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- ^Tutorial 19 - Sequences of Playing Cards\
-
- Having learned the Card Words thoroughly, you now have the knowledge to
- memorise a complete deck of 52 cards - |in sequence !\.
-
- Difficult ? Not at all, if we combine the Card Word System with our old
- friend the >Link System\.
-
- Of course it <will\ take a little practice, so let's start with say a dozen
- cards. Imagine someone is turning over twelve cards off the top of a
- shuffled deck, one at a time, and you are trying to remember them in
- sequence.
-
- The first two cards are the 4H >(Hair)\ and the KS >(Steam)\, so begin your
- Link by picturing >steam\ coming out of your >hair\. As ever, make your
- mental picture as ^ludicrous\ and ^vivid\ as possible. Imagine that steam
- pouring out of your hair really viciously, so that your are enveloped in
- steam.
-
- The next card is the QD >(Detain)\, so continue your link by picturing a
- policeman >detaining\ you for some crime - he is so mad that >steam\ is
- pouring fast and furiously out of his ears.#
-
- The fourth card is the 7S >(Sock)\, so link >detain\ to >sock\. Perhaps the
- policeman is now detaining a gigantic sock - make the picture ridiculous,
- and see it clearly in your mind's eye for a split second.
-
- The fifth card is the 2H >(Hen)\, so to continue the Link you might picture
- yourself wearing a >hen\ on your foot instead of a sock. See that picture.
-
- Now, continue the Link with the following seven cards, in sequence :
- ^
- 6C - Cash, 9S - Soap, 7H - Hog, 5S - Sail,
- 5D - Duel, AH - Hat, 2C - Can
- \
- Link Hen to Cash, to Soap, to Hog, to Sail, to Duel, to Hat, to Can. Make
- those ridiculous associations right now, and be sure to see each mental
- picture very clearly.
-
- When you have completed the Link then you <must\ know the twelve cards in
- sequence, because the Card Words >tell\ you what the cards are. Following
- the phonetic pattern you learned in the previous tutorial, >Hen\ can ^only\
- transpose to the two of hearts, and so on.#
-
- The system applies equally well to 52 cards as 12, though it does take a
- little longer !
-
- Press Page Down to test yourself on how well you have learned the sequence
- of twelve cards.~
-