It is Danish Per Clausen who years ago came up with this entertaining monte routine. If you want a "packet-trick" in your pocket, ready to entertain both children and adults, BANANAS never fails. Click and watch Steen Pegani demonstrate the routine.

You explain to that you want to show a very simple card trick where everyone will be able to follow. There are only four cards and instead of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, there are fruits on the cards. Three cards with apples and one card with a banana. The job is to keep an eye on the banana…

An apple is placed on the table, but mysteriously the banana swaps places with the apple several times. It's never where your spectators guess...

In the end, the cards are turned face up, and no one can now doubt where the banana is ... But then comes the climax that has made BANANAS known and loved for decades: suddenly there are three bananas, sweet monkeys appear on the back of the cards and look what happened to the apple at the table…

Bananas comes complete with the specially printed cards in super quality and with the beautiful Swedish "Anglo" back. Written instruction is included in both Danish and English.

If you have never had the chance to learn false counts like "Elmsley" and "Jordan", you get with Bananas a good opportunity to practice these techniques that can be used in many other card tricks. It's not super easy, but it's really fun to practice and show.