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Number Magic

A Card Trick

Materials Needed:

  • 1 Standard Card Deck with all Tens, Jacks , Queens, and Kings removed.
  • Ability to do math in your head.
  • Pad of paper and pencil.

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How the Trick Appears:

Using math you figure out two cards that a person has chosen.

How the Trick Works:

Have someone shuffle the cards. Take a group of cards and hold them in your hand, spread out in a fan shape. Ask him/her to choose a card from among them. Tell the person to remember it and then to put it back in the deck.

Give the person a peice of paper and pencil if they are not that good at doing math in their head, or remembering a few numbers at a time.

Ask them to double the value of the card they picked, and then to add 5.

Now have them multiply that number by 5. Tell them to remember this number.

Instruct them to look at another card in the deck, and to add its value to the total that they had computed before. They are to tell you the final total of everything.

In your head, subtract 25 from the total. The two digits you get are the same as the two cards they chose.

Example: they choose a Six (6), then a Three (3).

6 (doubled) = 12 plus 5 = 17. Multiply times 5 = 85.


Three added to total = 88. You subtract 25 = 63.


They picked a Six and a Three!

Notes: Aces are counted as "1"

Practice this trick before performing. It's easy to get confused on how a card trick works just from reading about it. Having a deck of cards in your hands as you try and learn the tricks on this page will make it much easy to learn, understand and then master.

 


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Last 10 commentsView all comments
By: JP - April 11th 2008  
how about J,q,k's !!!!!!!!!!
By: huh? - March 16th 2008  
i used to know this trick but it was different because i subtracted 5...
i'm not exactly sure why...
By: Joshua - January 22nd 2008  
the top and bottom of the cards and brush them upwards using ur fingers. and in the end three of the foursome will b 2gether even though u mixed them. very effective to a not so very smart audience
By: Joshua - January 22nd 2008  
Take the one extra card, say it is a three, put it face down and cover it with one of the threesome then do the same with the other and the one from the foursome. then out them back on the deck hold
By: Joshua - January 22nd 2008  
Hey!! okey take 4 of a same card and two different one. then u must out one of the 4 on the card pile leaving the other three and then you should put the extra two cards ontop. contd.
By: Marlayna - January 03rd 2008  
That 's no magic trick, that's stupid.
By: rhianne - October 28th 2007  
brilli ant i loved the trick and my dad fell for it i loved it i was even amazed at how good i did
By: Steve-0 - October 26th 2007  
Cool how simple math can be turned into magic. Very clever...
By: uremomma - October 23rd 2007  
ITZ PRETTY COOL BUT 2 EASY
By: chinballz - October 23rd 2007  
dat suz,u guys r gay,u guys r gay 4 doin dat
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