Forcing a card- method 3
This card trick is one of the more complicated methods of forcing a card, but also one of the most effective. You will need an opaque handkerchief (a duster works well if you don't have one!)
1. Get a member of the audience to shuffle the pack and steal a glance at the top card. If you like you can have the card you want to use on top of the pack to start with and then do a false shuffle yourself, making sure you keep the card on top. For this example, we'll call the card on top the ace of spades.
2. Using your handkerchief cover the pack which should be face down in your left hand.
3. As you cover the pack with the handkerchief, turn it over so the bottom card is facing up.
4. Ask someone to cut the pack to wherever they like under the handkerchief, and explain that the top card of the part of the pack they cut to will be their card, which they mustn't show to you.
5. As they take what they think is the top half of the pack off, turn the remainder back over in your hand. The card which you know at the top of the pile is now on top.
6. Take the handkerchief and it's contents from the volunteer and put it to one side.
7. Ask the volunteer to look at the top card without showing you. He thinks it is a random card which he has cut to, but it is of course the ace of spades.
8. You can now put both halves of the pack back together (be careful to take the other half out of the handkerchief the right way round) and get the volunteer to replace his card and shuffle the pack.
9. You can now use any mysterious way you like of going through the pack and finding the chosen card.
1. Get a member of the audience to shuffle the pack and steal a glance at the top card. If you like you can have the card you want to use on top of the pack to start with and then do a false shuffle yourself, making sure you keep the card on top. For this example, we'll call the card on top the ace of spades.
2. Using your handkerchief cover the pack which should be face down in your left hand.
3. As you cover the pack with the handkerchief, turn it over so the bottom card is facing up.
4. Ask someone to cut the pack to wherever they like under the handkerchief, and explain that the top card of the part of the pack they cut to will be their card, which they mustn't show to you.
5. As they take what they think is the top half of the pack off, turn the remainder back over in your hand. The card which you know at the top of the pile is now on top.
6. Take the handkerchief and it's contents from the volunteer and put it to one side.
7. Ask the volunteer to look at the top card without showing you. He thinks it is a random card which he has cut to, but it is of course the ace of spades.
8. You can now put both halves of the pack back together (be careful to take the other half out of the handkerchief the right way round) and get the volunteer to replace his card and shuffle the pack.
9. You can now use any mysterious way you like of going through the pack and finding the chosen card.
