Something really quick with a deck of cards.
I have here the eight and the nine.
And I want you to put them anywhere you wantinside the deck.
Buried inside the deck, correct?
Rogue: For this trick I'm going to need thenine of spades, eight of clubs, nine of clubs,
And the secret behind this trick is that younever really tell them which nine and which
eight it is, so it gets a little confusingfor them at the end.
Basically what happens is you're going toput one of the eights on the top, and one
of the nine on the bottom, and you're goingto have the other eight and the other nine
You're going to show them the eight and thenine but you don't tell them that it's the
You don't tell them that it's the eight ofclubs and the nine of spades.
So you show them really quickly so they don'treally know which one is which.
They just know it's the black eight and ablack nine.
You have them put the cards anywhere in thecenter of the deck.
So now the situation is you have one of thedifferent eights and one of the different
To do your reveal you're going to squeezethe deck in your right hand and on the count
of three you're going to, just keep squeezing,you're going to shoot one of the cards over.
Basically what happens is, as you keep squeezing,it shoots out.
It looks like it comes from the middle ofthe deck and that's basically a different
and a different nine, but to them, they thinkthey're the same card because in the beginning
you didn't really mention which nine it wasand which eight it was.