21 Finds Your Card
| Difficulty | Easy |
|---|---|
| Effect | A spectator silently picks one of 21 cards, says only which column it is in three times, and the magician counts straight to the card. |
| You need | 21 playing cards, A table |
| Skills | Self-working, Counting, Math principle |
Effect: Reveal the chosen card out of 21 randomly selected cards.
Method
- Get any random 21 cards from a 52 card pack (with or with out jokers)
- Fan out the 21 cards and get someone to pick a card only with their eyes make sure they don’t tell you
- Once chosen lay the cards 3 across and 7 down (their card is in the fourth position)
- Ask them which column their card is in e.g. the first
- When they say which column their card is in push that pile together
- Make sure the pile their card is in is always in the middle
- Do this for 3 times
- Count eleven cards and the eleventh one is theirs (do the counting in your head!!)
- On the third time the pile that their card is in put that pile in the middle with the other two piles(one on top one on bottom)
- Count to eleven and put them on the table and say -is that your card.
For a more freaky affect do step 10 with your eyes closed!! This is a famous trick.
Trick by Aaron
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