The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-12-17
TRICKS WITH CARDS.
SKlLLFULLY DONE, THEY WILL AmusE
AND MYSTtFY YOUR GUESTS.
How 10 Tell Every Card In the Pack
with Its Hack Turned Toward You.
The Thirdy-one Trick A Clever
NHay In Tell Drawn Cards


With Its Hack Turned Toward You.
The Thirty-one Trick A Clever
way To Tell Drawn Cards.
This undoubtedly is one of the best
illusions performed with cards, as II
not only brings the whole pack into
use, but Is also legitlmately founded
upon arithmetical principles. by this
trick you are able TO tell the whole pack
of cards with the backs toward you;
also to sort them after being cut any
number of times in the mere act of
dealing them out In a row. 1t Is per
formed thus:
\ pack of cards being distributed on
the table. with their faces uppermost,
they are picked up one by one in the
following order 6. 4, ], I. 3, king, 3, 10,
knave, o. ., queen. Repeat the same Sc
ries of every thirteen cards. -Four times
over will of course complete the pack.
That the above order may be remem-
bered, the following words are used as
a guide TO the memory and they are
intended TO enumerate the cards:
The sixty-fourth regiment beats the
, king
seyenty-afth: up starts the king. with
8 10 8 knaYe
eight thousand and three men and
o . queen
ninety-two women.
Hence this trick is said to be done
by words.'
The pack being arranged, II may be
handed TO any of tie company ITO cut,
with the proyiso that this operation be
done whist fashion-that is, by taking
a portion of the cards of In n mass
and placing the lower division on what
was before the upper one. This done
fairly and properly, il may be repeated
any number of times, as the audience
may think fit You then take the pack
and by felnt catch sight of the bot
tom card. Having learned this Qt may
be done at glance, In second OF
time), you have the key 10 the whole
trick. Then commence 1t by dealing
the cards out In the ordinary way, but
In thirteen heaps. Having dealt out
thirteen, begin again and cover them
then go on as before. When finished
there will be of course four In each
heap. Now every heap will contain all
four of the same denomination, as the
four knayes In one heap, the four sew
ems In another, and SO on. The thir'
teenth. or last heap, will be of the same
4. h. NJ tho hAffnm
which you have contrlyed to see, and
according 10 whatever that card Is, all
the suits will follow, but in the reverse
order. as the words above indicate
Thus suppose the eight was the bottom
card. Then on dealing them out they
would be in the following order: King
), Z, 1, 4, O, queen, 2, ., knave, 8, 10, 8
and you begin recitlng In the mind the
words YOU use from that passage In the
sentence, working from right TO LETT
which the card indicates In the above
You would say:
10 3 knave
Eight thousand and three men anc
o 2 queen
nlnety-two women; sixty-fourtl
8
regiment beats the seyenty-fifth; III
king
starts the king with, etc. Here OF
course. is your starting point
The same principle holds good what
ever the card may be. Any person ask
ing for a card, all four Of every SUI
may be found in the same heap ano
can be quickly turned up as soon MS re
oulred with little practice, TO the ut
fer astonishment and wonder of Tho
company.
BY taking up the cards in the sam'
order as before, but all of one suit, yot
may easily discover the position OF any
one card that is demanded
A fine trick with cards is called "thlr
ty-one." 1t is played with the first sly
of each suit, the aces in one row, TN
deuces In another the threes In anoth
er. then the fours, iives and skies, nj
laid In rows. The object now Will d.
IN turn down cards alternately and en-
deavor TO make 81 points by so turning
or as near to 1t as possible withou
oyerrunning II, and the one who turn
down card the spots Of which max
him 81 or so near Ii that the other can
not nlrn down one without oyerrun
ming II wins. This trick Is very deeeiv