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Illusion:
Card on the glass in a train
Tv-special:
Mystery on the Orient Express
1991
Year:
Effect: the whole thing is happening in a moving train. David shows a pack of cards, spreads
it in his hands backside up and asks a girl to put a finger on one of the cards, thus choosing it.
David takes it out and tears off its tip. Gives it to the girl and puts the card back in the pack. Then
he says, that he will choose a card from the pack, but in a rather unusual way - it will stick to the
glass. With easy movement of his hand he throws the cards on the glass, they are scattered, but
one stays on it and has a torn off tip. He asks the girl to take the card off, but it is impossible, for
the card has appeared on the other side of the glass. Then he opens the window and takes the
card from outside. The tip for sure belongs to this very card.
Secret of the trick: It's rather difficult to perform this trick, skill and dexterity of hands
aren't enough here. Of course, you have guessed, that there is a certain mechanism here, which
helps David to do his best.
Let's go through all the stages of the trick.
1. Extraction of a pack of cards from a box.
From the very beginning David holds in his hands a box with cards, the sides of which are stuck
together without seams and colored white, therefore it's difficult to distinguishing the box from the
pack. There are some separated cards on top of the box; when it begins to shuffle the "pack", he
throws all cards downwards, under the box, leaving only one on top, and it and closes a picture on
the box. Then he removes the top card with his right hand, releasing the box; takes away and
dumps behind the table the separated cards, which have stayed under it.
2. Choosing a card.
Look at picture 1. David has spread out the cards backside up and asks the girl to put a finger on
any card. She puts a finger on top; David removes a second half of the pack, and now the card
appears last in a row. Then he puts the cards in a pack; the last card appears below, and he
shows it. Actually at that moment, when he held the cards in his hands and the girl put a finger on
top, under the spread out cards there was the card, which David was going to use in his trick; and
when he has put the cards in a pack, his card turned out to be on the bottom (pic. 2), instead of
the one, which the girl has chosen. There are many ways of a false choice of the necessary card,
this is the simplest one, and having watched the tape with the trick one more time, you will easily
understand, how the fake choice of the card is prepared. Also read a secret of the trick " The
drawn card " on our site.
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Exposure: Abdulov Timour
Text author: Abdulov Timour
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