Card in Bag Trick

Card in Bag Trick with Senegal Deck


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"Alright, so let's do another cool card location using the Svengali deck. This one is called the card in the bag. You need a brown paper bag. So, we'll have our spectator say stop, you can look at the card, put it back in the deck, mix it around so nobody knows where it is. Then, I'm going to take the deck, take the brown paper bag and we'll place this right inside just like this.

Using my expertly trained fingers, I cover my eyes here, reach in the bag, no that's the 4 of spades, that's the 6 of hearts, oh, I think I got it. I got one card from the deck and it just happens to be your selected card, queen of clubs. So come back in a minute and I'm going to show you how to do the card in the bag."

Card in Bag Explanation with Senegal Deck


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"Alright everybody, so let me show you how to do the card in the bag trick. You need to get yourself a brown paper bag, just a standard bag, there's nothing tricky about it and you need your Svengali deck. Now, we have our card selected just like this and this is all kind of a bunch of red hair and stuff because I'm going to have the cards shuffled. I'm going to mix them up just like this.

If you want you can have a spectator cut the deck, but no matter what happens, like we remember from before, there's always a duplicated of the selected card on top. So, we're going to take the deck, place it flat in the bottom of the bag, so it's just laying flat like this right in the bottom of the paper bag.

All I'm going to do is reach in and grab the top part card and pull it out and show it to you. But to add a little bit of sort of presentational stuff to it, I'm going to cover my eyes and reach in and look like I'm reading the cards with my fingertips. So I can go that's the 4 of spades, that's the 6 of hearts, that one's the kind of diamonds, oh, oh wait I got it right here, I got it and you pull it out.

You can pull it out with the back toward them and then you can show them that's their selected card, the queen of clubs. In just a minute I'll show you some more variations on the card in the back."

Card in Bag Variations with Senegal Deck


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"Alright, so I'm going to show you some variations on the card in the bag trick and this is going to use a little bit of the impossible location stuff that we talked about before and I'm going to show you some other ways to do that. Then, coming up I'm going to show you one more version that you can even do this in a show. But anyway, we'll have our card selected.

Now, the part that's going to be the same is that if we take the cards, we can put them in the box, buckle that top card out again, close the flap under the box and we can grab our paper bag and we can put the deck right inside the paper bag and then it sort of adds that extra layer of impossibility. We reach in, take the card right out of the box, inside the bag we pull it right out of the box just like that.

So now it's in the box, in the bag, we can pull that right out and show them just like that. You could also use the duplicate card idea that we did before and what you would do is you would do the trick just like we did a minute ago. Only you would close the box normally and wrap a rubber band around it and then you're going to have a duplicate card in the bag.

You can even have the bag folded up with the card on the bottom of it. Then you would put the deck in the bag, reach in and just quickly pull the card out just like that. In the minute I'm going to show you one more variation to do in like a bigger show and it will be cool, so come back."

Impossible Location Trick

Impossible Location Trick with Senegal Deck


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"Okay everybody so let me show you another cool Svengali trick. So let's take, the deck will have a card selected and what I'm going to do is take the deck, put the deck in the box and I'm going to close the box just like this and I'm going to put the deck in my pocket. I'm going to reach in and just by feel, pull out the very same card that you selected. Just like that.

Let me run through that for you one more time. Have a card selected, put this right back in the box. I'm going to reach in my pocket, take the card right out just like that and we take the deck right out of the box, I can show you there's no more king of clubs anywhere in the deck because I pulled it out. In the minute I'm going to show you how to do that very cool trick."


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"Alright, so here it is, the explanation of the impossible location trick. I really love this trick and in the next segment I'm going show you a couple of other ways to do it. But, here's what I did in the performance that you saw; we had the card selected, okay. Now, this is one of those cases when you don't shuffle the deck because you want them to see the card is in the middle of the deck.

You're going to take the deck just like it is and stick it in the box. But there's another duplicate card right on the top. So what we do is we squeeze just a little bit so that the top part would buckle just like that and we're going to close the flap of the box under that card. Now there was some tricks like this using the regular deck in other segments that we did, but now what happens is I can just pull that right out of there like that.

So I'm going to take the deck and stick it into my shirt pocket, you can stick it into your pants pocket. If you have a man who's wearing a suit jacket, you can stick it in one of his outer pockets and then you just reach in and with your thumb, this is what happens in your pocket.

With your thumb you just grab this card and pull it right out. Now, if you do it with this part of the deck, not this way, but this part of the deck facing them, you can pull the card out with back to them and then you can show it just like that. So that's how you do the impossible location and then in a minute I'm going to show you some other ways to that trick as well."

Impossible Location Variations with Senegal Deck


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"Okay, so the impossible location is a pretty good cool trick, but I'm going to show you a couple of other ways to do it that you might like. One way is you do the trick the way I showed you, up into the point where you close the box. We're not going to put the box in our pocket this time, we're going to just stick it behind our back and right behind my back I'm going to do the same thing I did and just pull the card out, bring it out in front of me and show it like this.

So, I'll review that for you. We'll just put the deck in the box after it's been selected, squeeze it like this so that the top card buckles a little bit, close the flap just like that so the card is sticking out and behind my back I can pull the card right out. Now, you can also do the trick this way and this is very sneaky and under handed. Have the card selected just like that.

You can put it in the box, close the box normally and wrap a rubber band around it just like this to keep it close. Then you can put the deck in your pocket, reach in and some how manage to extract the card just like that.

Now the way you do that is you just take an extra queen of clubs from another end deck, stick it in your pocket like that before the trick is starts and then you just have them pick the card. There it is, you seal up the deck, you rubber band like that so they can't open it and you put this in your pocket, pause for a second and take out the other card and you've just done an amazing trick."