User Error by Chris Hanowell

When card magic crashes—hard.

Playing cards don’t just change… they glitch.

User Error by Chris Hanowell takes the classic Wild Card plot and drags it straight into the digital age. What starts as a few innocent jokers spirals into a full system failure—right in your spectator’s hands.

Here’s what happens:

You introduce a small packet of jokers, casually explaining they’re linked to a cutting-edge app on your phone. Fronts and backs look perfectly normal. Then things start to go wrong. Error codes appear—one by one—like a buggy computer losing control. The glitches multiply, stack, and spread… until everything finally crashes into a jaw-dropping blue screen of death, staring up from the cards your spectator is holding.

It’s bold. It’s visual. And it’s laugh-out-loud unexpected.

Why it works:

• Super easy to perform—just one sleight (and you likely already know it)
• Specially printed cards, ready to use right out of the box
• Packed with hidden Easter eggs for extra reveals and playful pranks
• Built for strong reactions and comedy beats, not knuckle-busting moves

You’ll also get a clear, in-depth tutorial taught by Erik Tait, walking you through handling, timing, and presentation so the effect lands exactly when it should.

Modern magic. Retro tech chaos.
A classic plot—rebooted and broken in the best possible way.

USER ERROR
Run the program.
Trigger the glitch.
Let the system crash.