- All right, so I'm here with my friend, Antoine.
Antoine, who you know from the puzzle video,
the guy who made my cigar box puzzle.
Antoine, I'm going to show you one of
the first card tricks I've ever learned.
It's a very simple trick.
Normally you do this with multiple people,
so you're gonna have to choose three cards.
All right?
Not that one.
Okay fine.
- This one?
- Sure.
- That one.
- That's fine.
All right, go ahead and show it to the camera.
Actually it doesn't matter if I see it.
It's not one of those tricks.
We're gonna do something a little bit different.
I'm gonna take these three.
I'm gonna go one, two, three
and I'm going to try to lose them in the pack.
And now, as a skilled sleight of hand deceptionist
I'm going to try to find these three cards.
So the first one, I think if I just cut it here,
I think the first one should be there, yes?
- Yep, that's the one I picked.
- That's the first one.
The second one, I think if I give it a cut like this,
the second one will be here.
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
I get it?
The third one, let's give it another cut here.
I think this is going to be the third one?
- Nope.
- That's not it?
But I got two out of the three.
- Yep.
- That's not half bad.
All right, here.
Here's what we'll do instead.
I'll take this one and we'll just do that.
Here we go, three of clubs.
Number three!
I get it?
- Hmm hmm.
- You guys wanna learn it?
Let's go!
What's going on, guys?
Welcome back.
Today, as promised, I am going to teach you something.
As you saw from that intro, it is a card trick,
a multiple selection card trick.
This can also be a single selection card trick.
I'm gonna teach you guys a few ways
to get into it, as well as how to reveal those cards.
This can also be the first magic trick you'll ever learn.
Get out your cards and get ready to learn
this multiple selection card effect.
Oh, also before we get into it,
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All right guys, so for this tutorial I will be using
the James Coffee playing cards.
I think they're available on his site,
James Coffee, you can check it out.
They were produced by Dan and Dave.
Really cool deck of cards.
They handle really well and they look pretty snazzy.
This is a very simple effect.
Again, one of the first card tricks I've ever learned.
The way that I used to perform it is a bit different
than what I'm gonna teach now,
because I'm gonna teach you sort of the improved method
that I learned later on.
Basically, this can be a one, two, three, five card
selection, whatever you want it to be.
I usually maximum three.
After three it kind of gets redundant.
But you can also do this as an ambitious card move.
This effect is also known as the Robber's Trick,
because of the three robbers.
So what you're gonna do is,
there's no setup, so the deck can be examined,
it can be shuffled by a spectator
before you get into it.
They're gonna choose up to three cards.
So let's say they choose these three cards right here.
I'll put these down for a sec.
As they're looking at their cards, what you're gonna do
is a Guy Vernon Pants Turnover, I think it's called,
where you turn over the cards on your pants.
It sounds a little naughty, but it really isn't.
Basically, while they're looking at that,
you're going to get a break under three cards.
Now however you want to do that it's up to you.
You can use the pinky count, but honestly
I don't think it's necessary, just because
while they're looking at the cards that gives you
all the time in the world to do this little prep.
Basically all you're doing is pushing off three cards,
you're gonna get a break,
and as your hand comes down to your pants,
I'll do this up here so you can see it.
But basically on your pants what you're doing
is those three cards are going to be turned over
on your pants, and then you're going to get a break,
again, with your pinky under those three cards,
and you're gonna hold it just like that.
So not to flash these, but you're just gonna
hold it like that, okay?
Very simple.
If you do this with one card, same principle.
You push off one.
It's kind of a get ready, so if you look at
my hand down here, I'm kind of just doing this.
That's all I'm doing, and I'm kind of waiting.
So it's pretty invisible, as long as you don't
flash this, you just want to keep it here.
So when you get your cards back,
so let's do it with three again.
So you go one, two, three, get your break.
You wait here.
You wanna reverse those, and you want to
grab a break with your pinky under those three cards.
The spectator is then going to give you
the cards back, and you can something to the effect of,
All right, this isn't a standard trick,
so it doesn't matter if I see the cards,
because that's not the point of this trick.
As you take it back, faced towards you,
you're gonna lift up your hand,
and you don't want to flash this again to the audience,
but you're going to just lift up your hand,
and you're gonna place your hand in front of these three,
and you're gonna square up those three cards
with the three cards that you had already on the deck.
Okay?
So now you have six cards here, but they think
all they're seeing is their three.
You're going to turn those six cards over.
Again, they think it's just three cards.
You're gonna take the top three,
which are the other three cards that you've prepared,
not their selections, and you're gonna place
them somewhere in the middle.
Voila, you have all three cards still on top of the deck.
So once again, they take a selection,
I'm going to turn this over here,
I'm gonna grab this, place this on top,
flip all six, go one, two, and three.
And now you can do whatever you like
at this point to reveal the cards.
So one thing I like to do at first is just a false cut.
So you can give it any false cut.
You can check out a couple of videos
where I teach false cuts.
And you can say, bam, there's the first card.
Have them hold onto to that.
The second one, I like to escalate it a little bit.
You can do another false cut,
but this time to reveal it you're going to,
you can do a little aerial shot,
so maybe something like that.
Or, even better, if you know this little move here,
where you press down and the card flies out of the deck.
If you do that, what you can do is say,
look I think it's around the middle
so I'm gonna riffle through.
Right there, there we go.
It looks like it shoots out of the middle of the deck.
After that, that's number two,
number three very simple.
I like to do a color change with this.
So all you need to do is a double lift.
Whatever double lift you want to use.
Once you have your double lift you say,
Oh, is this your card?
They say no.
Now at this point you can do whatever you want.
You can do a simple color change, have it change.
Or you can also just have it change in their hand.
You can say, this is not your card?
Really?
Could you hold your hand out?
Boom, and then it changes to their card.
Again, I like to use a little bit of a climax,
so the first one's just a false cut,
second one's maybe an aerial,
and the third one's a color change.
A nice, simple routine that plays big.
It's super simple and impromptu.
Just get creative with the story,
get creative with the presentation,
and definitely get creative with how you
reveal those cards.
So that is the Three Robbers trick.
By the way, the way I used to do it when I was a kid
is very simple.
I used to take three cards and palm them,
and then I used to just spread the cards.
They would take three, whatever three they wanted.
And then I would say, Go ahead and place that
on top of the deck.
They would place it on top of the deck.
I would come over with the palmed cards
and go, Okay we're gonna take one, two, three,
and basically I'd just drop those palmed cards
on top and then did the same thing.
Say, Oh here are your cards, they're on top.
That was one of the first tricks that I ever learned.
Enjoy and thanks for watching.
All right guys, so that was it, that was the tutorial.
I hope you guys enjoyed that.
I hope you guys put this to work
and kind of put your own twists on it.
As I said, you can use this either for an ambitious card,
two selection, three selection, whatever you like,
it's completely up to you.
The way you reveal the cards, as I mentioned too,
is up to you.
I like to use a color change on the last reveal,
just because it kind of the climax is increasing.
You know, any type of color change that you want to use.
Or you can just do what I did, which is
the simple double lift, turn it over, give it a shake,
and now it changes to their card.
Just so it adds a little something so that
all three cards are not found in the exact same way.
I think you need to create that little climax at the end.
Fun trick, nonetheless.
Also, as you're watching this, I'm still
currently in the Bahamas.
I am filming a vlog.
I'll show you guys around, what I'm doing over there.
I don't even know what I'm doing yet over there,
because I'm not there yet.
I'm there, but not while this is being, whatever.
Anyways guys, thanks for watching.
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Peace out.