Scarne's Lie Speller - Tutorial

Hello again everybody. Today's card trick video of the day on my website thecardtrickteacher.com is a tutorial for Skarni's Lie Speller. This video was uploaded by Tally Ho Cards 9. I've never seen any videos from Tally Ho Cards 9 but his tutorial is brilliant. Very well explained for an easy but possibly difficult card trick to explain. Hopefully I'll do as good a job as he did on the explanation. He also has a performance video for this card trick. I suggest you check it out. First watch Tally Ho Cards 9's performance of Skarni's Lie Speller. Then come back and I'll show you how it's done. Okay like I said his tutorial is brilliant. You should check out Tally Ho Cards 9's channel. Subscribe to his videos because if his future videos are as good as this one you guys want to be subscribed. I'm going to show you this trick because I think it is a brilliant simple mathematical card trick that you'll all enjoy. I haven't seen this anywhere on YouTube and it's a pretty cool trick. So there is a slight setup. You're going to turn over one card. It's going to be the 14th card from the bottom and you want it to be a black card. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and the 14th card from the bottom you want to be a black card. So we're going to make that card right over here. It is the Queen of Spades. So once again we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. The 14th card is the Queen of Spades. We're ready to go. Any black card face up 14th from the bottom. You can start out. You can give the cards a false cut or two. Don't flash that card face up and have a spectator select a card. Try and have them select a card near the top. You don't want to go too low and let's say they select the Four of Clubs. Place the cards back on top of the deck keeping the deck in order. Have them remember their card the Four of Clubs and place it on top of the deck. Now give the cards a cut and complete the cut. So now you don't have to say there are no breaks. No need to say that. Lay people don't know what a break is. So you just say your card is lost somewhere in the middle of the deck. That card was the Four of Clubs. They're remembering that. You're now going to say to them what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the deck behind my back and turn over a card. Now I'm not going to pull the cards off the screen. So what you're going to do behind your back is you're going to go behind your back and go just like that. You're not going to do a thing. You're going to make a sound like you turned over a card but you're not going to turn over a card. Then you're going to come back with the cards. Oops I went off the screen. You're going to come back with the cards and you're going to say okay now I turned over a card. If that card is a red card you're going to have to say the truth. I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Three questions to be exact. You're going to have to answer the truth to all three questions. If the card I flipped over was red. If the card I flipped over was black then you can lie to me and they're going to be hoping for a black card because people love to lie. So there it is. It's a black card. You move the rest of the bottom. You say okay lucky you. Now you can tell me the truth or you can lie. Whatever you like. You turn this card back on top of the deck. What you've now done is you've positioned their selection in the 15th position. So now through a series of three questions you're going to get to the 15th card whether they lie or whether they tell you the truth. So their card was the four of clubs. You ask them the very first question was your card red or black. Let's say they lie and they say it was red. You say okay r-e-d. Second question was your card below a seven. Was it a seven or was it above a seven. Let's say they're telling the truth now and they say below b-e-l-o-w. And now because they said the card was red you're going to ask them was it a diamond or was it a heart. And they say their card was a diamond. And again that's important. Whatever color they say their card is that's the suit that you give them the choice of. So now you say was it a heart or a diamond even though it's a four of clubs they already said it was red. So they say diamond d-i-a-m-o-n-d. There's the four of clubs. Now there are a couple of things to remember why this these 15 cards will always work. Number one if they say and you have diamond and spade are singular. So it will be diamond or spade. Clubs and hearts are plural. So if it's a club or a heart you have to spell c-l-u-b-s or h-e-a-r-t-s. And on clubs diamond and spade their card will land on the last letter. On hearts it will be the next card. So example they say red r-e-d. Now the next one is five letters whether they say below seven or above. All three of those words have five letters. So let's say it's above a-b-o-v-e. Now you have three cards here. If they choose hearts h-e-a-r-t-s then it's the next card. If they choose diamond d-i-a-m-o-n-n-d it's the next card. Once again let's say they go with black b-l-a-c-k. Now they say seven. Let's say they say it was a seven s-e-v-e-n. Now remember they have to choose whether it's a black a club or spade because they said black. If they say club remember clubs is plural. So it's c-l-u-b and remember it lands on the last card. The only one that it doesn't land on the last card is hearts. If they say spade it's singular s-p-a-d and it lands on the last card. Hopefully that made sense. Watch it again. Once you get it down it's pretty easy. It will impress people. I think it's a really cool lie detector mathematical card trick. Thank you Tally Ho cards. My tutorial was longer than yours so obviously you did a better job. That's it. I'll see you next time.