WORLD'S MOST AMAZING '3 PREDICTIONS' CARD TRICK!

If you want people to really be certain that your deck is shuffled before your performance, there's two great ways to do it. The first way is just spring them all over the place. The second way is to have a deck in hand to someone to give the cards a shuffle. So Chris, who as some of you know, you may not know, I'm lucky enough, my videographer, as I often call my brother, is Christopher Mayhew. M-A-Y-H-E-W. Google him. He is a magician in his own right and a hot shot sleight of hand guy. So he's given them a for real shuffle right there. Thank you, Chris. Boom, magic man. Okay, the cards are shuffled. Now, bring the camera down here. I want people to see. It's one thing for me to say they're shuffled. It's a whole other thing for people to see. So I think you'll see they look shuffled. They look shuffled, okay? Shuffle deck, I'm not going to alter your at all. Here we go. Going to write some predictions here. I think that's number one. Put that one there. This is number two. Put that one there. I think, I think, I think, I think, I think that's number three. Okay. Shuffle deck, three attempts. Here we go. Watch. Say stop whenever you want, brother. First one, out of the gates, it is an eight. Shuffle deck. Say stop whenever you want. Second card is a queen. Last card, shuffle deck anytime. Do you want me to go one more card? Want me to go one more card? You're sure? Okay. We had an eight, a queen, and a jack. Now I know for a fact I got lucky with this first one. There's my eight. And I got to admit, I was thrilled to see that my next prediction from a shuffle deck, they call stop wherever they want, was also. So I got the first two. So I hope you forgive me. I have to reveal the simple fact that I got the last one as well. You guys have been asking for a few more of the advanced sleight of hand stuff. And this is advanced sleight of hand, okay? Most of the stuff here on my YouTube channel, of course, is beginner level. The idea is to get you guys excited about magic and excited about not just fooling people, but having fun with it. You know, sort of really sharing your real self, your personality through the tricks. But then I'm always telling you guys, of course, when you're ready to go that next level, when you're really taking your magic education seriously, you want to go up to a whole new world, the intermediate and the advanced stuff, and all the stuff about that, InsideDeception.com is definitely what you got to check out. So I've been sharing a few of the more advanced things, and I know you guys are really enjoying them. So this is an advanced move called the Wichita Slip or the Wichita Switch. I think I've published it in lots of different places. It's a very sweet switch. And this is the kind of trick that I do for people, particularly when I'm finding it hard to really break through, where there's a sense. I mean, typically I'm performing for four businessmen, you know, and they're all sitting there with their arms crossed, and they're not impressed by what I'm doing. They're not going for my puns or my subtle references to the Dark Lord. So what do I have to do? I have to do something that goes. So I do this. I hand out the deck. I say, shuffle the cards. I'm going to try something. I want three shots. If I can get it once, if I can get it right once, I think I'd be impressed. I'm going to try to get at least two of the three right. Frame it that way. Okay, so let's jump in. What are we doing here? Got a pad of paper. Now notice, I don't always carry a pad of paper. Sometimes it'll be three paper napkins. I'll have napkins in a restaurant or a bar, cocktail napkins. I'll borrow three business cards from someone. I've done it on three-dollar bills. So this can be very flexible, and this is a shuffled deck. So it's a beautifully organic boom trick, all right? So someone shuffles the cards. They give the cards a really good shuffle, and I take the cards back, and I say, it's one thing for me to say they're shuffled and for us to think they are, but take a look. You'll see they're shuffled, which is a silly line. But I turn it over. I spread them out real quickly, and then I put them back down, okay? And in that moment, I actually will take a peek and turn my head away. So by the time people are looking at the cards and looking back up at me, my head is turned away, okay? Just a little detail. But I was able to see the bottom three cards, and that's the key. Now, before I forget, some people ask me at my lectures, professional card magicians and things, they'll say, why don't you write down the jack of hearts, the four of clubs, and the ten of clubs rather than just jack, four, ten? Well, I think this suits. It's just something I've always done. It's not broken, so I'm not going to fix it, but I just think doing it without the suits has enough power, I guess what I'm saying. But jack, four, ten. I notice those, and I put the deck down. So I've turned the deck over, take a look, turn the deck down, I'm done. Then I grab my piece of paper, and I write my jack, my four, and my ten. And I want to make sure, and I put them down from my right to my left, I want to make sure that when I tear them off that no one sees. I don't want people to see that, and I don't want them to see it through that, because that destroys the drama. So all about the details. Jack, four, my ten. Sometimes I take more time, I deliberate. Sometimes I'll cross out one, and then write it back in. That has a certain drama too. I just want to make sure they don't see I crossed out my ten and rewrote my ten. That's a bit lame. So I'm here, and I tear that off. Now, just a side note here, the rule of three is huge in theater. All the bedtime stories with the three brothers, the three sisters, the three striped zebras, and all that stuff is often in three. So I love the structure of this, the three. Now I'm going to do a move called, like I said, the Wichita Switch or the Wichita Slip. Now, it looks like I go through, someone calls stop, and it looks like I turn over that top card. But I did a switch. It's actually the bottom card of the pack being turned over. Okay? And let me do a few of these. I'll keep these three to the side. But I want you to see, I want you to be convinced that with enough practice, you would swear that all of these cards are coming off the top of the deck. But they're all coming off the bottom of the deck. All right? You hear me on the channel talk about a large action coverage and a small, and this is a perfect example. Here's what I'm doing. I'm dribbling down the cards. I'm pushing the top card off. These three fingers curl in, pull back the bottom card, and push it off. It's called buckling. Now, you can try, and I know some of you will, to just push. And it'll work for you the first time or second time. But eventually, you're going to get cards that cluster together. Where you push, you get two or three cards. It'll screw it up. The only way to make sure it doesn't is to first pull back and push forward. So I want you to really study this. I'm holding everything in place with the first finger. I told you this is advanced. Buckle and push. Buckle and push. This will take practice, okay? And keep in mind, I have small hands, my friends, okay? But that's only what the left-hand action is doing. The left hand, so we know the left hand is pushing off, buckling, and pushing. So you basically, for a beat, have two cards. One from the top one. The right hand's coming over, scissor action. And grabbing both for a second, while the left hand pulls this back and turns this over, okay? Performance speed, it's this. Someone calls stop, there, turn the card over. Imperceptible. The fact that the first one I do it, the second one they call stop again, shuffle deck, wherever they want to call stop. The last one I often said, you want me to go one more card? They say yes, and I often say, bastard, okay? Whatever. Really, they really can call stop. I've had people say another card, another card. And eventually, I've turned over a jack, sorry, a ten, a four, and a jack, okay? And when I open these up one by one, sorry, my confusion, I got them backwards. When I open them up one by one and show the jack, now, I always set them up psychologically, too, because I go, well, I know for a fact I got the first one. I know for a fact I got the second one. But I hope you guys forgive me if it turns out I got the last one as well. Right now, I'd say my level of magic is intermediate. That's why I find his teaching style to be perfect for me. Actually, whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or professional, he offers something for everyone to learn.