Prediction in an envelope. Effective trick and its solution

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The spectator shuffles the deck, then chooses any twelve cards, and gives the rest to the magician. The spectator shuffles his twelve cards again, while the magician writes a prediction on a piece of paper, which he puts in an envelope and puts aside. The spectator places any four of his twelve cards face up in a row on the table and gives the rest to the magician.

The magician places cards from the deck face down on each card on the table so that the value of the entire pile reaches ten, that is, if it is a three, seven cards must be placed on it. For this purpose, figure cards are valued as tens, and no additional cards need to be added to them.

The values of the top four cards are added up (the figure cards again go as tens), and the magician counts this number of cards from the rest of the deck. He turns over the last card dealt. The envelope is opened - and it turns out that the magician predicted this particular card.

Focus secret:

1. A spectator, let's call her Anna, shuffles the cards. She is asked to choose twelve cards and shuffle them. When she gives the rest of the cards to you, you should take a quick look at the bottom card. Let's say it's a seven of clubs. You write this card on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope, seal it and put it on the table.

2. Ask Anna to place any four of her cards face up on the table and give the rest to you, you place these cards on the bottom of your pile. You then deal your cards to each of Anna's face-up cards, adding the value of each pile to ten (face cards count as tens), as described above. Now ask Anna to add up the values of the four cards she has placed on the table. Make sure it folds correctly.

This is an arithmetic trick that cannot fail (unless you make a mistake in the calculation or if the deck is missing a card!). When you take Anna's eight cards and put them on the bottom of the deck, the seven of clubs becomes the ninth card from the bottom or the fortieth from the top, since there are four cards on the table.

Now suppose that the total point of the cards on the table is eighteen. The number of cards that you will have to add to them in order to increase the value of each of the piles to ten will be twenty-two. You will have twenty-six cards left in your hand, and the eighteenth card from the bottom will be the seven of clubs.

In other words, the value of the four flipped cards, plus the cards to be added to them, will always be 40, and the fortieth card in the deck is the one you quickly looked at and wrote down.

3. Count out the appropriate number of cards from your hand and reveal the seven of clubs, which you predicted, of course.

Author: Arnold Peter

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