Description
You want to show the audience a three card trick with four cards. You never really understood why there has to be one card too many for this card trick. You show the fronts and backs of the four giant cards. It can be three eights of diamonds and a joker, all with blue backs. You put one eight down on the table. You now show 2 eights and a joker. The spectator must follow the joker, which you place in the middle. The cards are turned face up, the cards are moved around, but not faster than the spectator can follow his joker, which must be on top, at all times. But when you turn all three cards over, it disappears and you are left with 3 eights in your hand. The card on the table is turned over and it’s the joker. He gets a second chance. It all repeats, but once again the joker switches places with the card on the table. Now you have to make it easy for him. You again place an eight on the table. The spectator is not convinced that you are telling the truth, so you show that it really is an eight on the table. To make it easy for him, you now hold the cards face up and ask him where the joker is. He looks at you skeptically – he can see it’s at the top of the deck, so isn’t that a bit of a stupid question. Maybe, but now you show that all three cards are jokers and the card on the table is the eight. You only use four cards for this card trick.
A long and entertaining routine that you can always keep in your pocket. A card trick that is always ready to use – close up, parlor and stage. It doesn’t require a magician with dexterity, but it does require you to practice the routine.
Giant cards (A5 size)
Stage card (A4 size)