Card Trick - 1
Effect:
The magician has three rows of cards. An audience volunteer picks a card in his/her head and tells the magician what row it's in. The magician does that three times and on the third time tells the volunteer what their card was. (or have the magic puppet whisper to you what the card was and then you tell the audience what the puppet said.)
Supplies:
21 cards, all different
Secret:
First lay out the cards, 3 across and 7 down.
Have someone think of a card and tell you what row its in.
Pick up all the rows, row by row, making sure to pick up the row that the card is in 2nd.
EXAMPLE: Let's assume the volunteer secretly chose PINK-6 and then told us their card was in the second row. We would pick up the rows and we would make sure the pink row was picked up second so that it was in the middle of the deck.
Then lay out the cards again (the exact same way, 3 across & 7 down).
Put down one card per row.
- Ex: First do this *** (let's pretend the stars are cards).
- Then this: *** and so on (7 times).
In our example, we'd put down BLUE-1, BLUE-2, BLUE-3 then go down to the next row and place BLUE-4, BLUE-5, BLUE-6 and so on.
Then ask the volunteer where the card is in now.
Pick up the rows again, like before -- still making sure that you pick up the row that the card is in 2nd.
In our example, the volunteer would say their card was in the first row. You would make sure that row was in the middle of the deck
Lay them out again, the same way.
Then ask the volunteer which row the card is in now.
(You can get dramatic and tell them to think really hard about it... pretend to be reading their mind)
(You can get dramatic and tell them to think really hard about it... pretend to be reading their mind)
Then count four cards down in that row.
(It appears more magical if you count to yourself... People won't realize you're counting four cards down).
(It appears more magical if you count to yourself... People won't realize you're counting four cards down).
The fourth card is their card!!
In our example, the volunteer would have said their card was in the last row. Four cards down is PINK-6!
MAGIC!
Danny offered this variation to make the trick harder to figure out. He wrote:
"I would like to offer an extra solution for magic trick number 1. In this one you lay down 3 columns with 7 cards. And the spectator picks a card. The thing is, that it can become obvious that your always taking the one with the card in it, SECOND. So to ''hide it'' you can do this. Do the 1st phase of it, Now RANDOMLY take each column. And lay them down in the way of phase 2. Now there are 2 columns with 2 cards, and 1 column with 3 cards (those cards I mention are those that were located in the chosen column). Now all you do is gotta remember the cards in the column they choose. And then lay them out THAT way again (or reversed, going from left to right instead of right to left.) And then those cards will be split apart, so you can still magically get the right card, but the trick is harder to guess."
Donna provided us with an alternative ending to this card trick:
"Proceed with trick up to the 3rd layout. You know the card is the 4th card in the row so continue to put the rows together - still with the selected row in the center. This will make 'the card' the 11th card.
Face down, place the cards into flower groups of 4 or 5 cards per group (you should get about 5 flower groups) - but remember which card is the 11th (this is the selected card). Ask the person to pick 2 (or however many you want) groups .. When they do, take away those groups BUT if the selected card is in that group, you leave those groups and take away the others. Continue until you only have the 1 remaining flower group containing the selected card and lay these cards out side by side and still face down (remembering where the selected card is).
Ask the person to select 2 cards (as with the flowers, & remembering where the card is), and again, if they pick 2 and one of these is the selected cards, remove the other cards leaving those 2. Ask them to pick 1 card .. If they pick the selected card .. remove the other or vise versa so that the remaining card will always be the selected card. Turn over the remaining card and 'voila'.
They told you what flowers or cards to take away so they are even more amazed when the correct card turns up."
Card Trick - 2
Effect:
Magician lays out 11 cards and asks a volunteer to move several cards over from the right side to the left side while the magician's back is to the cards so he/she doesn't see how many.
Then, when the volunteer is done the magician turns back around. He/she waves his hand over the cards and turns over one of the cards. The number on the card is the number of cards the volunteer moved.
(or have the magic puppet wave its hand over the card and then whisper to you to turn it over.)
Supplies:
11 cards from a regular deck of 52. Take 1 joker, an ace and all the numbers up to 10.
Secret:
Lay out the cards face down in this order: 6 5 4 3 2 A J 10 9 8 7 (A is Ace and J is Joker).
Then have someone move the cards one at a time from right to left.
Say they moved three cards (the magician wouldn't know it though) the position of the cards would now be
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 A J 10
Then wave your hand over the cards and silently count 7 cards over from left to right. Turn the 7th card over. It's the three!!!
It doesn't matter how many cards they move over, this will always work.
Always count 7 cards over (starting with the setup above) and it'll be the number of cards they moved.
If they decide not to move any at all the card will be a Joker and this tells you they didn't move any at all.
Card Trick - 3
Effect:
The magician gives two volunteers each half a deck of cards and leaves the room (or turns his back).
Each volunteer choses a card from the OTHER person's deck, memorizes and shows it to the audience. The volunteers put the cards they chose into their own deck.
The magician takes each of the decks and spreads them out on the table and tells the audience what the cards were.
(or have the magic puppet whisper to the magician what the cards were).
Supplies:
~ a deck of cards
Secret:
You need to split the deck into cards with a flat (or sharp) top and cards with a round top
(the 3 is usually made with a flat top, but sometimes is rounded... look at your deck to figure out which pile it should be in for your trick)
FLAT TOP:
3 4 5 7 J K A
ROUND TOP:
2 6 8 9 10 Q
With practice it will get easier to spot these cards quickly.
Put the two halves together, one on top of the other. When doing the trick, turn the cards so they're facing you and split the deck so that one half is the flat top and the other is the round top (I usually make this easier by putting the ACE of SPADES where the two halves divide. That way, when I see the ace, I know where to split the deck in two
Give each volunteer one of the halves (one volunteer gets the flat tops and the other gets the round tops).
When they chose the cards and put them in their own deck it ends up that there's one flat top in the round top pile and one round top in the flat top pile.
With practice you'll quickly be able to spot the oddball when you spread the decks out on the table.
Card Trick - 4
Thanks so much to Shelly for sending this in!!
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.Supplies:
~ a deck of cards
Preparation:
Remove and arrange 13 cards in the following setup, top card down: Three, Eight, Seven, Ace, Queen, Six, Four, Two, Jack, King, Ten, Nine, and Five. Put these on top of the deck.
A magic teacher named Harold wrote to share a little story he tells his students to help them remember the setup for this trick:
"Three hundred & eighty seven years ago there lived a Queen that was sixty four years old. She had two children. One named Jack, the other named King. Jack was ten years old and King was nine years old and the were both in the fifth grade."
3,8 7,A,Q,6,4,2,J,K,10,9 and 5
Thanks Harold! (Harold's Site)
"Three hundred & eighty seven years ago there lived a Queen that was sixty four years old. She had two children. One named Jack, the other named King. Jack was ten years old and King was nine years old and the were both in the fifth grade."
3,8 7,A,Q,6,4,2,J,K,10,9 and 5
Thanks Harold! (Harold's Site)
Secret:
To start, pretend to shuffle the cards, leaving the top thirteen untouched (young children can skip the shuffling part and just begin with the 13 cards.
Remove the top thirteen cards as a group and arrange them like a fan, so that your audience can see their faces. Square up the cards, and hold them face down.
When you spell out each card, do it as follows: let's say you're spelling the word ACE. Spell A, remove the top card and place it on the bottom. Then spell C, and remove the top card and place that on the bottom. Next spell E, remove this top card and place it on the bottom. Flip the new top card and show that it's an Ace, and place it ON THE TABLE (not on the bottom of the deck).
When you spell out each card, do it as follows: let's say you're spelling the word ACE. Spell A, remove the top card and place it on the bottom. Then spell C, and remove the top card and place that on the bottom. Next spell E, remove this top card and place it on the bottom. Flip the new top card and show that it's an Ace, and place it ON THE TABLE (not on the bottom of the deck).
Continue in this manner until all the cards are face up on the table. (You spell the cards in order: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K) Your audience may realize that the cards must have been set up beforehand, but this only adds to the mystery - and you can treat it as a puzzle for them to try to figure out.
Card Trick 5
Effect:
The magician spills the deck onto the table. He picks one of the cards up with a magic handkerchief, says a magic word and poof! the card disappears.Supplies:
- a deck of cards (or part of a deck)
- a toothpick (or a thin popsicle stick)
- a handkerchief that is not see-through and that has a hem
- scissors
- OPTIONAL: magic puppet
Preparation:
Cut the toothpick so that it's the same width as one of the cards (the width is the shorter side of the card.) Push the toothpick into the hem of the handkerchief, making sure it won't fall out.
Secret:
Spread the deck of cards out on the table... You may want to fiddle with this a bit, using a magic puppet, to draw the audience's attention to the cards and the puppet.
Place the handkerchief overtop of the cards with the toothpick hem facing down. Don't fiddle with this part... You don't want them to guess that the handkerchief is special.
With your thumb and index finger, pick up the handkerchief, holding onto the toothpick (Say something like, "I will now pick up a card"). This will trick the audience into thinking there is a card under the handkerchief.
Pick up the edges of the toothpick so it looks like you’re picking up a card. The red in the diagram represents the toothpick, but it will be invisible to the audience.
Say some magic words, wave a wand or wave your magic puppet over the handkerchief.
Flap it in the air, letting go of the toothpick part and just holding the corner.
Presto! The "card" has disappeared.
Card Trick - 6
Effect:
Someone in the audience chooses one of eight cards while the magician is out of the room (or has his back turned). The magician's assistant points to the cards one at a time, asking the magician if each is the chosen card. The magician guesses the correct one.Supplies:
- 8 cards -- one of which must be an eight (let's say the eight of hearts for our explanation)
- an assistant who's in on the trick
- OPTIONAL: magic puppet
Preparation:
Arrange 8 cards in the same pattern as the hearts on the eight of hearts.
Secret:
Have the magician leave the room. If you're using the magic puppet, let it stay -- if there are young kids in the crowd they'll get a big kick out of thinking the magic puppet is the one giving away the card.
Have the assistant choose someone from the audience to pick one of the eight cards. Show it to everyone (including the magic puppet if you're using it). Place the card back in the correct position.
Have the magician come back in the room (and retrieve the magic puppet if you're using it).
Have the assistant point to cards one at a time, in no particular order, asking "is this it".
Now here's the trick... The assistant must point to the 8 sometime before they point to the card that was chosen. When the assistant points to the 8, he should point to the heart on the eight that is in the same position as the card on the table (remember, we arranged the cards just like the hearts on the eight). This will tell the magician which card is the correct one.
If using the magic puppet: When the assistant points to the correct card, have the magician about to say, "no, that's...", but then have the puppet interrupt him and whisper something (unheard to the audience) in his ear. The magician looks at the puppet and says... "are you sure?" The magic puppet nods it's head and the magician says, "I guess that's the card that was picked!"
Young children will go on about how having the puppet watch was "cheating" *grin*.
Card Trick - 7
Effect:
The deck is split into two halves (towers), both of which may be shuffled by the spectator. The spectator selects a card from either pile (his free choice!), and replaces it *anywhere* (his free choice!) into the other pile which he immediately shuffles. The magician finds the selected card even after the spectator has shuffled the pile thoroughly!
Supplies:
- Complete deck of cards.
Preparation:
- Pre-arrange the deck by separating the cards into two piles of black cards & red cards.
- Place these two piles on top of each other to make one complete deck.
- Pre-arrange the deck ahead of time - don't let anyone see you do this!
Performance:
- Casually split the deck in half, creating two face-down piles (towers), one of the red cards, the other of the black cards.
- Let the spectator freely choose one tower, and select any card from this pile. Do this by fanning out the cards face down, and have him touch a card, which he takes and remembers.
- Have the spectator insert his selected card anywhere into the *other* tower.
- Look through the tower containing the spectator's card. The only different coloured card in the pile is the selected card!
- Produce the chosen card with your favorite revelation. A simple method is to place the card on the table face down, and turn it over after the spectator names his card.
Tips:
- Keep the cards face down at all times, so that the spectator cannot see that each tower has cards of the same color!
- To heighten the effect, have the spectator shuffle each tower (face-down) thoroughly before making his choice. Also have the spectator shuffle the pile thoroughly after replacing his selected card. From the spectator's view point, the magician has not seen the chosen card, and can have no idea of its location because it is impossibly lost in the pile!
- To reduce the chances of the secret being "discovered", instead of separating the deck into red and black cards, separate it into odd cards and even cards (count jacks and kings as odd, queens as even). At a glance, each pile will look like a random assortment of red and black cards, and the fact that the deck is pre-arranged will not be obvious.
- This trick is so mystifying that it *can* be repeated once or twice without risk of discovery! (but only when you are using piles with odd and even cards)
- For a variation with two spectators, have each spectator select a pile and a card, and shuffle their selected cards into the other spectator's pile.
- This secret of this trick may seem rather basic, but when played up, the effect is baffling for the spectator, especially since he shuffles the pile into which he replaces his card, so excluding any sleight of hand!
Card Trick - 8
Effect:
The magician picks one person for the trick. The one person picks a card, remembers the card, and puts it back in the deck. You search the deck and find the card. Watch as the jaws drop.
Supplies:
- Complete deck of cards.
Preparation:
- Make sure all of the cards are one way.
- Flip the bottom card upside down so if you flip the deck over it looks like the top.
Performance:
- When they are looking at the card you flip the deck over.
- Since you already flipped the bottom card over it will look like the top of the deck.
- When they put the card back in it will be the only one flipped that way.
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