Magic Tricks Revealed: The Card Bending Psychic Illusion

This is a great up close and impromptu magic trick that is quick and easy to learn, yet will always amaze your friends. You can do this trick by itself, or as an introduction to some other tricks. It's a good idea do this with a couple other simple card tricks, as you need a cheap deck of cards as the main prop. You wouldn't want anybody accusing you of being a one-trick wonder, would you?

Here's how the trick will look to you friends. You're sitting around a table at a party or a bar, talking about whatever. You mention in an "oh by the way," fashion that you've recently picked up some telekinetic skills. Obviously, their conversation will come to a dead halt as they demand a demonstration of your newly found gifts. Of course, since you've just learned these powerful skills, you can only move small objects. Of course, you tell them that you haven't learned to lift up pool tables or anything like that.

You produce a deck of cards, take one out at random, and place it on the back of your hand. You invoke the magical powers of Zeus, or your favorite god whenever you use your telekinetic powers, and the card magically starts to bend according to your powerful mental will. After the card has bent according to your immense psychic energy, you claim that you have only studied enough to bend one card, and you need a rest. After that just return to talking about whatever you were talking about before you performed this magnificent illusion.

Here's the trick. Before you announce your special powers, rub some water on the back of the hand that you are going to place the card on. You'll need an inexpensive, non-laminated deck of cards. The cheap cards will be porous, and will naturally soak up that water that you have deftly rubbed on your hand. When it does this, it will naturally bend toward the curvature of your hand, amazing your friends in the process.

This is one of those tricks that require you talk a good game both before and after the illusion. If you only call attention to the card, and bend it for them, they'll likely know that something is up. But if you build it up, and tell an interesting story beforehand, (get it, before hand?) and quickly cover it up with another story after the fact, it will go over much better.

Of course, if you know any other simple card tricks (that don't require the whole deck, sine you've just ruined one of the cards) this would be a great time to pull them out. You can do many more tricks that don't require you to be playing with a full deck. This is a great introduction to some fantastic tricks that you can entertain your friends with, or if you get lucky, start to attract a crowd of eager onlookers. Have fun.


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