Easy Card Tricks

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:05:59 +0000

If you are reading this, then you have probably been impressed David Blaine or some other person doing street magic tricks. You probably want to learn some easy card tricks to impress your friends. This article will help you do just that.

One thing that often discourages potential magicians is that they try to learn difficult tricks right away. Don’t be afraid to learn easy card tricks! Even David Blaine uses easy card tricks! He is just very good at presenting them well.

Presentation is a very big part of card tricks and magic in general. With good presentation skills, an easy trick can be made to look difficult or a difficult trick can be made to look easy. In order to hone your presentation skills, you must first master the trick you want to do. Follow every step of the directions. Practice over and over and over! Keep practicing the trick until you can do it with your eyes closed. Then practice in front of a mirror until you can fool yourself!

Watch other magicians– Actually, don’t watch them. Study them. Study how they present their tricks. See if you can pick out some easy card tricks they do and how they make these tricks appear difficult. Try to implement these methods into your own tricks and routines to make your easy card tricks appear to be more difficult, or even impossible!

After you learn a few card tricks, you will start to recognize certain components that are used a lot in most tricks– double lifts, triple lifts, trick shuffles, and different ways to force a card. Practice each of these components until you can do them effortlessly. You can use these tools to make up your own, original card tricks and routines. Soon, you’ll be out on the street performing card tricks for strangers!

In conclusion, remember even professional magicians use easy card tricks! It all comes down to practice and presentation. If you practice your tricks and present them well, you will become a great magician!

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Easy Card Trick– Turn a Volunteer into the Magician

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:25:47 +0000

When it comes to easy card tricks, it doesn’t get much easier than self-working card tricks. Self-working tricks don’t require much ability. All you have to do is follow each step correctly. The problem with these tricks is that often times, they don’t seem very magical and are easy to figure out.

This self-working trick is different! I have impressed and confused many people with this trick and it is SO easy!

Here’s how it works:

1.) Tell a volunteer that you are going to teach them how to do a magic trick and give them the cards.

2.) Ask them to fan the cards out with the numbers facing away from them. And tell them to tell you to choose a card, but not to let them see it.

3.) Pretend to be looking for a certain card or deciding what card to pick. You need to inconspicuously look at the first two cards of the deck. Let’s say they are the Ace of Spades and the Queen of Hearts.

4.) In this situation you need to choose either the Ace of Hearts or the Queen of Spades (Not the Ace of Spades or Queen of Hearts!). You will understand why in a minute.

5.) Once you choose the card, let’s say it was the Queen of Spades, tell the volunteer to tell you to memorize the card and to show it to the audience, but not to let them see it.

6.) Once you have memorized the card, set it down on a nearby table within sight, and have the volunteer square the deck.

7.) Now tell volunteer to deal a pile of ten cards.

8.) Then have the volunteer take that pile of ten cards and deal it in to two piles of five cards. It’s very important to have him deal one card to one pile and then one card to the second pile. If he does not alternate like that, this trick will not work!

9.) Once the volunteer dealt the two piles of five, you flip over the top card of one of the piles. It will be either the Ace of Spades or the Queen of Hearts. If it’s the Ace of Spades, ask, “What’s the suit of this card?” They will answer, “Spades.”

10.) Repeat step nine with the other pile. It will be the Queen of Hearts. Ask, “What’s the value of this card?” They will answer “Queen.”

11.) Repeat these two questions several times until you think the point has sunk in and then ask, “So, what card did I choose?” They will obviously answer Queen of Spades. Then you flip over the card you chose, revealing the Queen of Spades!

The funniest part of this card trick is when they try to reverse the roles and they pick the card! They think they are doing everything that you do, but it won’t work at all because they don’t pick the correct card!

It’s also very important to find the right card to pick quickly, or the volunteer might get suspicious. This becomes easier with practice, though. So, don’t worry.

As far as easy card tricks go, this one ranks right up there with the best!

How To Practice Your Card Tricks

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:42:59 +0000

First, you should practice your card tricks every single day. Most easy card tricks rely on muscle memory and the best way to build muscle memory is to do the action for a little while each day. You do not have to sacrifice a lot of time to do this. These card tricks can be done while you do other things in your daily routine. Take a deck of cards with you everywhere you go and whenever you have down time, practice. You can practice on the subway to work. You can practice on the toilet! You can even practice while you run on the treadmill!

Second, instead of practicing an entire trick, you can master the building blocks of many easy card tricks. Spend time and energy on mastering how to do a perfect double-lift or faro shuffle and it will pay dividends later. Learning the building blocks of all card tricks will allow you to learn many tricks at a rapid pace because you won’t have to worry about your technical abilities.

Third, practice in front of a mirror. If you cannot fool yourself in front of a mirror, you are not a good enough magician to perform your card tricks on other people. Plus it is a really cool feeling to see yourself do a card trick, know exactly how it is being done, but still be impressed by its magical effects.

Fourth, after you can fool yourself, start showing off to your friends. Not only is this a lot of fun, but it will give you motivation to learn and master new tricks. You can be that nerd who brings out his deck of cards at a party and perform card tricks for all your drunk friends! Seriously, though, by knowing a couple easy card tricks, you can make yourself the center of attention at any party.

Lastly, practice on random strangers. Go up to people on the sidewalk and ask to show them a card trick. It is a lot of fun and you can meet a lot of new people. Also, you can think of yourself as brightening their day a little. And, of course, there is the added benefit that, if you mess up, you never have to see them again!

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