Digging the digital

The amazing memory man

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Andi Bell has ten shuffled packs of playing cards placed in front of him and is given just 20 minutes to memorise the order of every single card – all 520. When he is tested, Andi – the 2002 world memory champion – correctly remembers the position in the packs and the value of every single card he is tested on. So how does he do it?