- It's your boy Six
and welcome back welcome
back to another tutorial.
In this video I'm teaching you an effect
called the disappearing
card from Bob Longe's,
"101 Amazing card Tricks".
This book right here.
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What's really cool about this effect
is it allows you to seemingly
make a card disappear
and then reappear.
It's a really simple
effect that you can do
with a borrowed shuffled deck of cards.
And I think it's pretty simple.
There's not too much that of hands.
So you learn it relatively quickly.
What I like about this
effect is the construction.
It's very smart in how it operates.
There's a number of
things that you're doing
to make this effect work
that makes it really, really fooling,
but enough about the effect
let's get into the performance.
(upbeat music)
This is the performance
for the disappearing card.
I like to present it as the invisible card
so during the presentation,
I'll be referring to it as that,
but the spectator is
gonna take out a card,
it doesn't matter what it is
and place it face down on the table.
And I can tell them,
"You could have chose any card,
but you chose this card.
And that's the strange thing,
because you could've
chose the three clubs,
but you didn't,
and you could've have chose the
two of space, but you didnt.
You really could have chose
any one of these cards,
but you didn't, you chose this card.
Let's take a look at what you did.
Ah, the three of spades.
You may not know this,
but that's known as the invisible card.
I'll show you what I mean, I
can make an invisible, right?
You see the three of spades. Ready?
Look, gone.
It's invisible.
You can't see it."
Okay, that's a silly joke.
It's not even a good joke,
but it's a silly joke but it's true.
Look, I'll take that three
of spades out of the pack.
It's invisible, I'll place it over here,
but I'll prove it to you.
Look, if I go through the
cards like this, you'll see,
that it's not here.
Maybe you think it's on this side,
look, I'll go through the cards.
It's not here, none of these,
none of these, none of these,
none of these look, maybe
look, I'll even show you.
Look I'll take a few cards like this.
None of these, none of these,
it's not any one of these cards.
Take a few more and look, none of these.
No, no, none of these.
Maybe, you think I'm
doing something fishy.
I'll go super slow motion
look, super slow motion.
I couldn't go any slower if I tried,
look not here, not here,
not here, not here.
Your card really is invisible.
And I know you may not believe me,
but it really is invisible.
You could have been
any one of these calls,
but watch, if I take your card.
I'm gonna flip it face up.
I'll put it back inside the middle
and now I'll make it
reappear, just like that.
And there you have it.
Your invisible card can now be seen again.
And that is the disappearing card trick.
(upbeat music)
So here's the explanation
for the disappearing card.
Now I use the invisible card
as a presentation for a
specific reason as you saw,
I think it makes a little more sense,
but let's get it directly into the effect.
Shuffle the cards. Doesn't matter.
Borrowed shuffled deck completely fine.
Have a card selected and
placed face down on the table.
I do this for two reasons.
A, if you've ever performed
a day in your life,
the moment the spectator
looks at the card.
They don't wanna show it to you.
It's natural people think,
Oh, I'm looking at the card.
You should know what it is.
You should find it.
I shouldn't show it to you.
They don't want to show
the magician the card.
So I keep it face down
and I avoid that moment.
B, this creates suspense.
Now it's interesting.
It's not your normal pick a card trick.
I don't know what the card is.
Why is he still talking
when we don't know what the card is?
It creates interest.
So the card is face down.
And now I say, "You could
have picked any card."
Now I'm gonna get a pinky pull-down break
under the top card.
If you're not familiar,
how to do a pinky count
to get a break.
In the previous video I
did with Xavior Spade,
it's linked to above me at the moment
it's floating on the screen.
You can click that link
and he teaches it in great detail.
How to do a pinky count,
how to get a break under a top card.
So I get a pinky pull down
break on the top card.
Now I'm doing that, as I talk about it,
"You could have picked
any one of these cards,"
get the break and say, "but you didn't."
Now I'm gonna come over
with the right hand
and I'm gonna use my right thumb
to keep the breaks.
I'm gonna press my right thumb against
the back of the cards and
at the front of the cards.
And I'm gonna hold the
deck now in Biddle grip.
But what I did was I actually
ended up transferring
that break to my thumb.
So this is gonna be a
little bit of exaggerated
it's usually a little smaller than that,
but that's fine, so you can see it.
Now, my thumb is on the break.
It's the fleshy part of my thumb
in between the top card and
the deck holding that break.
You can't see it from the front.
The front is flat,
but from here you can see
that there's the break.
So I hold the break with the pinky.
I come over with the right hand,
pick up the cards in the right hand.
Now the break is on this hand.
And the fleshy part is sticking in.
I'm gonna take about half the cards
from the bottom of the deck
and flip them face up,
placing them on top of that top card
and keeping the break in place.
I'm still holding the break.
So when I say,
"You could have picked the king
of spades, but you didn't."
Now I take all of the cards
from beneath the break
and I'm turning those over
and saying, you could have
picked the five of spades,
but you didn't.
And what I just did was reversed
one card at the bottom of the packet.
This is called the Braue reversal
Once again so you can see it again.
So again, I have a break
under the top card.
All right. So I have my break.
I'm gonna transfer it to the right hand.
So I'm gonna give you the side view here.
So you can see I'm holding
the break right here.
I'm gonna take half the
cards from the bottom, and
turn those face up
I'm gonna place it on top of that card.
And I'm gonna keep that break.
So my thumb is still holding the break
and I'm gonna take all the
cards underneath the break,
turn those face up and
place those on the top.
And what that does is
that revolves the cards
around the top card and
it gives me the top card,
now at bottom face down.
So once I do that,
I can spread to these cards and say,
"You could have picked
any one of these cards,
but you didn't.
You chose this one.
Now, when I spread these
cards it's very important,
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna memorize
the second card here,
which is the four of spades,
I'm memorizing the four of spades.
That's gonna help me and
be my key card second.
So I spread through and say,
"You could have picked
any one of these cards,
but you didn't.
You chose this card.
Let's see what card you chose.
Oh, you chose the four of clubs.
Interesting, that's known
as the invisible card."
It's just presentation at this point,
you can say whatever you really wanna say.
"Four of clubs, hey look I'll prove to you
that it's the invisible card
and I'm gonna cut it like this look.
And now it's invisible."
Cheesy joke. I let this fly by.
I don't try to make this funny.
I know it's a stupid
joke, that was the point,
"But it really is invisible.
And I'll prove it to you.
I'll take it out.
And I'll put it over here to the side."
So now I'm gonna turn the deck face down
and I'm gonna deal
through the deck face up.
And now remember I
remembered the four of spades
that was my key card.
I'm gonna deal through the cards
until I see the four of spades,
keep going, keep going, keep going.
And I'm saying your card has gone.
And once I see the four of spades,
I can deal one more card after that.
That's it one more card after it.
Why don't I memorize the
five instead of the four?
Well, because just in case I'm dealing
and I start to push over.
You don't wanna reveal that card.
So because a lot of people when they deal,
they'll push over the next card.
As they're turning this card over,
at least now I know
that I have to be careful now,
I'm aware this will give
me some room for error.
So I don't make a mistake.
And I see the four of spades.
I can deal the next card.
And I know this card
is reversed over here.
So now I go, if none of these cards,
maybe you think it's on the other side.
So we're gonna flip the packet face up.
And now we're just deal
from the top Just like this.
Just not this one,
not this one, not this one, not this one.
It's none of these look,
I'll show you.
I'll take a bunch of cards.
Now I'm gonna cut off a small
packet of cards like this.
just get a few cards,
flip the whole packet face up
and then deal all the
ones that are face up
off the top.
Say, look, it's not these,
it's not these, it's not these.
Now at this point
in the Bob Longe description,
he makes a mistake.
He doesn't include this part,
and the trick doesn't work,
if you follow it in the book,
you have to do that
same move one more time.
So again, I'm gonna grab a bunch of cards,
flip them face up and deal through.
"It's not this one, or
this one, or this one.
Look, I'll show you more cards.
It's none of these."
And I stop at the face down card.
Now I'm gonna flip
this packet face up again and say,
look it could have been this
one, this one, this one."
Now I'm gonna deal off some cards
off the face of the pack
until I have a small packet.
'Cause I don't want too
many cards for this portion
'cause the next portion I'm
gonna do in slow motion, right?
So once I get a small packet like this,
maybe like eight cards I stop.
And I say, "Look, maybe
you think I'm cheating.
I'll go super slow motion
'cause there's only a few cards left.
Now I'm gonna take this card
and my justification for the change here.
Cause I'm gonna take it
and turn it face down
and put it at the bottom.
My justification for
changing is by saying,
I'm gonna go super slow motion
so you can see it look super slow motion,
not the nine of hearts,
not the jack of diamonds.
And now I'm gonna deal
through all the face up cards.
And I keep going until I
reached another face down card
and that's when I stopped.
It could have been this one.
It could have been this one
or could have been this one.
It's none of those cards,
your card is really invisible.
I flipped this face up
and now I'm gonna drop this on top.
Be careful that when you drop it on top,
that the cards aren't
slippery or the cards
are not at an angle.
'Cause if this is at an angle,
then I'll show that card face down.
You don't want to do that.
So you want to make sure these are flat
and drop this flat on top.
So usually I don't recommend
you just dropping it.
If you don't feel comfortable,
I think you should just
place the whole packet,
just like that.
Now I'm gonna square the cards up
and pick them up and say,
"Your card really is invisible.
That's why I placed it
over here to the side.
Now I can't spread through the cards
because there's the card reversed
and it's a few cards down,
but I do know it's a few cards down.
So what I can do
is spread over just a
few cards from the top.
I know that's safe,
but then I'm gonna do, what's
called a block push off.
What a block push off is,
now that I show these few cards,
instead of pushing a few cards over,
I'm gonna push a block of cards over
so I can show,
"Your card is not any of these cards."
And I'm gonna put my thumb to the edge
and with a push over a huge block.
Look how many cards I
just pushed over here
That's a big block.
I've pushed that whole block over
into my right hand.
And then I could spread
the rest of the card
and say your card is
not any of these cards.
So at full speed,
it's like, "You could have
picked any one of these cards,
but you did it.
None of these cards."
Like this a few cards pushed
the block into my right hand.
So now I have that.
And then I could show a few cards
and say, your card is not here.
Now what I want to do
is I want to spread a
good amount of cards.
Cause I know that cards
floating somewhere over here.
And I'm gonna say,
you can pick any one of these cards,
but you didn't
and your card really has gone.
You can see that.
Now I'm gonna take the
cards in my right hand.
Cause I know their selection is here
and I'm gonna cut the packet.
And when I cut the packet,
I'm gonna place it just like this.
I can turn it face down
and place it on the table.
And now I know their card
is somewhere inside the middle.
I'm just positioning it
more towards the middle
so that when I spread it,
it's not towards the top or to the bottom.
I just position it towards the middle.
That's why I did that cut.
Now I say you could have chose any card,
but you got this card.
The one I made invisible,
I really did make an invisible look.
I'll try to face up, place
it inside the middle.
And now you'll see your card is back.
And that's a really stunning moment.
People lose their minds for that part
because they don't expect
that card to show up,
nor did they expect to show up reversed
and you could show your card
it really was invisible and
now we can see it again.
And that is the invisible card
or the disappear in card
trick as Bob Longe calls it.
What's great about this also,
is you can do it with a signed card,
you can have their name on it,
which is nice too.
If you wanna give presentation,
you've got them draw a picture and say,
I wanna make the picture
disappear and do it that way.
Any way you like to do it.
It's a really great effect.
That's really, really simple.
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