The following is a deck “stack” that must be set up ahead of time and maintained as you handle the deck. Among other things, by peeking at the bottom card, you can tell what the top card is. This allows you to perform many miracles!!
Start by dividing your deck into suits and into numerical order… Ace (top) to King (bottom).
The suits are set up: Clubs, Hearts, Spades, Diamonds (CHSD) or you may hear this referred to as “CHaSeD”
Leave the Clubs alone.
Hearts: Leaving the Ace, Two and Three in the same order, move them to the bottom of the Hearts pile.
Spades: Repeat with Ace - 6 and move to bottom of Spades piles.
Diamonds: Repeat with Ace - 9 and move to bottom of Diamonds pile.
Beginning with the Ace of Clubs, take one card from each pile and stack them on top of each other. Work left to right.
Example: AC, 4H, 7S,10D
Then come back to the Club pile and repeat the process until all the cards are gone.
What you now have is a deck that is in the CHSD order and each card’s value is off by three. (Jacks are 11, Queens are 12, Kings are 13)
Another example: 2C, 5H, 8S, JD
If you look at the bottom card (ex. 9S), the top card will be the next suit (Diamonds) and a value of three more than the 9. QH
With this system you always know the card selected by the spectator. Be careful not to shuffle this deck as it destroys the arrangement. You can however, cut the deck as many times as you want, as long as you complete the cut each time.
Therefore, the number setup is A, 4, 7,10, K, 3, 6, 9, Q, 2, 5, 8, J, A…
RULES
RULE 1–”Shuffling”
In shuffling never riff or mix cards in. A person may take as many as they like from one side and place them on the other. As long as you do not take cards from the center of the pack, but keep shifting cards from one side to the other, it will not affect the system.
This is what is called a false shuffle and with a very little practice a person is able to fool the best of them.
RULE 2 “Numerical Value”
Every card has a numerical value, viz.: Ace, 1; then 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 in their order; Jack, 11; Queen, 12; and King, 13.
RULE 3–”Position”
Every card is three numbers apart, as will be seen by a careful study of the system, viz.: 6-9Queen, (12) 2-5-8 Jack, (11), etc.
RULE 4–”Position as to Suits”
Every card of the same denomination is thir, teen cards apart and runs in the same order of suits as in the system, viz.: Hearts, Spades, Dia. monds, Clubs.
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