My son used up his best tricks in the auditions for his school’s talent show, he now needs some new ones for the final. What easy to learn magic tricks do you know?

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That was trickier to find than I was expecting.

Get 21 one cards victim gets to pick one memorise it put it back deal them into 3 piles face up , the victim watches for his card once all dealt out he points out which pile it is in , the magician collects the piles putting the selected pile in the middle remind victim to pick the same card and do two more deal outs always putting the selected pile to the middle then count out 10 cards from the top turn over the 11th it is the victims chosen card . (from memory you might want to test run and confirm it is the 11th ) There is probably a real elegant calculation to prove this trick mathematically. Deal from the top turning the cards as you deal.

That. Is. Awesome. He will love that, particularly with the mathematics angle – thanks.

My fave was always a very simple one that bugs people until you tell them (you’ll like this… not a lot)
(needs a newish pack)
Victim picks a card … the victim looks at it then pushes the card partially back into the pack so magician can’t see it. Magician pushes it fully in then shuffles. After shuffling make a thing of studying the pack as if looking through magically. Then withdraw a card.. this one? YEAH!

When magician pushes card in, uses fingernail to slightly “flatten” a small bit of the edge of the card.
Easy to do discreetly and easy spot the card in the shuffled pack.

Go on YouTube and search for 2-card lift and a few false shuffles, little-finger break (trinary, false riffle, false undercut) and he should be able to put together a decent 3-move “ambitious card” routine.

I taught my nephew, similar age.

Card counting/mathematical tricks drag on far too long to really keep an audience interested (they might be OK for one-on-one close-ups) but with a few simple sleights, he’ll always be able to perform a trick with an ordinary deck of cards.

Get him learning young – he’ll be the next Dynamo!

two other fun ones for kids and drunks,

isolate the 7 clubs and 9 spades pair one , the 9 clubs and 7 spades pair 2 ,what you do next is up to you if you can suffle the middle of the deck without moving the top and bottom that is good if you can split the deck moving the bottom card to the split that is fun , but the point is to give pair one to the victim while having pair two split as top and bottom card , the easiest way is to for illustration have 7 clubs bottom then 9 spades 9clubs 7 spades at the top and casually deal the top two to the victim face down . The trick get them to look at the cards keep patter going and get them to insert cards in deck , now hold the deck in between thumb and finger tips with a bit of pressure and snap flick your wrist so all the cards bar top and bottom fall away , are these your cards sir? clearly not but 99% think they are.

the 4 robbers is a nice kids story, a deck of cards is a bank , in your hand shown to the mug are 4 jacks in a vertical fan (ie one above the other overlapping long edges all aligned )concealed behind that are 4 other cards , squeeve the fan to produce a mini deck the helicopter ,the helicopter lands on the bank and the robbers enter the bank, take the 4 backing cards and push them randomly into the deck one at a time not showing the face ,the police arrive make police noise and knock on the deck for drama the robbers panic and jump from the roof turn the top 4 cards over one at a time revealing the jacks ,