(upbeat music)
- What do you think, buddy?
Should we teach 'em another
card trick they can do?
Everybody wants to learn
card tricks, don't they?
Everywhere we go, people
ask me to do a card trick,
do a card trick.
So I'm gonna teach you a
fun one that you can do.
If you can grab an envelope
and a piece of paper,
you can do this at anybody's house
with anybody's cards.
But we're gonna do it
right now using an envelope
that we put a question mark on
because I made a prediction.
I know which card
Xander's gonna end up with
before he even knows.
We're just gonna set it right there
so everybody can watch it.
Now here we have a deck of cards
and we can mix them up all we want.
It's better if you have
your friend mix it.
Go ahead, buddy.
We're gonna make some piles here.
Make a few piles.
You can do that.
Put some on the top.
Pick up some and mix 'em up.
Come on, make 'em all mixed up for me.
So you can do some more if you want.
You can let them mix as much as you want.
Then you even let them go
ahead and straighten 'em up.
Go ahead, make 'em nice and neat.
Now remember, I predicted what card
my friend would pick.
It's right here in this envelope, right?
No one's touched the envelope.
Have they, buddy?
No.
You just tell them to keep
their eyes on the envelope.
You pick it up, flip it over,
pull out the paper.
It says the nine of spades.
Zander, you see that top card?
Will you just flip it over for me?
Just the top one, just the top one.
No, not all of 'em, buddy.
Just the top one.
Watch.
Nine of spades.
It matches.
We did magic.
(gasps)
Zander and I will now teach you how to do
the card prediction trick.
What you need is an
envelope, a piece of paper
and a deck of cards.
That's it.
You can do this trick anywhere.
The secret is, I write
down the name of a card,
put it in the envelope.
It's really in there,
but underneath the envelope,
I have the card that
matches my prediction.
So I keep that together as I show this.
I just hold it underneath.
I can show it.
I set it down.
Usually I sit it on the edge of the table
so I can pick up the card easily.
They can mix up the deck
of cards all they want.
Make a mess, whatever they want.
Have them straighten it up.
Then you pick up the envelope
with the card underneath it
and just put it on top.
So I'm just sitting that
card right down on top.
They don't know it's under there.
Set it down.
You talk for a minute about
the envelope's been on the table.
You pick up the envelope.
You pull out your prediction,
which was the nine of spades.
You then flip over the top card.
Better yet, let them flip it over,
if they don't flip over all of them.
They pick up just the
top one, turn it over
and you say look, you
stopped on the same card
that I predicted ahead of time.
You mixed them up as much as you want,
but you found the same card.
You will fool your friends with this one
and it's so easy to do.
Just grab yourself an
envelope, piece of paper,
deck of cards.
Steal off one card, hide
it under the envelope,
let them shuffle and put it on top.
Pretty easy.
And what I would do,
is if you repeat this,
maybe have a couple different ones.
But you know the rule in magic,
never repeat tricks for the same people
over and over again.
So Zander and I are having
fun teaching you magic tricks.
I hope you are having fun learning them.
This is Zander.
This is Christopher.
Thanks for watching and keep practicing.
- I found it.
- You did get it.
Great job.
Thumbs up.
