Fantastic Five Magic Trick : Free Magic Trick

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Tim Mannix and I am a professional magician and you guys are going to learn right now a card trick because half the fun of doing magic is learning new tricks. So this is a trick I do all of the time. I don’t do it because some people say that is a simple trick. Some of the simplest tricks are the very best. Simplicity seems to play really well. This is also contained in my idol book called Eight Simple Card Tricks you can do. I sell it on a website called Birthday Magic Tricks so you could get it there if you wanted to but it is actually called Fantastic Five. It goes like this. You have someone select a card. I have already taken the deck out of the box but theoretically the deck is inside there. You pull it out. You have someone from the audience select a card. Ooh look there is a person now. They will actually step up and remove a card. Here comes the hand, the magic hand. Okay, they remove that card. They are going to go ahead and show it to you the camera. I will turn around here that way I don’t actually see the card because this is actually what would occur during the magic show. Now I am turning back around. Don’t let the magician see the card. All I do is half the deck like that. I take the top half and put it on the table. Now the spectator puts their card right on the top there. That way. Perfect. This is called completing the cut. The rest of the deck goes right on top. Now the chosen card the spectator has selected is sandwiched in the middle of the deck. Works really great. Do something magical. Okay? I liked to crimp the deck like this. Beautiful. What that does this is a classic in magic. It flips the chosen card the opposite way. It is really an effective trick. Watch this. You can thumb through these if you are fancy shmancy. You can do the whole table thing. I will do the table spread in the minute. You will see how that works. What happens though, look at that. The only card facing the opposite way is the spectator’s card. Is that it? That’s not it! Shocking! Oh, that’s right, every once in a while these crop up. That is called a magical indicator card. In some circles it is called a mick. Never mind that. Okay? Not their card but note the number. It is 5 this time. If that is really a magical indicator card you count down 5 cards. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and if it is magical indicator card the 5th card when you turn that over that should be the spectator’s card. Now sometimes people are not impressed. These people are called inexpressible. All you do is you turn over the 4 middle cards and those will be, yep, the 4 aces. Fantastic Five. Thanks. "