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As with [[Saw a Woman In Half|sawing a woman in half]], [[It Was His Sled|the secret to this trick is well-known]], to the point that fictional works can freely spoil how it's done. The clever part is not where it appears to be: it's not that the magician has a secret way of detecting which card the mark has selected, it's that the magician has a way (a technique called the Magician's Force) of making sure the mark picks the card he wants them to pick.
In fiction, the bare-bones version is a favorite of amateurs trying to impress
Another common fictional twist is for the card to turn out to not be a playing card.
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== [[Comics]] ==
* ''Sir Bagby'': When Sir Bagby comes to rescue the magician Snerk from a dungeon, Snerk shuffles a deck of cards and invites Sir Bagby to pick one. Sir Bagby picks a card, looks to see what it
* The non-serious 34th issue of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[What If|What if?]]'' series proposes an alternate reality where [[Doctor Strange]] and associates were this kind of magicians instead of arcane sorcerers. The Dread Dormammu's great master plan comes down to Strange having to pick a card, any card.
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* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' features an episode in which Howard demonstrates such a card trick that Sheldon spends the episode trying to figure out. {{spoiler|He's actually faking it to mess with Sheldon.}}
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'':
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The Doctor tries and fails to do the trick at the Christmas party in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2010
* One episode of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' had Pugsley try it. Turns out his deck is made up only of the same card.
* On ''[[Friends]]'' Joey attempted this trick, but he was laughably bad at it. He thought he was taking a glance at it so fast that no one could see. This, of course, didn't fool anyone, but they politely didn't say anything. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_mZeBki1w Watch the scene.].
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', Frank had Ernest do this
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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