Front to Back Cut

The Front to Back Cut is a card trick that will be easier to perform for people with larger hands. This is due to the fact that during the trick you are almost holding two lengths of cards in your hand. If the distance between the tip of your pinky and the tip of your thumb in a stretched out hand is not more than 7.5 inches you most likely will not be able to perform the trick as described here.

Tutorial

Hold a deck of in your right hand with the thumb on the right long side of the cards, the index finger on the top side of the deck, middle and ring fingers on the left side of the cards, and the pinky on the bottom of the deck.

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Move your thumb down to the lower right corner of the cards. Separate the deck of cards into two halves. Raise the top half of the deck, using your index finger as the pivot point.

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Keep moving the half deck up until the pinky, index, and thumb are just about in a straight line. During this time you also need to lower the bottom half of cards a little bit.

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Move your index finger in towards the palm a fraction of an inch so that the cards being held by the thumb and index finger can pass by the other cards. Move the cards back towards the pinky finger with your thumb, making sure to pass them behind the cards that were not moved by your thumb. At the same time, bring up those cards just a bit to meet your thumb. The cards will move back into place behind the half of the deck which was previously the bottom half.

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Note

For a variation of the card trick, you can move the half into the middle of the other half instead of behind it. This will take a little bit more practice, but if done correctly the cards will actually be shuffled together a little bit instead of just simply being cut in the middle.

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5 thoughts on “Front to Back Cut

  1. JO! It work! With a little bit of practise, everything is possible!

    Now I handle all the card tricks on this homepage and I would be very happy to lern more.

    Max

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  2. For the people with smaller hands:

    This trick is more easily done with “bridge” sized cards. They’re a tad bit smaller than your average “poker sized” cards.

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