Assistance Needed

Effect: You lay out a bunch of cards on the table and have a member of your audience pick one. Your assistant goes out of the room while this is done. The assistant is called back in and knows the person's card! This is repeated. Card Trick: 1.

 Have an assistant with you who knows exactly how the trick works. 2. Lay out ten cards in the same layout as the spots on a 10 card (four on each side and two in the middle). The card in the upper left-hand corner must be a 10. (Editor's suggestion: After the audience has shuffled the deck, look through it--perhaps pretending to find and remove any jokers--find a 10, and casually cut the deck so that the 10 is on top.

Any Way You Count 'Em

Shuffle the cards well. Holding them face down, turn over the top card and place it face up on the table. Think of it as a stack. Starting with its face value, deal face up on top of it as many more cards as needed to reach 10. For instance if it's a 3, deal seven cards on top of it; if it's a 5, deal five cards. Face cards count as 10, so no more cards are needed. An ace counts as 1 and needs nine more cards.

 Continue making stacks as above, keeping them separate, until the deck is exhausted. If there are not enough cards to complete a final stack, keep that incomplete stack in your hand. Now choose at random any three stacks that contain at least four cards each, and turn these stacks face down. Gather all the remaining cards in any order and add them to the cards (if any) in your hand. Pick any two of the three face-down stacks on the table, and turn up the top card on each of those two piles. Add their values together. Discard that many cards from those in your hand, and then discard 19 additional cards. Count the remaining cards in your hand. Now turn up the top card of the third stack. Its value will equal the number of cards in your hand.

Ace's Memory

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.

The Master System Card Trick

This is no ordinary card trick, this is the mother of all card tricks, and once learned you will be able to perform many different card tricks that defy all logic, because you will know the position of every card in the pack.!!! The cards must not be shuffled or disturbed in any way, but the performer can cut the cards and have several spectators do a straight cut. This will not disturb the order of the cards.
This master system arrangement of the cards is far more impressive than just arranging them in numerical order in the suits i.e 2,3,4,5,6, e.t.c. as this sequence looks completely random to the spectator who will not suspect that the cards have been pre arranged. The cards must be stacked as shown in the table below, by first placing the ace of clubs on to a table face up, then the four of hearts and so on until the whole pack is set in the master system order. This order is also known as the Si Stebbins order Clubs Hearts Spades

The Spelling Card Trick

Effect: The magician shuffles the deck and takes the top thirteen cards. Holding the cards face down, he proceeds to spell the first card name, Ace. "A C E," and for each letter, he puts one card under the packet of thirteen cards. He then flips over the next card (the fourth,) and it is an Ace.

 He repeats this process for each card number, Ace through King. At the end, he has all thirteen cards face up on the table, in sequential order. Preparation: First, take out 13 cards from a deck, the cards do not have to be the same suit, but you need the thirteen cards from Ace to King. After you have them out, place them in this order, begin by placing the three face-up on the table. On top of that, place the eight.

Super Card Warp Trick

Amazing free card trick where two cards are folded together and one of the cards undergoes a seemingly impossible transformation right in front of the spectators eyes. This is visually baffling close up magic.

Effect: Two cards are folded in half and one is placed inside the fold of the other. The card inside the fold is shown to have performed an impossible transformation with both the face side and the card backing, being visible on each side.

Math-Magic

Description: A spectator chooses a card from three columns and is then led through several steps that seem to make him (or her) find his own card from piles of face down cards.

1. Deal three cards face up in a horizontal row. Continue dealing three cards across, overlapping the cards so that they are all visible, until you have three vertical columns of seven cards each.

2. Ask the spectator to choose one of the cards mentally and tell you only its column.

Card force

Easy card force sleights that when mastered will allow you to perform lots of amazing magic and card tricks

To" force a card" is to ask the spectator to choose any card and make them pick the card you want them to pick, while leaving them thinking that they had a completely free choice.

The Four Ace Extravaganza

Preparation: Remove the four aces from the deck and the cards 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (any suits). Put the four aces on top of the deck. (Later they'll be found in order from the top down.) Put the other eight cards in order from 2 through 9 and place them on top of the aces. Starting with the top card, the deck should be 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,A,A,A, then the rest of the cards. Now you are ready!


Procedure:

1. Bet the audience that they can find all the aces. Shuffle the deck, making sure that the top 12 cards stay in order on the top. (The audience won't notice, I guarantee.)

Cool Psychic Card Trick

The Magic Effect: This magic trick with cards is set up as follows. 12 cards are placed face up on the table ( using any red and black cards from the deck ) in the same pattern you see in the diagram below here.

You, the magician, tell someone to secretly pick any BLACK card. After telling them to make several secret random moves, you are able to tell them which card they have moved to. Image of set up for psychic card trick. The Magic Secret: Tell your audience member to pick any black card. Tell them to next move UP or DOWN to the nearest RED card. Next, tell them to move LEFT or RIGHT to the nearest BLACK card. Next, tell them to move DIAGONALLY To the Nearest RED card. Finally, tell them to move UP or DOWN to the nearest BLACK card. If you follow these directions carefully, your audience member will always end up on the MIDDLE CARD ON THE BOTTOM ROW.

Amazing Memory Trick

Amazing card trick where the audience are stunned to see that the magician appears to have memorized the order of a whole pack of cards !!

Effect: A pack of cards are shuffled and then you the magician, are seen to quickly spread the cards and appear to be memorizing the order of the pack. The pack is then held behind your back and after some concentration the pack is held out in front of your spectator, face up. You then name the card facing them.

An Unsolvable Mystery - Card Trick

This trick was very kindly given to me by Mr. Dai Vernon, the famous card expert, breaks new ground. The effect is that any pack, having been thoroughly shuffled, is placed in the performer's hand, which he holds behind his back, and is then covered with a handkerchief, in which it is securely wrapped. Any number is called by a spectator. The magician names a card.

The spectator uncovers the pack, counts to the number and finds there the card called. The method is subtle. When the pack is covered with a handkerchief, in bringing it to the front, turn the cards face up and sight the top card's index by stretching the fabric a little at that point.

Matching Sisters Card Trick

Effect: The two black queens find the two red queens by being put into the deck where the spectator freely wants to place them. The Trick: Start by putting one red queen on top of the face down deck and the other red queen at the bottom both face down.

Next, give the two black queens to a spectator. Start dealing cards off the top of the deck, laying them in a face down pile on the table, until the spectator tells you to stop.

Look Ma... No Hands!

Have a shuffled deck of cards on the floor (The presenter should be in a chair). Have a person (from now on we will call him Bob) look through the deck and pick a card. Have bob place his card on top of the deck, now have bob cut the deck into six (give or take a few) piles (note where bob's card is at...on top of the first pile).


Now by simply pointing to the piles have Bob put the deck back together in a different order.

The prerequisite for this trick was to have a pinch of salt in your pocket. When you were pointing out which pile to put back to gather, you simply place a few (10 - 15) grains of salt on top of Bob's card. These grains of salt will act as ball bearings.

You say to bob, "I haven't touched the deck with my hands, correct?". And then (Here is where practice comes into play) with your foot lightly kick the deck of cards (with your right foot, slide into the cards to make them glide to the left). Now examine the deck, the place in the deck with the most distance between one card and the next is Bob's card. (The salt enables the deck to move farther)

Bottoms Up Card Trick

Effect: A pack of cards is fanned out in front of a spectator. The magician runs his fingers around the card fan and the spectator is asked to tell him when to stop his fingers on a card. This card is shown to the audience, replaced in the pack and the pack handed back to the spectator to shuffle. The magician then reveals the card which was chosen. Method: Ask a spectator to shuffle the cards.

 When he/she hands them back to you note the bottom card . That is going to be their card. Start by fanning the cards out. Run your finger across them and ask the spectator when to stop. When he/she says to stop, put your thumb on that point of the deck.

Obedient Colors

Effect: Two columns are created, a black one and a red one. Cards are drawn one at a time from the bottom of the deck and an audience member chooses whether to put it face down on the red or black column. The column colors are then switched and more cards are placed by the audience. At the conclusion of the trick, all the cards are flipped over and all the colors in each pile are together.

Step 1: Place two random cards, one black, one red, face up next to each other.

Step 2:Have the bottom of the deck facing you and draw the first red card, ask the spectator if they want it to go on the "Black" or "Red" pile. Place it face down on the pile they choose.

Step 3: If the bottom card is black, just tell the spectator you don't like that one, and place it on the top of the pile.

Step 4: Continue this practice with as many red cards as you wish. I usually stop when I run into a big section of black cards.

Super Skimmer

Effect: A cool magic trick where of six cards is selected by a spectator from the magician. The chosen card is then counted off and placed into the middle of the pack. Spectator then tells magician to stop when when the pile of cards that he is dealing out is large enough,

 The spectator then holds the cards loosely while the magician proceeds to skim the cards out of the spectator's hand until the only one remaining is the chosen card.

Mathematics Calculator Card Trick

This is a good self working card trick I find very useful when a spectator makes it impossible for you to do a regular trick. I call the trick, The Mathematics Calculator as the trick requires your audience to calculate the answer to the trick. Method:Ask a person to choose a card. tell him to remember it's numerical value (Ace = one, Jack- = 11, Queen = 12, King = 13) Also to remember the suit of the card. Tell them to double the value of the card.

Then tell them to add three to the total. Then tell them to multiply the complete total by five.

Meet Your Match

In this clever card trick, freely selected cards, magically find their mate. Effect: Two cards are freely (yes, freely) selected and inserted face up in the deck in two different places. Magician runs through the deck and drops the face-up selected card and the face-down card next to it, on the table.

When the face-down cards are turned face up, they are seen to be the mates of the selected cards in color and value. Set-up: Put deck in “Best Friends” order. See below. Performance: Spread the deck and have a card selected. Cut all cards above selected card to the bottom. Have card removed and replaced on the top of the deck, face up.

Fine Tuned Touch Card Trick

Fine Tuned Touch Card Trick Close up magic where you appear to correctly pair up all the kings and queens in a shuffled deck using only the sense of touch. This impressive close up trick starts with an ordinary pack of playing cards, which you pass to a member of the audience. Ask them to look through the pack, remove the four kings, the four queens and lay them on the table face upward.

Once this has been done, arrange the cards in four pairs, king of spades with queen of spades etc and so on. Then put these four pairs on top of each other to form a pack of 8 cards which is then left face down on the table. At this stage, ask several people to cut the cards (but not to shuffle them) to give the impression that the cards are mixed.

Teleporting Card

Teleporting Card An Easy To Do Card Trick With A Stunning Finish!!! Effect: You remove a deck of cards from it's packet and hand them to the spectator. The spectator is then asked to give the pack a good shuffle and then deal the top five cards, face down on the table.

The magician then lifts up each of the five cards in turn and asks the spectator to write down the name and suit of each of the five cards on a piece of paper. The deck of cards is then handed to the spectator followed by the five cards. The spectator is then asked to insert the five cards randomly back into the deck and then give it another shuffle.

Learn The Classic Force

Learn The Classic Force The magician fans out the deck of playing cards in front of the spectator. This action looks completely casual and impromptu. The spectator selects what they believe to be a completely free choice of card from the pack. In learniing the classic card force you will be performing one of the oldest and most natural forces in a magicians repertoire which can be used as the opening to countless card routines.

Once the move has been learned and is practiced, the spectator should choose the magicians force card between 90 and 95% of the time. A well prepared magician should always have a back up trick ready in case another card is selected. How It's

Ace Shake Trick

Ace Shake Trick This trick was performed in David Blaines second special where he made the spectator sign a card, the card was put back in the pack and was made to appear from between two aces.

The only real skills necessary are good verbal communications and misdirection. Richard Marcus a renowned card cheat always emphasized the importance of misdirection.

The Year Game

Before you begin, place one of the jokers on the bottom of the deck. Now tell the spectator to take a card. Have her place it on top of the deck and cut the cards. You can have her cut a lot of times. Then say you have to have the joker on the bottom. Look for the joker. When you find it, the card after it is the spectator's card. Cut the deck so that her card is on top of the deck, and the joker is on the bottom.

 Now you ask:

- Ask how many weeks are in a year. When the spectator answers 52, deal 5 cards onto the table in a pile, and then deal 2 cards in a separate pile.

- Put the 2 card group on the 5 card group, pick them both up and put them on the deck.

- Ask how many months are in a year. Deal 12 cards onto the table. Pick them up and replace them on the deck.

- Ask how many days are in a week. Deal 7 cards onto the table and then replace them on the deck.

-Take off the top card and bury it in the deck. Take the joker from the bottom and touch the top card with it. Then turn over the top card, which is the spectator's card.