How to Do the Magical Cut Card Trick

The magical cut card trick is fairly straightforward and just requires a little bit of practice and concentration. After a few tries, you can amaze your friends and family with this simple magic card trick. After you learn how to do a false cut, you can incorporate it into many other magic tricks for advanced fun.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Be comfortable with a deck of cards. The magical cut card trick is more about manipulating the cards smoothly than anything else. Learning how to do a few basic shuffles and flashy moves such as card fans will excite your audience and make them believe in you. The more you practice manipulating the cards, the better your magic tricks will become.

2. Learn the false cut move. To perform a false cut, you need to hold the deck with your index finger and thumb, then take about a fourth off the bottom and a fourth off the top of the deck with your other hand. Move the top chunk of the deck to the bottom and the bottom chunk to the top, leaving a slight thumb gap at each. Repeat the process a few times, until the top of the deck is back where it came from. Some magicians develop their own way of shuffling the cards; the important part is to get the deck back into its original configuration at the end of the part.

3. Have someone else choose a card from the deck. Ask him to look at it and then place it on the top of the deck, without showing you.

4. Perform the false cut move. Then lay the deck on the table and wave your hand over the top of it. Ask the audience member to pull the card off the top of the deck, to reveal her original card.