Self-working card tricks are perfect for beginners – just grab any deck of playing cards, learn the steps, and repeat them in your performance!
Effective card tricks don’t have to be difficult.
You don’t need to practice card sleights for hours to perform card miracles and amaze your friends, family, or co-workers.
Yes, I speak about self-working card tricks that don’t require any sleight of hand skills, any card control, or any card force.
1. Kings And Queens
This card trick is really mind-boggling because you invite the spectator to make several free choices and there is seemingly no way how you can influence the final ending.
2. Best Easy Card Trick For Beginners
This card trick is easy and does not require any sleight of hand (same as all other tricks on this list).
The spectator has a free selection of any card from the deck and when returned back, you just snap your fingers and one card turns over.
3. Six Chances – Win The Bet every time!
Do you like bets but you don’t want to risk that you’ll lose?
This trick is then exactly for you!
4. Missing Card – Easy Self Working Card Trick
Missing Card is a very easy, yet effective card trick that, of course, does not require any sleight of hand.
Just follow a simple set of instructions to achieve this effect.
5. Best Trick For Any Party!
This trick is extremely fun to perform due to a surprising ending that will make your spectators laugh!
The best trick to perform at a party or group of friends in a bar or restaurant!
6. Three Card Box Monte
A simple trick to perform with the guaranteed result!
Explain the simple rules of this game to the spectator and show him what to do.
Then let everything on him – he just needs to follow the simple rules, you don’t need to touch anything, you don’t even need to look at what the spectator is doing.
7. Great Number Card Trick Revealed!
Here is something special to try – an easy trick with numbers!
8. Tripple Prediction – Easy Card Trick Tutorial
Three predictions, totally free selection of cards that are made by the spectator, and yet, all the three predictions are 100% correct!
9. Self Working Book Test Trick
Book tests are magic tricks where a magician tries to predict a word or set of words from a page and line that is “freely” selected by the spectator.
This is a very attractive plot that always gets great reactions!
10. Out Of This World – Mind Reading Trick
Out of this world is the classical mind-blowing mentalism/mind reading trick that is easy to perform.
There are several versions of this trick; the version you’ll learn from the video below is impromptu so it does not require any preparation.
11. Pure Math Card Trick
Its not a secret that a lot of self-working card magic tricks are working on mathematical principles.
In most cases, this fact is not obvious; in this case, however, the spectator himself will do some math as part of the trick.
12. Self Working “Abracadabra” Trick
“Abracadabra” is possibly one of the most known magic spells.
The trick you’ll learn from the video below is self-working and there is some spelling necessary for this trick.
If you’re not from an English speaking country, you can easily adjust it to your own language.
13. Color Separation Card Trick
This is an amazing card trick with a surprising ending!
The trick is best to be performed to two spectators that have totally free choice of which cards they keep.
14. Easy Prediction Card Trick
Another amazing, easy, and practically self-working card trick!
No sleight of hands is needed, just follow the steps in the video tutorial below.
15. Easiest Four Ace Card Trick
There is a number of great card tricks with four Aces.
16. Intuition Card Trick Revealed
This card trick is another demonstration of how the free decision of the spectator leads to a surprising ending.
Very easy to do but with great impact!
17. Spectator Finds All Aces!
Let the spectator or several spectators divide the deck of playing cards into four piles.
Remember that the piles were divided by spectators randomly.
But still, you’re in full control, and the ending with surprise everybody in the room!
18. Photo Prediction
This is one of my personal favorite prediction card magic tricks.
It’s extremely easy to do but very effective.
19. Easiest Self Working Card Trick
This is one of the first card tricks that I ever learned.
It’s so easy that it can be done by anybody, without any practice.
20. Wild Card Magic Trick
Joker is well known to be a Wild Card.
Let’s use it for performing magic!
21. Amazing Card Location Trick
Perfect card location trick that is completely self-working so you can learn it easily, even if you’re a complete beginner!
Conclusion
So, you have seen 21 of my all-time favorite card magic tricks.
All tricks are easy to do, and in most cases, you just need to follow given sets of instructions.
I’m sure, you’ll have a lot of fun with these tricks!
If you’re interested in learning more tricks like this, I recommend you to check also websites cardtricksrevealed.com and nowordsmagic.com, or my list of 20 Best YouTube Channels for learning magic tricks and list of 10 Best websites to learn magic tricks.