Magic Tricks Revealed: The Amazing Forced Card Trick

by: George Hutton

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 Time: 10:14 AM - 0 comments

Here's a fantastic card trick that will baffle your audience and make them think that you are the greatest magician since Harry Houdini. It sounds a bit complicated at first, but just a few minutes practice at home, and you'll be easily be able to perform it like a professional. This up close magic trick requires only a deck of cards. It can be done by itself, or in a set of other magic tricks.

This is what the trick will look like to your soon to be astounded beyond belief audience. You pull out a regular deck. You give the deck to an audience member and have them shuffle it and look through it to make sure that it's not a trick deck or anything like that. After that they give you back the deck.

Then you start pulling cards off the top, and laying them face down on the table. You don't look at any cards. In fact, you don't even look at the deck. All you're looking at is your incredulous audience. You instruct someone in the audience to yell "Stop!" whenever they feel like it. Once they yell "Stop!" you take that card, put it face down, but all by itself next to the previous stack. You have the audience member come forward, look at the "Stop!" card, and put it in the deck. They show the other audience members, shuffle it, and return the deck to. You calmly pick up the deck, and quickly extract their card, to their profound amazement.

Here's how the trick works. After you've got the deck back, sneak a quick peek at the bottom card. This is fairly easy once you get the hang of it. This can be done rapidly when they give you back the deck. When you hold the deck, grab the bottom card with your forefinger and quickly pull it back, just a little bit.

So when you are dealing, you are actually dealing from the bottom, not the top as everybody will assume. This is a lot simpler than it appears. Just a small amount of practice is all that you will require. It will also help if you have some decent patter, and are engaged with the audience while you are dealing out the cards. Once the chosen person yells "Stop!" you merely take the card from the bottom that you've been holding back, and that will be their card, which you have already looked at.

There are several ways you can reveal this trick. You can simply search through the deck to find their card. Or you can search through the deck, and pretend to read their mind and call out the card. Or you can pretend to read their mind, and not even look through the deck and call out their card. The ways are endless, and I'm sure you can think of plenty of fantastic ways to lower the fantastic boom on your audience.