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Card trick. Upper left: "Pick a card, any card". Upper right: Back-palming a card. Bottom left: A "spring" flourish. Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation, commonly known as card magic, is the branch of magic that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards.
Magician Alex Elmsley discovered [citation needed] that a controlled series of in- and out-shuffles can be used to move the top card of the deck down into any desired position. The trick is to express the card's desired position as a binary number , and then do an in-shuffle for each 1 and an out-shuffle for each 0.
Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used to perform card tricks in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic.
A thrown playing card embedded in an apple. Card throwing is the art of throwing standard playing cards with great accuracy or force. It is performed both as part of stage magic shows and as a competitive physical feat among magicians, with official records existing for longest distance thrown, fastest speed, highest throw, greatest accuracy, and the greatest number of cards in one minute.
Similarly, if a Gilbreath shuffle is used on a deck of cards where every card has the same suit as the card four positions prior, and the resulting deck is grouped into consecutive sets of four cards, then each set will contain one card of each suit. This phenomenon is known as Gilbreath's principle and is the basis for several card tricks. [1]
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5. The illusionist surreptitiously moves the bottom card to the top of the incorrect pile, and splits the piles to show the cards. Out of This World is a card trick created by magician Paul Curry in 1942, in which an audience member is asked to sort a deck into piles of red and black cards, without looking at the faces. Many performers have ...
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