| This deceptively simple yet overwhelmingly powerful | | | | start thumbing through the cards starting from top, |
| card trick is so easy to learn that by the time you finish | | | | there card will be the one immediately after the one |
| reading this article you'll have a trick up your sleeve | | | | you peeked at. |
| that will never cease to amaze your lucky audience. | | | | There are plenty of ways that you can choose to |
| The first thing you'll need is to get a deck of cards. It | | | | "reveal" this trick. You can look through the cards |
| doesn't even need to be a full deck, or a new deck. | | | | slowly, pausing every so often to "read" their minds, |
| Any deck of cards is fine. Tell your audience that you | | | | until you get to their card. |
| will be performing some magic psychic mind reading, or | | | | Another way that is a particular favorite of mine is to |
| anything else that sounds equally impressive. Start out | | | | quickly put their card on top of the deck when you get |
| by fanning the cards out, face down, and have one | | | | to it, without them looking. Once their card is on top of |
| person pick a card. | | | | the deck, put it behind your back, (or under a table), |
| Next, as they would expect you to, tell them to | | | | and quickly take their card off the top, turn it over, and |
| memorize the card, and show it to their friends. Here | | | | stick it anywhere randomly in the deck. |
| comes the tricky part. While they are showing it to | | | | Then you can pretend that you couldn't find their card, |
| your friends, you simply put the cards back in a stack, | | | | and ask them what it is. Then you start looking through |
| and then cut the deck, so they will put their card face | | | | the deck, with all the cards face up, except theirs. The |
| down into your pre cut deck. You simply quickly look at | | | | only card face down will be theirs. They will be |
| the card that will be placed on top of theirs. This is | | | | amazed, to say the least. |
| easy to do, as they will be too busy memorizing the | | | | You can easily come up with many different ways for |
| chosen card. | | | | a powerful "reveal" that will always stun your audience. |
| After they put their card in the deck, you know exactly | | | | You can do this trick pretty much anywhere you have |
| what card comes after theirs, if you start searching | | | | a deck of cards handy and a couple minutes to spare. |
| from the bottom up. Or if you flip the deck over, and | | | | Have fun. |