Triple Card Recognition

1. Shuffle the deck and spread it out in your hands. Make sure you know what card is at the end (e.g ace of spades).

2. Tell the person to pick a card and tell them it will be *the card at the end (eg ace of spades)*. They don't look at it but you do. (e.g it's the king of hearts).

3. Tell them to pick a card and it will be *whatever the last card you picked was (e.g the king of hearts).

4. You look at it but they don't and it is e.g the three of clubs. You then say you are going to pick a card and it will be the three of clubs. you pick out the ace of spades which is at the end of the pile.

5. Now you have all three cards that you said, you can amaze the audience!

Double Card Recognition with an alternated deck

Preparation
Arrange the deck so that red cards alternate with black ones and discuss the card trick with your confederate.

Performance
1. The confederate should leave the room.

2. Ask several spectators to give the ordered deck a complete cut. They should not look at the faces of the cards.

3. After the deck has been cut a few times, ask the last volunteer who cut it to take the top card and commit it to memory.

4. Ask another volunteer to take the next top card and commit it to memory.

5. Ask the first volunteer to replace his card on top of the deck, and then the second volunteer to replace his card on top of the first's. The two cards are now reversed.

6. Once again, have the deck cut several times.

7. Explain that "because two people have chosen a card, we must have a pile for each person."

8. Proceed to deal the cards into two piles. Each pile will be of a single colour, except for the chosen card.

9. Call your confederate back into the room, and instruct the two volunteers to take one half of the deck each to him.

10. The confederate takes one half of the deck in each hand, and places one to one side.

11. Fanning through the other pile, they should look like they are concentrating fiercly. Actually, they are looking for the one card of the opposite colour, which they should put face down in front of them.

12. The confederate should now pick up the other pile and add it to the cards they are already holding. Once again the card of the opposite colour is found and placed face down in front of them.

13. The deck is now casually shuffled by the confederate, as they mutter something to do with "vibrations" from the cards. This shuffle will ensure that there's no clue as to how the trick was performed.

14. Each volunteer names their card, and the confederate turns over the appropriate card as they do so.