Here is more Magic from Scotland to add to your growing collection!

Finding the four aces from in a deck of cards is one of the great classic tricks of Magic. Here is an easy version which will enhance your reputation as a Magician.

How The Trick Appears To The Audience

The Magician hands a pack of cards to a member of the audience and asks them to shuffle the deck thoroughly.

He then asks them to cut the deck several times.

The magician takes the pack and puts it in his pocket.

He says he is going to try to find four special cards.

He reaches into his pocket, and after a bit of searching, removes one card and places it face-down on the table or someone’s hand.

He does not allow anyone to see the card.

The Magician keeps on doing this until he has removed four cards.

He asks the audience if they believe in Magic.

Regardless of the their answer, he turns the four cards face up, one by one.

Each card is an ace!

How The Trick Is Done

Like all good tricks, the secret is simple. However, it is also very bold, so you must carry it off with confidence.

Before you do the trick, you remove the four aces and place them in your pocket with the faces towards your body. This is important because you will want to bring them out face down when you are performing the trick.

When you are ready to do the trick, hand someone the pack of cards and ask them to shuffle and cut the deck as much as they want to.

Do not mention anything about the aces.

Then take the pack and place it in your pocket in front of the four aces. The pack is next to your body and the four aces are on top of the pack.

Say you are going to perform a very difficult trick and your are going to try and find some special cards in the deck.

The audience will be left wondering what you intend to do and it all adds to the suspense.

Reach into your pocket and after a bit of pretend searching, remove the top card of the pack and place it face down on the table.

Repeat the same procedure with the other three aces.

You are now ready for the big finale.

Tell the audience that one of the most difficult tricks in the world is finding the four aces in a pack of cards.

Turn the cards over one by one and watch the expressions on all their faces!

They will be absolutely amazed and shocked.

If you perform this trick well, you will get the reputation of being a great Magician.


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This is an old favourite with many Magicians in Scotland. In this baffling trick you appear to be able to predict how many cards a spectator has cut from a deck.

How It Looks To The Audience

The Magician asks a spectator to cut a small amount of cards from the top of the deck and count them. He is told not to tell the Magician how many cards he has.

The Magician then cuts a larger amount of cards from the top of the deck for himself.

The Magician then counts his cards to himself and says that he has as many cards as the spectator has, plus four extra cards, and enough cards left to add up to sixteen.

When the Magician counts his cards, this is shown to be correct – even though the Magician could not possibly have known how many cards the spectator has.

The trick can be repeated again and again, with different results – but each time the Magician’s prediction is correct!

How The Trick Is Done

The good news is that you do not know how many cards the spectator has taken. All you have to do is make sure that you take more cards than the spectator. To do this, just watch how thick the packet of cards the spectator takes and ensure that you take a thicker packet.

This is why you ask him to cut a SMALL packet of cards from the top of the deck. If he took more than half the pack, then the trick would not work.

So, let us say when you count your cards, you have twenty. Silently, pick any small number from 1-5 and subtract that from twenty. For example, let us say you choose four. Now deduct four from twenty and that leaves sixteen.

You can now say to the spectator that you have as many cards as he has, plus four extra cards, and enough cards left to add up to sixteen.

You now ask the spectator how many cards he has. Let us imagine he says he has eleven cards.

You then count eleven cards, out loud, onto the table, in a pile. You then deal the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th cards to one side without including them in the count (these are the four extra cards).

You then deal the 16th card and call it 12, the 17th card is 13, the 18th card is 14, the 19th card is 15, and finally you call the 20th card 16.

So, in the manner you dealt the cards, you had eleven cards, plus four extra cards, and enough left to add up to sixteen.

You can then repeat the trick. However, when you do it again you pick another small number to deduct from the cards you hold. For example, you could select two. So, if you have twenty-five cards, deduct two and that will give you twenty-three.

You can then say to the spectator that you have the same amount of cards that he has, plus two extra cards, and enough left to add up to twenty-three.

You can repeat this trick two or three times because it becomes more baffling with each repetition.


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This is a real baffler from Scotland. It appears that you use very clever sleight of hand. However, it is very easy to do.

How it looks To The Audience

The Magician counts two even piles of cards onto the table. He then takes an odd card and asks the spectator which pile he would like it added to. With a mysterious wave of the hand, he causes the odd card to jump from one pile to the other!

How The Trick Is Done

This is a very effective trick and it all depends on suggestion and the way the cards are counted.

STEP ONE

Ask the spectator to place both hands flat on the table, as though he is playing a piano.

Take two cards from the deck and hold one in each hand, face down.

Say ‘Two cards, a pair, always even’ and place the two cards between the little and third fingers of the spectator’s left hand. The spectator clips them between those fingers, so the cards are held vertically.

Take another two cards from the deck and hold one in each hand, face down, and again say ‘Two cards, a pair, always even’. This time place the two cards between the third and second fingers of the spectator’s left hand.

Continue placing two cards between all his fingers (including first fingers and thumbs) until you reach the fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand. Then take one card and say ‘one card, always odd’. Place the card between his fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand.

STEP TWO

Remove the first pair of cards and place them side by side on the table, saying ‘two cards, a pair, always even’. Continue doing this until you reach the single card. The position at this stage is that you have two piles of cards on the table.

Hold the single card and say ‘one card, always odd’.

Ask the spectator which pile he would like you to place the odd card, then do so.

STEP THREE

Tell the spectator that you will cause the odd card to jump from one pile to the other. Wave you hand over the cards and them take the pile that the odd card was added to and count them out in pairs again (two cards, a pair, always even). The pile will come out even with no odd card remaining.

Take the other pile and count them out in pairs. After all the cards are dealt, you will be left with one odd card. The odd card has apparently jumped across!

A FURTHER EXPLANATION

There are seven pairs of cards and when they are dealt into two piles there are seven cards in each pile. So each pile is odd to begin with. However, by saying ‘two cards, a pair, always even’ all the time, you suggest to the spectator each pile is EVEN.

When you add the single card to either pile it will make it even, so the trick is self-working.


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