Effect: Very easy, basic card trick.

Card Trick:
Keep the cards in a single pile. Be sure to find some way to gain knowledge of the bottom card (shuffling, dropping a card, etc.) Hold the deck in your left hand, in a normal dealing position. Put your right hand on the deck so that your right fingers are on top, thumb on bottom, as if you were going to pull the whole deck back out of your left hand.
Your right fingers begin to slide cards back, one by one, and you tell the spectator to say ’stop’ at any time. When they say ’stop’, use your right hand to pull off the cards that were moved. At the same time, your left thumb presses on the bottom card. As you slide the top cards away from the deck, the bottom card will come with them. (This works best if you pull the bottom card out, little by little while you go through the top cards.) Hold your right hand up so the spectator can see the bottom card of the group, but you can’t.
Now announce the card that was on the bottom. To make it more mystical say something about how you can tell it isn’t a black card by the expression on their face, or that you can tell it’s a Heart by the way their fingers wiggle. Or come up with something better. (That shouldn’t be too hard.)

Effect: The magician riffles down through a borrowed deck and tells a spectator to say stop at any point. The magician cuts off the cards above that point, turns them face up, and replaces them on the deck. Then he spreads the deck from the top until he reaches the first face down card. The magician puts this card face down on the table. He repeats this process three times. When the four card are flipped over, they are found to be all four aces!!!!!
Before the trick starts, remove the four aces and any two other cards. Make two face-up piles of two aces each. Lay one odd card on each pile. Pick up one pile of three cards, turn it face down, and lay it on the other pile. Pick up all six cards and lay them on top of the face-down deck. You’re ready to present the trick.

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Effect : A coin is balanced on the tip of a dinner knife.

Preparation : This is a trick that can be done easily at the dinner table or at a show. It is called balancing a coin on a blade. You will need a table knife. Ask for a coin like a 2p or something like that. Unknown to the audience you have another coin the same coated with shoemakers wax or candle wax on one side.

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ITEMS NEEDED: QUARTER AND A CLOTH TRICK:

STEP 1: Hold the quarter between the thumb and index finger of your left hand in a vertical position.

STEP 2: Place the cloth over the quarter so the quarter is in the center of the napkin.

STEP 3: Carefully, get a small fold of the napkin between your thumb and the quarter. With your right hand, lift the front part of the cloth, facing your spectator, and drape it back on top of the other half and over your left wrist.

STEP 4: Show the spectator that the quarter is still there when doing step 3.

STEP 5: While still holding the quarter and the cloth, snap your wrist forward, causing both halves of the cloth to fall forward.

STEP 6: Twist the cloth so is appears that the quarter is wrapped securely in the center of the cloth. Put a little pressure on the edge of the quarter and it will appear to rise up through the napkin!. I am just beginning to work on my skills, and enjoy performing this trick.

Here’s the setup before the show have a extra penny in your right hand thumb palmed. and then you show a penny a nickel a quarter you 1 pick up the quarter with you right hand and put it in your left hand and close the left hand. do this with all the coins and the other different object too.

Well back to the routine 2 pick up the nickel and place it in your left hand as you do this drop the secret penny into you left hand too with out any body noticing it and take the penny that’s left on the Table and put it in your pocket as you do this load your right hand with a small lock or watch etc. and keep it palmed there and use that hand to point at your closed left hand and say as you open the left hand
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