card tricks
Sleight of hand
Card tricks are feats of sleight of hand or illusion performed with playing cards—making cards appear, vanish, change, or reveal themselves in surprising ways.
The term covers both genuine skill and gimmicked methods.
Someone who does card tricks at parties may be a hobbyist or a professional magician.
Figuratively, card tricks can suggest clever manipulation: The accountant's card tricks kept the company solvent on paper.
- palmingHiding object in hand
- misdirectionIntentional focus manipulation
- legerdemainSkillful hand-based deception
- illusionMisleading sensory impression
- prestidigitationSkillful hand-based illusions
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- party tricksspoon bending, juggling, balloon animal, pen spinning, matchstick puzzle
- noveltieswhoopee cushion, whoopee cushions, rubber chicken, rubber chickens, fake vomit
- tricksillusion, sleight of hand, sleight, vanishing act, disappearing act
- manual skillsjuggling, carving, weaving, threading, stitching
- party entertainmentDJ, live band, live music, karaoke, dance floor
- performance skillsmagic, illusions, sleight of hand, juggling, mime
card trickscoin tricks
Illusions using small change
stage illusions · escape acts · levitation · rope tricks · cups and balls
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