Card Tricks

Try this activity!

Rearrange poker cards (1-10) and using a card for one alphabet, make sure that the next card shown will be the number which you had just spelled and continue spelling the number until you reaches 10!

I had an interesting activity in class which requires us to perform magic using poker cards. The rule of the magic is to shuffle up the card and arrange them such that when you recite the spelling of the number, the next card shown will be the number which you had just spelled and you have to start from number one.

The solution of the game:

1st  2nd  3rd  4th  5th  6th  7th  8th  9th  10th
O   N      E      1     T    W    O    2     T      H
R    E      E             3     F     O          U       R
4    F       I                     V    E           5       S
      I       X                    6     S                     E
     V      E                            N                    7
      E      I                             G          
      H     T                            8
      N     I
      N     E
      9
             10
4    9     10      1     3    6      8     2     5       7

The game is fairly easy once you are able to see the pattern and rearranging the cards are easy and you can trick everybody with this simple trick! This game can help children in developing their patterning skills and as it is interesting but challenging at the same time, children will be strive on in finding out the answer to this trick!