The Five-Card Trick Workbook (Fitch Cheney’s Trick)

Learn the famous two-person trick where your partner names a hidden card: the rules, a pocket cheat card and 16 practice hands with answers.

Who it’s for: Ages 12 to adult.

What’s inside:

- The story of Fitch Cheney’s trick

- The rules: choose the suit, count round the clock, code the order (with the full order chart and a worked example)

- Six pocket cheat cards to cut out

- Partner practice: 8 hands

- Magician practice: 8 hands

- Answer key for all 16 hands

- Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 8 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs in one zip.

Printing: print at 100% / actual size. Inside pages have light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every historical and mathematical fact is checked against named sources (Michael Kleber, ‘The Best Card Trick’, Mathematical Intelligencer 24 (1), 2002; NRICH (University of Cambridge), ‘The Best Card Trick?’), listed on the credits page. The tricks are classic, published methods that need only ordinary cards and coins; no commercial trick is revealed. All drawings and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work, starring Useless the eraser as the magician’s (not very helpful) assistant. No photographs are used.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share the files publicly. For school-wide use, email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind testyourmagic.com. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.