Ways to Use Force Cards in Card Magic

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Malik the Magic Guy for expertvillage.com. I want to talk to you a little bit about how to use cards that you’re going to force. Now force cards give you a lot of power because you know what card is being selected before they actually pick it. So if I force this card on somebody, now I can actually give them the deck. I can let them put it back in there anywhere they want; I can let them shuffle the deck as much as they want, and no matter what happens, I already know what card they picked. So it’s an easy matter for me to go through and locate that card. So that’s the way to do a location where you can have them put the card back in themselves and have them shuffle the deck. Another thing you can do is you can predict the card that is going to be selected. You remember, when we did the clock trick, I had it written on an index card. You can lay out a card of another color, and in this case we would want to force a 10 of spades from this deck; I’m going to do some other prediction types stuff later. You can use one of the mini cards for this, you can use a jumbo card for this, you can have it drawn on your shirt, you can have all sorts of different predictions in all kinds of different places. So those are a couple of ideas on how to use a forced card."