hello everyone today I'm going to show
you a car trick which I got from Mis mag
822 who got it himself from Calibus 71
so you take 20 face down cards like this
any 20 cards and into it you're going to
insert four chosen cards so you just
insert them into the pack anywhere that
you want in this case I decided to use
the Four Aces and you insert them into
the pack face up so I'll just do the
last one you insert it anywhere that you
want into the pack now you can even cut
the pack if you want so you can cut the
pack like this and now what you're going
to do is you're going to put down the
cards but you're going to alternate down
and flip so you might put one card down
and then you flip the next one then down
and then flip and then down and then
flip always the same down then flip down
then flip down then flip down then flip
down then flip down then flip even if
the card is already face up which would
be your chosen card you put it down and
flip down and flip for the last one now
you take the pack and you can hold the
pack up any way that you want this way
or this way uh you can cut the pack if
you want anything that you want to do
now what you're going to do next is
you're going to take two cards like that
in a pair and you're going to choose
whether you want to put it down or flip
it and it is a free choice so you don't
have to do it every time so you might do
down just like that ordinary put it down
put it down but this time maybe flip it
this time maybe flip it again maybe this
time you just put them down this time
you flip them this time you put them
down this time you put them down again
take two cards flip them uh flip them
again and well last two cards let's flip
them so you can do that any way that you
want to take the pack and this time
you're going to deal out four cards and
do the same thing so take the pack deal
out four cards 1 2 3 three four from the
top and this time you can put them down
or flip them so again it's a free choice
maybe I'll put this down maybe I'll take
the next four cards maybe I'll put those
down take the next four cards maybe I'll
flip these it really doesn't matter take
the next four cards maybe I'll flip
these take the next four and maybe I'll
flip those and take the last four and
maybe I'll just put those down now you
can pick that pack up again again you
can hold this any way up you want you
can even cut them do anything that you
want with and now you're going to deal
out two packs for yourself you're going
to deal out two packs uh so let's do
that one two one two one two one two the
cards are pretty mixed up you deal out
the cards now one two one two one
two and now finally you pick one of
those packs you pick it up you're going
to take the pack you're going to flip it
over you put it on top of the second
pack take up the whole pack together and
you'll find that your chosen cards will
reveal
themselves I thought this was brilliant
but how does it work well the key to
this trick is that there's a difference
between the orientation of the
individual cards and the orientation of
the pack as a whole you see each card
has two orientations it can be face up
or face down but if I take four cards
that alternate face up face down face up
face down like this and I flip them what
I get is still face up face down face up
face down the individual cards have
changed orientation but the pack as a
whole has
not in the original trick we start with
20 cards face down and four cards face
up and then we end up back where we
started what I'm going to do is I'm
going to start with all the cards face
down and I'm going to show that we'll
end up with all the cards face down
which will be the same thing uh also
this trick works for any multiple of
four so instead of 24 cards I'm just
going to use eight cards just to keep it
a bit simpler if I arrange them into a
circle it should show that the cuts
don't really matter now the first thing
we need to do is to alternate each card
up down up down so like this up down up
down now hopefully what we're going to
show here is that by arranging them into
a circle it doesn't matter where we cut
the pack it's either going to start up
down up down or it's going to start down
up down up but the cards are still going
to Alternate which is the important
thing now if we take two cards like this
up down we can either leave them as they
are so that they're still up down or we
can flip them in this case they will
change orientation but they'll also
reverse their order so the two cards are
still up down and there's no change
so if we do that and we can start
anywhere uh let's leave these two alone
uh and but let's take these two cards
and flip them but remember reverse their
order as well so it looks like this
maybe I'll take these two cards and flip
them but again we reverse their order so
it looks like this and maybe I'll leave
those two cards as they are and you can
see that the cards are still up down up
down with no change and it's the same
with four cards flipping them or not
flipping them doesn't change the
orientation of the pack it will still be
up down up down now finally you deal out
the two packs flip one of them over and
then put them together again and you'll
see that all the cards will be the same
way up again like we started with it's
very clever stuff and well that's it so
if you have been thanks for watching