Amazing Card Tricks
This is probably the simplest trick in the world to do!!
I will warn you now, by the time you have read to the end of this trick you will not believe that it is actually possible to do but let me assure you that it does work. Don’t believe me? Read through to the end, grab yourself a pack of cards and try it – you’ll be amazed.
Effect;
Start off with a deck of cards and ask the person to thoroughly shuffle the deck. Then you ask him to name any two cards, just with a face value of the cards without any suit, ie, Jack and nine.
Place the deck of cards onto the table and pretend to concentrate whilst having your hand or fingers touching the top of the deck. Then ask your spectator to turn over the cards himself and to shuffle through them until he comes to the two cards that he named which he will find in the pack together.
That’s it – the trick is complete.
So now you’re thinking to yourself how does that work, I haven’t actually had to do anything. The trick works by probability alone, the only thing you have to do is to add some theatricals by pretending to concentrate hard.
When the Spectator in your audience names the cards although he is only picking 2 he is, in fact, naming eight cards that exist in the pack as he is not required to pick any suit.
The theory goes that out of those eight cards, jack of spades jack of hearts, jack of clubs, jack of diamonds and the nine of hearts, nine of clubs, nine of diamonds, nine of hearts, that at least one of the Jack’s will be next to one of the nines.
Now I know what you’re thinking – that this can’t be true – would I lie to you?, grab a pack of cards and give it a go, you don’t even need an audience to test this one.
On average, about one in 10 times that you try the trick there will be a card between the two cards that the Spectator picked. If that occurs just redo the trick after telling the Spectator that you weren´t concentrating hard enough and you will find that it will work.
