How Do You Do The Four Aces Illusion?
King Charles VI commissioned special playing cards that he referred to in his diaries and thus began the tradition of kings and queens depicted on them. It’s noted that gamblers were using card tricks to improve their chances of winning. However, Leonardo da Vinci makes honorable mention of an Italian card magician as early as the fifteenth century. Begin with an ordinary deck of 52 cards. Take out the four aces and put them on top of the deck. Shuffle the cards so that the four aces remain on top. Hand the deck to the spectator and ask him to cut the cards into two piles. Watch carefully where the deck is cut and which of the two piles has the four aces on top. Cut each of the two piles in half again, leaving four piles. Make sure they volunteer to start at opposite ends of where the aces are located. Keep track of the aces. Tell the person to pick up the pile, take three cards from the top of that pile and move them to the bottom of the pile. Ask him to then deal one card from that p
