Can someone explain this card trick???

[kikie]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but it is a neat trick. You have to understand Japanese; You have to watch it till the end.

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[TheCracker]

Do you have to be a mind reader too?

 

[kikie]

Nope, why??? I posted a link and now its gone

edit: link is back up. I don't understand. I posted the link clicked on "save", tried it out if it should work, it did and suddenly the link was gone

 

[TheCracker]

And now we have two threads?

 

[kikie]

How is that possible??? Mod, close one of the threads please. Something went wrong.

 

[TopHat]

Whats with the two threads?

Have you put it in a translator?

EDIT: Should probably click, its a vid....

Try asking a friend.

 

[kikie]

Whats with the two threads?

Have you put it in a translator?

I really don't know and no, I never use a translator. I only created 1 thread and suddenly there are 2 of them. This one must be closed!!!!

 

[Famine]

How is that possible??? Mod, close one of the threads please. Something went wrong.

Close a thread? How 90s... We have much neater things these days...

 

[TopHat]

The thread was merged eh? How kind Famine!

 

[kikie]

Yep, thanks Famine for fixing my mess with your neat trick.

 

[Touring Mars]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but it is a neat trick. You have to understand Japanese; You have to watch it till the end.

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That's a great trick... although, just after Yuko places her card back in the pack, he palms the card away... in other words, the card is not in the pack any more, but somewhere on his person... . He then turns to the chap of the right, and says something, and when he turns back around, you can see that he reaches round behind the girl with his right hand, almost certainly giving the card with 'Yuko' written on to someone else... after that, the film is sped up, creating the illusion that not much time passes, when infact it was probably at least a full minute - plenty time to arrange for the next part of the illusion...

As for the card appearing 'inside' the fish tank, that's possible by sticking the card onto a thin layer of clear film/glass and sliding it very quickly into place from the bottom up.... in order to mask this, he throws the packs of cards over a period of around 2 seconds, to obscure the card being brought into place.... notice how the cards he throws at the fish tank land next to the glass... there is clearly a gap between the glass and the black support (one or two cards almost fall down the gap)... strange there should be a gap... clearly, the fish tank isn't just resting on a solid support, but the glass goes down further than the black outer support would have you believe... in this case, it's very conceivable that an extra glass layer is lurking underneath, with the previously handed-off card now stuck to it's inside face... this layer could easily be between two other layers... the outer layer (the fish tank wall) and an equally movable inner layer (which is removed prior to the part where he peels the card off the inside of the tank)... either way, nobody would notice the movement of a clear glass slide unless they were looking very closely...

(I wouldn't say for definite, but it certainly looks like the tank is atleast double-walled on the front side... looking at the corner of the tank on the right hand side of this screen-capture... )

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Here's a little more proof that there is more than one glass layer on the 'front' of the tank... watch as he reaches for the card and the camera shoots from the back... you can clearly see the reflection of the card in another layer of glass... as the camera pans round to the front of the tank (the red side of the card), the reflection is no longer visible.... (since the card is on the inside layer of glass)

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As for the part where he puts his hand into the tank, that was magic

 

[Danoff]

The tank has a clear tube between the two sides that he puts his hand through. The tube has some water in it, to make it look like he's reaching through the tank. There is a moveable face on the side where he put his hand through. The napkin covers up the opening.

Alternatively, the tank is actually three tanks. Two of which have fish floating in them, the middle one has no water and an opening on one side.

I'd have been more impressed if he'd reached his hand around on the inside and caught a fish.

 

[Keef]

Wow, you're right dan. I can clearly see the innermost tank. I don't get how they could have had a door or a flap or a sliding panel for him to stick his hand through unless the weeds covered it or something. But that was a seriously uncool trick.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Enjoyed the video. That was pretty neat until TM explained it.

 

[Touring Mars]

Enjoyed the video. That was pretty neat until TM explained it.

Have we ruined it for you? It's all speculation of course...

 

[Omnis]

He lost me as soon as he turned that ps3 into a giant aquarium.

dan, if what you say is true then why is the card saturated with water, why does it flubber around as if under water, and why do the fish swim away ?

 

[Revolution.]

I asked one of the Japanese-speaking guys at my forum for a translation of what was said, here's what he said.

The woman takes one card and writes her name on it and puts it back randomly, then he says that he wants to use a more interesting way of finding the card. He asks the woman to shuffle the cards, then he says that he is going to use the aquarium to find that exact card , while there are viewers watching from all directions he just throws the cards at the glass, while the card that has the name of the woman written on goes through the glass!!
Then he goes one the other side and says that that's not it. He uses a napkin to clean the surface of the glass, and says that he is not just cleaning it but by using the napkin he is making the glass more soft, then basically he just pushes and breaks the glass, takes the card out and puts the broken glass back.

So, sadly no explanation of how he did it.

 

[Omnis]

Since when do you expect a magic segment to have an explanation?

"Hi, I'm David Blaine and here is how I do my levitation trick."

 

[Touring Mars]

How true... otherwise, these guys would be pretty skint...

I love the 'description' of the trick, however... that's some quality stuff

 

[Revolution.]

Well, from the way the segment was presented, it looked like an explanation, ie the bit where it paused, highlighted a part of the fishtank and the narrator said something. And the bit where it rewound the putting the hand through the tank, with the narrator talking through it.

 

[Omnis]

Well, from the way the segment was presented, it looked like an explanation, ie the bit where it paused, highlighted a part of the fishtank and the narrator said something. And the bit where it rewound the putting the hand through the tank, with the narrator talking through it.

Nah, they're just showing how hard it is to enhance the softening.

 

[GT4_Rule]

They were analyzing the video when the wound it back.