Quote: Original post by Oxyd
How exactly did the swapping hapen? When I first read your post, I had the impression you held the card between your thumb and index fingers in the air, so that the card's face was pointed to the magician. On a second thought swapping the card when held this way would be rather difficult, if not impossible, if you held onto it real tight.

So I guess the card was laid down on the table, right? With your fingers pushing it tight? How did the magician do the swap, then? Did he slip his card onto yours, below your fingers and took the bottom one?

Sorry I didn't describe that part well. The card was not on the table. It was between my thumb and forefinger, in the air, face down, but pointing towards the magician. Think of how you would hand your credit card to a cashier.

The 'swap' was basically just him sliding his card on top of mine until it hit my thumb. But I know for a fact that the card never left my hand, I was holding onto it very tight through out the entire trick.

At the end when he put his card on top of mine, he did the same 'swap' motion, but left his card on top of mine, so that I could still grab it with my thumb.

Hopefully this makes sense, its kinda hard to explain, lol.

The key here, I think, is that he placed his card over yours and tapped your thumb with it. I believe that this was to distract you from what was really happening.

First, he does the thumb tapping thing and the first flip. This sets your expectations. "Ah," you think, "he's obviously going to try something funny with that card tapping against my thumb."

Next, he does the tapping thing again, three times. You're focusing on that top card tapping against your thumb. You can feel it. What you're probably not noticing is that when that card taps against your thumb, he's sliding a card concealed under both of your cards beneath your index finger. Since you're focused on the top card and the feeling of it tapping against your thumb, you don't feel him sliding the card underneath. Likely, he does the tapping motion as many times as it takes to get that card underneath in place (maybe for some people its 3, maybe for others its 5).

I'm not sure exactly how he'd extract your original card. Perhaps its when the flip occurs (because I notice that when I twist my wrist, my thumb moves back a bit).

But I think that, essentially, the tapping is to distract you from the fact that he's slowly sliding that joker between your finger and your original card.

hmm, just to add to the idea pot

I'm thinking he did a double lift to show you the queen of diamonds, then puts the deck back together and takes the real top card off (joker). So you think it's the card he showed you, but it's not.

Then he did a double lift to show you he had the queen of hearts. But again, takes the real top card off the deck (joker).

Maybe?

The card you were holding was obviously a flexible RF-powered LCD screen.

really hard to disect a trick from text. Almost always these kind are done with sleight of hand with his cards not yours. There's only two tricks I know that involve physically taking things from people, and you generally don't draw attention to it as it involves quick, rapid motions. If that's what he did, kudos to him, but I doubt it.

Check out

">this vid..

Maybe you had two cards? (and so did he)
Are you sure you held one card tightly between your thumb and fore-finger? or did he tell you that you did? Remember that suggestion can be a big part of magic tricks.

[Edit]: more youtube browsing -

">here's the exact trick. instead of the QQ in the vid imagine it was your joker/joker.

Quote: Original post by supamike
Check out

">this vid..

Maybe you had two cards? (and so did he)
Are you sure you held one card tightly between your thumb and fore-finger? or did he tell you that you did? Remember that suggestion can be a big part of magic tricks.

[Edit]: more youtube browsing -

">here's the exact trick. instead of the QQ in the vid imagine it was your joker/joker.

Yep, that's the trick. I guess somehow he did switch out the card I had, but I still find it hard to believe he did it given how hard I was squeezing the card. Kudos to him.

Now I want to have him try it on me again, haha.

Quote: Original post by geo2004
Yep, that's the trick. I guess somehow he did switch out the card I had, but I still find it hard to believe he did it given how hard I was squeezing the card. Kudos to him.

Now I want to have him try it on me again, haha.

And this time you'll be armed with Super Glue.

Quote: Original post by geo2004

Quote: Original post by supamike
Check out

">this vid..

Maybe you had two cards? (and so did he)
Are you sure you held one card tightly between your thumb and fore-finger? or did he tell you that you did? Remember that suggestion can be a big part of magic tricks.

[Edit]: more youtube browsing -

">here's the exact trick. instead of the QQ in the vid imagine it was your joker/joker.

Yep, that's the trick. I guess somehow he did switch out the card I had, but I still find it hard to believe he did it given how hard I was squeezing the card. Kudos to him.

Now I want to have him try it on me again, haha.

Did you watch the entire video? He never switched the card they hold, he gives them the wrong card after he shows the audience how he "switches" them. After that they are holding a queen thinking they have an ace. Watch the whole video again and you'll see. He can't "switch" the card on the table with this forefinger, there would be nothing to put the card in the air to grab it.

Quote: Original post by ChurchSkiz

Quote: Original post by geo2004

Quote: Original post by supamike
Check out

">this vid..

Maybe you had two cards? (and so did he)
Are you sure you held one card tightly between your thumb and fore-finger? or did he tell you that you did? Remember that suggestion can be a big part of magic tricks.

[Edit]: more youtube browsing -

">here's the exact trick. instead of the QQ in the vid imagine it was your joker/joker.

Yep, that's the trick. I guess somehow he did switch out the card I had, but I still find it hard to believe he did it given how hard I was squeezing the card. Kudos to him.

Now I want to have him try it on me again, haha.

Did you watch the entire video? He never switched the card they hold, he gives them the wrong card after he shows the audience how he "switches" them. After that they are holding a queen thinking they have an ace. Watch the whole video again and you'll see. He can't "switch" the card on the table with this forefinger, there would be nothing to put the card in the air to grab it.

I didn't catch that the first time, but that didn't happen when the trick was done to me. The magician gave me a queen, and after that, the card never left my hand, I only flipped it over once to see that it was in fact still the queen. So there was no way he could have switched it the way that guy did in the video.
Ya, the magician did do the the 'demonstration' step, where he showed me how we was going to switch the cards, but after it he told me to look and make sure I have the Queen still. In the above video that is the step where the guy swapped it. So that couldn't be how it happened.


Now I truly am stumped.