Effect
The Pierced Card
August Roterberg · New Era Card Tricks, 1897
- Time
- 4 min read + 10 min practice
- Materials
- In the library
- Prerequisites
- 2 sleights, in the library
Take care. Working with these objects and effects is inherently dangerous; anyone who attempts them does so at their own risk. Anybody under 18 is advised to undertake them only with a parent's permission and supervision.
the explanation, appears to be simple, it is, nevertheless, one of the most mysterious of modern, or rather modernized, card tricks.
In the first place, the performer is securely blindfolded, after which a gentleman selects any card from the pack, then, taking possession of it, he replaces his card, shuffling them as much as he pleases. The pack is then returned to the conjurer, who carelessly throws it on the table, spreading out the cards promiscuously with his hands.
A spectator is then asked for the loan of a penknife, which is opened and handed to the performer, who grasps it dagger-like and, circling with his hand above the cards,
suddenly drives the point of the knife into one of them. Requesting the gentleman who selected the card to name it, he turns up the knife with the card still adhering to it and shows it to be the one selected.
How it is done
The method and all it needs, inside the library.
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