Use this magic card trick to review 10 concepts. This example uses concepts from a lesson on how Jesus built the need with the Woman at the Well in Samaria.

1. “Magic” Card Trick

2. Please take ten index cards (or pieces of paper) and write
one of these words or phrases on each card:
Seize attention
What?
Stir curiosity
Tell me more!
Stimulate the felt need
I want it!
Surface the real need
I need it!
Satisfy the real need
I got it!

3. Now mix those cards up facedown so that you don’t know
where any specific card might be.

4. As we begin this game, divide the
cards into two piles.
Each pile must have five cards.
Please place these two piles side by
side.

5. Now turn over and look at the top card of the right-hand
pile.
Stare at it so that you won’t forget it.
If anyone else is in the room, show it to them too.
This must be the way to build the need that is most
important to you, so please don’t forget it!

6. Place the card back face-down
on top of the pile from which you
removed it.

7. Pick up the left-hand pile of cards, and I’m going to give
you a choice:
You can discard one, two, three, or even four cards from
that pile.
Just remove one, two, three, or four cards from that pile
and put them way over to the side out of the way.
These ways to build the need must not be as important to
you.

8. Place what remains in your hand
face down onto the right-hand pile.
You have now buried your card.
Now we’re going to mix the cards
even further.

9. Please carefully follow my
instructions:
I want you to pick up the pile that
contains your card and turn it faceup in your hand.
Put what is now the face-up top
card onto the table.

10. Take the next face-up card and
place it onto the bottom of the
stack in your hand.

11. Then put the next card onto the
other face-up card on the table with
the next card going under the handheld stack.

12. The next card goes onto the
growing table pile, with the next
card going under the hand stack.

13. Continue this alternating process
until you have all the cards from
your hand pile face-up in a stack
on the table.
You have now mixed the cards.

14. Please pick up the pile from the
table and turn it face-down in your
hand.

15. Take the first card on top of the
face-down pile and hold it up to
the computer screen.
Once you’ve done this, please go
to the next slide.

16. This is not your card.
We want to determine exactly
which way to build the need you
value most.
Please put that card aside.

17. Now turn over the next card in
your face-down hand and hold it
up to the screen.
When you’ve done that, please
go to the next slide.

18. No, this is not your card.
Please hold the next face-down
card up to the screen and go to
the next slide.

19. This is the way to build the need
that you valued earlier in this
experiment!

20. A game is a fun closing and a
review all rolled into one!
(This one only works with ten
review points, though.)