Princess Card Trick

Type: Close-up Sitting, Walk-Around

Skill Level:

Retail Price: $8 - $15

Effect: The performer shows 5 cards. He asks a person to think of a card. The performer then turns the cards face down and shuffles them. He removes one card and sticks it in his pocket, which he says, he hopes, is the spectator's thought of card. Upon fanning the cards again, the magician asks if the spectator sees his card in the fan, which the spectator does not. So, obviously the magician had chosen correctly.

Performance Time: About 1 minute

Reset Time: less than 30 seconds

Angles:

Quality: These are extremely well made cards. The gimmick is printed perfectly.

Dr. Mitch: This trick has a number of drawbacks. The first drawback being that you can only perform it to one person at a time. Lance Burton did a similar effect on one of his recent television specials that performed this trick to a large audience. But, in the packet version, you can only do this to one person at a time.

Another drawback is that anyone with a quick eye, or a good memory for cards will instantly figure out how this trick is done. I have seen this trick performed by a lot of magicians because it is so easy to do; however, I have seen it performed badly by a lot of magicians. Take a moment and look at your moves in a mirror. Try not to look as if you are doing something; the real beauty is in the casual handling of the cards.

Finally, this tricks seems almost to be waiting for a climax, the climax being "well if it's not in my hand, I must have gotten it right and placed the correct card in my pocket." I think this trick would be much more powerful, could you actually pull the spectator's card out of your pocket, which is what I do when I perform this trick. I do this through the addition of my own duplicates. Think twice about this one.

Mike Maione: I like this trick, although I rarely perform it. Mostly, for the 'lack of strong climax' reason mentioned by Dr. Mitch. Kreskin performed this trick on TV once. He started the trick by pulling the gimmicked cards from a regular deck of playing cards (nice touch). I give it a thumbs up.

Want to see an internet version of the trick check it out at this address: http://pw2.netcom.com/~sleight/rabbit1.html

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