Tricks with an Ordinary Deck
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Geared toward intermediate to advanced performers. Everything here works with a regular deck, and only one routine uses a sleight.
Jiggery Poker
The helper cuts the deck and deals the half they chose into five piles. You take the top card of each pile and they use what is left to build the best poker hand they can. After they show their hand, you show them the winning hand with a royal flush.
Aces That Go Places
You shuffle the deck, then have the helper cut it into four piles. Have them take the first pile, deal three cards off the top onto the bottom of the pile, then deal one card to the top of each pile. They repeat the same procedure with each remaining pile. When the top card is turned over on each pile, the four aces are there.
Five the Hard Way
A card is chosen and returned to the deck. You tell the helper you will make one card turn over in the deck. When you go through the deck you find a five face up. They will say that is not their card. You say you did not claim it was, but that you will use it to find their card. You count four cards to the table and turn the fifth card over, revealing their card. Then you say that in case they did not like those tricks, you also found the four aces, revealing the four cards dealt as the aces.
Carnival Trick
A helper picks a card and returns it to the deck. You tell them you will flip the cards over one at a time, and not to say when they see their card. You deal through and stop at a card that is obviously not theirs. You offer them a bet that the next card you turn over will be their card. They can see their card in the pile and you gesture to the wrong one. They take the bet, and then you turn over their actual card.
The Schoolboy Trick
You have the helper shuffle the deck. You take it back and tell them that after you cut it into three piles you can name the cards without looking. You call out the first card and take it from a pile, and do the same for each pile. Ask them which cards you named, then reveal the correct cards.
Untouched
A fantastic trick by the magician Daryl, published in a book aimed at lay people called Magic for Dummies. The helper shuffles the deck and does all the work, hence the title. You have them show you the cards as you tell them you are thinking of one. You remove your card and have them table the rest of the deck. You have them take the cards dealt to the table and deal them into two piles, telling them it is because your card has two values, a number and a suit. When they are done dealing, they turn over the corresponding cards and they match your card's value.
Freaking Miracle
The helper shuffles the deck. You take it back and remove three predictions. The helper cuts and selects a half to use, then deals the cards into three piles. When you turn over the top card of each pile, they match your predictions.
Ten Card Poker Deal
A multi-phase poker routine where you never lose, taught to me by the amazing Nick Trost. You deal the first time face down. The second time you let the helper choose who gets what cards. The last time the helper spreads the cards after they shuffle and you each choose a card, or you can let the helper choose. You can offer to let them switch one card or the whole hand, and they still lose.
Key Card
How to use a key card to find their card in a very subtle way.
Oil and Vinegar
The only trick that uses a sleight, and it is an easy one you can learn quickly. You show three red cards and three black cards and seemingly mix them, one after the other. When you flip them over, they are not mixed at all, and each color is back together.