How to Perform the Appearing Business Card Trick
Here’s a great way to get someone to pay attention to your business card. My card please. Oh excuse me. Thank you.
Now, for the secret of the business card illusion. It appears as though your business card is blank and that it just seems to appear. Here’s how you do it.
Let’s take an ordinary business card that’s printed on one side only. And you reverse and you hold it in this position.
The finger extended and the rest of the fingers resting over the card there in the thumb under the card in that position and you see it like that. And of course the blank side is facing the audience.
Now as the hand is turned over, instead of doing what they think you’re doing which is doing that, what you’re really doing is showing the same side twice. Look. Watch.
Okay. With the card held in this position, blank side up of course. The hand is turned over. As the thumb lever the card up and pushes it against the forefinger and the other fingers move away. I’ll do it in slow motion.
The thumb goes under the card and levers it up against the first finger as the wrist turns over. And seems somewhat — but if done in one smooth motion, it looks quite convincing.
You can do it in several times. Let’s see what you’ve got here.
I’ll do it again. You start with printed side facing you. Turn it over and you show and you do that. So if you push it through, the print’s facing the audience.
Now let me show how your business card appear. As you turn over your wrist, gently push the card through your palm with your thumb. The card just seems to appear.
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