Do the Predict the Future Card Trick
This is a quick and easy-to-learn card trick. With just an ordinary deck of cards, you can make the audience believe that you can predict which four cards you are going to pull out.
Steps
- Shuffle an ordinary deck of cards.
- Look at the bottom card. Do this without looking as if you're looking at it. By doing this take the card in half look at the bottom card in your right hand and make sure that card falls first. Remember that card.
- Spread the cards out. Place them face-down on a table or on the floor.
- Tell your audience about your intended trick. Say "I'm going to locate the _____ of _____'s..." (telling them the name of the card that you just memorized).
- Pull out any card at random, as long as it is not the bottom card.
- Look at the card you just pulled out (again, without looking like you're looking at it) and say "Next the _____ of _____'s..." and pull out another card at random (again, not the bottom card).
- Repeat Step 6.
- Repeat Step 6 one more time. This should now be the fourth and last card. Only, this time, instead of choosing a card at random, select the bottom card. This is the tricky bit for you - you need to try to make it seem as if you're picking it at random; distract your audience with a joke or short tale while doing it.
- Commence predicting the cards. One at a time, flip each card over while saying their name out loud. Do this in the order that you "predicted" them, not in the order you picked them out of the deck.
Tips
- When you practice this trick (highly recommended), concentrate on how you pull out the last (bottom) card. If you find you have to move another card aside to reach it, practice doing the same when you pull out one or two other cards - this makes it look like you're trying to mix the cards up some more while you're picking them "at random."
- Spread the cards out as widely as possible, so you won't appear to be "digging" when you pull out the last (bottom) card.
- The faster that you can do this trick, the better. If your audience demands you repeat it, do another trick first so that they don't figure out the pattern (i.e., that you always pick the bottom card last).
- Pull each card with one hand and hold them with your other hand, facing you. When you pull the last card, place it completely in your other hand, let go, then reach back and grab it (this will hide the fact that you're not flipping them over in the order you pulled them).
Things You'll Need
- Deck of cards
- Minimal acting skills
