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The demonstrator asks one of the spectators to remove a small pack of cards from the top of the deck, after which he himself also removes the pack, but with a slightly larger number of cards. Then he counts his cards. Let's say there are twenty.

Then he declares: "I have four cards more than you, and enough more to count to sixteen." The spectator counts his cards. Let's say there are eleven. Then the showman lays out his cards one by one on the table, while counting up to eleven.

Then, in accordance with his statement, puts four cards aside and continues to lay cards, counting further: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. The sixteenth card will be the last, as he predicted.

The trick can be repeated over and over again, and the number of cards put aside must be changed all the time, for example, once there can be three, another - five, etc. At the same time, it seems incomprehensible how the showman can guess the difference in the number of cards without knowing the number of cards drawn by the spectator.

Focus secret:

In this trick, the showman does not need to know the number of cards in the spectator's hand at all. He just needs to be sure that he has taken more cards than the spectator. The showman counts his cards; in our example there are twenty. Then arbitrarily takes some small number, say four, and subtracts it from 20; it turns out 16. Then the demonstrator says: "I have four cards more than you and that many more to count to sixteen." The cards are recalculated as explained above, and the statement turns out to be true.

The counting method seems to require knowledge of the number of cards the spectator has, although in reality the magician only counts his cards, with the exception of four, which he places separately. Varying the number of cards set aside each time makes the spectator think that some formula depends on the number of cards he is holding.

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