This Magic Trick Will Leave You Stunned!
We’ve no idea how he does it, but 31-year-old Jamie Raven has everyone mesmerised with his clever conjuring act. After presenting the Judges with special BGT £50 notes, it’s time to see what other tricks the magician has up his sleeve. Even Simon is won over: “I now actually believe in magic, like some people believe in ghosts!” Were you amazed by Jamie’s magic tricks? Did you know how he did it? Please let us know in the comment section below and remember to share the video and sign up for our free newsletter!
June 30, 2015 @ 12:08 am
I would like to have him come to Australia and make our PM T Abbott disappear.
June 28, 2015 @ 9:49 am
proud of you and thank you for shariing
v/r oldsoldier
June 25, 2015 @ 11:03 pm
I applaud his talents. He was great!! Let’s see anyone of us do that?????? Great trick!!!!I don’t want to know how he did it– his skill should stand for itself.
June 13, 2015 @ 10:52 am
Possibly, as with all the illusional tricks the pack of cards is probably a little more than just that. I Woud say the bottom card which we only see one side of, has 4 small switches to select on of four, then additonal selection for the J,Q K, A, 2-9 for the actual number. Only the bottom card requires the actual card picture, very good though.
June 8, 2015 @ 9:36 am
Yes Doc’s right. Very well executed slight of hand. But. What about the notes? Come on Doc….how does that work?
June 4, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
My hat’s off to you; you were right on!
June 3, 2015 @ 7:16 pm
I thought Doc Glidewell’s explanation was right-on until I went back and reviewed the video. You can clearly see the underside of the deck as he fans through it. For Doc’s explanation to work wouldn’t the cards have to look the same on both sides, i.e. the little man on the red pattern?
June 4, 2015 @ 8:53 am
Bob, No. We are talking here about two different drawings on the back side of every card. We naturally assume that cards have the same symmetrical pattern on their backs and thus look the same regardless of which way they are turned. This trick takes advantage of that assumption. Every back has two different drawings, each using a narrow end of the card as its base, one showing that card’s sequence on the fan-animation, and the other showing that card, eg. the 5 of spades, as the last card in the animation sequence.
Click on the video to stop it at 4:05 and look closely at the card showing. You will see the one drawing, and just above it, the top of the other, very different drawing.
June 1, 2015 @ 4:45 pm
CANT U JUST BELIEVE!!!! THIS WAS A FANTASTIC SLIGHT OF HAND….ENJOY IT FOR THAT!!!!
June 2, 2015 @ 11:18 pm
Sorry, but the person who posted the video asked if we could figure out how the trick was done, and if so, to “tell us in the comment section.”
I’m just doing what I was told. 🙂
June 1, 2015 @ 12:19 pm
I don’t care how he did it, he performed it excelently. A magic trick/show should be pure entertainment and amazement and he delivered very well.
June 1, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
Doc Glidewell. everything you said makes sense except he would need 52 cards with the identical drawing displaying each of the other 51 possible choices, no?
June 2, 2015 @ 11:15 pm
Yes, but not ANOTHER 52 cards. The image representing the end of the animation is drawn on the back of every card, facing the other direction – toward the magician. His job is to find that card, slip it on the bottom, and then TURN IT AROUND so the other end of the card, containing its value in the “end” drawing, shows up at the end of the animation.
Put another way, if he reversed the deck in his hands and fanned them, we would see that each card has a drawing showing it to be the “end” card in the animation sequence.
December 19, 2016 @ 11:56 pm
Excellently
May 31, 2015 @ 10:19 pm
Sorry guys, but the video reveals top much during the animation sequence.
Simon wasn’t involved – he’s clean.
The deck contains two drawings on the back of each card. One drawing is its place in the “flip deck” animation, and one, facing opposite from the animation cartoon, is a drawing presenting that card as the “chosen” card. What the magician has to do is, while presenting the cards to the audience (3:47 to 3:52) and fanning through the top cards, count down to the named card, in this case the 8th card down from the top (AKQJ0987 – hearts are on top) and removing that card out of the back of the deck (good handwork here) rotate it, and place it on the bottom.
Here’s the clincher: at 4:05 when Jamie bends the cards during the animation and reveals the top of the other drawing on each card showing the top of the animated character’s head and the top of the drawing of the named card the character is holding up.
June 2, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
In addition, you could see the cards were not in order
July 15, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
Doc is absolutely correct. You can see in the video the spades in order down to the ace before the last card. Diamonds were before the spades so clubs were second in order after hearts. We don’t see a close up of his hands the entire time so we weren’t able to see him remove the picks card and place it on the bottom. Very well done trick. Camera caught too much though.
April 27, 2017 @ 5:16 pm
If you really know Simon. . .he would never go along with the “fix” !