With some early preparation most magic card tricks are easy to perform. Practice a bit and you will perform tricks that will amaze your audience. Most card tricks are easy for children to perform and they will have fun mystifying their friends. The name of this trick is the ‘Quick Find’ it is a well known trick.
Getting ready:
Before you begin your trick you will need to remove four cards from your deck of cards. Do the trick with a deck of 52 cards, that is a standard poker deck of cards. Find the red nines and red sixes and take them out of the deck. The six of hearts and six of diamonds and the nine of hearts and nine of diamonds are the removed cards. Take the nine of diamonds and place it on the top of your deck and then place the six of hearts on the bottom of the deck. Make sure the cards are facing down. Take the nine of hearts and six of diamonds out.
For the trick to start:
Display the nine of hearts and six of diamonds for your audience while holding the deck of cards in your left hand. A member of the audience has to take both the nine of hearts and six of diamonds and put them back into the deck. The cards will be put back into the deck
The grand finale:
{Holding the deck of cards in your left hand {or the right depending on which is more comfortable} , squeeze the top card and the bottom card together and toss the deck into your other hand.~Now with grace hold the deck in which ever hand is the most comfortable to you, put the deck into your other hand while squashing the top and bottom card together.~The deck will be moved from one hand to the other so begin with it in the most comfortable hand for you and with discretion as the deck moves to your other hand squish the top and bottom card together.} You can now show the cards because you have the top and bottom cards with you.
Although these are not the same choice of cards that were chosen by the audience, they never notice that they are looking at a six instead of a nine, it almost always works. The ‘Quick Find’ trick and it’s effectiveness are dependent on how smoothly you perform it.
Another version of this ‘Quick Find’ trick:
This version is basically identical to the last one except for one thing. Rather than use the similar colored cards from the same deck in this version you will take an identical deck and steal the exact same cards putting them in the deck in your hand. Like before you will place one on top of the deck and one on the bottom of the deck both facing down.
Obviously any two cards may be used in this edition of the trick. The six of clubs and nine of diamonds may be used. Reveal the six of clubs and nine of diamonds to the audience and then add them to your deck, just like you did before. Ask your audience to place the cards lying on the table into the deck in random places. You might fan the deck out for them to place the cards and push them into the deck. Be sure not to show the face up side. The exact cards that the audience put into the deck will be the ones they get back after you have pressed the cards together and shown them.
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