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[mindmetoo]

I had a bit of fun doing this card trick with my students:

http://www.sendthisnow.com/games/cardtrick/index.html

There's nearly zero educational value in it, although you can get the kids to work out how the trick is done and then get them to explain it in English.

You can download a Power Point version here:

http://home.ripway.com/2004-1/50571/copperfield_english.pps

From this you can steal the graphics to do a version of the trick in your class.

You give each student laser-printed pictures of 5 face cards. Each student is to silently pick one card (pick a card, any card). The student isn't to tell you or anyone what card he or she picked. You also prepare sealed envelopes with each student's name on it. In the envelope is pictures of 4 face cards. One card is missing.

After each student has mentally selected a card, collect the card pictures from them. Tell them you can sense by the way they touched the paper or something that you know exactly which card they thought of. Hold their envelope up to your head and then psychically remove their card. Hand them the sealed envelopes and have them open it. Ask them if their selected card has been removed.

Much to their amazement and maybe horror, their card is indeed missing!

How did teacher do that?

Teacher can read minds, so don't ever fork with teacher again!

Of course the trick is none of the original five face cards are in the second grouping of face cards. Doesn't matter which one they pick. They're all missing. Because all the cards in the second grouping look like the cards in the first grouping it's very hard to tell the second grouping is different.

To generate discussion, present the kids with both card groupings side by side. Ask them if they can now figure out the trick.

[Cheonmunka]

Well Done!

Another trick to the works.

You do know how to do that one where they pick a card from the pack and put it back, then they cut the deck, put their card on top of one of the cut decks, make one deck again, and you find and show their card?

[mindmetoo]

[agraham]

Here's fun that that involves a lot of communication.

Show the four jacks fanned out with three random cards hidden behind them. Explain that the four jacks are bank robbers in a helicopter and the deck is the bank.
Land the chopper on the deck face down and explain that the robbers are headed to the managers office, the safe, and the tellers respectively. As you tell them this, draw off the top three cards (which they assume are the jacks) and stick them in the deck randomly (not letting the students see the face sides of course). The fourth Jack is the pilot and stays with the chopper.
Then the police show up, so you draw off the top four cards, fan them out to show that they are all jacks, and fly away.