This EASY CARD TRICK is INSANE & Fools Magicians - No setup! 

I found your channel and this trick today 2/27/24. After watching it a few times I broke out my deck and started learning it. I watched the video intently, pausing it at key places, making sure I counted and spelled correctly. It took a few times before I had all the counting/spelling and placement of the sections of the deck in their proper places. I'm now proud to announce, "I've got it!" Great trick! I have a function coming up on Thursday and I know this will be one of the tricks I'll have with me. Thanks so much! Now, time for more practice.

I had forgotten where I first spotted this effect; I really enjoyed it! As luck would have it, you were the first one I located on You Tube. Great effect from a great teacher🎉

Such a clever trick! And I love your channel - thanks for your content. I spent about half an hour doing it multiple times and it’s so easy, really cool!

I love it! Thank you.

New to the channel...fantastic trick! Love no setup tricks like this...thanks again!

Amazing trick. Thank you!!!

Great trick mate fantastic thanks for sharing it with us,Excellent clear instructions aswell 👍🏻

One of the best I've seen. It's got a card trick, a prediction and a nice 4 card reveal to close the deal all while making the spectator feel like they did it all. No set up isn't the right term. Maybe no pre set, because u do it after they shuffle. The deck can then still be in rotation for another no set up trick to be performed right after that one like maybe the round and round or something fun . I prefer these so I can do a few without having multiple decks of cards. Makes it seem much more magical because it's from shuffled cards and flows better. If you're changing decks between tricks you're done. They know that deck is rigged in some way and the illusion is lost. It's not magic anymore it's just a cool card trick. Please do more of these. I want to flush out a set of nothing but card tricks that can be performed with the same deck back to back. Know it seems simple to many but I'm just now learning. I've got 4 down pat and have done the 5th twice now and getting more comfortable. I need some more please?? I love how you do it and explain these tricks. Some of the other channels explain like you already know a lot about magic and want you to do special cuts and shuffles. Then they go thru it so fast you still don't get it. Pausing trying to get your cards to match theirs. No fun. I played along with your reveal and got it to work for me first time. Easy to remember too. You have a new subscriber now. Pretty please do more of this for those of us that aren't good at pinky breaks and the myriad of positions to hold cards I've never heard of lol.

"No set-up, self working" then procedes to set-up 😅 love this trick btw, and I know what you mean by "no set-up" I'm just having a laugh 😊

Bloody brilliant

this is so cool and it seems so complicated but its so easy and simple to learn i never thouht i would get into magic but this video has changed my mind! Thanks For The Trick!

Very nice! Thanks!

AMAZING!

It's really super brilliant 👍

mind blowing! 🤩

You don't need to reshuffle if the first card that matches the bottom card is too close to the bottom (as long as the next one isn't also). Let's say you want the bottom card x from the bottom, but the first match is not more than x away from the bottom. You can just: 1) push over the bottom card 2) push the matching card and all the cards above it onto it 3) push enough more cards onto that make the matching card x from the bottom 4) put that entire pile onto the table Using this technique, there's no longer a reason to limit the position of the second card to spelling the value of the first card because it's extremely rare for more than 2 cards of a given value x to be within x of each other. So you can actually have them count to the value instead. This seems "more random" because a participant can intuit that a card's name has only a few different lengths, but there are 13 different values. (Of course, you may either want to have the deck reshuffled if an A or 2 is facing, or else revert to spelling the value in those cases--1 or 2 cards isn't enough to deal off.)

Hello Matt. I'm 71 and just starting out "exercising my hands" learning a few card tricks. You get the honor of being the first trick to learn. It's amazing how easy it is and the great effect at the end is with one of those WTF? AMAZING trick. I can't wait to master it in a few... whenever. LOL. Great video. I Subbed, Liked. and don't know anybody to share it with - sorry. Keep up the great work. Thx.

Any card trick can be great with perfect presentation and execution.

Great trick and easy to learn in just a few tries and keeping your lesson up while learning. Thanks

Amazing trick! ... and your performance is great👍It also works with German letters and I will add it to my repertoire. Thanks for sharing!

I remember trying card tricks when I was younger and this was out of the book that I did a few lousy performances on 😂

Really nice! This reminds me of Con Cam Coincidencia, I also love that.. thanks

That’s brilliant

excellent trick, thank you for sharing it

Absolute killer🎉

Love this dude.

Brilliant 😊. First video, first time ever seeing your channel, that was very impressive! Thank you for showing it to us. Insta-sub, full noti's. I am looking forward to binge watching! This just happened to pop up as I opened YT and barely scrolled down, JUST when I needed it. Life is too heavy today and I was about to give up and go to bed. Not after seeing this fantastic trick, I won't 🤣 😄🤸👍

Nice!! thanks for sharing

Neat, very neat.

A really simple and amazing effect! Personally, I like to reveal the prediction card last; the image of them finding 3 of the same cards and me having predicted it all has greater impact. Also, after dealing the cards for them to say stop, I let them handle the cards and instruct them for the rest of the trick and make a point after that I did NOT touch the cards nor influence them to say stop or cut in a specific place. Anyways, thanks for the tutorial!

This is surely a great trick. It took few times to get it right. Thanks a lot :)

thank you man very good tutorial

This is awesome. I'm going to get this one down pat. There seems to be a lot of subtle moves that you have to remember, and if you miss any of them, it won't work. But, if it DOES work, holy shit. Matt's recent video with the 20 card prediction pack is a daily carry for me.

Well done Matt and THANK YOU for sharing. Your performance was very slick and the tutorial easy to follow, despite me being a left hander. I’ll be using this a lot - that I’m sure of! 👏

If you get a situation like that with your queens in the “what if” section, you can place the 2nd queen as your prediction card and then the 2nd and 3rd queens effectively swap roles. Looks more natural than reshuffling I think

Very neat trick

I have been doing this trick for years, but I think I like the original method better. I start with the pile of cards upside down in my right hand and start looking thru the cards by moving the top card to the left to my other hand. This way the FIRST card on the deck (not the bottom card) is the one I will be using. In addition, there is no reversing of this card or any others - the order you set them down stays the same as you dealt them from the pile (no subtle moves). To me, it makes the "looking" for the prediction card look very natural and normal. Great performance by you however - your slight of hand is much better than mine!

It's a brilliant concept. I love Larry Jennings he is a true Master of card works.

Hi matt, I'm really determined to learn this great mind blowing card trick. However I've one great idea to enhance and improve the shock value on the audience member's mind. Rather than telling them that you're selecting the card, tell them that the card they cut to is the predicter card which they blindly randomly selected, which in turn happen to match your random selection. So it gives them the power they did'nt know the possessed..

Really a very nice card trick it’s so easy and a great fooler, just practice before showing…

so cool

Can u explain, trick performance by Jason call "the ring"

Beautiful trick I have my own spin; show them your prediction card first and see if the cut deck matches…. THEN have them spell it out lol!

One could use this to produce the 4 Aces to start off a 4 Ace Routine. Awesome!

So good fooled everybody. You just earned a sub

I love this card trick! I’m really close to having it perfected. I want to buy a card mat but not sure what size I should get. What is your opinion? Is 12” x 17” too small for a beginner?

Absolute killer

I saw you on the Celebrity Equinox, you are great and I’m learning lots from your course

Superb

The trick should be properly credited to the late Jerry Mencer. It's his "Four Way Coincidence" trick and I have been performing his version for over 30 years. And yes, it certainly does fool many magicians. The main difference is that in the beginning of your version, you perform the effect from the face or bottom of the deck whereas Mencer's version utilizes the top of a shuffled deck which then goes into the setup (aka as "looking for a prediction card") I still have Mencer's lecture notes for the effect.

I keep failing at the 2nd reveal, I don't get the letters in the number dealt thingy. Pls help me!

Good one 👍

Great use of the cross cut force.

The problem is the count of 5. It is better to count by the first card, for example 4 = I only put down 4 cards. It is better to choose the lower cards from the left - the manipulation of the upper card from the right is eliminated. Flipping the card gives me a 4 and I count 4. It's absolutely natural without changing decks of cards. I use this trick to unobtrusively stack cards into another trick.

there s no set up, and they can shuffle the game. yes, but if after that you take the card in hands, you can put the cards where you wants. so finally i think it s like if there was a set up. but i have to admit that it s a very good way to do it and let the people think there isn t any one. i find easily how you do it, BUT only AFTER. i had to think before to understand it. at first, i was "wow". well done. a very very easy trick, but with great effect, and sure that people who don t know some magic tricks won t understand it easily. thanks to share it

So this is actually a set up trick. I saw the performance and of course knew this had to be set up. It's a great trick and I appreciate you teaching it. Imagine doing this with No set up . TY again. Not being a jerk just hoping It was somehow possible . -)

But what was the point of the prediction card? Or the chosen Queen for that matter?

I have figured out, but it's now a favourite of me tooo, will add it to my arsenal. A brilliant shock value in an impromptu trick

Amazing. You still need skills. I doubt I can do this. I didn’t understand the problems section. I have to watch it again.

I'm a support worker, and I done this with a young lad I support. However, on the final reveal, I perform a double lift to reveal a different card. I then asked him to pick up one of the cards, rub it over the top of the yet to be revealed card, and use the magic phrase "Cha sha cha". I then show the card, and there is the final forth card 😊

OK I am very slow. How do you force the three when the spectator makes the cut? Miss that and still don't get it.

Love the trick I'm soooo close to getting it I need a bit of help. I keep getting stuck at the spelling part as for example if I spell f-o-u-r that's four letters. The card is always the fifth card if you get what I'm saying. Please help I can't impress my friends lol

thx Matt for your video. but I tried with the Ten 10. it does not work??? solutions

It's a great opener to start a card trick show

I remember learning a variation of this trick by Dean Dill. I believe it was called Johnny Carson's Favorite Card Trick or something along those lines. I actually don't remember every revelation, but tricks like this are great as you can reveal the four in a bunch of different ways. In fact, I thought this was the Dill trick except maybe he didnt use a cross cut force...

Nice. :)

Carry on sir

My dude has Harry Lorayne energy when selling how great this trick is lol It's pretty good though, I will admit. Thanks for the tutorial.

Is there a way you can do it without dealing the cards face up like that? If the spectator is paying attention, they will see 2 of the same card get dealt down on top of each other.

"FAVOURITE"

Clever. Its repeatable as well.

A really nice trick, but i wonder, does it work in French for when we base ourselves with the number of letters?

the last part doesnt work for me cuz i never get that one

The title says no setup,, OK the cards are shuffled, but then you look through them and create a setup, good for the layman, but I don't think many seasoned magicians would be fooled. Still a great trick, thank you.

What is the original Larry Jennings trick called?

I performed the trick and the bottom was the Ace but the helper did not stop until the last card which was my Ace that just happened to be the key card… it killed the trick dead , how was i too get the 4 Aces when the helper waited to the end of the tell me too stop… it killed my trick ?????

Fxxk that is incredible 😊

what if when dealing them out face up, TWO of the card you've chosen come out in a row, THEN they say "stop" ?

I got fooled😂😢😢😅😮

Mark Elsdon taught this in his first penguin live lecture

Every time i count the number of the card it’s never the one I chose

This was so cool to watch but I couldn't remember anything so when I showed my family I stuffed up I front of them because o couldn't remember a thing

This only works if another one of the cards is not in the first lot of cards for spelling the card

Awesome but the ace is gonna be 4th though

"No setup!" - "First get them to suffle the cards. Then setup the pack right there in front of them."

You didn’t explain anything you just did the trick slower the second time. How and where do you position the cards you picked in the pack?

This trick looks amazing! I’m driving to work right now and I can’t wait to grab a deck of cards and start flipping out my employees! I’m gonna try this way and then also see the reaction I get when I leave the prediction as the last card

my last card is never the same as the first three

Sub'd :P

HOW MANY CARDS do count off if you have a FACE CARD ?

The key is math. The key is how quickly you can do the addition and separate the cards before you pick your preduction. Right now I'm basically Jerry Lewis seperating the cards after the math

The trick is ….😮

Just tried this word for word 5 seperate times and get 4 totally different cards on top

Amazing ! Very good ! +1 followers !

Sorry i don't understand about the queen

Good trick but wouldn't fool any of my magic buddies, we eat these kind of tricks for breakfast.

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No setup???

this did not work at all!

It's nice but as soon as I see the magician going through a deck and taking out a card, I now he or she is setting up the deck for the trick. Plus that fake forced cut.... won't cut it 😅