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By Wayne Kawamoto, About.com Guide to Magic & Illusion since 2005

Easy Magic: The Clipped Card

Tuesday September 4, 2007
This effect is more of a puzzle than a magic trick. It’s a fun exercise in perception and can act as an introduction to a card trick or an effect where you explain the difference between illusion and reality.

Here you show a spectator five cards and ask them to remember the position of the middle card (queen). You turn around the five cards and ask the spectator to clip the middle card (queen) using a paper clip. Most spectators will clip the middle card. But when you turn the cards around, you show that their paper clip is nowhere near the queen.

Please click here to learn this trick.

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Easy Magic Tricks That You Can Learn and Perform for Your Friends

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