Smyrna times., 1903-10-28
EVENING SPENT PLAYING
TRICKS WITH CARD PACK
SKlLLFULLY DONE THEY AMUSH Ann
MYSTIPY A COMPANY OF GUESTS.
now TO Tell Every Card in the Pack With ifs
BACK turned Toward YOu-The 81 Trick
and the Way TO Tell Drawn Cards

n "'0' Out Is dIso leSlIinately founded
!, upon arithmetical principles. Bv This
:. trlck you are able to tell the whole mack
q OF cards with the backs toward vou.
9 also TO sort them after being cut snv
7 number of times in the mere act of
! dealing them out in a row. It is nor.
formed thus:
Il pack OF cards being distributed an
tne table, with their faces uppermost
lney are picked up one by one in tho
Following order: 6. f. /, Z, 3. king g m
knave, ., , queen. Repeat the Same co
rles of every thirteen cards. Four +ir,os
oErr m VIII OF course complete the pack
Anat the ABOVE order may be remem-
Oered' the following words are used as
a guide to the memory and they are
intehueu TO enumerate the cards:
Inc slXty-fOurth regiment beats tho
king
SeVenty-hfth; up starts the king, with
~ knave
eight thousand and three mon ~,
queen
ninety-twO women
Hence this trick is said to ha don.
'by words!' uone
The pack being ARRANGED If ,,,o,,
handed to any of the comnan, 60 80, D
"lln tne proviso that this operation he
uone WHIST tashion-that is, by taking
portion of the cards off in moss
ana placing the lower division on vbo+
was OeIore the upper one. This done
larry ana properly, it may be reDeated S
any number of times, as the audience I
may t1lnk MT. You then take the nack l
anu Dy feint catch sight of the hot G
.oln caru' Having learned this Gt NAV c
uoHe at glance, in a second Of g.
'-!I'' you nave the key to the wboIa S
- t,lcA' 1hen commence it by DEALING L
lAe cards out in the ordinary vav b,It II
III thlrteen heaps. Having daai+ 49, a
thirteen, begin again and covor +bo,,,. n.
tiIo % 50 On as before. When finished z
80 WIZ De OF course four in each d.
ieap' Now every heap will contain all s.
,our VI t9e same denomination. as tbe Fl
our knaVes in one heap, the four SOW ce
MS IN another, and so on. The tbir-
eeh'h' or last heap, will be of tbe sop,o
'enoInlpauon as the one at the bottom
'lilch you have contrived to SEQ and bu
ccordlng to whatever that card is oil
"I SuIts VIII follow, but in the reverse no
: IUeI' as tne words above indicate
nus suppose the eight was the bottom Ee
aru. Ihen on dealing them ont tbov
'ouId be in the following order. KIN
T. l. 4, 6, queen, 2. 8, knave 2 IN . sin
~ gou oeslh recltinS in the mind the Sfl
oIuS you use from that passage in the
working from right to left Tn
NIcH the card indicates in the above tho
ou would say hea
10 2 l,ro,. bes
Lnsnt % thousand and three men and SGt 90:
queen 6 on SAi
nety-two women; sixty-fourtb 6% T0ci
.
slment beats the seventy-fftb. IN
king 0P
'rts the king with, etc. Hero oe Bl
u lrse' is your starting point. a pc
ne same principle holds good wbo+ Dl
.ne caru may be- Any person ask wan
lor card, all four of every suit BT
y be found in the same booD go sort
De quickly turned up as soon ne ro- Ca
req with little practice. TO the M.
lpany u 'ne "P
y taking up the cards in the Same Whi
er as before, but all of one suit. Won II
easily discover the position Of snv PIled
card that is demanded books
me trlck with cards is called "tbir-
ne. IL Is played with the first six
'ach suit, the aces in one row +ba ~ ~
ces III another. the threes in anotL- ! u'o
then tbe fours e. III aHOtn- pOwe
in rows Tbo oI'to.. anu Sizes, all "HC
'rH uoWn cards alternately and on. .r,
VI 10 make 81 points by so turninr 4,,1 =
. near 10 1t as possible without
IullIlhg IT, and the one who turns '-l''.'7
Il card the spots of which mako nv.
81 UT so near it that the other can ba76
TURN down one without Overrrn-
II "InS' 1hls trick is very deceiv- &C
as all other tricks are and =, stagus
. nluch practice to be well UNDER liver,
l. Inc cAlef point is to count so rs haz2rC
III with the following numbers is
D ~ II or "A. For examDIe vvo Tho,
suppose it your privilege TO com of ono
e with 3 and your adyersor,,
1 add u. which would make If o
'uid then be your policy to add 0Ponue
make lO. Then. no matter what nd
,er he adds bo 60 "ndt and WI
.orn+i,,r. - "iiiioI prevent worse q
-, when number gives ing HO
ne command of the trick. We will sleep an
Sc he adds 6 and makes 16 Then do my '
,o1.o,, 90 --'A' = tnen ne adds 6 care II.
he cannot possibly sH add %pp ang mpkS nu@ M Foo
count 81, as the highest number
9o co tbn4 "nlcn would only Cure k
Dino 'ou can easily add the the bacl
are. however, many variations TO
&: s9:s s1:s way va, is !. her. give. in which CAT
Germ one or more drawn cards
lnperceived the bottom card of 8 40
ace upward; then let several of sccfS
npany draw a card. Reverse tba ~
apldly, so that the bottom is now wHsYrr,
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