Conjuring Archive

Set your first deck as follows: Separate the Aces, Kings, remaining Spades, and other cards. Now pick them up, a card at a time, faces up in your hand --- Kings get 1st, 9th, and 15th places. Aces are picked up for the 6th and 12th positions. Spades are taken for 2nd, 4th, 14th, 16th, and every fourth card thereafter. In between you pick cards from the ordinary pile. Neglect the Spade cards among the Aces and the Kings until they're called upon to fill out the Spade contingent. The entire deck of 52 cards is used up.

Frank Travers
The Jinx, No. 142, 1941, p. 799