I'm a Care Worker for very poorly people in the community. I've never done magic, so learning your self working magic tricks has been great, and the reactions I have had from those I support has been AMAZING! Thank you so much from myself, and those I have performed these to x x x
I used to work in a magic shop about 30 years ago and learned all the standard sleights and associated tricks. Over time I’ve found that I don’t really enjoy watching routines with sleights because once you know what to look for, it really spoils the effect. Lately I’ve been on a tear learning amazing ‘no sleight’ effects like this and it’s really been fun!
@@zamfearmagic Great sleight of hand is fine. I’m talking about clunky double lifts, palming, lame ways to count or display cards ala’ Elmsley or add on moves…that kind of thing.
I'm in my 80s and came across card magic by chance and got hooked!! I prefer selfworking tricks as my manual dexterity is too poor for many of the sleight of hand tricks. I already perform a different version of this trick.
I love this effect. I do a slightly different variation, but it always has a great impact. If you want to add even more amazingness, have four different people choose and sign a card, then proceed with the effect using their cards instead of the queens. It of course ends with only their four cards face up. Mind blowing.
I’m an amateur magic nut. Love these self working tricks and have just tried this one. The final stage I thought ‘no way is this going to work’… but it did! Amazing!!
Here’s why it works: The easiest way to understand it is to imagine that you begin with 20 face down cards in a pile (ie none of the cards is reversed). Now proceed with the mixing: Step 1: Count off 10 cards into a pile. Step 2: Shuffle both piles. Step 3: Turn either pile face up. Step 4: Alternate the cards into one pile. Step 5: Cut the pile as much as you like. Situation currently is that the cards lie in pairs - EITHER a) with every pair face to face, OR b) with every pair back to back. Step 6: Take pairs of cards one at a time from the top of the pile and place them down, either as they are or by first flipping them over. This has no resulting effect, as each pair remains as it was (ie all pairs face to face or all pairs back to back). Step 7: Deal four hands of cards. Piles A and C will both face the same way. Piles B and D will both face the same way (but opposite to A and B). Step 8: Put piles A and C together to make pile X. Step 9: Put piles B and D together to make pile Y. Situation is that all cards in pile X face one way, and all cards in pile Y face the opposite way. Step 10: Turn over either pile X or pile Y, then put the piles together. Situation is that all the cards now face the same way - ie we’re back where we started. So… if we’re back where we started, then we can change our starting position to anything we like, and at the end that’s where we’ll be. In this case, Matt starts with four face up queens, so at the end that is where he ends up - with four face up queens. It’s a difficult-to-track procedure for forcing any number of cards from a packet of cards. Quite useful.
seven years ago, my wife arranged for a Fathers day gift from my sone of a seven week (one night per week) magic class, Best pressie ever !!! The teacher was a part time professional magician, classes were scheduled for 7pm-9:30pm. We would start with a 20 minute "show" where the teacher woud show the tricks we would learn that night. Rarely would we finish before midnight, having the best time you could imagine. The spark waslit and I have been practicing mostly playing card tricks since. lots of laughs and jokes when with friends and family. Your RUclips videos are perfect for me to learn more tricks and to have a record to refresh my memory when I forget some of the nuances ofncertain tricks. Thanks a mill, please keep the videos coming
This an intense beginners trick, but if you're intimidated, write down all the steps. Yes, when I wrote them down I believe it was 13 steps. But do it over and over and over until you remember the routine. I blew my own mind the first two times I executed it, because I dont underatand how it works. I'm good with "math tricks" but this breaks my brain. Thank you Matt for breaking this down for us plebs.
I watched it to the end, then got out a deck of cards and it worked first time. Pretty good considering I did it with miniature cards from a Christmas cracker. I dropped two cards on the floor and picked them up after a shuffle, guessing which way they faced, so I got lucky there. Did it again with no errors and it worked again. Great trick. I'm seeing my grandchildren on the 21st and using their terminology, this will "fry their brains".
I'm always looking for new effects to add my routine, this will definitely be added. I would also love to learn your "flash of the queen" move, definite attention grabber! Thank you for sharing this.
I started doing card tricks at parties in the 1970's, and I've seen variations of this one recently, but this is, hands down (pun intended), the most elegant version. Thanks again Matt.
Great effect Matt! Definitely going into my set. I have a set that is purely self-workers, strung together so they flow one into the other, and spectators love it. Thanks for sharing this!
Fabulous trick and just started since a shoulder op 6 weeks ago and have been totally learning your card tricks and getting better and better. Keep up the tuition it's great
Hi Matt. Just starting off in close up magic and cards seem to work best. I work as a school chaplain and just found it is a lot easier to have a deck of cards on hand than to carry a heap of props and gimmicks. I use the tricks to introduce myself to new students and they are great icebreakers for me to get to talking to them. Now I'm always being asked to "do a trick" with the cards so I am increasing my repertoire. Your channel I enjoy, especially the tricks where there is zero setup and/or the spectator does the working without me touching the cards. Keep up the great work.
NICE. Over the last two days I've bookmarked five of your videos, including this one and now I need to get down to practicing so I can remember them. Thanks for the great channel.
Awesome I absolutely loved it I did while following your tutorial. I'm very new to magic, I'm a disabled Veteran and needed a hobby so I chose magic. Thank you for showing new tricks. Your a great magician and teacher.
Hey Matt, Love the channel and thanks for performing and explaining so many strong and awesome self working card magic. I'm learning as many as possible to perform at my marina this summer in the USA. Keep uploading your content.
An incredible trick! Thank you. I am housebound and have started to learn your tricks for my new hobby. Complete beginner. I performed this trick on my husband who was absolutely amazed!! 😮 I was amazed too !
Matt that's crazy .. i love your stuff . Im an old stage wizard from the 15th century. Im too old for jumping out of substitution trunks and girl from light illusions - so slowing down to card magic just to amaze myself nowadays. I've also worked at 3 different magic shops in the states . But i gotta say, the kiss principle when it comes to magic is the way to go . Any newbie out there just needs to learn that simplicity will amaze people more than any abracadabra story ❤️ 🎩
Thanks Matt! I have been looking at card magic for just over 2 weeks now and your channel was recommended. I have subscribed and liked. Looking forward to seeing more of your tricks 💚🏴👍
This is astonishing. I've gone through it three times now--it worked fine each time--and I still can't get my head around 'how'. Love the channel--I'm learning card magic for my own enjoyment and that of friends and family! Plus, I've finally learned how to riffle-shuffle after six decades on the planet :)
The trick you did here is based on a very old principle by Bob Hummer. He published it as Face Up Face Down Mysteries in the 40s. It uses a binary system that allows you to mix cards either face up or face down cards resulting in various outcomes, essentially restoring the original order or splitting the result evenly. Mr Koenigs Tapestry also known as Mr. Kings Tapestry, uses a layout of 16 cards whose rows or columns chosen by the spectator, are flipped until one stack is created. John Bannon also uses this principle in a trick called Origami Poker which uses 12 cards laid out in a square. Just as an aside, the part of the trick where you ask the spectator to either flip 2 cards or place them down can also be 4 cards, just as long as it's an even number. I use this type of binary system in another trick by asking if they want to do 4 or 2, flip or not, which I believe is a bit stronger. If you can get a hold of Face Up Face Down Mysteries, you could do this trick and then segue into (just about) any Bob Hummer routine. I believe the Richard Vollmer routine was published in Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 3) as Mr. Kings Tapestry using the 4 by 4 grid. I've been performing magic since I was 12, and I'm well into my sixties. Love this by the way.
I'm just starting out with learning a few card tricks and this one is going to be a regular for me. Thanks for posting the excellent video. Great style!
Thanks, Matt. I try to keep a small number of routines like this on hand. When class time permits, I slip in a card trick or two. The kids always enjoy it.
Thank.u, I have a great one too. I've never seen anyone do my trick but I want to see if you or anyone knows about it too, also I love the rule of 21 or 3 etc tricks the math ones that always work are fun too
I loved this. An amazing trick. I'm a total beginner. I've only ever done one card trick before and I've been repeating it for years. I thought is was time for something new and this trick seems like the place to start. Thanks, Matt.
Hi. Thanks for this, the trick looks great (I'll be trying it out later). I'm 59 yo and just took up 'card tricks' a couple of months ago. It was literally a case of buying a deck for the first time ever and then try to learn how to handle cards (i never played card games) and learn a few tricks from RUclips. It's challenging... and fun. Very happy to have found your channel. Thank you
Yes, please do teach that production of the four queens. I do have Harry Lorayne's 4 volume Apocalypse. I missed that in there too. But there is so much to discover in those books.
Wonderful stuff, man. I'm just a beginner and really appreciate how you make everything so fun. As you say, that's what it's all about! Keep crushing it.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? I've been performing magic of all types for close to 30 years now (I'm 74, started performing a bit late, but have always enjoyed magic) and I love this trick. I especially like the production of the four queens at the start. It's a beautiful and very visual flourish. I'll definitely check out 'Mr. Koenigs Tapestry' as well. "Thanks, and Have a Magical Day!" P.S. I just subscribed to your channel👍😀
Hi Matt :) thanks for sharing this Beautiful magic trick. Sure we love this queen production, will you make a tutorial please ? Kind regards from France :)
I started doing magic years ago the life got in the way took it up again in lock down and haven't looked back since I just love close up magic I am in my very early 70s am into old to do carry on doing thanks for all the card tricks and keep up the fantastic work
Iam new to magic and yes i did fool myself could you please please teach the 4 queen production it really makes the trick together with the brilliant reval at the end thanks john😊
New subscriber..... love it! These bagger self working tricks are great when you need a break from "thinking/focusing" and need some audience interactive time!... Thanks for this
Matt... I just came across some of your videos and they are pretty good! Might I suggest that you give the name of the effect and who originated it? This would help lock it into memory AND point your viewers to other good stuff that can be sought out.
Great suggestion! I always do when I have the source. Some of these I’ve been performing for years and I’ve actually forgotten where they learnt them. Thanks for the feedback my friend.
I like this one. A variation to this trick is with 5 black suits and 5 red suits. Using the same principle that each card originally flipped with its partners (same suit) will always end up together. In the end, the black suits will be faced in the opposite direction of the reds!
@@MattMcGurk The first time I was introduced to this was from a video by VSauce some years back; he was explaining the "magic of math". It's the only card trick video he's done, so it's easy to find. (Specific trick at 10:01) ruclips.net/video/ObiqJzfyACM/видео.htmlsi=8gfeGTmhJGkCBc4z
Really nice effect. I'm thinking the Gilbreath principle is involved, though I don't know its intricacies well enough to be certain. I have Lorayne's Apocalypse series, so I'll have to do some exploring and find it there. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm newly retired and looking to have fun and learn new things. This is going to be great with the Grandchildren and and those at the club I go to. Thanks
I started doing card tricks a few years ago, when I started learning magic to perform to my grandchildren after restrictions were lifted. I came across you on line only a couple of months ago, & love your no set-up card tricks. You are brilliant! Thank you!
Matt! Just retired and decided I needed a way to entertain 3 grandsons...I watched a few of your other card trick videos and nailed them...today I watched this one (4 Queens) and am still shaking my head...it worked the first time I tried it. Amazing....by the way...Happy Cruisin'
Love u lol so i tried 1 time and messed up and i realized its how you start dealing them. When you deal them you half ti start on thour left i started on myself and it seems not to work but second time i got it lol thank you.....messed up 3rd time got it on the 4th lol u have to remember to flip cards lol
You probably already know this, but you can add 32 cards from the pack to the queens and the effect still works. Just my opinion, but the more cards you're 'mixing up' during the routine then the more impressive the outcome looks. 😀
Absolutely amazing. Love card magic but am not dexterous enough. This is not even a setup. I’ll be using it with the guys next card night. Couldn’t believe it myself.
Bought a deck just to try to learn this trick! So far I’ve been able to get it at least twice in a row and then it gets messed up 😮 I don’t understand where I’m going wrong…maybe the sequence? A few times when I tried it with your video it didn’t turn out right but then other times following you it did. I think I’m also sometimes getting confused which way to flip at the end.
WTF??? I did this EXACTLY how you did 7 times now and every time I end up with 4 aces showing???? What am I missing? Does this happen to anyone else? What am I doing wrong? And yes, I'm definitely starting with the 4 queen's. Please help, I just want this to work so I can show my family!
It’s hard for me to tell you where you’re going wrong without seeing you do it. There will be one part of this that you are doing differently. Sometimes it’s best to take a break from it, forget learning it and come back to it with a completely blank state. Then relearn it step by step. Though the fact that you’re producing the four aces instead is pretty cool! 👌🏻
Wow, it seems absolutely impossible. But that's what great magic's about, right? I would love to learn that beautiful magical production of the 4 queens!
Thanks for that really nice bit of card magic, just going to ponder how i can use this with another trick with 4 kings as well, a double kicker is always nice. great presentation keep up the good work. subscribed!
Hey Matt i seen many videos and this is like the triumph almost wow I do card tricks as well I did this awesome trick but with aces and made a story of how 4 aces are a great hand in card games etc. It's so easy blew thr minds I love these kind of self working tricks.
Stick with it! Maybe this will help Easy In the Hands Riffle Shuffle Tutorial for Beginners with Bridge Ending. ruclips.net/video/nbTbRY3YE-U/видео.html
@@MattMcGurk - found this video again after you paired it with another video (Choose 3 of a pair), and did it 2x on myself. Gonna do this tonight to my wife and daughter!! Super trick!!
I just tried this routine with the entire deck of cards. It works too. Is it better to do this with the whole deck? 🤷🏻♂️ It’s a miracle when the four queens are the only cards that appear face up in a pile of twenty cards. Maybe it’s stronger when the four queens are the only face up cards in the entire deck. I think so. A bit more work, but worth it.
It’s strong either way. Personally I feel like the pacing of the trick is better with fewer cards. It entirely subjective. If you like it better with a full deck, go for it! And great job in working it out! Love that 👍
OMG hi, I just watched your video and tried the trick, guess what it worked, I thought it wouldn't lol, just don't ask me to explain, I am a beginner and this is definitely the best magic tricks ever, you're the best man, thank you so much for this video, funny I'm right around the corner from you tonight I'm in fort Lauderdale, enjoy Miami wild city,but be careful
I tried this and it seemed to not have quite the impact cos we start and end in the same place. What’s a good story to spin around this that will make this more entertaining?
Presentation wise you could go in many different directions. I’m actually planning to do a video around how to build a good presentation for magic. Up for that?
Before you start the trick, ask onlookers something along the lines of 'Please put your phones and cover or remove your watches as they interfere with magic. Thank you' and make sure the only timepiece visible is a clock in full view, which you put back five minutes before you start the trick. Nobody will notice. Before the final reveal how about' 'Some of you are not following this are you? Luckily I can time travel. Let's go back 5 minutes and start again.' Now expose the deck, and ask them what the time is on their phones. 'I told you they interfere with magic, look at the time on the clock.' Not that sophisticated but grandkids will fall for it, as well as a few adults.
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I'm a Care Worker for very poorly people in the community. I've never done magic, so learning your self working magic tricks has been great, and the reactions I have had from those I support has been AMAZING!
Thank you so much from myself, and those I have performed these to x x x
This means everything. Thank you for using magic in such a beautiful way.
I used to work in a magic shop about 30 years ago and learned all the standard sleights and associated tricks. Over time I’ve found that I don’t really enjoy watching routines with sleights because once you know what to look for, it really spoils the effect. Lately I’ve been on a tear learning amazing ‘no sleight’ effects like this and it’s really been fun!
100% agree with you, sir. All of the tricks I do are self working, I much prefer them!
Even better are self working tricks that seem impossible even after you know how they're done. Like this one.
Reveal secrets to the entire nation. How must I survive now as a magician
I totally disagree. Tricks done with good stealth sleights are miracles. Tricks with piles and procedures are puzzles.
@@zamfearmagic Great sleight of hand is fine. I’m talking about clunky double lifts, palming, lame ways to count or display cards ala’ Elmsley or add on moves…that kind of thing.
I'm in my 80s and came across card magic by chance and got hooked!! I prefer selfworking tricks as my manual dexterity is too poor for many of the sleight of hand tricks. I already perform a different version of this trick.
.... But this one is better
More power to you man! That’s awesome!
Nice
I love this effect. I do a slightly different variation, but it always has a great impact. If you want to add even more amazingness, have four different people choose and sign a card, then proceed with the effect using their cards instead of the queens. It of course ends with only their four cards face up. Mind blowing.
Nice! 👌🏻 💥
I’m an amateur magic nut. Love these self working tricks and have just tried this one. The final stage I thought ‘no way is this going to work’… but it did! Amazing!!
Fantastic!
Here’s why it works:
The easiest way to understand it is to imagine that you begin with 20 face down cards in a pile (ie none of the cards is reversed). Now proceed with the mixing:
Step 1: Count off 10 cards into a pile.
Step 2: Shuffle both piles.
Step 3: Turn either pile face up.
Step 4: Alternate the cards into one pile.
Step 5: Cut the pile as much as you like.
Situation currently is that the cards lie in pairs - EITHER a) with every pair face to face, OR b) with every pair back to back.
Step 6: Take pairs of cards one at a time from the top of the pile and place them down, either as they are or by first flipping them over. This has no resulting effect, as each pair remains as it was (ie all pairs face to face or all pairs back to back).
Step 7: Deal four hands of cards. Piles A and C will both face the same way. Piles B and D will both face the same way (but opposite to A and B).
Step 8: Put piles A and C together to make pile X.
Step 9: Put piles B and D together to make pile Y.
Situation is that all cards in pile X face one way, and all cards in pile Y face the opposite way.
Step 10: Turn over either pile X or pile Y, then put the piles together.
Situation is that all the cards now face the same way - ie we’re back where we started.
So… if we’re back where we started, then we can change our starting position to anything we like, and at the end that’s where we’ll be.
In this case, Matt starts with four face up queens, so at the end that is where he ends up - with four face up queens.
It’s a difficult-to-track procedure for forcing any number of cards from a packet of cards. Quite useful.
Thanks for such a detailed explanation!
Brilliant explanation!
@MattMcGurk could he go over that one more time , I didn't catch the first part, lol 😆 😅
seven years ago, my wife arranged for a Fathers day gift from my sone of a seven week (one night per week) magic class, Best pressie ever !!!
The teacher was a part time professional magician, classes were scheduled for 7pm-9:30pm. We would start with a 20 minute "show" where the teacher woud show the tricks we would learn that night.
Rarely would we finish before midnight, having the best time you could imagine.
The spark waslit and I have been practicing mostly playing card tricks since.
lots of laughs and jokes when with friends and family.
Your RUclips videos are perfect for me to learn more tricks and to have a record to refresh my memory when I forget some of the nuances ofncertain tricks.
Thanks a mill, please keep the videos coming
Thanks Tony! Welcome to the channel! Lots more to come 👍
I only started three months ago,the smiles I get of people when I show them a trick makes it so worthwhile.👍
Absolutely Robert! Keep up the good work
This an intense beginners trick, but if you're intimidated, write down all the steps. Yes, when I wrote them down I believe it was 13 steps. But do it over and over and over until you remember the routine. I blew my own mind the first two times I executed it, because I dont underatand how it works. I'm good with "math tricks" but this breaks my brain. Thank you Matt for breaking this down for us plebs.
Nah don’t be silly. No plebs at all. Just requires a little bit of practice. Well worth it though
Glad you got it!
I watched it to the end, then got out a deck of cards and it worked first time. Pretty good considering I did it with miniature cards from a Christmas cracker. I dropped two cards on the floor and picked them up after a shuffle, guessing which way they faced, so I got lucky there. Did it again with no errors and it worked again. Great trick. I'm seeing my grandchildren on the 21st and using their terminology, this will "fry their brains".
That's awesome!
I'm always looking for new effects to add my routine, this will definitely be added. I would also love to learn your "flash of the queen" move, definite attention grabber! Thank you for sharing this.
I started doing card tricks at parties in the 1970's, and I've seen variations of this one recently, but this is, hands down (pun intended), the most elegant version. Thanks again Matt.
Wow, thanks! Yes this one is one of my faves!
Great effect Matt! Definitely going into my set. I have a set that is purely self-workers, strung together so they flow one into the other, and spectators love it. Thanks for sharing this!
Right on!
Fabulous trick and just started since a shoulder op 6 weeks ago and have been totally learning your card tricks and getting better and better. Keep up the tuition it's great
Thanks man, that’s awesome. Glad it’s helping the healing process. Keep going 💪
Hi Matt.
Just starting off in close up magic and cards seem to work best. I work as a school chaplain and just found it is a lot easier to have a deck of cards on hand than to carry a heap of props and gimmicks. I use the tricks to introduce myself to new students and they are great icebreakers for me to get to talking to them. Now I'm always being asked to "do a trick" with the cards so I am increasing my repertoire. Your channel I enjoy, especially the tricks where there is zero setup and/or the spectator does the working without me touching the cards. Keep up the great work.
nice trick. thanks you. Just getting into magic for fun and for doing for family and friends. I love leaning card tricks cause everyone has cards
Have fun!
NICE. Over the last two days I've bookmarked five of your videos, including this one and now I need to get down to practicing so I can remember them. Thanks for the great channel.
You have a whole show there! Go for it!
Awesome I absolutely loved it I did while following your tutorial. I'm very new to magic, I'm a disabled Veteran and needed a hobby so I chose magic. Thank you for showing new tricks. Your a great magician and teacher.
Thank you man, and thank you for your service!
Hey Matt,
Love the channel and thanks for performing and explaining so many strong and awesome self working card magic.
I'm learning as many as possible to perform at my marina this summer in the USA.
Keep uploading your content.
This is Awesome, I have a trip planned next week, so I'm trying brush up on all your card tricks, thanks for all the video tutorials.
Have fun!
An incredible trick! Thank you. I am
housebound and have started to learn your tricks for my new hobby. Complete beginner. I performed this trick on my husband who was absolutely amazed!! 😮 I was amazed too !
You did great! There’s plenty here on the channel to fool him with too 😂
Matt that's crazy .. i love your stuff . Im an old stage wizard from the 15th century. Im too old for jumping out of substitution trunks and girl from light illusions - so slowing down to card magic just to amaze myself nowadays. I've also worked at 3 different magic shops in the states . But i gotta say, the kiss principle when it comes to magic is the way to go . Any newbie out there just needs to learn that simplicity will amaze people more than any abracadabra story ❤️ 🎩
Awesome I have no idea you showed up in my feed but glad you did. I can’t wait to try this out for my kids.
Have fun!
Excellent. So nice. Just started learning. So much fun to do. In a few hours I hope to dazzle my first victim...
Thanks Matt! I have been looking at card magic for just over 2 weeks now and your channel was recommended. I have subscribed and liked. Looking forward to seeing more of your tricks 💚🏴👍
Thanks buddy, great to have you onboard. more on the way!
I have been doing magic for a few months. You encouraged me to learn some of your card tricks. You are brilliant!
Thanks Manny!
This is astonishing. I've gone through it three times now--it worked fine each time--and I still can't get my head around 'how'. Love the channel--I'm learning card magic for my own enjoyment and that of friends and family!
Plus, I've finally learned how to riffle-shuffle after six decades on the planet :)
Glad it helped! Yes I need to update the riffle shuffle vid, but I’m really glad you got it down 👌🏻
Would love to meet that flourish you did at the beginning! Thank you for all your wonderful videos!
The Card Production of the Queens is so loveley 😍👍🏽
A little tutorial on that would be great 🎉
Coming soon!
Thank you
I love his enthusiasm for Magic art 👏👏👏
I just started doing card tricks about 3 months ago and LOVE learning all of these tricks and adding to my repertoire; thanks!
Glad you’re enjoying the journey!
The trick you did here is based on a very old principle by Bob Hummer. He published it as Face Up Face Down Mysteries in the 40s. It uses a binary system that allows you to mix cards either face up or face down cards resulting in various outcomes, essentially restoring the original order or splitting the result evenly. Mr Koenigs Tapestry also known as Mr. Kings Tapestry, uses a layout of 16 cards whose rows or columns chosen by the spectator, are flipped until one stack is created. John Bannon also uses this principle in a trick called Origami Poker which uses 12 cards laid out in a square. Just as an aside, the part of the trick where you ask the spectator to either flip 2 cards or place them down can also be 4 cards, just as long as it's an even number. I use this type of binary system in another trick by asking if they want to do 4 or 2, flip or not, which I believe is a bit stronger. If you can get a hold of Face Up Face Down Mysteries, you could do this trick and then segue into (just about) any Bob Hummer routine. I believe the Richard Vollmer routine was published in Apocalypse (Vol. 14 No. 3) as Mr. Kings Tapestry using the 4 by 4 grid.
I've been performing magic since I was 12, and I'm well into my sixties. Love this by the way.
Indeed you are correct. It is Bob’s CATO principle. Well researched! ❤️
I'm just starting out with learning a few card tricks and this one is going to be a regular for me. Thanks for posting the excellent video. Great style!
This is also presented in a different fashion, different routine but the begining and the end result is the same❤
Thanks, Matt. I try to keep a small number of routines like this on hand. When class time permits, I slip in a card trick or two. The kids always enjoy it.
Good stuff! I’m sure they love you for it.
Screwed it up the first few times because at 82 sequences can be a challenge. But eventually I got it. Fabulous.
Thank.u, I have a great one too. I've never seen anyone do my trick but I want to see if you or anyone knows about it too, also I love the rule of 21 or 3 etc tricks the math ones that always work are fun too
I loved this. An amazing trick. I'm a total beginner. I've only ever done one card trick before and I've been repeating it for years. I thought is was time for something new and this trick seems like the place to start. Thanks, Matt.
Awesome man, really glad this has inspired you. Take it slow and enjoy the journey!
Hi. Thanks for this, the trick looks great (I'll be trying it out later). I'm 59 yo and just took up 'card tricks' a couple of months ago. It was literally a case of buying a deck for the first time ever and then try to learn how to handle cards (i never played card games) and learn a few tricks from RUclips. It's challenging... and fun. Very happy to have found your channel. Thank you
Keep going and enjoy the journey. Welcome to the channel!
Another absolutely fantastic video. More of these videos PLEASE.
Yes, please do teach that production of the four queens. I do have Harry Lorayne's 4 volume Apocalypse. I missed that in there too. But there is so much to discover in those books.
Absolutely, what a goldmine!
Wonderful stuff, man. I'm just a beginner and really appreciate how you make everything so fun. As you say, that's what it's all about! Keep crushing it.
Thanks bro 👊
Absolute mind blower 😳🤔🤔
Can’t find the four card flourish at the beginning of the video anywhere ?? Love to learn it. Many Thanks. 🥳🥳
Coming soon! I’m on it.
I started learning card tricks today and loved these videos. My kids and i are learning these together
That is awesome! Have fun guys! New video at 3pm today
Amazing. I am just learning tricks for my granddaughter. I love this amazing.
Wonderful! I’m sure she’ll love it!
...yup. this is amazing. 👏. Practicing for 6 years and this trick made me smile instantly.
Awesome 🙌 That’s what I’m going for 👍 Really glad you enjoyed
Holy smokes. Tried it last night it didn’t work. But did it 3 times tonight and everytime. Follow the steps it works. Love this trick. Thank you
Glad it helped
Insanity! That's brilliant, I will definitely be learning it 😀
Many thanks for this great trick. I knew an ,,easier" version of it with less mixing, but so it is more awesome. :)
Wish you nice trip :)
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? I've been performing magic of all types for close to 30 years now (I'm 74, started performing a bit late, but have always enjoyed magic) and I love this trick. I especially like the production of the four queens at the start. It's a beautiful and very visual flourish. I'll definitely check out 'Mr. Koenigs Tapestry' as well. "Thanks, and Have a Magical Day!" P.S. I just subscribed to your channel👍😀
Thanks for the Sub! Lots more content to come
I'd love to learn the production with the queens. I've just found your channel, so I might be a little late to the game.
Just tried it amazed!! Love the vids
Hi Matt :) thanks for sharing this Beautiful magic trick. Sure we love this queen production, will you make a tutorial please ? Kind regards from France :)
Yes, it’s coming soon! Stay tuned
Wonderup effect! With the right patter, I will be using this as a Triumph effect, thanks mate 😊
Perfect!
I started doing magic years ago the life got in the way took it up again in lock down and haven't looked back since I just love close up magic I am in my very early 70s am into old to do carry on doing thanks for all the card tricks and keep up the fantastic work
Thanks Jeff! I’m so glad you rediscovered your love for magic. I feel honoured to be part of your continued journey. All the best buddy, Matt.
Yes l like the 4 card production. This is such a cool trick. I believe this was done on P&T, and Harry Lorayne did a variation of this too. 👏😊👏😊👏😊👏👍👍
He always has a version of everything in Apocalypse!
Iam new to magic and yes i did fool myself could you please please teach the 4 queen production it really makes the trick together with the brilliant reval at the end thanks john😊
New subscriber..... love it! These bagger self working tricks are great when you need a break from "thinking/focusing" and need some audience interactive time!... Thanks for this
Thanks for the sub!
Matt... I just came across some of your videos and they are pretty good! Might I suggest that you give the name of the effect and who originated it? This would help lock it into memory AND point your viewers to other good stuff that can be sought out.
Great suggestion! I always do when I have the source. Some of these I’ve been performing for years and I’ve actually forgotten where they learnt them. Thanks for the feedback my friend.
Yet another beautiful affect Matt, you are the very best at what you do and such a great teacher.
Wow, thank you! Too kind brother
Very nice. Gonna try it. And yes, tutorial for the card flourish.
You got it!
I like this one. A variation to this trick is with 5 black suits and 5 red suits. Using the same principle that each card originally flipped with its partners (same suit) will always end up together.
In the end, the black suits will be faced in the opposite direction of the reds!
Sounds awesome, I’ll look out for that one, sounds interesting
@@MattMcGurk The first time I was introduced to this was from a video by VSauce some years back; he was explaining the "magic of math". It's the only card trick video he's done, so it's easy to find. (Specific trick at 10:01)
ruclips.net/video/ObiqJzfyACM/видео.htmlsi=8gfeGTmhJGkCBc4z
Nice EDC. Great for impromptu sets of table hopping, . Close up, parlor etc.
Really nice effect. I'm thinking the Gilbreath principle is involved, though I don't know its intricacies well enough to be certain. I have Lorayne's Apocalypse series, so I'll have to do some exploring and find it there. Thanks for sharing this.
Not Gilbreath in this one, but watch this space. There is one coming.
Please teach how you produce the 4 of a kind!!
Thanks for your video from Spain!. Clear and simple! Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
I'm newly retired and looking to have fun and learn new things. This is going to be great with the Grandchildren and and those at the club I go to. Thanks
Have fun!
Nice:) I'm going to have fun figuring out the pattern.
I started doing card tricks a few years ago, when I started learning magic to perform to my grandchildren after restrictions were lifted. I came across you on line only a couple of months ago, & love your no set-up card tricks. You are brilliant! Thank you!
It’s my pleasure Peter! I’m sure your grandkids love your tricks. The magic is is the look on their faces, am I right?
@@MattMcGurk & they want to learn everything now! At 6 & 9 years old too!!
Good work mate keep going!
Thanks, will do!
Matt! Just retired and decided I needed a way to entertain 3 grandsons...I watched a few of your other card trick videos and nailed them...today I watched this one (4 Queens) and am still shaking my head...it worked the first time I tried it. Amazing....by the way...Happy Cruisin'
That is awesome! Glad you’re enjoying the content! I’m sure your grandsons will be very impressed!
Love u lol so i tried 1 time and messed up and i realized its how you start dealing them. When you deal them you half ti start on thour left i started on myself and it seems not to work but second time i got it lol thank you.....messed up 3rd time got it on the 4th lol u have to remember to flip cards lol
You got this!
You probably already know this, but you can add 32 cards from the pack to the queens and the effect still works. Just my opinion, but the more cards you're 'mixing up' during the routine then the more impressive the outcome looks. 😀
Absolutely! 💯
Absolutely amazing. Love card magic but am not dexterous enough. This is not even a setup. I’ll be using it with the guys next card night. Couldn’t believe it myself.
Awesome man! Have fun with it!
Bought a deck just to try to learn this trick! So far I’ve been able to get it at least twice in a row and then it gets messed up 😮 I don’t understand where I’m going wrong…maybe the sequence? A few times when I tried it with your video it didn’t turn out right but then other times following you it did. I think I’m also sometimes getting confused which way to flip at the end.
Great trick . Thanks for sharing ❤
Thanks for liking
WTF??? I did this EXACTLY how you did 7 times now and every time I end up with 4 aces showing???? What am I missing? Does this happen to anyone else? What am I doing wrong? And yes, I'm definitely starting with the 4 queen's. Please help, I just want this to work so I can show my family!
It’s hard for me to tell you where you’re going wrong without seeing you do it. There will be one part of this that you are doing differently. Sometimes it’s best to take a break from it, forget learning it and come back to it with a completely blank state. Then relearn it step by step. Though the fact that you’re producing the four aces instead is pretty cool! 👌🏻
@MattMcGurk it's very annoying. Iv given up now. But thanks.
Wow, it seems absolutely impossible. But that's what great magic's about, right? I would love to learn that beautiful magical production of the 4 queens!
Yes, that is on my list of stuff to record! It’s coming I promise
This is great! Once while practicing, at the end all four queens ended up side by side!
You’re obviously a natural!!
Saw you on a celebrity cruise to Iceland last year and you were astounding and so engaging with the audience!
Awesome! Thanks for coming to the show. I’ll be on the Equinox all this year.
Like you say Matt , that’s crazy .
I’m gna play with that later . 👍
Have fun!
Love watching You, Matt!!! This one was insane 🫶🫶🫶
Thanks! I’ve got some awesome tricks planned for future uploads too!
Thanks for that really nice bit of card magic, just going to ponder how i can use this with another trick with 4 kings as well, a double kicker is always nice. great presentation keep up the good work. subscribed!
Nice one, thanks buddy! Welcome to the team
Enjoyed that i really did. Great effect. 8 months into magic. Gonna try this one for sure👍
Have fun!
Hey Matt i seen many videos and this is like the triumph almost wow I do card tricks as well I did this awesome trick but with aces and made a story of how 4 aces are a great hand in card games etc. It's so easy blew thr minds I love these kind of self working tricks.
Thanks so much man! Yes I love this one too! Great reactions!
@MattMcGurk oh yes very good trick
Always like some easy no set-up tricks for beginners. New sub.
Thanks for the sub!
Superb trick and superb tutorial. Thank you so much Matt!
My pleasure!
Outstanding. Doing magic for about two years off and on
Going into the next issue of my newsletter. Thanks.
Iive been doing magic for 3 days and i cant get this to work. Is the riffle shiffle the key? I cant do that though
Stick with it! Maybe this will help Easy In the Hands Riffle Shuffle Tutorial for Beginners with Bridge Ending.
ruclips.net/video/nbTbRY3YE-U/видео.html
@@MattMcGurk thanks.
What kind of black magic is this? No idea how it works but it does. Great stuff
Great stuff as usual! Top notch!! It fooled me!
Cheers Jerry!
@@MattMcGurk - found this video again after you paired it with another video (Choose 3 of a pair), and did it 2x on myself. Gonna do this tonight to my wife and daughter!! Super trick!!
love the intro
Thanks man!
@@MattMcGurk your welcome how do you do it
I just tried this routine with the entire deck of cards. It works too. Is it better to do this with the whole deck? 🤷🏻♂️ It’s a miracle when the four queens are the only cards that appear face up in a pile of twenty cards. Maybe it’s stronger when the four queens are the only face up cards in the entire deck. I think so. A bit more work, but worth it.
It’s strong either way. Personally I feel like the pacing of the trick is better with fewer cards. It entirely subjective. If you like it better with a full deck, go for it! And great job in working it out! Love that 👍
Thank you, Matt, another quality presentation.. ..
Thanks so much!
I do it with the queens facing down, because I think it adds to the surprise.
Nice idea 💡
Love to show these to my grandchildren. They think I'm a magician. Thank you.
Wonderful!
You are
OMG hi, I just watched your video and tried the trick, guess what it worked, I thought it wouldn't lol, just don't ask me to explain, I am a beginner and this is definitely the best magic tricks ever, you're the best man, thank you so much for this video, funny I'm right around the corner from you tonight I'm in fort Lauderdale, enjoy Miami wild city,but be careful
Great job! I’m on the ship now. I love Ft Lauderdale, that’s actually where I was staying.
I do a lot of shows but I really like your post of self working card magiu
I tried this and it seemed to not have quite the impact cos we start and end in the same place. What’s a good story to spin around this that will make this more entertaining?
Presentation wise you could go in many different directions. I’m actually planning to do a video around how to build a good presentation for magic. Up for that?
@@MattMcGurk yes please!
Before you start the trick, ask onlookers something along the lines of 'Please put your phones and cover or remove your watches as they interfere with magic. Thank you' and make sure the only timepiece visible is a clock in full view, which you put back five minutes before you start the trick. Nobody will notice. Before the final reveal how about' 'Some of you are not following this are you? Luckily I can time travel. Let's go back 5 minutes and start again.' Now expose the deck, and ask them what the time is on their phones. 'I told you they interfere with magic, look at the time on the clock.' Not that sophisticated but grandkids will fall for it, as well as a few adults.