<P> In October 2005, Chris Linn broke the Guinness World Record for the "most one fingered playing card scales in one minute". To break the record, Linn had to hold a deck of playing cards in one hand and use his thumb to propel ("scale") the cards from the deck a minimum distance of 12 feet . Linn was able to scale 114 playing cards in one minute, beating the previous record of 104 playing cards set by magician Jeff McBride . The record breaking attempt took place at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio . </P> <P> The impressive speed that magicians could throw the cards gave rise to a myth that a card could kill or seriously injure someone if thrown correctly by a person with enough force . The book Cards as Weapons by Ricky Jay is believed to have propagated this myth even though it was originally intended to combine instruction with satire . </P> <P> This myth was tested on the Discovery Channel program MythBusters, and subsequently debunked . Mythbusters' co-host Adam Savage was already quite familiar with the throwing card trick and was shown to be quite adept at performing it, with his maximum throwing speed being clocked at 25 miles per hour or 40 km / h . The episode also featured Ricky Jay himself, who spoke of writing the book and admitted he is most likely responsible for the genesis of the myth . The hosts were able to clock the speed of his throws at about 90 mph . After failing to throw the cards into a ballistic gelatin target with enough force that would result in injury, they used an electric motor to mechanically launch a card at 150 mph . Offering his own body as a target, host Jamie Hyneman allowed the launcher to be fired at his exposed skin from a few feet away, which only resulted in a superficial paper cut . The hosts concluded that a playing card lacks enough mass to transfer sufficient energy to human tissue on impact . </P> <Ul> <Li> Batman's nemesis The Joker is known to employ weaponized playing cards, particularly in the 1992 animated TV series . </Li> <Li> Gambit (X-Men) is skilled in the art of card - throwing with great accuracy, which he combines with his mutant ability to "charge" objects with energy to turn the thrown cards into effective weapons . </Li> <Li> Hisoka, a regular antagonist in the manga and anime series Hunter x Hunter, often throws razor - sharp playing cards in battle . </Li> <Li> Yuri of the Dirty Pair sometimes employs the "Bloody Card"--a technologically enhanced card--to attack multiple targets . </Li> <Li> City Hunter (1993)--features a gambling card thrower . </Li> <Li> Setzer, the gambling hero of Final Fantasy VI, uses a variety of card decks for weapons as well as darts and dice . </Li> <Li> 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)--uses a specially designed throwing card, which appears to be bent, a possible enhancement . </Li> <Li> Oswald (KOF XI)--practices the card - throwing art called Karnöffel . </Li> <Li> Twisted Fate (League of Legends)--utilizes card throwing for all of his attacks . </Li> <Li> Hellsing, the Japanese horror manga, features a card - slinging sorcerer known as The Dandy Man . </Li> <Li> Sheena Fujibayashi (Tales of Symphonia) swings and strikes with tarot cards for all of her abilities and employs techniques where she empowers those cards with energy called "seals". </Li> <Li> Sneff, a playable character in Chrono Cross, is a magician who uses a deck of cards as his primary weapon . </Li> <Li> Seto Kaiba has been known to do this in the original Yu - Gi - Oh! manga . </Li> <Li> Bullseye, from Marvel Comics, kills or injures several people (including Elektra) with a thrown Ace of Spades . </Li> <Li> Card throwing was one of the murder techniques used in the CSI episode "Last Woman Standing". </Li> <Li> In Now You See Me (2013), one of the magicians, Jack Wilder, proves to be a skilled card thrower . During a show, using a playing card, he cuts in half a pencil held by an audience member and later uses the technique to attack the FBI agent pursuing him . Also, in the movies' sequel, Now You See Me 2 (2016), The Four Horsemen, a group of magicians, steal a chip attached to a playing card in front of guards by throwing the card to each other while the guards aren't looking . </Li> <Li> In Smokin' Aces, stage magician Buddy "Aces" Israel manages to temporarily incapacitate his bodyguard Ivy by striking him in the eye with a thrown playing card . </Li> <Li> In Jonathan Creek there is an episode where Jonathan uses his skills gained by reading the aforementioned book by Ricky Jay; to incapacitate a potential shooter long enough for him to be apprehended by police </Li> </Ul>

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