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  2. Out of This World (card trick) - Wikipedia

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    The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.

  3. Twenty-One Card Trick - Wikipedia

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    After three steps, the middle card (*) is the one in all chosen piles. The Twenty-One Card Trick, also known as the 11th card trick or three column trick, is a simple self-working card trick that uses basic mathematics to reveal the user's selected card. The game uses a selection of 21 cards out of a standard deck. These are shuffled and the ...

  4. List of card manipulation techniques - Wikipedia

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    Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used to perform card tricks in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic.

  5. Trick deck - Wikipedia

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    The deck can be dribbled or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary. It can even be shuffled. One basic trick involves a spectator choosing a card from the deck and returning it; the card can then appear practically anywhere in the deck, making tricks like the Ambitious Card incredibly simple. The final and most ...

  6. Forcing (magic) - Wikipedia

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    A person selecting a card. In stage magic, a force is a method of controlling a choice made by a spectator during a trick. [1] Some forces are performed physically using sleight of hand, such as a trick where a spectator appears to select a random card from a deck but is instead handed a known card by the magician. Other forces use equivocation ...

  7. Solitaire (cipher) - Wikipedia

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    Perform a "count cut": observe the value of the card at the bottom of the deck. If the card is either joker take its value to be 27 (53 when using a full deck). Remove that number of cards from the top of the deck and insert them just above the last card in the deck. 23 26 B 9 12 15 18 21 24 2 A 1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 3 5 8 11 14 17 20 6

  8. Card manipulation - Wikipedia

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    Card trick. Upper left: "Pick a card, any card". Upper right: Back-palming a card. Bottom left: A "spring" flourish. Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation, commonly known as card magic, is the branch of magic that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards.

  9. Aces Up - Wikipedia

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    If there are two or more cards of the same suit, discard all but the highest-ranked card of that suit. Aces rank high. Repeat step 2 until there are no more pairs of cards with the same suit. Whenever there are any empty spaces, you may choose the top card of another pile to be put into the empty space. After you do this, go to Step 2.