In a message dated 8/25/99 8:24:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, xli03@emory.edu writes:
<< i am aware of many mathematical tricks (most of them trivial) with
which performance "magicians" fake mind-reading, but this one utterly
escapes me at the moment ... could it be the real thing? >>
This was an easy one. They gave you all new cards so no matter which one you pick it's not going to be there. Still fun at that first moment when you see it missing though huh?