Here's an excellent easy card trick that you can perform for your friends.
Your friends select one of eight cards and somehow you're able to find it. Here's how the trick
looks. He can choose any of these cards and these are just regular cards from the deck. So
we're just going to say for example purposes that they
choose the queen of clubs. So that will be their card.
Now we go through a series of processes.
You ask them if their card is in this pile right here.
They'll say "no." Queen of clubs is not there.
You'll ask him again if the card is there. It is not.
You ask if the card is there. The answer this time would be "yes." There's the queen of clubs.
Now you deal
and now you tell them what their card is
you. Turn over this one and it tells you that their card is a queen.
Turn over this stack and it tells you it's a black card. And finally, over here, it's a club.
And it was indeed the queen of clubs. Here's how you do the trick. You just need two
four of a kinds. I'm using the kings and the queens. You put them in this order: clubs,
hearts, spades, and diamonds. The queens are the same order:clubs, hearts, spades, and diamonds.
And the trick pretty much works just as I showed you. Put one packet under the other.
Now this is a an interesting mix here. You move one over and the next one goes
up. This one's over, up, and you just alternate down and up.
You take out the top cards, the ones that are up on the top - the four cards. And then you display
them asking if their card is in it (the packet). Now what you have to remember is "top, bottom,
top." So for this first segment segment, number one,
you want their card whatever it is to be in the top packet. So we know in the example,
it's the queen of clubs. So it's over here. But it's not here. So when they say "no," you have
to place this on the bottom to make sure that the queen, the packet with the queen is on top.
Once again you do the little mix.
You ask again if their card is in the cards displayed and of course, the queen of clubs
is not. Now the second sequence is to the bottom. So we have our queen of clubs and it
has to stay on the bottom. So you put these cards on top because the answer is no. One more time.
Is their card in this display? And yes, it is. There's our queen
of clubs. So this one's going to go on top. Remember it's always "top, bottom,
top." So it's the third time so this (packet) goes on top. Now you just deal two piles.
Now when you turn over this one here, this will tell you what the value is. And it is
a queen. And our card is the queen of clubs. So that is correct. Deal this
into two piles. You turn over the next one.
This one tells you that it's black. So this is the color. Over here, you move the top card
to the left. So we now know it's a queen. We now know it's black. We know it's a club. And there
it is, the queen of clubs. Now let's just do this one more time for demonstration purposes.
So once again, they're in the order club, heart, spades, diamonds. Clubs, heart, spades, diamonds.
Once again, the spectator gets a free choice
of card. Let's just say this time they go for the king of diamonds.
Do the mix.
Is their card in here? Yes, the king of diamonds in first segment is on top so this goes on top.
Is their card here the king of diamonds here? Yes.
Second segment is to the bottom so this pile goes on the bottom.
Is their card here. No, it is not. It's over here. Since this segment is top for the third time,
these cards go on the bottom, keeping the king on top.
Two piles. First pile tells you that it is a king.
Second pile. It's a red card. Remember that the top card moves to the left.
It's a diamond, king of diamonds. This is a great trick in that it gives you the same kind of
feel as the well-known deal the whole deck on the table into three piles, but the thing is,
it's much more streamlined. So you can do this a lot faster and you don't have all
that dealing. So I think that you'll have fun with this. Just take out the cards from any deck
and you'll be ready to go.