Anti-Gravity Cards

Effect: Several playing cards adhere to your hand, until you tell them to fall off.
Secret: You need to make a special card. It is simply an ordinary card with a tab cut from another card attached to its back. The special card is first placed face up on your palm and the tab is gripped between your fingers. Arrange some more cards between the special card and your hand as shown. Turn your hand over and the cards will appear to be sticking to it – until you let go of the tab.

The Haunted Pack

Effect: A pack of cards divides to reveal a chosen card.
Secret: Ask someone to take a card, look at it and remember it. Point to the top card of the pack. As you do this you secretly drop a few grains of salt on the top card. The spectator puts his card on the top of the pack and the pack is then cut, so the chosen card is hidden somewhere near the centre. Hit the edge of the pack with the heel of your hand and, thanks to the secret salt, the pack will divide at the chosen card.

On Your Mark

Effect: A selected card is located within seconds.
Secret: With a soft black pencil draw a diagonal line down both sides of a pack of cards. When you show the trick, you remove the cards from the case and ask someone to take any card, remember it and return it anywhere in the pack. Pick up the pack and look at your pencil mark. At one point there will be a small back mark out of alignment with the rest of the line – that is the chosen card.

Spelling Bee

Effect: Ten cards are counted in a magical manner.

Secret: The cards you use have been secretly arranged in the order shown. The actual suits do not matter. Run the cards, one at a time, from hand to hand. This reverses the order so the Nine is now on the top. Place the 10 cards on the pack. To show the trick count off 10 cards (this gets the arrangement back to normal, with the Three on top). Take the cards one at a time from the top of the packet and place them on the bottom as you spell A C E (one card to each letter). Turn over the card on the E and it is an Ace. Drop this card on the table. Now spell T W O – again moving one card from the top to the bottom of the packet for each letter. Turn over the "O" card, a Two, and drop it on the table. Continue spelling in this way until you get to 10. For the 10th card you have only one card left but pretend to spell the letters as before to amuse your audience.

Kings And Aces

Effect: Two playing cards make a mysterious journey.

Secret: You need a special playing card. First glue an Ace of Spades and a King of Diamonds back to back. Cut an Ace of Clubs in half lengthways. Glue this on top of the Ace of Spades. Now glue a smaller strip of another King of Diamonds on top of that. Hold a King of Hearts against the special card and it looks like four cards. Place the four cards in a box. Bring out the King of Hearts and place it in another box. Secretly turn the special card over and bring it out, showing the King of Diamonds. Also place this in the other box. Show the first box empty. The Aces have vanished. Take all four cards (really only two) from the second box, showing them as you did before. It seems that the Aces have magically travelled across.

The Mystic Seven

Effect: You predict which pile of cards a spectator will choose.

Secret: One a piece of paper, you write: "You will choose the Seven pile". The paper is then folded and given to a spectator for safekeeping. You now take several cards from a pack and arrange them in three face-down piles. The three piles are formed as follows: Pile One: Any seven cards. Pile Two: The four Sevens. Pile Three: An Ace, a Two and a Four (which add up to seven). A spectator is given the choice of any of the three piles. Whichever pile is chosen the prediction is always correct.

The Triangle Trick

BY WAY of showing the higher flights to which the use of double cards may be put, a detailed description and explanation of this trick devised by David Devant, the great English magician, follows: Having invited a gentleman to occupy a chair facing the audience the performer begins by calling attention to a complete pack of cards displayed on a blackboard on an easel and also to a quantity of wide ribbon. He removes the two top rows of cards, half the pack, drops them face downwards on a tray and asks the spectator to take them, cut the pack and put the halves together face to face and then to twist the center part of the ribbon several times around the cards. He then gives the two ends of the ribbon to two ladies seated at the extreme right and left of the front row, forming as he explains 'The Triangle' of which the spectator is the Apex. He removes the other half of the cards from the easel and puts them face up on the tray. Each of the ladies is then asked to mentally select one card. This done he gathers up the cards and asks each lady to hold the packet in turn at the end of their ribbon and to wish the card thought of to leave the packet and go to the gentleman's at the Apex. The ladies name their cards, the packet is spread out and the cards are no longer in it. The spectator unwinds the ribbon from his packet and in it he finds the two cards mentally selected.

Method:
A prepared pack, several yards of wide ribbon, an easel with a blackboard having four thin strips across it to hold the cards, a tray and a chair are required. One half of the pack consists of double-faced cards, the cards on the backs being duplicates of the unprepared half of the pack. The cards are placed on the easel so that the two top rows are the ordinary cards, the two bottom rows are the double-faced cards. They overlap a little so that they can be picked up quickly. The performer takes off the two top rows, which the spectator puts into a faced packet and then winds the center part of the ribbon round it. The two ends of the ribbon are handed to the two ladies. He takes the two remaining rows from the easel and secretly turns them over in getting the tray, thus bringing the duplicates of the cards wrapped in ribbon into view. Each lady in turn is asked to merely think of one of these cards. He gathers up the cards, has each lady hold them to her end of the ribbon and as the cards are named he secretly turns the packet again. Naturally the two cards are no longer to be seen. Since duplicates of these cards have been in the packet wrapped in the ribbon all the time, the spectator on the stage finds them and the trick is brought to a successful end. In the meantime the performer has had ample opportunity to drop the double-faced cards into his pocket and bring out the twenty-six cards necessary to make up a complete pack. This he hands to the spectator for inspection.

Elimination Extraordinary

EFFECT:
A pack of cards is handed to a spectator who shuffles it thoroughly and retains possession of it (the magician does not touch the pack from first to last). Performer writes a prediction on a slip of paper which is placed in an envelope and held by a spectator. The cards are dealt into a number of piles until after a process of selection and elimination by the person who deals, one card only is left face down on the table. The prediction is read, it is the name of the very card that has been left on the table.

METHOD:
The pack used is a one-way pack in which all the cards have been set the one way with the exception of one which is reversed. It is the name of this card which the performer writes on a slip of paper and seals in an envelope. The pack is shuffled, overhand fashion, and cut as often as the spectator may wish. He is then instructed to deal the cards into a number of face-down piles. The performer has simply to note in which pile the reversed card falls and by playing upon the words 'take' and 'leave' interprets the spectator's choice in such a way that that pile only remains, the others being eliminated. The cards in the pile are again dealt into several heaps and again he notes which contains the reversed card. The process is continued until finally one card only, the reversed card is left on the table. The trick should be carried through in a breezy style, without giving the spectator too much time to think.

Card To Ashes

Effect:
Magician fans through a deck of cards and the spectator is invited to touch one. Performer then shows the spectator the card they touched and tells them to memorize it. The spectator is asked to write the name of their card on a piece of paper and fold it up. Performer then lights the paper on fire, rolls up his sleeve and wipes the ashes on his forearm. Suddenly the name of the chosen card is revealed on his arm!

Secret:
The chosen card must be forced. Carve a piece of soap to the width of a pencil with a sharp point to write with. Wet the tip of the soap pencil a little and write the name of the forced card on your arm. The ashes will stick to the soap.

Psychic Test

Effect:
The magician tells an audience member to touch the ace of spades. The magician lays the card down and tells another member of the audience to touch the 10 of clubs and another to touch the king of spades. The magician asks everyone to recall his or her cards and all three are correct.

Secret:
The secret is in the fact that the audience never sees the card until the end. You begin by predicting the card that is actually on the bottom of the deck, this is why the you lay the cards down. Before you lay the card down though, you look at it (tell them your making sure they are right). This is the next card you will tell someone else to touch. Once they touch their card you look at it again and lay it down. Of course this is the next card that will supposedly be touched, but you need the next person to touch the bottom card. There are three possible ways of dealing with this:
1.You can touch the last card yourself
2. You can ideally have help from a friend
3. You can use more than 3 cards every time a card is chosen, put the top half of the deck to the side and have them pick the next card from the bottom half – usually this works pretty well, but it takes longer and if you make it work it is the most effective method, especially with larger groups of people.

Behind The Back

Effect:
A spectator shuffles a deck of cards and hands it to the magician while his back is turned. The magician holds the deck in front of him, showing the bottom card of the deck to the audience only, and the audience to name that card. The magician does this a few times, shuffling the cards behind his back and showing the bottom. After the about the third time, the performer begins announcing the names of the cards himself. This is repeated several times, the magician is always right!

Secret:
While the deck of cards is behind your back, pretend to shuffle the deck and take the top five cards off. Flip these cards over, face-up, and lay them back on top of the deck. Hold the deck up for the audience to see, without looking at the bottom card. Looking at the back side of the deck, remember the card that is flipped over. Put the deck of cards behind you again, turn the top card you just looked at over and place it on the bottom of the deck. Now show the bottom of the deck again, this time announce the card you just remembered. Note the card on the back as before, and repeat the process until all five cards have been turned over.

Twenty Cards

Effect:
The magician sets twenty randomly selected cards on the table, face up. While the magician is out of the room, each of the spectators mentally select a different pair of cards. The performer randomly places the cards in rows of five. Each of the spectators point to the two rows that their cards are in, and the magician immediately picks up their pair of cards.Secret: The cards are not actually placed at random, instead a formula is used to place them in a special self-working pattern. Imagine that you see these four rows of words spelled with big letters across the table: start, bells, brooz, and dazed. Start by placing the first pairs of cards on each imaginary S, then on each T, and on each A and R. Continue going down the rows, placing the each of the pairs of cards on the next pair of letters in the formula. Now as the spectators point to the rows their two cards are in, you pick up the only pair of cards in these rows.

Method:
Practice placing the cards in this formula, until you can do it fast enough to look natural. Place the twenty cards in pairs on the table first, leave the room, and ask the spectators to select their pair of cards. Do not put them in their special order until you have re-entered the room. This will also give the spectators less time to over think the entire process. When you enter the room, pick up the cards and quickly lay them in the special order. Now if they say their item is in the first and last row you know it is the object in the place of the letter A. If their item is in the second and third rows, then the letter B will be your key. You will notice that you do not necessarily need to use the letters to find the pairs, simply use the formula to place the cards in their self-working location.

The moon maps

If you saw David Copperfield show, you may have been wondering how he did that trick with the Moon Card. Each member of his audience 9 cards received before the show. 8 of them are empty, but one of them has an image of the moon on it. After much careful mixing instructions, David manages to identify the Moon card in the hand of everyone.
Like many of David Copperfield's tricks, the Moon card trick is based on an old standard that many magicians before him have used. It is commonly known as the 21 card trick, as it is usually done with 21 cards instead of 9. David Moon's card is just a simplified version of that thing, because it is only using 9 cards instead of 21, and it does not leave someone chose a map - from the outset, it tells everyone that map chosen is the Moon Card.

You can go round card of 21 at home: Talk to your audience that you can read the mind of anyone ... But that is only a very weak link telepathic, and you can not receive mental images, not complex ideas. The best way to prove it is with a card game (because there are all these beautiful pictures on them.)

Ask a volunteer. Now, tell him that you have a pile of cards (no need to mention exactly 21 cards) and you classify a 3 batteries. Ask him to choose a card, but do not let him tell you which card he is. You just ask him to stack his card is "Keep the cards face up in your hand and take the first card on top, putting on the table. This will stack 1. Now, take the next card and drop it beside the first card. This will stack 2. Take the next card and put it next to the other two. This will stack 3.

Now, take the fourth card, and place it on stilts 1. Take the fifth card and place it on stilts 2. Take the 6th card and place it on stilts 3. In other words, lay down all the cards 3 batteries, setting up a card in each pile, and then starting over 1 battery. Once you've done, ask your pile of volunteerism that is the card in. Then recover all 3 job, but make sure the pile with the card is chosen between the other two batteries. Make sure not an opinion that you are careful to place the pile with the card in the middle of two others when you remove the batteries.

Talk to your volunteers you're not exactly sure yet - it is difficult to focus on the display of the map in his mind so that you can get a clear picture. Tell him to help him concentrate on nothing else but the map, you'll batteries again, and you have to look for his card. Tell him it is easier for you to signal its resolve in mind.

Now again - Keep all cards face up in your hand, enter one on top, be stacked on 1, turn the next card on stilts 2, 3 e map on stilts 3, the fourth card on stilts 1, etc. When you're done, ask them who pile their card is now. (Map May have moved to another cell or even be in the same cell.) Take 3 batteries. And besides, be sure to save the battery with a map between the other two batteries.
Tell him you begin to see a blurred image, and you'll have to make the batteries once again to be sure. Now, for the 3rd and last time ... Take the top card and put it on stilts 1, putting the second card on stilts 2, the third card on stilts 3, the fourth card on a battery, etc. etc.
Ask your audience one last time to tell you that his job card is then pick up all 3 batteries - and still make sure you place the pile with the card chosen in the middle of two other piles as you pick them up. Now all the mysterious act as if you were trying to view the map. Take each card, hold it for a second, then drop it. When you reach the 11th card, hold it and show the public - is the chosen card!

The trick is based on a mathematical principle. By 3 batteries 3 times and always keeping the battery with the card in the middle, you automatically place it in the exact center of 21 cards ... There will be 10 cards before and after 10 cards. The card will always chosen the 11th card. David Copperfield In the case of its map of the 5th, as it did on tour with only 9 cards. So after mixing, there are 4 blank cards before the Moon Card, and 4 blank cards afterwards. PS: You can baffle even more ... Making the case again but when you secretly counting cards at the end, do it while the bridge is face down in your hand. Everything you see is the back of each card, and you can always know which card was picked. (Because all you have to do is count up to 11, regardless of whether the cards face up or face down.)

Map in the window Trick

The latter, as with many Blaine directory, is a variant of an old routine - on the map in a frame. David gave his own "twist".

Effect:
To this end David Blaine is a map chosen by throwing the deck of cards in a cafe window. As the cards fall soil map chosen is perceived to join coffee "window - a more thorough examination and the map is to be pasted inside of the window!

Preparation:
You need two cards correspondence (the spine and face), one of these cards must be secretly placed first in the place where you intend to produce the magic 'chosen' card, that is to say, a coffee "window.

Labor:
With the first map corresponding placed you're ready to "force" the second card on your loan victim!

Have the memory card and returned on deck - to beat maps and control "forced" map of the page. You can, at this stage, ask your audience if they believe in "mind over matter or the likelihood of their card materializes in another place", etc, etc.

Palm-off both cards and start the whole bridge the window.

As your audience turns to see the results of your disbelieving bridge launch behaviour, palmed the pocket card.

Magnificent! Now they also that the card is inside of the window!