The Spell Magic Trick Magic Card Trick

Video Transcript

" Hi everybody! Malik the Magic Guy with expertvillage.com. Now I’m going to show you one of my favorite childhood card tricks. I did this trick probably a million times…maybe a little less. What we want to do is take our cards out of the box, and I’m going to need 13 cards for this—1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Now, what a lot of people don’t know about playing cards is that they know how to spell. For instance, if I move the cards one at a time, A C E, just like this I wind up with an ace. It works with other numbers too. If we do T W O we get a 2, T H R E E winds up with a 3, F O U R is going to give us a 4, F I V E gives us a 5; we can keep going with 6 it is the X for 6, S E V E N gives us the 7, E I G H T gives us the 8, N I N E for the 9, T E N for the 10, J A C K jack, Q U E E N gives us the queen, and the one card left the king just like that. And that’s how you spell to all the cards, and I’m going to show you how to do that in just a second."