Staying Humble: Card Trick-weilding bartender: 1 - 2 computer programmers: 0

Oh Jesus if this wasn't sad, I couldn't quite figure out the whole trick back to front so I didn't say anything when the bartender at Baba's showed me a trick where you deal out 26 cards, face up, then place down cards such that the first card plus the number of cards you put down after the first card adds up to 10, and then deal out a number of cards he tells you to.

The trick is, the fancy addition bit is a distraction, and the showing him the first half of the deck should ahve made it obvious. The only thing the addition does is to make sure you cycle back through half of the deck when he tells you to count out some number of cards. (say he pays attention to the fourth card you dealt at first, he would count the number of cards it took you to add up to 10 3 times, and then subtract from the whole deck to tell you to count that many cards until you hit the one he remembered.

Me and another girl who was apparently an Oracle programmer and had started programming in 8088 assembler couldn't figure that damn thing out.

No excuses, either. I suck. And it's all based on the oldest trick in the book, misdirection.

Penn Gillette should come kick my ass.