The overhand shuffle is one of the easiest and most common ways to shuffle a deck of cards. It’s an excellent shuffle for magicians, because laymen are already familiar with it and it allows you to do some excellent controls and false shuffles while shuffling the deck this way. Ariel Frailich explains the techniques used, various applications (controls, stock shuffles, false total shuffles, etc.), as well as several tricks in this video, which is divided into five episodes. To buy an ordinary deck of cards  click here.  

A card is chosen and lost. The magician takes 10 cards from the deck; by “chance,” the chosen card is among those 10 cards. But when he shows them again, there are only 9 left, the chosen card has disappeared from the deck... and is found face up among the rest of the deck, which is face down. Everything is handed out for examination at the end. To buy: - a regular deck of cards  click here. - a double face single card click here.  

Some pairs of cards, determined under extreme laboratory conditions, and five coins, which were used to determine these pairs of cards completely at random, will match in a completely incomprehensible way! An incredible coincidence... or a real miracle? To buy an ordinary deck of cards  click here.   

Two coins magically jump from the left hand into the right hand, owing to the famous Han Ping Chien Move ( explained in details). To buy:  some half-dollar coins click here. one chinese coin click here.  

Any four cards are transformed one by one into the four Aces, which can be checked! Success guaranteed! To buy some regular single cards click here.  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st, 1988. These exceptional archives allow you to discover Dominique Duvivier and the Double Fond Team in some of their shows at the Double Fond in 1988 and 1989. These extracts have been divided into 7 parts. Not to be missed under any circumstances!  

The magician shows 6 coins. He takes 3 in each hand. The coins mysteriously travel from one hand to the other: they disappear in one and gather together in the other. Optionally, we explain the Han Ping Chien technique.  To buy some Eisenhower dollars click here.   

A copper coin magically changes place with a silver coin... in the spectator's fist! The Copper/silver classic with regular coins (with explanation of L'homme Masqué Load and the Bobo Switch). To buy:  some half-dollar coins click here. one Chinese coin click here.  

A four coins across effect (coins magically travel from one hand to the other). To buy some half-dollar coins click here.  

You borrow a ring and a shoelace, the most ordinary. You announce that you will be able to put the ring on the lace, without the ends leaving the viewer's sight... A scarf is placed over the middle of the lace and the ring. The magician goes under the scarf, without the ends moving. And unbelievable: the ring is tied on the shoelace! You MUST try this clever trick.  

In the magician's arsenal, it is very practical to be able to "force" a spectator to take the card you want. Here is one possibility!  

Two thieves share a loot of seven ordinary coins. But the sharing won't be fair, because one bandit is more of a thief than the other! A nice little story to tell, while bluffing your spectators!  

A selected card is lost in the deck and then found in completely impossible conditions! The spectator randomly takes a group of cards from the middle of a deck of cards. He secretly counts the number of cards selected (for example, five) and then places them on top of the deck, while looking at the fifth card. To lose the magician completely, he shuffles everything again. Yet the magician manages to find the card that the spectator has secretly looked at! An incredible method. See for yourself!  

Something to have at your fingertips! This technique of Arturo Di Ascanio is an indispensable part of the magician's knowledge. Here is the principle: you show four red cards and, when you want, you can make a black card appear!  

You take out a black 7 and a black 9 and clearly lose them in the middle of the deck. Then with a simple magic gesture you find them in a flash.  

The magician takes out nine cards: three jacks, three queens and three kings and alternates them, jack, queen and king. They are put back on the deck. With a wave of the magic wand, the couples are instantly separate: all the jacks are reunited, all the queens and all the kings. It's amazing!