Illusion Library

Effect

“Snap It”

Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926

Time
3 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
None

An impromptu effect which can be performed anywhere at a moment's notice. The finish leaves your audience thoroughly puzzled.

A card is freely selected by a spectator, remembered, and returned to the deck. The performer shuffles the deck well, then drops it into a borrowed hat. A spectator is given the hat to hold. Magician snaps bottom of hat with his finger and high into the air jumps the selected card out of the hat.

How it is done

The method, 6 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.

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