"Number Magic
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.
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. |
