Effect: The perfomer asks a spectator to tell him to mix up some cards, following the performer's instructions to the letter. No matter how much they're mixed up, they end up in the same order as at the beginning of the trick.

Effect: You fan out a deck of cards (face down), and ask the spectator to pick any card. They take the card out of the deck and memorize it. You put the deck behind your back, and in no time, you know their card.

You will need someone to be an accomplice in this trick. Arrange eight cards in the pattern of the symbols on the face of an eight...

Use any full deck and its case. Allow a friend to shuffle the cards. Tell him/her to keep one of the cards,...

You will need someone to act as your assistant for this. Have your assistant leave the room during the first part.

In this trick 16 cards are placed face up on a table, in four rows of four cards. Ask a spectator to pick a card in his mind, and to...

Effect: In this effect one half of the pack is placed face to face with the other half, yet, on the work of command, the cards right themselves so that all of them face the same way.

Effect: The magician shuffles a normal deck of cards, he shows it to the audience, he starts at the bottom and finds the first three cards with the same number, lets say 6...

Effect: There are four islands in an ocean. Each has a king, queen, a son named Jack (the Jack will be used,) and a dog named Ace (the Ace will be used.) One day, a hurricane storms through the ocean, creating complete chaos and wiping everything on the islands away. Finally, each king lands on his own island, each queen on her own island, etc.

This card trick seems magical, but it's not. To perform, separate all of the Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks from a deck of cards. The rest of the cards will not be used. Begin the trick by telling this story of the greatest and most powerful wizard.

This is a trick which can be performed without ever handling or even seeing the cards. Ask your friend to shuffle a pack of cards and then select any spot card. ie. not a picture card. Turn your back so that you can't see what he is doing then ask him to place...

Holding a deck of cards face down in your left hand, take a small bunch of cards with your right. Turn the cards in your right hand face up, and put them on top of the cards in your left. Square up the deck. Grab all of the face up...

Effect: Three spectators choose one card each and memorizes them. The performer deals groups of cards and the spectators put their cards in different piles each. The performer stacks the piles together and eliminates all other cards and the remainning three cards are those of the spectators.

Shuffle a deck of cards. Place the top card face up on the table and look at its number (Jacks, Queens, and Kings all equal 10.) Put enough cards on top of the card to make the total 10. For example if a 4 is showing,...

Prepration: Find a volunteer (One who won't mess up the trick). Teach him about the trick. Inform him not to tell anyone about your secret code (see below.)

Preparation: Before you start the trick place the four Kings on top of the deck.