Lotty

In a pub I approach a table at which there are three girls and a pack of playing cards.  I explain my resolution and, without a moment's hesitation, one offers her hand and an answer.  She has a strong Californian drawl and I think, but find it unlikely, that she is saying 'Lardy'.  I have to ask her to repeat it three times before I understand.  I point at the cards and ask if she has been doing magic tricks.  She says no but that they have been using them to play drinking games all evening.  I leave them to it.