> Well, you'd have to cut the cards very precisely then, and you can only show three cards. I'd say the subject would sense something is fishy here. He doesn't

> Well, you'd have to cut the cards very precisely then, and you can only show three cards. I'd say the subject would sense something is fishy here. He doesn't mean that he cuts, shows three cards, and says "as you can see, the cards are all different", or anything like that. He means that he handles the cards loosely, as if it doesn't matter whether the spectator sees the faces, and what they do see is enough of a jumble that it doesn't just look like a deck of 52 queens of hearts. > But where is this trick explained? That was the whole thing. Note that the spectator reveals their chosen card before he does the mime, so naturally he mimes the card going to wherever their chosen card happens to be.