MAGIC TRICKS contd

ONE-WAY CARDS:

The magician shuffles the deck and fans the cards out and asks you to select one. You are ask to look at it and remember it. You are then asked to place it any where you like in the deck. The magician then closes up the deck and shuffles well. Your card is now well and truly lost in the deck. The magician then quickly selects your chosen card.This trick is very similar to the‘Cutting the Corner’ trick but is done in a different way and may be simpler to perform.

Again this trick requires a modified deck. You will need a pack ideally that has a border around the pattern on the back of the deck. As shown in the picture use a pin to remove some of the ink across one corner of every card, must be one corner only! When you have your deck ready just make sure all the cards are arranged in the same direction. When the volunteer takes their selected card you turn your deck through 180 degrees so when the selected card is returned it is now the other way around to all the others. Shuffle and select the chosen card with ease!

BLACK AND RED:

The magician sorts the deck into a pile of red cards and a pile of black cards, face up. He then turns them upside down and riffle shuffles them into each other and then continue several over hand shuffles explaining that the cards are now well and truly mixed up.The cards are then dealt back into two piles, face down and when turned over they are back in red and black order!

Again you will need the directional pack of cards we made in the previous trick, ‘One – Way Cards’. Start with them all in the same direction, mixed up. Sort into the two piles, when you riffle shuffle turn one set through 180 degrees so when they mix the red and blacks are in opposing directions. Shuffle over hand as much as you like and then sort into piles using the direction markings.
PS. Don’t worry about the two nines in the shuffle picture, the photo was done with a Svengali deck which is a whole other story!

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY:

The magician riffles through the entire deck in a fraction of a second and looks at all the cards. A tells everyone that he now knows the order of every card in the deck! The first card is easy as everyone can see it, so says, 3 of diamonds. The deck is then put behind his back and the front card is put to the back and the deck is brought back out facing the audience. The new front card is correctly predicted. Again the cards are put behind the magicians back and the front card put to the back, brought out and correctly identified. The magician repeats this until everyone is satisfied that he knows the entire deck!

Audience’s v iew (card moved to your view of the next card
side to explain, in position for trick)

When you riffle the deck you must remember the second card, forget the rest! When you put the deck behind you the first time take the first and the remembered second card and put them face up on the back of the deck in reverse order so the remember card is now at the front. Say this card out loud. You are now looking at the front of the deck and the audience are looking at the back! You can see the next card, remember it and put it to the ‘new’ front when it’s behind you, repeat until you have gone through 20 or 30 cards! You cannot go to the end or your secret will be revealed!

DINNER TABLE MAGIC:

Save this trick if a pack of cards ever comes out at a dinner table after a meal.The magician takes a pack of cards face down and riffles through them and asks you to say stop. You are then given the choice of the card at the split or the next one above. You take this card and remember it whilst the magician puts both halves of the deck on the table. You then have the choice to place your card on top of any one pile. The magician then puts his fingers on your card to hold it in
place and puts the other pile on top and removes his fingers just in time. He picks up the deck and riffles it. Then lays it flat in his palm and pushes his arm forwards so half the cards fall on the table. The top card in the magicians hand is revealed to be your card!

The secret has something to do with the magician putting his fingers on your card! You need a few grains of salt on your finger tips, then when you remove your fingers a few remain. This will be sufficient to make the cards split at this position..