Illusion Library

Effect

The Change-about Card

Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926

Time
4 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
1 sleight, in the library

Spectator selects a card and returns it to the deck, which is then thoroughly shuffled. Performer says that he will cause the selected card to jump to the top of the deck. He then shows the top card of the deck and it is not the selected one, so he places it on the table. Twice again he fails to make the selected card come to the top, and each time he places the card on the table. A spectator is then asked to choose one of the three cards and the chosen card mysteriously changes into the selected one.

How it is done

The method, 1 drawing and all it needs, inside the library.

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