Comments on: Copperfield's Card Trick

Copperfield's Card Trick

fenriq — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:36:53 -0800

Copperfield's Card Trick
Pick a card without clicking it or selecting it and the image of David Copperfield will remove that card from the six cards.

How does this work? I've tried it four or five times and it gets it right everytime.

By: ook

ook — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:38:57 -0800

Here's a hint: pick two cards next time you try it. See what happens.

By: wuakeen

wuakeen — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:40:11 -0800

All the cards that are shown on the 2nd display are different. therefore, he will have removed your card with certainty. (watch the suits closely)

By: jennyjenny

jennyjenny — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:40:50 -0800

guh.

By: pineapple

pineapple — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:41:31 -0800

Alternately, jot down the six cards it shows you, and then compare that list to the five it reveals after the elimination. It makes for sort of a forehead-slapping moment.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:43:45 -0800

Oldest trick in the book (in terms of online pick a card tricks.)

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:44:10 -0800

this is old and at least a double post.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:44:22 -0800

I'm sorry, but that is soooo weak. Is Copperfield down to riping of secondhand tricks from children's magazines? I swear I saw this in the third grade or something. Look deeply into my badly pixelated eyes, David, it's time to retire.

By: Nauip

Nauip — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:45:15 -0800

you're going to want to forget that login and password and reregister on mefi after this post...

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:46:23 -0800

Wuakeen, damn! Thanks for pointing it out, that was making me nuts!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:51:47 -0800

And yes, my forehead hurts from slapping it so hard. Should have picked this up but come on, its only Monday.

By: Swifty

Swifty — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:52:50 -0800

For more "fun" along these lines, try this site.

By: badstone

badstone — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:20:02 -0800

i liked it better when it was an animated goldfish, but your choices are legion.

By: skryche

skryche — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:04:02 -0800

I was sure this would be similar to Where's Waldo?

By: lsd4all

lsd4all — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:39:48 -0800

david copperhead freaks me out. he's so swarmy and he was engaged to claudia schiffler for like 10 years.

By: waldo

waldo — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:52:08 -0800

Somebody looking for me?

By: sudama

sudama — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:35:02 -0800

David Coppefield?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:46:31 -0800

I think I posted one similar to this last year or something, and was promptly humiliated by the crowd, then pelted with rocks and garbage. Still, an oldie and a goody.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:44:02 -0800

stavros - we forget so quickly, then you can just keep pulling the same trick on us over and over again..... Bwahaha

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:54:20 -0800

reminds me of an old dos-based card trick on the apple IIc we had, where you held the card up to the screen and it pretended to "scan" it and then guess it. my friends used to buy that every time. the trick was when you were supposedly typing in "yes" [continue], you were actually typing in what card it was.

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:48:36 -0800

Uninstall powerpoint immediately!

By: jennanemone

jennanemone — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:18:45 -0800

Soon you will enter a magic world. Look deep into my eyes. You will experience something extraordinary. I do not know you. I cannot see you. God, this whole magic trick is awfully hot and romantic, until the part where he says in 100 pt, "LOOK! I TOOK YOUR CARD!" Don't you think?

By: donfactor

donfactor — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:47:56 -0800

Well, I hadn't seen it before. The first time I was impressed. The second time I was even more impressed. The third time he got it wrong and the fourth time also. I then realized what was happening - I think. But maybe one of you know-it-alls would be kind enough to explain in order to confirm my theory which I will wait to explain.

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:05:08 -0800

donfactor, wuakeen already explained it above.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:07:34 -0800

there's waldo! what do I win?

By: spazzm

spazzm — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:21:50 -0800

I checked the book and, sure enough, this trick is the oldest one in it.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 05:42:46 -0800

Google is more magical than this.

By: triv

triv — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:33:49 -0800

Preach on, brother frasermoo...

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:14:01 -0800

The real trick is seeing Copperfield's ugly mug for so long and not getting queesy.

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:16:04 -0800

Real magic. this is old and at least a double post. Please to go easy with such nasty CopperfieldHateFilter words. This is the kind of timely, pertinent and provocative front page post that both "Seth" and I are fighting for here on Metafilter.

By: boneybaloney

boneybaloney — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:56:12 -0800

...you're back in the room.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:01:31 -0800

I've tried it four or five times and it gets it right everytime. But at that point, don't you say "OK - how could this possibly work given that David Copperfield isn't really there in the screen reading my mind? Hmmmmm. It would have to insure that no matter what card I picked, it wouldn't be there. How could it accomplish that?" And then all that remains is to test the theory by remembering more than one card. At least that's how it was back when I first saw this. Then again, I didn't have dreamy David Copperfield there, distracting me from thinking clearly. No, back when I saw this it was Robert-Houdin.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:36:30 -0800

I think more disturbing than the "LOOK! I TOOK YOUR CARD!" is the complete lack of post-card-trick pillowtalk. I imagine David sounds like the AOL announcer: "goodbye".