hole punch to punch a hole. I just happen
to have this key ring. So this is what I used and i've created this gimmicked card here. So we have
the queen, actually 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 it's two thicknesses on this side and that's glued here
to there. And this is an intact card. But i''ve cut
a portion away so when it's 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 a key ring that apparently goes through all cards. And I wanted
to openly show that this keyring 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. I showed the top card with the hole.
I took these three cards and I don't want to show this one because then 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 and show both sides so people can see. And then by taking the center card which of course is
our gimmicked 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 and I
kind of pulled these away. And what I'm waiting for is for this to clear.
So at this point I can just flip this down. So what I do is 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 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 keep your fingers over
here because there is a crease right here. Keep it in motion and people won't notice. Show the hole
and yeah, it's a fun trick, a card trick with an escape artist theme.