Try and decipher a magician’s trick in which a spectator randomly selects a card predicting the result of mathematical operations performed by another spectator ...

There are, however, some “self-working” card tricks that are intensely interesting from a mathematical standpoint. [ Play science-inspired games, puzzles and quizzes in our new Games section ...

You can have them pick a card from what is left over after they deal their three piles of cards. If you want to do a different math-based magic trick, you can try the original card trick I did ...

Math is basically magic. So it’s no surprise that a clever use of the Fibonacci numbers—a series of numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.) where each number is the ...

Shuffling starts by cutting the deck roughly in half. During the shuffling, a few cards fall from one side, then a few from the other. Diaconis, Sami Assaf of the Massachusetts Institute of ...