Vote on the next trick
Seven self-working card tricks waiting to be built. Each one gets the same treatment as the eleven already here: a demo you can play from both sides, the method written out, and the reason it cannot fail. The ones with the most votes get built first.
Voting needs an account, because an anonymous poll is a number anybody can move and this one decides where a week of work goes. Signing in is a link by email and nothing else.
Everyone gets a vote on every one of these. They add up — if three people want the Clock Trick, it says three. You get one vote per trick rather than one vote in total, so back as many as you like, and tapping again takes yours back. The list is ordered with the most wanted at the top.
The Clock Trick
Twelve cards in a circle like a clock face. They think of an hour, and you turn over the card sitting at it.
Gemini Twins
Two prediction cards go into the deck face up. The spectator deals wherever they like, and both predictions land next to the two cards they chose.
The Nine Card Problem
Jim Steinmeyer's. Nine cards, a spelled word, and a deal that finishes on the one card they were thinking of.
The Ten Card Poker Deal
Ten cards, dealt into two poker hands however the spectator likes. You win. They deal again to prove it was luck. You win again.
The Lie Detector
They answer questions about their card and lie whenever they feel like it. The deal catches every lie and still finds the card.
The Circus Card Trick
The oldest sucker trick there is. Their card is not in the deck, because it has been in your pocket the whole time.
Any Card at Any Number
They name a card. They name a number. The card is at the number. The self-working versions are the ones worth learning.
Not on the list?
Name it and say what it does. Suggestions come to me rather than onto this page — an open list of free text on a site with nobody moderating it turns into something else within a week. Good ones get added here to vote on.
More
The ten that already exist are on the self-working card tricks page, and the five that run on arithmetic are collected at mathematical card tricks.
Harrison Alley
Hobbyist · Writes Sleightless
A hobbyist, not a professional. I write up the self-working end of card magic, because it is the door I would point a beginner at, and every trainer here is played through and checked before it ships.