card tricks

Card tricks are a great way to entertain and surprise friends and family. Here are a few good ones I've found. Send in more tricks here.

1. Pick Three Cards - Have the spectator choose three random cards from a shuffled deck. You never see the cards and they put them back in the deck, and cut the cards twice, but you're able to locate all three cards.
After they choose three cards, lay out three stacks from right to left, face down. Deal 10 cards to the stack on the right, and 15 cards each to the next two stacks. You should have 9 cards left in your hand.

Have them place one of their cards face down on the stack of 10, then have them cut the stack of 15 to the left and place it on top of their card. Have them place their second card face down on the middle stack and cut the stack of 15 to the left, placing the top half on their second card. Finally, have them place their third card on the leftmost stack and place the nine cards in your hand on top.

Gather the stacks up from left to right, putting the left stack on top of the right. Move four cards from the top to the bottom, then deal out the entire deck, alternating between face up and face down. Ask them to watch for their card.

They'll never see it, but keep dealing the deck out face up, face down. Each time through the deck, pick up the face down cards and deal them out again. You can act confused if you'd like. Finally, you'll have just three cards left that are face down. Flip them all over to reveal the three cards they chose.
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2. Mind reader - Tell the spectator you're going to teach them to read your mind. Instruct them to pick a card (e.g. four of diamonds) with the cards face down, then you choose a fourth. Reveal that they picked all of the cards correctly.
Before the trick, or while you're shuffling, take note of the bottom card. First, tell them to choose that card. When they choose it, look at it (subtly or not, it's up to you) and then tell them to pick the card they just chose. Do that one more time, seeing which card they chose, and telling them to pick that one from the deck. You then choose the fourth card, the last one they picked, and then reveal all of the correctly chosen cards.
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