you see Rocco's tail right there it's like an indicator like a three right because one two three cards down name your card um I have one of the cards in this deck I have trained to do tricks for like a dog find his car I thought it was a good boy good boy isn't that nuts today I'm going to teach you an incredible trick with cards that uses almost no sleight of hand and a special gimmick that you can make at home in five seconds before we start be sure to hit that like And subscribe button and ring that Bell so you'll be notified when I've got other amazing magic to teach you I'm Eric Tate from Penguin Magic let's get to the trick I love this trick you take a deck of cards and you can even show your audience that all of the cards are completely different all the way through the deck then you have somebody select a card they take any one they want right you have them place it right back here in the middle of the deck and you don't have to do any sleight of hand snap your fingers and command one of the cards to roll over and it will because when you take a look you'll see right here that this card the eight of spades that indicates exactly where their card is because one two three four five six seven eight cards down is the exact card that they selected I love this trick because not only is this an easy trick to do you can instantly repeat it right so what you all you need to do is give the deck a little bit of a mix right have somebody select a card anyone that they want have them remember it that card is popped back into the deck snap your fingers and another card rolls over and indicates exactly where it is because if we spread through the deck and take a look here's the four of diamonds if we take a look right here at the four of diamonds and countdown four that's one two three four here's the next card that they selected I hope you like that performance that is spotter cards by UF Grant from one of my favorite books the Encyclopedia of card tricks which is available at penguinmagic.com it uses an amazing gimmick that is really easy to uh to use and to make if you want it uses a double faced card now you can buy double face cards like this at Penguin Magic if you want but I wanted to show you how to make one so that you can do this trick right away all you need to do is get yourself two playing cards from your deck and some double stick tape we're going to take the double stick tape and place it on the back of these cards and I want you to notice how close to the edge we put it the double stick tape goes right to the edge on all four sides and a little bit in the middle take the cards in your hands like this and you square them up so that all of the edges line up perfectly and give it a nice little squeeze and now you have a nice little impromptu double facer that you can use for this trick now if you buy a pre-printed one make sure that you take the matching cards out of the deck before you start the trick but if you've made your own double facer you don't have to worry about that because these cards won't be in the deck what we're going to do is we're going to do a little bit of a setup we're going to take these cards and we're going to leave the eight of spades in this case the larger card up like this we're going to deal eight cards one two three four five six seven eight and then place our double facer card right on top of that pile and the rest of the deck on top if you want you can apparently Shuffle the cards for your audience using an overhand Shuffle Now you see I'm Shuffling these cards right here but as long as I don't Shuffle past that eight of spades the trick will still work I just Shuffle some cards off in my hand like this flop this over on my hand and throw rest of the cards on the bottom when you do it at speed like this it's a pretty deceptive trick now all you have to do is spread the cards and make sure that anybody takes any card they want from the upper half of the deck maintain a tight spread along the bottom here so that you don't accidentally reveal that you've already got a card face up in the deck so they take any card that they want in this case the Jack of Spades now you're going to swing cut the cards you have uh you place the cards in what's called Bittle grip you have these three fingers right here on the front edge and this thumb along the back and your index finger is going to lift up and then swing over about half the cards your spectator will replace those cards right there you put the rest of the cards on top and now you don't have to do anything the trick is almost done you snap your fingers and you say you've trained one of the cards to roll over and tell you where their selected card is you spread through the deck find the face up eight of spades and place it face down on the table now you can take these cards right here and set the top half off to the side and just deal down that same number that you already set up one two three four five six seven eight and then turn over this card and it will be the card that they selected right now we did it immediately again which is a great little piece right here so what you can do is as you gather up the cards as long as you've memorized the value of the card that's right here what you can do is spread over that number of cards pick this up put it back and then give another one of those fake little shuffles that keeps your setup right down here on the bottom then repeat the actions exactly as before spread through the deck have somebody select any card you're going to swing cut because you want to make sure that those four cards and the double facer end up on top of the selected card here in this case the three of clubs pop the rest of the cards on top snap your fingers command one of the cards to roll over and spread through the deck exactly like you did before you can see that this four is right there and then you can deal down the same value one two three four and then reveal the selected card this is a fantastic trick that's very easy to do with this little double facer and as long as you follow the instructions that I just did right there you're going to be wowing your audiences in no time let's take a look at another trick using a double facer this is another trick from UF Grant also from the Encyclopedia of card magic this one is called Spirit slates and it's a variation that I've come up with called math ghost let's take a look at a live performance know that my house is haunted not mine mine is haunted right it turns out it is haunted by a mathematician the first mathematician right he was it was the Sir Isaac Newton no no no way before that the first one the one who invented like the original mask Albert Einstein well no like like I think his name is OGG it was very very ancient right so here's here's the thing I found out I can commune with him and he can solve any kind of very very simple uh simple math equation so we'll do this you said you like Post-it notes excellent uh do you like simple math uh give me a very a very simple equation addition subtraction multiplication very simple very simple it's a very old ghost very very ancient ghost on the first mathematician like blood plus two eleven plus two well that's a very very simple 11 plus 11 plus two that's a very simple equation right very very simple equation it's very very simple right tell you what we'll take this and we'll put this right here and we're going to use Spirit slates to contact OG the ancient the ancient mathematician even though we're not at my house because OG sometimes follows me around so what you would do is you would uh we need we need some we need some suitable car we'll use these we'll use uh we use these three cards right here these will be the spirit slates that we use Spirit sites are a way that they contacted the dead in like the Victorian times right they would take like two chalkboards I don't have chalkboards but they would put them down so they would put them like uh like face to face like this right so we put them down and then they would have like they would give like a little bit of chalk to the spirit slate so the spirit could move the chalk around I'll just use this like marker and we'll let it go around and OG might like if we if we could OG solve the math problem did you feel that chill no I felt it you felt it yeah that's so sometimes when you feel a sudden chill that's how you know a map uh the the ghost is there you think I'm full no I think I think no no no where to get no no we both felt it no let's take let's look at the Spirit slates oh look he wrote on it 13 13 13 13. He solved the math problem do it again here you can keep this you can keep this as the time that you once communed with the spirits I know you're gonna love performing this trick as much as I do I've got two other free tricks over at penguinmagic.com that also use double facers I know you're gonna love there's a link in the description down below that takes you right to them and did I mention they're free thanks so much for watching I'll catch up with you over at penguinmagic.com where we learn the other tricks [Music]