The effect — what they see
After a thorough shuffle, the deck is split into two piles. While your back is turned, the spectator thinks of a small number and quietly transfers that many cards from one pile to the other. You riffle the halves together, deal through the cards, and produce a single card whose value matches the secret number they only thought of.
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