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Postby linda » Mar 25th, '06, 17:55



I visited cadbury world the other day and bought a pack of cadbury plqaying cards and a bag of cadurys minature chocolates -any ideas for a force card trick to link the two -thought about forcing a card and then the spectator finding a mini card in one of the minature chocolates or,an oversized card with an equal number of chocs stuck to the back etc but would like something more dramatic -any thoughts?

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Postby Durto » Mar 27th, '06, 19:15

My personnal pick when it comes to link a small object with a deck of cards is to perform "Sure Bet". While it is shown with coins in Ammar's Easy to master coin miracle 1, it work really well with various things such as rings, tumbtacks (don't ask!) or bills!
Can't really tell you how to perform it (if you don't know "Sure Bet") but the simple effect consist of having the spectator choose 2 cards, then the deck is put aside, you shuffle and show the two cards again and again then the chosen object "appears" in between those cards.
I'm pretty sure making chocolates appears in a deck of Cadbury cards would be great, good luck ;)

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Postby Miles More Magic » Mar 27th, '06, 19:46

Can you get hold of a second pack?
If so, how about where you restore a torn up card, leaving a corner unrestored. They find the corner in a chocolate.
I did this with an Easter egg, that I had given as a prize near the start of the show. I performed the card routine about 20 mins later, getting the person I gave the Easter egg to, to reveal the piece of card.
As I was doing the card trick for someone completly seperate and with the time gap, this gave it more of a "wow" factor.

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Postby dat8962 » Mar 27th, '06, 22:41

carefully undo the wrappers and with a marker, write the force card on the underside / inside and then re-wrap. Force the card, undo the chocolate and you have a good excuse to eat the chocolate while the spec orks out what happened.

Glue a wrapper to the back of a card, undo the choc and eat it, force a card (the one with the wrapper) and turn it over to reveal that it's the only one with the wrapper.

All easy and you may get some mileage from them.

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Postby IAIN » Mar 28th, '06, 11:22

...get something like a yorkie and with a compass point carve into a segment of the bar the card you are about to force on them...

then force the card by say, "cut-deeper"...and then offer them a piece of the chocolate as a small thanks...

then as they are about to eat it, stop them and say "ooh there's something on that piece...can you look?"...

that was off the top of my head though, please feel free to fill in any of the gaps...

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