12 SPECIAL MAGIC TRICKS As used by DAVID BLAINE CD ROM

FALSE SHUFFLE

FORCE A CARD

EFFECTS:

AMBITIOUS CARD

The spectator's card changes, flips over, and constantly jumps from the middle of the deck to the top or bottom!

CARD BETWEEN THE ACES

This trick was performed in David Blaine second special where he made the spectator sign a card, the card was put back in the pack and was made to appear from between two aces.

CARD IN BOTTLE

The spectator is asked to sign a card and the card is placed back in the deck. The cards are shuffled. The magician throws the cards at a bottle behind the spectators. The signed card appears in the bottle.

CARD THROUGH WINDOW

The performer asks the spectator to pick a card without him seeing the face and replace it in the pack. The pack is then shuffled and the performer is apparently unsuccessful in locating the card. After a few attempts, the cards are thrown against a window in a fit of rage, on looking at the window, the chosen card is seen to be sticking to it, even more surprising is the fact that the card is on the inside of the window.

COIN BITE

David Blaine borrows a coin from the spectator he then puts the coin in his mouth and bites half the coin off. He shows the half bitten coin to the audience and then blows on the coin and it magically reappears.

DAVID BLAINE AND THE BALDUCCI LEVITATION

The magician raises his arms up by his sides and slowly appears to rise a few inches off the ground for a little while before returning to earth.

FLY RESURRECTION

You are walking down the street and casually pick any spectator. You ask them to come with you to a nearby car and pick a dead fly off the windscreen. You hold it in your hand for a few seconds and the fly slowly comes back to life.

PSYCHOKINETIC WATCH

David Blaine did this tricks in his second national TV special. A watch is borrowed the magician does not carry anything! After showing the watch to those nearby who notice the current time, you place the watch face down in the spectator's hand. His hand is closed over the watch. The magician does not touch the watch again. The magician then asks the spectator to name a number and then to concentrate on that number and the watch. He opens his hand, turns over the watch and sees that the hands of the watch have moved that many minutes! NO gimmicks.

STRING FROM STOMACH

The magician takes a thread about 5 inches long, swallows it, lifts up his shirt and pulls it out of his stomach.

THINK OF A NUMBER

The magician asks the spectator to think of any number. He then writes the number on a bit of paper, puts the pencil down and the number is the chosen one.

TWO CARDS MONTE

(This is the trick that was performed on the David Blaine special and requires a complete mastery of the double lift). The magician shows the spectator the queen of diamonds on top of the deck. He then tells the spectator to hold the queen face down between his fingers. The performer then shows the next top card, the other red queen. After several fast sneaky switches of the cards, the spectator is told to guess which card is where? When he turns over his hand, he realizes he is holding no queen at all.

VOODOO SPIRIT WRITING MIND READING TRICK

The magician is seen to write something down on a paper note pad and does not allow the spectator to see what he has written. The magician announces that he is about to ask the spectator a question and because he can read his mind, already knows the answer that the spectator will reply back with. The spectator is then asked to think of a number between one and a hundred or a simple shape such as a triangle, square or rectangle and reveal this out loud. The note pad is then shown to find that the magician had written the same number or shape down on the note pad!