This is a great up close card trick that is perfect for any audience. It requires some practice, and a little bit of preparation, but once you know how to do it, it's pretty simple. Of course, because it requires some set up, you can only perform this once. So it helps if you have a few other card tricks up your sleeve, so to speak. This works especially well for kids, both to perform for and to teach, as it doesn't require any difficult sleight of hand maneuvers.
This is what this illusion will appear to your happy audience. You take three Aces: Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds. You spread them out, letting the audience see them. After that, place them on top the stack of cards, and mix them up several times to make sure they have been sent to various locations throughout the deck.
You then ask a volunteer to come up and search for the Ace of Diamonds. Despite how hard they search for it, they won't be able to find it. If you like, you can get another audience member to come up and look, but they too will be unsuccessful. Then you magically produce the Ace of Diamonds out of your hidden location. (Or your shoe, or under your hat, or wherever.)
Here's how to set the trick up. First find all the Aces. Then put the Ace of Diamonds in your pocket (or shoe or wherever) beforehand. Then place the other Aces on top of the deck. When you pull the three Aces off the top, and fan them out, make sure to hold the Ace of Hearts in the center. If you position both other cards on either side of the Ace of Hearts, it will look like the Ace of Diamonds to the audience.
How you word this is important. If you saying about the Ace of Diamonds beforehand, they'll be watching much more closely. If you begin only by picking out three Aces and naming them (Clubs, Spades, And Diamonds) they'll take your word for it.
A great way to do this is while you are mixing up the cards, tell some long convoluted story about the history of cards, and diamonds, and how they were always vanishing due to their metaphysical nature, or something else that you can make up on the spot. That way, when they start thinking about the Ace of Diamonds, it will already be hidden someplace in the deck, or so they think. Have fun with this trick.
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