Card Warp is a
card illusion that was created by magician
Roy Walton
Roy Walton (11 April 1932 – 4 February 2020) was an English card magic expert.
Biography
First interested in magic at the age of eight, Walton was a world-recognised card magician creating hundreds of card effects, including his most famo ...
. ''Card Warp'' has many variations in presentation and effect.
''Card Warp'' starts out with the
illusionist
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...
showing two cards. He then folds one card horizontally and the other one vertically. He slides the horizontal card into the vertical card so the horizontal card is inside of the vertical card. The illusionist then flips the cards over so that the vertical card is inside of the horizontal card. He slides the vertical card back and forth, and the card seemingly changes from front to back in the horizontal card. Both cards are then ripped down the middle and shown to be normal.
It is published by Michael Close in "Workers 1" as "Dr Strangetrick" subtitled "Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Card Warp" and by
Michael Ammar in "Easy To Master Card Miracles Volume Two". Michael Close refers to the variation "Star Warp" published by Bob McCallister and
Howie Schwartzman in "Apocalypse Volume 3 Number 7" which uses an American dollar bill. Ammar shows how two normal-sized playing cards can appear to be partially twisted. A performance is published by
Eugene Burger
Eugene Burger (June 1, 1939 – August 8, 2017) was an American magician. He was born in 1939 and was based in Chicago, Illinois. He was reputed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and bizarre magic.
Burger was also a philosop ...
in "Magical Voyages 3" in an effect called "The Inquisition" which uses large-sized playing cards.
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