Easy Card Tricks to Learn on Your Own

Card tricks are easy to learn and most require nothing more than a regular deck of playing cards and a lot of practice. This article will explain two easy card tricks that will fool your friends and entertain your family.

Three Amigos-Before starting the trick, remove the four Jacks from the pack and place one Jack face down on top of the pack. Present the three Jacks to your audience and make up a story about three best friends and how they couldn't bear to be apart. Explain how one day the three amigos were lost in the desert and the best way to seek help was to go in different directions. The first one to get help would come and get the others. Get the spectator to place one Jack on top of the pack, one Jack anywhere in the middle and the last Jack on the bottom of the pack. After confirming with the spectator that he is happy that the Jacks are well separated, get him to cut the pack ensuring that the bottom half of the pack is on top of the other half. (This will bring the top and bottom Jack together with the previously placed Jack.) The cards are then turned face up from the top of the pack eventually turning over three Jacks together near the center. Conclude your story that in the end the friends kept their word and lived happily ever after.