Your Card Will Magically Change Color With This Card Trick

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by amauto in Uncategorized

With just some practice everyone can pull off this card trick. Want to leave your friends scratching their temples amazed at how you pulled off a trick? Then practice and it will become second nature to you and do not stress it is always awkward when a trick is new.

Item you will need to get through this trick:

Make sure you have one deck of cards that has a blue back and another deck of cards that has a red back and they both are the same sized cards. Select ten cards, five from the red deck and five from the blue deck, it does not matter what cards you get out.

Begin with this:

Make five pairs of cards in your hand out of the ten that you selected, remember to pile them with one red then one blue and so on. Show the cards, number and all, to your friends and be sure to hide the red and black backs from them. An audience member now has to select one of the cards in your hand by pointing to it. Take out the card they chose and with a little magic place it on display with it facing up so that everyone can see. Separate the cards in your hand by putting those that came in front of the selected card into your left hand and the rest in your right. While you have dropped the selected card onto the table no one will be paying attention to your hands so that is when you can put the right hand cards under the cards in your left hand. Be sure not to show the backs of the cards.

The next phase:

And now that part of the trick which will bedazzle you. Even though there are some cards with red backs and some with blue, the people must believe that they all have the same colored backs. To keep up this charade you must keep the deck of cards tight especially after you have put your right hand cards under the left cards. All the cards are still up facing. Turn the card at the top of the pile over revealing the back of it. You might say, “As you can see, all of the cards are blue on the back.” As you say this you can casually turn the stack in your left hand over showing it also has a blue back. Ask them if they believe that their card has changed color and place both the top card and those in your left hand in separate bunches in front of them.

The trick is to make the color change so if they chose a card with a blue back tell them that it has now magically become red. Turn it over for the amazing reveal. The color has changed from the selected card. Amazing!

My thoughts in closing:

With great practice this trick will bring joy to your friends. It is all about keeping the stacks closed so the different colors are not revealed. The back color of the card depends on the audience, it is whichever one they choose. The card they choose will not matter. When the right hand cards were put behind the left hand cards you reassigned the order.

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Tags: magic, Magicians, Tricks