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Tarot is a great tool to use for guidance in your everyday life. This is a good spread to use when you are having a problem or issue that you're not sure how to handle.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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!
How to Do a Hindu Shuffle with a Stripper Deck
Learn how to do the hindu shuffle of a stripper deck in this free series of card trick videos from our professional magician.
What is the Hindu Shuffle for Stripper Deck Cards?
Watch an overview of the hindu shuffle for a stripper deck in this free series of card trick videos from our professional magician.
Hindu Shuffle Control for Magic Card Tricks
Learn the free magic card trick "Hindu Shuffle Control" technique in this free magic trick video.
The Riffle Shuffle for Basic Magic Card Tricks
Learn how to do the riffle shuffle for easy magic tricks, using the basic principles & techniques of illusion. A real magician's secrets are revealed in these simple card magic movies.
The Riffle Shuffle Variation for Magic Card Tricks
Watch part 2 of learning how to do the riffle shuffle. Do you believe in magic? Learn how to do easy magic tricks using the basic principles & techniques of illusion. A real magician's secrets are...
How to Shuffle Overhand for Basic Card Magic Tricks
Learn how to overhand shuffle & do easy magic tricks using the basic principles & techniques of illusion. A real magician's secrets are revealed in these simple card magic movies.
Hindu Shuffle for Basic Card Magic Tricks
Do you believe in magic? Learn how to do the hindu shuffle as part of your magician's training. Secrets are revealed in these simple card magic movies.
How to Overhand Shuffle with a Stripper Deck
Learn how to overhand shuffle with a stripper deck in this free card trick video from our professional magician.
How to Riffle Shuffle with a Stripper Deck
Learn how to riffle shuffle with a stripper deck in this free card trick video from our professional magician.
Glimpsing a Card in a Hindu Shuffle During Magic Tricks
Glimpsing a Card in a Hindu Shuffle: Do you believe in magic? Learn how to do magic tricks using the key card principle & the glimpsing technique. A real magician's secrets are revealed in these...
Glimpsing a Card in a Shuffle During Magic Tricks
Glimpsing a Card in a Shuffle: Do you believe in magic? Learn how to do magic tricks using the key card principle & the glimpsing technique. A real magician's secrets are revealed in these simple...
Card Clone Shuffle Trick Using Magic
Learn how to use the card clone shuffle magic trick to predict the future for entertainment purposes and fun in this free video clip, including future prediction methods for amateur magicians.
Using Card Clones with Magic Tricks
Learn how to use the card clone shuffle magic trick to predict the future for entertainment purposes and fun in this free video clip, including future prediction methods for amateur magicians.
Alternate Cup Shuffle Remote Viewing Magic Trick
Learn alternate cup shuffle method for remote viewing in this free magic trick video.
Cup Shuffle Remote Viewing Magic Trick Revealed
Learn how to do the magic party trick cup shuffle in this free magic trick video.
Three Cup Shuffle Magic Trick Remote Viewing Magic Trick
Learn the first stage of the remote viewing effect party trick for the three cup shuffle in this free magic trick video.
Hindu Shuffle Control with a Deck of Playing Cards
Learn the hindu shuffle control magic trick - free video.
How to Do the Hindu Shuffle
Learn the hindu shuffle trick to shuffle the playing cards before you deal them out in a card game or do a magic trick - free video.
How to Do a Table Shuffle with a Deck of Playing Cards
Learn the table shuffle trick to shuffle the playing cards before you deal them out in a card game - free video.
How to Do the Riffle Shuffle with Playing Cards
Learn the riffle shuffle with a deck of playing cards before you deal a hand - free video.
Learn the Overhand Shuffle for Playing Cards
Learn the overhand shuffle trick to shuffle a deck playing cards before you deal a hand - free video.
One of the easiest card tricks is the secret shuffle. To do it successfully, however, the magician must put on an adequate performance of patter and mime. The trick is best performed only once,...
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...
A stripper deck is a deck of cards that are slightly narrower at one end than at the other (stripped). It's used to perform a variety of card location tricks by beginner magicians, but more...
The cup shuffle is a fun trick to play on your friends after a card game where chips are involved--you place a chip under one of the cups, turn your back or leave the room while your friends...
People familiar with the overhand shuffle may notice that the weave shuffle is just a slight variation. It allows for a more evenly layered deck. The weave shuffle also results in a better mixture...
The Three-Cup Shuffle magic trick is an illusion where you place a poker chip or large coin under one of three identical cups, allow your audience to shuffle the cups while your back is turned and...
Magic is the art of illusion. Magicians use normal situations to create seemingly spectacular results. Card tricks are often used in magic because cards are easy to manipulate in a deck. A force...
One thing a person must do when they first open a new deck of cards is shuffle them. It is not always an easy task to shuffle a new deck of cards, because there are so many ways of doing it. Here...
Use a riffle shuffle to retain the top card when shuffling a deck of cards and you will have the basis for many card stack deck tricks. The same basic principles can be applied to retaining the...
Once you master locating a card with a break, you're ready for more complicated maneuvers. It is important, though, to keep track of your card in the deck. The best way to do this is through card...
Forcing cards on your spectator refers to when a magician makes someone choose a card, seemingly at random, all the while making her pick exactly what he wants. This type of force, known as a...
Forcing a card refers to when a magician causes his spectator to choose the exact card he wants to be chosen, while the spectator swears she picked it randomly. It can be very tricky to do and...
In magic, very few things are actually as they seem. It should come as no surprise that very few tricks that appear to rely on card shuffling actually are dependent of card shuffling. One easy to...
False shuffling can be used to keep a card where you want it - on the top or bottom, third card down, etc.