Very nice. Maybe make it a "do as I do" trick which solves the "sketchy" counting at the beginning & "dull" counting at the end. At the start, shuffle & hand them slightly half the deck then having you both count by threes "so we have the same." When they come out ahead, say "I'm short. Give me any X cards you want so we're the same." Proceed as before. You both shuffle, cut and pick a card (yours doesn't matter).Swap, "shuffle" their packet. Get to the Klondike ahuffle. At the end, have them count their packet at the same time you deal down to their card. IMO, that's less remembering a number & more magically "arriving" at the card at the sane time.
Matt, there is a trick where you place Jack, queen, king and ace together into 4 stacks, then after some magic mumbo jumbo you redeal the four packs and all the jacks are together, queens, kings, and aces. Do you do this trick?
Absolutely amazing. Love card magic but am not dexterous enough. This is not even a setup. I’ll be using it with the guys next card night. Couldn’t believe it myself.
I love tricks like this! I always say that 'once is a trick and twice is a lesson', so I usually only show a trick once and leave them wanting more. Tricks like this with two parts almost makes them feel like they saw it twice and it blows their minds. Great effect and perfect for pretty much everywhere! Thanks for sharing and for your great explanation!
Hi Matt. Love your tutorials. I,m just starting out 4 months in and I,ve had an idea to add to this effect. After the set up and before I start counting out the cards for the first part I tell the spectator I,ve thought of a name for this trick and I,ve called it “ the impossible poker hand “. I then make a second prediction, write it down on a piece of paper and get the spectator to put it in their pocket. After the fourth card is revealed I say well thats a pretty good poker hand…4 of a kind, but I did say this trick is called “ the impossible poker hand “ , after which they pull out of their pocket andread out loud ( for the purpose of your tutorial) THE NINE OF BANANAS!!! which of course doesn’t exist and makes a FIVE OF A KIND …or the impossible poker hand !!!
😂 That’s awesome man! You’ve got the right idea. You are putting your personality into the trick and that what it’s all about. You do you, be real and you’ll have a great connection with your audience. Well done 👍
Great trick. Did you realise that you said that the Queens are in order, Clubs Hearts Spades Diamonds and the Kings are in the same order. Clubs Hearts Diamonds Spades 🙂
The only question I have, though, is - what do you do if you actually DO get a match amongst the first four cards revealed? Or is there something else I'm missing?!? 🤷♂
Matt the first one is a verry good card trick.Thank you for reading all the commends made and responding to it.I will from now on whatch all your tricks.You are a MASTER.❤❤
Thank you for replying to my commend made.Hope to see many more of your card tricks.I love to show it to my children.But I dont show them how it is done otherwise every person will know the card tricks.
Matt, I’ve tried the trick 15 times and it isn’t working. Followed your directions exactly but it keeps giving me the wrong numbers. I can’t figure out what I may be doing wrong. Can you help?
This is absolutely sick. I used to know a similar one that had the 4 aces turn up I think but this is much more impressive. Love that it's a bit different too, not the usual finding a chosen card in some way or another. A regal trick with the 4 ladies and then the matching kings this is a bit more special and unusual. Love it. Thank you
What a great piece of art. I've known this for many years. I have been performing magic professionally since I was 22, and today I am 68. This exact feat is still part of my repertoire, initially in the version you showed. But I've been skipping the "killer ending" for many years now. Why? It smells too much like “setup”. The real climax - from my point of view - are the four women. What a great surprise, the audience is already speechless. If you then reveal the four matching kings, it becomes clear to even the most inexperienced spectator that something was "prepared". Sorry, these are my thoughts on this feat that I have had in my close-up nude for many years. Thanks for your great RU-vid channel. with magical greetings from Switzerland Andre
Hey Andre' Congratulations my friend, that's a life long passion for magic right there. Yes I can see your point exactly. Sometimes it's best to avoid an additional climax just because you can. Personally, I've found the opposite, after trying both versions, reactions are defiantly stronger with the additional reveal. But that all depends on how it's presented. You just have to go with what works for you. Great to meet you here on the channel!
@@MattMcGurk Hallo Mat, Thank you very much for your answer. It's nice that you can see things like this in different ways. The important thing is... it's true for you as well as for me. And.. we both love MAGIC... Today it's a great time. When I was young, we had no Internet, no DVD's, only the magic books frome Dai Vernon, Harry Lorayne, Karl Fulves, Ed Marlo, Brother Hamman, David Roth, Simon Aronson,John Mendoza, Goshman and so on... I am happy, that i had the honor to see Dai Vernon liveat a magic convention 1982 in München (Germany) I growed up in Basel (Switzerland) together with Roberto Giobbi. We were meember of the ZRB (Zauberring Basel - Magic Circle of Basel) for many years, and i learnd sooo.... much together with him. I wish you a good time, please forgive my poor English... but... Magic is our live.
I figured out a better ending. You just count the cards in your head when you Klondike shuffle. So you know the amount in their pocket. And you make it a prediction. Even better, right?
Automatic placement principle is awesome. John Bannon's booklet Outnumbered has a couple of cool tricks that use it. I like this variation... I had the spec look at the bottom card, and place their packet back without a shuffle. I then talked them through an Ose cut, which worked nicely.
@@MattMcGurk You should do a series on tricks from a shuffled deck. I think self-workers from a shuffled deck pack a massive punch with spectators, particularly when you can let them shuffle beforehand.
You could do it in the original way, I show it briefly in the video by having each part of the prediction hidden in a folded piece of paper, so that when you unfold it, it shows a new part of the prediction. See 5:53 for an example
