The Astounding Vanishing Ace Of Diamonds
Here is a great card trick that is based largely in misdirection. It requires a little bit of set up, but with only a few minutes practice you should be able to effectively perform this successfully in front of any audience. This is a big hit with kids, as it doesn’t require any special sleight of hand moves, and it’s pretty simple once you figure it out.
This is how the ploy will seem to your bewildered audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You hold them out, showing them to the audience. Then you set them on top of the deck, and mix up and cut the deck several times, ensuring that they have been evenly dispersed.
You then ask a volunteer to come up and search for the Ace of Diamonds. They will explore in vain, as they won’t be able to come across it. If you like, you can get one more audience member to come up and search, but they too will be disastrous. Then you pull the Ace of Diamonds out of your shirt pocket. (Or your back pocket, or shoe, or wherever.)
Here’s how to set the deception up. First find all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then put the other Aces on top of the deck. When you draw the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the midpoint. If you place both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you utterance this is important. If you bring up beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds fade away, they will be looking much more directly. But if you just start of by telling what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely trust you, and not gaze too closely at the three cards.
One way that can really help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to divulge some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of paranormal power, and in the old days when they were choosing the shapes for cards, they almost didn’t choose diamonds because people were always stealing them, or they were always disappearing or something. That way, when they start wondering about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be hidden someplace in the deck, or so they believe. Have fun with this trick.
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