When your friends have become tired of the old card tricks where the performer either hides a card up their sleeve or works with a pre-arranged pack, trying one of the mathematical card tricks could prove to be an invigorating solution!
To perform this easy card trick, take eleven cards of the following values and of any suits you like and arrange them in this order: A, J, Q, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and Joker, where the A is the top card of the packet and the Joker is the bottom card.
Next, you should place the deck of cards face down on the table and invite a person from the audience to take off any number of cards from the top, making sure they do not alter their order (by dealing them), and then place them on the bottom while your back is turned.
To illustrate this, you can take off three cards and put them to the bottom. After this, you mentally subtract three from eleven and remember eight which then becomes your key number.
Next, you should turn away and the spectator should do as directed. Turn back and put your left hand on the pack saying that the cards affect your heart beats so that you can tell the number transferred; also on that you will not only discover the number but that you will turn up a card denoting the number by its value. You should then explain that J counts 2, Q counts 3, K counts 4 and the Joker – 0, and so on with the other cards, according to their spots. You now merely have to turn up the eighth card which will give you the number of cards transferred.
To repeat, glimpse the bottom card of the deck and subtract from eleven, this will give you the key card for the next transfer. If no cards are moved you turn up the Joker, value 0. Easy card tricks such as this one can be repeated indefinitely.
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