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This puzzle was given to me by my friend L. Chandar of the Physics
Dept in Syracuse University. Enjoy it, folks !

Kanad

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Here is a card trick:
Suppose, I choose, say, the first 7 cards of each kind, shuffle
them and ask you to mentally think of a number between 1 and 7.
Now, I drop the cards one by one face up.  You count (mentally)
up to the number you have thought and at that point make a mental
note of the new card that I have dropped and once again count
up to this number and repeat this procedure until all 28 cards
have been dropped.  The trick is that I will be able to tell the
last card that you made a mental note of.  For eg, if you thought
of 7 and at the seventh card you see 5, then you count from the
next card onwards (namely the 8th card onwards)up to 5 and then
find 6, count from 13th card up to 6, (ie up to 18th card) now find
4, so count up to 22nd from 19th, then find 5, so you count
up to 27th card from 23rd, now you find 3 and so start to count
from 28th card up to 30th, but cards end by 28th card.  So, now
by looking at you hard enough so that I am able to receive your
mental vibrations, I will be able to tell that the last card
that you made a mental note of in this procedure was 3.
This, however being Kaliyuga, you may spoof at me and claim that
this is just because the final answer (namely 3) is independent of 
the number we start with.  But I will, in the name of Ram (of Babri 
Masjid fame), refute you on this point by asking you to check that
when you try the same experiment a second time, you will invariably
end up at a different answer from the first.  Many strong men will
by now quail and bow before the might of Rama, but this being
Kaliyuga, there will still be some incarnations of Satan in other
such 5-lettered names with even the positions of the vowels being
the same as in Satan, and what's more, with even the same vowel
appearing at those places (!), who will try to refute the theory
of mental vibrations in favour of an evil invention called rationalism.
  
So, after all this bull-shitting, the question is: how does the card
trick work?
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chandar ( "ch" can be treated as one consonant, and following the
devanagri spirit, "n" before "d" is really not a letter, but just
a "halank", which would therefore mean that this is another example
of a 5-lettered name satisfying the other criteria mentioned above,
only this time in a more subtle fashion [so that even Ram won't 
suspect!])
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