The Countdown Force Card Magic Trick

Video Transcript

" Hi! Malik the Magic Guy for expertvillage.com. Now I’m going to show you another cool force called the countdown force. Let’s have Mr. Hand over here. Now Mr. Hand, hold up any number of fingers between 1 and 10. So you have 6 there. Alright, what I’m going to do is give you the deck, I want you to count down 6 cards just like that. I want you to look at the card and remember what it is, okay. So go ahead and do that, count down 6 cards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and when Mr. Hand looks at this card, it’s going to be our force card, the 8 of clubs. That’s a very simple force; I’m going to show you how to do that right now. So you start with the 8 of clubs on top, just like that, and you’re going to have the name and number. They can say any number between 1 and 10. They can say any number between 1 and 52 really, but we just say any number between 1 and 10 so it doesn’t take as long. And what you’re going to do is demonstrate. So he said 6, so I said I want you to deal 6 cards, and what I’m doing is putting the 8 first, 2, 3, 4, 5, and look at the 6 card, which I’m just going to forget. Now what I’ve done is I’ve positioned my force card in position 6, so when I take these and put them back on top of the deck, when he deals 6 cards and he looks at the 6th one, it is the card that was originally on the top of the 8 of clubs, the force card. Now that’s how to do the countdown force, another good and simple force."