Hi everybody! Malik, the magic guy for expertvillage.com.
Now I’m going to show you another really
cool trick using the pairs of cork cards.
I also want to point out that there are a
couple of really cool books that this trick
is in and you should check out; this is a
good opportunity. You want to check out a
book called Royal Road Car Magic and I am
going to show you later on when I talk about
further reading and study and another series
of books called Card College. Both of them
had this trick in them and both of them are
professional books. So what I want to do is
start by taking the cork cards out of the
deck but I am going to tell a little bit of
a lie. The first cork card I get to, the red
Queen, I am going to cut to the back of the
deck, like that. Then I am going to go through
and take out all the other cork cards from
the deck just like this and you can do this
in front of them if you want or you can be
a little more secretive you like. This part,
I do in front of them. The next part of the
trick is where a little bit of practice is
going to come in handy. What I am going to
do up here like this to myself is I am going
to set the cork cards in pairs in a specific
way. Now the card I left on top of the deck
was the red Queen, so the first card I want
here is the other red Queen and then I am
going to pair the cards up so that no two
like pairs are next to each other color or
value. So what that means is I could take
like the 2 Black Kings but I don’t want
another black pair so I don’t another black
pair or another pair of Kings. I will take
the red Jack, then I an take the black Queens,
then I could take the red Kings and I can
take the Black Jacks so each pair is different
tin color and different in value than the
pairs next to it. We are going to take these
11 cards but we are going to call them 12,
so it’s a bluff because no one counted.
So it is 6 pairs of 12’s, so we are going
to take them in pairs and count. There’s
1, there’s 2 because they are offset by
1 card they don’t show up in pairs. There
are 3, there are 4, there are 5 and there
are 6. Now what that did was they actually
saw the Queen of Hearts twice and nobody noticed
and that puts it on the bottom of the pile.
So now the cards are actually paired up except
for the red Queen. The other one is right
here. When we put it on top of the deck, now
it is going to pair up all the cards. Now
when we show them again in pairs, they are
all grouped together. There’s the black
Kings, the red Jacks, the black Queens. This
is why we separated by color and by values
because it gives up a nicer spread of color
at the end. There are the black Jacks and
the other Red Queens. That is a great trip
easy to do. You can do that to. Impress your
friends.
