Super Easy Card Magic Tricks
Perhaps you are a magic fan looking to increase your arsenal of simple tricks. Or maybe you're a novice in need of some card tricks to entertain the guests at your child's birthday party. Whatever the reason, there is a range of card magic tricks to try and some of them are easy to learn.
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Card Counting
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Hand a spectator a deck of cards and turn away. Ask him to quietly deal from one to nine cards onto the table and then pick a card from the pack with a number that matches the amount of cards dealt (a 9 if there are nine cards on the table). The secret card is added to the top of the pack and the originally dealt cards are added on top of the secret card, all face down. The man now deals the cards one by one, speaking aloud the name of each card. Starting with the second card dealt, mentally count each time a card is counted from until you reach nine. Make a mental note when the number you count matches the number being spoken. Allow him to carry on until about the 15th card, stop him and say the name of the card you mentally noted; this is his secret card. Occasionally there will be more than one match; when this happens choose one of the matches at random. If you are wrong, quickly say the second match.
Magic Joker
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Tell your audience that you will always find its secret card with some help from a magic joker. Cut one corner from a joker card and place it on the bottom of a standard deck; remember throughout the trick which direction the joker is facing. Instruct a member of the audience to choose a card and memorize it before placing it face down on top of the pack. Cut the cards in half, and place the top half below the bottom, so the audience is satisfied the card is mixed into the deck. Place the cards flat on the table. Press your thumb down firmly on the corner of the top card that matches the position of the missing section of the joker. Flick through the cards slowly with your index finger from the diagonally opposite corner. When you arrive at the joker it will jump from the pack; the next card is the audience member's secret card.
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Card Guess
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Deal a row of three cards; black, red and then black again. Underneath will be another row: black, red and then red. Row three is red, red, followed by black. The final row will be red, followed by two black cards. A spectator must choose any black card in his mind. Now instruct him to mentally move vertically to the nearest red card, then horizontally to the closest black, flowed by diagonally to the closest red. Now instruct him to move vertically to the black card that is nearest. Tell him his card is now the middle card of the bottom row; you will never be wrong.
Aces on Top
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Place the four aces at the top of the deck of cards; the cards are always placed faced down in this trick. Ask a member of your audience to split the deck into four piles, but keep an eye on the pile with the aces in, which you will move to the side after the cards are split. The spectator must choose a deck from the remaining three. Instruct him to move the top three cards to the bottom of the deck and then take a further three cards from the top and add one to each of the other piles, including the ace deck. He now repeats the process with the remaining three piles, leaving the ace deck to last. Ask him to uncover the top card of each pile; all four aces are revealed.
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