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how to do card tricks for beginners

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  • Card tricks are fun for adults and kids alike, but it can be difficult to perform the sleight-of-hand which many card tricks require. The card tricks on Page One don’t require any sleight-of-hand at all, so it’s easy for anyone to learn and perform them (some of the card tricks on Page Two require a bit of sleight-of-hand).
  • Since these are “self-working” or “mathematical” card tricks, it’s also fun and educational to try to figure out why the tricks work! Here’s a hint for you: To help figure out how a card trick works, do the trick with all of the cards face-up. Then you can experience the thrill of that Aha! moment when you unlock the mysteries of the card trick!
If you are a beginner at card tricks, or if you want to impress your coworkers at lunch, this is the easiest trick in the book. Some people actually can’t figure it out if you do it quickly. This is definitely the first trick you want to learn. Then move on to more difficult and impressive tricks.
  1. This trick is called pick a card and you begin by shuffling the deck. Then you fan out the cards facedown and ask someone to pick a card.
  2. Someone picks a card and you cut the deck in half to put their card back in the deck. When cutting the deck, glance at the bottom card on the top half of the deck. That card is what you need to remember in order to pick the correct card at the end of the trick.
  3. The person who picked the card places it in between the two halves of the deck. REMINDER: You should already know what card is on top of the player’s card.
  4. For beginners, just simply shuffle the the cards up. The card that you memorized and the card that the player chose need to stay together through the whole trick. (If you do a loose shuffle, then the two cards will most likely stay together.) Then you just search through the cards looking at them face up. You are looking for the card on top of the the one that you memorized.
  5. For something more challenging, try to perform some false cuts and remembering where the player’s card is at all times. Make sure you practice the false cuts before trying them with this trick.
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  • Card magic is the branch of conjuring that deals with creating magical effects using a deck of playing cards. Card magic is commonplace in magical performances, especially in close up magic or parlor magic and street magic. Some of the most recognized names in this field include Juan Tamariz, and Allan Ackerman.
  • Playing cards became popular with magicians in the last century or so as they were props which were inexpensive, versatile, and easily available. Although magicians have created and presented myriad illusions with cards (sometimes referred to as card tricks), most of these illusions are generally considered to be built upon perhaps one hundred or so basic principles and techniques. Presentation and context (including patter, the conjurer’s misleading account of what he is doing) account for many of the variations.
  • Card magic, in one form or another, likely dates from the time playing cards became commonly known, towards the second half of the fourteenth century, but its history in this period is largely undocumented. Compared to sleight of hand magic in general and to cups and balls, it is a relatively new form of magic.However, due to its versatility as a prop it has become very popular amongst modern magicians.[citation needed]
  • The Four Kings trick is a good beginner’s card trick and one that children can easily master. There are many variations, and nearly all of them involve keeping the four kings together while leading your audience to believe that they were separated.
Steps:
  1. Separate all the kings (or jacks, if you prefer) and three extra cards of any other type.
  2. Fan out the cards so that the four kings show, with the three extra cards hidden behind the fourth king.
  3. Explain that the kings are going to rob a bank. They will enter through the roof. (Another variation holds that the kings are such good friends that they won’t let anything get between them. This variation may work better with the alternate method described below.)
  4. At this point, stack the cards all together and place them face down on the top (roof) of the deck. The three top cards are your spares, but your audience will believe they are the kings that they were shown previously.
  5. Take the first spare card off the top. Without showing anyone the face of the card, say he’s going to be on the first floor. Put it in the deck, somewhere near the bottom.
  6. Send the second “king” to the second floor, putting the next card somewhere in the middle of the deck.
  7. Send the third “king” to the vault at the bottom. Don’t put any of the cards too close to the top of the deck, because the real kings are on top.
  8. The fourth card stays as a “lookout”. The fourth stays on top to be the lookout. Stand him up and show him to the audience.
  9. Tap the deck loudly to alert the other three cards. Have the top king say that the police are coming, so everybody needs to go to the top. He knocks on the roof. Tap or knock on the deck four times.
  10. Magically produce four kings. Make a show of taking the four cards off the top of the deck and showing them to the audience. They should all be kings.
  11. Display the four “rescued” kings alongside the deck and invite someone from the audience to search the remaining deck for the spare kings that they will assume you inserted.
Alternate Method:
  1. Hide two random cards behind the second king when you fan them out. Put them on the top of the deck. They should be in this order, from top to bottom: first king, random, random, second king, third king, fourth king.
  2. Show the audience the top card (the first king), then send it to the bottom of the deck.
  3. Send the next two cards, which aren’t kings, to the middle of the deck without showing the audience (since you showed them the first one, they’re more likely to take your word for it that the next two are kings as well).
  4. Show them the fourth card (the second king), which the audience will believe is the fourth and last king. In reality, you still have three kings at the top of the deck, and one at the bottom.
  5. Cut the deck, putting the bottom half on top and thus putting the first king back with the other three kings.
  6. Fan out the deck and show the audience that the kings have stuck together through it all.
Warnings:
  • Don’t tell anybody the secret of the trick or show off the hidden cards.
  • Don’t do the same trick twice.
  • Answer any doubts from the audience with complete phrases. Don’t gush and smirk when explaining that your trick only requires faith from all that it was good.

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