Ask a friend to shuffle a pack of cards and then remove any card. Ask them to put that card, face down, on the table.
They don’t show you what the card is and they don’t even have to look at it themselves!
Now ask them to turn the pack face up and call the name of each card as they deal it onto the table.
When they’ve dealt their last card, you can immediately tell them the card which they chose and removed from the deck at the start of your routine.
That should impress your friends because, at that point, no-one at all has seen what that card was!
You simply have to fix each of the cards as an image in your mind before you start.
Your work doesn’t actually start until they start to say the names of the cards as they deal them on to the table. As they name each card, crush or tear the mental image you have of that card.
When they name their last card, you will have a clear image of just one playing card in your head
– the one that has been laying face-down on the table since the start of the trick!
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