A selected card is mixed in the deck and returned to its case. The spectator is asked to tap the case to make selected card penetrate the deck and case and fall out. The spectator does so with no effect. The perplexed performer gives the deck to the spectator to find his selected card, which he fails to do. The audience thinks that the card has vanished. But the card has penetrated half the case, and shows as a printed impression on the back of the case.