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Force Pick

This card trick is very easy but it fools alot of people.
1. Shuffle the deck or get the spectator to shuffle it.
2. Take the card on top of the deck and look at it, without letting the spectator see it, and place it, face-down, in front of him.
3. Ask the spectator to pick a color: red or black.
4. (example: if the card was the Three of Hearts, a RED card.) If the spectator says black, then you say: "Well, that leaves red." If he says red, you say: "Good Choice"
5. Now you ask: "Which suit do you like better, Hearts or Diamonds?" (Remember, the card you looked at is RED.)
6. If the spectator says Hearts, you say: "Good choice." If he says Diamonds, you say: "That just leaves Hearts." Either way, you then say: "Pick five cards in that suit you like the best."
7. If the five cards he picks don't contain your card, say "Okay, now from the remaining cards pick five cards you like the best."
8. If these five cards still don't contain your card, say: "That just leaves three cards." Name the three remaining cards.
9. On the first or second try, five cards will have been selected. On the third try, only three cards. Ask him: "Out of the five (or three) cards which, two do you like the best"
10. (example: out of the five cards 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 he picks the 5 and 6.) You say: "That leaves the 2, 3, and 4."
11. Now you ask him which he likes out of those three. If he says the Three of Hearts, you turn over the card and amaze him!
12.If he does not pick the card, you ask him out of the remaining two, which one he likes the best. If he still doesn't pick it, you say, while turning over the card: "Well that just leaves the Three of Hearts," and you amaze him! The trick seems simple, and you think any one will get it. They don't. Try it on a friend. The trick is this: the spectator gets so caught up in picking everything, he doesn't realize that you are making the choices, so he thinks he picked the card. It amazes him!

(Milad Soufastai:2007)

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The French Drop

Effect: You grab a coin from your left hand with your right and close up your hand. The coin then vanishes from your right hand

Preparation: None

Performance:
With your left hand, hold a coin so that it’s level between the tips of your thumb and fingers. Make sure your fingers are close enough together so that the spectators cannot see between them
Your right hand approaches the coin, apparently taking the coin by sliding your thumb underneath it.
Cover the coin completely with your right fingers.
As you grab the coin, release the pressure in your left thumb and fingers so the coin falls into your left palm.
Close your right hand, as if you just grabbed the coin.
Close your left hand and casually point to your right hand, indicating the coin is in the right hand now.
Open the right hand to reveal that it’s empty.

Tips: Practice this trick slowly at first- don’t worry about speed. Just focus on getting the movements exact. With practice, you will be able to do this sleight more and more quickly, and it will start to look much more smooth and natural. A good way to practice is to actually take away the coin with your right hand, noticing how it looks and feels, and then practice the drop.

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Card Trick (Magic)

The Classic Force Magic

Effect:You fan through the deck, asking the spectator to choose any card he desires. He pick a card and without showing you, you can name the card!

Preparation:pick any card you want- this is the card you are going to force. Put the card back anywhere in the deck, maintain a little finger break below the card and you’re good to go.

Performance: The key to a successful force is timing- you must spread to the force card when your spectator is about to pick.
Say to the spectator, “I want you to reach in the deck and grab any card. It doesn’t matter which card.” Saying that the card doesn’t matter will prevent the spectator from taking his time and searching for a card

Fan through the cards, moving the cards left to right with your thumb.
Fan out the cards quickly at first so they have no chance of pulling out a card.
When the moment is right, fan to the break, slowly spread out the force card, and guide the card to their fingertips.

The spectator will inevitability pick the force card, since it is spread out the most.
Practice, practice, practice to get the timing of the force down.

Tips: This is a beautiful trick with endless possibilities. From the spectator’s point of view, it seems as though they had the opportunity to pick out any card. Rehearse this trick with different people to perfect the timing. Don’t worry about getting caught- most people never suspect a force. However, if they do not pick the right card (which will be unlikely after you master this trick) simply move on to another trick that involves the spectator picking a card

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