The simplest card trick in the world

You don’t have to be a Lance Burton or a Chris Angel to pull off this little card trick and it’s almost impossible to go wrong. As long as you can remember the story and the pattern the cards should set, you should be fine. This also does not mean that you have to pre-arrange the cover. The best part is that this trick only requires you to use 16 cards and it works on its own.

Step one
Go through the deck and remove all aces, jacks, queens and kings. These are the only cards you will need for this trick.

Second step
You will then need to sort these cards by their own suits so that the jack, queen, king, and aces of each suit are in their own pile.

Step three
You put these four groups of cards into four separate piles. You should start with four piles of kings. Next, cover all but an inch of the kings with queens and then cover all but an inch of the queens with jacks and so on. Apart from each card must be visible. As you do this, tell your audience the following story. Once upon a time there were four small island kingdoms in the middle of the ocean. Each island had a king and a queen and a prince named Jack. And each kingdom had a dog named Ace. One day, a huge tidal wave hit the islands and swept everyone into the ocean.

Step four
At this point, you pick up each group and place them on top of each other. Now you hand this package to the audience and ask them to cut the deck several times.

step five
Now tell your audience that despite this natural disaster, no one was injured and every person and animal swam back to the nearest island. But something a bit strange has happened. At this point, you begin to deal the card into four separate piles until you have dealt all sixteen cards. You will now have four stacks of four cards and for the best result you should deal these cards face down.

step six
When you’re done dealing the cards, flip each stack over one by one and you’ll see that the kings, queens, jacks, and aces are now all in their individual stacks. You end this trick by saying that somehow the kings, queens, jacks, and aces manage to swim to their individual islands.

This is a trick that works by itself and will always work. Good luck and have fun with it.