Well you've got about a 4% chance of that happening, or 1 in 25.

Same here.. tried it twice.. did not end up on the target card.

Just clarifying if how I counted was correct..

    5 x x x x 9

Above is a crude illustration.. If I first pick the card with "5", I start counting from 1 from the next card, till 5. And then I would land up on whatever that card is (9 in this example), and then I would repeat.

Did this, but did not work for me.