Card Tricks
How To Ace A Magic Card Trick
A fun magic card trick can be a great ice breaker. A simple sleight of hand is all it takes to leave everyone in awe. Whether you're using a standard or double-sided deck of cards, learning these illusions is so simple that anyone can do it. In this article, we'll induct you into the magic world of card tricks.
'Reds and Blacks' is a simple card trick for the novice magician. Get a standard deck of cards and separate the red and black cards. Lay them face down on a flat surface in front of your audience.
Have a volunteer choose one card from each pile at random, memorize them and then place each card into the opposite pile it from which it was selected. Have the person shuffle each deck separately and then place the two decks back together. Now you can look through the deck and find the card that doesn't match the color of the cards that surrounds it.
Another trick that will astound people is teleporting cards. You'll need a standard deck and a group of people sitting at a table with chairs. Show the group a normal card deck and ask a volunteer to replace the card on the top of the deck.
Ask the person to stand up, then deal the top card and a few more onto the table. The volunteer should then put his hands on top of these cards to "prevent them from moving".
Toss a few cards onto the chair of the person who is standing and tell the audience that the chosen card has been teleported right from the under the person's hands to their chair. When checked, the card is in fact on the person's chair!
Although this magic card trick is amazing to an audience, the illusion really isn't difficult. After the volunteer chooses a card, the magician or person performing the trick, takes the bottom half of the deck and flips it over so that it is face up, but still beneath the top half.
Once the card is placed on top of the deck, the performer flips the deck over so their card is now at the bottom. The performer then deals these random top cards to the table and asks the volunteer to place his hands on the cards.
The magician then covertly flips the deck over again so that the chosen card is on top of the deck and then deals these cards onto the chair. The trick is so impressive that guests are knocked off of their seats!
If you want to seem like you possess magical powers, forget about the bunny and top hat and just get yourself an ordinary deck of cards and learn a magic card trick. If you'd like a Svengali deck of cards to perform more advanced illusions, the Internet can conjure up the names of stores in your area that sell supplies to both amateur and professional magicians alike.
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Easy 10 points! What are simple easy and good card tricks that dont use hard terms?
So far I have a disappearing coin trick, card trick where you separate the colors and have them put it in a different color four robbers and the risisng card trick... I need two more by saturday july 26 at 6:00 pm. Easy points for whoever can submit before then and that work!
Here are some easy "self-working" card tricks:
1. First you secretly look at the bottom card of the deck and spread the cards out and have someone pick one. Then have them place it on top of the deck, then cut the deck. Your "Key card" will be right on top of their card. You can continue cutting, but never shuffle. Then reveal that card in any way you want. Here is the popular way: First you start dealing out the cards faceup. Once you hit your key card, the next one will be the card they chose, but pass it like it was an ordinary card. Then, about 5 cards later, tell the "volunteer" that the next card you flip over will be their card. They'll disagree, and you can make a friendly wager. Then go to their card and flip it over; it will already be in the pile.
2. First deal out 21 cards into 3 piles of 7. Now tell them to choose a card without touching it. Now tell them to tell you what pile it is in. Pick up the piles so that that pile in the middle of the other two and deal the cards out again. Make sure you deal them like this: 1 to pile 1, 1 to pile 2, 1 to pile 3, repeat. Now ask them what pile the card is in now. Pick up the piles so that that pile in the middle of the other two and deal the cards out again. Now ask them which pile that card is in now. That person;'s card is the middle card of that pile. I don't know how it works it just does. Anyway, if you did it correctly, that's the card and revel it any way you want.
3. This trick and #4 can easily be combined into one trick. Not only that, but you can have somebody do this whole trick. First put the four aces on top of the deck secretly. Now cut the deck, but don't complete the cut. Now cut each pile without completing the cut. You should have a row of 4 piles, with one of the edge piles with the 4 Aces. Go to the opposite edge and take 3 cards off the top of the pile and put them on the bottom. Then you will take 3 cards off the top of the pile and put 1 onto each other pile. You will repeat those steps, going to the next pile. When you get to the Ace pile, there should be 3 cards concealing 4 Aces. Do those 2 steps again. You will end up dealing an Ace onto each pile. Then flip the top card of each pile over. There will be 4 Aces revealed.
4. This trick is a bit more complicated. Search out the four Aces and put them on the table. If you did Trick 3 first, this is conveniently done already. Now you deal 3 cards onto each ace. Now you collect the packets, placing them on top of each other. Now turn the cards facedown, cut them a few times (do not shuffle), and deal them into 4 facedown piles. Remember how to deal cards. Then square the cards, but secretly glimpse them when you square them. 1 pile will have 4 Aces. Now tell them to choose 2 piles. If neither of them have Aces, discard those piles. If one does, then discard the other two. Now explain that you will play "Four Card Poker." Have them choose a hand for themselves and 1 for you. Give them every opportunity to change their mind. If you get the four Aces, reveal your cards and say that "although they could change their mind, they gave you the winning hand." If you get the other pile, they will have the four Aces. Tell them
"they are extremely lucky and you would not want to play cards with them." The magic is the 4 Aces.
5. Here is a pretty cool one. You say that you will look through the deck for a prediction. Now look at the top two cards. If they have the same value or suit, turn the deck facedown and cut the deck or shuffle. Do this until you have two cards at the top that have different value and suit. Look for the card that has the value of the first card and suit of the second card. Remove that card from the deck face down - that is the prediction. Now turn the deck face down again and ask for a number between 10 and 20. Place that many cards face down on the table one at a time, each card on top of the previous. Now del those cards into 2 piles. The top two cards of the piles should be the cards you made the prediction with. Now remember the pile you last placed a card on. Now tell the people that the top card of this pile (the pile you remembered) will have the value of the prediction, but not the suit. Then say that the top card of the other pile will have the suit of the prediction, but not the value. Flip over the two top pile cards, then the prediction. It'll match.
6. Here is another one. Secretly look at the top card of the deck. Now write that card on a piece of paper, saying you are writing a prediction. Draw a question mark on the other side of the paper. Now, tell somebody to cut the deck, but not to complete the cut. Place the bottom half of the deck on top the first half to make a cross shape. Say that you are marking the exact position where the volunteer cut, for future reference. At this point, you will use "time misdirection." Redirect everybody's attention to the prediction that you made. Remind the people that you made the prediction before the cut and that the cards were cut at a random position. Reveal the prediction. Now take the top card off the bottom pile (which was really the top card of the deck) and reveal it. It should be the predicted card. This usually works because, when you return the audience's attention to the deck, the order of the steps cannot be remembered, and so they forgot that the top card of the bottom pile was actually the top card.
Anyway, that is 6. I hope you can successfully perform two, because some of those are very complicated.
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