Card Tricks (Magic Handbook) 9781554075690, 1554075696

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Copyright © QED Publishing2008 First published in the UK in 2008 by QED Publishing A Quarto Group Company 226 City Road London ECIV 2TT www.ged-publishing.co.uk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library,

ISBN 278. 934835 092 2 Printed and bound in China Author Joe Fullman

Editor Amanda Askew

Designer Jackie Palmer Illustrator

Publisher

Mark Turner for Beehive Illustrations

Steve Evans

Creative Director

Zeta Davies

Picture credits

Corbis Bettmann 13, Justin Lane/epa 21, Tony Korody/Sygma 25 Cups and Balls Museum 31

Getty Images Time & Life Pictures 15, 29 Rex Features Brian Rasic 16, Dimitris Legakis 19 - Shutterstock Nadina 7

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The magic of cards Abracadabra! Hey presto! An Ace trick Mind reading Aces on top Magic elastic Odds and evens Card peeking Forcing the cards The pocket The vanishing card The magic shoe The lift Simple skills to master

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ave you ever watched a magician l perform an amazing trick and wondered how they did it? Then this is the book for you! Learn how to do 13 card tricks to entertain and astound your friends and family.

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The tricks get harder throughout the book, so each trick has been given a rating. One is the easiest and seven is the hardest.The most difficult tricks will take a bit of practice to get right, but the results will be worth it!

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Pick up the cards, putting piles back together to make deck again. Be sure to place containing your volunteer’s top of the others.

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Take the deck from the volunteer

and turn over the top card. Hey presto, it’s their chosen card!

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~When your audience is ready, give the deck a quick ‘false shuffle’. This will make it look like you have changed the

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order of the cards, but will leave the first 13 cards in place, ready for you to begin the trick.

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-Announce to your audience that you are going to sort out the cards. Fan out

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Count off the first 13 cards without /changing the order and separate them ~ from the deck. Then, fan out this pile to show the audience that they are in no particular order. Square up the 13 cards face down.

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taking a card from top of the pile as you say each letter and placing it at the back of the 13-card pile. Now turn over the next (fourth) card. It is an Ace! Place this face up on the table.

pointing towards your thumb.

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pile from the midale of the pack, leaving the cards at the front awd back. ~~ * Drop the cards in _ small Qroups at the back of the pack.

” Next, spell the word ‘two’ out loud, taking a card off the deck for each letter and placing it on the bottom of the back. Turn over the next (fourth)

card. It will be the two. Place this on top of the Ace face up on the table.

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“tf you want to Leave just the top card in place, pick up a Large pile. However, Lf you want to Leave several cards in place, pick up a smaller pile,

Continue spelling out the numbers and names of the cards. Each time, the

following card will be the one you have - spelt out, until you reach the King.

between the middle and the bottom of the pack.

or this trick, you will need to doalittle acting. You are going to pretend that you have ‘read the mind’ of your volunteer. In fact, if you prepare the cards in the right way, this trick will work every time, without you having to do a thing!

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With your audience in position, give the deck a quick ‘false shuffle’ before you begin the trick to make it look like you have changed the order of the cards.

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Ace, Joker, 10,9, 7.

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Lay out the first 11 cards face down in a row from left to right.

Ask your volunteer to move some of the cards from the right-hand side of the row to the left-hand side. They can move as many cards as they like, but they must be sure to move the cards one at a time.

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$ £ Count seven cards from the left and turn over the card. Whatever the number is on the card, that’s the number of cards that have been moved. This works every time, no matter how many cards were moved. If the volunteer decided not to move any cards, you will pick up the Joker.

ae, thoroughly mixes up four piles of Acards — but each pile ends up with an Ace on top.As long as your volunteer follows your instructions exactly, this trick will never fail. Make sure you do not forget which pile of cards is which! /

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~~ cards. Ask them to divide, or cut, the deck into four roughly equal piles. Remember which pile has the Aces in, or the trick will not work.

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Double lift You need to pick up two cards tw such away that Lt Looks Like uN have only

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Square up the deck and perform the double lift. Show the card underneath to the audience. They will think that they are looking at the top card.

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Now take the top card and put it on the bottom of the deck. The audience will think you are moving the card that they saw.

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you are going to make the bottom card rise to the top of the pack. Snap your fingers over the deck.

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be many thousands of years. So archaeologists think that a paint on the wall of a tomb from anciew Egupt shows the earliest image of magic trick. tw the picture, a figure

appears to performing aw illustow USLNG A series of CUPS. Vv Were these ancient Egyptians

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n addition to learning the skills mentioned in the ‘New Skills Alert’ boxes, it is also important to practise the following techniques if you want to become a top magician.

Card counting For some tricks, the only skill you need is the ability to count — making sure you have laid out or picked up the correct number of cards and then placed them in their correct order. Card peekin g

To ‘peek’ is to take a secret look at a card, allowing you to memorize its number and suit without your audience realizing what you are doing.

Cutting To ‘cut’ a pack is to roughly divide it by taking a pile off the top. Methory Having a good memory is vital if you

want to be a good magician — tricks often have several stages that need to be remembered clearly and in the correct order.

‘O:bs¢rvation A keen eye is one of a magician’s most vital skills. You have to be aware of what is going on at all times.

Sleight of hatid You need to be able to move something secretly with your hands in such a way that the audience thinks you are doing something else. Spelling

For some tricks you will need to spell out a word for the trick to work. Learn how to spell the word — and practise spelling it — before performing the trick or you may make a mistake.

Stacking the deck,

Stacking the deck means to secretly arrange the cards, usually before the trick begins, so some of them are in a certain order — which the magician knows, but the audience does not.

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Asbonish your fricnds*by knowing which card they have chosen!

1 ¢arfi how to doa false shuffle!

fhaffle your audience with the ‘vanishing card’ frick!

Titles in this series Card Tricks « Coin and Rope Tricks.» Mind Tricks * Sleight of Hand

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