The Grand Ace Of Diamonds
This is a great up close card trick that is perfect for any audience. It requires some practice, and a little bit of preparation, but once you know how to do it, it's pretty simple. Of course, because it requires some set up, you can only perform this once. So it helps if you have a few other card tricks up your sleeve, so to speak. This works especially well for kids, both to perform for and to teach, as it doesn't require any difficult sleight of hand maneuvers.
This is how the trick will look to your stunned audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You spread them out, displaying them to the audience. Then you place them on top of the deck, and reorder and cut the deck several times, ensuring that they have been consistently dispersed.
You then ask a helper to come up and hunt for the Ace of Diamonds. They will explore in vain, as they won't be able to uncover it. If you like, you can get one more audience member to come up and look, 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 trap 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 pull the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the midpoint. If you position both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you statement this is important. If you bring up beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds disappear, they will be looking much more personally. But if you just start of by relating what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely believe you, and not stare too closely at the three cards.
One way that can unbelievably help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to convey some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of enchanting 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 buried someplace in the deck, or so they suppose. Have fun with this trick.
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