Cards Across…

One of the new tricks that I’m working on is the Cards Across trick. This is a trick I had to do as an “emergency” when I thought I had set up a trick, but hadn’t and didn’t realize it until I already had people onstage. When this happened, I went into my mental toolbox of magic and did Cards Across.


Cards Across is a great trick, however it’s a very common trick. How do I jazz it up and give it my own twist. My thought was doing it with 7 red backed cards and 10 blue backed cards. Then having the packets switch places, not just the number of cards. So it’s a transposition, not a transportation. This is a small change, but one that I like, and makes the trick a little bit more unique to me.


I’ve done this trick three times, twice on Sunday and once yesterday. I’ve learned a lot about doing it in those three shows. First of all, I need to mention the two different color backs at the beginning and not really mention it again until I’ve done the pile displacement. I need to focus on the numbers of the cards, and the transposition is a bonus.