- Yo, it's your boy Six, and welcome back to another self-working card trick tutorial. (soft music) If you're watching this right now, I'm excited because that
means my boy Xavier Spade has already dropped his new deck of cards, his first deck of cards
called "Dead Hands," which is an incredibly
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his first deck of cards. Today's effect comes
from a brilliant magician named Henry Christ, he was a
magician from New York city, worked for the MTA and
did magic on the side, passed away in Queens, New York. And I never got to meet him, he passed away before I was ever born, it's a little bit before my
time, sometime in the 1970s. But he was a fantastic magician who came up a lot of great ideas, and today you're learning effects from him titled "Math Aces,"
which is a great effect, self-working, super simple,
but very, very clever, and it might actually fool you. So let's go ahead and take
a look at the performance and then get into the explanation. And as always, if he knew here, be sure to hit that subscribe button to get the latest videos
every single week. (upbeat music) All right, here we go, this is "Math Aces" by Henry Christ. I'm gonna go ahead and
shuffle these cards up just like this. And I'm gonna cut maybe about 50%, maybe, I need a few more cards, like, that's about 50/50, now works. The spectator is gonna be asked to name any number between one and 10, so they named a number, and
let's say they named six, I'm gonna count through just like, one, two, three, four,
five, and this would be six. How cool would be if these cards matched? They don't, that'd be impossible, yeah, it doesn't quite work that way. But let's try, maybe, maybe we can see, maybe we can get lucky
with the coincidence, maybe name another number, a
higher number from 10 to 20. Now, let's go with, let's say they say 11, I'm gonna go to 11, so I got
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11, how cool would it be if these cards match? They don't, they don't match it, it's just what, it won't, it's not, it's not a very easy trick to do, it's very difficult actually (chuckles). So, you know what? Let's try something, let's
take this a step further, you named two numbers, you
needed 11 and you named six, let's subtract those numbers, 11 minus six will give
us five, let's try this, if I count one, two,
three, four, and five, you know what they say? The third time's a charm, oh, look at this, a perfect match. Not only that, these are
the numbers that you picked, and you actually went ahead
and found all four aces, that's a match you can't beat. There you have it, that is "Math Aces." (upbeat music) All right, so now you wanna go ahead and take out the four aces from the pack. And what I like to do is make sure that the aces
are inside of the center, just like this, so the pair,
the red aces are in the center, you can have the black aces in the center, or whatever pair you put in the middle, or the aces that appear
first in the effect. So just like this, I have my aces and they're going to
go on top of the pack, and that's your set up, that's it. So now you can do whatever
shuffles you want, maintaining the cards
on the top of the pack as we have now, all right? So all those shuffles just
keeping those four aces on top, ready to go. Now, for this trick to work, all you have to do is pretend
to be estimating at first, what I like to do is I'll
cut off a bigger packet in the right hand, the top
package, just like this, and a smaller packet and the left hand, so they'll notice, then I'll say, "Yeah, let's try and get
about two even piles, maybe, maybe that'll do it." And now that I've done
that, I am set to go. All I have to do was peel
off two cars from the top, pretend like they look even and say, "Yeah, that should work." And put the two packets on the table. That is just one way in which you can go ahead
and get those into position, so basically you're ending
up in this position here, black ace, black ace, red
ace, red ace, just like that. There's a number of ways you can do it, later on I'll show you how you
can do it with the shuffle, this is just a really simple way to do it. Now, you asked a spectator
to name a number, a number up to 10, usually that gets them to
say seven, or six, or eight, whatever the case is, let's say in this case, they go with five, so you go ahead and you
start dealing together, you go one, two, three, four, and five, and at this point, you're now gonna flip
these two cards face up and say, "Let's see how we did,
no matches, unfortunately." Now if it is a match, use
that to your advantage, make it look like it's part of the effect. In this case, it's not a match, most of the time it's
not gonna be a match, you say, "Ah, it was a worthy try." Now, what's gonna happen
here, very important, these two cards are gonna go right back to where they came from, right
back onto the center packets, and you pick up these packets and place them back on top of the deck. Now, that is the first step. Now you say, "You know
what? Name a higher number." You tell them to name a number
somewhere between 10 to 20, and they named that number, so let's say in this case, they say 11, so now you count 11
doing the same process, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11. Again, you flip these two cards face up, and you show them, "Ah,
again, no matches." What changes for the method
for this to work now, is as opposed to flipping these face down like with the first time, when you take these cards you're gonna put them on
the outer packets now, so that's the important
thing you have to remember for this effect to work, 'cause you take these and you place them on the outer packets, and now you cover those up, and then finally, you
can tell the spectator, "You named 11, you also
named five, you know what? Let's try something,
what's 11 minus five?" And they're gonna go ahead and they're gonna tell
you 11 minus five is six, so you're gonna count six so you're gonna go one, two,
three, four, five, and six, and they say the third time's a charm, let's see how we did, and now you have the four aces, then you show the two red
aces matching at first, then you say, "Actually, you know what? You're so good, you got all four aces." And there's a really simple way to make the aces appear for your effect, using the spectators numbers. A very clever routine, all you have to remember
is that when you deal when you show those last two
cards for the second time, you place them on the outer packets, drop the cards on top
and follow the routine. All you have to do is have them name a number from one to 10, then name and number from 10 to 20, subtract, and you are good
to go, it is that simple. So I said I'll show you how we can set up these
aces with a shuffle, as opposed to doing the
peeling off the top. So the same concept is that you wanna know which card you're getting where, so I'm gonna go ahead
and do the same idea, setting up these four aces
just like I did before. And now all I'm gonna do is
just, as I talk and shuffle, I'm gonna go ahead and do a
milk shuffle what is that? Well, when I go to shuffle like this, I'm actually going to gonna squeeze, and I have another video that teaches a lot of
great routines with this that you should go look at it if you haven't looked at it already, in which you gonna peel off the back card, see my finger squeeze and
then peels it off with it, and I'll just take a few more cards, give it a little shuffle,
talk for a second, go back again, peel off the next card as I talk one more time,
continue shuffling, and then from here, now you can just place those
two packets on the table, and now you have the same setup, two red aces followed by two black aces. The same set up, like I said, the two red is going in the middle, and now I just simply shuffle, take a few cards and milk shuffle. Say, I'm gonna, in a second,
I'm gonna you go through, then I peel it off again, and name a number between one and 10. And just doing those two shuffles, now I can go ahead and start the routine, and there you have it, a wonderful effect from Henry Christ known as "Math Aces." (upbeat music)
