- Yo, what's going on guys?
Welcome back.
Just got back from New
York, and I'm a bit sleepy,
but I thought I'd have
to grind this one out
because I'm actually, by the
time you're watching this,
I'll be in Toronto for Toronto
International Film Festival.
I'll be performing there which is amazing.
I'm so looking forward to that.
Hopefully I can film something
for you guys to watch while I'm there.
But regardless, that's
not why we're here today.
We're here to learn something,
and I'm here to teach it.
Today I'm gonna teach
you one of the very first
card routines that I've ever
learned in my entire life.
And this can be your first card routine
if you're just getting started in magic.
And if you're not, this can be something
you can add to your repertoire.
Super easy to do and a lot of fun.
In fact, ugh.
In fact, when you're performing
and someone asks you,
oh man, can you teach me something
that I can show my girlfriend
or can you teach me a trick
that I can show my friends with,
this is usually the one
that I end up teaching
because it's simple slight-of-hand.
It's fun to learn, fun to
do, and it looks really cool.
And by the way, if you're looking
to skip through this section,
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Alright, let's get into
the tutorial. Let's go.
Folks, go get yourself a deck of cards.
I'm gonna be using these cards.
These are from Dan and Dave.
They're private reserve,
no longer available.
But if you're looking for some cool cards,
I'll leave the link below
where you can shop some.
So I'm gonna show you two effects
that you can do with the same principle.
Let's roll a clip of
the first performance.
Alright, I'm gonna show you
a bit of a demonstration
on a card gambling technique
known as estimation.
Now, if you can estimate
where the cards may be
in the deck, you might
be able to shuffle them
in your favor.
So for instance, I'm gonna
grab two random cards here.
We have the six and the nine,
so the black six and the black nine.
I'm gonna take those two and leave them
at random spots in the deck.
Probably I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna say 21 and 36.
That's about 21 and 36, I believe.
So if that's 21 and 36,
that's how you find the six and the nine.
So basically this trick is
known as the six and nine trick.
That's how I know it.
I don't know it be any other name.
But it basically is a
very simple principle
which is a pseudo-duplicate.
And what pseudo-duplicates are
is when two cards look alike
but they are not the same,
such as the six and nine six and nine.
Now I know if you don't
know this trick already
most of you are going,
well that's kind of stupid.
But actually this fools most people,
and because there's a little
bit of psychology involved
with this, you don't actually mention
you have the six of clubs
or the six of spades.
You just mention the color.
Because you're not giving them
any pertinent information,
their mind isn't remembering it,
and therefore they're tricking themselves.
So you wanna leave the nine on top
or the six, whatever, and
the six on the bottom.
Now important to note that
these have to be opposite suits.
They can't be the six and nine of clubs.
Six of spades, nine of clubs,
other ones are here and here.
It doesn't matter where they are
as long as they're on
top and on the bottom.
The other two are gonna be
placed in the deck randomly here.
Now you're all set up for your trick.
To start off the trick, what
you're gonna do is run through,
find the nine, find the six,
explaining that this is
a gambling demonstration
or whatever you wanna call it.
And be sure not to flash this.
So you wanna grab that,
you wanna turn the deck around
and say we're gonna use the
black six and the black nine.
Now I do that while I'm
sort of shuffling the cards
like this because I don't want them
to look at them too long.
Don't go I'm gonna use the
black six and the black nine
right, 'cause they're not gonna know
what the hell's going on.
They're gonna think
you're having a seizure.
So calm down, alright.
This is just a card trick.
We're gonna use the black
six and the black nine.
You can leave them on top
and one after another,
very cleanly put them into the middle.
But before you do, we need a justification
of how we're gonna find these.
Because if we just pulled
them out of the deck
then what's the point?
How did we find them?
So to justify that, I usually count.
So I'll go here and I'll be like,
uh, that's about 13 and 25,
I believe 13 and 25, and
then we do the move, right.
So again that justifies the sort of reason
you're able to find it.
It justifies the skill and the effect.
Now we know that the cards
are on top and on the bottom,
the cards that you're
gonna produce, at least.
That's where they are. Super simple.
Here's all you have to do.
With your dealer hand,
you wanna pinch the top and
the bottom just like so.
So all your fingers here and
you've got your thumb here.
This hand here is gonna get ready
to catch the rest of the cards.
And if I do this in slow mo, here you go.
I'm gonna let everything drop
except the top and the bottom
cards, which you hold out.
So by doing that, by applying
a little bit of pressure,
it looks like those were
stripped out from the middle
of the deck, especially if
you show this hand empty.
Come over here and show these.
A little bit of misdirection going on.
So just be bold.
Go ahead and practice this.
Just go over your couch if you like,
but literally just toss it
into this hand and catch it.
And the more confident
you're gonna get with that,
at first you're gonna do this, right.
It's gonna be, that's gonna be
what it looks like at first,
but eventually you'll be over here
and you can catch them super far away
which looks more and more impressive.
Practice that. That is
the six and nine trick.
Let's get on to the second performance
of the next trick thing.
So check it out.
Here for this trick, we
are going to use two cards
that will help me find your card.
These are the two queens,
the two red queens.
I'm gonna hold onto those for now,
and I'm gonna have you go ahead
and select any card you
like in the entire deck.
This one right here?
Well, perfect. Thank you very much.
Have a look at that card,
and I'm gonna lose that card
somewhere into the deck.
Now I will need those two queens,
and they're gonna sandwich
the deck just like so,
as you can see, the red queen
here and the red queen here.
And just like that, one card is caught
between the two queens, your
selection, the four of clubs.
So that was a sandwich effect
using the same principle
but you end up sandwiching their selection
between the two cards,
and I'm gonna show you
guys how that works.
So you wanna grab two
cards that you're gonna use
as the sandwich cards.
You can use anything really
as long as they're the same.
I like using face cards, so
let's say the two queens.
You can set these aside for now.
And so we'll get back
to those in a second.
So maybe you can put them on the table,
put them in your pocket,
have a spectator hold them.
And now they're going to select a card.
Here's the thing, you have to be able
to control their selection
to the bottom of the deck.
Many ways to go about that.
A very simple way, so what
I use is a straddle pass.
I'm not gonna get into that.
Basically controls any card to the bottom
of the deck really quickly.
You could also use something
as simple as a double undercut.
So you can do it like this,
you can have them do this.
You can say hold the
cards in a bevel like so.
Run your finger down the side.
They say stop.
They look at a card, so
let's say this card here.
I riffle the rest keeping a
pinkie break right underneath.
I hold that break with this thumb
so I transfer from my pinkie
break here to my thumb.
And as I'm talking, I'm
going to grab half of that,
put it on top.
And I'm gonna let the other
half fall into my hand
and put it on top.
Oh boy.
That's why I don't do the double undercut.
Let's try that again.
They say stop, you go to here.
I'm here, and now I double undercut,
and the card is now on the bottom.
Or you can have them say
stop in a dribble like so.
You can have them look at
this card, shuck forward.
I taught this before where
their selection is right here
basically, but it's sort of in jogged
because what you're doing is this,
you're dribbling to the back.
And that selection is in jog,
so your thumb's gonna come
in there and hold that break.
And same thing, you're gonna grab half,
bring it to the top, grab the other half,
bring it to the top as
you're just casually talking.
Now the card is on the bottom.
Once you're in this position
where you control the card
to the bottom of the deck,
here's what you're gonna have to do.
You're gonna take the two queens,
and you're gonna place one
on top and one on bottom.
You could either do it
with your right hand
or your left hand, whatever
you're more comfortable with.
But what you're gonna do is,
by showing them the bottom
card, so you can say
I have the two queens that
are sandwiching the deck.
You're going to just let that
one protrude a little bit,
because here's what's gonna happen.
Their card is here, but
your index is contacting
that card as well as this one.
So the friction, let's do it slow,
of the cards going this way
will automatically
sandwich their selection
between those two.
So when done quickly,
it's the same principle.
You jog it a little bit
on the edge of the card.
I'm holding this here
so as I throw the rest
of the cards into my right hand,
one card will be sandwiched,
and it'll be their selection.
And that's it. Yeah, we did it!
Alright guys, that was it.
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