Friday, May 15, 2015

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

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