How to Do Magic Card Tricks
Magicians perform tricks that can amaze an audience. Learning to perform card tricks allows you to amaze your friends and family as if you were a magician. When it comes to performing magic tricks, learning how to perform the tricks just takes a little time and dedication. Following a few simple guidelines makes learning card tricks much easier.
Supplies needed:
Cards
Get card trick books from the
library. There are many books dedicated to teaching people how to do
card tricks. Start with books for beginners and work your way up to
books that teach more complex card tricks.Check online. There are many
videos online that show people how to do card tricks. YouTube.com
has many videos that show viewers how to perform card tricks. Simply
visit youtube.com and type “card tricks” into the search field.
The returning videos will be videos that can instruct you on how to
perform card tricks.Practice simple card tricks first.
Take your deck of cards. Shuffle the deck. Look at the card that is
on the bottom of the deck. Do not let anyone see you do this.
Carefully drop the cards on to a table one by one until you drop
about 15 or 20 cards. Keep a mental note of where the bottom card is
at all times. Pick up the cards and place the card that was at the
bottom on top of the deck. Ask someone to pick the top card and have
the person memorize what it is. Shuffle the cards. Spread the cards
on a table and pick the card that you remember being on the bottom
of the deck. That will be the card that the person chose off the top
of the deck.Build up your list of tricks as
you build up your confidence. The more confident you are, the easier
it is to pull card tricks off.