Predicting a mate
1. Shuffle the pack and fan it out face up in your hands. Remembering the bottom card, count thirteen cards up from the bottom (inclusive) and cut these cards to the top of the pack.
2. Inform the audience that you are searching for your prediction card. Look through the pack until you find the "mate" (the card with the same colour and number) of the original bottom card which is now 13th from the top. Place this card on the table out of the way.
3. Ask a volunteer from the audience to "Count a small number of cards (let's say between 1 and 10) from the top of the pack while I turn away. Then hide them so I can't see how many you've counted".
4. Turn away while the cards are counted and hidden.
5. Take the remainder of the pack from the volunteer and inform them that you are going to count 12 cards from the top of the deck. Do just that and hide them from site.
6. Inform the volunteer that you are going to bring out your cards one by one and ask them to call out when you reach their number.
7. Begin bringing out the cards from the top of the pile and place them face down on the table. When the volunteer stops you, place that card down next to your prediction card.
8. Inform the audience that if your prediction was correct, the two cards on the table should be mates, that is they should have the same number and colour.
9. Get the volunteer to turn over the two cards. They really are mates!
2. Inform the audience that you are searching for your prediction card. Look through the pack until you find the "mate" (the card with the same colour and number) of the original bottom card which is now 13th from the top. Place this card on the table out of the way.
3. Ask a volunteer from the audience to "Count a small number of cards (let's say between 1 and 10) from the top of the pack while I turn away. Then hide them so I can't see how many you've counted".
4. Turn away while the cards are counted and hidden.
5. Take the remainder of the pack from the volunteer and inform them that you are going to count 12 cards from the top of the deck. Do just that and hide them from site.
6. Inform the volunteer that you are going to bring out your cards one by one and ask them to call out when you reach their number.
7. Begin bringing out the cards from the top of the pile and place them face down on the table. When the volunteer stops you, place that card down next to your prediction card.
8. Inform the audience that if your prediction was correct, the two cards on the table should be mates, that is they should have the same number and colour.
9. Get the volunteer to turn over the two cards. They really are mates!
