If you are looking for a simple magic trick that even children can do, try magic card tricks. All your child needs to be able to do is count to act out this trick, it is based on simple maths and with a little showmanship and lots of practice can be pulled off without a problem.
Where to start:
Grab yourself a standard 52 card deck and explain that you will be making some separate piles of cards, proceed to shuffle the cards. Holding the cards face up in your hand, the top card which is the first card of each pile is where you begin. For each pile you will count up to thirteen with the ace counting as one. It will take a different amount of cards to reach thirteen because it depends on what the starting card is. Make a pile of cards starting with an ace and be sure there are thirteen cards in the pile. Keep in mind that the suits do not matter; lets say the first card is a two, count the next card as three, and then four and so on until you have reached the number thirteen card. When the initial card is a ten then the next card will be eleven, then twelve followed by thirteen to complete the pile. Unlike the other piles this one will only have four cards. Count silently to yourself so you do not give it away. Lay the cards down in piles face up and when you have finished with all the piles turn them over carefully so the first card you laid down is on top of the pile.
And now for the finesse:
While you are counting, try to make it look like you are NOT counting the cards but merely making some random piles. Do not put a face card in the beginning of a pile. If your first card is a face card just say, “I don’t like face cards” and put it on the bottom of the deck or slide in the deck anywhere. Look at the cards in you are handling face up while you are counting out the piles in front of you. When you come to the end of the deck the remaining cards in your hand will probably not be enough cards to make a full pile. Because the remaining cards will not make a pile of thirteen they have to be put aside and not mixed in with the rest. Just say, “I have enough cards already” and place the rest safely aside. Math is what it is about so be sure you keep track of your counting.
Next piece of the trick:
You will usually end up with seven piles more or less. Do not stress about your number of piles. Now you tell your audience that you would like them to remove piles and hand them to you. As they make their choices, take the remaining cards you set aside and put them back into your hand face down. Put the cards they give you together with those cards you have in your hand. If you had ended with six piles you would have them remove three or if you ended with seven piles you would have them remove four piles. The object is to leave three piles. You might tell them they are to leave three piles.
This part is fun:
Let the people flip over the card on the top of any two piles to reveal what is there. The faces on the top cards of two piles are now facing up. What you want to do is find the number that is on top of the pile so search the deck. Remember to tell them you will only know the number of the card not the suit. The magic continues. Without looking like you are counting your cards but merely sifting through the cards in your hand looking at them one by one as if you were searching for the right number. Actually, you are counting the cards. To start with count ten cards. Then take the card that is facing up on one of the piles and read it out. Look at the second card faced up and count to that number. Let us say you pick up a two and three on two of the piles then you must count out ten of the cards, again count two and three more from those that are turned over.
The final show:
You are still holding some cards that are left in your hand. It wont matter whether you have one card or ten cards left in your hands. Without being suspicious put the final cards down after you have counted them and proclaim, “I think I have your card.” The number of the card I am holding on the top pile is “.” After counting out all of the other cards be sure to say what the remaining cards are. When there is just the one card left you will say it is an Ace. Depending on the number of cards left you will proclaim that their number was equal to the number of remaining cards. To create a shock let the audience flip over the final card and read the number for themselves.
In closing:
Correct counting will guarantee the trick always works.
Be sure that the first or beginning card of each pile remains on the top of the pile when you turn the piles over.
52 cards is what you must begin with.
This trick is a sure fire winner and guaranteed to impress. The better your acting the more you will impress.
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