pick a card
Conjurer's opening request
Pick a card is the classic instruction from a magician or card sharp inviting someone to select a card from a fanned deck, usually followed by "any card." The phrase evokes sleight-of-hand tricks and stage magic: Pick a card, any card—don't show me.
It can be used figuratively for any situation where someone is asked to make a choice from options that may be manipulated or equivalent.
- deckShip's flat surface
- magicianPerformer of illusions
- trickDeliberate deception
- chooseSelect from alternatives
- drawCreate with pencil
sleight · illusion · reveal · ace · joker · tarot · fortune · spread · hand · deal · magic · street magic · selection · prestidigitation · flourish · audience · abracadabra · vanish
- randomizationrandom, randomize, randomizer, RNG, random number generator
pick a cardshuffle the deck
shuffle the cards · shuffle · cut the deck · riffle shuffle · randomize
pick, card, picks, picked, picking, picker, pickers, cards, carded