THE PIERCED CARDS Trick Revealed

All that is wanted for this trick is a deck of cards, a bodkin, a length of ribbon and a paper bag. With that tools you'll have an impact which can be carried out impromptu and which I'm sure that you'll like because it is so effective. There are so few card tips which are huge in effect that I'm sure that you'll welcome this one.
The effect just isn't new but earlier strategies for performing the trick have at all times wanted particular cards, or a prepared bag, and having the playing cards forced. On this case you utilize any bag, any playing cards, and any ribbon, in addition to any bodkin.
Two cards are freely selected from the deck and returned and the cards are shuffled. The playing cards are then dropped into an examined paper bag. A ribbon is threaded by way of the bag with a pointy bodkin. The bodkin is removed and the ends of the ribbon are handed to spectators to hold. The bag is opened and the middle of the ribbon is pulled up so that the viewers can see that it really goes by means of the bag. The ribbon is pulled back into the bag. The bag is shaken in order that the cards additional are combined inside the bag. The paper bag is torn away and the two chosen cards are found to be threaded on the ribbon.
The pack is first shuffled and two cards are chosen. The choice is entirely free for it does not make the least distinction what the playing cards are. The paper bag is passed for examination and left in the bands of the spectator.
When the cards are returned to the deck they are both handed to the top. The deck is shuffled so that the 2 chosen cards will not be disturbed. Lastly in the shuffle, slip one of many cards to the underside of the deck. At this second, a chosen card will probably be found at both the top and the bottom of the deck. The paper bag is picked up with the left hand greedy one facet of the mouth of the bag. The cards, which have been held in the correct hand, are dropped into the bag. That's, all the playing cards are dropped into the bag however the prime and bottom playing cards which are retained between the fingers and thumb. You have got carried out this sleight earlier than in different tricks. It depends upon the friction of the fingers to carry the two outside cards because the grip on the pack is loosened. This is shown in illustration quantity 1.
The two chosen cards are handed between the lingers of the left hand. Illustration 2. The playing cards are shaken about. The bodkin is then pushed by way of the bag and through the cards as is shown in illustration 3. The ribbon is then drawn right by in order that the bag is on the middle of the ribbon. The center of the ribbon is pulled up out of the mouth of the bag. Keep in mind at this level that the left hand still grasps the chosen cards.
The ends of the ribbon are given to two spectators-one on either aspect of the bag. By this time the cards have been launched by the left hand. The mouth of the bag is gathered collectively and the cards shaken again. Then the bag is torn off the ribbon and the 2 chosen cards are found to be strung on the ribbon.
An excessive amount of emphasis cannot be given to the truth that the playing cards finally found on the ribbon really are the playing cards which a second before had been so freely chosen. It's possible you'll want to have the cards marked by these selecting them. In order that the freedom of choice might better be noted, you could want to give the deck to every person to carry in his own palms as he makes his selection.
At such occasions as you show the trick as an impromptu effect, you can find it very easy to get the playing cards, ribbon, and paper bag. You may not find it quite so easy to borrow a bodkin. On such events you'll discover it completely attainable to make a hole by bag and cards with the small blade of a penknife and then use the point of the knife to push the ribbon by way of the hole.
When you do the trick, having brought your own supplies, one can find it advisable to make use of a reasonably robust ribbon, though no more than three-quarters of an inch wide, and a good measurement paper bag. The bodkin, which should have a sharp point the less difficult to impale the cards, will, after all, be threaded by the ribbon before the performance.
With correct presentation the effect could be constructed into magic which will lengthy be talked about. As all the things which may be seen is so fair, the patter should stress proper as much as the end that the magician “has finished nothing.” When the bag has been threaded on the ribbon and the spectators have hold of the ends and truly the trick is all over-then is the time for the magician to say, as strongly as attainable, simply what he plans to do. That, by the best way, is one of the best time for a magician to make his guarantees-after he has reached some extent where it is impossible for something to go wrong.