Well, who doesn’t want to make a big impression at the next party or well, anywhere? Whether you want to win a bet among your friends or impress a couple of new friends, the key is to do some card tricks. Here are 5 crucial things to know before playing cards. Tools of the Trade To pull off some great tricks, all you need is a pack of cards and a large audience. If you’ve never bought playing cards before, you can buy them from your favorite online or brick-and-mortar store. For beginners, any basic pack of playing cards should work, pun intended.
3 card blind mount
Facing the spectators, place 2 black Ace cards and the Queen of Hearts face up. Then he turns around and asks them to choose one of the 3 cards. Once they do, shuffle the cards face down. Then he pretends to guess which card was chosen and then suddenly the correct card is face up. To do this, ask your audience to change the position of the other two cards that they do not choose. Once he turns all the cards face down and you turn around to look at all the cards face down, ask him to shuffle them. Let your eyes follow the middle card. Flip this card up, as it was the person’s choice. They will never realize how you read their minds.
Find your card
Have a volunteer select a card from a deck you give them. Once you see your own card, you need to put it back in the deck. He then finds his card very easily in the deck, much to his amazement. The way to do this is to split the black and red cards before the trick. When they choose their card, check to see if they selected from the black or red part of the deck. When they select red, ask them to return it to the black deck and vice versa.
This is the easiest method of finding out what choice they made and will leave the audience dumbfounded for hours or even days.
Ace It!
Volunteers take the deck of cards and deal them in a pile of 4. Once the volunteer has finished dividing, at the top of each deck is an Ace. To do this, remove all the aces beforehand and place them on the bottom of the deck. Give this to your volunteer and have them build four decks slowly. Say, “think hard as you put your cards on each pile.” They will then automatically place each of the last four aces on each of the four card stacks they made. Tell them to turn over the top card and look, it’s an ace!
Nothing like knowing some great tricks
To conclude, there really is nothing like a few card tricks up your sleeve to impress a lot of people watching. Since all you really need is a bunch of cards, card tricks are a great icebreaker or boredom solution any day of the week.