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Originally Posted by JuiceMonkey
hook up a link to something for a noob to learn.. or a couple of easy "party tricks"
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A Trick That You Can Learn
I'm often asked by people if there are ways to "fool their friends" and if I can teach them some "party tricks that will really floor people". WITHOUT A DOUBT the #1 thing that a novice can take some time to learn, that will fool people just as well as magicians that have spent years mastering complex slight of hand techniques, is the "card force".
Virtually EVERY CARD TRICK that you've ever seen involves a "force".
What's a force?
Basically it's a slight of hand technique that a magician uses to "force" the spectator to pick a playing card of his choosing. Once you know in advance what card a spectator is going to pick, you can perform any number of variants of an effect, including "mind reading", having the chosen card "predicted" by writing it's name in a sealed envelop, etc. etc.
There are literally HUNDREDS of ways to "force" a card, some more obvious than others, and some taking WAY more practice than others.
One of the easier card forces to master is called the Slip Riffle. I found this link which does a pretty good job teaching it:
http://allmagic.com/magicshow/cards/slipriffle.html
It might take a week of you fucking around with a deck of cards to get it down pat, but once you do you have a lifetime ahead of you to freak people out at the poker table!
