Reveal a Secretly Chosen Card

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Flip a Card, Any Card!

With an ordinary pack of cards you’ll be able to identify a card picked by any member of an audience.

With this trick you won’t be pretending to read minds but making it appear as though you can flip a card over even though it’s snugly tucked-up in deck.

Let your audience examine an ordinary pack of cards, with no jokers or any other extra cards. Invite the audience to shuffle the cards and pass them on to whoever they wish. It doesn’t matter how many people shuffle the cards but get them back before too long, as you’re performing a magic act, not co-ordinating a card shuffling convention.

When you get the cards back do not shuffle them, make a point of not interfering with the deck of cards but do keep holding it face down. Next, ask for a volunteer from the audience. Whilst people are looking around at eachother subtly turn the bottom card of the deck facing upwards; remember the rest of the deck is facing down.

Ask the volunteer to join you in front of the audience. Carefully spread the deck a little and ask the member of the audience to pick a card. Once the card is chosen tell the volunteer to show the card to the audience but not to let you see it.

Whilst the card is being shown to everyone else: turn the deck over so that the one card in the deck is facing down and the rest are facing up. The volunteer then needs to place their chosen card back in the deck. You’ll need to keep the deck in a nice, neat stack while the card is put back in the deck.

Next subtly, so no one can see, turn the deck over so that 50 of the cards are facing down, the bottom one is facing up and the chosen card is also facing up.

Finally time for the reveal. Place the deck on a table in a neat pile. Say some magic words and tap the deck at the same time . Then carefully spread out the deck so that the chosen card is revealed face-up and the rest of the deck is face down. Great care is needed that the face up card at the bottom of the deck does not get shown and noticed by the audience.

Take a bow and subtly make sure all the cards are the right way around or hide the deck away in a jacket pocket.

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