For a quick, clean, and cute spelling manoeuvre, this will fill the bill and appear different from the usual type.

Have a card selected and replaced. Shuffle the deck and ask spectator the color of his card. Red or black, you spell off the color dealing a card at a time face down on table or his hand. Then ask him the suit. This is spelled off also. Lastly ask if the card were odd or even. Again you spell off whatever he says. He names his card and you have it.

The card is selected freely but as you run the cards from hand to hand silently count 13 so that he can replace it fourteenth from top. Dovetail shuffle not disturbing the top 14.

You will see by the following table how the spelling is accomplished. There are only eight possible combinations and as given they either end on the thirteenth card or the fourteenth.

REDHEARTSODD
REDHEARTSEVEN
REDDIAMONDODD
REDDIAMONDEVEN
BLACKCLUBSODD
BLACKCLUBSEVEN
BLACKSPADEODD
BLACKSPADEEVEN

The one exception is the Odd Red Heart. It ends on twelve, and necessitates a double lift to show, or a second deal as you ask full name of card and then deal it face up.

The only other thing to watch is when the card is a Spade or Diamond. Always ask “Is it a Spade” or “Is it a Diamond” using the singular. Then you can spell it that way. One trial will show this to be a nice deception.