Download the free cards and you're going to amaze your friends with this easy magic trick.
If you've never seen these before, these are ESP cards. These have been used in psychological
studies over the years and we're going to do a little experiment to see if we can make a
mental or psychic connection with you, The spectator (test subject). So let's see...I'm
going to just spread the cards here and I want you to select one of the cards.
We're not going to look at the card yet.
Now it was a free choice and we're going to let the cards try and figure out what card
you selected. Or what symbol you selected. So let's count. Now we had so many cards to begin
with. So I'm going to have, I think I have 12 here. So [counting] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, ten, eleven, twelve and one more card and I believe i have twelve here:
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve.
Let's see if the card cards made a psychic connection with you. I'm
going to turn them over and we're looking for a match.
Yes, there's a match there: plus signs.
Plus signs again.
I haven't done anything. The cards did all the work.
But they're indicating that you selected a plus sign and you did.
For this trick you're going to need ESP cards and to help you with that, I have a free download at
my website. And you can download print these out and you can perform the trick as well. So it's all
free. Now you have 25 cards. [print the sheet five times.] Uou have these different symbols
here that are used in classic ESP tests. Now what you have to do is put them in a specific order.
And so the way I like to do it is this is kind of a classic magician's thing for ESP order.
But usually, circles are considered number one because it's one single line. A plus
sign would be two lines put together so it's two. Three wavy lines. Four sides to a square
and five points to a star. So this order may not be relevant for this particular trick but it's
something that you can remember when you do other tricks with ESP cards because that can come into
play when you need them to be in order. So we're going to stick with that order
and what you need to do is put them in the exact same order
in groups of five. So that's one, two, three, four, and five: the circle, plus, wavy line,,,
So you have the cards in order and it repeats throughout the pack here.
Now when I show the cards normally when I do a trick, I would just spread the
cards and show them openly. But I don't want spectators to see the order. So that's why
I just sort of went through the cards and said look: we have different symbols and just show
the different symbols in here. So spectators can see them. Now you're ready to start the trick.,
Probably the easiest way to do this is just spread the cards on the table. Now even if you don't
know how to spread you can just kind of push the cards out and you let the spectators freely choose
whatever symbol they want or whatever card. So we're going to say that they chose this one here.
And just for to reveal here, we're going to say they chose plus sign just as they did in the demo.
Now the important thing here is that the cards that were on top have to go on the bottom.
Normally you would gather these up gather these up and just put them on top but these have to go
on the bottom because they originally ended up on top. Now we deal cards onto the table. We're going
to deal half of these. Now remember, we started with 25. We now have 24 here minus the one here.
So now you count 12 cards by dealing them onto the table: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. Now it's important with these [remaining] that you count
them again but you don't deal them onto the table. You have to NOT reverse the order. As you dealt
here they reversed. These you have to maintain the same order. So you just count them in your hands:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Again, I didn't change the order here
and these go down. This is a self worker and the cards do all the magic for you as long as you
follow the procedure. Then you begin to turn the top cards over in pairs until you have a match.
There's a match.
Again until you have that match.
There's a match.
And when you get these matches here, you'll find that it will match the spectator's selected card.