"
Salty Cards
A Card Trick
Materials Needed:
-
1 Standard Card Deck
-
A good pinch of salt
secretly stored in your pocket
How the Trick Appears:
With nothing more than kicking a
deck of cards you can tell which is the chosen card.
 How the
Trick Works:
Have a shuffled deck of cards on
the floor. Have a person look through the deck and pick
a card. Have
him/her place his card on top of the deck.
Now have them cut the deck into five piles. (Remember
the chosen card is on the top of the first pile.)
Now by pointing to the piles have
them put the deck back together in a different order.
The trick is that as you are
pointing at the card piles, instructing the audience
member to put them back together... you take a pinch of
salt and drop it on top of the chosen card as you point
to it. (Slick, eh?)
Then lightly kick the deck of
cards with your right foot, slide into the cards to make
them glide to the left.
Examine the deck; the place in
the deck with the most distance between one card and the
next is the chosen card.
Notes: Practice this trick before performing to
get a feel for how and how hard to kick the cards, and
how to "see" the chosen card.
|
