Awesome card tricks you can easily perform


This easy to perform card effect will be a very valuable addition to your Street Magic repertoire. It can be done with a borrowed deck, and thus can be used for emergency
work. These effect provide excellent entertainment.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER
EFFECT:
A deck of cards is thoroughly shuffled. Spectator then cuts deck into two portions, gives one to the performer and retains one himself. Spectator is then asked to remove a card from those he holds and place it on the table. Performer also removes a card from his packet, shows it, and places it on the table. Assume that it is the Ten of Diamonds. Magician then places spectator’s packet on top of his and shuffles them together.
Spectator then cuts deck in half again and places his selected card – say, the Jack of Spades – on one half of the deck. About half of the remaining packet of cards is placed on top of his card and then performer places his selected card on top of that. The rest of the deck is placed on his card. Though the two cards are widely separated in the deck, the Magician causes them to come together and in a moment shows them to be side by side.

SECRET AND PATTER:
Have deck shuffled by spectator, then say to him: “Cut the deck, please, and keep the packet that you lift up.”
You pick up the remaining packet and place it in your left hand, backs of cards up. Fan cards a little to the right and place little finger of left hand under top two cards. Square cards again.
“Now, sir, remove any one of the cards in your packet. look at it, and place it on the table. I, too, shall take a card at random.”
Do the Double Card Lift with the upper two cards of your packet and show the outer or second card. Suppose this card is the Ten of Diamonds and the King of Hearts is the top card concealed back of it. Replace the two cards on your packet and slide the top card a little to the right with your thumb.
“My card is the Ten of Diamonds. I shall place it on the table also.”
Place your card, really the King of Diamonds, on the table, back up. Audience believes this card to be the Ten of Diamonds, but the Ten is on top of your packet.
“Now place your packet on top of mine.”
Have spectator place his cards on top of yours. Keep the two packets separated by your left little finger, in readiness for the pass.
Riffle shuffle the cards once, being careful to keep the Ten of Diamonds as the top card. Then turn your left side toward the audience, lift up the back packet and shuffle it in front of the other as you were taught to do in the Simplified Pass. The Ten of Diamonds is brought to the top of the deck in this matter.
Now place deck on table. Ask spectator to cut cards again and place the packet he lifts up on the table.
“Please cut the cards again, sir, and place the portion you lift up on the table. Now place your selected card on top of the part you just cut from the deck. By the way, what is your card? The Jack of Spades?”
Spectator places his card on the packet. Unknown to himself and the audience, this brings his card on top of your selected card, the Ten of Diamonds.
“On the Jack of Spades, we shall place a few other cards. Lift off a few cards from those I hold in my hand and place them on top of your card. Now, I shall place my card, the Ten of Diamonds on all these.”
Take your card from the table and place it on the packet on the table. Then put rest of deck on top of your card. Square up the deck.
“I have completed the! deck by placing the rest of the cards on top of my Ten of Diamonds. Note carefully that your selected card and my selected card are separated by a number of cards. Your card is the Jack of Spades and mine is the Ten of Diamonds. Strange as it may seem, certain cards in the deck are like the birds of a feather that flock together. It is impossible to keep them apart. Your card and my card often act that way. Will you cut the cards again, sir?”
Have spectator cut the cards and place bottom pile on top.
“Cut them once more.”
Have him repeat the cutting.
“Now, look through the deck and you will find that your card, the Jack of Spades, and my card, the Ten of Diamonds, have come together somewhere in the deck.”
Spectator runs through cards and finds both of the selected cards together.

NOTE:
This effect rests on the law of probability. You count on the chance that the two selected cards will not be separated in the cutting. They rarely are, but if it happens that they are, merely pass it off with some appropriate remark and repeat the experiment.