This is a very easy card trick that anyone can perform with just a little practice. At first, like most tricks it will seem a little confusing and awkward but after running through it a couple times it will become second nature, very smooth and leave your audience scratching their heads.

Things you will need to perform your color change trick:

Make sure you have one deck of cards that has a blue back and another deck of cards that has a red back and they both are the same sized cards. Pick out five cards from each deck it will not matter which cards you pull out.

Begin with this:

You can begin by alternating one blue backed card and then one red backed card making five pairs of cards in your hand. Without showing the backs of the cards, fan out the face up cards and show your audience. An audience member now has to select one of the cards in your hand by pointing to it. Now remove the selected card from the group of cards and put it on display facing up for everyone to see. The cards that come before the chosen card will be in your right hand and the rest will remain in your left hand. Now place the cards from your left hand on top of the cards in your right hand, do it secretly when the people are looking at you drop the card on the table. Keeping the back of the cards hidden is a must.

Prepare to be dazzled:

This part of the trick is the skillful part. Convincing your spectators that all the cards have the same color on their backs is what you must do. To keep up this charade you must keep the deck of cards tight especially after you have put your right hand cards under the left cards. All cards have their pictures facing up not their backs. Display the back of the cards by flipping over the one single card at the top of the pile. You might say, “As you can see, all of the cards are blue on the back.” As you say this you can casually turn the stack in your left hand over showing it also has a blue back. Placing both decks of cards beside each other on the table you can tell them that their card has magically changed its color.

Tell the spectators that the card they chose which was once red now had a blue back on it. Flip it over to uncover the secret. Miraculously the chosen card has changed color.  Astonishing!

Closing thoughts:

Not giving away the color at the back of the cards is the key to making this trick work, do it right and with practice your friends will be amazed. The back color of the card depends on the audience, it is whichever one they choose. It wont make a difference if they choose either colored card. The cards are all in sequence so when you placed the right hand cards behind the left hand cards you restored the sequence.

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