A chosen card is rolled up, slid into the barrel of a gun and then handed to a spectator. Next, show them a large tray with on it a red, a yellow and a green balloon. Explain that the object of the exercise is for the spectator to fire his card into a balloon of his choice. But things don’t go quite as you had planned… The selected balloon explodes prematurely, producing a big cloud of white dust. The spectator, naturally, gets a second chance and chooses one of the remaining two. Just before he goes to shoot, this balloon too becomes detached from the tray and hisses wildly into the air. And disaster strikes again when he takes aim at the last balloon, as that balloon begins to deflate slowly, until it goes limp! It’s just not his day, it would seem! Luckily, the magician suddenly has a bright idea; perhaps there’s still one way to succeed after all. He shows the bottom of the tray to the audience; it has a target printed on it. Hold the tray in front of your face and ask the spectator to fire the gun so that the card hits the middle of the target. The guns fires … a loud report is heard. The target on the tray flaps open, and through the big hole they see your face. Hanging from the tip of your nose is … the chosen card! All’s well that ends well.