Easy Free Amazing Magic Card Tricks

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Ace Twister

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1. Take the four aces out of the deck have them in the order of (from the top face down) ace of hearts, ace of clubs, ace of diamonds and finally the ace of spades.

2. Show the bottom ace (spades) and perform the glide, putting the ace of diamonds on the table.

3. As you do this say "the ace of spades" then perform a bottom buckle with a double lift showing the ace of clubs.

4. Saying "the other black ace the ace of clubs" turn the double over and deal down the ace of hearts (which is the top card). Do some kind of 'magical card trick move' or whatever. The spectator thinks that the aces on the table are black, but low and behold, the black aces are in your hand!

Card Between the Aces

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Preparation
1. Take a red ace out of the deck and put it face up on the bottom of the deck.

2. Then take the remaining three aces, putting the red one between the two black ones. Place these on top of the deck. You are now ready to perform the card trick.

Performance
1. Take the first black ace off the top of the deck and show it to the audience. Place the ace facedown on the table.

2. Ask a spectator to choose a card and look at it. Tell them to put the card faceup covering half of the the facedown black ace.

3. Do a double lift and show the spectator the other black ace. Return it to the top of the deck and tell them you will put it on top of the chosen card. You actually are putting the red ace on their card.

4. Secretly make a break at the top card and tell them you will take the cards and put them on top of the deck.

5. Put the three cards, aces facedown, on top of the card you made a break at.

6. Flip over the four cards, the fourth card being the one you made a break at, and show them their card has disappeared from in between the black aces.

7. Cut the cards, which will place the bottom face up ace on top of the card and the other red ace.

8. Spread the cards to show a facedown card between the two red aces. It is the spectators chosen card!

Card Under the Foot

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1. Ask a member of the audience to pick a card.

2. Shuffle it to the fourth from bottom.

3. Tell the audience member you will show him four cards,and if he sees his card, not to say anything.

4. Show the bottom card to the volunteer and place it in his hand.

5. Show and place the next two cards in the same way.

6. Show fourth card and then perform the glide, dealing down indifferent card.

7. Overhand shuffle the deck bringing the card to the top.

8. Perform double lift showing indifferent card. Ask if this is it. It won't be.

9. Turn down double lift and place top card(the selection) under his foot. He is holding four cards,and thinks his card is on top.

10. Ask him where his card is,he will say in his hand,on the top. Tell him to turn it over. It is not his card.

11. Tell him to check the other three. Its not there. Ask him if he ever heard of slight of hand, then ask him if he ever heard of slight of foot! Tell him to look under his foot. He will freak.

13 Card Count

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1. You have a normal deck of 52 cards.

2. Start by laying a card face up on the table.

3. You then lay cards on top of it until it until the total score adds up to 13 including the beginning card.

4. You continue to make piles of thirteen until the deck is exhausted. Say "remember king is
13".

5. If there are any remaining cards that don't add up to 13, keep them in hand. Once this step has been accomplished you have the person flip over 3 of any of the piles and you pick up the remaining piles not used.

6. Next have them flip two of the three top cards over, add them up and add 10 to the total.

7. Finally, once you know that number, take the extra deck and count out that many cards (in your head) and whatever is remaining is the top card of the third pile.

Three Piles

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1. Shuffle the deck in front of the audience. As you do so, take a glance at the third card down.

2. Cut the deck into three piles so that the third card down (which you know) is in the furthest pile.

3. Ask a member of the audience to move cards around between the piles, but ensure that they only take 2 off the pile with the forced card in.

4. Have a member of the audience point to a pile. If he/she points to the pile containing the known card, take the other two piles away. If he/she points to another pile, take that away.

5. Repeat step 4, leaving only the pile with the forced in it.

6. Tell them to take the top card off that pile (the one you know) and memorize it.

7. Next, have the volunteer shuffle it back into the whole deck. Now go and find it.

Magical Transport

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1. Have someone from the audience choose seven cards at random without looking at the faces. Put the remainder of the deck to one side, and fan the chosen seven cards out in your hands. Have the volunteer pick one. Tell them to memorize it and put it back in the middle of the pile of seven (this should make it the 4th card).

2. Square the cards up and show them the bottom card. Ask them, "Is this your card?" they should say no. Lay it face down on a table and procede with the next card. Ask them, "Is this your card?" They should say no again. Lay it face down beside the other card.

3. Show them the third card. Ask them, "Is this your card?" They should say no. (As they say no, you should slide it down a little and take their card. Lay it face down.

4. Put the four remaining cards somewhere in the deck, but not on top though.

5. Pick up the cards (putting their card in the middle) Show them the first card and ask them "Is this your card?" They should say no. Slide this card down and take the middle card (their card) out and lay it face down.

6. Shuffle the two cards asking an audience member to tell you when to stop. When they say stop ask them if the bottom card is theirs, followed by the next one.

7. Keeping them on the ground shuffle them around. Ask an audience member to point to two. Then ask him/her to point to one of the two. Flip the two that are not their card first. Then flip their card and they are amazingly stunned.

Hint: Only do this card trick once or they'll see that one card appears twice out of the three.

Jack-Ro-Batics

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1. Place all four Jacks on the bottom of a face up pack of cards.

2. Show your spectator the cards and announce "I'm going to show you some fancy acrobatics with four Jacks".

3. Remove the four Jacks from the bottom of the deck. While you do this take an extra card with them, making sure the spectator doesn't see.

4. Square them all neatly together and put the remainder of the deck face down on the table.

5. Hold the five cards in your right hand and using the left thumb pull the first jack into your palm. Pull the second and third jacks onto the top of the first jack in the same way, and then pull the last jack that had the hidden card under it on top of the other cards. You should practise this so that it looks as if you only have four cards. Talk as you show the jacks (something like "these are the four circus jacks who came from europe a short while ago to enterain us this aftenoon")

6. Turn the five cards face down and set them on top of the deck on the table.

7. Now deal the top four cards out face down in a row on the table from left to right. Three of the cards will be jacks, but the card on the right end is in fact the hidden card, and not a jack. The last jack really remains on top of the deck.

8. Drop the entire deck onto the first card to your left. Place your index finger in the center of the deck and riffle the cards upwards. Use the thumb and middle finger to snap double lift the top card. As you lift it from the deck show that it is a jack and drop it on the table.

9. Pick up the second jack and place it on top of the deck ("this next jack will perform the invisible diving routine passing through the deck and landing on the bottom without a net")

10. Riffle the cards as before and then turn the entire pack face up and show the jack. Put the jack on the table next to the other one.

11. ("Jack number three will do a double-somersault and turn over"). Place the third jack face down into the face up pile.

Smarty Pants

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1. Take the deck of cards and make sure you know what the top card is.

2. Flick through the cards and get someone to shout stop about half way down. Stop when they do.

3. Take the top half of the deck and pull it out towards the spectator. Whilst doing this hold down the top card with your thum, sliding it onto the second half of the deck.

4. Tell the spectator to take the top card of the second half of the deck (the one that you just slid down), and tell them what the card is. They will be in utter amazement by this card trick.

Joker Party

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1. Take three jokers: two red backed (one black, one red) and one blue backed (black). You will not need any more cards for that card trick.

2. Place the blue backed joker on top, the red/red backed joker second, and last the black/red backed joker.

3. Tell the spectator that you have three jokers, one blue backed and two red backed, and show them, making sure they don't see both colors of any joker.

4. In the order described above perform a double lift, letting the bluebacked joker appear to be a red one and not a black one.

5. Then place the blue backed joker at the bottom.

6. Count the cards and bring the blue backed joker to the top again.

7. Show the blue backed joker now without lifting the two cards together, showing the way it is really.

8. The joker now apperars to be BLACK.

9. Palm the red backed and red colored joker, and while giving the other two cards to the spectator put it in your pocket.

10. The spectator has in their hands two jokers: one black/blue backed and one red/red backed. He'll say something like "Well.. What the heck is happening here?!!"

This trick is very simple. It might sound stupid and too easy to impress, but when I presented it to an audience it really worked and created mystery!

The Unknown Card

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1. Let someone from the audience hold the pack.

2. Tell them to pick a card which they must remember and put it on the top of the pack (face down)

3. Tell them to pick the same number of cards from the bottom of the pack, according to the number on the card they chose, and lay them on the top of the pack. (If they chose a ”2 of Clubs” for example, they should pick 2 cards from the bottom and lay them on the top).

4. Now, you tell them to start from the top of the pack and take out cards one by one. They should say for each one its number and suit and put it at the bottom of the pack. Of course, while he/she is doing all this, you can’t watch.

5. Here is what you got to do! When they start to pick cards from the top of the pack, you have to start counting (for yourself). The first card he/she tells you, you don’t count, but when he/she picks the second card, you count 1.

6. When he/she picks the third card, you count 2. and so on.

7. Here’s the card trick. When the number of the card he/she teyou, maches with the number you are counting,there’s a big chance that the card he/she just told you is the one he/she chose ibeginning. So pay great attention and listen carefully which cards he/she is picking. There might be some other cards matching to your counting, so let them read at least 15. cards. If you’re lucky, there’s just one matching. But if there are two which match, it’s quite impressing anyway. Just mention them both.

Scissor Fingers

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1. Ask someone to pick a card, and shuffle it to second from bottom.

2. Next, take the bottom card and ask if its their card they will say no.

3. Put the card you showed back on the bottom and take their card and out it face down.

4. Put the chosen card on top of the deck.

5. Show 3 more cards and put each face down on top of theirs.

6. Tell them to put their fingers out like scissors and then put the cards between thier fingers. Tap the 4 cards until the bottom card's the only one that hasn't fallen out of thier hands. They look at it and see their card.

Speedy Sandwich

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Effect
The selected card magically becomes sandwiched between two jokers.

Performance
1. Extract the two jokers from the deck and let a spectator select a card. Bring it secretly to the bottom of the deck in your favorite manner. (One or two useful trick overhand shuffles can be found in the skills page).

2. Explain that you will make the jokers trap the chosen card right between them, and openly put one joker to the top and the other to the bottom of the deck, both face up.

3. Openly left-jog the bottom joker, saying the gag that her card IS really between the jokers.

4. Wait for response at the gag, then hold the deck with the right hand at the right side with the thumb on top and the fingers at the bottom. The middle finger should be in contact with the bottom joker, and the index finger should be in contact with selection, thanks to the left-jogged joker.

5. Now if you throw the deck into the left hand, thanks to the friction between your fingers and the cards, only the two face up jokers and the selection between them will remain in the right hand!!

The friction between the cards and the fingers can be improved by moistening your fingers. This improves the reliability of the card trick.

Déplacement de carte

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1. Fan the deck out with the cards face down.

2. Ask a spectator to choose a card and to look at it.

3. As he's looking at his card, you close up the fan and cut the deck in two, holding the lower part in your left hand, and the upper in the right one.

4. Ask the spectator to put his card on the lower part, in your left hand.

5. As the right hand comes to drop the upper part over the other one in the left hand, secure a small, invisible break between the two parts of the deck, above the chosen card.

6. Now, you ask the spectator for the name of a different card (not the one he took). Let's call this card 2. As you do that, make a move to bring the chosen card to the top of the deck. This can be done in two ways:
-First way: You can simulate that you are randomly cutting the deck. Cut it into 3 parts, the first one being the part of the deck below the chosen card (card 1), and the other two being the remainder of the deck. Now you can arrange the three parts, in order to have the chosen card at the top. If done properly, it's very efficient.
-Second way: Harder, but more impressive: You can do what is called in french "un Saut de Coupe". It is an invisible move where you make the bottom part go over the other one. It's quite hard to do, but many tricks are based on it. An explanation of a "Saut de coupe" called the "saut de coupe Charlier" can be found in the skills page. It should be done with your left hand, hiding it with the right one.

7. Now, you've got the chosen card at the top of the deck, faces toward the ground.

8. Turn the deck faces upward, and scroll the cards one after the other until you see the card 2.

9. While you're doing that, slide your lower card (the taken one) under the cards that you've already scrolled. When you see the card 2, remove the cards that seem to be under the card 2 ( but that are in fact between the card 2 and the taken one), putting them to one side. Make a deck with the remaining cards. The last card is the chosen one, just after the card two. So now you can do a double lift, taking these two cards as if there was only one, the card 2. With a great smile, you make the chosen one appear!

Ordered suit force

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Effect
The magician finds the spectator's card by counting off cards from the deck.

Preparation
1. This card trick needs to be set up first. Order the cards of any suit from Ace to 10, with the Ace on top and the 10 on the bottom. I do it with hearts, but, obviously, any suit will work.

2. Place this stack of ten cards at the bottom of the deck. Now you are ready.

Performance
1. Have the spectator choose any card. Should he choose any of the bottom ten cards, the tricklaughably easy--if that happens, choose any way you like of showing him the card. If he chooses any other card, however, tell him to put the card on top of the deck. is

2. Hand the deck to him and tell him to cut it face down. [Make sure that he cuts it and does not shuffle it.]

3. Tell him to flip the deck over and cut it face up. He should continue to cut it until you see a non-face heart (or whatever the ordered suit was) on the bottom of the deck (for example the five of hearts). Take the deck.

4. Now, count off the number of cards from the top of the deck as specified by the card revealed on the bottom (for example five) and that card will be his.

Deceptive Aces

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Preparation
Start with two aces at the top of the pack and two at the bottom. This can be arranged in front of the audience when the aces are sneakily positioned after another ace trick.

Performance
1. Ask an audience member to cut the deck into two. Remember which half has the aces at the top, and which half has them at the bottom.

2. Pick up the packet with the aces on top and do a false shuffle, keeping them at the top.

3. Pick up the other half, with the aces on the bottom, and shuffle the two aces on the bottom to the top.

4. Position the two halves of the deck (A and B) corner to corner.

5. Cut the top half of pile A to form pile C, and cut the top half of pile B to form pile D. Piles C and D now have two aces at the top.

6. Position your left hand at the bottom of pile C and your right hand at the top of pile D. Quickly lift the two cards on the top of these piles and place them face up on top of piles A and B.

7. Turn over the new top cards on piles C and D. There are now four face up aces on the four piles!

I was a bit dubious about the effect of this card trick the first time I did it, but it turned out to be astonishing!

Roll Over

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Preparation
Put a double-faces card (bought from most magic card trick shops, or two cards glued back to back) on the bottom of the deck.

Performance
1. Fan the deck out and have a spectator select a card. Ask the spectator to show the card to the rest of the audience, but not to you.

2. While everyone is watching the spectator, turn the deck over. Ask spectator to put the card back into the deck.

3. Pick up the deck hold it on its side for a second with your hands covering both sides. Turn the deck back around and shuffle it, shuffling the double-card into the deck(off the bottom).

4. Tell the spectator(s) something like "not only do I know some tricks, but I have taught some tricks to these cards. Tell the spectator to tap the deck and to say "roll over".

5. Lay the deck on the table and spread them out. The selected card will be face up.

Needle in a Haystack

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Effect
The performer takes a borrowed deck, and removes three cards. Three spectators are given free choice of any of the three cards. The first spectator is asked for a number, and that many cards are dealt. Another spectator is asked for a number, and that number of cards are dealt as well. The third spectator then uses those numbers to deal more cards to a final card. When the first spectator turns his card over, it matches the number of the selected card. The other spectators do the same, and all cards match!

Performance
1. Take a borrowed deck of cards, and run through them, looking for three "prediction cards". Note the top card, and remove the three other cards of the same number.

2. Place these cards face down next to each other on the table. Each of three spectators chooses a card, looks at it without anyone else seeing, and replaces it onto the table.

3. The first spectator picks a number from 1 to 10. That many cards are dealt face down, one at a time, from the top of the deck, then put back on the top (reversing their original positions).

4. The second spectator is asked for a number from 11 to 20, and that many cards are dealt, one at a time, face down as before, then returned to the top of the deck.

5. The third spectator is asked for the difference between the first and second spectator's numbers, then deals that many cards. The next card is the "selected card", which was the original top card.

6. Each spectator is asked if he thinks his card is the one that matches, and when all four cards are shown, it's a surprise!

Predicting a mate

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1. Shuffle the pack and fan it out face up in your hands. Remembering the bottom card, count thirteen cards up from the bottom (inclusive) and cut these cards to the top of the pack.

2. Inform the audience that you are searching for your prediction card. Look through the pack until you find the "mate" (the card with the same colour and number) of the original bottom card which is now 13th from the top. Place this card on the table out of the way.

3. Ask a volunteer from the audience to "Count a small number of cards (let's say between 1 and 10) from the top of the pack while I turn away. Then hide them so I can't see how many you've counted".

4. Turn away while the cards are counted and hidden.

5. Take the remainder of the pack from the volunteer and inform them that you are going to count 12 cards from the top of the deck. Do just that and hide them from site.

6. Inform the volunteer that you are going to bring out your cards one by one and ask them to call out when you reach their number.

7. Begin bringing out the cards from the top of the pile and place them face down on the table. When the volunteer stops you, place that card down next to your prediction card.

8. Inform the audience that if your prediction was correct, the two cards on the table should be mates, that is they should have the same number and colour.

9. Get the volunteer to turn over the two cards. They really are mates!

Now it should work!

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1. Ask a member of the audience to choose a card and bring it to the top.

2. Ask the volunteer to think of any number from 5 to 15, and have them count off that many cards from the top of the pack.

3. Get them to turn over the top card, and ask them if it is their chosen card-it won't be. Have the dealt cards placed back on top of the deck.

4. Ask the volunteer if they are sure they counted correctly. Tell them that it is important to deal the cards slowly, or the magic won't work.

5. Deal off 1 less than the chosen number of cards from the deck slowly and carefully (ie. if the volunteer chose 11, deal off 10). The chosen card is now on top of the remaining deck.

6. Ask the volunteer what their card was and say: "Wouldn't it be amazing if I had your card right here?"

7. Double lift the top two cards, showing the one below the chosen card. Look at the bottom and appear annoyed.

8. Now, you have to blame the card you have revealed for ruining your trick. Imagine, for example, the card was the nine of diamonds. Say something along the lines of "Wouldn't you just know it? I should of guessed. The nine of diamonds is always messing things up, popping up when you don't want it to.

9. Replace the double card on top of the deck, and place the top card (the chosen one) to one side. "There, that should get rid of that nasty nine of diamonds!"

10. Put the dealt cards back on top of the deck.

11. Once again, deal one less than the chosen number of cards (10 for this example), off the top of the deck. "Now it should work!"

12. Lift the top card from the pack. "Nine of diamonds again! Wait a minute, if the nine of diamonds is here... What did you say your card was again?"

13. Turn over the chosen card which you have set to one side on the table. Act disgusted: that nasty nine of diamonds ruined everything!

My Mistake

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1. Get a member of the audience to choose a card and return it to the deck.

2. Bring the card to second from the top using a double cut. To bring the card second from the top, you will need to obtain the finger break one card above the chosen one, rather than directly above it.

3. Tell the group something along the lines of: "I know this is going to be amazing, but please hold your applause. I'm going to reveal the chosen card, but it's important that you make no noise at all. Just marvel in silence so that we can all enjoy the enormous impact."

4. Perform a double lift showing the selected card, and name it.

5. Act as if something has gone wrong with the trick. Say something like: "I do apologise. I really don't miss that often. I don't have a clue what went wrong".

6. Return the double card to the top of the deck and slide the top card into the middle of the deck.

7. "Hold on, maybe I can work something out." Ask the volunteer to tell you the name of their card.

8. They will tell you and the audience will be happy to inform you that you have just returned the chosen card to the middle of the deck. Of course, you haven't-it's still on top of the pack.

9. "That's all right. Maybe I can work something out."

10. Tap the top card and turn it over for all to see.

Magic Slide

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1. Get a card chosen using a forcing card truck method of your choice.

2. Bring the card to the top of the deck.

3. Do a double lift and announce the name of the chosen card.

4. The audience will tell you that you are wrong (which, of course, you are!)

5. Act surprised and inform the audience that you will now have to try some real magic.

6. Place the two cards down on top of the pack, and pick up the top (chosen) card, being sure not to show it to the audience.

7. Turn the card on it's side and pass it through the middle of the deck.

8. Hold it up to the audience. Magic! It's their chosen card.

Eliminate the Negative

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1. Take two decks of cards. Each deck will have the same top card and bottom card set up before the trick. Ask the spectator which deck they want to use for this card trick. Set the other deck aside.

2. Cut the chosen deck into two piles and ask the spectator which pile they would like to use for the trick. If the spectator chooses the bottom portion, you will need to keep track of the bottom card (key card) of that pile. If the spectator chooses the top portion, you will need to keep track of the top card (key card) of that pile.

3. Tell the spectator to cut the pile he chose into two piles. You will eliminate the pile that doesn't contain the key card.

4. Deal the remaining cards into five piles, keeping track of which pile the key card is in and where it is in that pile (top or bottom). Hold your hands over two piles that don't contain the key card and ask the spectator which one he/she would like to eliminate.

5. After removing that pile, have the spectator place his/her hands over two piles. You remove a pile making sure it a pile that doesn't contain the key card.

6. With three piles left, you hold your hands over two of the piles that don't contain the key card and ask the spectator to eliminate one of them.

7. Two piles are left and you get to remove the last pile that doesn't contain the key card.

8. Deal out the remaining pile. If there are an even number of cards, you must pick (so have the spectator hold their hands over two piles). If there are an odd number, the spectator must choose. With the one key card left, face down on the table, you pull out the deck not used for the trick and quickly pull out the card identical to the one left by taking the top card if he originally chose the top portion, or pulling out the bottom card if they originally chose the bottom portion.

Bottoms up

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1. Give a deck of cards to a member of the audience and tell them to shuffle it

2. Grasp the cards in your left hand.But first sneek a peek at the bottom card.

3. Place your right hand over the deck and lift half the deck slightly.(so no one can see it not even you)

4. Then place your right wedding ring finger and your middle finger ever so unnoticably.

5. Then begin to lift the half of the pack up while sliding the bottom card up with it.

6. Then show the audience the hole half with the card that you know on the bottom.Say its contents (eg six of hearts)

For best results practise the card trick by yourself first. Thus you will become faster and the audience wont be able to see you bring up the bottom card.