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Free Tricks: Card tricks
"This is a scream!"
Effect: This is an amazing magical effect, which will blow the
socks off your spectators. While your back is turned, the spectator selects a
card, places it on the deck and cuts the cards as many times as he wishes. The
deck can also be cut by other spectators. Eventually, you turn round and start
dealing the cards face up onto the table. You eventually say to the spectators
that the next card you turn over will be the selected card. At this point you
have already dealt the selected card to the table, so they will probably offer
to bet that you're wrong. You then put the pack down, pick up the selected card
which is already dealt onto the table, and turn it face down, to thunderous
applause!!!
Method: You secretly note the BOTTOM card of the deck. This
is known in magical parlance as a KEYCARD. For this explanation we shall say
that the keycard is the Ace of Spades (AS), and the selected card is the King
of Hearts (KH). Whilst your back is turned, you ask the spectator to remove a
card from the middle of the deck. Ask him to remember the card and show it to
the rest of the audience (this is important as the trick is useless if the
spectator forgets the name of the card and no-one else has seen it!). Ask him
to put the card on TOP of the deck. The situation now is that the spectator's
card (KH) is on top and the keycard (AS) is on the bottom. Ask him to cut the
deck. This places the selected card (KH) below the keycard (AS). When all the
cutting is done, ask the spectator to place the pack of cards face UP on the
table. All you have to do now is deal the cards face up until you turn over the
keycard (AS), the next card will be the selected card (KH). In order to add a
bit of entertainment, I usually deal three or four cards past the selected card
and then say the next card I turn over will be your card. They'll then think
you've got it wrong, which adds to the excitement when you actually turn over
the correct card!!
Extra bonus (if you're lucky!!): If when you turn
around you find the keycard is showing on the face of the cards, take full
advantage of this fact and simply waggle your fingers over the cards (in a
magical fashion!!). Tell the spectators that you are causing the chosen card to
rise to the top of the deck! Have the spectator turn the deck over and sure
enough, the chosen card will be on the top of the deck!
We hope you
like this card trick, if so may we suggest that the
Blank Deck is an
excellent entry level trick that will blow their socks off, with no sleight of
hand! Also if you like the magic of David
Blaine (who doesn't) the Invisible Deck is probably
one of the most baffling card tricks of all time, again with no sleight of
hand.
Remember that magic is an illusion that you can do something out
of the ordinary, so never reveal your secret and you'll be surprised at the
reaction!!!
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