Posts Tagged ‘card sleights’

Magic Spell Card Trick

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Magic has been synonomous with casting spells for generations. Take the Arthurian Legend for example - one of the key characters Merlin the Magician had the power to cast spells and is perhaps the most legendary ‘magical’ figure of all time.

If you fancy doing a card sleight, here’s a nice little card trick you can try called The Magic Spell. Basically, you reveal a chosen card by apparently casting a spell. Great fun.

If card sleights don’t appeal to you but you quite like the idea of delving more into the Arthurian Legend in music, there’s a unique symphonic rock album based on it. Called ‘The Earth In Turquoise‘ you can download mp3 samples by following the link.

False Shuffles - 1

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009


Many amateur card magicians struggle when performing a card trick where they need to use a false shuffle so over the next few weeks we will be posting blog entries with various means of performing false shuffles.

 Here is the first one ….

 

 

 

Let’s suppose for a moment that the card you wish to control is the Queen of Hearts which is at the top of the pack and you want to get it to the bottom of the pack.  This false shuffle is particularly easy!  Holding the pack in your left hand in the normal shuffling position, start the shuffle by sliding just one card from the top of the pack into your left hand - that is to say that in effect your first undercut will be 51 cards.  All you have to do then is to continue the shuffle as normal and of course you will end up with the Queen of hearts on the bottle the pack. 

 

More false shuffles coming soon….but before then you might like to read more about card tricks using sleight of hand