The Humbling Three Inseparable Jacks

This is a fantastic up close card trick that requires about two minutes of preparation. After that it works itself, so much that you can even have a volunteer do all the work. By the time you finish reading this, you’ll know exactly how to do this trick so you can go out and practice on your friends. And if you can tell a good story along with this trick, so much the better.

Here’s how the trick will look to your contacts. You start out with three Jacks spread out across a table. You make up some elongated fable about how they are best associates, and always find each other. Then exaggerate about how they were somehow separated. Put one Jack on top of deck, one anywhere in the middle, and one on the bottom. Remember to give details that Jacks of magical powers of reunion.

Then ask your helper to cut the deck once. After they cut the deck, tell some more stories about how the Jacks continuously find each other no matter what happens. Then turn the deck over, and spread out the cards. Somewhere in the middle, the three Jacks will be together once again, amazing the crowd.

Here’s the secret. Before you begin, make sure to leave one Jack on top of the deck. That way, when you put one Jack on top, they’ll in reality be two Jacks on top of the deck. And when you put one Jack on the bottom, and your volunteer cuts the deck, they’ll inevitably be putting one Jack on top of two, so they will always be someplace in the deck.

Make sure when you do this to keep the focus on your tale, and use wide hand gestures and so on. Since the Jacks they find in the middle of the deck won’t be the same Jacks that were laid at the opening of the trick. But if you only lay them out long enough to show everyone that there are certainly three Jacks, and persist with your tale for a couple of minutes after you place them in the deck, they will most likely quickly not remember the accurate suits.

Of course, with some clever hand maneuvers you can do this trick again, but you run the risk of being detected, as they’ll be watching your hands much more directly. I’ve only been able to do this two or three times in a row before my spectators figured out what was going on. Nevertheless, this is a great trick to do if you’ve got a couple supplementary tricks up your sleeve, so to speak. Have fun.

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