Video: What is the Key Card for Magic Tricks

Learn how to do magic tricks using the key card principle and the glimpsing technique in this free magic lesson video.

Video Transcript

Hi everybody! Malik the Magic Guy for expertvillage.com. One of the more important principles in card magic is something called the key card principle; that is what I am going to teach you about now. We are going to combine that with the principle called glimpsing in a little while. But basically, what the key card principle is, is when you take a card that you know of, let’s say the bottom card of the deck, and you use that to mark the position of another card. So let’s say they have selected a card like the 3 of clubs. We would have ways of putting this card on top of or underneath the 3 of clubs, and we could go through the deck and by looking for our key card, we could tell what card was next to it. That is the basic use of the key card, but you could use it for other things as well. For instance, if I had had a set up of cards on the bottom of the deck, so let’s say I had the 4 aces on the bottom of the deck, or near the bottom of the deck. Let’s say I had them behind the king, and I had some other cards here. What I could do is, if I wanted to spread through the cards and not let people see I had the aces, but I knew they were behind the king, I could stop when I got to the king, and then I would know that the next 4 cards behind it are the aces. So anytime you use a card or a group of cards to mark the positions of other cards in the deck, that is the key card principle. In a minute, I am going to teach you some other ways to use it: some tricks you can do with it and some fun ways to utilize the key card principle.

What is the Key Card for Magic Tricks

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