"CARD LOCATION" (#51)

"CARD LOCATION" (#51)

This trick, like so many card tricks, is based on math---have fun with it....

The magician has three rows of cards. An audience volunteer picks a card in his/her head and tells the magician what row it's in. The magician does that three times and on the third time tells the volunteer what their card was.

Supplies:
21 cards, all different

Secret:
First lay out the cards, 3 across and 7 down....in other words, 7 rows of three....
Have someone think of a card and tell you what row its in.
Pick up all the rows, row by row, making sure to pick up the row that the card is in 2nd.
EXAMPLE: Let's assume the volunteer secretly chose 6th card down in the second row. We would pick up the rows and we would make sure the second row was picked up second so that it was in the middle of the deck.

Then lay out the cards again (the exact same way, 3 across & 7 down).
Put down one card per row.
Ex: First do this *** (let's pretend the stars are cards).
Then this: *** and so on (7 times).
Then ask the volunteer where the card is in now.
Pick up the rows again, like before -- still making sure that you pick up the row that the card is in 2nd.
In our example, the volunteer would say their card was in the first row. You would make sure that row was in the middle of the deck
Lay them out again, the same way.
Then ask the volunteer which row the card is in now. (You can get dramatic and tell them to think really hard about it... pretend to be reading their mind)
Then count four cards down in that row. (It appears more magical if you count to yourself... people won't realize you're counting four cards down).
The fourth card is their card!!