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Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards is a magic trick. As the trick requires only that a card is ''thought of'', it does not require the use of a deck of cards. Method A spectator is instructed to think of any card (other than the joker). The magician then gives the following instructions: * Take the card's face value (with aces counting as 1 and royal cards counting as 11, 12 and 13 respectively) * Double it. * Add 3. * Multiply by 5. * If the card the spectator is thinking of is a spade, subtract 1. * If the card the spectator is thinking of is a heart, subtract 2. * If the card the spectator is thinking of is a club, subtract 3. * If the card the spectator is thinking of is a diamond, subtract 4. The spectator then tells the magician the number the spectator is now thinking of. The magician then names the card. Secret The series of mathematical manipulations results in any given card producing a unique number. The multiplication by 2 and 5 means that the final number is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Trick
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of close-up magic, parlor magic, and stage magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It is to be distinguished from paranormal magic which are effects claimed to be created through supernatural means. It is one of the oldest performing arts in the world. Modern entertainment magic, as pioneered by 19th-century magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, has become a popular theatrical art form. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant, Howard Thurston, Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini achieved widespread commercial success during what has become known as "the Golden Age of Magic", a period in which performance magic became a staple of Broadway theatre, vaudeville, and music halls. Meanwhile, magicians such as Georges Méliès, Gaston Velle, Walter R. Booth, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deck Of Cards
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a finish to make handling easier. They are most commonly used for playing card games, and are also used in magic tricks, cardistry, card throwing, and card houses; cards may also be collected. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and usually are sold together in a set as a deck of cards or pack of cards. The most common type of playing card in the West is the French-suited, standard 52-card pack, of which the most widespread design is the English pattern, followed by the Belgian-Genoese pattern. However, many countries use other, traditional types of playing card, including those that are German, Italian, Spanish and Swiss-suited. Tarot cards (also known locally as ''Tarocks'' or ''tarocchi'') are an old genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suit (cards)
In playing cards, a suit is one of the categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several pips (symbols) showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or additionally be indicated by the color printed on the card. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, except on face cards. Ranking indicates which cards within a suit are better, higher or more valuable than others, whereas there is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific card game. In most decks, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit. A deck may include special cards that belong to no suit, often called jokers. While English-speaking countries traditionally use cards with the French suits of Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds, many other countries have their own traditional suits. Much of central Europe uses German suited cards with suits of Acorns (Clubs), Leaves (Spades), Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
