...six, and what was your card? Turn that over. Let's see how you did there.
In this easy magic trick, a spectator freely selects a card, it's lost in the
deck and the spectator actually cuts the deck and counts to their very own card.
A little card trick here I want to show you. I do have all kinds of cards and if you'd be so kind,
please take a card. Please show the camera - I won't look. All right? I'm coming back. And
go ahead and cut the cards in half there. And put the card right here and complete the cut.
.Excellent. Now we have the card somewhere in the deck. Now you probably figure that I could find
the card so I'm going to see if you could find your card. Cut here. So once you cut, that's
perfect and complete the cut. Now you cut the deck right? Free choice? All right. Well just for fun,
I noticed that you cut on the number seven. I think the number seven might be significant.
So just for fun, would you please count six cards off the top and hold up on the seven. We're going
to count to seven. We're going to go one, two, three, four, five, six. And what was your card?
Good. Turn that over and let's see how you did there. Eight of clubs. All right. Nicely done.
Here's how to count to a selected card. All you need is an ordinary deck of cards
but what you've done is taken one of the suits and taken out the one through ten of one suit.
Now in this case, I'm using the hearts. So I have ace all the way to 10 in that order. And this goes
on the bottom of the deck. So the deck is just ordinary at the top and on the bottom is my ace
through ten of hearts. Now you're ready to perform the trick. If you like, you can do that false cut,
but again, ace through 10 of hearts are on the bottom. Now you have a spectator select a card
now. Make sure they don't select from the bottom of the deck here, otherwise they're going to take
part of your stack of hearts. So make sure they're just kind of offered - usually they'll take from
here. And in this case, we'll say that they picked the ace of clubs. At this point,
you don't know what it is. Place the deck on the table. You ask them to cut the deck in half,
place their card which again, you don't know what it is. And then complete the cut.
Now when they complete the cut, then your stack of 10 cards will be on top.
And now you're ready to do the trick. If you like, at this point, you can do a false cut if
you know one. It's completely optional. And then what you do is you turn the cards face up and
then you ask the spectator to cut. Now they're going to cut and what you're waiting for is one
of your ace through tens of hearts to show up on this, face up. And then complete the cut. Now
sometimes, you get lucky and it happens right away.
But remember, for every cut, it's one out of four, actually, less than one out of four times. So what
happens is, sometimes you will end up cutting five or six times and it can get kind of tedious. But
just keep telling people you're mixing the cards up, making sure everything's thoroughly mixed.
I think in the demo we got to that heart fairly quickly - within two cuts, but we seem to be,
we seemed...there it is, two hearts.
Finally, we found one of our hearts. And so you can see our stack is still intact
but the two is one of the hearts. It's what you're waiting for. Now when you see that two,
two is your number. You say, "all right, you cut the cards." You just stop and you don't have to
give an explanation. Just say "you cut the cards." Then you turn the deck over. Remember that they
cut to the two and then all you do is count to two: one, two, and that'll be their card.
Now what's cool about this trick is no matter what heart they cut to, that number will work.
So let's say they cut to the number seven. So they cut and the number seven [hearts] comes up.
Now your number will be number seven. So you count one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, and that will be their card. So again, it works for any
number from your stack of hearts and that is counting to a spectator selected card.