Card Tricks

Using a series of simple markings, you can create your own deck of magic cards that will never fail when you're onstage guessing card numbers and dazzling your audience. With nothing more than a...

This article is about how to trick your friends and even hustle them with this card trick.

People learn to fan cards for a variety of reasons. Poker players like to add a flourish when they reveal their hands to their opponents. Competitive trading card game players enjoy intimidating...

Making a card disappear and reappear is one of the most familiar and simple magic tricks in existence. But learning how to do this trick well is essential for any magic act. Here's how you can...

Whether you need a vacation from work or a chance to rediscover the kid in you, Disneyland can be the age-old magical place to lose yourself in a bit of fantasy for a while. Depending on your...

This is an old trick that has been modified as to heighten the audiences excitement and curiosity. The gist of this trick is that a volunteer will choose a "random" card,place it back...

Are you looking for an unusual party game? Are you planning on being a gypsy for a costume party? Do you need to entertain some teenagers at a birthday party? There is nothing more exciting and...

Need a quick and easy Halloween Costume? Need one that is also cool, and funny? Here ya go!

The Hummer Card Magic Trick is a levitation trick that can be performed with almost any flat, light object, such as a card out of a deck, a dollar bill or a credit card. Invented by and named...

Did you ever think about how cool it would be if you could amaze people with spectacular magic tricks? Some of these tricks might not be as hard as you think. With practice and finesse, you can...

The Vanishing Card requires usage of the Palm Technique. The magician allows the spectator to choose a card at random, but after saying any form of magic words, the top card, previously her chosen...

The Rip Off is a fun and amusing trick to perform at a party--as it isn't necessarily one that will blow minds--but, nevertheless, should get a decent reaction. And the magician is still...

The magician makes a prediction on a piece of paper, folds it and places it to one side. The spectator picks a card, loses it in the deck, and the magician deals five piles of face-up cards. The...

The magician allows a spectator to randomly choose a card and place it back in the deck. He then places a blindfold on and is able to determine the exact location of the chosen card! Let's find...

The magician and spectator select a pile of cards, choose one each and initial it. Like other tricks, they switch and end up choosing each other's initialed card; however, this uses the...

The magician and spectator cut and shuffle the deck, then go through a series of discardings until they end up with two cards. The spectator chooses one and the magician unseals an envelope to...

The magician makes a prediction about the card that will be chosen by the spectator, places it inside an envelope, and after a series of arithmetic calculations, the spectator is led to choose the...

How to make a card float without any props and only using your bare hands

This is a cool card trick that never fails. Literally idiot proof, and really impressive.

Making a card float in mid air is actually kind of easy. There is very little prep time and you can have a lot of fun with it. Make a card float at a party and you instantly become the life of the...

Albert Einstein is reputed to have stated, "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." Nevertheless, roulette is one of the most popular table games in the...

The levitating card trick is a fun, easy trick to learn that you can use to wow friends and partygoers. With a few steps and a bit of practice, and you'll have it down. There can be alterations on...

Card tricks are a wonderful way to wow your friends, but it takes real skill, perseverance and a willingness to fail in order to become a professional-level card magician and even more of all...

The Panic Magic Trick is the creation of Aaron Fisher, a veteran magician of 15 years. He describes the Panic Magic Trick as one of his favorites, and one can hardly wonder why. In the blink of an...

Tarot is a great tool to use for guidance in your everyday life. This is a good spread to use when you are having a problem or issue that you're not sure how to handle.

In magic, several techniques involving key cards or forces are utilized in order to either track a chosen card by a spectator or locate another card. In this article I will focus on one of these...

A trick that uses the glimpse technique, Get Together, involves the magician and spectator each shuffling half of a deck, memorizing a selected card and replacing it atop the deck. The spectator...

Another glimpse-based trick, In Between, requires two spectators and an uninvolved volunteer. The end result sees the chosen cards of the spectators somehow sandwiching a randomly named card of...

A glimpse-based card trick, The Two Detectives, involves a randomly chosen card being lost in the deck, and suddenly sandwiched between Two Black Jacks! I'll show you how it's done.

The spectator cuts the deck into three piles, chooses a card and places it atop any of the piles. The magician squares them up, cuts a few more times, and though it appears he will make a mistake...

The spectator chooses a card and places it back in the middle of the deck. Using the card denting technique, the magician quickly and easily locates the card in a flash. Read on to see how.

A spectator chooses 12 cards, one of which is memorized and placed on the bottom of her pack, pockets some and places the rest on top of the deck. As the magician spreads out a few cards--he can...

I made up this card trick while I was playing with my friends when I was little. I loved magic and was inspired to make up a card trick like this.

An easy magic trick you can do to entertain anyone from kids, to your friends, to that drunk guy down the bar from you.

MAGIC! There's nothing like making something float right in front of the eyes of all your audience. Everybody knows it's tied up somehow, but they can't figure out WHERE! That's the real magic....

Impress your friends at the next bridge/poker game by deftly performing a one handed cut of the cards!

The "ALR Magic" card trick stands for "Almost Like Real Magic," as it involves little movement of the cards on the magician's part; what little movement there is is done with the audience's help....

This article is primarily for those who already know the classic pass, but would like to increase their speed in the most efficient way possible.

One age-old magic trick that requires no special tools or gimmicks is plucking cards from thin air. The practitioner will begin with an empty hand facing the audience, and in one quick motion...

This is a classic magic trick that anyone can easily do. It involves the spectater selecting a card that you never see. losing it in the deck and than magicly showing it to them.

Question of Sympathy, despite having an odd title, is one of my favorite card tricks because it combines two different sleights of hand: the card force and the slide. Both can be done by even the...

A very tough to pull off, but effective trick, is the Disappearing Queen. The magician removes all court cards from the deck and places the remaining underneath a glass covered by a handkerchief....

I get a lot of requests about how a magic routine should be started, and thought that this "trick" might be a very good icebreaking answer. See, a magic routine should never start with an insane...

How to preform an easy to remember but somewhat hard to do trick, that will leave your audience with their jaws open.

The Predicta-Pair card trick is known as a self-working mathematical trick. This means that the magician does not need to do any sleight of hand or card forcing. All he needs to have is the...

The spectator thinks of a number between 1 and 10, memorizes a card based on her number and hands the deck to the magician. Without ever seeing the deck, and with the deck behind his back, the...

Performing magic can be one of the most fun and fulfilling activities. However, aspiring magicians should never go out on the streets or into any performance venue without properly practicing...

While some of the best magic tricks you have ever seen may look complicated or impossible--a good chance exists that most of the magic took place before the trick! Magicians will frequently...

A tremendous trick in both its beauty and simplicity, the spectator randomly chooses a card, places it back in the deck, and soon finds the chosen card is sandwiched between two red aces. Without...

A pretty simple trick that utilizes the cut deeper force, the three-card mind read sees the spectator randomly remove three cards from the deck, seemingly reading the spectator's mind as he does....