Street Magic - X Ray Cards

(Music Playing)

You look so terrified, but that is a good thing.

Before we start filming, we have sent Liz away to actually buy a pack of cards because it is important that you realized that these are normal cards.

You both those cards, from the shop,

You got the receipt,

For me as well, let us dry all of that,

And what I want you to do for the first time, break the seal on those cards,

I will take the wrapper for you,

That is it, rip them open,

Now, I want you to shuffle those Emily.

Now, can you put them back in the same order?

If you could, if you are in Vegas, would not he?

That is fantastic.

Now, what I want you to do, when you are happy that you have mixed those up, is hand me any card, face down.

I have not seen, hand me any card, face down.

Now, I will keep the face away from me. There are no mirrors or anything like that but I am just going to feel the card like that,

And I can feel that card and I can tell you that’s the 6 of Diamonds, am I right?

Emily: Yes.

That is the 6 of Diamonds. Give me another one, face down.

Make sure that I do not see,

Now look, all I am going to do, I am just going to feel that card like that,

Now, I have got no mirrors around here or anything. Just by feeling the other side,

I can tell that card is the King of Diamonds, is that right?

Emily: Yes, (Laughing)

That is right! Yes, great. So, give me another one?

It is quite strange, just by feeling that card,

Just in the corner over there,

That is the 8 of Diamonds, yes?

Fantastic, give me another one,

This one, just feeling the cards like this, just feeling the other side of the cards and I can tell, is that the Jack of Diamonds?

Jack of Diamonds? Yes, that is the Jack of Diamonds.

We could go all day, but you can tell that just by feeling the cards, I can tell that the Jack of Spades now,

Emily: Yes.

That is really strange, is not it?

Emily: It is freaking.

(Break)

Okay, this is the explanation for X-ray cards,

This is something that you do with a borrowed deck of cards.

This trick is no good if you pull a deck of cards out of your pocket and you want to perform it.

It needs to be a pack of cards that is borrowed. If you go to a restaurant, a bar, around a friend’s house and they got a deck of cards handy,

You are ready to blow them away with X-ray cards.

This is an incredible effect because they literary shuffle the cards.

They hand you one card and one card only. You feel the card, and straight away, you can tell the card just by feeling the ink on the other side, is the 9 of Diamonds.

How? It is very, very simple and do not be discourage when you find out how simple it is.

This just means that you can put everything in.