Aug
08
2007
What’s the card trick where you put 3 cards together in 3 rows and like 7 colums?
Posted by: dmin in Other - Visual Arts, tags: Cards, Pick 3, Piles
For The Sorrow I Sing asked:
So there’s like 3 cards place together in 3 rows in like 7 colums. You pick a card from the deck and place it anywhere in the deck. Then you tell the person what colum the card is in and that person collects the cards and lays them out the same way again and asks you the same question & that goes on for about 4 times. Then he does the same thing, but he flips the card facing downward and tells you to pick like 3 piles & he gets rid of the other ones. Then he tells you pick 2 piles and gets rid of one pile. Then he tells you to pick 1 pile and gets rid of the left over pile. Then he tells you to pick 2 card and he gets rid of the other one. Then he tells you to pick one card and that one card is your card.
So there’s like 3 cards place together in 3 rows in like 7 colums. You pick a card from the deck and place it anywhere in the deck. Then you tell the person what colum the card is in and that person collects the cards and lays them out the same way again and asks you the same question & that goes on for about 4 times. Then he does the same thing, but he flips the card facing downward and tells you to pick like 3 piles & he gets rid of the other ones. Then he tells you pick 2 piles and gets rid of one pile. Then he tells you to pick 1 pile and gets rid of the left over pile. Then he tells you to pick 2 card and he gets rid of the other one. Then he tells you to pick one card and that one card is your card.
Something like that… Anyways, how do you do that?
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I learned a simple trick like that as a kid. You take a stack of 21 cards. Have the person pick a card, look at it and return it to the pile. Then you deal out the cards in 3 columns of 7 cards each and ask the person to tell you which column is card is in. (You deal 3 across and then 3 more. then 3 more across, etc.) Then you pick up the cards so that the column with the card in it is in the middle. (If the card is in the first column, you put the first column on top of the second column and then the thrid one on top of that.) Deal the cards out again the same way and again ask which column the card is in. Pick up the 3 piles again so that the one with the card is in the middle and deal them out a third time and ask the same question. Pick up the three columns a third and final time. Then turn the pile over and count out the cards as you turn them face up. The selected card will be number 11. You always deal the cards out across in rows–1, 2, 3; 1, 2, 3, etc., but you pick them up in columns 7 overlapping cards together.