Its a cool one but there is quite a chance for cards to lay down like red next to red or black to black when cuting the deck and putting it back diferently so that could ruin the trick
No, cutting a deck just places the bottom card on top of the top card. The top and bottom card will never be the same suit the way he’s fixed the deck.
A much more sophisticated version of this trick once fooled Penn & Teller. It was done by Siegfried Tieber in the fourth season. The thing is that you don't necessarily have to sort them by color. That way it would be too obvious if you reveal the faces of the cards at any time. It's just necessary to know which cards belong to which half of the deck, for example instead of havin reds in one pile and blacks in the other, you could have diamonds and clubs in one pile and heart and spades in the other. This way you can even play open and almost nobody will realize what you were doing. Or you could go even more sophisticated and have one pile with the even cards from hearts and diamonds and the odd cards from spades and clubs and the other pile the other way around.
@@timdanner568 Not as far as I know, but you can simply use this tutorial and instead of sorting by red and black you can use any sorting method that you want. You just have to remember which cards belong into which pile.
@@Johann-tj1ch You want to learn more about magic but not read much? I don't think that's gonna work out for long.. But okay, long story short: think of another method to know which card belongs into which pile than something as obvious as the colour and you are good to go.
No guys, the trick wont be ruined by the cut. You have to order the cards 1 red, 1 black, 1 red, 1 black... he did a faro shuffle at the beginning. Dont do that, you dont need to. Then do the trick exactly how is explained here. Once you put the spectator cards back in the deck now theres 2 red cards together and two black cards together, even if you cut in that exact point, the trick wont be ruined.
@@PioootrNo, because the number of cards in a deck is even. Let me quickly explain. First, let's make a few observations: 1. If the number of cards is even, then the colors of the first and the last cards should be different. You can easily check it with a few examples and noticing a pattern, or you can think about it as stacks of pairs of cards of different colors (divisibility), anyway that's pretty easy to see. 2. If the number of cards is odd, then the first one and the last one have the same color. Pretty obvious after the first one. 3. The only place where this doubling can happen is at the first and/or the last cards of the subdecks, again, self-evident. 4. The actual colors don't matter. What I mean by that is that RBRBRB... is the same as BRBRBR..., actual colors don't matter, only if they are the same or different. Given all that we can conclude, firstly, that we can safely remove most of the cards from consideration. Every pair of the same color between the first card and the last card in each subdeck can be considered nonexistent. This leaves us with two cases: 1. The first (top) subdeck is even (has an even number of cards). But that means that the second one is also even, because the whole deck is also even. Suppose that the first subdeck is R...B, then the second one is also R...B. Swapping them obviously doesn't produce double colours. 2. The first subdeck is odd. But then the second one is also odd by the same argument as before. Suppose the first deck is R...BR, then the second one must be BR...B, swapping them inverts colors in the deck, but as one can see, doesn't introduce double colours. QED:) ("..." means "an unspecified number of pairs of colors which continue the pattern, of course [maybe 0])
Any card trick that only allows the spectator to cut the deck immediately signals you prearranged the cards in some way. It's not bad for an amateur level trick, but it's easy to figure out.
Yet, a more sophisticated version of this trick fooled Penn and Teller in the fourth season of Fool Us. Siegfried Tieber was the guy who pulled that off. He didn't use black and red as his pattern, obviously, so he was able to show the faces of the cards openly without Penn and Teller recognizing the pattern.
Only allows for single cuts, though you can do as many as you want. If I am given an opportunity to cut, I have a method that changes top stock, bottom stock, top card, bottom card, and all center cards, in just one motion.
i immediately knew how to do it when he pointed out the two cards flipped order... the genius of it is you can "sloppy fan" the cards and nobody will understand how done (unless they are told to flip the order of the two cards) a "sloppy fan" is fanning the cards without showing all 52 cards... if you fan all 52, then some may notice the supposedly shuffled cards are "random" but perfectly alternating colors
except that this trick wouldn't work as he described it at all, he said the spectator could cut the deck however many times they wanted, what's stopping them from cutting at a spot that causes 2 cards of the same color to be touching? and what if they cut the deck 10 times in such a way that each time causes 2 cards of the same color to be touching, then after you did the swap they once again cut 10 times in that same way, now you have 20 cards in total that are touching the same color, meaning when you deal them out into 2 piles alternating, it won't be only 1 red card in the black pile but likely 11, and same goes for there being more than 1 black card in the red pile, since the spectator is cutting the deck as many times as they like, and in any way they like, having the cards perfectly alternating does very little
That won't ever happen. In a normal deck with cards alternating the top card of the deck would be the alternate color of the bottom card of the deck. Cutting the deck splits the deck and then stacks the bottom card of the deck on top of the top card of the deck, recreating the alternating pattern every time. Go ahead and give it a try, you can cut the deck a million times, it'll still be alternating regardless of where you cut.
@Jaenbeorht12 that's true with a standard cut sure, idk about you but everyone I know has their own way to cut and not one of them do the standard, but let's pretend we are talking only standard cuts, you're still wrong as 2 of the cards are already breaking the alternating pattern, the 2 chosen cards, due to the breaks in the pattern, enough cuts or a cut in the right spot would cause the pattern to start crumbling
You figured out what the trick was the second he showed you where the trick was!! You should be a detective. You look like the kind of guy who can tell what the murder weapon is the second you are shown the murder weapon!!
So i thouht the same thing but the math adds up because theres an even number of cards in the deck, you can think of the 52 cards as 26 packets of 2. One black stacked on one red (assuming theres a red card on bottom) then you will always have a black top. If they cut between a pack then there will be a red card on top and a black card on bottom. You will never have double colors because no matter what the color of the top card will always be the opposite of the bottom card. Hope that helps@SwankiestPants
Its a trick involving math, since they are red and black cards, no matter how you cut its gonna remain being red/black order. And then by splitting the deck in two like that of course one pile is gonna be red and the other black with the exception of those two cards because you exchange their order.
Then dont. Magic isn't about proving you have super powers, it's about entertainment and friendship. If your "friends" dare you to do that, they're awful friends
Interesting, yeah I see what you did. I still like the 5 piles card trick. I can't really remember how to do it but it worked every time! You know the one when you have the mark, I mean person pick the piles of cards and you take them away until you get one pile with 4 or 5 cards and then you show them thier card. I miss that trick lol.
It works better if you make 4 piles not 2, then use simple mentalism to get them to choose 2 piles to put together. Then shuffle the black deck upside down with the red deck the right side up. Then you can find the cards looking both ways at the deck
Would be such a troll move if the spectator grabs the deck and shuffles them instead of cutting the deck... LOL. Can just imagine the look on the guys face. Onto the next trick...
Once he showed both red and black decks before getting to the two cards, you can see that there were more than two of the opposite color cards in each deck. There were two black cards in the red deck and two red cards in the black deck. He quickly shuffled through them and told you what you see but it’s not true. It’s not what he says but you can see. 🤔🧐
I can do this to my kids by secretly keeping the chosen card on top or bottom of the pile lol. Didnt mean to do it the first time they just got distracted while I shuffled and the card was off to the side.
If you separate them in two piles like that and show they are all red and all black you're implying that they where in alternating colors in the first place. This trick could work for kida maybe but not for an adult
I got an ultimate smash I don't know how to shuffle cards so I spread it on the desk like mixing a salad I've heard that it is more random and more accurate when doing tarots 😅
Doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that the selected cards are on the opposite sides of the alternating red black pattern. So a red card where a black card should be and a black card where the red should be. Cutting between them just makes one of the cards be at the top of the pile and one at the bottom, but doesn’t mess with the actual order of the cards.
So if the observer notices you switch the positions when you put the cards back on top of the two decks, the illusion is spoiled. Even if he doesn't know how the trick is done, seeing them put back differently from the way they were taken out sets off all kinds of alarm bells. Also, when retrieving the two cards at the end, if you let the observer see all the cards, with all red in one deck and all black in the other, he's going to know it was some kind of setup, and if you don't let him see he's going to suspect it was and wonder why you won't show him. Not an impressive trick.
depending on how they cut, you might end up with more than one red or black that are against each other. i did try this trick and purposely cut on black cards only while a red card was on the top, and in doing so had more than one instance as a final result of red and black stacked against each other, with the final result being more than one red in the black pile and more than one black in the red pile. so this is not a very reliable party trick
If the cutting messes up the trick, then there was either a mistake in setting it up or it wasn't an even number of cars (was missing a card or there was one extra card, like just one joker). Mathematically, it should always work if it is a standard and intact 52-card deck. And the spectator making the piles has to properly alternate between the decks. If they do two cards in a row in one pile, it will mess up the trick. So it is possible that when making the separate piles, you accidentally put two cards in a row.
There is no guarantee that each split will occur properly on the black / red divide. You could easily be creating additional double-ups through the cuts.
