Hi! Malik the Magic Guy for expertvillage.com. Now I'm going to show you another way to force a card using a die. Now let's have Mr. Hand come over for a minute, and Mr. Hand, I'd like you to roll the die as many times as you want until you end up with a number you're happy with. Okay, you like the 2, what we're going to do is take the 2 and add it to the number on the bottom, the 5, to make a 7. And that's going to if we deal 7 cards, the 7th card is going to be our force card, the ace of spades. Now let me explain to you how that works. There's actually a principle of dice that, on 6-sided dice, the opposite sides add up to 7; so no matter what number Mr. Hand rolls, if we add it to the bottom, we're always going to end up with a 7. Now you can use this for a bunch of other really cool tricks, but for now it works great as a card force if you're going to do a simple kind of trick. So we want to put our ace of spades 7th from the top, so 6 cards on top of it. We're going to have Mr. Hand roll the die, and he can roll it as many times as he wants until he gets a number he's happy with because it doesn't matter: he's getting 7 whether he likes it or not, so you get to exert little control there. So we'll add the 3 and the 4 that's going to make 7. We count down, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The 7th card is our force card, the ace of spades. So that's the way to use a single die to force cards.
