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Does anyone know of a way to flip over a single card within the deck? For example, while shuffling the cards you secretly flip over a single card (The bottom card for example) so that when you spread the deck, one card is facing the wrong way?

That probably makes no sense at all!

Any advice appreciated

Practice turning the top card of a deck over with one hand and also get practising cutting the deck using one hand.

Control the chosen card to the top and with misdirection perform the turn and cut. Hopefully that helps.

Alec.

Misdirection is the key here

A method I played around with a while back to flip the bottom card around is to start to pull it into classic palm, and using the rest of the deck as cover flip it around with your thumb and place the card back onto your deck with your pinky finger

But I've never used it in anger, it was just something I played around with once

Thanks for the quick replies, I'm still at an EXTREMELY basic level so will have to practice some palms etc. I just had an idea for a trick the other day and wondered how id go about doing it. Ill get playing around with these ideas, cheers again!

If you hold the deck in mechanic's grip with your right hand also holding the deck from the top, you can pull the top right corner of the bottom card in the deck down. It will buckle enough to get your pinkie in there. If you then pinch the card between the edge of your palm and your pinkie and extend your left hand fingers, the card will flick out and turn over. You can then square up and you have the whole deck and your right hand as cover.

You can then swing cut the deck and you have a card face up in the deck. If you've controlled a selection to the bottom, you've got yourself a triumph effect, albeit a pretty shabby one.

That's probably not clear at all but....I tried. PM me if confused.

An introduction would be a good idea here. And before anyone says an introduction isnt necessary blah blah blah, look at the posts again. How do we know this guy hasnt seen a performance of the ID and is fishing ?

Im not saying he IS fishing, just that its hard to say he isnt from whats been written.

jim

I thought the same Jim, but just asking for advice for reversing a card in the deck isn't going to expose much, if anything. It certainly won't reveal the ID trick and if anything, would only confound him/her further.

Certainly is a lot of new members what with all this Fool Us malarkey isn't there?

Grimshaw wrote:I thought the same Jim, but just asking for advice for reversing a card in the deck isn't going to expose much, if anything. It certainly won't reveal the ID trick and if anything, would only confound him/her further.

Thats true, but i was using the ID as an example. From the description in the first post it could be any number of effects, which means the method thats being asked for may not be far off the mark.

As I said, it may be a genuine request, but as its a first post its kinda hard to tell.

jim

jim ferguson wrote:An introduction would be a good idea here. And before anyone says an introduction isnt necessary blah blah blah, look at the posts again. How do we know this guy hasnt seen a performance of the ID and is fishing ?

Im not saying he IS fishing, just that its hard to say he isnt from whats been written.

jim

That's a VERY good point actually!

Alec

If you're just getting started in card magic you could purchase The Royal Road to Card Magic. It has plenty of stuff in it, including how to reverse cards in a deck.

Here's a video I posted up a while ago in regards to reversing the bottom card. There's no explanation, but it demonstrates the performance of the sleight. It is apparently found in the Royal Road to Card Magic, although I'm not sure when since I've lost my copy...

Just for safety, the video is password protected and to access it, answer the question: What is the actual surname of the man who wrote "The Expert at the Card Table".

http://vimeo.com/4675812

Another sleight you could look into is the KM Move. (Kardyro Marlo Move) It can be used to reverse a single card in the middle of the pack under the action of tilting the deck.

Very nice indeed.

Control it to the top of the deck, half pass the card to the bottom then cut the deck.

Simples

Mark Waddington wrote:Control it to the top of the deck, half pass the card to the bottom then cut the deck.

Simples

Or pants leg it

stevebo wrote:Here's a video I posted up a while ago in regards to reversing the bottom card. There's no explanation, but it demonstrates the performance of the sleight. It is apparently found in the Royal Road to Card Magic, although I'm not sure when since I've lost my copy...

Hi there. I dont have my Royal Road handy to check this but if memory serves it is slightly different in the book. From what i recall the card in the original description started on the bottom of the deck, whereas in your version it starts in the middle. The actual method of facing the card is the same though.

jim