Gambling Aces
To stack the deck you just need to place three nines on top. Place five spot cards on top of that (now would be a good time to mutter something like "Now where are those aces, hope you dont mind i have to stack the deck") now find the four aces and place them on top of that so now from the top of the deck (4 aces, 5 spot cards, and 3 nines.)
Patter: "A cardsharp was at a party when he decided to liven it up a bit. He slapped the deck down on the table... " Slap the deck down on th
"Naturaly everyone gathered around. A wise guy asked, why three-handed poker?' The cardsharp told him, 'to make it easier.' The wise guy said 'I've seen this before. where are the four aces?' the card sharp said, 'right here on top just in case I need them.' " Deal the four aces face up on the table.
"The cardsharp said, 'Now I'll deal a few sample hands before we start betting .' " put the aces back on top. Deal four hands of three card each, including one hand to yourself. "The wise guy said, 'you just stacked the cards so you'd get the three aces .' the cardsharp said, 'Not at all. look-- one ace in each hand,' "
Pick up your hand and turn it over, showing that there is only one ace. Place the hand on top, do the same with the third hand, the second hand, and the first in that order--- each time placing the hand on top.
"The cardsharp said, 'Let's try another deal." again deal four hand of three cards each.
"The wise guy said, I've seen this. For sure you've stacked them this time. 'the cardsharp said, 'No way. look--- one ace in each hand." Show the hand exactly the same way as the first time.
"The cardsharp said, 'Now let's get down to business. one more deal.' "deal four hands of three cards each. "The cardsharp asked, 'Now who wants to make a bet?' the wise guy said, "I'll make a bet. you stalked the cards. I'll bet you twenty bucks you hold three aces.' The card sharp said, 'You're on, buddy. and you are dead wrong.' " Move your three card hand to one side. Now this is important: place the third hand on top of the deck followed by the second and then the first. "the cardsharp said, 'you're right about one thing--- I did stack the cards.' " turn over your hand showing three nines. "the wise guy forked over the money and said, 'what about the aces?' the cardsharp smiled and said, I told you. ""right here on top Just incase i need them"" As you say this deal off the top four cards face up.........
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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... Find-A-Card
You need a deck of cards from Las Vegas that have a hole punched through the deck. The hole is usually in the center off to the left a little bit. Make sure all the holes in the cards are lined up so that you can see through the deck. Then tell your spect... Firehouse Jacks
Description: As the original trick you set it up pretty much the same way, except instead on the 2-8 cards and the 4 aces behind them, you should have from the top of the deck 2 thru 10 and then the Aces. Now your ready. 1. Separate the four jacks from... Follow My Leader
The effect of the trick: The performer has a pack of cards and give a second pack to a spectator. They both shuffle their packs. Each of them then chooses a card from their own pack only to find that they have chosen the exact same card. Before you begi... Follow The Leader
Secret: From an ordinary deck remove a Black Ace and a Red Ace then remove 2 through 5 of black cards that is the same as the Black Ace. Do the same for the Red Ace. Card Trick: Place the two aces on the table apart from each other. Put the left ove... Follow The Rules
Effect: A spectator takes a card, takes the rest of the deck and places their card on top. The spectator then hands the cards back to the Magician who insists that the spectator disobeyed the rules and placed their card in the middle of the deck instead o... Fool-Proof Reversed Card
Effect: A spectator chooses a card, replaces it, turn the deck over three times in their hands, snaps it, riffles it, shuffles it, whatever then they look through the deck to find it reversed. The Method: All you need for this are two exactly alike car... Foretelling the Future
Effect: After shuffling the deck, the magician holds the deck in his hand, face down, and calls for a spectator to choose a card as he is going through the deck. After the spectator tells the magician to stop going through the deck, the magician thinks fo... Four in a Row
Effect: The magician shuffle a normal deck of card, he show it to the audience, he pick the three first, lets say 6, that he put on table, then he take a card from top and he put on 6 on it, another card then a 6 another card again and a 6, he put the lit... Four Islands
Effect: There are four islands in an ocean. Each has a king, queen, a son named Jack (the Jack will be used,) and a dog named Ace (the Ace will be used.) One day, a hurricane storms through the ocean, creating complete chaos and wiping everything on the i... Four Kingdoms
This card trick seems magical, but it's not. To perform, separate all of the Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks from a deck of cards. The rest of the cards will not be used. Begin the trick by telling this story of the greatest and most powerful wizard. On... From Here to There
Effect: The magician shuffles an ordinary deck of cards. He then fans the cards and asks a spectator to select a card show and memorize it. The magician then fans the cards again and tells the spectator to to place his card any where in the deck he wishes... Fruit Loops
Effect: The magician lets the spectator choose a card, which is memorized and put back into the deck. The magician then puts the deck back into the card box and slips it into his pocket. He then claps his hands and points to a nearby table where an orange... Gambling Aces
To stack the deck you just need to place three nines on top. Place five spot cards on top of that (now would be a good time to mutter something like "Now where are those aces, hope you dont mind i have to stack the deck") now find the four aces and place ... Gemini Twins
Effect: A magician removes two cards from a deck and places them face up on the table. The deck is handed to the spectator where he/she will start dealing cards face down onto the table, when he/she stops, the magician places one face up card on top of th... Get Money
Description: You're in a room with a bunch of friends and a deck of cards. You allow a friend to pick any card, then put it back in the deck. After shuffling the deck, you start turning over cards until you see your friend's. You bet everybody in the room... Gladlock the Great Knows All
Effect: A spectator picks a card. You dial a number on the phone, ask for Gladlock the Great, and hand the phone to your victim, and Gladlock tells him his card. Trick: Glimpse and remember the bottom card of the deck. Have victim pick a card, memor... Half and Half
You have to be quick at addition and subtraction and a good memorizer to pull this off smoothly. First, let someone shuffle the deck to let them know you haven't set it in any way. Ask someone how many cards are in a deck without jokers. If they don't kno... Hands off the Pack!
This is a trick which can be performed without ever handling or even seeing the cards. Ask your friend to shuffle a pack of cards and then select any spot card. ie. not a picture card. Turn your back so that you can't see what he is doing then ask him... Haphazard Cards
Holding a deck of cards face down in your left hand, take a small bunch of cards with your right. Turn the cards in your right hand face up, and put them on top of the cards in your left. Square up the deck. Grab all of the face up cards and a bunch more ... Hard Card Memorization
Ask the spectator to spread a pack of cards, which they have shuffled, face down on the table. Tell them to remove a card from the upper part of the spread, note what the card is, and place it in the lower part of the spread. When the card is inserted int... Hex-a-Card
The effect of this trick: The performer challenges the spectators to arrange six playing cards in any way they like but to be able to lift just one card which in turn lifts all the others, keeping the faces of all the cards visible. When they fail, the p... Hole-in-Card
Effect: A card is placed on top of the deck, and when the magician slams the deck with his hand, another card went through the top card! Secret: The magician has palmed a card beforehand, and when he brings his hand down onto the deck, the palmed card ... Housing Suits
ffect: Flip top card over and put the next on the bottom. Continue doing this forming suits counting down from Ace to 2. When you find a card out of order you tell the person their card. METHOD:Sit home and arrange cards to where if you take the top ca... How'd You Do That
A Specific Deck is Needed It can be any 52 (54 with joker) card deck, as long as a reversed card can be distinguished from the rest of the deck The best to use is a deck with a pattern on the top that is identical, except for the boarder. If you can... I Can't Believe They Don't Get It!
ffect: Good trick, easy to figure out, but it works on people who don't pay attention. Card Trick: 1. The two bottom cards should have different values and either both should be black or one should be black and the other red. Let's say that they're ... I Thought That Was Your Card
Effect: A person picks a card. You look through the deck, rearrange it, and show bottom card. They say that isn't card so you put it on the table. You look through the deck again and find an upside down card. You show it, but it still isn't the card. Then... Ilusionary Card Trick
first u take all the cards (52cards) then u put 26 cards on the floor showing everybody then u have to remember the 7th card in ur 26 cards.After u put all 26 cards take then and put them in bottom of the rest of the cards.then from top u put one card and... Impossible Card Location
Using a 52-card deck, have three people each select a card without showing it to you. Tell them to memorize their card. Deal one pile of 10 cards face down. Next to it deal a pile of 15 cards, and next to that deal another 15-card pile. Keep the remain... Impossible Mind Reader
Remove 25 cards from the pack and allow the spectator to shuffle and cut the cards as much as they want then lay the 25 cards out in 5 rows of 5 cards face upwards from left to right in neat rows following a sort of grid pattern. Ask the spectator to t... In and Out Deck
A deck of cards is fanned for a choice. But the magician says oh, wait I really must take the cards out of the box first, and waves his hand over the deck which seems to melt into the box. The lid is opened and the cards are again removed. First you n... In My Pocket
Effect: A spectator picks a card. The magician looks for the spectator's card in the pack but can't find it. He then magically pulls the card out of his pocket. Note: You must have two packs exactly the same to do this trick. If not, you can try the va... Into Thin Air
Effect Make a card vanish into thin air! Supplies You Need * Ordinary deck of cards * Handkerchief with a hem * Toothpick * Scissors Setup Take a toothpick and match it up against the end of one of the cards. Take the scisso... It's Your Deal
The effect of the trick: The spectator cuts an ordinary pack of cards in two, chooses a card, memorises it and returns it to the pack. They then magically locate their chosen card just by dealing the cards into piles, discarding some along the way until ... Jack The Escape Artist
Effect: The performer tells the audience the about Jack the Escape Artist, as described below. With the help of the audience, the performer lays out a setup of face-down cards. It appears that Jack is surrounded by other cards (enemies) and is about to be... Joker Sandwich
The cards are spread and a volunteer indicates their choice. The magician flips the card over to show the face. The deck is 'closed' and immediately spread upon the table. The chosen card can be seen face-up within the face down spread. The ch... Jumping Aces
Effect: This card trick is advanced and contains a lot of sleight of hand but the over all effect is GREAT!: Magician shows 4 aces for examination puts on deck then takes them off and shows the 4 aces. Then puts it back on the deck and deals an ace in 4 r... Kathy's Prediction
Shuffle a deck of cards. Place the top card face up on the table and look at its number (Jacks, Queens, and Kings all equal 10.) Put enough cards on top of the card to make the total 10. For example if a 4 is showing, then you would put 6 more cards on to... Keith's Trick
Prepration: Find a volunteer (One who won't mess up the trick). Teach him about the trick. Inform him not to tell anyone about your secret code (see below.) Trick: Split the deck into several piles. Leave the room. While you are out of the room y... King of the Hill
Preparation: Before you start the trick place the four Kings on top of the deck. Procedure: Tell your spectator(s) that this is a special royal deck and the Kings run it all. Start by making four piles: take about one-fourth the deck from the bottom... Kings Family Variation
1. Go through the deck pulling out all four Aces, Kings, Queens, and Jacks. 2. Start by saying: "Once upon a time there were four Kings." Place the Kings in a face-up row, a few inches apart. 3. Then say: "And each King had a daughter." Place one Queen on... Kings Party Variation
Card Trick: Take out all the face cards and all the Aces, forget the other cards. Place all the Kings in a row and say they are having a party. Next say that they are all nice Kings and they invited their wives (the Queens) to the party. Put the Queens on... Kings Robbery
Start out by telling a story of four king thieves (have the Kings separated from the rest of the deck). One day the kings decide to rob their local Famous Store. The four kings fly their helicopter to the roof and begin to devise their plans. (As you say ... Liar, Liar
Effect: You go through a deck and ask a person to tell you when to stop. You take the first card of the pile and ask them if it is their card. It is not. You do it three more times, all NOT being their card. Then you pick up one that you put down and it i... 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 o... Lucky 13
Effect: The magician takes a fresh deck of cards out of the box and shuffles them to demonstrate that they are in no particular order. He deals the cards into a bunch of piles, until the deck is cleared. There are 13 piles, and when he is done each of the... Lucky Guess Variation
(1) You set up 3 rows of 7 cards each, face up. (2)You have someone come up and think of a card (not telling you what it is) (3)You say the row's names: A, B, and C. He or she tells you which row. (4)-----VERY VERY IMPORTANT PART---- Gathe... Luke, use the Force.
Use The Force: First, take a look at the top card, A good time to do this is when you shuffle the cards at the start of the trick. If the spectator insists on shuffling it for you, let them and then take it back and shuffle it again quickly, glimpsing ... Magic Breath
Effect: Spectator chooses a card. The card is placed randomly back in the deck. The magician explains about magic breath, that it will magically make a card appear where a person wants it to be. He hands the deck to the spectator, tells him to think of a...