Three
Card Trick (with Four Cards)
by Professor Spellbinder
Joe Riding came up with the original
premise for this trick circa 1970. The performer tells a
story of a huckster seen performing a three card monte,
but with an extra card that was used to cheat the suckers
who played his game. Since Riding's version, called
"The Irish 3 Card Trick with 4 Cards," it has
gone through many variations. It is performed with
ordinary, ungimmicked cards, from playing card sizes to
jumbo and ultra jumbo sizes. My version uses ultra jumbo
(print them out yourself) jokers and an Ace of Spades as
the money card. The Ace is never where you think
it is when you think it, much like Shrodinger's
Cat. As in Harry Anderson's Hanky Poo variation, the
cards may be scaled out into the audience at the end if
you can stand the expense... or perform it with cheap
dollar store cards and knock yourself out.
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