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!