NOT ORIGONAL DOCUMENT – MADE WITHOUT CREATOR PERMISSION 
 

NOT ORIGONAL DOCUMENT – MADE WITHOUT CREATOR PERMISSION 
 

 

Hover Card 

By Dan Harland 

 

EFFECT: Have a card selected from an ordinary deck.  Place the selected card 

face-up on top of the deck. Now, while you are holding the deck with the 
selected card facing the audience, the card begins to float gently off of the 

deck!! The selected card hovers mysteriously above the deck, then slowly comes 
to rest, balanced upon one corner. You motion to the card, and it slowly floats 

back onto the deck. Show the card on both sides, then hand it out! Hover 

Card looks absolutely amazing. The card appears to float at least two inches 
from the deck! Hover Card uses no threads or wires; there are no body 

connections of any kind. The gimmick is very small, so it comes and goes with 
ease. 

Secret: Ordinary card is switched for a gimmicked duplicate which floats by 
means of a 'mechanical parallel hinge'. the gimmick consists of two cards; a 

double back card and a floating card. they are connected by the plastic 
rectangular hinge, hinged at its corners, this is what is needed to float the card, 

the rectangle is attached diagonally so that the floating card floats at an angle 

and comes to rest upon one of the corners. You must learn how to hold the 
gimmick carefully or it will snap you need to tilt and tip the gimmick so gravity 

will cause it to swing out from the deck very slowly 
 

Performing: hold deck in left hand dealing grip put gimmick on top and place 

duplicate on top of that have gimmick face down on deck with pivot near left 
index finger, show the duplicate ordinary card-get break under gimmick and 

normal card, place duplicate face down, turn over all above the break so face of 
gimmick shows, all that is left to do is 

tilt the deck so the card floats 
 

NOT ORIGONAL DOCUMENT – MADE WITHOUT CREATOR PERMISSION 
 

NOT ORIGONAL DOCUMENT – MADE WITHOUT CREATOR PERMISSION 
 

Explanation 2: Basically it works on the same principle as the levitating money. 

You need a piece of plastic and this attaches two cards to each other. Take a 
strip of roughly the same size as in the float note, and fold it a quarter of the 

way in from each end. Now glue one end to the back of one card and the other 
to the back of another card so that they will fold flat together. Now take another 

card and glue it so the bottom card is double backed as in the diagram. This 

sounds complicated but you will have to try it. Have this on top of the deck, with 
the double backed card uppermost. To perform. Have the fake cards on top of 

the deck. Have a spectator choose a card and place it face up on the deck. Now 
turn the top three cards over so the gimmick card is the right way up. Tilt the 

deck forward and the card will rise off, tilt it even more and it will come to rest 

on the furthest edge of the deck, but this might expose the plastic if you leave it 
there to long. Then simply reverse the procedure, do another triple lift and give 

them back their card to keep. 
 

 
© Dan Harland