Easy Great Card Trick



You will need: Ordinary deck of cards

Effect: The spectator selects a card and it is put into the middle of the deck. The cards are then gone through in faceup piles and the spectator is asked to silently locate their card. The piles are put together and then, you spell out their card and their card appears.

Tutorial:
 * 1) Before you begin your trick, look at the bottom card and memorize it. This will be your key card.
 * 2) Have your spectator select a card and have them memorize it.
 * 3) Divide the cards into 6-8 piles and have the spectator/audience put the card on one of the piles. If they put it on the pile with the key card at the bottom, take another pile, look at the bottom card (which would be your new key card), and put it on the pile with the card.
 * 4) After the spectator/audience puts their card on a pile, take the pile with your key card at the bottom, and put it on the pile with their card, so that now, you don't know what the spectator's card is, but you know that their card is right underneath your key card. Stack up the rest of the piles.
 * 5) Deal down one pile faced up. In your next pile, don't stop dealing down cards until you see your key card. Once you see your key card, start the next pile.
 * 6) When you start dealing your third pile, the spectator's/audience's card will be at the top. Memorize the card and naturally continue dealing the third pile.
 * 7) In your fourth pile, deal down as many cards as there are letters in the spectator's/audience's card. For example, if the card was the three of clubs, you would count T-H-R-E-E O-F C-L-U-B-S as you are dealing down the pile and in other words, since "three of clubs" has 12 letters, you'll deal down twelve cards in the fourth pile.
 * 8) Go to the fifth pile and deal the cards down freely.
 * 9) Put the spelled out pile on the pile with the spectator's/audience's card and put the other piles on the bottom.
 * 10) Say that the deck is set so that whatever their card is, it can be spelled out from the top. Say any card except for the three of clubs is their card and start spelling it out until the spectator/audience stops you. Have them tell you their card, deal down the cards while spelling out the card, and show them their card.