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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
74
FOUR
PACKETS
OF
CARDS
HAVING
BEEN
FORMED
FACE
DOWNWARDS
ON
THE
TABLE,
TO
DISCOVER
THE
TOTAL
VALUE
OF
THE
UNDERMOST
CARDS.--This
trick
must
be
performed
with
the
piquet
pack
of
thirty-two
cards.
Invite
one
of
the
spectators
to
privately
select
any
four
cards,
and
to
place
them,
separately
and
face
downwards,
on
the
table;
then,
counting
an
ace
as
eleven,
a
court
card
as
ten,
and
any
other
card
according
to
the
number
of
its
pips,
to
place
upon
each
of
these
four
so
many
cards
as,
added
to
its
value
thus
estimated,
shall
make
fifteen.
(It
must
be
remembered
that
value
is
only
to
be
taken
into
consideration
as
to
the
original
four
cards,
those
placed
on
them
counting
as
one
each,
whatever
they
may
happen
to
be.)
You
meanwhile
retire.
When
the
four
heaps
are
complete,
advance
to
the
table,
and
observe
how
many
cards
are
left
over
and
above
the
four
heaps.
To
this
number
mentally
add
thirty-two.
The
total
will
give
you
the
aggregate
value
of
the
four
lowest
cards,
calculated
as
above
mentioned.
You
should
not
let
your
audience
perceive
that
you
count
the
remaining
cards,
or
they
will
readily
conjecture
that
the
trick
depends
on
some
arithmetical
principle.
You
may
say,
“You
will
observe
that
I
do
not
look
even
at
one
single
card:”
and,
so
saying,
throw
down
the
surplus
cards
with
apparent
carelessness
upon
the
table,
when
they
are
sure
to
fall
sufficiently
scattered
to
enable
you
to
count
them
without
attracting
observation.
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