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Dan Harlan Hover Card

The document describes a magic trick called the Hover Card illusion. A selected card appears to float above the deck without any visible means of support. In reality, a duplicate card is switched for one attached to a small plastic hinge. When the deck is tilted, the hinged card floats at an angle due to the diagonal plastic attachment. Performers must learn to hold the gimmicked card carefully or it will snap. The trick fools spectators into believing the card is levitating through mysterious means.

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Dan Harlan Hover Card

The document describes a magic trick called the Hover Card illusion. A selected card appears to float above the deck without any visible means of support. In reality, a duplicate card is switched for one attached to a small plastic hinge. When the deck is tilted, the hinged card floats at an angle due to the diagonal plastic attachment. Performers must learn to hold the gimmicked card carefully or it will snap. The trick fools spectators into believing the card is levitating through mysterious means.

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Hover Card By Dan Harland


EFFECT: Have a card selected from an ordinary deck. Place the selected card face-up on top of the deck. Now, while you are holding the deck with the selected card facing the audience, the card begins to float gently off of the deck!! The selected card hovers mysteriously above the deck, then slowly comes to rest, balanced upon one corner. You motion to the card, and it slowly floats back onto the deck. Show the card on both sides, then hand it out! Hover Card looks absolutely amazing. The card appears to float at least two inches from the deck! Hover Card uses no threads or wires; there are no body connections of any kind. The gimmick is very small, so it comes and goes with ease. Secret: Ordinary card is switched for a gimmicked duplicate which floats by means of a 'mechanical parallel hinge'. the gimmick consists of two cards; a double back card and a floating card. they are connected by the plastic rectangular hinge, hinged at its corners, this is what is needed to float the card, the rectangle is attached diagonally so that the floating card floats at an angle and comes to rest upon one of the corners. You must learn how to hold the gimmick carefully or it will snap you need to tilt and tip the gimmick so gravity will cause it to swing out from the deck very slowly Performing: hold deck in left hand dealing grip put gimmick on top and place duplicate on top of that have gimmick face down on deck with pivot near left index finger, show the duplicate ordinary card-get break under gimmick and normal card, place duplicate face down, turn over all above the break so face of gimmick shows, all that is left to do is tilt the deck so the card floats

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NOT ORIGONAL DOCUMENT MADE WITHOUT CREATOR PERMISSION Explanation 2: Basically it works on the same principle as the levitating money. You need a piece of plastic and this attaches two cards to each other. Take a strip of roughly the same size as in the float note, and fold it a quarter of the way in from each end. Now glue one end to the back of one card and the other to the back of another card so that they will fold flat together. Now take another card and glue it so the bottom card is double backed as in the diagram. This sounds complicated but you will have to try it. Have this on top of the deck, with the double backed card uppermost. To perform. Have the fake cards on top of the deck. Have a spectator choose a card and place it face up on the deck. Now turn the top three cards over so the gimmick card is the right way up. Tilt the deck forward and the card will rise off, tilt it even more and it will come to rest on the furthest edge of the deck, but this might expose the plastic if you leave it there to long. Then simply reverse the procedure, do another triple lift and give them back their card to keep. Dan Harland

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