A colourful turn

摘要

I have a little trick with eight cards. Their backs are all white but the fronts are one each of apricot, blue, chocolate, green, orange, primrose, red and terracotta. I place them in a pile in a certain order, white sides up. Then I spell out one of the colours, moving one card from the top of the pile to the bottom as I say each letter. As I reach the last letter of the spelling I turn overthat card and (lo and behold!) it is that colour. I then place that card at the bottom of the pile and spell out another colour. In this way I work through all the colours, finishing with the apricot. In the course of the trick the chocolate card is turned over laterthan the terracotta one.