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Thurston also identifies himself as the inventor of the Si Stebbins stack in his book on Card Tricks. According to him Si only helped with suggestions and ideas.

Punti chiave:

1. Completamente inspiegabile, sia per il pubblico che per la maggior parte dei prestigiatori e mentalisti;
2. È richiesta semplicemente la conoscenza di un qualsiasi preordinamento del mazzo di carte, come per esempio la Mnemonica di Tamariz o il Si Stebbins, e nessun altro particolare sforzo mnemonico;
3. Un pre-ordinamento (stack) matematico del mazzo, completamente nuovo, viene qui presentato per la prima volta e spiegato dettagliatamente;
4. Lo stack VR Stack PRO sembrerà assolutamente casuale e le carte appariranno essere state mescolate...

IDEAL HOLMES: The effect of the following was inspired by Steve Hamilton's 'Thinking Out Loud' (see The Crimp, No.10, and Roger's Thesaurus, by Roger Crosthwaite and Justin Higham). However, the principle employed stems from an observation made by Tom Sellers' in "A Trick with the Si Stebbins Pack" in Card Tricks That Work.

ALL SQUARE FORECAST: Stewart James seems to be among the first to realize the true potential of the magic square when applied to individual cards rather than simply having figures on a grid. While the following adaptation of the idea requires duplicates,...

Warren places utmost importance on the effect and uses whatever method suits him to achieve it: mathematics, stacks, crimps, sleights, etc. He credits Ed Marlo for clarifying and simplifying his work.

Contents

• Packet Prediction
• Miracle Do As I Do
• In My Estimation ...
• Blindfold Poker Deal
• Card Illusion
• Double Separation
• Royal Mentalism
• Superstitious Mentalism
• Peek!
• Divination Supreme
• Think-a-card - Wiersbe version
• A Change in Number
• Fantispell
• Pasteboard Affinity - a complete routine with eight effects using the Si Stebbins stack.

1st edition 1946; PDF 39 pages.

1. ...
   1. ... Poke Through Pass
   203. 4. King Size Pass
   204. 5. Tonguing
   206. 6. Lighted Cigarette Through Handkerchief
   207. 7. Card in Cigarette
209. Part Two: Applied Art: Head Magic
210. Chapter 13: Head Magic With Cards
     210. 1. Locations
     210. 1a. Unprepared Key Cards
     214. 1b. Prepared Key Cards
     216. 2. Mechanical Decks
     218. 3. Setups
     218. 3a. Systems: Si Stebbins, 8 Kings, Nikola
     220. Behind Your Back
     220. The Shuffled Setup
     221. The Foolproof Card in Pocket
     222. 3b. Special Setups
     222. Sound of the Voice
     223. Spot Location
     224. Got any Good Phone Numbers?
     224. The Royal Marriages (Dai Vernon)
     226. The 10 Card Trick
     227. 4. Card Reading
     227. 4a. By the One Ahead Method
     228. 4b. The Whispering...

Paul Lesso
The Gobbolino Principlel: "I do like the Si Stebbins stack but I've always disliked the periodically rotating suits. I spent a long time looking at various different methods of alternating the suits and I came up with the Gobbolino principle."
The Fiend Stack: "The Fiend stack was born to fulfil a certain route to a memorized deck. I wanted...

• ...39 - The Three Heaps
• 40 - Jordan's Spelling Card Mystery
• 41 - Thought Foretold
• 42 - Getting the Spectator's Number
• 43 - Jack-Jack-Jack
• 44 - Number Trick
• 45 - Just a Teaser
• 46 - What Card Am I Thinking Of?
• 47 - Letter "P" Trick
• 48 - The Whispering Queen
• 49 - You Can't Miss
• 50 - A Peculiar Turn Around
• 51 - Si Stebbins' Master System

1st edition 1935; PDF 66 pages.

• ... in circles to discern the time and then the hour. This is not muscle reading. Also, as with anything in this book, it works 100% of the time.
• Australia: A very personal event that will bring your audience members to tears. Don promises you this. But you do need to know the BCS or at least the Si Stebbins or 8 Kings to pull this off.
• The Pirate Seance: Mr. Callahan graciously helped Don with this one. Dose not have to be a pirate I suppose, but you will use mass hallucination and induce everyone in your audience into believing that they were witnesses toga gruesome murder scene from over...

Most cyclical stacks are based on either mathematical progressions (Si Stebbins) or nonsense rhymes ("Eight Kings" and John Mulholland''s "Hungry Jackass.") While memorized stacks, such as the Nikola explained in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, allow for the fastest determination of a cards position in the pack, performers who don''t use the set-up generally seem to avoid the memory route. The mathematical systems, which serve as substitutes for memory, can sometimes be difficult in performance situations. Furthermore, many of the mathematical formulas only allow you to determine the position of a given card, and not the card...

A mix of cards, mentalism, and quite unusual manipulation with glasses and thimbles.

1st edition 1937, reprinted 1963; 65 pages.

• CARD AND MENTAL MAGIC
  9. The Heal Coincidence Trick
  9. Telephone Telepathy
  11. Telephone Telepathy Again
  11. Alias Divination
  14. Magazine Miracle
  15. Strange Interlude
  18. A Slate Writing Method
  20. Slate Psychics
  22. The Ultimate One Man Sealed Message Heading System
  26. Predetermination
  32. And a Routine
  33. An Improved Four Ace Routine
  35. Selective Card in Pocket
  36. Si Stebbins Up the Sleeve
  37. The Perfect Card Routine
• MOSTLY MANIPULATIVE — With Glasses
  42. Glass of Liquid from Card Fan
  43. Some...

An algorithmic stack allows one to calculate the card value (either the next card or a card at a particular position in the deck) without having to memorize an entire deck. The most famous such stack is Si Stebbins. Each method has its pros and cons. Try them out and see what works best for you.

Sleights & Moves:

• In-The-Hands Faro Technique
• Cutting At 26
• Adjusting the Cut
• In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
• Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
• Re-Squaring the Packets
• In Case of a Miss
• Rock & Re-Weave
• The Faro Shuffle as a Real Shuffle
• Further Fine Faro Points
• The Fourth Finger Table
• Key Cards
• The Tabled Faro
• The Faro Check
• Stacking with the Faro Shuffle
• Combining Faro & Riffle
• The Ten-Card Poker Stack
• The Stay Stack
• Incomplete Faro Control
• Incomplete Faro with a Jog
• Automatic Placement Control
• Si Stebbins
• Any Card at Any Number
• Faro Mental Displacement
• Getting Packets the Same Size ...

1. ... - comments from Harry Stanley
229. The Miracle Flight - John Muir
232. Jack and the Beanstalk - Cyro
234. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
     • A Thought in White - Remo Inzani
237. Two from Tom Sellers
     • A Useful Sleight of Hand Vanish for a Small Silk
     • Planetary Intuition - Annemann - Si Stebbins - T.S. [Tom Sellers]
238. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
     • No. 22 - Christmas Again
240. Swivelleoo - Hubert Lambert
242. The Jon Tremaine Routine for the "Acrobatic Matchbox"
245. A Suggestion or Two by Harry Stanley
     • Silks from Newspaper
     • 20th Century Silks

257. Volume 13, Number...

1. ... Sharpe
92. References in Magical Literature - article by Nicholls Harley
94. Easy Does It - J. A. Esler
96. Impromptu Card Effects - Nicholls Harley
    • I. The Permanence of Retinal Impressions
98. The Diving Duck - H. Lavilette
99. Book Notes
    • More than a Trick - Jack Vosburgh
    • Tele-Cardology - Si Stebbins
    • Mental Multiplication - Charles Lipkin
    • Magic as a Business - E. R. Springston & Horace Marshall
    • Tips, Tricks and Gags - Santini
    • Fifty Crazy Card Stunts - U. F. Grant
    • Fifty Methods of Producing a Silk - U. F. Grant
    • Fifty Cute Coin Tricks - U. F. Grant
    • Tricks with hair - U. F. Grant
100. Amid the Magazines
     • The Sphinx
     • Genii
     • The Tops
     • The Linking Ring ...

1. ... Card Routine
2. Favorite ESP Card Trick
3. Secret Setup
4. Zarrow Shuffle
5. Escuela Magica de Madrid
6. How to Navigate Information
7. Favorite Non-Card Effects and Books
8. Magician Fooler
9. Notebook and Journal
10. Repertoire Books
11. How to Archive Tricks
12. General Card
13. Deck Switches
14. Stand-up Deck Switch
15. Best Si Stebbins Trick
16. Magic Pizza
17. Audience's Reality
18. Clocking the Deck
19. Performing Opportunities
20. Alternative Sleights
21. Kolossal Killer

1. ...
   • ... Pair!
305. A Tip for Tadman - Sid Lorraine
306. A Lucky Accident! - testimonial
306. To Australia - via The States - testimonial
306. A Good Thing - testimonial
307. Transparent Trickery - Ravelle and Andree
308. More raves! - testimonials
309. At Homb with McComb - Billy McComb
310. Snakes Alive! - news - Colin C. McCrory
311. Si Stebbins ESP - Theo Doré
314. Confetti Egg Routine - J.V. Reilly
315. The Phantom Artist - Arthur Setterington
316. Crazy Card Divinations - Val Andrews
320. What Bayard Wrote - comments from Bayard Grimshaw
321. As You Like It = Arthur Setterington
322. Club Talk - patter for Pavel's "Chameleon Knots" - Ken de Courcy
323. 9 Colour Change - Sam Dalal ...

1. ... Leaves of Gold
74. advertisements
81. Let's Face It - editorial by Ken de Courcy
82. Mail Box - correspondence
83. 318 Ganson's "Teach-In"
    • Minor Miracles
      • Pencil Twist
      • Pegs Apart
86. Mail Box - correspondence
    • The Magician's Insurance Policy
87. Two Tricks Utilising a Si Stebbins Set-Up - Keith Downs
88. A Record? - testimonial
89. The Pierrots - Reginald Boncey
90. Saucy! - jokes
91. Ideas and Tips - Harry Carnegie
    • Cups and Balls for Children
    • Puppets and Road Safety
    • Impromptu Lighted Match from Pocket
    • Preparing Cigarettes fro Production
92. The Treasure of Hi Fli Wun
94. A Card and a Celebrity (Publicity...

• ...A Few Seconds on Stay Stack (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Speaking of the Clock (Marvin A. Johnson)
• Prediction Surprise and Clock Combination (Edward Marlo)
• Predetermined Hour (Edward Marlo)
• Impromptu Predetermined Hour (Edward Marlo)
• Easy Determined Hour (William Zavis)
• Tell-Tale Clocks (Roy Walton)
• The Magic Clock (Roy Walton)
• Time For Si Stebbins (Edward Marlo)
• Time Zones (Eward Marlo)
• Stolen Hours (Edward Marlo)

2nd edition 2002; 32 pages.

the Multiple Shift. And, the text is enhanced by the inclusion of some twenty excellent line drawings which make this book a most enjoyable reading and learning experience." - Peter Duffie

"A promising collection of thinking card work from a fellow cardshark. His shift, center deal demo, and Si Stebbins routine are particular standouts." - Tony Cabral

"Well written, and full of solid, creative, material. I found Michal Kociolek's illustrative style to be clean, contemporary, and elegant." - Tom Gagnon

"This is an outstanding book. I read the proof on a plane ride recently and couldn't...

• ... most named cards
• Return to new deck order
• Creation of a mirror deck (by suits)
• Creation of a mirror deck (without suit separation)
• And much more...

1st edition 2012, 133 pages.

1. ... & T. Page Wright
   • Little Jimmie and the Christmas Stocking
117. A Coin and Silk Routine - Howard Warringer
118. The Great Bank Robbery - Walter Price
119. Magical Welding Improved - Douglas Francis
119. The Death Sentence - G. C. Bowen
119. Pagoda Square Circle - Brady White
120. Photoflash - Cyril Endfield
120. Si Stebbins in Swing Time - Or. Musical Mindreading - Harry Mendoza
120. A Deck of Cards and a Rubber - Bill Woodfield
121. Original Creations for Magicians Hitherto Kept - Up His Sleeve - Charles Waller - continued
     • The Nest of Boxes
122. Paper and Ink - Dariel Fitzkee
     • The Tarbell Couse in Magic, Lessons 46 to 58 (Fourth...

1. ...
   1. ... Elmsley
   17. The Long-Handled Spoon - Bob Read
   19. Double Vision - Shiv Duggal
   20. Davenport's Magic Shop - An Underground Experience
   22. Floating Card Case - Angelo Carbone
   24. Hung Up - Alan Alan
   25. ITHEC - Paul Gordon
   25. Wax Works - Magic at madam Tussaud's
   27. The Pa Pa System - Plus Si Stebbins - Patrick Page
   27. Ron's Day - The International Magic Convention
   30. Hockley's Rice - John Derris
   31. A Few Words With - Anthony Owen
   32. An English Tea - Jack Avis
   34. Antiquarian Books - David Drummond at Pleasures of Past Times
   35. Coupon to Currency - Peter Kane
   36. The Magic Circle...

January 2003 - December 2003
Richard Kaufman, Editor

1288 pages

1. Genii - Volume 66, Number 1 - January 2003 - 112 pages
1. Cover - The Magic Castle Turns 40 ... and We go to a Seancé
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman Kurzweil
16. David Copperfield's Project Magic - Arthur
24. Ibiden & Aziz At Last - Max Maven & P. Howard Lyons
    26. Parallel Lyons - Max Maven
    27. Nine, Nine, Nine - Mel Stover
    76. Reading Between the Lyons - Max Maven
    76. On the Si Stebbins System - P. Howard Lyons
    77. Confusion - P. Howard Lyons
    77. That's What I Call Direct! - P. Howard Lyons
    78. The Bard and The Bible...

• ... Glide, Glimpse, Mexican Turnover, Palming, Second Deal, Shifts, Slips, and a card worker's bibliography
• Card Marking: longer article covers principles, dot & puncture, manufacture, shading/tinting, line and scroll work, and marking while in play
• Card Setups (The Rosary Deck): New packs, 8 Kings, Si Stebbins, explained along with several tricks
• Cards, Flap: defined
• Cards, Key: Article with several types described
• Cards, One Way, Pointer, Divided: description of three card location approaches
• Cards Up the Sleeve: routine described
• Card Through Handkerchief: described
• Card Vanisher: several...