The Card Caught On The Plate The artist requests a spectator to select from the pack any card they desire and then to mark it so they will be sure to recognize it. The same spectator is then handed the pack and requested to replace their card and shuffle the cards. The performer next introduces an ordinary china plate that is freely shown from both sides, proving it to be unprepared. The performer now takes the plate in one hand and throws the pack in the air with the other. As the cards descend in a shower the performer makes a lunge among them with the plate, upon which the performer catches the chosen card that is given to the spectator, who identifies it by their mark. The trick is as simple as it is pretty, no previous preparation being necessary for its performance. Before handing the cards to one of the company with the request to select one at random, the performer bends the ends of the pack in a downward direction. After a card has been removed, and while it is being marked, the conjurer again bends the pack, but in an opposite direction, so that after the spectator has returned the card to the pack no amount of shuffling will prevent the performer from immediately finding the desired card. It will be the only one bent in an opposite way to the rest of the cards, the pack opening slightly at the very place where this card is situated. After inserting the little finger under the chosen card, the performer brings it to the top of the pack by means of the pass. The performer then places the cards, for the time being, on the middle of the plate to which a small pellet of adhesive wax has previously been attached. By slightly pressing the top of the pack, the chosen card on the bottom is made to adhere to the plate, which the conjurer then seizes and turning its bottom towards the spectators, allows the free cards to slide into the hand. They are then thrown into the air, the selected card being apparently picked out from among them with the plate. After detaching the card from the plate, the conjurer secretly removes any remaining traces of the wax adhering perchance to the back of the card, then giving the card to the spectator who selected and marked it for identification. Home | Card Tricks | Card Trick Skills | The Pass | The Force | Changes False Shuffling | The Glimpse | Card Palm | Card Sleights Copyright © 2003-2006 HowToDoCardTricks.com. All rights reserved worldwide.   You can quickly get a copy of every trick on this web site in a downloadable PDF book. That's over 40 classic card tricks to amaze and astound your friends, all stored on your computer to refer to at any time! Just click the link below to get your own copy today for just $5.