This trick is simple but still cool. The magician takes a can and places it on top of a playing card.
Despite all odds and the forces of gravity, the can stays upright on the paper-thin card. Is this magic or just a good balancing act?
The Levitating Card Trick
As we’ve already seen, getting things to levitate is always interesting. In this classic magic trick, the item being levitated is a playing card, but not just any card, a card that was apparently chosen at random by someone in the audience.
The deck is then placed into a glass and the correct card just pops right out. But how could the magician know which card would be chosen? They couldn’t prepare for that, or could they?
The Levitating Card Trick – Secret
In this trick the magician really does let the audience member choose whatever card they want; the real secret is to return that card to the deck into the correct position. There is a special card at the end of the pack which is supported by a counterweight.
When the card is turned upside down a small pad with a sticky wax dot makes the whole thing go up and pop out of the deck.
The Can on A Card Trick Explained
If the person performing the trick gave you a good look at the back of the playing card, you would discover that instead of a straight line there was a “T” shape holding up the can. The “T” is created by folding a playing card in half, and then taping the folded part to the straight card the audience can see.
The two cards together are actually surprisingly strong and can even hold heavier items than just a can of soda.
The Secret Behind Twisting An iPhone
Like many others all this trick needs to work is a bit of preparation, a little misdirection and very fast fingers. Dynamo keeps half of an iPhone’s back cover with him when performing this trick. He has to make sure that he is only performing the trick on the correct make and model, otherwise it wouldn’t look right.
He starts off showing the audience the back of the phone and then covers it with both hands. He then pretends to twist the phone but actually just rotates it and slides the fake half cover on the front. When returning the phone, he does the same thing only in reverse.