Four Islands

Effect: there are four islands in an ocean. Each has a king, queen, a son named Jack (the Jack will be used,) and a dog named Ace (the Ace will be used.) One day, a hurricane storms through the ocean, creating complete chaos and wiping everything on the island away. Finally, each king lands on his own island, each queen on her own island, etc.

Card Trick: To perform this trick, you need to remove all King, Queen, Jack, and Aces. Create four “rows” of cards going down as you would in solitaire. Each row should have a King, Queen, Jack, and Ace all of one suit. Explain the sitting as you set them up on their island.

When you tell about the hurricane, sweep the cards up from the bottom of the “island” (the Ace) up. Do this to each row, in order from left to right. Hold the cards face down. The order will be King, Queen, Jack, Ace (of each suit.) Have a member of the audience cut the small deck in half, and complete the cut (top half of deck goes beneath the bottom half.) This may be done with several audience members. Don’t let them make more than one cut at a time. Now just deal them out, one at time, onto their four different island (four piles.)if you have done it right, each island will have all of one type of card.