Introduction: Three Card Monte (trick)
Fool people and make then look stupid every time
Step 1: Equipment
Get 2 identical (if possible) cards and one different card
Step 2: Bending the Cards
Slightly bend along the black lines (not a long the white lines like I have done) so they are easier to pick up with your fingers
Step 3: Terms and Picking Up the Cards
Black cards = looser
Red cards = winner
Real throw = throw the cards without fooling the audience
Fake throw = throw the cards normally but fool the audience
Turn all cards upsidown on the table top
Pick up a loser in your left hand between your thumb and your first finger
And loser in your right hand between your thumb and your second finger
Then pick up the winner in your right hand between your thumb and your first finger
Pick all up at the centre crease
Step 4: Dropping Cards
To let the person your fooling think they are good at this game, show the picked up cards to the audience. drop the winner in the right hand onto the table then drop the looser in the left hand onto the table, both face down! Then throw the last looser down on the table also face down. Throw all the cards in a row. Do this slowly so the person thinks the game is easy. They should know where the winner is and pick the right card
Step 5: Master and Repeat Step 4
Do step NO 4 many times to make it look like the game is easy
Step 6: The Trick
Hold the cards normally. Show them to the audience and instead of dropping the winner on the table let the looser slide out between your thumb and 2nd finger onto the table first (all in your left hand). So now 1 card is on the table, people think it is a looser but it really the winner drop the rest of the cards normally this should be done quickly and effortlessly so the audience support nothing
Step 7: Keep on Practising
Master the whole trick and fool people over and over again
Step 8: A Bit of Info
If you ever see somebody doing this trick but getting people to put money on what card they think is the winner stay well back
14 Comments
14 years ago on Introduction
Can you add (more) pictures?
14 years ago on Introduction
i don't get it can anybody please make a simple version
14 years ago on Introduction
this is so cool if you have any more cool ideas please email them to mattyts@live.co.uk
15 years ago on Introduction
Yeah, what hamO said. If it's illegal, why should we need to know it? Check out my Instructable, [simple money getting trick] *note* this is not illegal, this is just a trick to some money at school.
16 years ago on Introduction
If it's illegal, why would we want (need) to learn how to do it?
Reply 16 years ago on Introduction
thats the point of instructables
Reply 16 years ago on Introduction
yes it is o and good instructable wobmog
Reply 16 years ago on Introduction
gambling displays, magic tricks, making money fast & illegally... in about 15 minutes with a good monte team (yah, you usually have somebody there to A. look out, and B. help you get MORE $$) bump up the bet, offer a couple "double or nothing" deals, and get out of there with fists full of cash.
16 years ago on Introduction
same picture's and a better description can be found here
card trick
16 years ago on Introduction
I use a different method .... at the end of the monte, as a final display of my deceit, I rip off the corner of the "money" card so that the letter and symbol show, and set that corner on the table in plain sight. I then shuffle the cards and get the bets as to where the money card is... and the suckers still lose.
16 years ago on Introduction
Spell Checker!!!
Diagrams would help where the descriptions falter.
The game is called "Three Card Monte"
Reply 16 years ago on Introduction
variation of cups?
16 years ago on Introduction
Three Card Monte is only illegal if you charge people money to play. Doing it for fun is perfectly legal.
16 years ago on Introduction
The game is only illegal fro two reasons. First, you need some sort of license in most cities to do something like this on the street, and people never get them. They could be playing the game with the cards face up, and making everyone a winner, and it would still be illegal in this regard. Second, when it's played on the street, they do it so there is no way to win. They will show the winner, and then not play the winner, so no which card you play, you can't pick the winner. The way around this is to piack the card you think would be the winner, then put you hand down on it, claiming it's the winner. Force them to turn over the other two, showing losers. Your card must be the winner. Of course, be prepared to get your butt kicked if you even think about touchihng the cards. So, please, don't touch the cards. Repeat, DO NOT TOUCH THE CARDS.