Wild Card



You will need:

Five four of hearts

Four double-face cards with four of hearts and ace of spades

Effect:

Eight ace of spades are shown, and one by one, they become four of hearts.

Tutorial:


 * 1) Before you begin your trick, put the cards in the order (from bottom to top): ace, four, ace, four, ace, four, ace, four, four.
 * 2) Show the ace at the bottom, then turn over your hand
 * 3) Perform a glide (a glide is sliding back the bottom card with your pinky and taking out the card behind the one you just moved in a way that looks like you're taking out the card at the bottom) and set down the four on a table.
 * 4) Straighten the cards and show the ace again. The spectator/audience will believe that that ace is behind the ace you just showed, but it's actually the same one. Put down that ace and behind it will be another ace.
 * 5) Repeat steps 2-4 three times until the spectator/audience sees the last four.
 * 6) Say that that four is a "wild card" and take another four.
 * 7) Put the "wild card" face to face with the four and peel the cards apart and this will look like you turned one ace into a four.
 * 8) Get a pinky break between the two four's.
 * 9) Pick up an ace and put it above the break.
 * 10) Flip over both cards above your break and make it look like you're only flipping over one. This is called a "double-lift."
 * 11) Spread through the cards and turn over the facedown card. It now looks as if you turned another ace into a four.
 * 12) Take a four and put it in the third position from the top. Turn over the pack, rotate the cards 90 degrees, turn the cards over again, and turn over the four and it will look like you turned another ace into a four.
 * 13) Get a pinky break below the four at the top (looking at it with the cards faced up).
 * 14) Repeat steps 9-12.
 * 15) Get a break between all the cards except the one at the bottom (looking at it with the cards faced up).
 * 16) Put the remaining three cards at the top (looking at it with the cards faced up). Turn over all the cards above the break in a way that looks like you're only turning over three cards.
 * 17) Spread out the cards and turn over the facedown cards. Set down the remaining ace.
 * 18) Repeat step 13.
 * 19) Repeat steps 9-11.
 * 20) Perform a false show by taking off the top card and turning that over, then turning the entire pack over. Drop the card you're holding and put down the next double-face card. Repeat this until you get to the last card.