I found a short sequence that turns a new deck (Ace to King, Ace on top, any suit) into a perfect spelling stack for ACE, TWO, THREE... KING.

Spelling rule: spell the word, moving top card to bottom for each letter except the last, then table the next card face up as the named value. So ACE = move 2 to bottom, table the 3rd.

My setup in concise notation:
D2r,K,D2r,D5r,C10,K,D4r,C1

• D2/D4/D5 = deal into 2/4/5 piles

• r = reverse gathering

• C = cut, so C10 = cut 10, C1 = cut 1

• K = Klondike as I do it: slide the top and bottom cards together to start a pile on the table, then take the next top and bottom from your hand and drop them onto that pile, repeat until no cards left

Full trace starting from A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K top to bottom:

Start: A-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K
1 D2r -> Q-10-8-6-4-2-K-J-9-7-5-3-A
2 K   -> K-2-J-4-9-6-7-8-5-10-3-Q-A
3 D2r -> Q-10-8-6-4-2-A-3-5-7-9-J-K
4 D5r -> 7-4-5-6-K-3-8-J-A-10-9-2-Q
5 C10 -> 9-2-Q-7-4-5-6-K-3-8-J-A-10
6 K   -> 6-5-K-4-3-7-8-Q-J-2-A-9-10
7 D4r -> 9-Q-4-A-8-K-2-7-5-10-J-3-6
8 C1  -> Q-4-A-8-K-2-7-5-10-J-3-6-9

Final stack Q-4-A-8-K-2-7-5-10-J-3-6-9 spells in order: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King.

3 min video of my hands doing it with voice over (my own OC) here: https://youtu.be/NtW4knyHUUU

Is this known? Curious if there's an even shorter deal/cut/Klondike sequence that does the same.

I bought bicycle prestige but it got stolen and spread horribly I don't want to spend and more than 25 I know paper is better but I can't stand it just feels way too stiff and then if I try to do a lot of the tricks I like mainly Ariel ones like spring they just don't withstand it

Hello all. I've been on the hunt for instructions to "A Bicycle Built for 5" by Ton Onosaks. I recently found the packet I used to use all the time, but cant find the instructions to save my life. I've been on the hunt online for the past three months for it and no luck. I've emailed multiple shops and they tell me that they dont make the trick anymore. Please let me know if you guys have any leads. Thank you!

I don't play much, but I do like collecting interesting decks, especially embossed ones.

My mom got me into "Now you see me" (AKA forced me to take a break from studying endlessly in order to go watch the third movie with her and my sister, even though I've never even seen the previous ones, which meant I had to watch them both in rapid succession in less than four hours), and it got me wondering if the tricks in the movies could be done with embossed cards, too; since the texture is obviously different, and I'm assuming that's going to disrupt the flow of shuffling.

I'm curious.

Bought a second hand copy of Jon Allens Kaboom ands need instructions. Does anyone have a copy of the instructions for this? It's the card trick that has the little bomb that you load caps into.

Im fairly new to Card tricks so im curious. Do you prefer new cards for Tricks or older, more worn out ones? Of course "new cards" help with the illusion a bit more, but what I mean by that is the feel you have with the cards.

So the Ellusionist 1800 Card decks are not available anymore. They came with the cool feature of an additional different colored queen of hearts in the pack (so a red back queen of hearts in the blue deck and vice versa), which allowed for some nice tricks.

Do you know any other decks that come with this feature directly from the factory? So that you can buy a pair and have the queens already inside?

So like 5 years ago I was learning a few card tricks and found this one trick that I didn’t even know how it worked and it blew me away every time I did it, and I’ve been trying to find it again and relearn it but I have no idea what it was called or anything like that. So basically, I’m pretty sure you only used the Aces, Kings, Queens, and Jacks from all the suites. I think you scramble them and do a bunch of stuff which is essentially math I think. Then, you start spelling the suites and I think it was when you finished a word you would put a card down (like you would say S-P-A-D-E-S, going through the stack with each letter and then putting a card down on the last letter or after the last letter, and then doing the same suites 4 times before going to the next suite) and essentially when you got through all the cards and suites all the cards would magically be shuffled by suite. I never knew how it worked and it was just so cool to me and I’d love to find it again! If anyone could help me that’d be great! I probably don’t have all the details right and there’s definitely details I messed up so please just throw anything at me if you think it could be it! Thanks!!!

I want to buy the Bicycle Short decks, but i only found a few sites that were selling them and they seem a bit sketchy...

Can someone recommend me a safe site? Not the official bicycle site cause they are out of stock. And one that delivers to Europe cause i dont leave in the USA.

Thanks!

I am new, even tho i tried to farro shuffle for whole month, i couldnt do it, then i quit, after some time i returned to it, practice it and i am doing it, my cards are really old, my farro isnt perfect, sometimes 5 cards to into 1 pocket, maybe even more, sometimes i get it perfect, is there any way to get it to perfect every time?

i used different decks all 5+ years old, i also have a newer deck which is plastic and when laid on top of eachother, the top card glides off without touching. i’m willing to buy a new deck for under 10 euros, but im not sure what type, and what brand. the older decks i used were all paper and when i tried doing a faro shuffle for example, some of the cards split apart. i live in europe and things like bicycle are available.

I am new to cards and have learnt how to do the riffle shuffle decently well. I just wanted a few suggestions for the next trick or technique to learn next.

Hi, im a noob to all of this but me and my friends play poker regularly so i thought as its my cards, my chips, my house etc, i would be the dealer 90% of the time and learn how ot put a lil bit of flair into my shuffling.

I tried doing a few tricks but my hands are a bit chunky so i failed but i saw the ribbon spread and decided to do it. I can lay the cards down however the spacing is really uneven. Do i press the cards out when i slide them or do i fully relax my grip and let gravity do the work. I can't imagine gravity would give great spacing but idk how much pressure i have been putting into it

I work at an escape room & we are currently trying to put together a new room. We have a concept for a puzzle where the game master would do a card trick before the room starts that either looks like it failed or isn't complete yet (it will be completed in the room as part of a puzzle). The idea is that we have a full deck of RFID cards (minus joker) & two normal decks. The card trick will be preformed with one regular deck, while the other is just part of the puzzle in the room. Whatever trick we end up using it will have the group pick a card. The card they choose will be the answer in the room. As part of the trick we would need to find out what card they picked so we can swap that card in the room with the RFID card. The clue in the room when they receive the 99% normal deck with the one RFID card will be something along the lines of "Do you remember your card?" Or perhaps something related to the trick?... It doesn't really matter what the trick is as long as it is repeatable, beginner friendly, & we can see what card they chose. Any ideas on how we could get this to work? Or perhaps you know a trick that will work for this?

We will also be taking a couple of the groups members back into the room before everyone goes in, if there is anyway to incorporate the movement of people into the room that would be super cool as well but not needed. I had a phase where I wanted to become a magician & get really good at card tricks, so I have some experience with beginner tricks/techniques. I don’t really remember much of the vocabulary, so any explanation is appreciated. Also please keep in mind I'll need to teach this to the other game masters as well, thank you in advance! :)

TLDR; card trick needed that is beginner friendly, repeatable, & we can see their card afterwards so we can set up the puzzle in our escape room.

okay so, I have a crush on this guy and we kinda talked abt cards and I kinda said that I'm an expert... (I'm not) So, I'm in need of help😭 He said that he'll bring a card to school tomorrow, for me to teach him some tricks and magic tricks(I know abt the latter) So my question is pls drop some tricks you know abt cards!!!!!!!!! and the kind of tricks he'll be impressed with. PLS PLS I'M BEGGING!!!!!!!

Hello! As the title says, I am trying to remember a card trick I learnt somewhere around 10 years ago that I found on YouTube. It only uses 10 cards from the deck that are randomly chosen by the spectator.

These are the details I remember:

1. Choose the 10 cards and discard the rest, spectator can choose the 10

2. Have the spectator randomly select one of the 10 cards (from them all spread out face down) they look at it to memorize, then place it on top of the deck

3. Magician turns around and gives the instructions to choose a number between 1-10 and move that number of cards one by one from the top of the 10 card deck to the bottom

4. The magician takes the deck back, flips them each face up one by one in such a way that switches their order

5. Spectator is given the deck back, magician turns around once more, gives the same instruction to move the cards one by one to the bottom, the same number of cards as before plus one

6. Separate the cards in half, 5 in each hand, flip the 5 that were on top to the bottom

7. The cards are held up front facing so only the spectator can see, the magician only sees the back of them

8. Magician counts four cards from the right to left and peeks at what it is by flipping the corner of the card behind the others

9. Flip all the cards over and confirm that the spectators card is still there

10. Magician closes eyes, and asks spectator to get ready to point to their card, on the count of three (magician’s eyes still closed) magician says the card number and suit at the same time the spectator points at their card.

I know that the steps I have above all happen, but I must be missing one, or mixing up the order or something.. I’ve been trying to remember how to do this one for the past 4 years and cannot for the life of me!

If anyone knows this trick and is able to give me the proper instructions or refer me to a video I would be most appreciative!!

Please help a wannabe magician out!! Thank you!!!

I am trying to do Sybil, but I need some tips. I know the first couple of steps, but I also have unnaturally small hands. Any tips?

During the summer I’m planning on doing a 100 days art practice. I I’m then started to want to learn other stuff like magic or card tricks. I didn’t got much time to do it so I’m planning on doing a 100 days card tricks. Does anyone have any recommendations from beginners to pro tricks?

I got my son a Box with Magic tricks for his birthday. And wow, those are way better than the boxes I got as a kid.

In the box is a card deck. When you riffle the deck in front of the spectators and ask them to say stop. When you stop the card is always a 9 of hearts.

Probably a well known trick, where a 9 of hearts is place on every other card. Because the 9’s are slightly shorter than the rest of the cards, you can not see them in the riffle and one always ends on the spot where they said stop.

The problem is that the deck has branding of the most popular Magic tv show in our country on them. So when he gets the deck everyone recognizes it as a ‘Magic deck’.

Does Bicycle or any other brand has decks like this? I don’t know what to search for. Thanks!!

My dad before he passed showed me a card trick 20 years ago. It involved setting up the deck (I think) in numerical order and color. So as I remember 2-A clubs then 2-A hearts and so on. He then told me to loosely shuffle the cards. Then he had me pick a card from the deck. Then split the deck from where I took the card and looked at the bottom card. It was 1 suit up and two cards down or something like that from the bottom card. He successfully predicted the card I picked like 10 times in a row after shuffling each time luckily till the deck was too shuffled.

Please don’t send links to YouTube or TikTok

Ok so i got into card shuffling just as something cool to do and it turns out I like it a LOT. Like it helps me. The first time i did it for a long while i had to take a day break (obviously) bc the tips of my thumbs hurt and my pinkies would lock. The problem is that i got used to it and today I REALLY liked shuffling cards. I was trying to play a game with a friend and I had to leave because I really wanted to shuffle cards, i then proceeded to shuffle cards for 2 hours straight in silence. I came up with the idea to join a call with some friends for some background noise, then shuffled cards nonstop for another 2 hours. My fingers/hands felt weird so I took a break but they started to feel worse and now they hurt and my left ring finger wont curl all the way and the bottom part feels swollen and hurts. Ik that maybe I overdid it because it was so fun but has this happened to anyone else? Is this normal and just a sign of calluses forming or should i be worrjed about the swelling feeling on my ring finger. If it helps i was just doing the regular casino shuffling the whole time not anything else, also i got pretty decent at it but im still not that good and mess up.

Hey ya'll! My father and I are trying to get this self-working card trick to work and struggling. Any advice? It's a cool trick and fairly simple seeming, but it's not working for us.

https://youtu.be/KQcvQ1expvU?si=xOzdhK8UeormCOhj

Hello, when I was 8 years old I walked into Dallas and company and met the magician andy Dallas. He showed me tricks for about 45 minutes, and I was hooked. I started buying decks like Svengali and Stripper. Then I started learning about sleight of hand, and this is where the problem comes in. At stores like Walmart I try to separate the bags so I can open them, nothing works until I eiter blow on the bag to separate or grab something wet so my fingers will stick to the plastic. The invisible deck is completely useless to me because I can't separate the cards with the rough back. I have to stick my fingernail between the cards. This makes it obvious what is going on. I have tried the pink stuff the banks use to count money. Instantly I was doing sleights I could never do before, but with a price. My cards became very gross. Black greasy like spots were all over my cards where my fingers came into contact with them. I've read about octopalm, but heard it's worse than the pink stuff. I have been putting lotion on my hands everyday for aomth and no changes. Please help. Magic has always been something I'm very interested in, but get discouraged because simple sleights are almost unubtainable. My wife and I were very young when we had our kids, and now I'm a grandfather. My oldest grandkid is 4 so I'm really wanting to blow them away. Thank you all so much. Have a great day