Hot Card Tricks Posts
How To: Make a card vanish from your hand and then reappear
A simple video tutorial showing you how to take a single card and make it disappear from both hands, then, if you wish, you can make it reappear in your hand.
How To: Perform a 3 piles card trick
Perform a card trick in which you find a spectator's card after dividing the deck into three piles.
How To: Perform the Reverse Deck card trick
Perform a magic trick in which you find a spectator's card by reversing the entire deck (expect their chosen card).
How To: Perform the Hinge Card Change magic trick
Learn to perform the Hinge Card Change magic trick.
How To: Use a stripper deck for basic tricks
Following the Dalton incident, the stripper deck rapidly fell out of favor with poker cheats, but remains popular to this day with magicians. The deck looks perfectly normal but has tapered edges on all the cards. The goal of the magician in using a stripped deck is to have a person choose a card, then replace it in the deck facing the opposite direction, so that the tapered or stripped edge of the card stands out from the smooth edge of all the other cards.
How To: Do double and triple lifts for card tricks
Being able to double or triple lift is key to performing a wide range of card tricks. This tutorial will teach you how to do it.
How To: Perform Color Monte (AKA This 'N' That)
This video explains how to perform the Color Monte card trick! Not an easy trick to perform, but with enough practice you'll get there :)
How To: Perform the amzaing alternate beginner card trick
This video shows the reveal of a great beginner card trick, called the Alternate trick. It's an easy and impressive one to learn. MrStuckyJ's performance and tutorial of this card trick are here.
How To: Perform the double knockout card trick
This card trick is a knockout! Actually, it's a double knockout! Follow this easy, step-by-step tutorial and learn how to perform this clever little magic trick. You'll need a deck of cards and some good dexterity in those fingers!
How To: Perform the "Synapse" and enhance your card-handling skills as a magician
Enhance your visual skills and demonstrate your manual dexterity as a magician by incorporating the "Synapse" card fluorish by Ayres into your repertoire. Playing card fluorishes are typically performed as part of larger magic performances and can also be shown on their own as individual exhibitions of skill.
How To: Perform the "RockIt" fluorish and add to your card-handling magic skills
Enhance your visual skills and demonstrate your manual dexterity as a magician by incorporating the "RockIt" card fluorish by Ayres into your repertoire. Playing card fluorishes are typically performed as part of larger magic performances and can also be shown on their own as individual exhibitions of skill.
How To: Make a deck of cards disappear
Here's an easy do-it-yourself illusion that will let you make a deck of cards vanish! This detailed video shows you the magic trick, the reveal and what you'll need, to create the illusion. You're going to want to have a deck of cards, including the deck's box, scissors, some scraps of cardboard, some clear tape and some glue. Then, abracadabra!
How To: Do the Deck Divination Effect mentalism magic trick
Mentalism and card magic work great together, as the trick that you will learn how to do in this video so eloquently demonstrates. It's called the Deck Divination Effect, and this video will show you the trick and then exactly how to do it for your next close-up magic show.
How To: Perform the 3 card monte magic trick
In this video, you'll be shown how to do the famous 3 card monte magic trick. For your audience, all they have to do is follow the ace. What your audience doesn't know is that the magic trick isn't as simple as that. With a little sleight of hand, you'll amaze your friends with your magic skill.
How To: Do the Matching Mates beginner self-working card magic trick
Self-working card tricks are the easiest and most intuitive to perform, requiring no sleight of hand at all and relying instead on math. In this video you'll learn how to do Matching Mates, a beginner self-working card magic trick that will get your card magic up and running.
How To: Do the Healed n' Sealed magic trick
Magic tricks that will work well in crowd on drunk people are some of the most useful ones you can learn, and this trick is that in spades. It's called Healed n' Sealed, requires the construction of a trick can, and you will learn how to do it in this video.
How To: Perform the "Sybil" top-packet retention card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Sybil" top-pack retention card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Message Morph" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Message Morph" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Do an easy false cut when performing card tricks
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform a simple-but-effective false cut when doing sleight-of-hand card tricks. For more information about the technique and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this cut into your own routines, watch this free video card-magic lesson.
How To: Present the same effect 3 different ways when performing card tricks
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform variations on the same effect when performing card tricks. For more information about these presentation techniques and their execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "down and dirty" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Down and Dirty" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Symmetry" card flourish trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Symmetry" card flourish. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this flourish into your own routines, watch this free video card trick magic lesson.
How To: Palm like a professional magician when performing card tricks
In this video tutorial, we learn how to how to palm like a professional when doing sleight-of-hand card tricks. For more information about the technique and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Impress your friends with an easy ACAAN card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform a simple ACAAN card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Impromptu" mentalism card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Impromptu" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Amazing 13" card prediction trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Amazing 13" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "The Deck Knows" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "The Deck Knows" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Interactive Switch" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Interactive Switch" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Killer Instinct" mentalist card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Killer Instinct" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform an ACAAN card trick with two decks & Si Stebbins stack
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform an impressive ACAAN card trick using two decks and the Si Stebbins stack method. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Force Factor" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Force Factor" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Alternating Prediction" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Alternating Prediction" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Impress your friends with an easy math-based card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform a simple, mathematical card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform the "Not Playing with a Full Deck" card trick
In this video tutorial, we learn how to perform the "Not Playing with a Full Deck" card trick. For more information about the trick and its execution, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started incorporating this trick into your own routines, watch this free video card magic lesson.
How To: Perform an amazing "WTF" magic card trick (using mathematics)
Want to learn a card trick that will blow your mind? This is the one for you, that's why it's called "WTF"! So, watch and pay attention to see how this magic card trick is performed. This is a beginner-style trick, so don't worry if you're no pro— you can still do it! It's more of a mathematical card trick.
How to Do card tricks: "Mismag822" card trick revealed
This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do card tricks: "Mismag822" card trick revealed. This is really easy for beginners. Ask someone to tell you a number from one to ten and count up those many cards from the deck and place them face down on a table. Now count out the same number of cards two more times and put them on the table. Then ask them to place the rest of the pack on any one of the piles. Next ask them to pick up any one o...
How To: Do the "Three Aces" card trick
This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do the "Three Aces" card trick. For this trick you need a deck of cards and you shuffle it nicely. Then you flip the deck and reveal the center part of the card and say it is the ace of hearts. The actual card is the 3 of hearts. Place this card face down on the table. You repeat this process and similarly take out a clubs and diamonds card. Then you perform a magic gesture and say all three car...
How To: Do the "Emerge Triumphunt" magic card trick
This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do card trick: "Emerge Triumphant". Have the deck of cards completely in the standard form in which it comes. The sequence is spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. The trick is keeping the deck in the order it comes, do straight cuts, swivel cuts, one handed cuts and false riffle shuffle. It shows riffling, shuffling and cutting the deck. But, when you expose the deck, it is still in the same orde...
How To: Do the Twisted Sister card magic trick
Card magic is the best type of magic for most people. It's impressive, best done close up, and requires little if any equipment other than a deck of cards. Watch this video to learn the Twisted Sister trick, which does require some props but creates a really cool effect.
How To: Perform Criss Angel's color changing deck trick
This video reveals how a magic trick which was performed by Criss Angel, in which your card deck appears to change colors. For this trick, you will need two decks of cards, one which is red and one which is blue. You then have to use double sided tape to tape a red card to a blue one, so that you appear to have a card which is red on one side and blue on the other. The rest of the cards will be from the blue deck. Place the double-sided red card on top of the deck so that it appears that the ...