I learned this trick so many years ago that I've forgotten where it came from! May very well have come from one of Karl Fulves Self-Working Card Trick books. If so, I hope he doesn't mind that I posted it here!! It's a simple, but very entertaining effect.
EFFECT: Spectator shuffles and cuts a deck. Magician and spectator each take a half. Two cards are traded between magician and spectator. When revealed the spectator has a red two and a black two and the magician has the other red two and black two!
SET-UP: Remove the four deuces from the deck and place them in a pocket with the pips towards your body. (Place the two blacks on top of the two reds.) Place the rest of the deck in the case and you are ready to go.
ROUTINE: Bring out the deck and give to a spectator to shuffle. Ask him to cut it into two equal piles. He takes either pile and you take the remaining one. Say;"Let's do this trick from our pockets." Place your half of the deck into your pocket with the pips towards your body. The extra packet of deuces ends up on the bottom of your pile. As an after thought say;"This is too difficult, let's just put the cards behind our backs."
(Note: There are other ways to load the extra four cards to the bottom. Use your imagination, just don't let the spectator know about them!! You can also do this with the cards held under a table. Just as long as the cards are out of sight.)
Have the spectator remove one card from his pile and place it face down in front of him. You do the same, taking the bottom most card of your pile (one of the twos). Instruct the spectator to take your card and reverse it before inserting it into his pile and you will do the same. In reality you take his card and place it face down on top of your pile and take the bottom most card (another two) and reverse it into your pile. Tell the spectator to duplicate the procedure. Have him reverse your card (another two from the bottom of your deck) face up into his pile. You take his card and place it face down on top of your pile and reverse the bottom most card (the last two) into your pile.
Bring the two piles out in front of you and the spectator. Review what has happened. You each now have two (randomly selected??) reversed cards in your piles. Ribbon spread the spectator's pile to reveal the two reversed cards that you gave him. They will be a red two and a black two. That is a minor miracle!! Spread your pile to reveal the two cards the spectator "gave" you. You will also have a red two and a black two. That's a major miracle!!
This trick is a good one, not hard at all. I learned it at one of my ring meetings. This trick is long to read, but it is great trick to do.
Ask a spectator if he'd like to learn a trick that David Copperfield taught magicians while he toured Australia. Have a card selected, returned to the deck, and controlled to the top. False shuffle. Hand the deck to the spectator. Explain that when you turn your back, he is to silently spell the name of his card (including the "OF" i.e. F-I-V-E O-F H-E-A-R-T-S), quietly dealing a single card for each letter of his selection, forming a small tabled packet. Turn your back and have him proceed. Upon his announced completion, face him and take the deck. Have the spectator pick up the packet. Point to the packet and say, "At this stage, David Copperfield would put a spell on the cards. For you to use the David Copperfield spell, you can spell 'David Copperfield,' like this." Remove a card from the top of your deck and replace it on the bottom, saying the letter 'D' aloud. Repeat the displacement 2 more times, saying 'A' and 'V' aloud. Once the spectator understands, have him spell D-A-V-I-D-C-O-P-P-E-R-F-I-E-L-D with his packet, displacing a card from top to bottom for each letter spelled.
Place the deck on the table. Say, "David Copperfield was touring the Land Down Under and wanted to make his trick topical. He told the magicians to use the 'Down Under Shuffle' on their packets. That is, put the top card down on the deck, the next card under the packet. Continue in this fashion until you have one card left." When this done, have the spectator name his selection before turning over the final card to reveal his chosen card.
There are variations of this trick, and you can change the patter and trick style. It is a fun trick to do and I hope to learn more tricks from all of you.
From: DBombPD
This is a very deceptive trick that's easy to do.
Effect: Magician removes a red six and a red nine from the deck. These are then placed randomly back into the deck. The deck is shuffled and the magician throws the deck from the right hand to the left. Two cards are seen remaining in the right hand. They are revealed to be the red six and the red nine!
Preparation: Place a red six, (Six of Diamonds) face down on the top of the deck and a red nine (Nine of Hearts) face down on the bottom of the deck.
Presentation: Remove the Six of Hearts and the Nine of Diamonds from the deck and show them to your audience. Refer to them ONLY as a red six and a red nine. Replace them randomly in the deck. You may shuffle the deck at this point but be sure to leave the top and bottom cards undisturbed. Place the deck in your right hand with the thumb on the top and the fingers on the bottom. Squeeze the deck gently and then throw the deck into the left hand. The top and bottom cards of the deck will remain in your right hand. Reveal these to be the red six and the red nine!
Note: This trick "works" because 99% of your audiences won't realize that they are not seeing the SAME red six and red nine. As long as you do not mention the suits, no one should catch on to the secret.
Effect: The spectator(s) shuffles the deck, cuts the deck and turns the cut part to the top of the down faced deck. The cards are thumbed through until the first down faced card is found and this is tabled face down. Except for the shuffling this is repeated three more times. The spectators then turns over the four freely chosen (?) cards and find they are the four Aces.
Secret: From the top down, stack: Ace face down, Ace face down, Indifferent card face down, Indifferent card face up, Ace face up, Ace face up. With a borrowed deck I cull the Aces and two indifferent cards to my lap. While the cards are being shuffled I stack the packet. When the deck is returned I add the cards to the top. Just do the above and they'll cut out four Aces. While they are turning the Aces over and gloating, you have a chance to turn the second card in the deck face down.
Have a borrowed deck shuffled by a spectator and returned to you.Tell the spectator
that you are going to remove a prediction card as you spread the deck between your hands,
face up. Casually glimpse the top two cards as you spread the deck. Let's say you glimpsed
the Two of Clubs and the King of Diamonds. Your prediction card will be the cross values
of these two cards: ie. the Two of Diamonds or the King of Clubs. Remove either one and
place it face down on the table....don't show it.
Now ask the spectator to take the deck, face down, and deal cards face down onto the
table, one at a time , until he wants to stop. Have him then pick up the newly dealt pile
(the remainder of the deck may be set aside) and again deal from the top, this time
alternating between two piles. This will put your glimpsed cards at the top of each pile.
Review what has been done. You had a deck shuffled, removed a prediction and then the
spectator controlled all of the rest of the dealing. Explain that any card is identified
by its suit and value and the top two cards will identify your prediction. Have spectator
turn over one of the top cards and identify that as either the suit or value of your
prediction. Have the remaining top card turned face up and that will finish the identity
of your prediction. Have spectator turn over your prediction.
MagicDan Notes:
Daryl Martinez does this routine without ever touching the deck.Have the spectator become the "magician" while you become the "spectator". Spectator ("magician") removes the deck from its case and shuffles it. Have the "magician" show you the faces of the deck as you "mentally" pick your prediction. Glimpse the top two cards and have the spectator stop at either of the cross suits cards. Since the cards are facing you, the spectator never sees your prediction. Have spectator remove your prediction and place it face down on the table. Proceed as above.
If the top two cards are the same value or the same suit..... Stop the spectator ("magician") and ask if they cut the deck. Have them single cut the deck and start over. Chances are you won't get the same value and/or suits again.
by Mike George
Originally appeared in "Sorcerer's Apprentice" magazine. Volume 1, No. 5
February 1979
Effect: The magician reveals that he has an extremely acute sense of smell.
Method: The magician tells the spectator that he is to deal out any number of cards onto the table while the magician looks away. It is important that the spectator remember how many he dealt out and that he leave them where he dealt them. The magician then turns around and picks up the remainder of the deck. As he asks the spectator if he is sure he remembers how many he dealt out, he somewhat surreptitiously gives the deck a back riffle, so they're bent. He then takes the packet that the spectator dealt out and adds it on top of the deck. He pinches the whole deck between finger and thumb to show he is holding no places. (However, when the deck is held normally, the magician will be able to feel or see the break). He then takes each card off the top of the deck, smelling each one and dealing them onto the table. This is a "cute" move, so it can be funny and it should be milked for all it's worth. He does this until he gets to the last unbent card. Tah-dah!
Effect: The magician shows the spectator two jokers which both have blue backs. With a wave of his hand, the backs become red.
Method: On joker is red backed, the other blue backed. Start with the jokers face up in
the right hand, held from above. Use the hindu move to show both cards as having a blue
back. In reality, you are showing the same back twice, but the illusion is that the same
back is being shown. Then do whatever hocus-pocus you need to do, and then do it again.
The color you didn't start with will be on the bottom now, so there's no switching of
cards neccessary. The cards will have appeared to turn red without any suspicious moves at
all. This works great especially since there are only two cards used and the audience
knows there can't be any extra cards because it's so simply executed.
It has been suggested by Daniel Marmion that this is not an effect in and of itself, but would be a good addition to an existing trick. Any ideas out there???
This trick is easy. It needs no intro.
Shuffle the deck really well. Deal out the cards into piles that equal ten. What I mean is
take 10 - "face value of top card of pile" and deal that many more cards. Ex: If
you laid down a 7, put down 3 more cards. If you lay down a 4, put down 6 more cards.
After you make one pile, start another one. If you lay down a face card to start a pile,
that pile is done. Start a new one. When you've dealt out the whole deck, (keep the extras
if you didn't finish the last pile.) pick three piles. Take the rest of the cards and put
them in your hand. So now only 3 piles are left. Turn these piles upside down. Pick two of
the piles and turn over their top card. Add the sum of the cards and discard that many
cards from your hand. Ex: If they were a 3 and a King, discard 13 cards. Also remove those
two piles. Now discard another 19 cards. Turn over the top card in the remaining pile, and
it's face value should be how many cards you have left.
Skills Needed: You must be able to hold cards in your hand in a fanned out position
without moving them for at least 30 secs to a minute. You also must be able to fan out
cards with one hand using your thumb.
Vocab: Fan: To spread cards out while holding them in your hand. (As you would if you were
playing poker.)
Preparation: Take out the four kings along with three other cards. (It doesn't matter
which.) Place them in your hand face down with the three misc. cards on top. Now fan out
those seven cards so your audience can see them, but make sure only four kings are
visible.
Hint: Fan out the four kings first, then place the three extra cards in the back.
Trick: While holding the seven cards, (Your audience only sees four.) explain that these
are, "The most famous robbers ever. One night they were flying down to this building
on their helicopter." Take your seven cards and push them together so each on is
right on top of the other. Then place the cards on top of the deck.
"The first robber said he would rob the first floor."
Put the top card of the deck on the bottom.
"The second robber said he would rod the second floor."
Put the next top card somewhere in the middle bottom.
"The third robber said he would rob the third floor."
Put the next top card in the upper middle.
"The fourth robber said he would stay on the top of the building and be the lookout.
After a while, the fourth king noticed that there were cops surrounding the building, so
he called all his buddies to come up to the top again so they could leave in their
helicopter."
Tap the deck. Then pick up the first four cards and imitate them floating up into the air,
(they're in a helicopter) while the cards are facing you. Then turn them over to face the
audience and fan them out.
Here's an "out" that I use in my card routines if I ever "flub up":
If I force someone a card and then forget what it was after it was returned to the deck, I
stay calm and pull out a card that's easily remembered (i.e. Ace of Spades) and put it
face down on the table. I make this big build up about how amazing it would be if this
card was theirs. They of course agree and I ask them to shout out the name of their card;
"The 4 of Hearts". Ask them to turnover the card while dramatically saying (a la
Ricky Jay), "I didn't mean to find your card, that would be too easy." Everyone
now thinks that this was a big joke and it was all planned. (Most people will forget that
they told you the name of their card.) Casually look through the deck and bring their card
top of the deck as you patter about how you just needed to find the Ace of Spades in order
to find their card, or how it's your favorite card and you always try to incorporate it
into your tricks. Perform a top change and then a double lift showing them the Ace again
and asking them to place their finger on the little circle in the middle of the (Bicycle
brand) card. Replace the double and deal their card onto the table while saying this. As
they place their finger there, palm the top card off and ask ,"What was your
card?" After their response (which you've heard already), put your hand in your
pocket and remove the Ace. Turn it over and and let it sink in that the card that was
under their finger is now in your hand. Tell them to turn over the card under their finger
and they will see that it is their card.
I know this seems like a very bold trick, but it works! Trust me! All they will remember is the transposition and the fact that it happened right under their finger. I find that this is the best way to get out of a "could be" embarrassing situation with cards.
A variation on the Invisible Deck that I came up with that people enjoy is...
(Here in Canada we have a dollar coin.)
I have the Invisible Deck in my coat pocket. I have about 8 or 9 dollar coins and hold
them like a deck of cards. I proceed to shuffle the coins while talking to the spectator
like they are a real deck of cards. I get the spectator to pick a card (coin) and remember
what card they have chosen. They I get them to replace there card in the deck, cut it,
complete the cut, and shuffle if they would like. (Most people look at you funny as they
are shuffling coins) Then I say that by looking at the backs of the cards (coins) that I
can pick their chosen card. I pick out a coin and guess a card trying to sound confident
that I have selected the same card as they did. If I am right then I end it there. (So far
I am 100% wrong with my guesses!) Anyway they say I am wrong, then I ask them for the name
of the card that they picked out and tell them it is just to prove that I didn't pick the
same card as they did. After they tell me the selected card's name, I look through the
deck of coins and state that the selected card is not in the deck and that they must have
put it into the deck in my pocket, and by making a mistake like that they probably put it
in reversed. I take out the Invisible Deck and sort through looking for a reversed card
and would you believe it is the card that they picked.
At this time their jaws drop to the floor and can't believe what they just saw. They always want to see it again, so you need another trick to accompany it to get their mind away from wanting a repeat so soon. I like to follow it with "Card Toon"
opnick@accel.net (Nick Tatone)
Materials: Deck of cards
The Trick: Find your volunteers card by flipping over every card but his!
How to do it: Fan out the cards and have a volunteer pick a card and memorize it. Have
your volunteer give you the card to place in the deck. THIS IS IMPORTANT because as you're
putting the card back in the pile you bend the corner so you can notice it but no one else
can. Put three cards face down from the top of the deck. Then put two facing up. Then
three facing down. Continue this until you come across the card with the bent card. MAKE
SURE YOU PUT IT FACE DOWN. Then continue the pattern. Keep doing this and every time you
come to the bent card put it face down. At the end there will be one card facing down.
Their card! Your volunteer will be amazed at this fantastic trick you have done!
Trick by: JIM BurnNacid@aol.com
Assisted by: ADAM CRaVE1221@aol.com