Card Through Window

Here we go. Our First David Blaine card trick. If you know who David Blaine is or have heard of him, it is probably because of this amazing card trick that he performs. It is known as 'Card Through Window. This trick has one of the best crowd reactions possible. This is one of the tricks that he performed on his TLC special that I had mentioned in an earlier post. The scene starts like this: David gets a random spectator on the street to select a card, any card from the packet that he has. The spectator picks the Ace of Spades and obviously doesn't show it to him. They then place the card back in the deck and David shuffles it. He then takes a card out of the packet and asks if that is their card. The card is not the one that they selected so he starts the process over again trying to find their card. After failing miserably countless times, He throws the packet out of frustration against the window that was behind the spectator, and everyone is shocked. The card the the spectator selected is stuck to the window and not only that, it is on the inside of the window. Like I said before, this trick has an amazing reaction factor. If you have any kind of magic background, you may have already guessed how this trick is done. If not, I will explain it now.

Explanation: The first part of this puzzle is "How did that card get through that flippin window!?' The answer to that is that the cards he used, were a special type of cards that can penetrate anything up to a thickness of 25 centimeters...could you imagine? That would be intense. The answer is, is that he used two of the same cards. Okay, so we know that there are two cards that are the same, but how does he get the spectator to pick that card? He used one of the many ways to 'force' a card upon someone. So, he forced one of the duplicate cards onto the spectator but how did the other card get stuck to the window? Now this is the sneaky part. Just before he threw the card at the window, his accomplice stuck up the duplicate on the window with magicians wax.

Performance: I was pretty pumped about learning how to do this trick. When I do this for my friends and family, I usually don't have someone place the card on the window for me. It sounds a little lame, but I usually have it already up there hidden behind a curtain. You can do it which ever way you want. The first part of the trick is to 'force' the duplicate onto the spectator.

The way I usually do this is I use what is known as the 'Glide Force'

(see bottom for explanation). Once the card is forced, have them put the card back in. From this point forward it is just an acting game where you pretend to have no idea where their card is. Just make sure that when you throw the deck, that the ace of spades isn't flipped over somewheres which could lead to some very suspicious people.

Glide force-This force is probably one of the easiest and pretty much fool proof card force you can do. You can use it for tons of other tricks as well. What the glide force is, is that you have the bottom card already memorized which in this case is the Ace of Spades. With the deck faced down, hold the deck in your left palm with the bottom card inched a little way down. Have them say a number between 1 and 20, and count as you take out each card from the bottom making sure to not take the actual bottom card. When you come to their chosen number, simply reach a little further down to slip out their card.

So there we have it. Our first street magic trick accomplished. Now as I said before, you can do this trick different ways. You can have someone quickly place the card up, or just have it previously there. Its probably best though that you do this trick to a single spectator just in case.