Hi Alex, I perfected this trick with a free choice of the spectator while they can choose 1 out of 4 cards they like most, let's say the king of spade. Then I search 4 cards pour of the deck like you do in the beginning but with the visible side up. 1 is the King of spade and 3 random placeholder, the spectator can choose. While this process I roadrun the other 3 kings to the top of the deck, do the flips like you did and voila... The placeholders transformed into the kings. I think that works great each time. You need no setup and the spectator got his 4 free chosen favourite cards of the deck. Cheers
It was awesome! Would you recommend that an extra clean up precaution would be to do a Charliet (can't spell) cut while they're distracted by the four aces would be good?
My son's getting crazy good at sleight of hand and now, he's challenging me to "dazzle" him with a few tricks of my own. Problem is; I'm no good. The simple tricks you're showing is exactly where I need to start and hope to "dazzle" my son with this one. Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks.
I have problem doing those breakcounts. It is either visible or had 3 or 5 instead of 4 cards which kinda screws 4 card trick totally. Or should I make my own trick where 4 of kind turns to 3 of kind with some visible fooling 🤔😅
This is EXCELLENT! I am an "experienced beginner" and this is EXACTLY the kind of Huge Impact and visual trick I've been looking for that has handling that I can actually wrap my head around and moves that with LITTLE practice I can get down and do. I wish I could find more like this! I was able to follow this through with a deck in my hands on the first watch through! That's what the real magic is to ME! Thanks for this effect and for making the video so clear, properly paced and easy to understand. You got me on the reveal.... my magic brain knew something was going on but my eyes teamed up with your hand and fooled me HARD! I watch thinking "this is going to be a super complicated or skill based trick that I'm never going to be able to do but I'll watch anyway" then you revealed that I can do it. BOOM! Double mindfreak! 😂
I like this 4 ACE Production. An alternative way that I've been using also is palming the Aces under the deck while spreading and when stripping them from the deck have the 4 alternate cards on top of the Aces and when putting the deck down take the top 4 alternate cards back to the bottom of the deck leaving the 4 Aces in hand. This way doesn't allow you to show the cards picked though therefore not changing them either and just making it look like the Aces were picked randomly. This version adds another element to it really 👐♣️♥️♠️♦️
Brilliant. Thanks, Alex. I have to laugh though at soo many magic tutorials that say "easy" and I have to watch several times and then a lot of practice.
The doubles he does in the video is my favorite ever. If you are having trouble getting the breaks i suggest going and watching his tutorial on double lifts. He explains the move to get the break in greater detail :)
Practicing pinky breaks is essential to any beginner magician. It will step your game up ten fold. Good luck to anyone practicing this trick. Great vid by a wonderfully humble magician.
Most tricks that you perform take me a lot of practice to learn (which is not bad) however this trick was very easy and could be changed slightly depending on how you want to perform. Nice trick keep up the good work.
Learned that effect from Michael Ammar back in the early 90s, "Acrobatic Aces". Been doing it for years. I follow the production up with "Twisting the Aces", and finally "Dr. Daily's Last Trick".
Wow,Alex, what a great paced routine, with minimal angle sensitivity,and simple method,it would not maybe work so well in a less structured order, but as you did it, perfect balance! More of the same please.
Nice one! However, I always wonder what you would do if the spectator actually madly wanted to pick one of the top cards. Could you maybe someday make a video on how to turn this kind of situation around? I have hecklers in my family who traumatized me :D lol
I would say that performing frequently for family and/or friends who aren't supportive is not useful. I'm not advocating that you don't learn to handle hecklers but hecklers that are strangers are different from hecklers within family. My best advice would be to gain the courage and competence of performing for strangers when you're out and about. The issue that you're having with the top card being chosen, I assure you, isn't a real issue when performing for strangers. But if you want to feel a little more secure, peak at the top card, and if they choose it, switch to a mind reading effect.
If someone touched one of the aces, I would just go with it. When you show the four picked cards, you could say “Well at least one of you found an ace” and use the ace as the card that flips over the other cards. Then you don’t have to pick up or ditch the extra card, because it’s already an ace.
I tend to use the same 4 of a kind production as an opening trick for out of this world, i know its weird but since i have 2 blak and 2 red card out of the deck its perfect to start some kind of oil and water routine without having to fumble in middle trying to find another red and black card. This way i only need to hold a single break and i can start. Also the first trick makes it so i don't need to show the cards are shuffled, they picked random cards into a random order deck as far as they know and i have been fake shuffling the deck all the way trough anyway. I still have the video from michael ammar explaining this 4 aces routine if you are interested
Nice one pretty hard for a beginner but I'm intermediate so I can figure out ways around the hard parts. Been working on it a while won't take much longer. Definitely adding it to the library. Thanks man!
Another absolutely beautiful card tutorial by the one and the only ALEX PANDREA!!!! I signed up for your course in the first week and cannot wait for August! personally I use the four of a kind for zoom magic shows ect. as it is a flashy and visual ;-)
