Fun Math Trick of the Week – Trick #6

Trick 6: The Lazy Magician (you are the magician!)

Step 1:            Give your volunteer a deck of cards to shuffle and you turn your back

Step 2:            Have your volunteer look at the top card and places it back on top of the pile

Step 3:            You tell your volunteer to place as many cards as the card’s number value on top of the deck (King is 13, Queen is 12, Jack is 11, Ace is 1)

Step 4:            Take the deck from your volunteer, and starting with the second card, count mentally up from one (the card that your volunteer chooses will be the same card value that matches the magician’s count – if he/she chose a 6, the seventh card will be a 6 – you can then tell your volunteer that this is his/her card)