[By Difficulty] Simple Card Magic Tricks Using Playing Cards
In fact, the world of card magic is full of amazing tricks you can do easily without any special props.
In this article, we’ll introduce tricks you can master with just a little practice—like perfectly guessing a spectator’s chosen card or making a card teleport.
We’ll also cover some self-working tricks that you can perform right away just by following the steps.
Learn the tricks featured here and try showing them off at gatherings with friends or at parties!
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Easy Card Magic for Beginners (11–20)
A magic trick where mate cards come together without any technique
This is a magic trick where you remove two cards from the deck, place the deck on the table, and have the spectator insert the cards anywhere they like as you deal through.
In the end, the mate cards—same color and same number as the chosen cards—end up right next to them.
What matters are the two cards at the ends when you spread the deck in your hands; you casually place the mates of those end cards on the table as if they were freely chosen.
Then, when returning the selected cards to the deck, you simply stack the packets so that the mate cards will align, and the trick is done.
It requires no sleight of hand; it’s a self-working trick completed purely by how you assemble the packets.
That’s why your patter when placing the cards on the table is a key point to make it feel even more mysterious.
An elevator card where the card comes up
This is a classic card trick called the Elevator Card.
In the performance, it looks like you’re using the Hearts 1–3, but in fact there’s one more card involved: the Ace of Diamonds.
You’ll need the technique of creating a break, so that part requires a bit of practice.
Once you have that down, the method is simple, so even beginners can perform it! It’s a highly baffling, professional-level trick that will astonish your audience.
You can choose the card and where it appears.
I’d like to introduce a magic trick where you can choose both the card and where it appears.
Have a spectator select a card, remember it, return it to the deck, and shuffle.
Then ask them to name any number; when you deal that many cards to the table, the top card of that pile will be the chosen card.
As long as you can bottom-control the selected card, the rest is very easy, so give it a try!
A magic trick that’s amazing even after you know the secret.
A classic playing card magic trick: you shuffle in the first card the spectator chose, then count off the number corresponding to the value of the second chosen card, turn over that card, and the first card appears.
The secret is to preset a sequence of cards from 1 to 13 and place them on top of the first chosen card.
Even if you reveal the method to the audience, they’ll still be baffled as to why it works—letting them savor the delightful mystery of cards.
A mysterious card trick you can do by following the steps
First, take a random packet from the top of the deck and count how many cards it contains.
Then, turn over that same number of cards from the remaining deck and remember the number on the card at that position.
After that, repeatedly split the deck and discard one half until only two cards remain—the card you remembered earlier will be among the cards on the table.
This trick uses the fact that there are 52 cards in a deck without jokers.
Pay close attention to how you replace the packet after the spectator remembers the card and which half you set aside after each split.
It’s a type of self-working magic, so it’s more important to follow the procedure correctly than to rely on technique.
Simple yet incredible card magic that even magicians can’t figure out!
Here’s another card trick that remains amazing even after you know the secret.
First, you randomly take out 13 cards.
From those, the spectator selects three cards.
On top of each chosen card, you deal enough cards to bring the total to 13.
Then you add up the values of the three originally selected cards, count that many cards from the front of the deck, and turn over the next one—revealing the card you had predicted.
The key is that the many steps make the audience forget they’ve effectively gone through all 52 cards.
Simple Card Magic for Beginners (21–30)
Even elementary schoolers can do it! Guess the trump card numbers
This is a playing card magic trick where you guess the card someone has chosen.
In this trick, the spectator returns their chosen card to any spot they like, and you pretend not to know where it is—but in fact, from the moment it’s returned, the performer already knows its location.
The key to making this trick work is the bottom card of the deck.
While squaring the deck and demonstrating that the cards are well shuffled, make sure to firmly remember what that bottom card is.
Then, at the moment the chosen card is returned to the deck, place the key card directly on top of it.
By doing this, you’re able to keep track of the position of the chosen card!
