How To: Do a swivel cut card flourish with a deck of cards
Here is how to do a simple swivel cut flourish.
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How To: Level your deck or beam in construction at a low cost
Use a transit, or not. Use a plain level, a string level, or a hose. Yes, a hose. Watch and find out how to level your wooden project.
How To: Perform the Sloppy Shuffle card trick
Learn a card magic trick in which you quickly and sloppily break a deck into to piles. Then find chosen cards from each half after an audience member shuffles them back together.
How To: Perform the Opposites Attract card trick
Learn to perform the Opposites Attract magic card trick in which you appear to shuffle a deck so that the aces and queens end up next to each other.
How To: Count cards in Blackjack easily
So how does a card counter keep track of the cards in blackjack? While there are many different systems and variations, counting cards is usually as simple as adding and subtracting the number 1. Subtract one when a high card is dealt and add one when a low card is dealt. The greater the count, the more high cards in the shoe, and the more high cards in the deck, the greater the counting edge for the player.
How To: Do an easy card trick
With a fake shuffle. Pretty cool. You can do it anywhere, at anytime, with any deck.
How To: Perform a basic card teleport trick
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the basic card teleport, in which you appear to make a card placed in the middle of a deck magically reappear at the top.
How To: Perform the Bible card trick
Martyn Coleman reveals the Bible card trick. In this complicated card trick you appear to make a chosen card reappear face up in the middle of the deck.
How To: Perform the waving aces card trick
Martyn Coleman teaches his variation of the waving aces trick, also called the two aces card routine, a card trick in which you appear to make any card picked from the deck reappear between two aces held in your hand.
How To: Make preset and custom PowerPoint animation
Wow friends and colleagues by learning how to make preset and custom PowerPoint animation, to enliven your next deck and keep your audience riveted.
How To: Do a predicting card trick
Spiderman demonstrates how to do a predicting card trick for your friends. First, you shuffle the deck and have the person choose a card. You use your first four fingers to move the cards along.
How To: Perform the 'ambitious card trick' with ease
This excellent version of "Ambitious Card" uses a clever slight-of-hand move that looks hard to learn, but it really isn't. Give it a try. The spectator will see his card placed smack in the center of the deck, and suddenly pops up to the top. The method is shown very carefully and slowly, but note that there are some audio problems (which doesn't affect the explanation.)
How To: Do the in-jog false shuffle
Learn how to do an In Jog false shuffle, used to retain a stack of cards on the top of the deck. The video quality is a bit off, but the tutorial is clear and straightforward.
How To: Count cards with the Hi-Lo system
The video shows us how to count the cards using the Hi-Lo system. This involves steps and the first step is to assign the values to the cards. Take any deck of cards and then assign the value '+1' to the cards from 2 to 6, value '0' to the cards from 7 to 9 and the rest of the cards Ace, 10, Jack, Queen and the King are assigned the value '-1'. This is a helpful strategy. When the count is higher, there are more high cards than low cards in the remaining cards. When the count is lower, there ...
How To: Make a "Shocking" Deck of Prank Playing Cards Packed with 330 Volts of Electricity
A deck of cards may be a magician's best way to demonstrate his or her's sleight of hand, but for the prankster, it's the perfect way to deliver a shocking 300 volts of electricity! And that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do today. Stuart Edge used it in his "Electric Shock Kissing Prank" to show the ladies how a man can really put the sparks in a kiss.
How To: Perform the amzaing alternate beginner card trick
This video shows the reveal of a great beginner card trick, called the Alternate trick. It's an easy and impressive one to learn. MrStuckyJ's performance and tutorial of this card trick are here.
How To: Create a rusty, grungy checker plate texture in After Effects
You may not recognize the term "checker plate", but you've more than likely encountered it many times before. It's more commonly referred to as "diamond plate" and is the hardwearing, lightweight, non-slip metal stock with raised diamonds (or lines) that frequently adorn flight cases, stage decking and metal stair treads. This video will show you how to recreate that grungy look in After Effects.
How To: Build a southern pine plant box
If you feel tht your porch or patio is a bit too bland for your taste, putting a planter box outside is a smart idea. But if you don't like anything that you see at the store or don't want to pay an arm and a leg to buy one, then make it yourself.
How To: Make a simple canoe with covered stern and bow from one sheet of paper
This isn't your ordinary canoe. It might not be a canoe at all. But it's roughly shaped like one, only the ends have a small splash cover on the bow and stern decks not typically seen on canoes. But that's not the point, the point is you can recreate this cool paper boat with only one sheet of origami paper. If you know the name of this type of boat… speak up!
How To: Do the "impossible" card trick
In this Magic & Parlor Tricks video you will see the ‘impossible’ card trick. This card trick is performed by Andy field. First he removes all the 4 aces from the pack and puts them face up on the table. Then he chooses a card from the rest of the pack shows it to the camera without seeing it himself. It is the king of hearts. He then puts the card back into the deck somewhere in the middle. Now he takes the 4 aces in his hand all facing up, gives a little jig and out of the 4 one ace turns f...
How To: Perform the 'Name It' Card Trick
In this video Andy shows you how to perform the "Name it" card trick. The presenter suggests introducing yourself quickly and then ask someone in the audience for a name. Count up the number of letters in the persons name (for instance David is five letters). You then split and reverse five cards. You then ask the audience member to cut the deck in half. Then double under break the remaining cards. Then place the selected card under the reversed card. Then ask the audience member his name aga...
How To: Read the Emperor and Emperor Tarot Cards when they appear in a spread
When the Emperor and Empress cards both appear in the same reading, they often indicate a wiser, older married couple - such as parents or grandparents. Peter John explains what it means when these two Major Arcana cards in the tarot deck appear together in a reading.
How To: Conjure aces with the "slip force" card trick
Aspiring card shark? Sink your teeth into this simple illusion. In this free video magic lesson from YouTube user experthowto, you'll learn how to perform the "slip force" card trick to force aces or any other card from a standard deck of playing cards. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
How To: Execute the classic "oil and water" card trick
Got a deck of standard playing cards? Looking for your next great illusion? Look no further. In this free video magic lesson from YouTube user experthowto, you'll learn how to perform the classic "million dollar" card trick. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
How To: Perform the "million dollar" card trick
Got a deck of standard playing cards? Looking for your next great illusion? Look no further. In this free video magic lesson from YouTube user experthowto, you'll learn how to perform the "million dollar" card trick. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the illusion, and to learn why a good card trick is like money in the bank, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
How To: Perform the simplest card trick in the world
Aspiring card shark? Sink your pearly whites into this easy, impressive illusion. In this free video magic lesson from YouTube user experthowto, you'll learn how to perform the non plus ultra of simple card tricks—a trick where the selected card is flipped within the deck. For more information, including a step-by-step breakdown of the trick, watch this prestidigitator's guide.
How To: Perform the self revealing card trick
Improve your magician skills with this magic card trick video lesson. This magical tutorial will show you how to perform the self revealing card trick. Doing the self revealing card trick just take a little sleight of hand and practice. See the reveal of this cool card trick - a card is taken, then put back in the deck, then it flips over all by itself!
How To: Do basic false shuffles for magic card tricks
This is an instructional video on how to perform card shuffles that allow you to place particular cards at the top or bottom of the deck and how to keep them that way. False shuffles, such as the riffle shuffle and Hindu shuffle, are important for card magicians to create the illusion of shuffling cards, without losing track of a desired card or cards. Watch this video magic tutorial and learn how to do basic false and riffle shuffles for card tricks.
How To: Make smudge gaff cards for magic card decks
Watch this video to learn how to make smudged gaff cards. Gaff cards are used for magic tricks and look different then normal playing cards.
How To: Tune a fingerboard
Your fingerboard is a temple, treat is as such by keeping it tuned. Know how to tune the trucks, change stock axles, replace or customize all parts. Watch this video fingerboarding tutorial and learn how to tune your deck.
How To: Cut moving objects in half with playing cards
Learn how to make saltines explode in midair with WSOP champion Chris "Jesus" Ferguson slices them with a deck of cards.
How To: Perform the Pop To The Top card trick
Make a card "pop" to the top after creasing it and putting it in the middle of the deck. When you release your grip, it pops back to the top.
How To: Change a diaper in public
How many times have you needed to make a quick diaper change when there is no diaper deck or other suitable place? Keep these great tips in mind next time you need to change your baby in public.
How To: Perform the magnetic cards trick
Cards magically come together in a deck. Great card trick that's easy to do.
How To: Find someone's card in the middle of the deck
J.P. Laramy demonstrates a great card trick. You have an entire set of cards and you put the last card upside down. You get somebody to pick a card, you flip the cards upside down, put that person's card back, and then flip the cards over again.
How To: Do the Hot Shot Cut
Best card control ever ... !! Daryl's Hot Shot Cut. As seen on David Blaine series. This cut shoots a spinning card out of the deck.
How To: Do a riffle card shuffle
Learn how to riffle shuffle a deck of cards for your magic routine or just as a card shuffle.
How To: Stop record wobble on your deck
Does your 12" vinyl record wobble in the middle of the turntable spindel? Learn how to stop records from wobbling on the platter while you're DJing.
How To: Do the double shock card trick
Watch this instructional video to learn how to do the double shock card trick in which you appear to make four random cards turn into four kings and then four aces. All you need is a standard deck of cards and a double sided card. This video has no audio, but it does have subtitles.
How To: Do three card tricks
You can learn three magic tricks that use cards. In the first trick, you push the front card forward and the card behind it backwards. In the second trick, you spread the deck and flip one card, but then pull it away. Be aware that the video ends abruptly before you can learn how to do the third trick.