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Date Posted: 05:28:37 02/02/12 Thu
Author: MINOO TODIWALA (HAPPY)
Subject: Re: Card trick: Three card match
In reply to: Andy 's message, "Card trick: Three card match" on 08:47:11 03/07/03 Fri

>Effect: A person from the audience picks a card and
>sets it aside. After a little hocus-pocus, you flip
>over three cards of the same rank as the selected
>card.
>
>Preparation:
>
>1) Take all four cards of two suits from the deck (for
>this we will say Aces and Kings.)
>
>2) Put all four Aces on top of the deck, and all the
>Kings on top of them. Now you are ready.
>
>Card Trick:
>
>1) Deal the cards into two face down rows of four:
>Ace, Ace, Ace, Ace; King, King, King, King.
>
>2) Ask a spectator to point at one row of cards.
>Remove this row and place it on the bottom of the deck
>(It is no longer needed. For this, we will say that
>the Kings remain.)
>
>3) Have the spectator touch, but not look at, a single
>card in the row.
>
>4) Place this card aside, and put the remaining three
>cards on top of the deck. (That gives you one King on
>the table and the other three Kings on top of the
>deck.)
>
>5) Deal the cards out into three piles (one King will
>be on the bottom of each.) Continue to deal out the
>cards until your spectator tells you to stop.
>
>6) Now you can use any elimination process to bring
>each of the piles down to one card (which will be the
>King that was on the bottom.)
>
>7) The only cards that should be left on the table are
>the one King that was set aside and the three Kings
>that were dealt into the piles. Flip the single card
>face up, reminding everyone that the spectator
>selected it. Now flip the other three cards face up,
>revealing that they all match.

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