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Here’s how: Deal four cards face up. Study the four
cards and look for connections among the cards. Write
down the connections you notice. Deal the next four cards,
and continue until the deck is finished. Here are some con-
nections to get your brain thinking in this direction:

• Look for the same number of pips on the cards—two of
a kind, three of a kind, four of a kind. (Pips are spots on
each card.)

• Look for a sequence of numbers—3, 4, 5 or 4, 6, 8.
• Look for all even or all odd numbers of pips on the
cards.
• Try to sum two or three of the cards to equal the num-
ber of pips on the third or fourth card.
• Look for a birth date— 10© 3¨ 4« 5ª might represent
October 3, 1945.

Soon you will be noticing connections of your own. A
sample run of a deck follows. Study our findings and look
for connections in the last seven sets of cards. Check your
answers at the end of this chapter in “Solutions to Exercises
and Games.”

Deal Connections Noted
ADNJ Pair of red jacks, three hearts and one diamond,

Blackjack—two ways
swqd All black cards,similar to the first deal—two of a

kind,three of one suit
ZRMF Pair of 10s, all red cards, similar to the first two

deals, sequence of 2, 3
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Sequence: 7, 8, 9, 10
zgxI All even numbers, sequence of even numbers—4,
6, 8, 10
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2 + 3 = 5; 3 + 5= 8