I just saw a card trick. It saw it live with my own eyes, so it could not have been a TV trick. The guy started by showing that its and ordinary deck of cards, all the cards are different, and all of them have the front side with the picture, and the back side with the pretty pattern, Then he asked someone to take a card and memorize it. The card was returned to the top of the deck. He then started mixing cards every way possible, but the same card ( king of clubs ) kept popping back up.
For example he showed everyone that this is the card, threw the card away, and then took the same card from the top of the deck.
Then someone asked, if the whole deck is made of these cards. The magician said that actually yes, the deal with this deck is, that all of the cards are the king of clubs, and he shoed that it was true. He continued to say, that a magician is supposed to always be ready to show the crowd that every card is different, he turned the cards around a couple of times, and every card was different again.
How the hell does that work? If anyone has done that trick would you please explain it.
IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck?
Anyway, i think there was no way in hell he could have two decks, he wasnt very mobile with his hands so he could not have changed them. And i am the type of guy who looks at most magician sleeves with one eye when they are doing tricks, because i know most of the trick is just for distracting you...
[QUOTE="Koba123"]IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck? Stesilaus
Could you actually see the card you were picking, or were only the back surfaces of the cards visible when you chose your card?
Everyone saw the card.
But the magician could not have come in with 52 king of clubs and knowing that i am gonna take the king of clubs from the other deck. All the cards were turned face up.
[QUOTE="Koba123"]IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck? Koba123
Could you actually see the card you were picking, or were only the back surfaces of the cards visible when you chose your card?
Everyone saw the card.
But the magician could not have come in with 52 king of clubs and knowing that i am gonna take the king of clubs from the other deck. All the cards were turned face up.
Hmm. Perhaps when you took the card, the deck was "fanned out" only very slightly so that you couldn't actually see which one you were picking, even though they were "face up"?
[QUOTE="Koba123"]IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck? Stesilaus
Could you actually see the card you were picking, or were only the back surfaces of the cards visible when you chose your card?
Everyone saw the card.
But the magician could not have come in with 52 king of clubs and knowing that i am gonna take the king of clubs from the other deck. All the cards were turned face up.
Hmm. Perhaps when you took the card, the deck was "fanned out" only very slightly so that you couldn't actually see which one you were picking, even though they were "face up"?
I could see which one i am picking, the magician even asked if the card is okay, he offered to change the card.
IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck?
Anyway, i think there was no way in hell he could have two decks, he wasnt very mobile with his hands so he could not have changed them. And i am the type of guy who looks at most magician sleeves with one eye when they are doing tricks, because i know most of the trick is just for distracting you... Koba123
[QUOTE="Koba123"]IF he had two different decks, how did he know what the card is for the other deck?
Anyway, i think there was no way in hell he could have two decks, he wasnt very mobile with his hands so he could not have changed them. And i am the type of guy who looks at most magician sleeves with one eye when they are doing tricks, because i know most of the trick is just for distracting you... Zerocrossings
He could have forced the card?
That was my first presumption too - there are several ways of "forcing" a card so that the apparently free choice is fixed. Offering the audience a chance to change a card will almost always be refused because the natural assumption is that the one they picked isn't the one he wanted them to pick, hence is offer.
one magic trick that blew my mind was when my friend (really good at magic) got me to pick 6 cards randomly out of the deck , then he told me to sit on them. so he had no contact with the cards since i picked them. then he went on to do other tricks for a while and about 5 minutes later he told me to stand up and instead o fmy six cards there was four aces.
What if 90% of the cards he had were the card you picked, all the normal ones were on the top (when he was showing the cards are all fine) then he shuffles them making all the ones you picked come to the front.
one magic trick that blew my mind was when my friend (really good at magic) got me to pick 6 cards randomly out of the deck , then he told me to sit on them. so he had no contact with the cards since i picked them. then he went on to do other tricks for a while and about 5 minutes later he told me to stand up and instead o fmy six cards there was four aces.Big_player
These people go out of their way to create an illusion to entertain you but you feel compeled toruin it for everyone elseby figuring out how they do it. It's not a trick when everyone knows how it's done.
I know how to do it, heck I even have one of those decks... But I won't spoil it. Hint: It's all in the deck, the rest is acting. No slight of hand in this one.
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