CHAPTER III.

CARD TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS, AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND.

Simple Modes of Discovering a Given Card 42

Various Modes of Disclosing a Discovered Card 44

To Make a Card Vanish from the Pack, and be found in a Person’s Pocket 46

To place the Four Kings in different parts of the Pack, and to bring them together by a simple Cut 47

The Four Kings being placed under the Hand of one Person, and the Four Sevens under the Hand of Another, to make them Change Places at Command 48

Four Packets of Cards having been formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards 49

To Name all the Cards of the Pack in Succession 50

The Cards being Cut, to tell whether the Number Cut is Odd or Even 51

The Whist Trick. To deal yourself all the Trumps (_see also page 119_) 51

To allow a Person to think of a Card, and to make that Card appear at such Number in the Pack as another Person shall Name 52

The Cards revealed by the Looking-glass 53

To Guess Four Cards thought of by Different Persons 53

The Pairs Re-paired 54

The Magic Triplets 55

Another Mode of Discovering a Card thought of 55

To Guess, by the aid of a Passage of Poetry or Prose, such one of Sixteen Cards as, in your Absence, has been Touched or Selected by the Company 56

To Detect, without Confederacy, which of Four Cards has been Turned Round in your Absence 57

To Arrange Twelve Cards in Rows in such a manner that they will Count Four in every Direction 58

To Place the Aces and Court Cards in Four Rows, in such a manner that neither Horizontally nor Perpendicularly shall there be in either Row two Cards alike, either in Suit or Value 58

The Congress of Court Cards 59