How Do You Do A 21 Card Card Trick?
• Take any 21 cards out of a 52-card deck. • Lay out the cards, 3 across and 7 down. It is important that you do this correctly. You have to lay down the cards row by row, not column by column. • Have someone silently pick one of the cards and tell you what column its in. (There are only 3 columns) • Push together each column and place the group of cards in the selected column in between the other two groups of cards. • Let’s say that the volunteer secretly chose the King of Hearts and then told us their card was in the middle column. You would pick up the columns and would make sure the selected column was placed so that it was in the middle of the deck. • Lay out the cards again in the same way, 3 across and 7 down (row by row). • Ask the volunteer where the card is now. • Pick up the columns again (second time), like before making sure the column with their card is in the middle of the deck. • Lay them out again, the same way. • Ask the volunteer which column the card is in now (thi
