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Date Posted: 02:23:52 02/03/04 Tue
Author: peter onn
Subject: Re: Card Trick: Deck Predictor
In reply to: Andy 's message, "Card Trick: Deck Predictor" on 04:49:21 12/06/02 Fri

>Effect: After mixing the deck of cards, the performer
>asks a spectator to cut the deck that is in his left
>hand. The spectator then places the top portion of the
>cards on the performer's right hand. The spectator is
>asked to take the top card off the portion in the
>performer's left hand. The spectator looks at the card
>without showing the performer. The performer uses his
>mind reading capability to tell what card has been
>chosen.
>
>Card Trick:
>
>Rigging the deck before hand: Place the cards in four
>piles starting with Spades then Hearts, Clubs, and
>finally Diamonds. Each of these piles should then be
>arranged, face up, in order from King on the bottom to
>Ace on top.
>
>Now starting with the Spades count back until the King
>is showing (bottom card is now Queen then Jack, Ten
>etc) Next take the Hearts and count back in the same
>manner until the Ten of Hearts is on top. For the
>Clubs you need the Seven on top, and the Diamonds will
>have the Four on top.
>
>One more step to complete. Take the King of Spades
>from its pile, turn it face down, and start a new
>pile. Onto this put the face down Ten of Hearts, then
>the Seven of Spades, and finally the Four of Diamonds.
>Continue to place the top cards in the same order of
>suits on the new pile until all the cards are placed
>into one pile. This completes the rigging of the deck.
>
>Action:
>
>Now practice your mind reading skills. Have someone
>cut the deck (as above) and take the top card off the
>left pile. You place the right half of the deck under
>the left half. While doing so, take a glance at the
>bottom card without making it obvious. Mentally count
>three cards up from the card you see on the bottom of
>the deck, and this is the value of card that was
>chosen. As for the suit, if a Spade is showing on the
>bottom then the card chosen is a Diamond. (Example:
>Six of Hearts is the bottom card, then the Nine of
>Spades is the chosen card; Ten of Clubs is on the
>bottom, then the King of Hearts is the chosen card.
>
>Tips - Always tell the spectator to place the chosen
>card back on top of the deck after the trick is
>completed. Mix the cards each time you perform the
>trick, by cutting the deck in half, so as to appear to
>shuffle but not to actually change the order. If the
>audience asks to see the cards, flip them over and
>quickly run through them, as they appear to be in
>random order. Don't let the audience shuffle the deck.
>Once you have completed the trick a couple of times,
>really shuffle the deck well and hand it to them.
>While doing this trick, you might first make a
>"mistaken" guess to throw the audience off, after all,
>it's 80% your game, 20% your trick.

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