EFFECT :
From a long row of cards spread on the table, spectator
merely thinks of one. Pack is assembled and cut, spectator spells
name of his card, dealing one card for each letter and turns up his
card on the last letter.


HOW IT'S DONE....
Eighteen cards on the top of the pack are arranged in
three sets of six thus: AC, 5C, 5H, 7S, 9D, 3D; 2C, 6H, 4S, 8S,
4D, 8D; 10C, 10H, QC, 10D, JD, QD. Each group is composed of
cards which spell out with ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
and fifteen letters. Note that the first group contains only odd
cards, the second only even cards, and the third has cards of
value ten or over. The ninth card from the bottom is a short. Begin
by laying out the cards in a row from left to right, each card
overlapping about half an inch. Eighteen cards will make a long
row, so stop at that point and ask a spectator to mentally select
one card.
Gather up the cards and replace them on the rest of the pack,
false shuffle, then cut at the short thus bringing nine cards on top
of the setup. Have the card named and you at once know to which
group it belongs. If in the first, hand the pack to the spectator to
spell his card, which will turn up on the last letter. If it is in the
second group you must illustrate what the spectator has to do by
spelling out, say, FIVE OF --- and stop on the sixth card, asking if
he understands. Drop the pack on these six cards and hand all to
the spectator. If, however, the card is in the third group twelve
cards must be dealt off in the demonstration and the rest dropped
on them before spectator begins to spell his card. This is a subtler
method than dealing the cards in three groups of six.