Jack-Ro-Batics

1. Place all four Jacks on the bottom of a face up pack of cards.

2. Show your spectator the cards and announce "I'm going to show you some fancy acrobatics with four Jacks".

3. Remove the four Jacks from the bottom of the deck. While you do this take an extra card with them, making sure the spectator doesn't see.

4. Square them all neatly together and put the remainder of the deck face down on the table.

5. Hold the five cards in your right hand and using the left thumb pull the first jack into your palm. Pull the second and third jacks onto the top of the first jack in the same way, and then pull the last jack that had the hidden card under it on top of the other cards. You should practise this so that it looks as if you only have four cards. Talk as you show the jacks (something like "these are the four circus jacks who came from europe a short while ago to enterain us this aftenoon")

6. Turn the five cards face down and set them on top of the deck on the table.

7. Now deal the top four cards out face down in a row on the table from left to right. Three of the cards will be jacks, but the card on the right end is in fact the hidden card, and not a jack. The last jack really remains on top of the deck.

8. Drop the entire deck onto the first card to your left. Place your index finger in the center of the deck and riffle the cards upwards. Use the thumb and middle finger to snap double lift the top card. As you lift it from the deck show that it is a jack and drop it on the table.

9. Pick up the second jack and place it on top of the deck ("this next jack will perform the invisible diving routine passing through the deck and landing on the bottom without a net")

10. Riffle the cards as before and then turn the entire pack face up and show the jack. Put the jack on the table next to the other one.

11. ("Jack number three will do a double-somersault and turn over"). Place the third jack face down into the face up pile.

Déplacement de carte

1. Fan the deck out with the cards face down.

2. Ask a spectator to choose a card and to look at it.

3. As he's looking at his card, you close up the fan and cut the deck in two, holding the lower part in your left hand, and the upper in the right one.

4. Ask the spectator to put his card on the lower part, in your left hand.

5. As the right hand comes to drop the upper part over the other one in the left hand, secure a small, invisible break between the two parts of the deck, above the chosen card.

6. Now, you ask the spectator for the name of a different card (not the one he took). Let's call this card 2. As you do that, make a move to bring the chosen card to the top of the deck. This can be done in two ways:
-First way: You can simulate that you are randomly cutting the deck. Cut it into 3 parts, the first one being the part of the deck below the chosen card (card 1), and the other two being the remainder of the deck. Now you can arrange the three parts, in order to have the chosen card at the top. If done properly, it's very efficient.
-Second way: Harder, but more impressive: You can do what is called in french "un Saut de Coupe". It is an invisible move where you make the bottom part go over the other one. It's quite hard to do, but many tricks are based on it. An explanation of a "Saut de coupe" called the "saut de coupe Charlier" can be found in the skills page. It should be done with your left hand, hiding it with the right one.

7. Now, you've got the chosen card at the top of the deck, faces toward the ground.

8. Turn the deck faces upward, and scroll the cards one after the other until you see the card 2.

9. While you're doing that, slide your lower card (the taken one) under the cards that you've already scrolled. When you see the card 2, remove the cards that seem to be under the card 2 ( but that are in fact between the card 2 and the taken one), putting them to one side. Make a deck with the remaining cards. The last card is the chosen one, just after the card two. So now you can do a double lift, taking these two cards as if there was only one, the card 2. With a great smile, you make the chosen one appear!