THE EFFECT: A playing card is show both sides, and laid flat in the palm of your hand. Slowly, and at
your command the card begins to rise out of your hand and hovers for a few moments, inches above
your hand before returning back into your palm once more.
YOU WILL NEED:
• Two playing cards (the one you want to float, and any other card with a matching back say a joker)
• Some scissors
• Double sided sticky tape
PREPARATION: (The very best cards for this trick are the Bicycle brand. You can get some from Amazon.com
HERE or Amazon UK HERE) Take the scissors, and with the extra card cut it in half, long ways. Now, on one of
the pieces you just cut trim off the white edges, leaving only the blue (or red) middle part (Pic 1).
Now, cut off a small piece of double sided sticky tape and stick it directly in the middle of this piece,
but ON THE FACE...NOT ON THE BACK! Now, you’re just going to take this sort of half-card piece with
the boarder trimmed off, and stick it to the back of the card you want to float, matching it up as
closely as you can to the design on the back, thus camouflaging the extra piece (Pic 2).
PERFORMANCE: All you have to do to make the card appear to be floating, is as you lay it into your
left palm, lay it face up with the extra piece closest to you. Position it so that, with your fingers slightly
spread, the extra piece is pinched between your forefinger, and the inside of your little finger or ring
finger depending on the size of your hands.
Now, to create the illusion of it floating, all you do as your fingers are spread is bring your fingers back
together slowly. This pushes in on the gimmick, causing the card to rise above your hand a few inches.
Now, to bring it back, simply spread your fingers again (Pic 3).
Simply turn the card over to show that nothing is there (because the gimmick is hidden with the pattern).
TIP: When you perform this effect, the spectators should be looking DOWN on the card, so you might
want to perform this at waist level. This will protect against the audience seeing the gimmick!

FRUIT LOOPS
Effect: The magician lets the spectator choose a card, which is memorized and put back into the deck. The magician then puts the deck back into the card box and slips it into his pocket. He then claps his hands and points to a nearby table where an orange is sitting. He tells the spectator to pick up the orange and peel it.

When the spectator peels the orange, they suddenly find a lemon inside! When they peel the lemon, they find their card rolled up in the middle of it. When the magician pulls out the deck and hands it to the spectator, their card is indeed missing from the deck.

Card Trick:

This trick is a double-whammy. First, purchase two decks that are alike. Cut the top (where the green thing is) off the lemon VERY CAREFULLY. Then insert a pencil into the middle of the lemon. When you pull out the pencil, it should leave enough room for a rolled up playing card (provided you roll it up on it's side instead of lengthwise). Now glue the pap back onto the top of the lemon, doing your best to match the grain.

Now take a larger orange and cut four slits into the bottom of it about halfway up. Carefully take a knife or spoon and separate the meat from the orange peel, doing your best not to tear the peel. When you have the meat out, you should still be able to keep the basic shape of the orange with the peel. Now stick the lemon in and glue the bottom slits of the orange together. In about two hours, the slits won't be quite as noticeable, but you can't wait much longer than that to do the trick or it will turn black around the glue.

Now simply force the card on the spectator and put the deck into your pocket. The extra deck should be in the same pocket (an inside coat pocket is ideal). When the spectator pulls out the card, you pull out the extra deck and let them look for the card. Of course, the card will not be there.