Effect: The magician picks out two cards. He has a spectator cut the deck. He flips over the cards that he picked, then he flips over two cards of the deck that was cut. The cards match.
1. Shuffle the deck so the specator doesn't think you've rigged it.
2.) Tell them you will pick two cards. Go through the deck making sure you look at the bottom and the top cards of the deck. 3.) Pick out a card that matches the bottom card. (If the bottom card is a Four of Hearts, you would pick out the Four of Diamonds to match it.) Then pick out a card that is the same as the top card. 4.) Ask the spectator to cut the deck. 5.) Take the first card, the one on top of the original top of the deck, and flip it over. 6.) Flip the bottom half of the deck over completely. 7.) Flip over the cards you picked. They all match!
1. Lay two coins in the palms of your hands like this - the positions are very important!
Notice that the coin in my left hand is right in the middle of my palm. The coin in my right hand is near my thumb.
2. In one quick motion, flip both hands over and slap them straight down onto the table.
The coin in your right hand should get flicked across and under your left hand. The coin in your left hand should simply fall straight down.
3. Ask your audience where they think the coins are – they'll probably guess there's one under each hand.
If you move your right pinkie finger a bit, people usually guess the coins are under your right hand – then you can reveal they are wrong!
4. Reveal both coins under your left hand.
If you repeat the trick, be quick! Try not to let anyone notice the positions of the coins.
Now, you can make the coins land under your right hand instead?
What's going on?
The position of the coins in your palms makes this trick work. As you rotate your hands from "palms up" to "palms down", the coin in the centre of your palm stays put and falls straight down. But the coin near your thumb travels around the centre of your palm and gets catapulted towards the other hand. With a bit of practice, it is almost impossible to see this coin shooting across before you slap your hand down to cover it.
The reason one of the coins gets flicked across is easy to understand if you imagine using a table tennis bat instead of your hand. Imagine laying one coin smack bang in the centre of one of a bat. As you rotate the bat, the coin rotates around its own centre too, but it does not get flicked away.
If you lay the second coin right on the outside edge of the other bat, something quite different happens. This coin travels around the centre of the bat in a big semi-circle and if you rotate the bat quickly enough, it will get flicked away.
How fast the coin gets flicked across depends on how far it is from the centre of your palm and the speed with which you flip your hands over. If you want to sound smug when people ask how this trick works, just say "it's just simple rotational mechanics . baby!"
Effect: The spectator cuts the deck into four piles. From each pile three random cards are dealt onto each of the other piles. The top card of each pile is turned over to reveal all four Aces.
Preparation: Put all four aces onto the top of the deck.
Procedure:
1) Tell the spectator to cut the deck into two piles. Once he has done that, have them divide the two piles into four.
2) We will call the piles numbers one to four; four being the top pile with the Aces. (Don't tell the spectator these numbers. They are just for us to keep track of things.)
3) Have the spectator pick up pile one, put the top three cards onto the bottom, and deal the (now) top three cards onto the other piles (two, three, and four. One card to each pile.)
4)The spectator continues, in order, to do the same with the other piles. (You just point to each pile, when you want them to use it.)
5)There IS no 5, you're done! Just turn over the top cards to reveal the Aces!
Effect: This trick is a great crowd pleaser and will get a lot of recognition for its seemingly magical effects. Basically, you separate four sets of cards and magically bring them back together!!
Card Trick:
1. Take out the Kings, Queens, Jacks, and Aces.
2. Tell your audience that there is a story that goes along with this trick. (This will keep their attention)
3. Begin the story, "The jacks were having a party [Deal the four Jacks face up in four separate piles] and they invited their friends the Kings. [Deal a King face up on top of each Jack] They got a little bored so they invited the Queens to liven up the party!! [Deal the Queens on the Kings] The party got a little rowdy, so the cops came and took them all to jail. [Deal the Aces on the piles in the same way as the previous cards]".
4. Pick up the four piles, one on top of the other. You now have one pile with 16 cards in it.
5. Continue, "Along the way, the police cars got into an accident." Have the audience give the deck as many complete cuts as they wish. (In each "complete cut," the deck is cut and the bottom cards are immediately put on top.)
6. Deal four cards face down onto the table left to right, then four on top of those, and so on until you have four piles of four cards each.
7. Finish your story: "Even though they were separated in the accident, when they arrived at the station they were [as you say the next part, turn over all four piles] All Together!!!"
8. You will see that the aces, kings, queens, and jacks are in their own separate piles together!!!
9. Have fun with this one and change the story however you feel fit!!!
10. Now finish your story with: "Even though they were separated in the accident, when they arrived at the station they were," As you say the next part turnover all four piles, "All Together!!!"
11. You will see that the all of the aces, kings, queens, and jacks are all in their own separate piles together!!!
12. Have fun with this one and change the story however you feel fit!!!
The cups and balls routine is one of the oldest tricks in magic. Legend has it that this magic trick was even performed at the court of cleopatra. The performance varies from magician to magician. Although many have produced their own mesmerizing versions of this trick,my favorite still remains the cups and balls routine by Michael Ammar. Below is a video showing the same.
