Hot Card Tricks How-Tos
How To: Perform the Last 3 card trick
For this tutorial we are picking three Aces because they are the easiest to remember. Make 4 piles of cards. First pile is ten cards. Second pile is 15 cards. Third pile is 15 cards. The last pile will be 9. Take the Ace of Spades (the example card),put it on one pile and put any number of cards on top. Take the Ace of Hearts (another example card), put it on the second pile and put any number of cards on top. Take the last Ace put it on top and put the last pile on top of that one. Stack the...
How To: Perform the Classic Pick a Card Trick
Magician Chris Webb shows you how to do the "Pick a Card" trick on The Telegraph's YouTube channel. Shuffle the deck of cards.
How To: Do the "Jack the bounty hunter" card trick
This card trick is called Jack the Bounty Hunter. After a series of cuts, placements, and sorting, Jack the Bounty Hunter ends up adjacent to a card the spectator picked earlier in the trick. Brief synopsis of the procedure (you need to see the video for the full explanation): First, you set a Jack aside. Then you make two piles of 15 cards and set them aside. The spectator gets a pile, and you get a pile. Cards are cut. The spectator picks a card from the remainder of the deck. The spectator...
How To: Make a card rise magic trick
Ever wanted to know how the famous rising card trick works? This video reveals the secret so that you can do it for yourself. All you need is a pack of these specially-made cards. If you don't want to know how this trick works, then please do not watch the video. Make a card rise magic trick.
How To: Perform the All Sorted card trick
Want to learn a great card trick that will really fool your friends? All you need is a deck of cards to perform this cool trick! You will need one deck of cards. Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks. 1. Take a deck of cards and remove all of the face cards (Jacks, Queens, and Kings) and Aces. Separate the cards by suit (hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds) so you have four piles. Eac...
How To: Jump an Ink Signature from One Card to Another
The card trick in this tutorial is great for beginners and seasoned magicians alike. In the video you will learn how to present a deck of cards to two spectators and amaze them with slight of hand.
How To: Perform the Pile 13 card trick
Learn a mathematically-based card trick that allows you to find any numbered card you want in the deck just by counting out the correct number of cards.
How To: Change a card in the hand of your audience magically
Check out this crazy kid from the Netherlands as he tries to teach you a bit of magic... called Dutch Magic!
How To: Do the 15-Card Magic Trick
A spectator has a selected card glimpsed but not touched and magically is re-selected at the end of the trick — a great trick for beginners.
How To: Perform the Sense of Touch card magic trick
Learn the Sense of Touch card magic trick in which you can guess any card just by touching and holding it.
How To: Throw a card through a window
Comedic magician David Zanthor teaches you how to throw a playing card through a window. You will need a deck of cards, two duplicates, wax, a window, some passers-by and an assistant. Stop someone in the street. Shuffle the cards. Riffle. Allow participant to pick a card. Allow them to place it back in the deck anywhere. Look through them to find the card. It has disappeared! Throw the deck at a nearby window and their card has magically appeared on the other side of the glass! Simple? Throw...
How To: Perform the 'Devil's Elevator' Card Trick
Aspiring card shark? Sink your pearly whites into this easy, impressive illusion. In this free video magic lesson, you'll learn how to perform the "devil's elevator" card trick using sleight of hand. Watch this prestidigitator's guide for more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick.
How To: Perform the Faro Shuffle card trick
To do the Faro shuffle card trick, first divide the deck in half. With practice you should be able to accurately make an even division. Hold your left hand underneath the deck and your right hand on top of the deck. Use the two halves to square up the deck. Go in on an angle, intertwining the cards. Make them meet on the bottom and apply a little bit of pressure to them. They will naturally intertwine. Spread out the cards on a table in two columns to check your shuffling technique. You can a...
How To: Perform a card trick and let your friend pick the card
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform an amazing card trick. The magician begins by going through the deck and lets the spectator pick a card. The entire deck has a red back. Then the magician put the card at the top of deck and a cut. The magician then snaps his finger and lays out the entire deck face down. The cards are now a blue back and the only red back card is the spectator's chosen card. Then the magician snaps his finger again and the card changes into a blue back. Th...
How To: Perform the "oil and water" card trick
In this short, fun and informative tutorial, Andy Field demonstrates the Oil and Water trick using four black cards and four red cards. Four cards are placed on one side of the table and the four red cards are placed on the opposite side of the table. He then mixes the cards, pulling one card from each side to make a new pile of cards with alternating colors. One red, one black, one red and so on and so forth with each of the eight cards. After letting the cards sit for just a few seconds he ...
How To: Do the Color Monte card trick
Wow the next party you go to with the "Color Monte" card trick! Step 1: Stack the cards in your hand
How To: Do the Asher Twist card trick
If you've ever seen the card trick Asher Twist, you've probably wondered how it was done. Well this magician will show you just how to do it, so maybe you can start doing it yourself! This trick requires excellent slight of hand to create a simple yet effective illusion. Check it out!
How To: Always win a card game using a bit of math
Use this rigged game to cheat your friends twice in a row! The game functions just like 31, only this time you'll always win if you follow the instructions in this video.
How To: Perform the card V-Shuffle and Corner V-Shuffle
Lots of people love magic, and most of those people like card tricks, so why not learn a few? Whether you're a magician or not, you can still impress your friends with a few card tricks up your sleeve.
How To: Perform the two card monte card trick
How to Disturb Reality is here to teach you some magic card tricks that you can learn directly at home. This video will hopefully inspire you to become a great magician, so if you're here to just learn card tricks and not perform them, you're here for the wrong reason!
How To: Perform the "eight card brainwave" card trick
You're about to learn some incredible close-up magic tricks from Close Up Card Tricks that you can perform right away. You don't have to be a professional magician to do these card tricks, and you don't even have to practice them that much!
How To: Perform the four aces card trick
Impress all of your friends with some card magic, or as others like to say, card manipulation or card trick. You don't need to be a magician to learn the illusion of magic with a deck of playing cards. See for yourself how easy it is to learn... watch this video tutorial to see how to perform the four aces card trick, where you pick cards randomly out of the deck, put them into four piles and reveal four aces on the top of each pile.
How To: Perform the "invisible palm" magic card trick
Learn how to do a card trick! Yes, learn some magic you can do with all of those playing card decks lying around your house. This young girl will show you in this video tutorial, how to perform the "invisible palm" magic card trick. It isn't just an illusion, it's deception, it's sleight of hand, it's confidence. Grab your best deck of cards and learn how to do the invisible palm card trick... see the reveal.
How To: Perform the Devil's Thirteen card trick
Here's a different take on the same trick with the explanation of how it works. IT always works unless you screw it up. This is a magic shuffle trick that involves placement. You need another person to cut them so it doesn't look like you are cheating.
How To: Perform the four-of-a-kind magic card trick
When you're a magician people expect you to have a few good card tricks under your sleeve, so be prepared with this one! You will need one deck of cards. Sometimes we use materials that require adult supervision... like scissors, so make sure you have friends and family around whenever you do magic tricks.
How To: Perform the four pile card trick
Watch this video to learn how to perform the four pile card trick. This tutorial will teach you a simple magic card trick in which you make the spectators card magically appear.
How To: Perform the Drunken shuffle card magic trick
Learn the Drunken Shuffle card 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 the Ing Ping Ching magic trick
In this video magician David Zanthor shares an age old magic trick. You will need a willing human, a deck of cards, a rubber band, two identical coins and skills. The trick? It involves Ing Ping Ching energy and it is quite involved...so you will have to watch the video! Do the Ing Ping Ching magic trick.
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: Get Any Girl to Kiss You Using a Deck of Cards and Some Quick Fingers
You know that guy who does the cheesy card trick to get the attention of all the girls at the party? Well, we kinda hate that guy don't we? But, if we could be that guy, it might not be so bad.
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.