if you've got kids who want to learn
some cool
card tricks we teach you five of the
very
best first we'll show you the tricks
and then we'll show you how to do them
let's get started
i think you'll agree that the cards are
all mixed up
no particular order now here's what i'm
going to do
i'm just going to go through the cards
like this
anytime you like would you please just
say stop
you said stop wherever you want and i
can already tell
because i memorized the deck ahead of
time that you stopped on the jack of
diamonds
and that would be correct
i'd like you to do please is just a stop
as i deal
the cards onto the table anytime you
like take your time
sometime today
was that a fair choice excellent
i'm going to deal this into four piles
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now you had a free choice right
see how you did
four aces nicely done
well i'll tell you a story about the my
favorite cards
the jacks you see they went on a hike
one day
and uh unfortunately they got lost
one jack got lost in the bottom
third of the deck second jack got lost
in the middle and the last jack got
caught somewhere
near the top they were separated the
last jack
stayed back at home base
but this is a magic trick because all
you have to do is give
a little cut here a little mix
and magically a snap of the finger will
bring back
the four jacks right there
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what's up
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i have here some cards and we're just
going to spell and see if we can
go to every card so we're gonna start at
the bottom with an ace
so it's spell ace a
c e and that should bring up an ace
two t w
o two three
t h r e e
three four f o
u four five f
i b e five
6 s i x
6 7 s e
v e n 7
8 e i g h
t eight nine
n i n e
nine t e and ten
jack j a c k
jack queen q
u e e n queen
and the king
and there we've done it we've spelled to
every card
one by one
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here's how to do the trick a classic
that
i think every kid learns along the line
and it's a fast easy trick all you need
is an ordinary deck of cards
and the deck to the spectator they get
to mix
now when the kids get the deck back
tell the spectator you're memorizing the
deck
the deck is actually mixed and so you
look like you're memorizing the deck
however all you're doing is looking at
this bottom card
whatever ends up the bottom that's your
card that you remember in this case it's
the eight of clubs
so here's how it works as you
move the cards down and it is a free
choice to say stop what happens
underneath
is what happens is your thumb
pulls back the bottom card so underneath
all this here
while this is going on i actually have
this bottom card pulled out
now the spectator says stop wherever
they want and what happens here
is on the bottom my thumb is going to
remove this
bottom card the eight of clubs with the
rest of the pack wherever they say stop
just like that that's what happens
underneath the action
and then when you pull it out you say
let's see i remembered the deck
and you stopped on the eight of clubs
and you can show it
and you can repeat this i wouldn't do
this more than two times
maybe three because spectators will be
really watching
and just watch that angle you don't want
to be doing it like
this and then having spectators c pull
the card out
with the rest you want to keep the deck
towards the spectator like this and the
thumb
underneath and you can always pull out
that bottom card
as if you had memorized the entire deck
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what you'll need for this trick is an
ordinary deck of cards and the four aces
just remove the four aces ahead of time
place them on top of the deck
you're ready to go bring the cards out
you just show that they're all different
don't show the back four over here
spectator doesn't know about the four
aces and
deal under the table now what happens is
the four aces
end up at the bottom of this pile the
spectator doesn't know that
spectator just says stop at any time
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move the rest of the cards notice i
asked a question here because that gives
us a little space because the spectators
don't know about this but it gives a
little misdirection
when you ask yeah was it a free choice
now just deal into four piles
and because of the setup the aces are
now on top
of each pile
here's how you perform the trick
ordinary deck and you just need your
four jacks for queens for kings whatever
you want to use
three and different cards here you
gather them up in your left hand
and then you take one of the jacks place
it on top line them up so it looks like
a single card
then you bring out these three and put
them on top and you can just show these
as long as you don't turn it they won't
see the thickness
you don't want people to see this at an
angle you want them to see it directly
looking on so this looks like an
ordinary car so you can show you have
the four
jacks and they go for a hike they go for
a walk a lot of times
in the uh beginning magic books they
call this four burglars that get
uh into a house or something or into a
apartment building or
commercial building and they're on
different floors of the building
but you just gather them up people don't
know about the
three cards on the back this goes on top
of the deck
and then you say they get lost whatever
your story is
first one goes near the middle but of
course that is a
different card next one goes near the
middle but that's a different card
and finally the last one goes in the
upper third
and you can show the final jack still on
top but of course
the jacks are still on top of the deck
so all you do is snap your finger do
your magic wave whatever it happens to
be and you show
the four jacks have returned and that is
a classic of magic the
four burglars or any four of a kind that
you want to work with and by the way
this is a great trick
to follow up a four ace cutting routine
or production
this is a great trick for young kids and
i've seen lots of kids be successful
with it
you need 21 cards and it's all
mathematical
but kids don't have to do any math they
just have to follow a certain procedure
i have 21 cards seven in each column so
what the kid does
is ask a spectator to freely select
a card in their mind and then tell
the kid where their card which
column their card is in so in this case
i'm going to say
the spectator chose the king of diamonds
spectator tells the kid that their card
is secretly
in this column here now what the kid
does is
gather the pile place it in the middle
and place
all the rest of the cards on top it
always goes between
the other piles now we're going to deal
the cards again
now you have to be consistent notice
notice how i'm always using the exact
same pattern now at this point
kid asks the spectator where their which
column their
card is in and they'll point to the
middle here there's where the king of
diamonds is
remember that pile goes in between the
other two piles and
deal once more
and at this point the kid will be able
to tell
the spectator what their card is because
all you have to do on
after the third deal onto the table is
their card is in the middle column and
it's always the center card and
there it is the king of diamonds now
just for fun
let's uh just for demonstration we'll
put the king of diamonds over here and
we'll do the same process so remember
they would say
their card is in this right here
deal
spectator would point to this pile here
or the column here
remember these get gathered and that
column
goes in between the other two now for
the third deal
where is the card it's right here
goes into the middle one more deal
i think you can see it already middle
column
after the third deal and
it's always the fourth card
in the column works for any card and any
starting position so i think the kids
will have fun with that one
here's how you perform the trick you're
going to need the cards in a specific
order and that's the secret
and so here's the order here uh just
take out the ace through king of one
suit
line them up this way i'll put this on
the screen as well
as inside the description for this video
but you have your 387 ace
queen 642 jack king
10 9 and 5. and you're ready to perform
the trick
just as i did inside of the performance
all you're doing is spelling each card
in order a c e for ace
you put each card on the bottom and then
the next card is the one that gets
turned over so let's try that here so
i'm gonna go a c e
and that should be an ace t
w o and that should be two
t h r e
e three
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