Thank you for this! I am a special education teacher at an elementary school, and I used this in my class last week to have a fun way to have my students practice addition. I’ve used a couple of other tricks of yours as well, as many of the ones you show line up perfectly with using in a math class. The kids love it, and they are learning and practicing skills in a different and super fun way. Thank you so much!
This trick can also be performed with the piles equaling 12 instead of 13. Additionally, if you count the J, Q and K as ten then you don’t have to get rid of any cards. And 4 piles are picked instead of 3. This way the total number of discarded cards equals the total of the top cards from the 4 piles.
So this is one of the better tricks you've done in awhile. I like how it's not a pick a card trick, which is often boring to the spectator because that's what they always expect. The problem with this trick is that it seems like either a self-worker (because it is) or a memorization trick (because you cut away the 10 cards - they think you forced the ending). So I modified it to make it seem a little bit more magical, however, it works the exact same way. You do the same basic setup. Have the spectator shuffle the cards to their hearts content. Ask them to cut the cards or do whatever they feel like doing to ensure that their is no setup. Then deal the packets to get to 13 as described. I like to have them turn over the packet before I move on to the next packet, this just adds a little time misdirection because they might catch on that all you did at the end was flip over the bottom card of the packet. Anyway, once you deal all the packets, if I have a discard I put that away on the table, and ask them to rearrange the packets monty style. This way the spectator doesn't suspect I was keeping track of the value of the bottom card. After they've rearranged the packets I ask them to scoot out the 3 packets they'd like to use, and then I collect the other packets. You could have the spectator do this as well. So, now is where the magic occurs. I ask the spectator if they think there is more than half the deck in the discard pile. I remind them that there are 52 cards in the deck so 26 cards would be half. That justifies my counting of the discard pile. When I reach 10, I create a little pinky break. Since the counting is creating a little bit of a mess, this covers the break nicely. Once I get to 26 I don't need to count anymore (it's ok if there is less than 26 too) since I state that "yes, you've eliminated more than half the deck" and square of the discard pile keeping the pinky break. I then perform a ruffle force, but I'm not forcing the card, but instead forcing the packet of 10. When they say stop, I simply confirm that they want to stop there, and lift up at the break and hand them the rest of the cards. Now I ask the spectator to count the cards in their hand. I usually count with them, and watch to make sure they don't fumble the cards. After I know the number, I flip over the top card of the first packet. I then flip over the top card of the second packet, and add them together. I double check with the spectator how many cards they have in their pile, and then do the math in my head about what value the remaining card will be. I say some magical thing like "Would you be amazed if the next card is [state needed value here]"? After turning the card over I bask in the glory. This puts a bunch of the magic in their hands, and allows for you to remind them that "THEY" not the magician randomly selected the number of cards that they counted (even though they didn't). Try it out. I'm sure you'll agree that this ups the reaction. It won't fool P&T but it's good for a party trick, bar trick, or ice breaker.
I'm so glad I found this - my dad used to do a variant of this trick - and now I can recreate my dad's version to teach to my daughter! I think my dad started by saying "I'm going to add 10 at the end." And then had you make four piles, and then pick one to not use... And he would add up the 3 card points and just add 10, "Remember how I said I would add ten?"
Your tricks are epic my dad went crazy when i showed him a trick you teached, thanks for that amazing channel, i am a beginner magician and still learning :)
I figured out the math Let there be 3 card values a,b,c Therefore total cards apart from discards will be 13-a+ 13-b +13-c +3 =42-a-b-c Cards left = 52- (42-a-b-c) = 10 +a+b+c Taking out 10 cards Cards left in discard = a+b+c ( as the first card is turned over) Enjoy !
The way I was taught this trick, the spectator turns over the top card of two piles, you count those values and ten more, then the rest and tell your spectator the value of the top card of the third pile. I never liked leaving piles of one or two cards, so I came up with a variant that makes the piles up to fifteen and then you only need to add four to the value of the two cards to leave you with the value of the third.
I prefer another variation of the same trick. Once you have the 3 piles selected and turned over and 10 cards removed from your pile, tell the spectator to flip the top card from any pile of their choice. Then deal the number of the card onto the pile of 10. Then tell the spectator to flip the top card of another pile and deal the number to your discard pile. Then emphasize the point that no one knows the top card of the last pile, but the cards do. Count the remaining cards in your hand (not the discard pile) and the number should match the card on top of the final pile.
You can also write a prediction that says “remove ten” and at the end while they think you messed up, you can be like “but wait, remember that prediction i made?” That way you don’t have to do the awkward deck split
Assume the top numbers of the 3 chosen decks are a, b and c. At the beginning, we added up them to 13, so there must be (13 - a) + 1, (13 - b) + 1 and (13 - c) + 1 cards on the decks respectively. So in total, (39 - (a + b + c)) + 3 = 42 - (a + b + c) cards are chosen. Then there must be 52 - (42 - (a + b + c)) = 10 + (a + b + c) discarded cards. Get rid of 10 of them. It is (a + b + c).
I love ur vids and all of your tricks are really good but i recommend you making more advanced tricks but other than that, your tricks are perfect, keep up the good work!
Have the spectator choose the piles facedown. Once you have your 3 piles, have your spectator choose 2 piles and turn over the top card of those piles. Then add x amount of cards equal to the top card (if the top card is a 7 add 7 cards facedown). Then with the last pile, discard 10 cards and the number of cards you have left will be the same value of the top card (if you have seven cards left the top card of the last pile will be a 7. This trick is way more effective
This is a cool trick. I learned it from scam school. This version is different. What you should do instead. After counting 10 cards, Turn over 1 card off top of pile 1 and , count that many cards. Do the same for 2nd pile. Then count the left over cards, and that total will match the top card on the 3rd pile. Its more amazing instead if his way. Try it. There is no bad versions. I just like scam schools version better.
Great!! If it can also combine with chosen card based on number of cards, that will be really magical. Not sure if that is possible. But this is genius.
follow the procedure until you have three piles, face down. Now ask the spectator to turn over the top card from two piles, leaving one pile face down. From the discard pile count off ten cards and the sum of the two up cards. The count of the remaining cards will equal the face down card of the third pile.
Great trick man! I find that when doing these kinds of tricks that require a lot of counting, I let the spectators deal the cards. More interactive experience for them and they usually end up being more amazed at the end. Happy New Year!
You can make them more surprise without taking tension about pinky break. Only experienced and professional magician can do pinky break perfectly. I'll explain how can we do it simply... 1. Just count 10 cards first and make it one side 2. Ask the spectators to open the first cards of any of the two sets and put that count of cards down(eg. 6 cards for no. 6, 11 cards for Jack) 3. Ask another spectator to open any of the two other sets and put down the cards accordingly. 4. Tell them the first number of the third set as ur prediction. (It should be equalant to the cards remaining with you) you can even count it in front of them and ask them to open the third one. You can make this act more interesting in this way. Even you can go away when they selecting the three sets) Ask them to select three sets of their choice and put balance all in one.
How it works? If each pile starts with the card with number a, then there are 13-a cards on top of them. With 3 piles with bottom card a,b and c, there are 39-a-b-c cards on their top. If you include the value cards, there are 42-a-b-c cards on the spectator’s piles. When you remove 10 cards from your pile, the remaining should be a+b+c as 42-a-b-c+a+b+c+10 =52
Okay so now I got this cool little trick down and it is awesome. The only thing that bothers me though is that I have gotten a nosebleed a few times trying to rack my brain as to how this could possibly work out! I mean what the heck is going on behind the scenes with those cards, what kind of mathematics are they doing with each other, to where at the end, the printed value of three random cards added to 10 will infallibly give you the total number of cards in that discard pile?? My 🧠's no slouch, but it's not _that_ big 😆 Someone please explain LOL
Thanks for the tutorial. The math of this is neat. I must be missing something though. What is the surprise reveal to the spectator? Is it that you manually discarded enough cards to match the combined numeric value of 3 cards you already knew the value of? You suggest there is an opportunity for a prediction. But, you already knew the value of the bottom cards in each pile (on top, once turned face down), since they directly determined how many cards went on top of them. I mean, you can see the jack on the bottom of the last stack you turn face down. Those cards were not unknown (as you suggest they are). So, where is the prediction? Where is the trick? It seems the only way this trick completes itself in surprise is if you removed 10 cards before executing the trick. Then, the spectator surprise is the matching number of discards in your hand.
MLT Magic Tricks - Note from Paul A. Lelekis - This is a trick I created when I was just a teenager (I'm now in my 60s). I call it "The Trick That Can't Be Explained". It is NOT Vernon's trick "The Trick That Cannot Be Explained". I created this before I knew Vernon's trick - and Vernon's trick is complex and mine is self-working. I posted it in The Linking Ring magazine years ago (as well as a number of other magic journals) and it spawned so much interest that the Editor of The Linking Ring called me on the phone to tell me that all the rings around the world were "playing it". There were 5 more articles written on this principle in TLR, including exposés by a number of math Professors who were explaining it mathematically! I'm glad you enjoy it and I hope that you can let your viewers know who is the creator...it seems no one these days cares about credits. Thank you.
Hey, so i have a problem with my cards for some reason the sides of the cards are getting dirty. I have a table, i put the cards in a case after i use it. Any way of cleaning them?
It could be that the oils in your hands are what's causing your cards to get dirty. No matter how clean your hands are there will always be some residual oils that get deposited on your cards. Cards that are worn also tend to appear to be dirty, but it's simply the layers of card stock beginning to separate. Honestly, there's nothing you can do except eventually replace the cards.
As others said all.about keeping your hands clean, and also the table you use. Anything and everything can get on the cards. Such just be wary to wash your hands before you start practicing and maybe even clean the table!
I hope you all enjoyed this card trick. Thanks for watching and happy new year!
I saw the same trick at Scam school/ Scam nation, but the magical part was different though.
What happens if you draw a king (13) ?
@@fingerscrossed2453 I have drawn a king before while practicing this trick, and it worked just fine.
@@ronnareese8354 yeah just count it as 13?
@@fingerscrossed2453 yeah
Thank you for this! I am a special education teacher at an elementary school, and I used this in my class last week to have a fun way to have my students practice addition. I’ve used a couple of other tricks of yours as well, as many of the ones you show line up perfectly with using in a math class. The kids love it, and they are learning and practicing skills in a different and super fun way. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your work as a teacher. I'm glad you are able to use some of the card tricks to show your students, that is awesome!
This trick can also be performed with the piles equaling 12 instead of 13. Additionally, if you count the J, Q and K as ten then you don’t have to get rid of any cards. And 4 piles are picked instead of 3. This way the total number of discarded cards equals the total of the top cards from the 4 piles.
It was a good one too …. Its going together whitout take card yourself. Thanks 👍
thank you so much i kept getting the original one wrong then you helped me. thanks bro
Much better. Thanks!
So this is one of the better tricks you've done in awhile. I like how it's not a pick a card trick, which is often boring to the spectator because that's what they always expect. The problem with this trick is that it seems like either a self-worker (because it is) or a memorization trick (because you cut away the 10 cards - they think you forced the ending). So I modified it to make it seem a little bit more magical, however, it works the exact same way.
You do the same basic setup. Have the spectator shuffle the cards to their hearts content. Ask them to cut the cards or do whatever they feel like doing to ensure that their is no setup. Then deal the packets to get to 13 as described. I like to have them turn over the packet before I move on to the next packet, this just adds a little time misdirection because they might catch on that all you did at the end was flip over the bottom card of the packet. Anyway, once you deal all the packets, if I have a discard I put that away on the table, and ask them to rearrange the packets monty style. This way the spectator doesn't suspect I was keeping track of the value of the bottom card. After they've rearranged the packets I ask them to scoot out the 3 packets they'd like to use, and then I collect the other packets. You could have the spectator do this as well.
So, now is where the magic occurs. I ask the spectator if they think there is more than half the deck in the discard pile. I remind them that there are 52 cards in the deck so 26 cards would be half. That justifies my counting of the discard pile. When I reach 10, I create a little pinky break. Since the counting is creating a little bit of a mess, this covers the break nicely. Once I get to 26 I don't need to count anymore (it's ok if there is less than 26 too) since I state that "yes, you've eliminated more than half the deck" and square of the discard pile keeping the pinky break. I then perform a ruffle force, but I'm not forcing the card, but instead forcing the packet of 10. When they say stop, I simply confirm that they want to stop there, and lift up at the break and hand them the rest of the cards.
Now I ask the spectator to count the cards in their hand. I usually count with them, and watch to make sure they don't fumble the cards. After I know the number, I flip over the top card of the first packet. I then flip over the top card of the second packet, and add them together. I double check with the spectator how many cards they have in their pile, and then do the math in my head about what value the remaining card will be. I say some magical thing like "Would you be amazed if the next card is [state needed value here]"? After turning the card over I bask in the glory.
This puts a bunch of the magic in their hands, and allows for you to remind them that "THEY" not the magician randomly selected the number of cards that they counted (even though they didn't). Try it out. I'm sure you'll agree that this ups the reaction. It won't fool P&T but it's good for a party trick, bar trick, or ice breaker.
It blowed my mind ❤
I'm so glad I found this - my dad used to do a variant of this trick - and now I can recreate my dad's version to teach to my daughter! I think my dad started by saying "I'm going to add 10 at the end." And then had you make four piles, and then pick one to not use... And he would add up the 3 card points and just add 10, "Remember how I said I would add ten?"
Really cool and almost kinda scary how the numbers work out 😆. Happy Holidays to you and yours as well, brother.
Thank you! It's because of people like you I'm able to entertain my guests, friends, etc.😁
Your tricks are epic my dad went crazy when i showed him a trick you teached, thanks for that amazing channel, i am a beginner magician and still learning :)
Same
Very gentle person with bright talent
I usually try and follow “beginner or easy” tutorials from a million card tricks but this channel helps so much I’m going to subscirbe
Bet he thought this would be a “happy” new year.
💀🦠🦠
Excelente juego y tutorial! Muchísimas gracias! Un abrazo enorme desde Argentina
I figured out the math
Let there be 3 card values a,b,c
Therefore total cards apart from discards will be
13-a+ 13-b +13-c +3
=42-a-b-c
Cards left
= 52- (42-a-b-c)
= 10 +a+b+c
Taking out 10 cards
Cards left in discard =
a+b+c ( as the first card is turned over)
Enjoy !
great, was wondering how that worked. Makes you wonder how magicians did in school!
Exactly
That was awesome I know how to do it now super duper easy I am going to blow people's minds
You do such cook work. I want to be able to do some for my grandsons. Thanks
This is an old one! I've known this one since at least the 90's but it's always fun to watch people wonder.
just showed this to my son! he’s pumped
I learned this card trick in my school and that's the first card trick I ever learned
The most satisfying moment is when MLT puts down the cards on the table that sound of putting cards is really satisfying
you make all the tricks look very easy
I used to do the ending differently. Since you know the values add up you can have them turn over 2 cards. Then you can easily "guess" the third.
Amazing ..
Working 😎👌
The way I was taught this trick, the spectator turns over the top card of two piles, you count those values and ten more, then the rest and tell your spectator the value of the top card of the third pile. I never liked leaving piles of one or two cards, so I came up with a variant that makes the piles up to fifteen and then you only need to add four to the value of the two cards to leave you with the value of the third.
I saw the first part of the performance and immediately recognized it. This was the first trick I learned years ago. Damn
I was actually gonna bring up the prediction reveal with flipping up two of the cards, but you beat me to it in the video XD. Great trick either way
Oh my goodness!I love it that I had already tried it on 50 peaple
I love your spelling
Maybe I would believe you if you spelled right, but its pretty clear that your young
Peaple?
He performed for his vegetables
@@alicegonzalez-montoya7694 "you're" This is called irony
i did it too much my parents took away my cards
My parents "lost" mine
@@bigturtlenerd3395 this week, my mom took it, i asked for it, and she said she lost it.. she actually did..
LOL
Me too
Lol if you do a stream ill give you money to get new card deck
HAHAAHAHAHA
okay so I was doing this along with you and I got an 8, 6, & ace totally cool!
Happy New Year to you too!
Thank you so much I love your channel
At first I thought what kind of f****** magic is then sometime after I freakin loved it awesome man keep up the good work
I saw this on another video and it still blows my mind
Thanks mlt! U made my day!!😀
Thank you for this trick.
Good job bro! This trick is absolutely amazing and so easy 🙂
Oh yeah! This is going to be so awesome, my mom is never going to know how the heck I did this! Thanks for showing such a great trick!
I prefer another variation of the same trick. Once you have the 3 piles selected and turned over and 10 cards removed from your pile, tell the spectator to flip the top card from any pile of their choice. Then deal the number of the card onto the pile of 10. Then tell the spectator to flip the top card of another pile and deal the number to your discard pile. Then emphasize the point that no one knows the top card of the last pile, but the cards do. Count the remaining cards in your hand (not the discard pile) and the number should match the card on top of the final pile.
and then they say "you just memorized the cards from earlier didn't you?" -_-
So good bro
You can also write a prediction that says “remove ten” and at the end while they think you messed up, you can be like “but wait, remember that prediction i made?” That way you don’t have to do the awkward deck split
But then you would actually reveal the secret...that it is always plus 10 cards.
Wow it was awesome
Yo dude Nice trick . Love your videos .
Happy New Year 2020.
it's been exactly 2 years since this video came out. Happy 2022!!
Assume the top numbers of the 3 chosen decks are a, b and c. At the beginning, we added up them to 13, so there must be (13 - a) + 1, (13 - b) + 1 and (13 - c) + 1 cards on the decks respectively. So in total, (39 - (a + b + c)) + 3 = 42 - (a + b + c) cards are chosen. Then there must be 52 - (42 - (a + b + c)) = 10 + (a + b + c) discarded cards. Get rid of 10 of them. It is (a + b + c).
Like an episode of Mind Your Decisions by Presh Talwalkar. :-)
you are the one who made me interested on magic tricks
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I love your magic tricks!!
Thank you so much
Love this trick its easy and wow it works every time
I love it ❤️👍❤️
Ty for the tutorial
u can also get rid of the 10 cards at the beginning of the trick as well
😂😂 I don't think so.. this whole trick is based on value of cards.. which cards you will rid of 😂
I love ur vids and all of your tricks are really good but i recommend you making more advanced tricks but other than that, your tricks are perfect, keep up the good work!
This is now one of my most favorite tricks! Thanks for an amazing tutorial! I will be fooling my friends now!!😂
Excellent!
I did it great
Very nice trick
Shout out idol i love your magic tricks
Thank you! I will practice first in order to show to my friends!
Have the spectator choose the piles facedown. Once you have your 3 piles, have your spectator choose 2 piles and turn over the top card of those piles. Then add x amount of cards equal to the top card (if the top card is a 7 add 7 cards facedown). Then with the last pile, discard 10 cards and the number of cards you have left will be the same value of the top card (if you have seven cards left the top card of the last pile will be a 7. This trick is way more effective
SUPER
Hey man! Thanks for this great trick. I was wondering how you film your videos, and what equipment you use. Would love to make some videos myself!
Nice!
This is a cool trick.
I learned it from scam school.
This version is different.
What you should do instead.
After counting 10 cards,
Turn over 1 card off top of pile 1 and , count that many cards. Do the same for 2nd pile.
Then count the left over cards, and that total will match the top card on the 3rd pile. Its more amazing instead if his way.
Try it.
There is no bad versions. I just like scam schools version better.
I really really really like that
If you have a spanish deck (48 cards) get to 12 instead of 13 cards on each pile and instead of removing 10 cards fron the discards remove 9
Great!! If it can also combine with chosen card based on number of cards, that will be really magical. Not sure if that is possible. But this is genius.
Hey mate, for this trick I got 4 1 5 I added and got 10 but when I dealt the card I had one remaining so should I take 11 of instead of 10?
Nice effect
follow the procedure until you have three piles, face down. Now ask the spectator to turn over the top card from two piles, leaving one pile face down. From the discard pile count off ten cards and the sum of the two up cards. The count of the remaining cards will equal the face down card of the third pile.
I love ur vids
Your the best happy New Year
Dude sick
I learned this one in that you only flip 2 of the top cards over and then then number of cards left is the value of the third card
Great trick man! I find that when doing these kinds of tricks that require a lot of counting, I let the spectators deal the cards. More interactive experience for them and they usually end up being more amazed at the end. Happy New Year!
i keep doin it and i am always 2 off. do you use the jokers for this trick?
This was amazing
Works every time. Great trick. I still don’t even understand how the math works here. Baffling.
very cool!
Happy new year!🎉
Cant wait for another year of great magic content👏
good trick
Is a picture card still worth 10 when adding up at the end or the number it comes in order e.g. Jack 11, Queen 12, King 13?
U have a tutorial on how to do pinky break?
can u predict the color of the card? or the suite?
What if u have 3 cards in ur discard piles or x
You can make them more surprise without taking tension about pinky break. Only experienced and professional magician can do pinky break perfectly. I'll explain how can we do it simply...
1. Just count 10 cards first and make it one side
2. Ask the spectators to open the first cards of any of the two sets
and put that count of cards down(eg. 6 cards for no. 6, 11 cards for Jack)
3. Ask another spectator to open any of the two other sets and put down the cards accordingly.
4. Tell them the first number of the third set as ur prediction. (It should be equalant to the cards remaining with you) you can even count it in front of them and ask them to open the third one.
You can make this act more interesting in this way.
Even you can go away when they selecting the three sets)
Ask them to select three sets of their choice and put balance all in one.
What happens if the cards ends on the second last pile without reaching the count of thirteen?
You’re the best
Great trick. Thanks
I love your videos but can you please start making other magic tricks than just card ones?
How it works?
If each pile starts with the card with number a, then there are 13-a cards on top of them. With 3 piles with bottom card a,b and c, there are 39-a-b-c cards on their top. If you include the value cards, there are 42-a-b-c cards on the spectator’s piles. When you remove 10 cards from your pile, the remaining should be a+b+c as 42-a-b-c+a+b+c+10 =52
Okay so now I got this cool little trick down and it is awesome. The only thing that bothers me though is that I have gotten a nosebleed a few times trying to rack my brain as to how this could possibly work out! I mean what the heck is going on behind the scenes with those cards, what kind of mathematics are they doing with each other, to where at the end, the printed value of three random cards added to 10 will infallibly give you the total number of cards in that discard pile?? My 🧠's no slouch, but it's not _that_ big 😆 Someone please explain LOL
Thanks for the tutorial. The math of this is neat. I must be missing something though. What is the surprise reveal to the spectator? Is it that you manually discarded enough cards to match the combined numeric value of 3 cards you already knew the value of? You suggest there is an opportunity for a prediction. But, you already knew the value of the bottom cards in each pile (on top, once turned face down), since they directly determined how many cards went on top of them. I mean, you can see the jack on the bottom of the last stack you turn face down. Those cards were not unknown (as you suggest they are). So, where is the prediction? Where is the trick? It seems the only way this trick completes itself in surprise is if you removed 10 cards before executing the trick. Then, the spectator surprise is the matching number of discards in your hand.
Cool trick
MLT Magic Tricks - Note from Paul A. Lelekis - This is a trick I created when I was just a teenager (I'm now in my 60s). I call it "The Trick That Can't Be Explained". It is NOT Vernon's trick "The Trick That Cannot Be Explained". I created this before I knew Vernon's trick - and Vernon's trick is complex and mine is self-working. I posted it in The Linking Ring magazine years ago (as well as a number of other magic journals) and it spawned so much interest that the Editor of The Linking Ring called me on the phone to tell me that all the rings around the world were "playing it". There were 5 more articles written on this principle in TLR, including exposés by a number of math Professors who were explaining it mathematically! I'm glad you enjoy it and I hope that you can let your viewers know who is the creator...it seems no one these days cares about credits. Thank you.
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Tysm
This one is really awesome
I love this trick
How do you explain to them why you randomly remove ten cards ?
Hey, so i have a problem with my cards for some reason the sides of the cards are getting dirty. I have a table, i put the cards in a case after i use it. Any way of cleaning them?
It could be that the oils in your hands are what's causing your cards to get dirty. No matter how clean your hands are there will always be some residual oils that get deposited on your cards. Cards that are worn also tend to appear to be dirty, but it's simply the layers of card stock beginning to separate. Honestly, there's nothing you can do except eventually replace the cards.
Don't put them in the case directly after using them let them rest for 30-45 mins +Always wash your hands and don't place them in hot places
As others said all.about keeping your hands clean, and also the table you use. Anything and everything can get on the cards. Such just be wary to wash your hands before you start practicing and maybe even clean the table!