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Some Of My Tricks
Predicting a mate
Shuffle the pack and fan it out face up in your hands. Remembering the bottom card, count thirteen cards up from the bottom (inclusive) and cut these cards to the top of the pack.
Inform the audience that you are searching for your prediction card. Look through the pack until you find the "mate" (the card with the same colour and number) of the original bottom card which is now 13th from the top. Place this card on the table out of the way.
Ask a volunteer from the audience to "Count a small number of cards (let's say between 1 and 10) from the top of the pack while I turn away. Then hide them so I can't see how many you've counted".
Turn away while the cards are counted and hidden.
Take the remainder of the pack from the volunteer and inform them that you are going to count 12 cards from the top of the deck. Do just that and hide them from site.
Inform the volunteer that you are going to bring out your cards one by one and ask them to call out when you reach their number.
Begin bringing out the cards from the top of the pile and place them face down on the table. When the volunteer stops you, place that card down next to your prediction card.
Inform the audience that if your prediction was correct, the two cards on the table should be mates, that is they should have the same number and colour. Get the volunteer to turn over the two cards. They really are mates!
Copycat
This trick requires two packs, each with a different coloured back. Ask a member of the audience to help you and give them one of the two packs-you take the other one. Tell the person to copy what you do
Start by both shuffling the pack in your hands.
Swap packs, but as you do so, take a peek at the bottom card of the pack you are handing over. Lets say it's the ace of spades for this example.
Choose a card from your pack and place it on the top. Instruct your helper to do the same.
Each of you cut the pack in your hands. Your helper's chosen card is now the one below the ace of spades.
Swap packs again and instruct your helper to remove their chosen card from the pack and place it face down on the table.
Forget the card you chose before and remove your helper's chosen card (the one below the ace of spades) and put it face down next to your helper's card.
Turn the card over at the same time as your helper, and low and behold, they're the same card!
X-Ray vision 2
Get someone to shuffle the pack well.
Peek at the bottom card and shuffle it to the top. Let's say it's the ace of spades.
Get someone to cut the pack into four piles. Watch carefully to see where they put the pile with the the ace of spades on.
Touch any other pile, look at it intently, hesitate, and say "the top card of this pile is the ace of spades", before picking the top card up.
Look at the card you've just picked up (let's call it the jack of hearts).
Touch any pile other than the one with the ace of spades in and say "jack of hearts" before picking up the top card and looking at it.
Repeat the procedure with the other two piles, leaving the one with the ace of spades in until last.
Throw the four cards down on the table face up for all to see.
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