Perform Basic Card Tricks
Many basic card tricks are very easy to master, and once you do, you can impress your friends and family. Start with some very simple card tricks, and work your way up to more difficult tricks. Remember that practice makes perfect and will also give you confidence.
Instructions
Don't Touch the Pack
1. Ask a friend to shuffle the cards, and instruct her to select any card except a face card. Turn around so you can't see what card your friend is choosing, and ask her to place that card face down on top of the deck.
2. Ask your friend to remove the total value in cards from the bottom of the pack and place those cards on top. For example, if she chose the eight of hearts, she should take eight cards from the bottom of the deck and place them on top, above the card she selected. As she is doing this, she must count silently and not give any indication of the number of cards she is moving to the top of the deck.
3. Ask your friend to deal the cards from the top of the deck one at a time and lay them on the table, calling out the name of each card as he deals it. She must deal them without giving any hints, and will continue dealing until she has gone past the card you selected and you tell her to stop. At that time, name the card she selected.
4. Count silently in your head, one, two, three, four, and so on as your friend is dealing and calling out the cards. When she calls out the card that is the same as the number you are counting in your head, this will be the card she picked. Let her count a few more cards, and then surprise her by naming her card.
An Odd Trick
5. Remove five non-face black cards and five non-face red cards from a basic deck of cards and divide them into two separate stacks.
6. Place one color stack face up and place the other color pile on that stack, face down.
7. Mix the cards thoroughly with a basic overhand shuffle and be careful that the cards aren't flipped while you are shuffling them.
8. Put the cards behind your back, and count to five as you peel off the top five cards, turning that pile of cards over. Turn around and bring the piles back to the front.
9. Lay the cards in two strips on the table, and amaze your spectators by showing them there is the same number of cards, all of one color, face-up in each pile.
