ESP Card Trick

For this trick, you'll have to start with some arts and crafts and just draw out numbers 1 through 10 on a piece of paper or cardboard like I'm using. You can even do this on a tablecloth. Doesn't have to be anything fancy. And you'll need a deck of cards. Now, this is not just any deck of cards. It looks like a regular deck, but I actually have some fancy cards in the end. And now, you don't have to have this either. You could use regular cards for this, but I kind of like uh using the symbols. I think it's kind of fun. What I'm going to do is it's kind of like an ESP sort of trick where I'm going to try to get into the mind of the spectator. So, I have all these random shapes and I'm going to make them think of the number and the shape that I want them to think of. Right? So, now you're not here, so I can't do this to you. So, I'll just use a pair of dice and I'll just show you first. These are not loaded dice or anything. If I roll them, I get different numbers every time. So, regular pair of dice. What I'll do is I'll roll these to pick one of these numbers and whatever number I roll, I'll keep. Now, obviously with a pair of dice, you can't roll a one. Um, but also there's an 11 and a 12. So, if I roll an 11, I'll count that as a one. And if I roll a 12, I'll just reroll. All right. So, we have these cards. We'd have the spectator pick a number. So, in this case, they got nine. So, the number nine is going to be the number that we use. So, I'm going to take the cards now, and I'm just going to start dealing them one at a time. Number one in order. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10. Now, they could have picked any number, but they picked number nine. And I knew they were going to pick number nine. And how do I know that? Well, how can I prove it is because all these cards are red. Every single card in this deck is red except for number nine. So, you might have figured out already this is a multiple out trick. But it's pretty clever the way it's done. There are so many outs, but they're not obvious. I mean, there's nothing else on this table, right? The dice would even be part of this trick, right? The person would be here. You'd be talking directly to them, and whatever number they pick is the number that you're going to go with. So, there's no like forcing or tricks like that. What we do have is a way to answer any number they pick, right? So, first of all, we have 10 numbers here, but you'll see they're split into five and five. So, depending on which way I deal these cards, these 10 cards, I can choose which five they're going to pick. They can only get one of these first five symbols. So, 1 2 3 4 5. The rest of these don't matter. They're just here kind of to to make it seem like it's harder than it is. So, if you picked one through five, any of those numbers, I would just start dealing right off the face. So, I'd go one, two, three, four, five. Now, if two was the number you picked, well, two is the card that's blue, so I've already got it done. So, if it's two or if it's nine, either way, it's going to be this card. So, how would I get it to nine? How did I get it to nine? Well, you got to keep your cards in the same order. If you flip them upside down, and then you start dealing them, flipping them over, you're going to start with one, two, three, and so on. And when you get over here, that's going to be number nine. Now, the only tricky part about number nine is that it is a blue card. So, when you get there, you're going to have to kind of hide that as you're flipping them. So, what I did is six, seven. When I get to eight, I kind of roll my hand back so they can't see the front of the card. And I say eight, nine, and 10. So, they didn't see it. The reveal wasn't there at the time. But, if they pick number two, then it's much easier cuz it's just the second card. So, either way, I have the cards face down. I pick them up. If I If they pick one through five, I just flip them face up and start dealing them. 1 2 3. And now this card is already there. All right. So, that's the one you saw. What about all the other numbers? Well, they kind of go together. So one goes with 10, two goes with nine, three goes with eight, four goes with seven, and five goes with six. Meaning that if they pick any of these numbers, you just figure out the correlating number on the other side, and that's which card you're going to give them. If it's any of these numbers, you start with the cards face down and deal them. If they pick any of these numbers, you start with the cards face up and start dealing them. What if they had picked number one or number 10? Well, you deal that. It' be a square. And the answer is right here underneath the cards. Underneath the box, on the back of the box, I wrote, "You will pick the square." It's a multiple out trick. They've never seen the back of these cards. So, they don't know that one of these cards is blue, and they just won't tell them that. I'll just give them the square. If they pick two or nine, obviously, you already know the out for that one. It's the blue card. What if they picked three or eight? I pick the entire thing up and flip it over and I say, "I knew you were going to pick that one." It said it right on the back the entire time. What if they picked four or seven? In that case, they're going to end up with the star. And these cards have been sitting on the table the entire time. And you remind them, look, it's a regular deck. I showed you that before. But hand the cards to them. Say, "Look through the backs of the cards." And they'll look at them, say, "Notice there's only one card. One out of all these cards that has a message on it. There it is. Out of all the cards, and it says, "You will pick the star." And they pick five or six. They're going to end up with the triangle. And that one is right inside the box. So, you have to be careful when you pick the box up that you don't flash that there's something written on the back. You pick the box up, open it, show them, look, there's been a message inside here the entire time. Only one piece of paper in there, nothing else. And that message says that you will pick the triangle. It's got a triangle on the back.