This is a simple card routine with a whimsical revelation. Two specific cards are selected, you show a dollar bill and explain that the spectators can have it if you can’t match it. As you say that you turn the bill into a matchbook (get it? match). You then ask one of the spectators to name their card and when the match book is opened a replica of their card is seen inside. Upon closing and reopening the matchbook the second card is revealed.

What is not mentioned in the tutorial is that the same gimmick can be used to reveal anything, or even have a vanished object appear in the matchbook after it changes from a bill.

Although it is not difficult to make the prop/gimmick that accomplishes everything, you will need to supply: Two large matchbooks, any Bill (paper money), two scanned and reduced playing cards, glue, scotch tape, and a deck of cards.

Produced by Meir Yedid Magic in 2024. Original footage from Mike Bornstein’s Magic Video Tape #3 (1994). Running time: Approximately eight minutes. This video was AI enhanced for optimal HD viewing.