How to do card tricks

Amazing Prediction

Someone of the audience (spectator) is asked to shuffle the cards, remove any twelve from the pack and to further shuffle these twelve. While he or she is doing this the magician (you) writes a prediction on a piece of paper he places face down on the table. The spectator now takes any four cards from his selected twelve and lays them in a row face up on the table. The other eight cards are put with the rest of the pack.

This is now taken up, and from it cards are dealt onto each of the face-up cards so as to bring its value to ten. For instance, if a four then six cards are to be dealt on top of it. All picture cards, however, are valued at ten so no cards are put on these.

When you have this done, the total value of the four cards is ascertained. For example, supposing the four face-up cards happen to be the Three of Hearts, the Seven of Clubs the Jack of Spades and the Four of Diamonds, their total value would be twenty-four. The card which lies at that number is now counted down to in the pack that remains. When it is turned over, amazingly matches the original prediction.

This is an amazing self-working trick. It requires no skills at all and can be done with a borrowed pack as long as the pack is complete.

How is it done?

Someone of the audience (spectator) shuffles the pack and removes any twelve cards and while he shuffles these twelve cards you note the bottom card of the pack remaining ; this is the prediction card.
Write the name and color of this card on the paper and put it to one side.
Tell the spectator to remove any four cards and give the rest to you. Lay this discarded cards face down on the table and drop the bulk of the pack on top of these. So now your prediction card is ninth from the bottom.

The spectator lays out his four cards and deals on each one, enough cards to make up ten. The total of the four face-up cards is obtained and this number counted down to and it will be the card you previously predicted.

Isn't this amazing. A simple trick that works every time. Just practice 50 times and them show it to you audience. The all will be stunned.

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