'Card in My pocket'

Sorry again for not posting in a while. I worked at camp all week and didn't have a whole lot of time to work on this blog. Though today's trick should make up for time loss. 'Card in my Pocket' is a trick that can be done in either one or two ways. 1)chosen card ends up in your pocket or 2) card ends up in spectators pocket. For this performance we are going to do the 2nd option mainly because it has more of a reaction factor.

Performance: The magician has someone pick a card and place it back in the deck. He than shuffles the cards and states that he is going to find their chosen card. After a few seconds of looking, he tells the spectator that he can't find their card. The magician checks his own pockets to see if it somehow jumped into it but states that it isnt there. But then he tells the spectator that maybe the card jumped into their pocket. The spectator than checks thier pocket and to their amazement their card was in thier pocket!

Setup: There is a little setup that you need to perform beforehand and you must be very sneaky about it. You need to secretly place the duplicate of the forced card in the spectators pocket. This sounds kind of hard but isnt that bad. It is done the easiest when you are at someone's house and you can just place it in thier coat pocket that is in their closet. Or if you are realy sneaky you can slip it into their back pocket of their pants. Either way you do it, just be careful.

You need to know how to do any kind of force in order for this trick to work. The force I use for this trick is one called the 'Glide Force' [see video below for explaination]. You force the chosen card upon them and get them to place it back into the deck. You then pretend to not be able to find it. From this point forward, the trick is already done. You just tell them to check their pocket and the duplicate card will be there.



The 3 P's Practice, Practice, Perform

Note: David Blaine did this trick to a girl and her mother on his TLC special. The secret to that variation is that the camera man secretly placed the card in the little girl's pocket before they even turned on the camera.