Magic Card Tricks

Magic card tricks are great to watch. Especially when you've got a good "cardician" performing those tricks. By using various deals a cardician can make cards disappear, make nominated cards re-appear, transfer cards around the pack - just like magic.

But anyone can learn how to do magic card tricks - and without spending years practising them.

What do you need to perform magic card tricks yourself? Good question.

You need to know the mechanics of each card trick. How to hold the pack of cards. The type of shuffle you're need to employ. Which card grip to use. ie. The Mechanic's Grip perhaps. Whether to perform the card trick sitting at a table or standing up. How to switch cards at will.

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Here's one "miracle" card switch you can do:

A card held in the right hand is shown, then placed face down on the table. A spectator turns over the card and it is found to have changed.

Step1. Hold the deck face down in the left hand as for dealing with left thumb across middle of deck.

Step 2. With the right forefinger, seem to lift a card by the lower right corner. Actually the right forefinger lifts two cards, then turns them face up as a single card.

Step 3. As the cards are flipped face up, they are made to fall in an injogged position.

Step 4. The right first and second fingers now grasp the cards by the lower non-index corner, fingers on the face of the card and right thumb below.

Step 5. The cards are now lifted off the pack and displayed as apparently a single card. Your third and fourth fingers are still curved in towards the palm of your hand.

Step 6. The right hand now places the cards face down against the table. At this point nothing has taken place except the third and fourth fingers move out and are in line with the other two.

Step 7.Now the sleight takes place. The right fingers, pressing on the face card, move inwards towards the palm while the right thumb moves the top card of the two forward.

Step 8. The right thumb continues shoving the top card forward until it falls free onto the table. Resulting in a single card face down on the table while the right hand has formed a fist. At this time the right forefinger and thumb will have the original card nipped by the upper left corner while the upper right corner will be digging into the right palm.

Step 9. The right thumb now curls down over the upper left corner of the card. This leaves the right fingers free to straighten out. The card continues to be held between the tip of the thumb and base of the palm.

Step 10. As the right fingers straighten out, the right arm moves backwards. This results in the right fingertips touching the upper right corner of the tabled card.

Step 11. During the whole action the side of the right hand must touch the table.

So there you have it. That's just one magic card trick revealed which with practice you can perform. And there's hundreds more waiting for you.

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