How to Do a Card Trick for a Free Drink | Table Magic Tricks

Watch more Easy Magic Tricks for the Dinner Table videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/510525-How-to-Do-the-Crying-Spoon-Trick-Table-Magic-TricksLearn how to do a card trick for a free drink in this dinner table magic tricks video from Howcast.Ben: How would you like to learn how to win a free drink with a pack ofcards?Female: I would definitely like to learn how to do that.Ben: I'll show you. It's a little game. Would you like to mix these up forme?Female: Okay. Any particular way?Ben: Doesn't matter, as long as they're mixed.Female: Okay. Is that good enough?Ben: Perfect. Go ahead, take any card that you like. Memorize it, show itto the camera. Make sure I don't get to see it. Good?Female: Yep.Ben: Okay. Place it right on top, there. I'll put these here. Would yougive them a cut for me? Perfect. Would you like to give anothercut?Female: Okay.Ben: The last cut's optional; it's up to you.Female: Sure.Ben: Why not? All right. Look at the cards, but don't tell me if you seeyour card, all right? Would you buy me a drink if the next cardI turn over is your card?Female: Yes.Ben: I think you owe me a drink.Female: How'd you know?Ben: You want to know?Female: Yeah.Ben: All right. This is a great way to win a drink in a bar becauseeveryone thinks, "Aha. The magician messed up. He's never goingto get it." Here's how it works: It uses an old principle calledthe Keycard Principle, and I'll walk you through how that works.The first step is I have you shuffle the cards. They can bemixed any way, it doesn't matter. Perfect. Then I take the cardsback and I have you select a card. While you're looking at thecard or showing it to your friends, I do something. I verysubtly glance at the bottom card of the deck. Right now, I'mgoing to have a look and I see that it's the 9 of Diamonds. Iknow in my head the bottom card is the 9 of Diamonds, and I'llshow you how that comes into play.I take about half the deck and I place it on the table. Then youplace your card there. When I put the rest of the packet on top,I now know the 9 of Diamonds is directly on top of your card.Female: Then I'm cutting that.Ben: Exactly. That's why it fools people, because you can't shuffle thecards. You can cut the cards, because if you're cutting thecards, the 9 of Diamonds will always stay directly next to yourcard, which I now know, is the 9 of Spades. However, if you cutright at the 9 of Spades, it's still next to it. If you cutbetween the 9 of Diamonds and the 9 of Spades, the 9 of Diamondsis on the bottom and their card is on top. If you cut directlyabove, the 9 of Diamonds will be the first card; their card willbe the second card.It can never actually get separated unless one's on top andone's on the bottom. The way you check for that is you just makesure that the bottom card, when you're done cutting the cards,isn't still the 9 of Diamonds. You can cut it and complete thecut as many times as you like.Now, I have no idea that your card is the 9 of Spades this time.As I turn the cards over, and it's very important that you say,"Look at the cards, but don't tell me if you see your card."This way, the person won't miss the card as they're looking. Youslowly turn them over, and I do this until I see that 9 ofDiamonds.Female: Right.Ben: You'll notice that I'm only using about half the deck, becausesometimes, it can take a very long time. Now I see the 9 ofDiamonds here, which means I deal another card, which is yourcard, and then I say "Aha," and I point to the card that isn'ttheir card.Female: [inaudible: 04:08]Ben: Exactly. I say "Would you buy me drink if the next card that I turnover is your card?" At this point, they almost always say,"Yes." Then you turn their card over.Female: Great. So clever.Ben: There you do it. That's how you win a drink with a pack of cards.