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Five days ago I filmed myself doing this simple yet popular magic trick from my routine, and uploaded it to YouTube. Since then, things have gone a bit crazy! It’s been viewed over 40,000 times, and reposted on YourDailyMedia (9,000+ views), on Break.com (750,000+ views!! Yes, 750-thousand!), and who knows where else. Today it reached the #1 slot on YouTube, in prime position on their homepage! (update: by midnight on 10 Feb its reached about 1.2 million views across the videosharing sites. I’m speechless.)
Lots of people are speculating how it’s done. Well, to answer a few questions without revealing the method:
- There are only 3 cards: sleight of hand makes it look like there’s more.
- There’s no camera trickery or edits, just clever card moves.
- Many people say it’s “fake” – well yes, it’s not “real magic” like Harry Potter, as *gasp* that doesn’t exist.
This’n'That secret revealed: here’s how you can do it!
Click here to buy the secret and method as a video download from PubTricks.com and as a special thank you to readers of my website, you can use the discount code: NICEPAUL to get an extra 15% off the price, making it just US$12.71 / GBP£6.40 for a priceless effect that will amaze your friends for years to come! The video is a 10 minute instructional tutorial, showing the special ways of holding and moving the cards to make it look like real magic! By explaining each sleight of hand step-by-step it makes it easy for even a beginner to perform the trick with some practice.
There. So, no more asking in the comments “how is it done?” – I’ve just told you all I can. If you really want to know, that’s not expensive. Those with a genuine interest in magic will be happy to buy and develop their skills, and timewasters who just want a spoiler of the secret won’t find it here.
I’d love to read your comments below, but any which reveal the method will not be published.
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Hey there,
very nice card trick you’ve been showing the world. Your article on how-to-learn-the-goddamn-thing seems really fair to me, fair included – there’s only one thing:How am I supposed to make my payment and buy the instructions when I’m from neither the UK nor the US?
Regards, KK
[ reply: both of the online stores I've linked to will ship internationally, its just that they're located in the UK and USA respectively - Paul ]
Wow dude, for the first time I wached it, I couldn’t figure it out.
in the fifth time i kinda got the hang of it.
Your hand are quite quick, but in the ending I saw somthing again. :]
Anyway, I think I got how made it appear that there were two This cards in the begining, and how you kept the Other card hidden.
I’m still trying to figure out some other parts, but I hope it’ll come to me soon.
wooow how do you do that???
doens’t he just show the same “this” card 3 times while removing the cards on top of it?
I pretty much caught the entire trick in 1 watch. And I managed to verify them by watching the entire video in slow motion. It’s not something you can master just by knowing. It’s more towards something that you have to train repeatedly to perfect. I have to admit it’s pretty well done though. An average person would not be able to see through the trick easily much less master it.
Variation on the elmsley count… well done.. you should try the NFW, which’s really great.
For those who have no idea how this trick should be performed, 1 hint: ‘double turn’
I know how to do that!
Hey Paul, I did comment on your video via YouTube but followed the link to your site here (kind of hoping to see more magic actually). Anyway, great trick, I loved it and I am sure that my fellow magicians (whom i sent the link to also) will comment in due course. Keep up the good work !!!
hey man! great stuff… i liked you script.. and the well executed DL’s!! any regular person would never be able to catch that! and ppl telling that by looking the slowmotion video they figuered it out – that all BULLSHIT.. it’s all pure slight hand with a touch of an excellent script and unique idea of using THIS, THAT and the OTHER card! welldone man! wanna see more of this from you!
I GOT HOW ITZ DONE. He messed up a bit But nice trick man! Gonna keep it a secret. Magic wont be magic unless everyone knows how it’s done. But to be fair, itz quite just a simple and easy trick.
Hey, I’ve watched this at least twenty times now, and it’s just as good every time. I’ve left you a few comments on YouTube, you even commented one of my comments saying that you had it so they’d show up for the camera in the right direction but it messed up. (It was that last turn after you showed all 3 “This” cards that got you
) I’ve watched it so much that I’ve memorized it, and taught myself the trick. I’ve showed my little brother a few times now and he still hasn’t gotten it 
. Thanks alot for putting it up, I really enjoy it, and congradulations on all the views / comments you’ve received 
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That is a cool trick man ive watched like 1000 times i still dont get it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0nt2kj6b44
Another video of it, but better!
[ reply: this is a completely different "trick", if it is a trick at all. I can't see what's going, to be honest (although I got bored and turned off half way through) - Paul ]
Stop asking him to reveal his trick. He won’t be allowed back into the magician’s alliance. : )
Nice script also dude. Follows through quite naturally.
I just came from Bo’s coffee wit my best friend after we did a tour of our hospital (we are both medical students), and i showed him the trick. He was constantly interrupting my script that he might have spotted why “this” card has been showin everytime (i havent mastered the handling yet tho) and he’s a good observer, but he was like “wow” when i showed the “other” card at the end of the trick. Misdirection man. All credits to you. Hoping to see more magic flicks from you.
whats funny is this is how my freind made £600 from this…
he showed a magic trick to people at school then it was £10 for each explanation guide…
13 different tricks lol… somehow im suprised he didnt make more…
still, your amazing lol =p
If you know how Jumping Gemini works, then you can easily figure out how this one works, too, although I’m sure this comment will be edited.
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Awesome trick. Just love it.
OMG DUDE TAT WAS WICKED HOW DO YOU DO TAT????????? Ok ok calming down now… ok calm but i meen dude how did you do tat. You should go for America’s Got Talent like the quick change artist!
I really like this trick just call 941-927-811 and ill give you some of my tricks and if u calll u MUST never tell ANYONE them.
Pubtricks.com have just put up a video of me explaining how to do all the sleights of hand needed for This’n'That. More than just a ‘secrets revealed’ clip, it actually teaches you performance technique to make it look like real magic! http://pubtricks.com/index.php?trick=pub-thisnthat-trick.wmv&id=248
Fantastic trick!! I purchased your explanation video on PubTricks and I am having the time of my life baffling friends.
Although I must ask: What cards do you recommend? Bicycle? And where did you get those ubercool blank cards?
Again, awesome trick! Best 9 bucks I’ve ever spent!
Hi Ryan, glad you’re loving the explanation video! Blank faced Bicycle cards are available from the UK at eMagicTricks.co.uk or from the USA at ElmwoodMagic.com (and I’m pretty sure both of those places will ship worldwide). Good luck with it!
Hahaaaa!!! I know how you do it
Pretty easy to catch it, but still nice 
Hey Paul – update time!
Just wanted to come back and thank you again for the incredible trick but to also thank you for my newfound hobby. This video alone brought me into the world of magic. I’ve went ahead and bought some instructional DVDs from Ellusionist.com and I’m practicing the moves and tricks in there every day. Any tips for a beginner like me on how to started practicing magic (how did you go about starting?)
Again, thanks for many years to come. Enjoy your crazy success with the video – you’ve certainly earned it.
Hi Ryan. Thanks for the update, and I’m so glad you’ve found a new hobby in the art of deception! If I can recommend anything for cards it’d be The Royal Road to Card Magic. The book’s a classic, and I haven’t seen the DVD but that’s gotta be even better. The best advice is that its all in the presentation, so practice practice practice (not just the moves, but to get more confident at the script of a trick). If you want any more tips, please feel free to drop me an email
Best…. Card Trick….. Ever!
Don’t let my first sentence mislead you, as I know how this trick is performed and I have, on occasion, performed it for my friends, and I will not be revealing the magic behind this trick any time soon.
That is a bad(as in good) trick dude I got into card tricks not to long ago
so I had to learn this one and I did thanks to your video on you tube
its one of the best ones I have THANKS!!!!!!
plz update on how 2 do the trick
@Homies from da Hood – if you read the post you commented on you’ll find a link to a downloadable video tutorial showing how to do the trick. It’s available from PubTricks.com. If you have issues with paying $7.61 for it then you should read my most recent blog post at http://paulannett.co.uk/absolute-magic
Cool trick! I watched it the first 18 times and I couldn’t work out how to do it!
Paul,
Holy crap! That trick is freaking awsome, everyone said they learned it from watching closely so thats what I’m going to do. I can’t wait to learn it, I love card tricks and want to continue learing all diffirent ones. By the way, you accent is EXTREMELY sexy, seriously i love it
Nice trick, figured it out by watching
Great preformance BTW
un fuckin beliveable great trick but u should reveal if 4 free u bitch
i googled blank bicicle playing cards but I got ones that were blank on both sides… PLEASE HELP!!
Dominic, Mar, & Joe: thanks!
cam: It’s almost as if I wrote this blog post with you in mind.
Zirapa: try Googling ‘blank faced bicycle cards’ instead. Hope that helps!
did u buy the cards like that or use white out?
You can buy a complete deck of 52 blank-faced playing cards for just a few dollars. Google for ‘blank faced playing cards’
good but i learned how to do it on youtube! it’s actaully realy good and simple
hi….
that was damn cool.no need 2 teach me,but we need more of those!!!!
It was really amazing the first time i watched it.it looked so simple that i had to find out how to do it.if you are trying to figure it out,you can’t really see the cards he is using,but you can hear it.i’m not sure you will understand, but it really helped me.the other card was used in a way that i knew of so it was very simple.i just had to know how he used the others.
i might try to do this trick on youtube also and i will give full credit from where it came from.
well no not necessarily because i can love magic and sleight of hand trick but i dont have a credit card therefore i cant buy it and i have to find a spoiler
Wow, cool trick and if you can’t figure it out then it’s definitively worth its price!
This card trick looks really clean and cool! Very simple yet with strong effect, highly recommended!
You cannot believe how long ive been searching for something like this. Scrolled through 8 pages of Google results without finding anything. Very first page on Bing. There this is…. Really gotta start using that more often