Changes The object of all sleights of this name is to change a card held in the right hand for the top card of the pack, which is held in the left. Changes are especially useful when the performer has made a mistake, having by some accident lost the chosen card. Taking any card out of the pack, the performer places it, without showing its face, on the table and boldly asserts that it is the chosen card. The performer then requests its owner to name the card. Upon learning the name of the card, the perform spreads out the pack on the table under the pretext of showing that the chosen card is not contained among the others. In reality, the performer quickly finds this card and slips it behind the others, thus bringing it to the top of the pack. Picking up the card on the table, the performer secretly changes it for the top card of the pack, i.e. the chosen one, and exhibits it. The changes mostly employed by conjurers, are the Top Change and the Bottom Change. However several other changes are often used, including the New Top Change, the Mexican Turn Over, the Excelsior Change, and the Color Change. 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.