If you like simple to learn and pretty impressive card tricks, then you’ve come to the right place. You’ll be able to perform this trick after only a few minutes practice. It does require a little bit of set up before you face your audience, so you can only do this trick once. This is popular with kids, as it doesn’t require any high level sleight of hand skills.

This is how the hoax will seem to your stunned audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You hold them out, holding them to the audience. Then you put them on top of the deck, and jumble up and cut the deck quite a lot of times, making sure that they have been evenly dispersed.

You then ask a helper to come up and look for the Ace of Diamonds. They will search in vain, as they won’t be able to come across it. If you like, you can get an additional audience member to come up and search, but they too will be unsuccessful. Then you pull the Ace of Diamonds out of your shirt pocket. (Or your back pocket, or shoe, or wherever.)

Here’s how to set the deception up. First discover all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then leave the other Aces on top of the deck. When you drag the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the midpoint. If you place both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.

How you utterance this is important. If you mention beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds evaporate, they will be looking much more intimately. But if you just start of by describing what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely believe you, and not look too closely at the three cards.

One way that can really help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to disclose some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of captivating power, and in the old days when they were choosing the shapes for cards, they nearly didn’t choose diamonds because people were always stealing them, or they were always disappearing or something. That way, when they start wondering about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be hidden someplace in the deck, or so they suppose. Have fun with this trick.

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