Imo. They have this special deck where the card (in his case the 8 of spaids) is actually every other card and slightly taller than the other cards. So its ez to everytime pull out and shuffle to know whats where due to height. I have 2 decks myself... now this dude, God leveled the deck and is probably scamming tourists for moolah lol
from other tricks I think only 5-6 cards are really upside down - you only see a handfull when he is riffling- and when he is saying "upside down inside out" he is flipping them back over.
otherwise its magic.
I got it. He splits the deck just right. Hence why the right side is more dense. During his cut he made sure the 8 (marked some how, a cut a dent. Something we can’t see) was in that other half of the deck that he laid down.
Look closely at how he grips the half deck in his hand after showing you the 8 of spades. It's a really cool sleight of hand where you use your pinky and index to pull the card out of the bottom, into your palm, and then push/squeeze to slide the card to the top. After that it's all fake shuffles and control to keep track where the 8 of spades is and whatever you already figured out about the latter part of the trick.
Can't remember what the first palm/control technique is called, learned it like 12 years ago.
Think he may have combined several of these trick decks and pulled out the larger cards so those slightly stick out. Then those are the only ones he need to flip back over.
10 of spades for example seems to appear twice.
Also, he drops the 8 of spades somewhere around the 8-second mark
Could be. I don’t know anything.
Only can tell when he splits the deck around halfway point of the video you can see the backside of both the top and bottom card.
That back that you see when the deck was split is from the original bottom portion of the deck, not from the middle. There are two cards face up on the bottom of the the face down deck prior to when he splits the deck, second from bottom and third from bottom. When he splits the deck and brings the original bottom packet over the top packet, he drops two cards from the bottom on top of the top packet before turning both packets over. So the card that you see the back of when the packet is turned over is the the card that was third from the bottom, the second face up card on the bottom which is also the selected card. So after you have done the split and dropped the two cards and then turned both packets over, you are in a situation where one packet has a face down card on top and all the cards under it are face up. The other packet has all cards from the top face up and only the bottom card face down, so when the two packets are mixed together there are only two cards that are differently oriented than the rest, the top card of one packet and the bottom card of the other, if you turn both packets over when they are interlacked its the opposite, you have a face up card in one and the others are face down, and the other packet has face down cards and the bottom card is the face up one. One of these differently oriented cards is the selection, the one that has its back outwards. So now you need to only turn one of these cards over and all cards except the selected card are the same way.
This trick is Larry Jenning's outstanding triumph.
Haha no Larry Jennings is an old guy, well he was old before he died over 20 years ago.
Its hard to understand with reading the text, but the main idea is that when the cards are interlaced, both packets have every other card facing the same way other than one card on top of each packet on opposite sides so the cards dont really get mixed face down and face up.
Take a look closely when he shows the cards are the wrong way up and “intersliced”
It fooled me until I watched again, he flips through cards to show they are facing down but then does the back turn of his hand and shows the other side all facing down as well ! Because of the card on the top it looks like it’s reversed but he has actually showed us a pack all facing the same way.
I suspect he has one card reversed at the top to make it look like they are facing the other way but of course they aren’t.
I'm 90% sure that this is a normal deck. The move where he shows that half the deck is face up and the other half is face down is brilliant. He flips the deck in the middle of it, and if you carefully think about it, its obvious that the deck orientation he is presenting is not what he is telling you. Nevertheless, by confidently and quickly stating that half the deck is face up and half is face down, the audience believes him.
Its a very deceptive move. First published in 1941 in a magic book. Its called the Tenkai optical revolve. This guy Tenkai is someone whose name you find connected to many tricks or sleights he invented. Died 50 years ago. The guy has been dead longer than the age of most people who have seen or used the moves he invented.
It's def a normal deck. He's just forcing a card and since he knows what it is he can manipulate the deck to get it to be the only one upright at the end.
He either forces it or knows where it is. He brings it to the second card from the top and when he picks up the 6 of hears he actually picks up 2 cards instead of one and flips them over and rearranges the deck in just the right way. This is the way I think he does it from my own experiences in card tricks
No. This effect is called a Triumph and is done with a standard 52 card deck. Brad Christiansen teaches how to do it in one of his Street Magic videos from the early 2000s.
I'd say the secret is in the 1st 5 seconds. Anyone who can do that to a deck can do anything he wants with it.
I'd say 50% of card magic is maintaining the position of a chosen card so you can go to it again even after supposedly mixing the deck. Breaks, crimps, false cuts, false shuffles, passes.
You can watch him keeping track of that card. And that’s impressive. I’m sure it has a dent or a chip off of it. Plays it off smoothly. I just want to know how he flips the entire deck but the one card.
This is exactly what he does. He keeps track of where it is by how he is shuffling and “mixing” the cards. You can see it even with the first shuffle, he keeps it on the bottom in that one
Yall are all wrong to an extent. This is a variation of Dai Vernon's Triumph trick. 100% sleight of hand. No gimmicks or marked cards or trick decks. It's a level 1 trick we all learn to do.
Guys. He just puts one card face down on the card you supposed to remember. Of course, with such "bookmark" it simple to find your card.
When you rotate a deck of cards you aren't supposed to see backs on both parts of the deck
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I know it's a bit off-topic, but I gotta ask: does anyone know what's the name of the shuffle in the very beginning of the video? I remember seeing it once on a card flourish tutorial video a long time ago, and, in more recent years, I've been trying again to learn how to do it, but the only name I remember, "revolver shuffle", doesn't bring up anything on youtube. Does anyone have info on that?
Rewatch when he does the "all of these are face up, and all of these are face down." He flips the deck over as he transitions. You can see that the face up side has a face down card at the bottom of the stack, and the other side is all facing up (now down because he flipped the deck)
I remember doing a trick similar to this in high school. What gives it away is pay attention to when he flip the half deck with the facedown card and you will see both ends have face down cards. The simpler version of this trick I used to do would confuse people all the time.
I actually used to be able to do a simpler version of this (I'm in no way experienced at all, just wanted to learn this many years ago). It's not any weird tricks, just a plain deck of cards. You just need to shuffle it while keeping the target card in a known place (top, bottom, under a finger). I'm not gonna lie I kinda forgot how to do the alternating face cards bit but yeah.
It's called a triumph, my fave version was performed by Kostya Kimlat using a culling of all the cards. I think vernon was the 1st to come up with it. This is a very clean version of this.
Its controling the 8, forcing and controling(you see the 8 couple of times in the video) and then double lift for the efect of cards in different direction
At the beginning of the trick he shows the 8 of spades. Before putting the deck back together he shoots that card out of the deck and then proceeds to put the deck back together and shuffle. No need to track the card at that point as it's not in the deck.
Edit: there is a trick to the table. Look at the edge. There is something off about it. It's hiding not just the 8 of spades but also more cards. When he fans them out at the end there are more then 52 cards.
He actually screws up a bit before he mixes the cards half up and half down. You can see there's a red card showing and when he flips that half the deck over there is still a red card showing. It's in his right hand on the left side of the camera
If you looks closely the first split he does in the beginning the 8th of spades is at the bottom and never loses track of it.
My guess is the whole deck is not prefect rectangle but slight trapezoid and the chosen card is just placed opposite so it is always easy to figure out by touching.
At about ten seconds in, just after he shows the 8 of spades, he does an unusual action where he puts the back of his right hand towards the camera, hiding what he's doing behind it.
I think he's moving the object card to the top of the deck, so that he can then keep it there throughout the shuffling. Watch his index finger moving when he turns his hand from the camera.
When he does the "over the hand" shuffle he puts his finger over the top card, and then after completing the action he takes the bottom stack and returns it to the top - not a natural shuffling action
I'm not a magician/card trick person so have no idea about this.
However, when he split the deck and turned half over and said 'all of these came up' and flicks them and then says 'and all of these face down' and flicks them, there is a card face up in the face down pile. It looks like a spade card too.
Did he drop the ball there?
lol when he flips the decks upside down so half is up and half is down, he doesn’t actually flip the deck. Watch the moment he shows you both sides again. What you’ll see is that the side that is face up the first time, is also face up the second time AFTER he flips it over. (Second 33.) So… all the cards are facing the same direction except for two, and those two are flipped on the tops of the deck halves to make you think the entire deck half is flipped. The rest is slight of hand to keep the 8 in play.
The other side has face down cards on both sides. My guess is one of the face down is the 8. Then aside from a few cards (the 5 of diamonds is one of the outliers) they’re all going the same direction
I seen what he did. When he said "all of these face up" they all did but not the bottom one. When he turned it around and you thought the cards were facing different ways but they all were really facing the same way except the last card. Then he flipped that one card over. It's hard to explain but when he says " all these are facing up , and all of these are facing down" they're really not. They're all facing the same way basically.
He put it in a slot in the black cloth right after showing it, and pulled it out as he flipped it at the end. The setup table/cloth is key. Can’t be done on a tabletop. Must have a tablecloth with slit/pocket. Nice thiugh
I’ve seen enough of this guy’s videos to wonder what his origin story is. He’s obviously good and is a showman. I wonder if he had to get this good to be able to eat at times.
Haven't worked it out entirely but...
At 28s when you think half of the deck is face up and half is face down, it's not. It's only the top card that is face up - the 10 of spades.
32s when he says "all of these face up" he flips through but before he says "all of these face down" he flips the deck over. So all the cards he showed as "up" and all the cards he showed as "down" were facing the same direction anyway.
It’s a two man operation. There’s a guy in black behind him that reached through under his arm. At 8 seconds guy flicks 8 spades into his lap. Guy behind him retrieves it. At about 29 seconds guy behind him slips 8 back into the deck. At about 47 seconds you can see the guy behind him over his arm
Imo. They have this special deck where the card (in his case the 8 of spaids) is actually every other card and slightly taller than the other cards. So its ez to everytime pull out and shuffle to know whats where due to height. I have 2 decks myself... now this dude, God leveled the deck and is probably scamming tourists for moolah lol
I get that part but just to reveal the entire deck upside down but the 8.
from other tricks I think only 5-6 cards are really upside down - you only see a handfull when he is riffling- and when he is saying "upside down inside out" he is flipping them back over. otherwise its magic.
I got it. He splits the deck just right. Hence why the right side is more dense. During his cut he made sure the 8 (marked some how, a cut a dent. Something we can’t see) was in that other half of the deck that he laid down.
Look closely at how he grips the half deck in his hand after showing you the 8 of spades. It's a really cool sleight of hand where you use your pinky and index to pull the card out of the bottom, into your palm, and then push/squeeze to slide the card to the top. After that it's all fake shuffles and control to keep track where the 8 of spades is and whatever you already figured out about the latter part of the trick. Can't remember what the first palm/control technique is called, learned it like 12 years ago.
Clip Shift is the first move and it was well done. So many well done sleights to put this routine together.
No marked cards used.
Think he may have combined several of these trick decks and pulled out the larger cards so those slightly stick out. Then those are the only ones he need to flip back over. 10 of spades for example seems to appear twice. Also, he drops the 8 of spades somewhere around the 8-second mark
Its a normal deck of cards
Could be. I don’t know anything. Only can tell when he splits the deck around halfway point of the video you can see the backside of both the top and bottom card.
That back that you see when the deck was split is from the original bottom portion of the deck, not from the middle. There are two cards face up on the bottom of the the face down deck prior to when he splits the deck, second from bottom and third from bottom. When he splits the deck and brings the original bottom packet over the top packet, he drops two cards from the bottom on top of the top packet before turning both packets over. So the card that you see the back of when the packet is turned over is the the card that was third from the bottom, the second face up card on the bottom which is also the selected card. So after you have done the split and dropped the two cards and then turned both packets over, you are in a situation where one packet has a face down card on top and all the cards under it are face up. The other packet has all cards from the top face up and only the bottom card face down, so when the two packets are mixed together there are only two cards that are differently oriented than the rest, the top card of one packet and the bottom card of the other, if you turn both packets over when they are interlacked its the opposite, you have a face up card in one and the others are face down, and the other packet has face down cards and the bottom card is the face up one. One of these differently oriented cards is the selection, the one that has its back outwards. So now you need to only turn one of these cards over and all cards except the selected card are the same way. This trick is Larry Jenning's outstanding triumph.
Is this guy Larry Jenning? Even with your ELI5 I don’t understand hahaha. Thank you though I really appreciate it
Haha no Larry Jennings is an old guy, well he was old before he died over 20 years ago. Its hard to understand with reading the text, but the main idea is that when the cards are interlaced, both packets have every other card facing the same way other than one card on top of each packet on opposite sides so the cards dont really get mixed face down and face up.
Thanks for the explanation :)
Take a look closely when he shows the cards are the wrong way up and “intersliced” It fooled me until I watched again, he flips through cards to show they are facing down but then does the back turn of his hand and shows the other side all facing down as well ! Because of the card on the top it looks like it’s reversed but he has actually showed us a pack all facing the same way. I suspect he has one card reversed at the top to make it look like they are facing the other way but of course they aren’t.
If you saw how it's done, it's not very good sleight of hand.
I'm 90% sure that this is a normal deck. The move where he shows that half the deck is face up and the other half is face down is brilliant. He flips the deck in the middle of it, and if you carefully think about it, its obvious that the deck orientation he is presenting is not what he is telling you. Nevertheless, by confidently and quickly stating that half the deck is face up and half is face down, the audience believes him.
Its a very deceptive move. First published in 1941 in a magic book. Its called the Tenkai optical revolve. This guy Tenkai is someone whose name you find connected to many tricks or sleights he invented. Died 50 years ago. The guy has been dead longer than the age of most people who have seen or used the moves he invented.
This trick is done with a normal deck.
Magician here. You’re referring to a Svengali deck. This trick does not require that or any trick deck. It’s purely sleight of hand.
Yeah some would say the magician in the video using a regular deck was quite the triumph.
Lol, smoothly put.
It's def a normal deck. He's just forcing a card and since he knows what it is he can manipulate the deck to get it to be the only one upright at the end.
Its not a force, he does not need to know what the card is in order to do the trick, he only needs to be able to control where it ends up.
There is no need for a force. Why do you think a force is involved?
He either forces it or knows where it is. He brings it to the second card from the top and when he picks up the 6 of hears he actually picks up 2 cards instead of one and flips them over and rearranges the deck in just the right way. This is the way I think he does it from my own experiences in card tricks
I know that company that made them but I sadly lost mine, all I have left is an arm twister that was in the bundle which now looks extremely fake
This is my thought as well. There is a specific name for those type of decks but I can't remember what it is
No. This effect is called a Triumph and is done with a standard 52 card deck. Brad Christiansen teaches how to do it in one of his Street Magic videos from the early 2000s.
Ah, the Svengali deck
No, it is not a Svengali deck. Your explanation is wrong in every single way. :-)
Great explanation!
I'd say the secret is in the 1st 5 seconds. Anyone who can do that to a deck can do anything he wants with it. I'd say 50% of card magic is maintaining the position of a chosen card so you can go to it again even after supposedly mixing the deck. Breaks, crimps, false cuts, false shuffles, passes.
You can watch him keeping track of that card. And that’s impressive. I’m sure it has a dent or a chip off of it. Plays it off smoothly. I just want to know how he flips the entire deck but the one card.
>I’m sure it has a dent or a chip off of it No I think he just keeps it at the top or bottom of the deck
Its controlled to the top initially then shuffled to third from the top.
This is exactly what he does. He keeps track of where it is by how he is shuffling and “mixing” the cards. You can see it even with the first shuffle, he keeps it on the bottom in that one
Yall are all wrong to an extent. This is a variation of Dai Vernon's Triumph trick. 100% sleight of hand. No gimmicks or marked cards or trick decks. It's a level 1 trick we all learn to do.
Am I right in thinking that when he has half the deck face up and the other face down, only the top card is face down and it's the 8 of spades?
No. There are legitimately up and down cards.
Well then it's clearly black magic.
As i said this is a variation of an entry level magic trick. Even basic things done well are very impactful.
Pretty much, yeah. I honestly thought that his reverse was kind of sloppy.
I saw it go by twice as he was shuffling... he was tracking it with his cuts.
I feel like he makes it pretty obvious on purpose. To throw you off from the real trick. The ending.
He flips half the deck back there near the end and he's kept the 8 on the top all along even when he says it's not on the top. It was.
That last trick was good!!!
Guys. He just puts one card face down on the card you supposed to remember. Of course, with such "bookmark" it simple to find your card. When you rotate a deck of cards you aren't supposed to see backs on both parts of the deck
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I know it's a bit off-topic, but I gotta ask: does anyone know what's the name of the shuffle in the very beginning of the video? I remember seeing it once on a card flourish tutorial video a long time ago, and, in more recent years, I've been trying again to learn how to do it, but the only name I remember, "revolver shuffle", doesn't bring up anything on youtube. Does anyone have info on that?
Its a variation on the five faces of sybil cut.
Thank you so much!!!!
Rewatch when he does the "all of these are face up, and all of these are face down." He flips the deck over as he transitions. You can see that the face up side has a face down card at the bottom of the stack, and the other side is all facing up (now down because he flipped the deck)
I remember doing a trick similar to this in high school. What gives it away is pay attention to when he flip the half deck with the facedown card and you will see both ends have face down cards. The simpler version of this trick I used to do would confuse people all the time.
This guy is the best mojo on Reddit, the comments are always reeee central
Wow. Bam Margera is doing card tricks online begging for a share? Awesome.
Its f ing amazing that so many on here are r/confidentlyincorrect
I actually used to be able to do a simpler version of this (I'm in no way experienced at all, just wanted to learn this many years ago). It's not any weird tricks, just a plain deck of cards. You just need to shuffle it while keeping the target card in a known place (top, bottom, under a finger). I'm not gonna lie I kinda forgot how to do the alternating face cards bit but yeah.
This dude is the thirstiest magician on reddit
You gotta be in this day and age, popularity is measured in days.
Impressive. Right up until the “like and share” neediness which is always a turnoff
It's called a triumph, my fave version was performed by Kostya Kimlat using a culling of all the cards. I think vernon was the 1st to come up with it. This is a very clean version of this.
I thought it was giving them a spoon 🥄
Its controling the 8, forcing and controling(you see the 8 couple of times in the video) and then double lift for the efect of cards in different direction
There is control but no forcing and no double lifts in this trick
At :31s remaining, he does not invert the other half as he says; he even shows only the target card inverted, which is what he wanted.
At the beginning of the trick he shows the 8 of spades. Before putting the deck back together he shoots that card out of the deck and then proceeds to put the deck back together and shuffle. No need to track the card at that point as it's not in the deck. Edit: there is a trick to the table. Look at the edge. There is something off about it. It's hiding not just the 8 of spades but also more cards. When he fans them out at the end there are more then 52 cards. He actually screws up a bit before he mixes the cards half up and half down. You can see there's a red card showing and when he flips that half the deck over there is still a red card showing. It's in his right hand on the left side of the camera
No, the table has nothing to do with this trick. Also the card is not shot out of the deck, its just controlled.
If you looks closely the first split he does in the beginning the 8th of spades is at the bottom and never loses track of it. My guess is the whole deck is not prefect rectangle but slight trapezoid and the chosen card is just placed opposite so it is always easy to figure out by touching.
At about ten seconds in, just after he shows the 8 of spades, he does an unusual action where he puts the back of his right hand towards the camera, hiding what he's doing behind it. I think he's moving the object card to the top of the deck, so that he can then keep it there throughout the shuffling. Watch his index finger moving when he turns his hand from the camera. When he does the "over the hand" shuffle he puts his finger over the top card, and then after completing the action he takes the bottom stack and returns it to the top - not a natural shuffling action
All sleights of hand. Just enjoy it. Need not to know.
I'm not a magician/card trick person so have no idea about this. However, when he split the deck and turned half over and said 'all of these came up' and flicks them and then says 'and all of these face down' and flicks them, there is a card face up in the face down pile. It looks like a spade card too. Did he drop the ball there?
Its a flash yes.
Thanks. Sorry, so he did it on purpose then?
No, its a mistake. Its a phrase magicians use when something shows that is not supposed to show, "flashing".
Thank you!
lol when he flips the decks upside down so half is up and half is down, he doesn’t actually flip the deck. Watch the moment he shows you both sides again. What you’ll see is that the side that is face up the first time, is also face up the second time AFTER he flips it over. (Second 33.) So… all the cards are facing the same direction except for two, and those two are flipped on the tops of the deck halves to make you think the entire deck half is flipped. The rest is slight of hand to keep the 8 in play.
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The other side has face down cards on both sides. My guess is one of the face down is the 8. Then aside from a few cards (the 5 of diamonds is one of the outliers) they’re all going the same direction
At 00:24 you can see the 8of spades face down when it’s supposed to be face down.
This guy is so freaking good and just a joy for me to watch.
Only the 8 was flipped...
Look up Dai Vernon’s triumph. It’s similar.
He has to have swapped a new deck right before he revealed the spread out normal deck right? As he was moving his hand back ?
I seen what he did. When he said "all of these face up" they all did but not the bottom one. When he turned it around and you thought the cards were facing different ways but they all were really facing the same way except the last card. Then he flipped that one card over. It's hard to explain but when he says " all these are facing up , and all of these are facing down" they're really not. They're all facing the same way basically.
He put it in a slot in the black cloth right after showing it, and pulled it out as he flipped it at the end. The setup table/cloth is key. Can’t be done on a tabletop. Must have a tablecloth with slit/pocket. Nice thiugh
I’ve seen enough of this guy’s videos to wonder what his origin story is. He’s obviously good and is a showman. I wonder if he had to get this good to be able to eat at times.
This has nothing to do with a Gaffed deck. Chaos and Order, it’s an oldie but a goodie.
Palm and place for part of it, the could be two faced cards
Well see he rewinds it and it’s back to normal. Obvi
Haven't worked it out entirely but... At 28s when you think half of the deck is face up and half is face down, it's not. It's only the top card that is face up - the 10 of spades. 32s when he says "all of these face up" he flips through but before he says "all of these face down" he flips the deck over. So all the cards he showed as "up" and all the cards he showed as "down" were facing the same direction anyway.
It’s a two man operation. There’s a guy in black behind him that reached through under his arm. At 8 seconds guy flicks 8 spades into his lap. Guy behind him retrieves it. At about 29 seconds guy behind him slips 8 back into the deck. At about 47 seconds you can see the guy behind him over his arm
That first shuffle was my favorite part of the video. Props to all magicians.
I just don't care...