Braingle: 'Two Jacks' Brain Teaser

Two Jacks

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Puzzle ID:	#4578
Fun:	(2.58)
Difficulty:	(2.85)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	arij

"Do you always believe what you see?" asked Snorkel, taking four cards from a regular pack of playing cards and discarding the rest. "What do you mean?" replied Twanger. Snorkel showed Twanger his four cards : an ace, a three, a ten and a jack. After secretly arranging them in a certain order, he dealt them face down in a line on the table. "I've seen this trick before!" cried Twanger. "You want me to tell you where the jack is." "The jack!" exclaimed Snorkel. "There are two jacks in these four cards." How is it possible and where are they in the four face-down cards?

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Comments

angie Jun 21, 2002	I thought it was because the jack has two heads. Like all face cards.
piffle Jun 21, 2002	this one is pretty clever.
Pix_e_suhst Jun 24, 2002	I also thought he was talking about the two faces on a jack
Dragoon Jun 27, 2002	That was very clever...
J_L_Quicksolve Jul 03, 2002	interesting teaser.
Beaglesangel Jul 04, 2002	I added the 10 and the ace together to make 11 - a jack - Good one.
ktlovery2k2 Jul 09, 2002	v.clever
jasin Jul 11, 2002	clever but impossible 2 solve..........a hint should have been given.
(user deleted) Jul 14, 2002	I agree with jasin a hint should have been available it was a bit of a long winded way around to find the answer
snoebeam Jul 14, 2002	What does the c stand for? Card? And the k?
snoebeam Jul 14, 2002	Oh, never mind, i get it now. Yeah, there should have been a hint provided.
Deucex2 Jul 14, 2002	You must be kidding. I've seen stuff with obscure answers before, but this one really took the cake. And I agree with everyone else that a hint would have made things remotely possible.
sk8babe Jul 17, 2002	i didn't get it, but it's quite clever -- too hard for most though! and the idea about the two jacks on each card is very clever!!! so really there are 3 jacks!! It is a gd1 neway!! =¬S
doggyxp Jul 17, 2002	nice one
steph Jul 20, 2002	im likin this one, its quite hard but i dont think a hint should have been given cos then people would have complained it was too easy! nice one.
gladiator1442 Jul 28, 2002	I get it! The numbers are 1,3,10,and 11. A is the first letter in the alphabet, so 1 is A. C is the third letter, so C=3. J=10, and 11=K. That spells "JACK"
Stargirl Jul 30, 2002	very clever, well thought out, THIS IS ONE GOOD TEASER!
Master_of_Mindz Aug 07, 2002	eachs card should have two of its symbols so there would have been two little jack heads on the card.
bmotts Aug 12, 2002	I didn't like it.. I don't think i would have been pleased by a friend showing me a second JACK only based on "association of cards to alphabet letters." This is a pretty disappointing solution.
jimbo Apr 23, 2003	I didn't get the answer but I like it because it satisfies the stated conditions. One Jack (card) and the other spelled out by the numbers. Actually there was a couple of clues given by the question asking for the postion of the jacks and the arragement in a secret way, so it had to be something to do with the order. Very Good!
(user deleted) Nov 04, 2003	Never wouldv'e gotten that. Kinda have to think outside the box.
gerr2thegerr406 Nov 15, 2003	That was pretty hard...i liked that one!!!
davee Dec 05, 2004	one jack could alos be face up
davee Dec 05, 2004	ALSO***
sweetime May 31, 2005	well i didn't manage to get the position of the cards correct. however, when i play cards with my sisters we assign the face cards a value of ten (with the ace the highest at 11). this meant that i thought that the "ten" referred to in the teaser could also have been a jack, hence there being two jacks.
Katelin Sep 21, 2005	I thought this was a good trick, even though it was very hard...I also thought the answer was the two heads on the Jack card.
Lilmzperfect9 Sep 24, 2005	its easy
swithie Feb 20, 2006	Ahh, I think the answer could do with being improved as I had to read the comments to understand what was going on.
akl21 Nov 18, 2006	Wow! That's amazing! Never thought of that...I'll have to try it out.
soccerguy0428 Jun 12, 2007	That's really cool, I liked that one a lot. Good job!
AndrewWalker Oct 23, 2007	Really there are three jacks!! The two you mentioned, and add the ace and ten together to get 11 which is a jack
lastlyboo Jan 18, 2008	its ok...
annvie9 Sep 10, 2008	Very clever! I thought it was because of the two faces on the Jack card.
bradon182001 Nov 12, 2008	I didn't get it, never would have figured it out. Good trick teaser. Thanks for posting.
tigerlily34 Oct 25, 2009	Very clever. Keep it up!
sashomarine Feb 04, 2010	This shouldn't even be in the trick category
DemonLord8 Sep 22, 2010	Great teaser! Completely astounded me! (I thought the guys real name was Jack) I think it should by more of a "riddle" category teaser though.