Take any number of cards and spread them out fan-like in your hand, faces fronting the spectators. Ask one of them to s…

Take the four kings, the four queens, the four knaves, and the four tens of a pack, and ask if there be any one in the …

The cards may be easily divided into two numerical parts, even and odd: by taking a king for four points, a queen for t…

Lay out twenty cards of any kind, two by two, and request a friend to think of two in a line; that is, one of the ten s…

For this amusing trick you arrange the cards thus: Holding the pack in your hands, find all the knaves, place one of th…

Make a set of all the clubs and spades, and another set of hearts and diamonds. Shuffle well each set, and even let the…

Take four kings. Beneath the last place any two cards, which you take care to conceal. Then show the four kings and rep…