Criss Angel Card Tricks Exposed!

Article by: Andrew A for www.howtomarkcards.com
Criss Angel is a famous world leading freak magician! He is better known as "MindFreak" because of his shows. He began as a magician / illusionist in NY City and now does mainstream shows in Las Vegas. How does he freak people out by knowing every card in your hand? How does he allow you to choose a card and have a sealed envelope with your card in it? Don't worry he isn't an alien or a super mutant with special abilities. He is an illusionist with a special secret weapon. Infrared Contact lenses. His cards are marked special with luminous ink from a luminous ink printer and his contact lenses have a special infrared filter that exposes the card markings on the back of the card. Well... how does can he pull the card that a person picks out of his shoe... or a sealed envelope? That's easy. He goes back and forth from a marked deck of cards and a deck of 50/50 forced card deck. (If you were wondering what a 50/50 force deck is, it is a deck that has 50% the same card and 50% different cards. One "forced" card is the main card that will always be chosen. You set every other card as the one chosen card and every other card as a regular random card. The chosen card is slightly cut smaller than the regular card so that when you fan the deck you only see random cards and then you fan the deck the opposite way you only see one chosen card (making the illusion that you changed the whole deck into your chosen card!)

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