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The Manual of The Three Shell GameEddie JosephThis is one of the best explanations of the Three Shell Game or Thimble Rig including 24 moves and 3 full routines. Jack Lamonte has drawn 86 clear illustrations to make studying the moves and routines a lot easier. Excerpt from the introduction: The Shell Game is essentially a close-up effect. It has no appeal, we admit, beyond the intimate range, but when demonstrated within its rightful sphere it commands a peculiar fascination. [Note: You will also be able to download a facsimile version of this manuscript.] 1st edition 1959, 30 pages; 1st digital edition 2013, 49 pages.... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF & EPUB | |
Why Gamblers WinJohn Philip Quinn | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
Blue Book 1960KC Card CoNow included is the 8-page yellow supplement. Just 15 years after WWII, life was good. As the world rebuilt itself, prosperity reigned. Returning soldiers who needed an outlet to keep their competitive edge found what they were looking for in gambling. Neighborhood poker games, back-alley craps, and illegal casinos were everywhere if you knew where to look. Grifters followed the money trail, too, and not all of them relied on skill. Many used devices such as holdouts, shiners, gaffed cards and crooked dice to ensure that they fleeced the lambs just as surely as if the marks openly handed their... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
How Psychics Locate Missing PeopleDevin KnightThis is an exposure of a psychic scam being worked today that is almost foolproof. The unusual thing about this scam is that the sucker in most cases never realizes he was conned. Therefore he never reports the psychic to the authorities and the psychic can operate in the same area for years with immunity! Millions of people go missing each year and many unscrupulous psychics and mediums claim they can find these people for a FEE. This is an exposure of a scam that was worked on the author in his younger years. It shows step-by-step how the psychic makes it appear that he has found the... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
The Open BookJ. H. JohnsonThis is the book that tells the truth about cards, dice, punch boards, gambling wheels, races, and all other kinds of gambling. Don't be a sucker! The Open Book reveals how crooked gamblers, cheats, and con artists fleece the innocent and unwary public out of thousands of dollars daily. Even that carnival game at the local fairgrounds may not be as innocent as it looks. Get the inside scoop. Valuable secrets of marked cards, gaffed dice, ink formulas, holdouts and other cheating devices -- all clearly explained. Also included are scams and cons used by the unscrupulous to bilk the unwary.... | ★★★★★ $12 $10 to wish list | |
Spot the SpotBrick TilleyAny red showing loses! The spot game is the black widow of the midway because an untrained player has little chance to cover the red spot using the five zinc plates supplied. Rules: the player must drop the plates one at a time from a distance of at least an inch attempting to cover the entire red area. He is later allowed to drop fewer plates bettering his chances of winning. The spot game is seldom seen these days because law enforcement consider it to be beyond the possibility of chance. It is an excellent aid to the magician, especially when combined with a demonstration of a short... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
China's SongBrick TilleyThis is China's version of the Three Shell Game or the Three Card Monte Game. It is played with three sticks held between the fingers of one hand. One stick has a little string tied to it. The task for the spectator is to identify the stick with the string. As you can imagine this is a crooked game and the performer decides when he lets you win. This game was brought by Ching Ling Foo to America in 1899. In addition to the PDF, you will be able to download 6 videos that demonstrate several ways to perform this con game as well as videos that show you the modus operandi.
1st edition... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Bug HouseBrick Tilley | $10 to wish list | |
Protection: the sealed bookJoseph Ernest MeyerAn underground classic, now available as an ebook! This amazingly insightful book, written by a newspaper reporter, contains full details of gambling devices and methods used by professionals to beat and cheat casinos and other players. Also described and illustrated are rigged carnival and gambling games, card gambling games, marked cards, holdouts, and much, much more. Not content to describe methods that others may also have exposed, Meyer went the extra step to purchase the rights to gambling systems that sold for as much as $25 each. These are also detailed, in their various author's... | $10 to wish list | |
Fools of FortuneJohn Philip QuinnThe original description read: A history of the vice in ancient and modern times, and in both hemispheres; an exposition of its alarming prevalence and destructive effects; with an unreserved and exhaustive disclosure of such frauds, tricks and devices as are practiced by "professional" gamblers, "confidence men" and "bunko steerers." This is a massive tome on gambling, the largest one at that time, describing gambling locations, games, scams, fraud and how they are operated, as well as many personal stories from the author. Makes for fascinating reading if you are interested in the subject... | $10 to wish list | |
H. C. Evans Catalog 1929Edwin C. Hood | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
Scientific BettingunknownThis is an exceptionally good ebook on odds and percentages of various popular games including horse races.
1st edition 1947, 120 pages; PDF 87 pages. | $10 to wish list | |
Danger in the CardsMichael MacDougallA fascinating casebook of true stories from the self-styled "Card Detective" that reveals the inner workings of backroom poker cheats, dice scams, bunco artists, horse race swindles, rigged games of the carnival and midway and much, much more. Written in a breezy style, "Mickey" MacDougall takes the reader along for an entertaining and informative ride as he consults with casino bosses and card room owners to stamp out cheaters and grifters. Swindlers take many forms and purvey their trade anywhere people gather: aboard trains and cruise ships, at the racetrack, in back alleys, military... | $10 to wish list | |
Blue Book 1961KC Card Co | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
Gypsy SwitchBrick Tilley | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Craps for Low RollersAlan K. LongThis is a Craps Championship winning strategy. This is an ebook about "how to win" at playing craps. It covers all of the basics of the game so you will have a working knowledge of the table layout and various bets. Many of the craps wagers that you see players make are sucker bets and don’t apply to this winning strategy. Yes, the house can be beaten on a regular basis! Twenty five chapters of do's and dont's with full color examples including an explanation of why this winning strategy works. You will pay for this ebook with the first roll of the dice! If you are a beginner or new... | $9.99 to wish list | |
The Winner's Guide to Dating: What I learned about love and sex from playing Texas Hold 'emRandall KlitzThis little gem of a book consists of five chapters - with prudent advice backed up by years of painful observation and field work. Are you a winner?
Illustrations by Muriel Alvarez. 1st edtion 2007; 63 pages. | $9.95 to wish listsoftcover | |
Scarne's Encyclopedia of Card GamesJohn ScarneThis encyclopedia is the essential, all-inclusive guide to card playing. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about the histories and variations of the world's most popular card games:
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Koschitz's Manual of Useful InformationKoschitzConcerning marks and stamps, portable and fixed devices, manipulation of cards and other matters of interest to lovers of draw. This is one of the better early books on card advantage play. We can be almost certain that Erdnase read this book.
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The Little SecretsFrank BonvilleA great book on the tricks of the trade of professional gamblers, how they cheat and get an advantage in the game. From the introduction: It has been my fortune, or misfortune, whichever you wish to term it, to have traveled a good deal and to have observed not a little. I have engaged in more than one business; it pleased my fancy, and can say, with a pardonable pride, that I have met with some degree of success. During the past few years of my life I have studied human nature in all its phases, from its lowest forms in the gutter, in the slums, in the gilded dens of vice, in the gambling... | $9 to wish list | |
Wanderings of a VagabondJohn MorrisA classic in gambling literature.
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Stand PatDavid A. CurtisPoker stories from the Mississippi. The stories play in Brownsville and Arkansas City both located on the West bank of the Mississippi river during the second half of the 19th century. Excerpt from the preface: The things that I saw, that seemed worthy of note, I have set down without prejudice to the little town of Brownsville, which has grown since I was there. Let no citizen of the place pursue me vindictively because I found him less interesting than Stumpy. And let no one’s civic pride suffer because I noted in the town only what seemed to me picturesque. I have no quarrel with... | $9 to wish list | |
A Sweet and Simple SwindleMystic AlexandreMr. T is an underground gambler, the man who wrote the Pro Guide to the Lucky Log, and the exclusive manual for "Bingo Bango". Now he brings you A Sweet and Simple Swindle. Two of them actually, because the PDF includes an additional bonus swindle with playing cards. Both dead easy to do, no sleight of hand, no complicated tactics, just a sweet advantage to you, where the mark will believe they have the better of you all along. No marked cards or anything of the sort, both of these use a regular deck of playing cards that can be borrowed, so easy a kid could take advantage of this ... if... | $8.88 to wish list | |
Gambling in its Infancy and ProgressJonathan H. GreenA dissuasive to the young against games of chance.
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