| Even More Card Tricks |
| Memorizing the Deck |
| This is probably one of the best tricks to do. You can fool magicians just as easily as you can normal people. You can preform this trick different times with a different result each time. Effect - The spectator chooses the number of cards they take off the top of the deck. The next face up card is their card. They cut the deck and you quickly push through the cards one at a time to memorize the order of every card. They tell you what their card is and you tell them what number it is from the top of the deck. They then tell you a number and you tell them what card is that number from the top of the deck. Method - This trick is very easy to preform. Take a borrowed deck or your own deck and let the spectator shuffle it. Turn the deck upside down and while saying "I need to see if this is a full deck", memorize the top and bottom cards (be sure to know which one was on top and which one was on the bottom). Go behind a wall of turn your back and ask the spectator to pick a number. Then tell them to count off that number of cards from the top of the deck one at a time on to the table. Tell them to put those cards on the bottom of the deck. Now tell the spectator to look at the new top card and memorize it. Tell them to cut the deck once. Turn back around, or come out from behind the wall. Tell the spectator that you are going to memorize the order of all the cards in the deck. Take the deck and turn it face up in your hands. Quickly push cards off one at a time to your right until you come to the original top card. Counting the top card as 1, you count all of the cards to the left of it. Add one to that number and ask the spectator what the card they memorized was. Think for a second and then tell them that their card is the number you just figured out from the top of the deck. Count off that many cards one at a time on to a table. When you reach that number, turn up the card and it will be the spectators. Take the spectators card and the top card of the packet you just counted off, and put them on the bottom. Now ask them what their original number they counted off of the top was. Say that the card is the original bottom card. Count off that many and show the spectator. You can do this trick as many times as you want to the same audience, because they are never going to figure it out. |
| The Square Deal |
| This is a good one time trick, but don't do it to the same people twice. Effect - You make a prediction about what card is going to be picked later on. The spectator goes through this long process and it proves your prediction to be right. Method - This trick requires no preperation. Say "I need one card of each value, except for the king." Search through the deck and take out one of each card (the suits do not matter) starting with the ace (meaning 1). Go all the way through the jack and mumble to yourself about finding a queen. While you are mumbling, count twenty six cards from the bottom of the deck, excluding the first queen you come to. Memorize the twenty-sixth card and go back to the first queen you saw and say "ah, here is a queen". Take a small peice of paper and write the card you memorized. Fold up the paper and put it in clear veiw. Turn the packet face down and deal off the top six cards one at a time, each one on top of the previous one. Put this back on top of the packet. Now say to the spectator "you may cut the pile of cards as many times as you want. Make sure you only cut the deck once every time you cut it." Give the deck to the spectator and say "deal the first 3 cards into either a horizontal, verticle, or diagonal line. Do the same thing with the next 3 cards, but the second card must cross at the center of the other line. Repeat this for the remaining cards." If they don't get it, demonstrate with the top cards of the deck (figure 3). Gather up all of the cards in the square except the four ones in the middle. Turn over the four cards in the center. Tell the spectator to add the values of the cards together, jacks are 11 and queens are 12 (it should equal 26). count that many cards from the bottom of the deck and put the card face up on the table. Open your prediction and the spectator finds out that your prediction matches the card. |
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| Figure 3 |
| After you have mastered these tricks, you can move on to the more advanced tricks which are on pages 4 - 9. |
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