The Awe-inspiring Vanishing Ace Of Diamonds
Here is a great card trick that is based largely in misdirection. It requires a little bit of set up, but with only a few minutes practice you should be able to effectively perform this successfully in front of any audience. This is a big hit with kids, as it doesn’t require any special sleight of hand moves, and it’s pretty simple once you figure it out.
This is how the ploy will look to your astonished audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You spread them out, opening them to the audience. Then you place them on top of the deck, and shuffle and cut the deck quite a lot of times, ensuring that they have been equally dispersed.
You then ask a volunteer to come up and hunt for the Ace of Diamonds. They will search in vain, as they won’t be able to find it. If you like, you can get a new audience member to come up and look, but they too will be disastrous. Then you pull the Ace of Diamonds out of your shirt pocket. (Or your back pocket, or shoe, or wherever.)
Here’s how to set the deception up. First find all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then put the other Aces on top of the deck. When you draw the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the interior. If you place both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you statement this is important. If you mention beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds fade away, they will be looking much more directly. But if you just start of by relating what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely believe you, and not glance too closely at the three cards.
One way that can extraordinarily help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to divulge some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of enchanting power, and in the old days when they were choosing the shapes for cards, they nearly didn’t choose diamonds because people were always stealing them, or they were always disappearing or something. That way, when they start thinking about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be hidden someplace in the deck, or so they think. Have fun with this trick.
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