Magic Tricks for Beginners with Cards

Magic tricks using cards are one of the classic magic tricks. Card magic tricks are the best for beginners to learn, as all you need is a deck of cards and a table top. Magic and optical illusions are always interesting and intriguing. Here, are some of the easy to perform magic tricks for beginners with cards. Know more on magic tricks for kids.

Magic Card Tricks for Beginners
Magic card tricks require a bit of practice and skill. So, always practice the given below tricks first and then perform them in front of an audience.

Guessing the Spectator's Card
This is a classic card trick and always produces an amusing effect on the audience.

• Take a deck of 52 cards, and quickly peek at the bottom card of the deck, let's say it is an ace of clubs.
• Now spread the cards face down on a table and ask a person from the audience to select a card and memorize it.
• Ask the same person to cut the deck into two halves and separate these two halves.
• Face down these two decks, and ask the person to place their selected card on top of the right side deck.
• Place the left side deck on top of the right one, and lay the card face down.
• Now start searching for the bottom card, which was ace of club, and voila! The card next to its immediate left is the spectators card. Show this card to the audience and spectator and amaze everybody!

The Rising Card
This card trick requires practice of the above trick, as it involves guessing the spectators card. This is also one of the easiest magic card tricks for kids to learn.

• First follow the above guessing the spectator's card trick. And do not show the spectators card to anybody.
• Place the spectator's card on top of the deck and hold the bottom of the deck in your left hand.
• And place your right hand around the deck in a way that, the little finger is touching the last card and the index finger is on top of the deck.
• Slide the last card on the deck with your little finger and move your index finger, to give the illusion that your index finger is making the card rise-up!

Amazing Spectator's Card Guessing Trick
This is one of the easiest tricks to perform among magic tricks for beginners. This card trick has one of the interesting magic trick secrets. The secret is that, clubs, spades and heart cards have a central pip. Now, let us learn the technique to perform this magic trick for beginners.

• Take 6 odd numbered cards, which are a mix of 5's, 7's and 9's. And they should be a mix of clubs, spades and heart cards.
• Align these cards face down on a table, so that they are right side up, at your point of view.
• Now, turn your back to the audience, and ask a spectators to pick a card and memorize it, and keep it back on the set of the cards.
• Now turn around, and keep checking each card, till you find the card which has the center pip, upside down, and you have found the spectators card!

Sticky Hand Card Trick
This is one of the coolest, magic tricks for beginners with cards. However, this card trick requires fashioning a gimmick card. Here's the method for performing this magic card trick.

• Cut a small flap in the middle portion of the card and pull this flap at the face down side of the card.
• And stick a card at the bottom of this card back to the front, so that the face up of this gimmick card is displayed as the face of the newly glued card.
• The flap should be of the right size, so that it can be held between your middle and index fingers, but should not be visible to the audience.
• Now hold this gimmick card, by holding the flap between your fingers and arrange 5 cards around this card.
• Show this arrangement of cards face up to the audience, and put your thumb to support these cards.
• Now turn your hand, upside down and release the thumb, and magic! the cards will be still sticking to your hand!

So, these were some of the magic tricks for beginners revealed. Whenever, performing any magic tricks for beginners with cards, make sure you cook up some sort of story, or use magic words like abracadabra, alakazam, izzy wizzy, sim sala bim, hocus pocus, etc. just to make your magic trick act more interesting.