Spelling Out the Card Trick

This is personally my favorite magic trick that I know. To perform it, you need to know what the bottom card is before you tell your audience (1 person) to pick a card from the deck. If the person chooses the bottom card, just quickly look at the next bottom card as they look at the card they chose. Then, cut the deck into three equal piles as best as you can and tell your audience to place the card on top of one of the piles. Make sure to remember which pile has the bottom card you memorized, because you want to place that deck on top of the audience's card. However, if the card is placed on top of the deck with the bottom card, you have to cut the deck in half to ensure that the bottom card is on top of the chooser's card.
Now, you want to start flipping over all of the cards, face up, one at a time into random piles until you find the bottom card. Once you find it, start a new pile where the first card is your audience's card. Make sure to memorize this card. Next, on the following pile, you want to place the number of cards to spell out your audience's card (Ex: "seven of hearts" has 13 letters, thus 13 cards). I suggest just spelling the card out in your head as you place down the cards. In the end, you want to place the cards used to spell out the audience's card on top of the deck, followed by the card itself, and then the rest of the cards can go in any order after that. Finally, you want to spell out a card by placing down a top card for every letter. Once you spelled out the card, flip over the next top card which should be the same card you just spelled out. Sorry I don't have a video for this card trick.

~The Magician of the Street

Card Prediction Trick

To perform the Card Prediction Trick, you will needed, obviously, a deck of cards. The first thing to do is rig the deck. You will need any 5 card, three random cards, and any three cards of a kind (three 7's for example) all on top of the deck. Most audiences will believe the deck isn't rigged if you shuffle, so a fake shuffle that does not disturb the first seven cards is recommended for this trick.

Now, this trick is based off of a prediction card that you take out of the deck (in this case a 7) and hide it from the view of your audience (any size). Next, ask someone to cut the deck into three equal pieces as best they can and tell him/her to flip over the top card from each pile onto the table. So that your audience knows that you didn't "RIG" the deck, you can say, "Those are wonderful choice you have made," or something along those lines. Then, pick up a deck and place the same number of cards as the number from the chosen card under the deck (A=1; J,Q,K=10). After that, place a card on top of the other piles. Do the same for the other decks, but make sure to leave the deck with the chosen 5 card as the last deck you do this to. At this point you may tell your audience your prediction card, and after that tell them to flip over the other top cards from the three decks. The cards should be the same number (or letter) as your prediction card.

~The Magician of the Street

Disappearing Coin Trick

For this next trick all you need as a coin (I personally use a quarter), a watch, and a small audience (1-2 people). Now, I know this might be hard for some people to do, but this trick requires being kind. You want to have a friendly conversation with your audience as you perform this trick. To start the trick all you want to do is ask your audience which hand the coin is in; it's as simple as that. However you want to switch up which hand the coin is in from time to time, and I suggest adding so fake grabs of the coin (Ex: have the coin on your right hand and just do the motion of picking up the coin with the left hand without actually grabbing the coin).
Now, once you have asked them which hand the coin is in after a couple of time, you want to make the coin finally disappear. To do this, you want to tell the audience a compliment like, "Good job," or, "Very good," after they find the correct hand in which the coin is in. When your audience looks up to meet your eyes as you say your compliment, slip the coin in-between your watch and wrist very quickly, but discretely. Once you have hidden the coin, pinch all of your fingers together and display it briefly as you say, "Ok, one last time," to make your audience belive that you still have the coin. Ask them which hand it is in, and once showing that there is nothing in both hands, just walk away with out telling them where the coin went.

~The Magician of the Street

Card Snap Change

This is a scene from the movie "Now You See Me" where Jesse Eisenberg switches cards from the Jack of Spades to the Ace of Hearts. This is a very simple trick, but requires practice. First, you need two cards placed on top of each other and make sure that second card is completely hidden. Plus, you have to hold the cards with your pointer and middle finger in front and your thumb in the back. Now, to change the cards, you have to pull the first card back quickly with your middle finger while keeping your pointer finger in front holding the second card along with you thumb. Once you master this process, you can flick the cards as you are changing the hidden card. Hope you get some great reactions!!

~The Magician of the Street

Let the Show Begin!

Hello fellow magic followers. I am the Magician of the Streets (A.K.A. Renzo Buenaventura) and welcome to my blog about how to do magic tricks with only small props. I will show you how to do simple coin tricks to awesome card setups. I personally guarantee that people will ask you how to do these jaw dropping tricks after they see them in action, and you have the power to say "A magician never reveals his secrets." Hope you enjoy the show!

~The Magician of the Street