EFFECT :
Packets of cards are handed to several people who are
requested to think of any card in their respective packets. All the
cards are returned to the pack which is shuffled by the performer.
The spectators in turn spell their mentally selected cards, letter by
letter, the performer, taking off one card for each letter, reveals
each card on the last letter of its name.


HOW IT'S DONE....
Twenty cards are arranged in packets of five, the cards
in each packet spelling with eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and
fifteen letters, as follows:
KC, JH, QS, 4D, 8D
6S, 3C, 7S, JD, 7D
AS, QC, 10D, KD, 9D
AH, KH, 3S, 9D, 3D
These sets are placed on the top of the pack and a false shuffle
and cut made before starting the trick. Hand five cards to each of
four persons, asking each one to merely think of one card and
then turn the packet face down on his hand: this last to prevent
the order from being disturbed. The packets may be returned in
any order but such order must be remembered: it is best to have
the last packet replaced first and so on, the first packet being
replaced last of all. Shuffle ten cards on top of the last packet
returned and all is set to spell out the first person's card.
After spelling out the first card, replace all the cards on top and in
the course of a shuffle run five cards off the top, thus leaving the
set-up ready for the spelling of the second mentally selected card.
The same procedure follows for the third and fourth cards. With a
little calculation you can spell the cards out in any desired order
after spelling the first. For instance, suppose number four's card is
called for, you shuffle off fifteen cards, that is the first ten
indifferent cards and the five cards of the first set now done with.