Amazing card prediction. Effective trick and its solution

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Amazing card prediction. Focus secret

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Focus Description:

One of the spectators shuffles a deck of cards and puts it on the table. The magician writes the name of the card on a piece of paper and, without showing it to anyone, turns the sheet upside down.

After that, 12 cards are laid out face down on the table. Someone present is asked to name four of them. These cards are immediately revealed, and the remaining eight cards are collected and placed under the deck.

Let's assume that a three, a six, a ten, and a king were revealed. The artist says that on each of these four cards he will stack cards from the deck until he counts to ten, starting from the number following the numerical value of this card. So, for example, seven cards will have to be put on the Three, while saying: "4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"; four cards will need to be laid on the six; you don’t have to put anything on the top ten; figure card in this focus is also assigned the numerical value of 10.

Then the numerical values of the cards are added up: 3+6+10+10=29.

The rest of the deck is given to the spectator, and he is asked to count 29 cards, the last of which is opened.

The sheet with the card predicted in advance is turned over, and what is written is read aloud. Of course, there will be the name of the newly opened card!

Focus secret:

After the deck has been shuffled, the showman must discreetly see which card is at the bottom of the deck. It is this card that he predicts. Everything else comes out by itself. After eight of the twelve cards have been collected and placed under the deck, the seen card will be the fortieth in order. If all the operations mentioned above were performed correctly, we will invariably come to this card*. The fact that the deck is shuffled first makes this trick particularly effective.

The true purpose of the actions of the showman is reduced to counting forty cards with the help of the viewer, and so that the viewer does not guess about it. If x1, x2, x3, x4 are the numerical values of the taken cards, then 10-x1, 10-x2, 10-x3, 10-x4 cards are set aside respectively; In total, 40-x1-x2-x3-x4 cards are postponed, therefore, up to 40 there are not enough x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 cards.

It is interesting to note that in the trick described, as in others based on the same principle, the showman can allow the spectator to assign any numerical values to zalets, queens and kings. For example, a spectator may wish to count each jack as a three, a queen as a seven, and a king as a four. This will not affect the display of the focus in any way and may make it more "mysterious".

The trick, in fact, requires only one thing: that there are 52 cards in the deck; what kind of cards they will be does not play the slightest role. If they are all twos, the trick will work too. This means that the spectator can assign any new meaning to any card he likes, and this will not affect the success of the trick.

Author: M.Gardner

The second option

After shuffling the deck, you lay down a pile of nine cards face down. The spectator takes out one of these cards, remembers it and puts it on top of the pile. You put the rest of the cards of the deck on top of the pile, and thus the noticed card is the ninth from the bottom.

Now you take a deck and begin to lay out the cards one at a time in a pile face up, while counting out loud in reverse order from 10 to 1. If the numerical value of the laid card matches the called number (for example, a four appeared at the time when you said: " four"), then you stop putting cards in that pile and start adding the next one. If there is no such match, then you stop counting at the number 1 and the stack is “beaten”, that is, it is covered with the next card in order (face down), taken from the top of the deck.

So you set aside four piles, after which the numerical values \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbof the "unbeaten" (open) cards lying on top of the piles are added up. Then you count the received number of cards from the deck, and the viewer sees the card selected by him under the last of them.

This version of the trick is much more effective than the first one, since the choice of cards included in the sum seems completely random, and the "principle of compensation" on which the trick is based is even better hidden.

Author: Louis Hoffmann

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