Spelling Tricks

A reliable paper-and-pencil method for building any spelling arrangement so a deck spells out exactly as you want.

A freely shuffled deck spells out the spectator's chosen card, landing on it letter-perfect.

Your spelling attempt to find the card seems to fail, then the spectator's own spelling lands on it perfectly.

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet it spells out perfectly on the final letter.

The deck is shuffled and spread wide on the table.

A freely shuffled deck is dealt into piles, a card is chosen and lost, yet it answers exactly when its name is spelled aloud.

A spectator cuts a borrowed deck and peeks a card, then you spell its name and arrive exactly on it.

A reversed card is pushed into the deck, the spectator notes its neighbor, and a spoken sentence spells right to that card.

A card is freely chosen and lost, then its name is spelled letter by letter to arrive exactly on it.

A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, then spelled out letter by letter to appear on cue.

Three spectators each take a packet and choose a card, and every card is spelled out to land exactly on its name.

Three spectators pick cards, and one by one each card answers its name, appears on top, then turns over by itself.

A freely chosen card is lost, and when the spectator spells its name behind their back, the card appears face up on top.

Using the spectator's own shuffled pack, a thought-of card is found when the spectator simply spells its name aloud.

Instead of spelling a card's name, you spell the spectator's own name and their chosen card appears on the last letter.

You rapidly spell off the names of card after card, each one turning up correctly on its last letter, repeating as long as you like.

A freely chosen card is spelled out, and it appears on the last letter no matter how many letters its name has.

A shuffled, freely chosen card is buried, lost in cuts, then spelled to letter by letter and revealed.

A freely chosen, shuffled card is later spelled out by the spectator themselves and arrives on the final letter.

Three people merely think of cards from small fans, yet each thought-of card is spelled out and found.

Four people each think of a card from their own packet, and every thought-of card is spelled out and revealed.

A spectator thinks of a card from a small packet and later spells it out, finding it automatically.

A spectator thinks of one of several cards, then spells it themselves and turns up the very card.

A spectator merely thinks of a card glimpsed in a small spread, yet you spell straight to it.

After convincing riffle shuffles, you pull one whole suit and spell it perfectly from Ace to King.

A spectator names any card at all and you instantly spell straight to it from a shuffled-looking deck.

After two convincing riffle shuffles, you spell every card of a chosen suit from Ace to King.

Two spectators each peek at a card in dealt heaps, and you spell to both, one right after the other.

The top card seems to whisper another card's name to you, and you spell straight to that card.

You spell card names one by one, but a single mischievous Joker keeps barging in until a final surprise.

You spell card values one at a time while a persistent Joker keeps appearing, ending with a clean switch to a King.

You spell card values from a small packet and they appear on cue, while a single Joker keeps crashing the party.

An eleven-card packet deals itself into perfect order, then mixed, then back into order on command.

A chosen card finds itself as the spectator answers simple questions about it, letter by letter.

You spell every value from Ace to King and each one turns up exactly on its final letter, all the way through the pack.

A spectator picks a card by pure chance, and even from their own pocket you spell its exact name letter by letter.

A freely shuffled deck goes into your pocket, and you spell out any named card, producing it on the final letter.

A chosen card is shuffled back into the deck, yet spelling its name deals straight to it on the final letter.

A spectator picks a card, returns it, and spelling its name deals exactly to a match on the final letter.

A spectator cuts, peeks at a card, and buries it, yet you produce their thought-of card from your own pocket.

Two spectators each lose a card, then one finds the other's card reversed in the deck and spells straight to its match.

A spectator merely thinks of one card in a long row, then spells its name to find it himself.

Three spectators each merely think of a card, and you spell every one of them to its hidden card.