The Tremendous Ace Of Diamonds
Here is a great card trick that is based largely in misdirection. It requires a little bit of set up, but with only a few minutes practice you should be able to effectively perform this successfully in front of any audience. This is a big hit with kids, as it doesn’t require any special sleight of hand moves, and it’s pretty simple once you figure it out.
This is how the ruse will appear to your astounded audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You spread them out, holding them to the audience. Then you put them on top of the deck, and reorder and cut the deck numerous times, making sure that they have been equally dispersed.
You then ask a helper to come up and hunt for the Ace of Diamonds. They will explore in vain, as they won’t be able to find it. If you like, you can get another audience member to come up and look, but they too will be unproductive. Then you pull the Ace of Diamonds out of your shirt pocket. (Or your back pocket, or shoe, or wherever.)
Here’s how to set the hoax up. First locate all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then place the other Aces on top of the deck. When you pull the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the core. If you position both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you utterance this is important. If you mention beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds evaporate, they will be looking much more closely. But if you just start of by unfolding what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely have faith in you, and not stare too closely at the three cards.
One way that can really help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to convey some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of supernatural power, and in the old days when they were choosing the shapes for cards, they nearly didn’t choose diamonds because people were always stealing them, or they were always disappearing or something. That way, when they start wondering about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be concealed someplace in the deck, or so they assume. Have fun with this trick.
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