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• To step
• Method 1 of 4: Finding someone's cards in a deck
• Method 3 of 4: De Gokker
• Tips
• Necessities

Magic tricks are great for impressing friends, practicing your dexterity and your skills as a performer. All you need to perform these basic card tricks is a regular deck of playing cards, some practice, and the ability to wow your audience.

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Method 1 of 4: Finding someone's cards in a deck

1. Announce that you will now find the spectator's map. Now is the time to show you the "magic" of the trick. The more you can sell your performance, the more fun the trick will be for your audience.
   • Make it fun by fanning out the cards and running your hand along the deck as if you were up to your spectator's card.
2. Remove all four jokers from the deck. In addition, take three extra cards from the game. This trick requires you to tweak the deck a bit before you start.
   • For the four robbers, you are going to convince the spectators that you have placed the jokers in the center of the deck. In reality, you place the three other cards you took into the deck.
   • You stack these three other cards on top of three jokers during the trick.
   • This trick comes with a story, where you start by telling the audience a story about four thieves who decide to rob a bank.
3. Show the jokers to the public. Hold the four jokers fanned out vertically in your hand. The audience must be able to see all four jokers at the same time. Keep the three random cards behind the top joker so that the audience cannot see them. This is essential to the trick.
   • If you find it difficult to hide the other cards, hold them in place by placing your index finger on the top edge of the cards.
   • Once you've given the audience time to view the jokers, stack the cards.
   • For this part of the story, you can tell that the four thieves entered the bank by helicopter, or simply entered through the roof.
4. Tell the story. This trick relies on a few good stories. You can tell a story as if the robber (the jokers) are robbing the bank, or how four robbers entered a house to rob several floors. Take the top three cards from the deck, one at a time, and put them in the pile at different levels as you tell the story.
   • Tell the story in a dramatic way. The more details you provide about what the jokers are looking for and what the robbers plan to do with the money, the more engaged your audience will become. A compelling story will distract the audience from what you do with your hands.
   • This trick can be performed with any set of picture cards, not just jokers.

Method 3 of 4: De Gokker

1. Start talking. Magic tricks, especially these, get much better when you wrap them in a story. Start a chat about how you are so confident that you are going to find the spectator's card that you will want to bet money on it. You can even add something about how you made a ton of money in Vegas knowing how to manipulate a deck.
   • Bet a dollar that the next card you turn over will be the spectator's. Since the spectator has seen the card pass by before, he may take the bet thinking that you are going to turn over the last card in your hand.
   • If the spectator does not accept the bet, offer to give a dollar if you are wrong.
2. Look for the map. Tell the spectator that you will magically exchange the card they are holding for the card initially selected by the spectator.
   • Supposedly look in the deck for the spectator's card, while you know that the spectator is already holding it.
   • Rest over the card still on top of the deck that the spectator thinks is between his / her hands.
3. Make the reveal. Finally, show that you have the card the spectator believed was in his / her hands. Ask your spectator to look at the card she has, revealing that it is the card previously chosen by the spectator.

Tips

• Practice shuffling cards quickly in different ways and how to keep a card in the same place.
• Use a deck that has already been used. A newer deck will be more difficult to shuffle, bend and manipulate, especially with the "double lift".
• Keep your audience distracted by talking and explaining what you're going to do next, or asking your audience to perform certain functions that distract prying eyes from your hands and the deck.
• Practice makes perfect!

Necessities

• A card game