Magic by Design (This is Not a Lecture It's a Magic Trick)

The Deck Knows Your Card...

I'm back with another magic trick. But this time, I don't find your card, the deck knows your card. I'm Back at it again with Karl Fulves' Self-working Close-up Card Magic book.

This trick is classified as an opening trick. Karl Fulves' Self-working Close-up Card Magic defines an opening trick with " The opening card trick should have a simple plot because that is the best way to engage the audiences attention" (Fulves 1).

I think the most important part of this trick is the way you shuffle the cards near the end. this shuffle is called the duck and deal shuffle and is not just to mix up the cards. this shuffle makes sure the three is always the card chosen for the trick.

overall this was a really simple trick.  What do you guys think is the best kind of trick for an opening in a magic routine?  Do you want to start with a bang, or start small?

Citation: Fulves, Karl. Self-Working Close-up Card Magic: 56 Foolproof Tricks. Dover Publications, 1995.

The Almanac Deck

You're About to Be Amazed!

(Hopefully)

I don't know about you, but doing magic tricks was always cool to me. I loved learning how to baffle my peers and to make the impossible possible. The first trick I ever learned was very inconvenient, but I loved it anyway.  This time I'm focusing on card tricks.

The book I picked up was Karl Fulves' Self-working Close-up Card Magic. It has 56 tricks in total.  The trick I decided to start with is The Almanac Deck. Without further ado, I present what I have learned.

(The video may be messed up from transferal.)

Sadly I cannot add a video on how to do the trick because of file size issues.

The main thing to remember when executing this trick is that "It does not matter whether the reversed card is red or black; always say the deck is on Daylight Saving Time" (Fulves 12). Other things to remember is the trick facts for the explanation of the numbers of cards. I said some of these wrong in my video but these are the correct ones:

• There are 12 picture cards like the 12 months of the year.
• There are 52 cards like the 52 weeks of the year.
• If you add all the values of the deck , plus one for the jokers, you get 365. Just like the number of days in a year.

Here are some things I want to ask you:

Do you think magic is a waste of time? Know any magic tricks yourself?

Please let me know if you liked it or not. :)

Citation: Fulves, Karl. Self-Working Close-up Card Magic: 56 Foolproof Tricks. Dover Publications, 1995.