Card Tricks for Beginners by Wilfrid Jonson

Card Tricks for Beginners by Wilfrid Jonson

Author:Wilfrid Jonson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486154251
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-08T16:00:00+00:00


A CARD PUZZLE

We will conclude Part I of our handbook with an excellent puzzle with cards which is well worth showing if you will take the trouble to learn it properly. It is done with the twelve court cards and aces and the object is to lay them out in four rows of four cards so that in none of the rows, horizontal or vertical, shall there be two cards of either the same value or the same suit. A possible arrangement is shown below:

All the explanations of this puzzle which we have seen tell you to begin by setting up the two diagonals with four cards of the same value, but this spoils the whole thing by making it appear too easy. Actually, even when the diagonals are set up, the thing is not so simple as it appears to be.

We are going to show you how to lay out the cards from left to right in four rows, explaining all the points it is necessary to remember in order to do so. We think the best way to do this will be for us to actually lay out the cards as we would if we were showing the puzzle to some friends. So we first take the court cards and aces from the pack and shuffle them thoroughly. Now we turn the cards face upwards and take the first one, which we put down on the table in what will be the top left hand corner of our square of cards. The card happens to be the Jack of Diamonds. The next card is the King of Clubs which we put down beside the Jack. The third card is the Jack of Clubs, which we pass by, since we have already both a Jack and a Club in the row and, in any case, the cards must be alternately red and black ones. The next card is the Ace of Hearts, which we put beside the King. Now a glance at these cards shows that to complete the row we require a Queen, and a second glance shows that it must be the Queen of Spades, so we find that card to make the first line . . . .



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