Sometimes its always good to give the audience a completely free choice - but what card do they gravitate most for you? I was wondering this when thinking about what card to force. Some cards like the ace of spades would be a bit unlucky and the chances of landing on it are 1/52 compared to a 3,4,5,6,7 of any suit. I was thinking about this as well before getting a force deck - it is for a TnR effect and not having a royal card is a slight subtlety that makes the audience think that it is a completely free choice (an in one of them it is)

So what card does your audience most frequently chose?

Red three's or black 10's.
Kinda strange.
Keith

There is some automatic psychological pull towards those cards. I remember five card trick that used this principle. There was one ace, one black card,a 7 of hearts and two other cards and 9% of the time people went for the red 7 I think it was because the ace was too obvious and there was only one black card etc

-EL

I see folks "pick" face cards,,,,,Kings then Queens...FYI..

The queen of hearts has been popular in my experience, along with the ace of spades.

The King of Clubs is a card most people never pick. I like to keep this in mind when doing tricks that rely on people picking or not picking a certain card.

What Ben Seatreader said Ace of spades and queen of hearts.

Surely it would depend on the cards offered i.e full deck verses say 5 cards?

I find women go for queen of hearts. When I just say name a card people will say seven of hearts or diamonds.

I, too, find that people tend to pick a seven, no particular suit. If they do pick an Ace, it seems most pick the Ace of Clubs (perhaps they believe the Ace of Spades is "over-used," but they can't seem to get away from picking a black ace for some reason. Close, but not stereotypical in their minds...)

KH, AS, QH and 7D in that order.

2 of hearts is the card I find to be the most popular "random" card. I think you can get a good read on a female picking the Q-H also.

Most of the people that I've asked picked 7S. (Just asked around at school)

QH, JS and 4C are the most common when people vocally pick a card.

I have experienced that people who physically get to make a choice by looking through the deck tend to pick either an ace or a red seven.

Queen of hearts, ace of spades and I have mo idea why but the four of diamonds?

People love face cards and the seven of hearts in my experience. Aces are a close second.

For woman definitely queen of diamonds and hearts, and I found that if you mention that woman usually pick these cards before asking them to think of one, they usually think of the jack or king of heart.

Hmmm... GREAT question?

I would say 2' and 5's but would need to really do a TEST to prove it.

7's of any suit seem to be a very popular choice.

Ace of Spades, queen of hearts, six of clubs