I have a great book of card tricks called “The Royal Road to Card Magic” by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue. Card tricks are my favorite, because they don’t require special props, and when they’re done with a spectators deck they’re all the more convincing. In a past life, I was into magic in a big way. It’s a useless skill, but it can keep you distracted for hours trying to practice it. It helps to have big hands, and after time you’ll be able to do it across a solid distance. You’ll want to begin with your hands fairly close together, and after some experimenting you’ll get a feel for how hard and fast to squeeze the deck to keep it from spraying all over the room. It may not seem simple when read, but it really is. As you hold your left hand slightly away from the right hand the flexing cards will project from one hand into the other, as each card loses contact with the fingers. You’ll want to sqeeeze the deck so that all the cards bend into the palm of your hand, as you squeeze the top edge of the bottom card will begin to loose contact with the three fingers at the top of your hand. Its important that you don’t touch the sides of the deck. ![]() Hold the deck in your dominant hand with a thumb at the bottom of the deck and three or four fingers together across the top. You need a fairly crisp slick deck of cards. Well, can’t help on the first one, but shooting the cards from one hand to the other is not a difficult task. If you know how to do this, will you teach me and the other dopers? Do you know any other tricks that are just as cool? (And I don’t mean tricks that end with “is this your card?”)Ĭan anyone recommend a web site or a book that will demonstrate these tricks? Whenever I ever try it though, or anyone I’ve ever seen tries it, either the cards don’t come out evenly or they shoot all the way across the room at different angles. I’ve also seen this done in live action television and movies, but it happens so fast I can’t see what’s being done - I think it’s kind of like normal shuffling. Bugs Bunny does this often whenever the script causes him to have a deck of cards in his hands. One of the Marx brothers (Harpo?) does this in Animal Crackers but I can’t figure out how he does it.“Shoot” the deck from one hand to the other. Specifically, I want to learn how to do these tricks:ĭeal cards with one hand in such a way that I can fling the cards across the table and cause them to land face up or face down as need be. Man, it would blow their minds if I just showed up one night and started doing this stuff. Recommended for fans of the TV original, but anyone who just wants a good trivia game may want to pass.I want to get a leg up on my weekly poker game - we always talk about the cool stuff we see card players do on television and in the movies, but none of us ever figure any of it out and no one has ever taken the time to try and learn. ![]() Still, the questions are as hilarious as the show, and there are hundreds of them in the game. Softie's computer version unfortunately doesn't stand the test of time too well, not least because of its poor CGA-only graphics that could have been a lot better. The game show lends itself to computer version quite well, perhaps due to the combination of luck and skill which keep the replay value high. The first pair to win two games out of three go on to play the final round, which involves the same higher/lower concept but with a cash wager at the turn of each card. The couple who get closer to the right answer then move along a row of playing cards by predicting whether the next card will be higher or lower than the previous one. The questions themselves are often humorous: 'We asked 100 policemen: "If a naked female ran past you, would you be able to remember her face?" How many said yes, they would be able to recognize her face?' The opponents then predict whether the actual number is higher or lower than that selected by the first pair. ![]() ![]() To gain control of the gameboard, contestants must predict how many of 100 people surveyed answered a question in a particular way. A fun game based on oldie TV game show Play Your Cards Right, Card Sharks combines amusing surveys with a lot of luck to create a lively and entertaining half-hour.
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