How to Perform Fruit Card

The magician asks his spectator to pick any card from the deck. She picks one and puts it back inside. The magician puts the deck into his pocket. He tells the spectator to think of her card, and name it. Upon learning the name of the card, he peels a nearby lemon and reveals a rolled up card inside. He unrolls it to reveal the spectator's card! Upon showing the deck of cards again, the chosen card is now missing! Read on to learn how to do it.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• two identical decks of cards
• lemon
• clear glue
• knowledge of card forcing

How to Perform

1. Set the trick up. Carefully cut off the green part of the lemon. Inside, you will find a small enough space for an extremely rolled up card to fit inside. Pick a card, we will say the Ten of Hearts, and roll it up, placing it inside. Using clear glue, glue the green part back on.
2. Remove the Ten of Hearts from the other deck. Place both decks into your pocket, making sure to differentiate between the two. You must know which has the Ten of Hearts and which does not.
3. For this to work, the Ten of Hearts will need to be "forced" onto your spectator. I wrote a tutorial on an easy way to "force" a card; so read that. Essentially, you need to make the spectator think the Ten of Hearts was randomly chosen, when in fact it was chosen because you made her choose it.
4. Ask her to memorize the card. Have her place it back into the deck.
5. Take the deck and place it into your pocket. Casually approach the area with the lemon.
6. Ask her to name the chosen card. Upon hearing the name, peel the lemon open and remove the rolled up card. Unroll it to reveal the Ten of Hearts!
7. Remove the second deck from your pocket and show that the Ten of Hearts is now missing. Since you placed the first deck into your pocket earlier, she will assume it is the same deck, when it is a different one.

Tips & Warnings

• The glue will cause the lemon to brown, so perform this quickly after setting it up.
• Forcing cards can be tough, so if she names a card different than the forced ones, quickly call an audible and perform something else.