The Humbling Vanishing Ace Of Diamonds
This is a great up close card trick that is perfect for any audience. It requires some practice, and a little bit of preparation, but once you know how to do it, it’s pretty simple. Of course, because it requires some set up, you can only perform this once. So it helps if you have a few other card tricks up your sleeve, so to speak. This works especially well for kids, both to perform for and to teach, as it doesn’t require any difficult sleight of hand maneuvers.
This is how the stunt will materialize to your astonished audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You hold them out, holding them to the audience. Then you set them on top of the deck, and mix up and cut the deck a number of times, making sure that they have been evenly dispersed.
You then ask a volunteer to come up and hunt for the Ace of Diamonds. They will hunt in vain, as they won’t be able to uncover it. If you like, you can get a new audience member to come up and look, but they too will be unproductive. 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 draw the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the interior. If you locate both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you expression this is important. If you bring up beforehand that you are going to make the Ace of Diamonds evaporate, they will be looking much more directly. But if you just start of by recitation what you are doing, and then name the three cards (Ace of Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds) they will likely have faith in you, and not glance too closely at the three cards.
One way that can exceedingly help is as you are shuffling and cutting the deck, is to divulge some long winded story about how diamonds have some kind of supernatural 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 concealed someplace in the deck, or so they believe. Have fun with this trick.
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