X-Ray Eyes

PLACE the short card ninth from the bottom. Have a spectator
select a card from anywhere above these nine. Lay the pack on the table and instruct the spectator to put his card, after noting it, on top of the pack and cut the cards burying his card in the middle.
Pick up the pack, quietly riffle to the short card and cut at that point bringing it to the top. State that you have X-ray eyes that can pierce through the thickness of the cards and detect at what number the chosen card lies. Put the pack on the table and have the card named. Gaze intently at the back of the pack and finally announce that the card is the tenth card from the top. Let the spectator deal nine cards and turn up the tenth, his card.
It must be remembered that the chosen card is always one card farther down than the number at which you place the short card from the bottom.