You don’t have to be a Lance Burton or Chris Angel to do this little card trick and it’s almost impossible to screw it up. As long as you can remember the story and the pattern, the cards need to be laid out, you will not have any problems. This also does not mean that you need to pre-arrange the deck. The best part is that this trick only requires you to use 16 cards and it works on your own.
Step one
Go through the deck and remove all the aces, jacks, queens, and kings. These are the only cards you will need for this trick.
Second step
You will then need to sort these cards by their proper suits so that the Jack, Queen, King, and Aces of each suit are in their own pile.
Step three
You put these four groups of cards into four separate piles. You should start by having four piles of Kings. Next, cover all but one inch of the Kings with the Queens and then cover all but one inch of the Queens with Jacks and so on. A part of each card must be visible. As you do so, you tell your audience the following story. Once there were four small island kingdoms in the middle of the ocean. Each island had a king, a queen, and a prince named Jack. And each kingdom had a dog named Ace. One day, a huge tidal wave hit the islands and swept everyone into the ocean.
Step four
At this point, you pick up each group and place them one on top of the other. Now hand out this packet to the audience and ask them to cut the deck several times.
Step five
Now he tells his audience that despite this natural disaster no one was injured and that every person and animal swam back to the nearest island. But something strange has happened. At this point, start dealing the card into four separate piles until you have dealt all sixteen cards. You will now have four stacks of four cards and for the best result you should deal these cards face down.
Step six
When you are done dealing the cards, flip each pile one by one and you will reveal that the Kings, Queens, Jacks and Aces are now in their individual piles. You end this trick by saying that somehow the kings, queens, jacks, and aces manage to swim to their individual islands.
This is a freelance work hack and will always work. Good luck and have fun with that.
