The King is Gone



You will need: Ordinary deck of cards Three double-face cards with kings on one side

Effect: Four piles of three are shown and a king is put in the middle of each pile. Three of the kings disappear and then, all the kings appear in one pile.

Tutorial:
 * 1) Before you begin your trick, put the double face card with the king of hearts on one side at the bottom with the random card faced up. Put the double face card with the black kings above the king of hearts. Make sure that all three double face cards are at the bottom. Make sure the king of diamonds is on the top (looking at it from the bottom) when you first show the four normal kings.
 * 2) Show the spectator/audience the four normal kings, and count out 12 cards from the bottom and secretly put a pinky break below the three double face cards.
 * 3) Put the four normal kings facedown on the three double face cards.
 * 4) Turn over all the cards above the break and set down the top three cards, which are actually the double face cards.
 * 5) When you deal down the king of diamonds, turn over your hand before you set it down because you don't want them to see the king behind the king of diamonds.
 * 6) You now have 12 cards left, so deal down three facedown cards on each king and since the three normal kings are at the bottom of the pack, put them on the king of diamonds or in other words, deal down three cards on the king of diamonds last.
 * 7) Make sure all the piles are squared up really well and turn over each pile one by one to reveal that each king is gone. You have to turn over the pile with the king of diamonds last to reveal that all the kings traveled to one pile.