How to Do Card Tricks

Here are a some card tricks that you may have done, or heard about before. If not, then these are some easy tricks you can do if you're interested in card tricks. Below are the tricks, and exactly how to perform each one.

The Mirror Image Card Trick

First of all, take a deck of cards, and sort them into a hand of alternate black and red. Once you have the pack with one black, one red card all the way through you are ready to begin your trick. Of course, your audience, or whomever is going to witness the trick must not see you do this.
1. Tell one person to cut the pack as many times as they want. Let the person you are showing the trick to shuffle the pack one time.
2. Make sure you then cut the pack between two cards of the same color.
3. Turn over the first card. If it's red deal it to your left face up, if black deal it face up to your right side. Deal the next card face down underneath it.
4. Repeat step 3 until all the cards are gone.
5. The cards under the red face up piles are black, and the cards under the black face up piles are red. The piles that you have made are mirror images.

Easy Find The Card Trick

1. Get the person you are doing the trick for to pick any card from the pack.
2. Put the chosen card on top of the pack. Put the pack behind your back, and flip the top card (the chosen card) over.
3. Bring the pack back to the front, and show the bottom card to the person. Ask if this is their card, to which they will reply "no".
4. Put the pack behind your back again, flip over the top card.
5. Bring the pack to the front again, and reveal the persons card to them.

Four Aces Trick

Before showing anyone the trick put all four aces on top of the pack.
1. Ask the person you are doing the trick for to cut the pack in two. Then ask them to divide the two piles, making four piles.
2. You can still see the pile with the aces on top. Number in your head 1-4, we'll use number 4 as the one with the aces.
3. Tell the person to pick up pile 1 and put the top three cards on the bottom. Then get them to deal the top three cards onto the other piles, 2,3 and 4. One card to be dealt on each pile.
4. Ask the person to repeat this process with the other three piles in order.
5. Turn over the top cards and all the aces will appear.