Million Dollar Card Tricks

[Unalienable]

This is my list of the best card tricks in the world. If you know others that deserve to be up here, tell me!

Premonition (Eddie Joseph)

Spectator thinks of a card and names it. A deck is removed from the magicians pocket and they are counted on the table face up. 51 cards are counted, and the one card named is the one missing. The magician then cleanly reaches into his pocket and removes one card--the named card.

Named Card on Table (?)

Magician removes a card from his deck and tables it. Spectator thinks of a card and names it. The magician flips the tabled card over--you guessed it--it's the named card.

Brainwave (Dai Vernon)

A pack of playing cards is tabled. Spectator thinks of a card and names it. Magician spreads through the deck to show all of the backs of the cards, but one card is face up, the named card. The magician tells the spectator take the card and turn it over... it has a different color back as the rest of the deck.

Any card at any number (David Berglas)

A deck is tabled. Spectator thinks of a card and names it. Spectator (or a different spectator) names a number from 1 to 52. Deck is handed to the spectator and they are instructed to deal off that many cards. The last card they deal is flipped over--it's the card they named.

 

[Bob Klase]

I could probably list several hundred that deserve to be up there. Even with just your list there are dozens of variations of each one.

Perhaps if you wanted to put some limiting criteria the number would be lower (ie- impromptu with normal deck or using gaffed cards, using jumbo cards, etc). For a few:

Dai Vernon's Why Am I Here- great impromptu trick.

Sexteen Beme's Linking Cards- the centers are torn from two cards creating 2 square rings. The rings are linked together and the spectator is given the linked rings to keep.

Invisible Deck.

The Smiling Mule.

Steve Bedwell's Reboxed (based on a Paul Harris idea).

Michael Close's Frog Prince (I could list 10-15 tricks from Michael Close alone that should make the list including Dr Strangetrick, Coda Chrome and Birthday Book (based on Alex Elmsley's version).

I could also list quite a few tricsk by Juan Tamariz, Alex Elmsley, David Regal, Gary Kurtz, Derek Dingle, etc, etc.