There are many techniques used to show the mixing of cards and magical separation. Since I tend to forget them, and where I saw them, here is a collection of techniques. None are mine originally, probably. These are all just using four red and four black cards. There are a lot of versions of Oil and Water using extra hidden cards, but I like the purist handling of just using eight cards.
Continúa leyendo "Oil and Water"Reconstrucción de trucos
One of the things I enjoy is looking at the trailers for tricks, especially impromptu card tricks and reconstructing a method for doing the trick. I recently looked at “Threesome” by David Jonathan and thought it was a nice trick. In the description of the trick was the comment of “taking and old principle of magic”, which led me to this solution.
Continúa leyendo "Reconstruction of tricks"Más sobre el truco de cartas de cálculo mental
Here is another variation of the trick. This one has an additional feature that helps confuse the spectator.
Continúa leyendo "More on mental math card trick"Palitos de matemáticas hechos en casa
I was looking to buy a set of math sticks which are used in a prediction effect (or a super computation effect.) Diamond Jim sells a wooden set for about $15.00. Stevens Magic has a set for $18. Being of Scot blood, I didn’t want to spend that much on a set of four wooden sticks.
Continúa leyendo "Home made math sticks"Predicción de cálculo mental
This is the prediction of a number from the addition of a series of numbers. It is based on a mathematical principal that I have adapted to a deck of cards. To learn about the principal see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRD5UkAm2Y.
This effect requires a setup to a deck of cards. First remove all of the court cards (K,Q, and Js) and tens and set them aside. Now take the remaining cards and make four sets of three cards, each set adding up to 18. For example, one set may consist of a nine, two, and seven. When those values are added up, they total 18.
Continúa leyendo "Mental Math Prediction"Falso corte dibujado pero no descuartizado
This is similar to the false cut “drawn and quartered“, but instead of four packets, it only uses three and is a little easier. Below is a video.
Doblemente ambicioso
Esta es una rutina ambiciosa de dos cartas, muy difícil de realizar. Se basa en una transposición de dos cartas que realizo.
Fase uno: Idealmente, comience con las cartas contrastantes, la segunda y la tercera empezando por arriba. Para esta explicación, usaré el Dos de Diamantes y el Rey de Picas, con el dos en la segunda empezando por arriba.
Continúa leyendo "Doubly Ambitious"Control de cuatro ases
There are several methods I use for “losing” the aces into a deck of cards and controlling them to the top. Several involve cutting the deck into four piles and losing the aces, one in each pile. One day I was looking at some magic sites preview videos and saw a different method that I thought looked good. So I deconstructed the performance, figuring out what the magician had done. While I can’t be certain that this is the same method, I think it is close.
Continúa leyendo "Four ace control"Sólo un segundo, casi
This is similar to “Sólo un segundo” so I suggest you look at that one as well. This one distributes the aces with two faro shuffles, hence the “almost” in the title.
Continúa leyendo "Only a second, almost"Orden CHaSeD
I just noticed something about the Club, Hearts, Spades and Diamonds suit order that is used in many different deck stacks. Since stacks are cyclic, this order of suits is equivalent to Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades. Which is a numerical progression order if you look at the “points” of the pips of the suit. Diamonds has four points, Clubs has three, Hearts has two, and Spades has one. So instead of looking at a suit and using the mnemonic CHaSeD to figure out the next suit, you can simply look at the “points” and subtract one. Thus a Heart (two points) is followed by a Spade (one point). Diamonds (four points) is followed by a Club (three points).