can you cut someone with a playing card
Card throwing
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 . 
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 .
This myth was tested on the Discovery Channel program MythBusters, and subsequently debunked. The hosts concluded that a playing card lacks enough mass to transfer sufficient energy to human tissue on impact.
This myth was tested on the Discovery Channel program MythBusters , and subsequently debunked . The hosts concluded that a playing card lacks enough mass to transfer sufficient energy to human tissue on impact .
With an electric motor to mechanically launch a card at 150 mph, 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.
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 .