Startling 2.0 by Wayne Dobson

Do you want to see something Startling?

You show the word Startling using scrabble like tiles.  A card is chosen from a regular deck of cards and you then proceed to explain that the word Startling is the only word in the english language where you can remove one letter at a time and make a new word.

You proceed to to demonstrate your claim by discarding one tile at a time.

You then finish by explaining that using the discarded tiles you can form other words and reintroduce the discarded tiles to form the name of a playing card.

The spectator turns over the card chosen at the beginning and they match!

This is an update of Wayne’s effect Startling.