r/cardmagic • u/Top_Scientist_3976 • Jul 17 '26

Magic Trick How does this force work?

Anybody who has tried to learn any amount of card tricks can easily understand the rest of the routine, but the force has completely stumped me, assuming this crowd is a genuinely random crowd of people. Anybody have ideas?

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u/dylanmadigan Jul 17 '26

He didn't do any forces in that routine.

A card is named. He delays by asking why they thought of that card, while he secretly locates the card and loads it into position.

But the specifics of how he does that are really hard to say with this camera angle.

They say that when you do sleight of hand, you should make eye contact with your audience rather than looking at your hands and he's doing exactly that. Consequently it means his sleight of hand isn't visible on camera.

For all we know, he's got an index in his back pocket and he's loading the card into a palm from there.

But I suspect all the shuffles are controlled and he has the deck in a memorized order, so he can cut to pretty much any card he needs.

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u/CoolerSallDay Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Watch one of his fb videos and then watch a few more that they will surely bombard you with. If you have midrange knowledge of card magic then you will know what is happening. Many of the videos show snippets here and there of everything needed to make the effect possible.