Magic

with a few simple steps you can learn how to amaze people with this spectacular card trick!

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...

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...

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...

Effect: You allow the spectator to freely select a card and cut it into the pack themselves. After the spectator is completely convinced that the card is lost in the deck, you tell him that you...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Changing a card color or the color of the back of a card is a simple magic trick that you can use to amaze your friends, family or co-workers. Using nothing more than a special deck of cards, you...

You don't have to be a professional entertainer to amaze your friends with magic. Some magic tricks require elaborate preparation, special equipment or hours of practice. However, there are many...

Using a red and blue deck of cards, perform the 'Do As I Do' magic trick. Discover how to perform the Do as I Do card trick with expert tips from a professional magician in this free magic trick...

Are you an inspiring magician or just a casual card player who wants to learn a fast easy card trick to do? Well in this article I will show you how to a simple card trick to amaze all.

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...

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...

Most kids love magic and enjoy performing tricks. Start out with tricks that impress but aren't difficult enough to be frustrating. Everything you need should be in your home. Practice a while,...

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...

Forcing a card on your spectator is one of the best ways to ensure the he winds up with the card you want him to. There are a number of ways to force a card, but the cut deeper is by far my...

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....

Another trick involving a forced card, the Envelope Predictor is basically a self-working trick. The magician removes an envelope, sealed, and places it aside. He then shuffles and has the...

The countdown force is a very simple way to force a card upon a spectator. It works fantastically because you seem like you are merely demonstrating what you want the spectator to do--while in...

This is an easy card trick my dad taught me as a child. It always makes people stop and look at it and go "How did you do that?". You can use any type of cards to do this. I could only...

The deck is shuffled and a spectator cuts it in half. The spectator chooses one cut portion and the performer takes the other. Both spectator and performer hold cards behind their backs and select...

A very fun trick to do with very little setup, the spectator chooses a seemingly random card from the deck. After some "magic" you flip over three cards, all of which match the value of the...

An easier type of trick more for stage performances than street magic, the Four Ace Extravaganza has the magician taking the spectator through a series of simple mental calculations and the...

A moderately challenging trick primarily due to memorization skills required, Eight Threatening Kings has the spectator choose a random card from a new deck of cards--and after a single cut--the...

The Year Game is a fairly simple trick that I have found works great at nursing homes. The effect is simple, but lasts longer due to some extraneous mathematical steps. Here is how to do it.

In this article I will focus on the Pulse Card, one of the easiest magic tricks you will ever learn. This involves a spectator choosing a card, placing it in the deck and the magician finding it...

A trick based primarily on memorization skills, the magician is able to identify three cards after realistically never seeing the deck. This is best served as an opener or segue to another trick...

This is a card trick in which an audience member is asked to choose a card at random from the deck. After doing so he or she is then asked to memorize the cards value and to place the card on top...

Here is a simple card trick that does not require quick hands, just quick eyes and some manipulation. This trick can easily be changed or improved to keep people guessing!

lets talk about this move, Done by Jerry Cestkowski, in the second Encyclopedia of playing card flourishes DVD!! Throw the deck up, spin twice, then catch it!! HOW? Lets begin!!

The spectator picks a card, shows it to the audience and returns it to the deck. The magician then places the deck into a brown paper bag and shuffles it in the bag. He reaches inside and picks a...

A spectator randomly selects a card from the deck, places it back in and shuffles it himself. The magician takes the deck back, face down, in one hand, and in the other hand is a face-down giant...

The spectator selects a card from the deck, places it back inside and shuffles. The magician takes it back, shuffles again and places it in his shirt or jacket pocket. Pretending to read the...

The spectator selects a card, returns it to the deck and then the magician places the deck into his inner coat pocket. He tries to guess the chosen card using his sense of touch, but removes...