- What's going on guys, welcome back.
Hey, so glad to be here today, ha ha.
If I look tired, it's cause I just woke up.
Give me a break, it's Monday.
Welcome back to Monday, Monday is where we teach things
and you guys learn things, and today we're gonna be teaching
and learning something pretty cool actually.
This is a Color Monte sort of version.
This is basically where
Color Monte is,
it's like what are these things floating around me?
Need my coffee, hold on.
So what is Color Monte?
Basically a version of three card Monte where there's a
kicker ending, and the ending is so kicker
that it'll knock your socks off.
People still say that?
I know what you guys are thinking.
Chris, why do you have so much energy?
I'm thinking the same thing, I have no idea.
Might be this bright light
that's staring me right in the face.
I can barely see, I don't even know
what I'm looking at right now.
Okay, back to the tutorial.
So Color Monte normally is done with some special cards.
These cards here, and these cards are available
for purchase, I will leave the link below
if you so desire to have these cards.
What's cool about these cards is that you have
a little kicker ending with a little $14 at the end.
You're telling the story of you betting this street hustler.
At the end of it all, it's double or nothing for $7.
What's the color of the card, they guess wrong.
Boom, you owe me 14 bucks, it's a pretty cool ending.
Nobody ever expects it because you're so used to seeing
this red card and this blue card, and the red and the blue,
and the red and the blue, and the blue and the red,
and then you get hit, by this $14 card,
which is pretty cool.
That being said, you do not necessarily need this.
So all you need is an ordinary deck of cards,
and you can make this happen.
If you want to make your own $14 card,
just grab a blank card and draw something on it.
If you don't have a blank card I have a tutorial
on how you can make your own blank card, so check that out.
All you're gonna need is three cards for this.
So grab yourself any three cards,
preferably a joker, and I will explain why in a second.
And let's get into it.
Basically the card that you're going to hide
is going to be on top.
The multiple card, so the joker is gonna be in the middle
and the other card's gonna be on the bottom.
So we have card hiding, joker, other card.
Three moves you're going to have to learn for this.
Not hard at all, there's only three moves
that you have to do for this entire routine
and they are as follows.
I will show you those two moves and then we'll get into
how to use those within the routine.
All right, so the first move you're gonna want to learn
is the double lift, which is the easiest double lift
you're ever going to do in your life,
and here's the reason why.
You only have three cards, you want to lift the top two
as if it were one card.
So you're holding it in this dealer's grip,
kind of like, you know, you're about to deal cards,
and your thumb is going to pinch
right on the edge of this card between your index
and then the thumb can move this way.
Now what that does, if I do this,
because I'm applying pressure on the bottom card,
I'm pushing the top two over, making it look like one,
making it really easy.
Here, bam, okay?
In this action I would say something like
"Well, we have this card here," and turn it over.
Now thing about a double lift, you don't want to do this,
all right, you don't ever want to do this, right.
How suspicious and weird is that,
like how heavy is that card?
All you have to do is very lightly let it fall,
you pinch here, grab it, gently let it fall,
grab it, gently let it fall again, all right?
That's all you're doing.
When you're catching it here,
there's three points of pressure, basically.
There's here, there's here, and there's here, okay.
And what those three points are doing
is basically beveling this card and allowing it to lift,
allowing my finger to scoop under there easier.
So after you've pinched it, and you turn it over,
you want to catch it here,
and you want to create that bevel, all right?
So that way you can grab it again and just turn it over.
Next, the other double lift that we're going to use,
now it's weird using two double lifts,
but we can't get around that in this effect.
The other double lift is basically you're going to lift
the top and bottom card to make it look like a single card.
And how that's done, usually while explaining
it's not the top card or the middle card,
so what I'm doing is I'm out-jogging the middle card,
my index on my hand that I'm holding the card
is gonna come in and push that card aside,
the middle finger is going to grab that corner,
just apply the corner so that these two cards here
and apply pressure here at the base of my hand,
the palm of my left hand, and the thumb is going to
turn this around to make it look like one
as I put it back on top of the deck, okay?
So again, I go down, my middle finger up-jogs this,
and now I have two cards here,
the top one and the bottom one.
Index finger is going to side-jog this,
middle finger is going to apply pressure here
to the base of the hand here, and basically I'm gonna use
the index and thumb to turn this around
to make it look like one card.
So when done smoothly it should look something like this.
The other alternative, and the alternative
that I used to do when I was beginning
and starting off with this trick was this.
And then I would just grab this here
and show it and put it back.
Now you can do that, I just think it's a little bit more
like telegraphing what the move is.
And the last move here is the flustration count.
Very, very simple, so instead of holding it
in the dealers grip, you're going to hold it
in the other hand like this,
in sort of like a biddle grip or an edge grip.
You're going to show this card, and with the left hand
as you come back down you're gonna peel off the top card
and you're gonna show this card, and this card again.
So it looks like, it kind of looks a little bit magical
like you're peeling off the card,
but you keep showing the same card, which is weird.
So when done smoothly, the brain mistakes that action
for you showing three cards
instead of showing the same card.
So you're here, we got an ace, a ace, and an ace.
And all I did was grab the top one,
show the top one, show.
Now a lot of you are thinking well does that actually work?
When done quickly in quick succession the brain
doesn't have time to register where that card's coming from.
You know, it's kind of like quick and then you move on,
so yeah it does work.
That's the flustration count,
and so those are the three things
that you're gonna need for this entire routine,
so if you practice those,
we can string these together right now, get into it.
So what you want to do again, you want to have
the card that you're going to hide is gonna be on top,
the joker's gonna be the middle,
and the other card's gonna be on the bottom.
I'm gonna run through the sleights in order and then
we can talk about a patter or what you're gonna say.
So first things first, you want to double lift,
show them this, peal the top one off, lift this,
put that on top, now mind you you can use a surface
or a table but I like using my hands.
And the third one, you say that's the money card,
you have to find that one, and you put that one on top.
Now you're gonna double lift again
so it looks like you're putting the money card to the bottom
and then you're going to show them
that the money card is not there.
It's either on top or in the middle.
I'm gonna say it's on top, it's not, so it probably,
it's probably in the middle, which it isn't.
It might be gone altogether, no it's still here.
If it's on the bottom we know that it's not,
it could never be on top, oh I guess it is on top,
it's actually also in the middle.
All right, so I just did my double lift there,
and then I showed the middle card.
Now I'm gonna say actually I cheated you,
I have one joker, now flustration count,
and three jokers, and for the grand finale we're gonna show
the joker, the money card, now what's this card?
And at this point, this is where you milk it,
and that's the indifferent card
that they've never seen before,
and that's where you get the reactions, okay?
So let's start this again, hidden card, joker, queen,
we're gonna run through the patter.
This patter, okay, is completely up to you,
and I hate using the word patter,
but come up with something man,
there's like, maybe you want to talk about
quantum physics, right, and space time.
Maybe you would like to talk about two girls and a,
I don't care, just come up with something clever,
make up your own sort of routines.
If you have to spend more time on creating a routine
than practicing the moves then that is okay in my book,
because that's what it's all about.
Once you know the tools,
okay I bought all these paint brushes and canvas,
well what are you gonna paint, that's the routine, right,
so spend time on that, that's the important part, okay.
Practice, but then after that really think about
the effect that you want to leave the person, okay.
And if it's like a hustling thing, a gambling thing,
or if it's a story thing or if it's a joke thing,
it's up to you just come up with it.
So I'm just gonna run through this easy little
sort of presentation that I have for this.
Which is, so I met this magician on the street
and he wanted to show me a little bit of a card trick.
Okay, so he showed me a joker and another joker actually
and he showed me the queen and the game was basically
I had to find the queen, chase the queen.
It seemed easy to me but then he started doing things
like for instance he thought I wasn't looking
and he took that queen and he put it to the bottom, right.
But I caught him and I said show me that bottom card.
And it turned out it was the joker.
So I said well okay, well he probably left it on top
is what happened, but no, that was the joker as well.
So I know for a fact that it was in the middle.
I'm following along and it still was the joker.
So at this point I told him, you know what magician,
you're BS-ing me, you probably don't even
have a queen at all, he says yes I do, it's on the bottom.
And the magician actually did this,
he waved his hand over it, he said, I actually also have
a queen on top of the deck, and in the middle.
And I said what, what is happening.
I thought I saw you had two jokers?
And he's no, no, I had three jokers, one, two, and three.
At this point I was confused but the magician said to me,
here's what I'll do, I'll show you how I did this
if you can guess what the last card is.
I had a joker, I had a queen, now what is the last card?
At this moment I realized that I was the magician
and that you were the audience and that this card
could be whatever I wanted it to be
and in this case I wanted it to be the ace of spades.
So that's as far as the patter goes,
I'm gonna run through it really, really quickly again.
Hidden card on top, joker, and a different card.
This magician, double lift,
off, off, last one on top.
Double lift to the bottom, it's not there,
it's either on top or in the middle.
I think it's on top, no, in the middle, no.
It's still on bottom.
In fact it's also on top
and it's also in the middle.
Just kidding, I have one, two, three jokers.
We have one joker, one queen, what's this card,
it's the ace of spades.
Okay, so that's basically the entire routine.
I think if you watch this video over again,
if this was too quick for you.
I didn't want to make it 40 minutes long,
but if this was too quick for you,
just go ahead and watch it again.
The moves themselves are easy to practice
and once you understand the flow of things,
you'll be able to string them together
and have fun coming up with your own routine.
You can change the order of these double lifts
and these flustration counts.
You can change the order of all that and make it your own.
Use blank cards and blank cards you can
write stuff on for the kicker ending.
So that's, that's it, that's all I got, okay, thanks.
All right, ladies and gentlemen that is it
for today's tutorial, I hope you enjoyed that,
and I hope you do practice this
before you go out and perform.
Now remember, this effect is really cool.
I prefer doing it, again, like I said with a normal
standard deck of cards because I can take the cards out,
perform a trick, it looks like they just
came from the pack, which they did.
The packet trick that you buy is also pretty cool
so if you want that check that out.
But you don't have to, you can make your own.
The sleights involved here shouldn't be too hard to learn
so just practice, man, just practice.
Get your cards out and practice,
that's all you really need to do.
That's all basically magic requires
is just dedication, if you're willing to put the time in
anything is possible.
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All right, so I was walking down the street, right,
I met a guy and the guy's like,
hey you want play, you want to play cards?
I got a red, and I got another red card,
and I got a blue card, but if you find the blue card,
that's the money card, and you get to keep all the money,
it's a dollar every time you get it wrong,
and it's a dollar every time you get it right.
A dollar for you my friend, now you wanna play?
And I said, yeah, yeah, sure let's play, let's play.
He said, all right, all right, but as I said that
he took the card and he put it to the bottom
and I said, hey man, it's on the bottom,
he said, no it's not, it's a red card, you owe me a dollar.
And I says, oh man then it's probably on top, isn't it?
And he said, no it's a red card,
that's another dollar my friend.
I said, it's in the middle then it has to be.
And he said, no it's another dollar man, that's $3.
I said, you don't even have a blue card anymore,
that's what's going on.
And he's like, no I have it right here,
that's $4 man you owe me.
I said, oh man, man, this is getting out of hand here.
Well then if it's on the bottom, if it's on the bottom
it can't be on top, and he says, you're wrong again,
it's also on top, that's $5.
And I said, well then if it's on top,
then it can't be in the middle, and it's also in the middle.
I said, okay listen here, listen here, that's like $6.
He's cheating me man, you cheated me,
you got like three different cards or something,
and he'd like no they're all the same,
they're all red cards here, they're all red cards, you see?
Now I owe him $7, I owe this guy $7,
he said, you know what, I'm gonna give you a chance
to win your money back my brother,
I'm gonna give you a chance to win your money back.
And here's how you're gonna do it,
you're gonna tell me the color of the next card
and it's double or nothing, right.
So we got a red, we got a blue card,
and if you can tell me the color of this last card,
it's double or nothing, you win all your money back,
otherwise you owe me $14 my friend,
what's the color of this card?
And I said, it's got to be like blue and red or something,
right, something crazy, and he's like,
no you owe me $14 my friend, pay up.
Thank you very much.