Easy Tricks
Easy Tricks
Effect: Trick uses full or almost full card deck: one ace, one king, and one
queen of any suit in ace-king-queen order at bottom of deck (ace is bottom card).
You must know how to deal from bottom of deck.
Card Trick:
1. Show spectator the bottom three cards (ace, king, queen ). Then tilt the
deck down so spectator can't see the bottom.
2. Tell spectator that you will take the ace, king, and queen from the bottom
of the deck. Pretend to pull the ace out from the bottom with your right second
finger, but actually slide it toward you with your left third finger under the
deck while with your right second finger you slide out the king and lay it on
the table. Slide out the next card (apparently the king but actually the ace)
and lay it to the right of the king. Slide out the queen and lay it to the right
of the other two cards.
3. Spectator believes that the order from left to right is ace-king-queen, but
it is really king-ace-queen. Pick up middle card (ace), put it on the first
card, and then put those two on the third card. Pick them up so that spectator
can't see the faces. Spectator believes the ace is the second card, but it's
actually the top card.
4. Deal the cards in a row again from left to right. Spectator will think the
order is king-ace-queen. In fact, it is ace-king-queen.
5. As in step 3, put the middle card on the left card, and the two cards on
the right card. Spectator believes the ace is on top; in fact, it is in the
middle.
6. Pretend to deal the cards as before. But with the first card, do a bottom-deal:
take the bottom card from the three cards and lay it down so spectator will
think you dealt off the top when you actually dealt off the bottom.
7. Deal the next two cards to complete the row. Tell spectator to find the ace.
If your bottom deal deceived the spectator, he (or she) will believe that the
ace is the card at the left. If it didn't deceive him, he will believe that
the ace is in the middle. But in fact, it's the third card (farthest to the
right). The spectator will be wrong whether your bottom deal fooled him or not.
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Effect: You guess the bottom card without even looking at it .
Presentation:
1. Look at the bottom card of the deck.
2. Shuffle the cards but not the bottom one. Leave the bottom card on the bottom.
You can tell everyone that you aren't a very good shuffler.
3. Place the deck face down on the table.
4. Name four numbers in the deck (making sure that the card on the bottom is
amongst them.) Have a spectator choose two of the numbers.
5. Let's say your card is a Four and you named a Three, Five, Four, and Nine.
They picked the Five and Nine. Say, OK pick out of the Three and Four. If they
say three say okay then the bottom card is a Three.
6. Now tell them to pick two of the four suits. If your card is a Four of Spades
and they pick Hearts and Diamonds, tell them to pick one out of Spades and Clubs.
If they say Spades say OK the card should be a Three of Spades.
7. Now turn over the deck and your audience will be amazed.
8. Remember the object of the trick is to get the person to pick the card on
the bottom of the deck, so make sure you lead them to the right numbers and
suits.
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Effect: You hold the Ace of Clubs, Diamonds, and Spades, spread out like a fan
so that everyone can see them. You turn them face down, have someone tap them
three times (the "magic" number,) turn them face up, and the Ace of
Diamonds has now amazingly changed to the Ace of Hearts!
Card Trick: You say you are holding the Ace of Diamonds, but you are really holding the Ace of Hearts. When you fan out the cards make sure that the Ace of Hearts is upside down so the point of the heart is up. Put it in the middle, but on the bottom, with the other two overlapping it enough so only a red diamond shape shows in its center. It will seem to be the Ace of Diamonds. Turn the cards face down and have someone tap them three times. Lay the cards down, separately, one at a time, and it appears that the Ace has changed!
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Effect: Magician cuts a deck into four piles, turns over the top card on each pile which turn out to be the four aces.
Card Trick: Start off with the four aces on the top of the deck, holding a thumb break (finger break) under the top two aces with your right hand. With the deck face down on the table, use your right hand to cut about half of the deck and place that half about two inches in front of the bottom half. As you bring your hand back, bring the cards above the break with you directly to the top of the first half. Using both hands now, immediately cut both halves and place them to the left and right of the first halves, forming a diamond shape. Turn the top card on both the left and right piles over and place the on the top and bottom piles, then turn the second card of the left and right piles over and place them on the left and right piles. Although you aren't actually cutting to the aces, the illusion that you are is a very strong one.
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Effect: A spectator chooses a card, replaces it, turn the deck over three times
in their hands, snaps it, riffles it, shuffles it, whatever then they look through
the deck to find it reversed.
The Method: All you need for this are two exactly alike cards in the same deck. Place one of the cards face down in a face down deck as the ninth card from the top. Place the other either 21st or towards the extreme bottom of the deck REVERSED!! Be sure never to touch the cards yourself during this trick and don't allow anyone to look through the cards for two of the same cards later, either. I find it works better if you use this deck for awhile because and extra card has unlimited uses and is hardly noticeable. Now set the deck on the table well squared and face down. Tell the spectator to choose a number between 10 and 20.(20 will not work) Tell them to count that many cards off the top of the deck, one at a time,(reversing the order) face down onto the table. Then have them add the digits together and count that many cards back off the top of the pile onto the deck. Have them flip over the next card. This is the preplaced card. Make sure everyone(including yourself) sees it. If you messed up and this isn't the right card, they will discover the secret when they come to the wrong turned up card. Have them put this on the top of the deck and then put the others back on, too. Have them cut it however many times they want, and their card probably won't turn up, but only cut it two or three times because if it turns up too early they get suspicious. The key move is to have them turn the deck over in their hands 3 times the make them think they turned it over afterwards. Make this movement seem very important, stare at their hands intently and make sure it's three. This all adds to the effect. Now have them search through and find it. This trick is amazing to the spectator because you never touch it, and, like the name implies, is practically fool-proof. I use this almost every time I do a series of tricks.
You have to be quick at addition and subtraction and a good memorizer to pull
this off smoothly. First, let someone shuffle the deck to let them know you
haven't set it in any way. Ask someone how many cards are in a deck without
jokers. If they don't know that it's 52, tell them so. After this, ask someone
what half of that is. If they don't know it's 26, this will stupefy them. Tell
them you will count down 26 cards, and do so, face up, memorizing the fourth
card. (This is important.)
Put the remaining cards aside and turn the face-up cards and hold them face-down. Announce that you will lay three cards on the table, and deal them face up from the top of the deck. Explain that each of those three cards has to be made equal to, or greater than, ten (Jack, Queen, King, and Ace are greater than ten) and that you will put cards on them to make them so. Nonchalantly put down the cards you're holding and pick up the other 26-card pile. Deal face down onto each face-up card the number of cards needed. (Say one of the cards is the seven of clubs. You'd add three cards from the other pile. If it's a ten, Jack, Queen, King, or Ace, you'd add nothing to it.)
This is where the math comes in. Place the cards you're holding on top of
the other pile (from which you dealt the three cards), and total up how many
cards you placed on the three face-up cards. Subtract that number from 26 and
tell a participant to count down the number you get. It doesn't matter whether
the cards are dealt face up or down. When the person is done, flip over the
top card of the counted down pile if it isn't face up, then flip over the last
card placed on the three face up
cards, if there were cards placed on them. Pretend to be thinking for a second,
then announce that the next card the person turns over is whatever you memorized
as the fourth card when originally counting down.
If you're confident enough, you can let a participant count down the 26 cards, or look away when counting.
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Effect: Begin the trick by what I call riffling the deck. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, see below.) Tell the spectator to say stop. Where you stop you cut the deck. The card on top of the bottom pile is the spectator's card. Tell the spectator to look at the card and put it back where it was. You put the top half of the deck back on top of their card. Now you lay the cards face up so you can see them all. You pick a card and that is the spectator's.
Card Trick: The trick is really simple. It makes some people laugh at how
simple it is. (but DON'T tell them!). All you do is this: while they look at
their card, turn the top pile you cut over so that you can see the face of that
card. Then you'll know that the card you're looking for is right next to it.
It is always best to do this innocently so the spectator doesn't suspect anything.
You don't have to lay the cards face up - it is good to customize this effect
for yourself. I recommend you pretend to get it wrong the first time, to fool
the spectator.
Riffling the deck: Hold the deck in your left hand, in the normal position for
dealing. Place your right ring, middle, and index finger on the edge of the
cards that is facing outward. Place your right thumb on the middle of the top
card. With your right fingers, starting at the bottom of the deck quickly brush
your fingers up.
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Effect: A spectator inserts a card upside down in a deck and memorizes the 2
cards next to it. The performer pulls both cards out of his pockets without
ever looking at the cards.
Trick:
You need a packet of 20 cards and a joker. Give the packet to a spectator and
have him (or her) shuffle to ensure that no cards are in any order. Tell the
spectator to slide the joker into the packet face up, anywhere. Have him fan
the cards with the faces toward himself and memorize the 2 cards at the right
and left of the joker. Have him square up the pack and give it back. Deal the
top card onto the table. Deal the next card to the right of the first. Deal
the third card on the left pile, the fourth card on the right pile and so on,
alternating piles until you run out. The last card should be on the left pile
(because you're holding an odd number of cards). Pick up the right pile and
place it on the left pile. Repeat this entire procedure once: deal the cards
into two piles, starting on the left, and then place the right pile on top of
the left.
Saying "We don't need this joker any more" look through the face-down
pack until you find the joker and throw it aside. Casually put the cards that
were above the joker onto the bottom of the deck, making sure they stay in the
exact same order. Have the spectator cut the deck in about half. Take the top
half and put it in your right pocket facing toward your body. Take the bottom
half and put it in your left pocket facing away from your body. Put a hand in
each pocket and count off 4 cards in each pile, starting from the outside. The
5th card of each pile will be the spectator's. Bring them out of your pockets
and watch the amazement. This trick is foolproof if done correctly.
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Effect: Gives an effect of the card vanishing and reappearing back on top of
the deck. Or being knocked through the table.
1. Hold a normal(52 card) deck in your hand. Put down 3 piles of any amout
of cards. Keeping a decent sized deck left in your had (say 20 cards).
2. Tell a member of the audiance to pick a card off of one of the 3 piles and
place it back onto the top of one of the 3 piles.
3. While they are all watching the person look at the card palm a card in your
hand from the remaning deck.
4. When they have put the card back. Quickly place your hand on top of the deck
and say would you like me to hit the cards like this(putting the card in your
hand on top of there card). or like this touch it with your finger. when they
chose hit all 3 piles that way. Showing your empty hand to them after each pile
(some people think they can figure any thing out)
5. Then say i am going to move your card to another deck. Get the card that
you placed on top of there card on another deck. then pick up the other two
decks placing the deck with there card on top of the other in your hand.
6. Then say did you keep your eye on your card. they will most likley say yes
then say well show it to me. when they turn over the card that they think is
there card say NO I GOT IT!!!!
You may also place the deck wiht there card on top under the deck with the card
that they belive to be there card and act like you knocked there card through
the table
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Effect: This is a story of seven detectives chasing a murderer (the selected
card).
Procedure:
1) Take any four of the same face cards out of the deck, (Kings make good detectives.)
2) Shuffle the deck and memorize the bottom card.
3) Spread the cards like a fan, and ask the spectator to take one.
4) Tell the spectator to look at the card, remember it, then place it on the
top of the deck.
5) Ask the spectator to cut the deck.
6) Explain that the card they selected is a murderer and the four face cards
you took out are detectives to find him.
7) Look through the deck, the selected card will be the next card after the
bottom card you peeked at.
8) Place the four face cards so that they're sticking out of the deck about
half way and in the order of: face card, original bottom card, face card, selected
card, face card, card after selection, face card. Explain that the detectives
are searching in those places.
9) Fold the deck back up and leave the four cards sticking out. Turn it on edge
and hit the four cards against a table. The three alternate cards should pop
up, with the selected one in the middle. Say the detectives called on these
three guys to help them and show them to the spectator.
10) Take those three cards sticking up and hit them against the table; two face
cards should pop up. Hit those against the table and the selected card should
pop up.
Note: When hitting the cards against a table, hold the deck on the sides, not
the face and back. Also, don't hold it too tight or your cards will bend and
not work.
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Effect: One of six cards is selected from the magician. It is then counted off
and placed into the middle of the deck. Spectator tells magician when the pile
is large enough, he then holds cards. Magician slaps cards from his hand and
only one remaining is the chosen card.
1. Select seven cards from the top of the deck, it does not matter what they
are. Spread the card with only six of them showing with the remaining seventh
card hidden behind and slightly lower than the others.
2. Have a spectator select a card and replace it into the pack while you still
have them spread.
3. After he has done this count from the right what number his card is from
the end. Then quickly close the spread and count that number of cards down onto
the table.
4. Then place the counted cards into the center of the deck and place the remaining
cards on top of the deck. If this is performed correctly then the chosen card
will actually be on top of the deck.
5. Begin dealing the cards from the deck onto the table one by one, and allow
the spectator to decide when you stop. After he does so pick up the pile on
the table and place it between two of his fingers (preferably slightly bent
so that he holds the cards at the second knuckle).
6. Tell him to hold on tight. Slap down on the cards several times or until
only one card is remaining. The only card he will be holding is the card he
previously selected.
7. After performing come back and vote for trick of the week. (I'm sure with
the reaction you receive this will be a no brainer.)
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Effect: Hand a spectator a deck and tell him to shuffle them a few times, then place the cards on your left hand. With your right hand, start sliding the cards back about 1 to 5 at a time until he (or she) tells you to stop, before you get to the bottom of the deck. When he says stop, tell him the card he stopped you at, and lift the cards off the deck, revealing that the bottom card is what you said.
Card Trick:
Memorize the bottom card (say, the 8 of Spades). If you can't see it when the
spectator is shuffling or handing you the cards, glimpse it as you square up
the deck. Lay the deck face down in your left hand. Put your right thumb under
the deck and your right fingers on top (lengthwise to the deck). Start sliding
the cards back from the top, 1 to 5 at a time, about 1 centimeter each. As you
do so, secretly slide the bottom card toward you with your right thumb. Say,
"Tell me when to stop before I reach the bottom of the deck." When
the spectator says stop, slide off all of the cards you have already pulled
back into your right hand. As you do so, slide the bottom card with your thumb
under the cards you are removing. Before you reveal the bottom card of the cards
in your right hand, say, "The card you told me to stop at is the 8 of Spades."
Then reveal the bottom card of the pile in your right hand.
