Effect: A spectator chooses
a card, looks at it and returns it to the deck. The magician then boasts about
about how sensitive his fingertips are and about how he can find the spectators
selected card by feeling the deck. He then riffles his fingers across the sides
of the pack a few times and removes a card from near the middle of the
deck.
The magician then proudly announces that
this is the spectators card and shows it. The spectator announces that it is
not. The magician then asks the name of the spectators card and when
told, the card he holds visibly switches to the spectators chosen
card.
Method: Have a card
selected and controlled to the top. (Methods of controlling cards and forcing a card can be found in this and
other sites or magician sleight books at your local library) Now remove one
card at random from the middle of the pack.
While showing this card and asking if
it's the correct one, get a finger break under the top card with your left
pinky. This is easily done by holding the deck in the left hand in position for
dealing and pushing the top card out with the thumb getting your little finger
under it and then squaring the cards back up.
When the spectator has very happily
informed you that you are wrong, lay the card face up on top of the pack.
Square up the cards and remove the top two cards as one.
You now have what amounts to a double
faced card. When removing the card(s), take it palm down between the middle
finger and the thumb with the forefinger resting about the middle (Fig
1).
When you wish to make the card change,
move the forefinger next to the thumb and make the card bend away from you
(concave). You can now almost grip the one corner between thumb and
forefinger.
Release the corner with the middle
finger and let the card snap around! (Fig 2) You will need to
turn your hand a little, as well. Exactly how far you will need to turn your
hand, will come with experience from practicing the trick. The two cards keep
together really well after a little practice.
To polish off this jewel of a
trick, drop the card(s) back on top of the deck and take the top (face up
chosen ) card and place it on the table, then cut the deck. This will ensure
that no one can check if the card had been a double faced one.
