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‘Hand of Fate’: See the Card Trick That Drove Houdini Nuts
- Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:21pm by
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Comments (86)
BunkerBuster
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:39amYes, CHINA CLIPPER, I should have mentioned that if you search for “double left tutorial” on YouTube you can see how it is done. It is remarkable easy even for kids.
Report Post »Wide Awake
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 8:02amThe double lift? Even when she pulled the top card? I know he pushed it out to her and he could have pushed out 2 cards, but giving control to her makes me believe she was more than just an innocent participant. Also, she placed (presumably) both cards back in the 2nd position requiring him to do a triple lift.
Report Post »Frydaddy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:37amIt’s simply a double lift done over and over again.
Report Post »BunkerBuster
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:30amThe trick was performed by Dai Vernon and is called “Ambitious”. Search on YouTube for “ dai Vernon ambitious” to see how it is done.
Report Post »BunkerBuster
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:36amAlso search YouTube for “double lift tutorial” to see the very core method used in this trick. It is remarkable easy to learn, even for kids.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:28amWas that WEENER in some of the Houdini film?????
Report Post »china clipper
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:59amEvidently, when Dai Vernon did this trick, the double lift was not nearly well known as it is today.
Report Post »57states
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:57amhe is turining over 2 cards one card is double sided, I think
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:46amI need that kind of heip at the blackjack table.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:37amAAAAHHH! Witchcraft!
Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
Kill him! Kill him! Kill him with fire!
See how stupid it sounds when you trot out the Bible every time you see something you don’t like, people?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:41amMaybe he could make you disappear….abracadabra…poof…you’re gone.
Report Post »iamtheyak
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:31pmI‘m not quite sure what you’re getting at, but it sounds (based off your user name) that you’re using a straw-man argument against modern “magicians” in order to embolden your argument against the biblical basis of homosexuality being wrong.
Fact is, that what is being shown is not magic, sorcery, or witchcraft. It is an illusion, done by misdirection, slight of hand, etc. Magic, sorcery, and witchcraft still exist (i.e. wicca), and are still wrong.
Now, I’m not saying that homosexuals should be stoned to death, nor am I saying that homosexuality is any more of a sin than say, adultery, lying, stealing, etc. The Bible teaches that *all* (including me) have sinned, that since God is perfectly righteous, our sin separates us from Him, and we all are under the penalty of death. (As a side note, this means that we all die, not that anyone who sins in the year 2011 should be stoned.) The only reconciliation we can have with Him is by believing the Jesus is His son, fully God and fully man, that Jesus lived completely without sin, and that he died to take the punishment of sin in our place, and he was raised from the dead. Imagine you personally owed a trillion dollars, and someone that didn’t owe anything, who happened to have that much money, paid that debt for you. That is what Jesus did for you.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:28pmI’m not using a strawman argument. You might want to look it up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man What I am doing is demonstrating absurdity by being absurd.
And for the record, I in no way believe in Exodus 22:18, nor do I consider sleight of hand to be true magic. I don’t consider any stage or street magic to be true magic. My best friend in grad school was Wiccan. What she did was true magic.
I know how I would achieve that illusion. A deck of cards that is ever so slightly magnetic (considered witchcraft back in the good old (testament) days), and a very, very thin card that is double-backed. Notice he didn’t shuffle the deck, because that would cause the thin double-backed card to drop from the top. Slide the chosen card under the double-backed card, and flip over the chosen and double-backed card simultaneously to give the illusion of only turning over the top card. Slide the chosen card back off the double-backed card which is still on the top of the deck. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Of course, if you ever accidentally give the chosen card to a viewer with the double-backed card still stuck to it, the jig is up.
Now, shame on you, Yak, for being a bad Christian. You say you don’t believe in stoning homosexuals when Lev. 20:13 commands that homosexuals must be meeted out bloody death. You are in rebellion against God’s teachings!
Herein lies the point. When you use the Bible as your primary source of authority, you run the risk of having it turned a
Report Post »NOONTOTHREE
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:32pmnot as silly as you sound trotting out an Old Testament law.
Report Post »NOONTOTHREE
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:51pmI would encourage you to read the book of Hebrews rather than getting stuck in Levitical law. Christ is the fulfillment of the law, which was designed to lead men to Him as the turning point of our relationship with God. Where the law only pointed out man’s inability to be good in and of himself, it is through God’s grace in Christ that we can have a relationship with Him.
Case in point: God‘s view of sin doesn’t change; homosexuality and adultery are just as much a sin today as it was in the OT, and that is reinforced multiple times in the New Testament. However, it is because of His Grace that we no longer are judged by the law and must die by the law. We can turn to him and repent.
Report Post »Mikhail Kennedy
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:36amLesbian
Report Post »Get a life, this is not about your sexual deviance, it’s a card trick.
Lesbian American
Lesbian woman
Lesbian…
we get it , your whole life revolves around being a *****.
BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 1:55amThere is a hollowed void in the center of the deck in which a tiny gnome is placed who is also an expert forger. The gnome copies the exact writing of the “mark” and presto-changio!
This “trick” really lacks a wow factor. It’s really not impressive to change the 2nd to top card to the top card.
Report Post »mikecamilleri
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 1:31amIf you watch the corner of the card closely you can see that it is two cards being flipped over.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:52amThe trick is in the top card. The second card merely slides out with it when he goes to flip them, probably because the top card is slightly smaller width so that the second card acts like the top card when he pushes it to the side. The mystery is why Houdini couldn’t figure this out..
Report Post »jdickiso
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:35amThe second time the trip is done you can see that he takes two cards of the deck and not just her card. Easy….
Report Post »toddtheartist
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:25amI think I have the trick figured out… When he puts the “name card” under the top card, somehow the top card sticks to the “name card” so when he turns the top card over he’s really turning over 2 cards and the “name card” is showing. Notice he presses all the cards together to allign them all so you can’t see if there are 1 or 2 cards.
Report Post »Then, here’s the tricky part (because he hands her the “name card”, if he handed her 2 cards she’d notice. watch him)….
He flips both cards back over. The “name card” is now the 2nd card from the bottom, but it looked as if it’s the top card now. He takes the top card and puts it under the 2nd card (which is the name card). Then he has her take the top card. It’s her “name card” all by itself, no 2nd card with it.
He could easily repeat this over and over.
Pfttt….. Houdini… It only took me about 5 times to figure this out.
Veritas
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:10amHe is flipping the top two cards at the same time. Not saying that it is easy to do, only that it is the way he is doing it!
Report Post »Hepcat
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:45pmLike CrazyJ said, “he is turning over more than one card…”
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:50pmStripping off the top card and palming it while offering the second card. Pull two offer one.
Report Post »slimkendall
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:59pmthat can’t explain the version of it at 2:26
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:42pmThat girl should spread her legs a bit and see if the magician can still do the trick or will his eye wander enough to mess up the trick.
Report Post »JGraham III
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:37pmIt would be nice if this magician could make a few jokers disappear…but seriously it was refreshing to watch something on this site that isn’t fraught with anger and character assassination..or someone’s weeener.
Report Post »LifeProject2012
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:44pmAfter trying the trick once, count the number of REMAINING cards… Put your card in, palm the top one… VIOLA!
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:38pmIs there an Obama Joker face in that deck?
Report Post »CrazyJ
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:31pmhe is turning over more than one card..
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:28pmThis is one of those stories that helps me understand The Blaze. I appreciate it and enjoy it. I will die trying to figure out the card trick.
Report Post »wtd
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 8:09amHe never shuffles the deck. Each time he performs the trick, the top card remains the same. If the top card is somehow magnetized, perhaps to the ink used to write on the chosen card, the other card sticks to it solidly once the deck is evened out and the second card will always appear to be the top card.. Take note of how he slides the top card off the deck.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:50pmJust like politics, I get it.
Report Post »Heli
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:49pmonly has to fool 7/ 10
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:28pmI’m sure it was nothing as good as the card trick that Obummer has up his sleeve to collapse our economy.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:45pmIt’s not a trick. OB told us what he was going to do and now he is doing it. Sort of like other Muslims. They tell us they want to kill us and they do it.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 9:01amwhat CHIPS1 said.
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:27pmAbracadabra!! Shazam!
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:45pmThat is outstanding! Have no idea how he manages that, watched it and can‘t see how he’s doing it, no wonder Houdini was p-o’d at the original magican :-0
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 9:46pmSo you get the card trick done right while saying “Abracadabra” and then it works…which is why then they would say “Shazam” and get turned into a super hero while struck by a bolt of lightning?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:06pmHe’s good!
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:07pmObama must love this…. Just watch the other hand!
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:11pmWell, I’ll be…
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:20pmWow, I thought Gomer was was the only person who said Shazam
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 10:43pm@CanteenBoy
Nice looking Shepard.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:51pmI suspect that it’s done different in person than when live.
Here’s what I think is happening the 2nd and subsequent times:
After the card is placed back on top of the deck, TWO cards are flipped over.
The top card is thought to be the card written on, but is actually the other card that is flipped, which has two back sides.
The 2nd card is slipped under the top card in the deck, which is actually the card that was written on.
There are some curious edits of the video, you’ll notice.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:53pm“I suspect that it’s done different in person than when live.”
That came out wrong. LOL.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:30amA Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on June 12, 2011 at 11:51pm
I suspect that it’s done different in person than when live.
Here’s what I think is happening the 2nd and subsequent times:
After the card is placed back on top of the deck, TWO cards are flipped over.
The top card is thought to be the card written on, but is actually the other card that is flipped, which has two back sides.
LMAO, that’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 12:50amStrong with this one, the force is. Hmmmmmm.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 1:30amIt looks pretty simple:
Report Post »- 1st & 3rd times he is careful to flip over the top 2 cards making it look like one card.
- 2nd & 4th time he is careful to flip the 2 cards back over. At this point the illusion is that the top card is 3S, but it is actually the 2nd card. He then moves the top card below the 2nd card, which actually moves the 3S to the top of the deck. At that point he can have someone else take it from the top etc. because the 3S actually is on top of the deck.
Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:27amWow. Banjarmon, he IS good!
Gave me a headache trying to figure it out.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:50amI have some ideas on how he does it since I have tinkered with magic tricks before. Not sure for certain which method, but there are several he can be using. Still VERY cool to watch.
Report Post »SHTFRadio.com Survival Preparedness Online Radio
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:50am@My Sacred Honor
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ozchambers
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 9:44amI’ve done a few decent card tricks, but when he had her slide the card in and then turned it over as the apparent top card, I was quite impressed. Extremely convincing.
Report Post »tesla V
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:35pmHow about another trick Houdini wouldn’t like. A community organizer with absolutely no experience becoming the president of the United States.
Report Post »JoeSchueller
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 2:19pmI reallllllly want to know how to do this. You’d be the life of any party. I can’t even think of how that works, it almost looks like she was in on it.
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