Card Tricks

How to Do the Diamond Encrusted Island Card Trick

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Performed with only 16 cards from a regular deck, a matter of simple math makes the conclusion of the trick fairly simple. This card trick requires a narrative to support the performance. The audience must be engaged by the story and thus ... more »

How to Do the Dice Force 7 for Magicians

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Magicians sometimes use the Dice Force 7 technique to find a particular card in a deck. You can only use it once per person. This technique uses a force card, or a card that you previously placed where you need it... more »

How to Do the Eight Card Brain Wave Illusion

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The Eight Card Brain Wave illusion is what magicians call a "packet trick." It's a trick that doesn't take a full deck of cards to perform. You'll need to pick eight cards out ahead of time to create your deck for the trick... more »

How to Do the Eleventh Card Trick

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Card tricks are fun for all ages. The eleventh card trick is great for beginners because you don't have to do any special hand tricks. Instead, it's a trick of easy math. Even if you don't understand the math, you can still do the eleventh card ... more »

How to Do the Floating Card Trick

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Magically read your friend's mind and show him you can make things levitate too. With just a few supplies, you can get a card, of your friend's choice, to float out of the deck on cue as if by magic... more »

How to Do the Four Aces Illusion

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King Charles VI commissioned special playing cards that he referred to in his diaries and thus began the tradition of kings and queens depicted on them. It's noted that gamblers were using card tricks to improve their chances of winning. However, ... more »

How to Do the Four Kings Card Trick

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The Four Kings card trick is a simple trick that's perfect for beginners. It should be practiced while crafting the narration to perfect the timing. The elaborate story serves to draw the audience's attention away from the cards and the ... more »

How to Do the Four Pile Ace Trick in Magic

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The Four Pile Ace trick is a card trick that you will need to prepare for before actually performing the trick. To impress your spectators, you can have someone from your audience do most of the card moving. Keep reading to learn how to do the ... more »

How to Do the Hindu Shuffle With Playing Cards

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Shuffling cards is an art form and learning how to create dramatic displays for magic tricks or simply entertaining friends is a matter of practice, practice, practice. Perform the Hindu shuffle either on or off the table... more »

How to Do the Impossible Location Trick With a Svengali Deck

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In a Svengali deck half of the cards are the same (the dominate card) and the rest are different. The dominate cards are slightly shorter than the rest of the deck. This is undetectable and the cards look like a regular deck. When you flip the ... more »

How to Do The One Handed Spin With Playing Cards

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Magicians and professional card dealers use slight of hand and card flourishes to impress an audience. They distract the eye from hidden moves and make a performance much more visually interesting. Many of the card flourishes used by ... more »

How to Do the Paired Court Magic Card Trick

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Many card tricks are self working, so they don't need many sleights of hand or other sneaky methods. The Paired Court card trick is one of these. The effect of this trick is that the court cards will appear to arrange themselves into pairs. Keep ... more »

How to Do the Pivot Cut Card Trick

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Cutting a deck of cards is an integral part of any good card trick. Virtually every good card trick requires the magician to either cut the deck himself or to have an audience member do this task for him. The pivot cut card trick is a most basic ... more »

How to Do the Predict the Future Card Trick

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Novice magicians should stock their arsenals with easy tricks. Simple tricks become the foundation of the big tricks that blow away audiences. A great trick to start with is "Predict the Future." With a little practice you can fool the most ... more »

How to Do The Predict What Is In An Envelope Magic Card Trick

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In an envelope magic card trick you can predict which card an audience member will choose and reveal the card before his eyes. The following steps will show you how to do this feat of magic... more »

How to Do the Pull Cards Through the Deck Trick

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With this magic card trick, you seemingly pull all 4 Kings out from the middle of the deck to the top of the deck. Amaze your audience by following these steps to magically pull cards through the deck... more »

How to Do the Royal Vacation Card Trick

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The Royal Family Vacation card trick relies on math instead of sleight of hand or distraction. By working with four each of four cards and cutting the deck four times, the cards will always deal out to support the story. The telling of the story ... more »

How to Do the Salty Card Trick

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Magic tricks are illusions that make spectators believe the magician has done something physically impossible. Magicians and illusionists often use card tricks because the tricks are easy to manipulate. The salty card trick is used to guess a ... more »

How to Do the Salty Card Trick

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Magic tricks are illusions that make spectators believe the magician has done something physically impossible. Magicians and illusionists often use card tricks because the tricks are easy to manipulate. The salty card trick is a trick used to ... more »

How to Do the Search Card Trick

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You can do the Search Card magic trick by marking the deck where an audience member has chosen a card. By searching through the deck, you can find the card you marked the deck with and find the audience member's card, making it seem as if you ... more »

How to Do the Slingshot Card Trick

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Flourishes are tricks that you can do while you are shuffling the deck. Magicians do flourishes to entice the audience with some neat-looking moves as they are doing their magic tricks. The Slingshot is a nice flourish trick and is a good one for ... more »

How to Do the Swing Cut for Magicians

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Card flourishes and flashy cuts are one way to entertain an audience while going through the simple motions of shuffling and cutting cards. The swing cut is a very easy cut to learn, but is the basis for a number of other, showier cuts and ... more »

How to Do the Swivel Cut for Magicians

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When performing card tricks, one way to spice up your routine and impress your audience between tricks is through card flourishes. Card flourishes can be as simple as cutting the deck in a flashy way. The swivel cut is one way of cutting cards ... more »

How to Do the This and That Card Trick

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The This and That card trick is a little like Three Card Monte. The performer shows the mark three cards, two of which are marked "this" and one is marked "that." The performer places "that" card on the bottom and invites the mark to identify ... more »

How to Do the Three Card Prediction for Magicians

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The three card prediction magic trick is a trick in which you predict which card your spectator will cut to in a deck of cards. In this trick, you will be using a card forcing technique where you will be forcing your spectator to choose the card ... more »

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