You're about to learn a version of three card monte that will fool your friends.
This is called three card monte and as the name implies, I want you to notice that there
are three cards.
There's the middle card, the red queen, which is known as the money card.
Now you might be saying to yourself, "what is a money card"?
'Im about to show you in just a moment.
In fact, speaking of money, let's bring in a little money right here for this little
game.
Watch for the red queen.
I think you got it.
Is it this one, is it this one ? Is it this one.
Actually, there's no way that you could have won.
What you'll need for this trick are three playing cards.
I'm using black cards.
You'll need some money or a poker chip, or just a coin also works.
And you'll need a gimmick.
What I've done is taken a queen and cut it in half.
And then the queen is taped
in different directions: face up and face down - to form I guess what I would call a
tent.
And now, once you have this gimmick for your money card, you're ready to perform the trick.
Take one card take a second card and you wrap the tent
around the card.
It's like this so it's half queen and
half of the card here.
This gets put on top of the first card and one more card goes on top to display the cards.
Oh, and the bill goes into the pocket.
You display the cards by just moving your fingers this way and you show the three cards.
Point out that the money card is the one the spectators need to follow.
Now you turn it over in your hand and then you remove this card.
But as you know, this is really a half card here.
So when you remove this card, you're actually removing this card and the queen remains here.
So it looks like you're removing the queen.
You remove the next card and finally here, you have this piece here, what I call the
tent or the gimmick.
I's in your hand.
What you do is you turn your hand over and place this here.
And then take the gaff with you and place it into your pocket.
Leave it there and then bring out your bill.
Now you're ready to end the trick because the queen no longer exists.
So all you have to do is do something of the toss challenge.
Then the spectators see if they can point out where the queen is for the money.
Show them this one.
And it's just not there.
Obviously, don't use this for actually betting.
It's just for fun and of course you need the money or poker chip as misdirection to to
get rid of the gaff itself.
But you end up nice and clean here and it's a great little magic trick that you can do.