Magic Tricks Revealed: The Jumping Twos And Threes

by: George Hutton

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 Time: 8:34 AM - 0 comments

If you like to impress your friends with simple card tricks, then you've come to the right place. Here's a fantastically simple trick that you'll be able to do once you finish reading this. Despite being shockingly simple to learn and to do, you'll never get caught if you it right. And don't worry, because doing it right is super easy.

This is how it will appear to your amazed audience or friends (or stranger on the street for that matter!) You walk up and say that you have a magic deck of cards. You open up the deck quickly to show them that everything is normal, nothing up your sleeve, etc. Not a trick deck filled with the Three of Clubs or something like that.

Then you tap the top of the deck, and show them the top two cards. No big deal, right? Then you tap the deck again, but those same two cards are now at the bottom! After that, take those two cards from the bottom, and place them randomly in the middle of the deck somewhere. Tap the deck once more (you can borrow a pencil or something and use it as a magic wand if you like), and the two cards are again at the top! You scratch your head, and go on to another trick, or if this is with a stranger at a party or something, you scratch your head and walk away. This will leave a fabulous impression, and they will never forget you!

OK, here's the trick. This only works with the Two and Three of both Diamonds and Hearts. When you start, you'll have the Two of Hearts, and the Three of Diamonds on top, and the Two of Diamonds, and the Three of Hearts on the bottom. As you briefly show them the top two cards, they will rarely look for more than a split second. Then when you show them the bottom two, they will wonder what the heck is going on, as they will think they are the same cards, when they really aren't.

Then you quickly take them, stick them anyplace in the middle (you can even separate them if you like), and again show them the cars on top, which are different from the ones they just saw, but they won't remember. This works best if you can make up some goofy story involving hearts and diamonds, three guys and two girls, or whatever. That way they'll be looking at the cards even less closely.

Don't worry about being caught, as it almost never happens. Only if they've seen or done this trick before will they have any clue what is going on. All they really need to see is that one is a Two, the other is a Three, and they are both red. If you tell a good story about two of something, three of something else, and hearts and diamonds, they won't have a clue, and will be duly impressed with your magical abilities. Have fun.