Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
- Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards is a magic trick. As the trick requires only that a card is "thought of", it does not require the use of a deck of cards.
Method
A spectator is instructed to think of any card (other than the joker). The magician then gives the following instructions:
* Take the card's face value (with aces counting as 1 and royal cards counting as 11, 12 and 13 respectively)
* Double it.
* Add 3.
* Multiply by 5.
* If the card the spectator is thinking of is a heart, add 1.
* If the card the spectator is thinking of is a spade, add 2.
* If the card the spectator is thinking of is a diamond, add 3.
* If the card the spectator is thinking of is a club, add 4.
The spectator then tells the magician the number the spectator is now thinking of. The magician then names the card.
Secret
The series of mathematical manipulations results in any given card producing a unique number. The multiplication by 2 and 5 means that the final number is ten times the card's value, plus a fixed 15 (for the addition of 3 and the multiplication by 5) and an additional suit-dependent figure. Thus both suit and value are readily identifiable.
Literature
*Harry Blackstone, "Blackstone's Tricks Anyone Can Do" ISBN 0-8065-0862-0
*John Scarne, "Scarne on Card Tricks" ISBN 0-486-42735-8
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