How to Drop Cut Playing Cards

Drop cutting cards is a type of flourish that is basically a fancy way to cut a deck of cards. This is an entertaining flourish to use when doing magic tricks or when playing card games.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Deck of cards

1. Pick approximately a third of the cards off the top of a deck with your right hand, holding the cards with your thumb on the bottom and your fingers on the top.

2. Hold this portion of the deck with the pinky and pointer fingers on the sides of the cards to hold them in place, the 2 middle fingers on the back of the cards and the thumb on the top of the cards.

3. Move your thumb from the top of the cards to the back, pinching the cards between your 2 fingers and your thumb. Release your pointer and pinky so the cards can fan out.

4. Push the cards into a fan with your thumb into a one-handed spread.

5. Hold half of the deck in your left hand with your thumb and let the other half of it fall into your fingers, opening this part of the deck in the middle.

6. Place the fanned out cards in your right hand inside the middle of the deck in your left hand. Release your left hand while continuing to hold the fanned cards in your right hand. You will now have about half of the cards that were in your left hand now lying on top of the fanned out cards.

7. Turn your right hand until the stack lying on top of the fanned out cards falls into your left hand below. Then bring the cards together again into a now cut deck of cards.

Tips & Warnings

• Turn your right hand until the stack lying on top of the fanned out cards falls into your left hand below. Then bring the cards together again into a now cut deck of cards.