hey guys it's jason latimer the world champion of magic coming to you directly from my home
i'm about to show you how to predict the future that's right when you learn this card trick
you're going to be able to fool your friends your family and even your math teachers on this one
i've done this trick about a thousand times to myself because it is so funny because it
just looks like it shouldn't work at all so grab a deck of cards and let's get started
seriously pause the video grab a deck of cards you're going to be making choices on your side
of the screen and so this will not make sense if you just follow my side so grab a deck of cards
now i'm going to show you a move to make this is our move or what we could call our shuffle take
a card from the top and you're going gonna place it on the bottom that's it just you can't take two
you can't take three it definitely has to be one card from the top to the bottom so when i say make
a move or make a shuffle it's really just one card to the bottom that's it that's all you have to
know the other thing is we're going to be spelling out words and for every letter we're going to make
a move so as we spell out the word every letter requires one card from the top to the bottom
now you're going to be making choices you get to pick which pile you pick up for each letter
but for every letter one card moves from the top to the bottom we're gonna need eight cards
grab four cards from let's say the hearts that'll be easy for you guys to follow along with that
and i'm gonna use four cards from the diamonds so four three two ace on one side put them in
descending order so that the four will be on top and i flip them over and ace two three four on the
other side so that the ace is on top in the other pile now when you do this effect to your friends
and family they don't need to see the setup in fact you could just say i'm making a prediction
of how this is going to work now today's secret magical words it's math or magic that's right math
or magic all of them together and we're gonna spell them out and you get to pick up which
pile you want for each letter so you don't have to follow my lead on this just every time you
spell a new letter flip one card from the tops so let's get started m a t h o r m a g i
see all right now i put the piles down i'm going to take the top card from each pile i'm going
to place it at the top right here just away from them so now we only have three cards on each side
so let's spell math or magic again so here we go m a t h you can do in any order you want o r m a g
i see all right now take the top card from each pile set them aside together now we
have two cards on each side so one last time let's do it m a t h o r m a g i c
top cards place it together now we could do it again but we only have one card each so let's just
slide those together now you could have made any choice you wanted you could have grabbed this file
or that pile and you could have spelled it out any way you chose but if you look closely take a
look at these two cards how amazing is that those two cards matched up and if we take a close look
at these two they matched up and the next two they matched up and the last ones they matched up that
is unbelievable you could have done any choice left or right and yet you predicted the future
by setting up the cards that way now if that just blew your mind type in the word magic below in the
comments and if you want to understand how this is done i'll give you a hint it's mathematics
and it was created by a mathematical wizard slash mathematician genius martin gardner and
if you want to learn more about martin gardner i'll put some links to his books below because
they're amazing now you have a choice you can just remember how to set this up remember all
the steps and you'll be able to do this to your friends and your family and it will be magical
to them and you because you won't understand the math behind it and you can forever see magic or
you can see part two of this video i'm gonna break this down step by step so that you can
actually see the inner workings of this magic trick but spoiler alert i'm gonna ruin the magic
part so that choice is up to you and if you had fun today let me know by clicking the like button
and subscribing to the channel and until next time stay curious because the right question changes
everything