Counter Strike
Method: : Shuffle a pack of playing cards well, to begin the trick. Holding the pack face down, turn over the top card and place it face up on the table. Think of it as a pile. Starting with its face value, deal face up on top of it as many more playing 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
Pick any two of the three face-down piles on the table, and turn up the top card on each of those two piles. Add their values together. Remove this number of cards from those in your hand, and then remove an additional 19 cards. Count the remaining cards in your hand. Now turn up the top card of the third pile. Its value will equal the number of playing cards in your hand.
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Card Sleights
Double Lift: Hold the deck in the left hand as shown in ( fig:1). The fingers of the right hand, hold the top edge of the deck lightly and the thumb of the right hand, rests at the bottom left corner. Tilt the deck so you can look down and see the cards u... Card Through The Window
Effect: The magician allows the spectator to choose a card. Once they see it, they slip it back into the deck. The magician then shuffles the deck and without warning tosses it against a nearby window. After all the cards settle, one is left sticking to t... Card Transposition
Effect: You put a card in your pocket, and one in the spectator's hand. Then the cards change places. Card Trick: Pick up two cards from the top of the deck and make them look as if they were one (double lift). Show it to the audience, say the nam... 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 m... 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 b... 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... Card Trick 4
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 ... 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) ... 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 guess... 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 immediatel... 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. Prepara... Cardeenie Single
Effect: Showing the front side of your hand empty and then producing a a card from that same hand out of thin air Card Trick: Step 1- Take 2 or 3 cards and place them in the back of your hand. To hold the cards in the back of your hand place the top... Caught Red Handed
Effect: A spectator chooses a card from a blue deck and memorizes it. He then places it back into the deck and the deck is shuffled. The performer goes through the deck and explains that the spectator was "caught red handed". The performer comes to a card... Chased
Effect: To guess someone's card by memorizing order of deck. Preperation Before the performance, set the cards in this order: 8, K, 3, 10, 2, 7, 9, 5, Q, 4, A, 6, J. Also in suit order: Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds. To remember numeric order simply ... Cheeky Flipper Card Trick
Preparation: Secretly flip the bottom card of the deck of cards. Method: Fan the deck out but make sure that the spectators can't see the flipped up card on the bottom of the pack. Now ask them to pick a card. While they are studying their card, flip ... Chocolate Sandwich Variation
Effect: This is a variation on The Sandwiched Aces trick where the setup is performed in front of everyone. This makes the results even more amazing. This is a variation on the Sandwiched Aces trick. In that trick, there is some setup involved in which... Color Blind
First you go through the deck and pull out three red cards and three black cards. Place all three red cards under all three black cards. Hold the stack of cards face-up in the palm of your hand with your fingers wrapping around the edge. Turn your cards f... Come together
The effect of the trick: The spectator cuts an ordinary pack of cards in two and they and the performer take one half each. They each choose a card from their half, look at it and return it to the pile. When the two piles are put together, the two chosen... Cough, Cough
Effect: Spectators freely chosen card ends up folded in the magicians mouth. 1. Start with a full deck of cards. 2. Now shuffle the deck so that everybody knows that the cards are not rigged in any way. 3. Have a spectator choose a card and memor... Count Down
Original Author: Unknown Trick Description: You shuffle the deck several times and then ask a person to tell you when to STOP when they think you drop ten cards. You then count the correct amount of cards actually dropped. You then tell them to memoriz... Count of Monte' Crysto
The cards are shuffled by a spectator who then chooses a number and notes the card at that position. The magician then shuffles the deck and hands the cards back to the spectator and asks that they deal off the same number off cards that they mentioned... Count On Me
This mathematical trick can be performed with any pack Effect: The magician can reveal a chosen card even when it is selected with his back turned. Method: Ask a spectator to shuffle his own pack of cards and count off any number of cards as long as... Counted Cards
1. Tell a spectator that each card represents a number--A is 1, J is 11, Q is 12, K is 13, and the rest have their face value. 2. Tell the person to pick up the top card and place it face up on the table. 3. State its number and then count onto it e... Counter Strike
Method: : Shuffle a pack of playing cards well, to begin the trick. Holding the pack face down, turn over the top card and place it face up on the table. Think of it as a pile. Starting with its face value, deal face up on top of it as many more playing ... Crimp It
Effect: The Chosen Card is bent placed into the center of the deck and magically pops up to the top/ Card Trick 1. Double Lift 2nd card in deck. 2. Show this card to the Trickee. 3. Then Crimp the card in your hand (carefully so that the subje... Criss Cross
1. First, shuffle or let the spectator shuffle. 2. Go through the deck and memorize the top card (Let's say it is the ace of clubs). As an excuse for fanning through the deck, you can say that you need to remove your "unlucky card" (which can be any on... Cut the Kings
This trick begins with a stacked deck! Seperate the Aces and Kings from an ordinary poker deck. Place the 4 Aces on top of the other cards. Place the Kings on top of the Aces. Kings are now uppermost in the deck. Find a volunteer and say something lik... Cut To It
Effect: The spectator picks a card, puts it on the top of the deck, cuts the deck, and the magician finds the card. How it's done All you have to do is have a glimpse at the bottom card of the deck. Ask the spectator to take any card. After he does,... Cutting The Aces
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 you... Deceptive Divination
The magician turns his back to the audience and asks a volunteer to deal a random number of cards into two piles. The remaining cards are shuffled by the volunteer - he is then asked to look at and remember the top card (say - 8 of Hearts). One of the two... Deck Predictor
Effect: After mixing the deck of cards, the performer asks a spectator to cut the deck that is in his left hand. The spectator then places the top portion of the cards on the performer's right hand. The spectator is asked to take the top card off the port... Do as I Do
The 'Do as I Do' trick is well know to all experienced Cardicians, it is a popular trick and has long lasting appeal. There are numerous variations of it, the version that I am about to reveal here is the standard trick but with a special twist that I wil... Do It Yourself Discovery
Effect: The spectator discovers his own card in a mysterious manner. Card Trick: Have the spectator shuffle the cards, take half the deck and give the rest to you. "Now," you say, "while I turn my back, pick out a card, look at it, show it to everyb... Double Cross
The perfomer asks a spectator to tell him to mix up some cards, following the performer's instructions to the letter. No matter how much they're mixed up, they end up in the same order as at the beginning of the trick. Before you begin the trick: Take a... Double or Nothing
Description: An adapted four ace trick 1. Tossing the four aces face up onto the table. Arrange the aces in a face-down row. 2. Fan off three cards from the top of the deck and place them on top of one of the aces. 3. Tap the pile of four cards. ... Double Turnover
Shuffle the deck. Glimpse and remember the bottom card and lay the pack on the table. Tell the spectator to remove the top half of the deck and hold it, while you do the same with the bottom half. Tell the spectator to put his (or her) half behind his bac... Down to the Last Cards
After Spectator chooses a card at random, deck is cut several times. Magician sorts through entire deck trying to locate card. The Spectator or another is asked to select another card. This card is also lost. By cutting the deck and removing packets of ca... Easy Eights
You will need someone to be an accomplice in this trick. Arrange eight cards in the pattern of the symbols on the face of an eight. One of the eight cards must be an eight. While you look away, have a spectator choose a card. When you look back, have your... Easy Pick
Use any full deck and its case. Allow a friend to shuffle the cards. Tell him/her to keep one of the cards, look at it, and give the rest back to you. Then you place the rest of the cards in the case, but leave the flap open. Ask the friend to put the car... Egg A la Card
Effect: You ask a spectator to think of a number from 10-20. They pick one. Such as 15. You say to the specator. that you will count of 15 cards from the deck. So you do so. Then you say I will add the two digits together. 1+5=6. Then you say. I will subt... Eight Threatening Kings
Effect: Person chooses card from deck, and magician tells person the suit and number. Set-up: The deck is stacked. To remember its sequence of values, memorize the rhyme "Eight Kings Threatened To Save Ninety-Five Queens For One Sick Knave." The words ... Elevator Card - Elevating Card Trick
Effect: The top card of the deck is turned face up to the audience. The card is once again turned face down and removed from the deck. The magician now places this card into the middle of the deck and then squares the deck The magician clicks hi... ESP
You will need someone to act as your assistant for this. Have your assistant leave the room during the first part. Nine cards are laid out, face down, in three rows of three. (eh: You can have them choose a card by the method in Find The Card The Easy ... Find The Card The Easy Way
In this trick 16 cards are placed face up on a table, in four rows of four cards. Ask a spectator to pick a card in his mind, and to tell you only the vertical column in which the card is located. Gather up the cards, making sure to pick the fourth vertic... Find The Card The Hard Way
To perform this trick, you need the help of four spectators. All five of you should be seated around a table. Deal five hands of five cards each, starting with the person to your left and dealing clockwise. Ask each of the spectators to look at the hand ... Find The Card The Hard Way Variation
Deal 3 cards across 7 times so that you have 3 piles of 7 cards each. Put the rest of the deck aside. Have a spectator look at one of the 3 piles and memorize a card in it. Have him (or her) put the pile on top of one of the other two piles and then put t...