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Hello everyone.
I'm going to teach you a great trick
with four aces.
In another video, I taught you how to cut
to four aces and I said "wouldn't it be
great to have a card trick
with the four aces?" So here it is. In
this card trick
the aces mysteriously gather and the
spectator makes all the decisions.
Stay tuned to the end where I'm going to
offer tips and advice on how you can be
successful with this card trick.
And I'm going to tip a very special
magic secret
that I used in the demo but it
didn't make the lesson part.
So I will tell you about that at the end -
a little
magician's secret. So let's get started.
Four kings. Let me do a little something
with the four kings.
What I'm going to do is, I'm going to deal three
cards. It doesn't matter which cards but
just three cards on top of each king.
Okay, so far
so what? What I'd like you to do is please cut the
cards
and complete it. Excellent. You want to do
one more?
Are you happy with that? Let's keep
that. Okay, I'm going to deal with the cards.
All right. You cut the cards. Is that
correct? Yes. All right now.
What I'd like you to do is take your
hands. I'd like you to
cover two of the two of the packs -
just cover. Okay. Those two. Okay, let go
please.
Thank you. We'll eliminate those.
We have two packs left and I'd like
you to put your hands on
the two packs please, and I'd like you to
push one towards me, please.
Okay. Perfect. You can move your hands.
Now you cut the cards. Free choice? Yes.
This could have gone anywhere and we just had
you make a series of decisions here.
What would be interesting if these four
cards just happen to be
the four kings. Very nice.
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Here's the explanation for the four aces
or four kings. I just happened to use kings.
You can use aces, queens, whatever you
like. And by the way, this is a good
follow-up trick to do
after you do a four ace production which
I do teach
in another video. We'll probably put the
link
somewhere up here so you can go to that
trick. Really no setup other than you
need the
four of whatever you're going to use, and
in this case, I'm using
the kings. So just as we did in the
demonstration you take three cards and
deal on top.
Three cards,
deal them on top. Three cards. Deal them
on top.
And three cards, deal them on top. Now at
this point,
it is legit. You do have a king at the
bottom
of every pile.
Now gather the cards at this point. You
seemingly mix the cards
but you have several techniques
working in your favor here.
So first of all, you can have them cut
the cards. Now,
cutting the cards does change this pack
but the key thing is, it doesn't change
the order.
There's still four of the four of a kind
that you're working with
and they're in a certain order. They may
not be
the first, the first of them. They may
not necessarily be at the top or
second or wherever it is in each pack. Tut
the key thing is when you deal the cards
out again in a standard manner,
what happens is the four of a kind
end up in one of the piles. Now you don't
know which pile it's going to be in
but they will end up in one of the piles.
So no matter how many times you cut the
cards, after you
collect them all together,
they're all together. So that's the first
phase.
Now second phase is you have to be able
to tell
where your four of a kind is. Now you may
have noticed that I just
immediately knew where they were even
though they could be anywhere. So what I
would suggest
is what you can do is just kind of
casually gather the cards like
like. Do a kind of a sloppy layout
here,
and then what you do is just kind of
straighten up the cards
and at that point you can glance at the
bottom card and see
where your four of a kind is. At this
point, spectators don't know that they're
together. You're just kind of casually
straightening up the cards like that. And
then once you know it's here,
then you're ready for the second part of
the trick.
Second part of the trick is called a
"magician's choice." You make it appear
that spectators are making all the decisions
but they really aren't.
So if you go back to the demonstration
you'll see how it worked but it's never
the same way,
or it's rarely the same way. So what I
like to do is just tell the
spectator to put their hands on two of
the piles
so they can put their hands on any of
the piles. No matter which
piles they put their hands on, you just
remove them,
unless it's the one that has your four
of a kind.
So let's do that. So let's say they put
them here
or here or here, you would just remove
those two. So if they put it here, these
aren't the four of a kinds. You just
remove them. They put them here.
That would be the four of a kind. You
remove them. They put them here.
You remove these two. So let's say we
removed
two of the piles. Now we're down to this
one.
Now at this point, you know the four of a
kind is here
and you want them to pick this one. So
you ask them
to point to one of the piles. If they
point to this one,
you remove it. If they point to this one
then you say "we're going to keep it." So
if they point to this one you remove it.
No matter what they say you always come
down to the one
and then you can show them that you have
the four of a kind.
There now I have one
more secret on how I did the trick
and I'll fill you in in with my thoughts and
insights which is a little bit more
of a magician technique. So you'll be
able to do the trick just with what I
gave you here but stay tuned
for the prologue and I will explain one
more bit that will make this trick even
more powerful.
This trick combines a card trick with a
magician's choice. The spectator thinks
they have a free choice
and it makes a very powerful effect.
Remember that you can use any four of a
kind. I just happened to use kings.
You can use aces, queens, jacks,
whatever you like. It's all up to you.
This trick relies on a simple
mathematical principle. As long as you
just cut the cards,
the aces or kings, whatever you use, are
always three cards apart.
And thus, when you deal into the piles,
spectators think the deck is all mixed
up
but the cards are in a special order. And
the aces
all gather in one spot. Tegarding the
spectator's choice. Now
I used a method where I had the
spectator during the demo, I had her
cover two of the cards. Now there is a
more powerful way but there is a
drawback, which i'll explain.
You could have them point. So let's say
you have four choices
of these four piles. The spectator points
at a stack of cards. Now, according to the
rules
of the magic rules that is, you will
actually
remove cards or leave cards in depending
on the stack
that they, the spectator pointed at. I
think you understand that part
but what's interesting about pointing is
there's a one in four chance,
a 25 percent chance that the spectator will
actually point to the pile
with the four aces. And in that case, if
they just point to it,
you remove all the other cards and you show
them to be the
indifferent cards. And then you can turn
over the pile they pointed at,
a free choice, and it has the four aces.
Now if they don't point to the four ace
pile then you have to start eliminating
and then you're going to have three
times, up to three times,
where you're going to have to have them
point and you either eliminate
or or keep in the stack.
So that's why I prefer to use the method
as shown in the demo where I had
the spectator take two of the hands and
cover
the decks. And that way you'll
immediately eliminate
two of the piles and then at the end
then they can point to one of them,
and of course, whatever their decision is,
they will always end up with the aces.
But i think it's a cleaner
way to go although you still can have
the spectator point and you have that
amazing payoff.
it'll be up to you. And now for that
magic secret for the card trick.
You'll notice that in the teaching part
of this video
I showed you how to kind of gather the
cards and sneak a peek at the
bottom card to see which pile the aces
are in.
Well if you notice in the teaching demo,
I didn't actually
do that. I knew immediately where the
aces were.
How did i know? I used a gambling and
magician technique
called "marked cards."
I actually marked the back of the four
kings.
Each king had its own marking. So here's
a couple suggestions on what you can do.
The classic method
is to use a pencil dot, you make a dot with a
pencil
and you just make a light dot in the
white corners
of your four of a kind. And that way, by
glancing down, you can immediately see
where the aces are. Second method that I
would recommend is if you have a blue
back deck
maybe get some blue ink or a red back
deck then
get some red ink, and then take the back
pattern and find a spot where you can
you can discreetly color in a little of
the same color of the back.
Now to spectators, they won't know what
to look for.
But to you, as long as you know where
that mark is, all you have to do is
glance down
and you'll immediately see it. Now even
though I've given you those two methods
i'm going to tip
what i did as I promised you. So what I did
was, it might be fun to go back to the
demo
and see if you can spot it because I'm
going to tell you, it's in the
upper right corner to you and the
lower left corner to you. So no matter
which way the card is oriented
there will always be a mark in the upper
left
corner. What I did was I took the bicycle
back
and i took a blade, a sharp edge
and I just rubbed off a little the ink
in a discreet spot.
And by looking at the back of the card,
immediately,
I can tell where the aces are. It's very
obvious to me
but if you don't know what to look for I
don't think spectators would
ever notice. And yes, this is a technique
I've used in my professional work.
Sometimes I'm in a situation where i
need a certain card selected and
I need to make sure that card was
selected. So I
would mark the card in this very manner
so
i could tell as well as the other manner
with the red ink on a red back card.
So anyway, I hope that works for you.
Anyway. I
hope that you liked the card trick and hope you have a
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