Episode 156: Memorize a Card Deck in SECONDS! [Discussion]

[jackierulesall]

Learn how to fool even the toughest audience with this easy "memorization" trick.

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[killersquid]

how does he get the targets card between the two keys???

[collinmorrison98]

Learn how to fool even the toughest audience with this easy "memorization" trick.

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im confused how am i suspost to shuffle it so i dont have like 20 cards to rember i need help plz email me at collin.morrison98@yahoo.com

[greymatters]

Your two keys are the top card and the bottom card.

The selected card is placed on top of the deck, which puts it directly on top of your remembered top card.

You then cut the deck, which automatically places the selected card directly below the bottom card.

The next part (emphasized about 5 mins 20 seconds into the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9onL9oGxk#t=5m20s)) is to cut a little higher than where the card is, so that you don't accidentally split up the two keycards and the selected card.

Does that help?

[s1lentslayer]

When he cuts the deck in two parts, he grabs the top half of the deck with his left hand and then points down at it with his right hand so that it gets placed on the top of the deck between the key cards and not actually at the place where the person said stop.

[hellhound]

remembering the top and bottom card is the key when placing the card... and then doing a decent shuffle so not getting 4 or 5 cards between the keycards to complicate things.
Cant wait to try this out.

[lokified]

The movement when Brian does it seems so obscured that I had no idea he was sandwiching the cards. I tried this twice with a Hindu shuffle, but the first time ended up with my two key cards side-by-side and the other with my chosen card far outside the small window.

Thank god for the forums!

[happytinfoilcat]

Brian, you gotta name it.

The move of inserting the card should be explained as most people will think you just placed it where the mark said to 'stop'

[lokified]

Brian, you gotta name it.

The move of inserting the card should be explained as most people will think you just placed it where the mark said to 'stop'

We could call it The Trap! (ITS A TRAP) because you're trapping the card between two keycards.

[lokified]

Now that I've mastered the process, I can say that if your riffle shuffle isn't perfect, you can end up with 8-10 card between your keys and no way to back out of the trick. Which sucks.

[foreigninvestor]

Now that I've mastered the process, I can say that if your riffle shuffle isn't perfect, you can end up with 8-10 card between your keys and no way to back out of the trick. Which sucks.

I just tried this for the first time on my wife and almost S#!t myself when there were 5 cards between the key cards.

I sat there staring at the cards in terror and thinking "oh s#!t, I screwed this up. I should just start over". Then I thought WWBBD? What would Brian Brushwood do?

So I started into the shtick about memorizing the whole deck and did the spirit fingers on one end of the deck while I feverishly started trying to memorize the 5 bogeys. After about 10 seconds I thought "ok lets do this" and handed her the deck to move her card. While repeating the 5 cards in my head, I could only remember 4. I'm thinking, I hope it's one of these 4 or I'm still screwed.

As it turns out, it was, and I pulled it off looking like a champ.



Thanks Brian for getting me hooked on card tricks with the gateway trick. I'm out 5 nights a week trying to score the harder stuff now. In a year I will probably be homeless with a sawing chicks in half habit.

[hellhound]

I just tried this for the first time on my wife and almost S#!t myself when there were 5 cards between the key cards..

was a competant person shuffling? 5 cards seems extreme.. but I guess even w/ 5 cards there could be a rhyme U could use to remember ... like... 5 Clubs beat the Queen of Hearts until 2 Spades showed up to give 4 diamonds...
DOH! that could sound bad... but could work as a memory device

not quite a rhyme ... but there is term for using a phrase for remembering things.. but I forgot it... LOL

[lokified]

was a competant person shuffling? 5 cards seems extreme.. but I guess even w/ 5 cards there could be a rhyme U could use to remember ... like... 5 Clubs beat the Queen of Hearts until 2 Spades showed up to give 4 diamonds...
DOH! that could sound bad... but could work as a memory device

not quite a rhyme ... but there is term for using a phrase for remembering things.. but I forgot it... LOL

All it takes is for you to cut the deck evenly, then panic when you go to do your riffle shuffle, and use two wildly uneven piles. I've ended up with 8-10 between by accident.

[bigboss97]

I just tried this for the first time on my wife and almost S#!t myself when there were 5 cards between the key cards.

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repeating the 5 cards in my head, I could only remember 4. I'm thinking, I hope it's one of these 4 or I'm still screwed.

I haven't tried it yet. But it seems it's harder than it looks like. I'm sure I would be screwed in such situation. Whenever I saw a shop closed down in the street, the shop I thought being closed is always still standing :-)
Maybe I should just false the shuffle by cutting the deck.

[lokified]

Further complications: even if there's only two cards, make sure you remember the order they're in. If your mark moves his card by only one spot, you're left looking at the same two cards.

[bigboss97]

Further complications: even if there's only two cards, make sure you remember the order they're in. If your mark moves his card by only one spot, you're left looking at the same two cards.
Since the trick is about memorizing the deck we can say "this card has been moved..." instead of "this is your card...". In that case even pointing to the wrong card, it's still not wrong because the cards have swapped positions :-)

[bigboss97]

Since the trick is about memorizing the deck we can say "this card has been moved..." instead of "this is your card...". In that case even pointing to the wrong card, it's still not wrong because the cards have swapped positions :-)

I tried the trick for the first time (with my wife) yesterday and this is exactly what happened hahaha...
After a riffle shuffle, two cards were in between. She swapped thier positions. When I said that these 2 cards have been moved. She still got the feeling that I found her card and I did memorized the deck :-)