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THE BIGGEST SNAG IN "EIGHT KINGS" OR "SI STEBBINS" EFFECTIVELY REMOVED.

Are you afraid of being caught when using a stacked deck of cards? Then you must know George Blake's system! No more fear of spreading the deck face up, if you know it.

From the introduction:

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

version 2.02, 16 pages.

The Nikola Card System is more advanced than either the Si Stebbins or "Eight Kings" card systems. Even upon close examination pre-arrangement seems impossible with this system.

• Section 1: Argument
• Section 2: Curriculum
• Section 3: Utility
  • 1. "Stop"
  • 2. Cards By Weight
  • 3. Weighing Chosen Cards
  • 4. The Sense Of Touch
  • 5. Human Magnetism
  • 6. Locating
  • 7. Spelling
  • 8. To Spell Any Card Called For
  • 9. Thought Anticipated
  • 10. Unconscious Thought Transmission
  • 11. Wizard's Whist
  • 12. All Trumps
  • 13. The Spelling Bee,
  • 14. The Game Of Poker, And
  • 15. The Game Of "Nap"
  • 16. To Name The Position...

Mnemonic based stacks like the 8 Kings stack, although have random sequence of values, depend on brute memorization. Algorithm based stacks like the Si Stebbins stack, although no memory required and easy to calculate, are not random enough and the pattern is easily recognizable. Further, in both the above type of stacks, the suit sequence generally used is chased, shocked etc which are red/black alternating patterns.

So here is Karma Deck...

1. ... Amy
20. Reversed Six-Card Repeat - A Simplified Version - Roxy
20. We Pay the Postage - George McAthy
21. Has Old Magazines for Sale - re: Augustus Rapp
22. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
22. Ministerial Magic - Gene Nielsen
23. re: Lieut. Lee Allen Estes
23. The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
24. re: Tommy Windsor
24. Si Stebbins Dies

1. The "Tops" - Volume 15, Number 12 - December 1950 - 32 pages
3. With the Editor - Mel
3. Contents
4. Doo-Ply-Kate - George F. Wright
4. [Don] Sweets Show for Kraft Cheese
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • What's New Department
     • Professional Patter - Robert Orben
     • No-Not - National Magic Co.
     • Kardkut - "Hen" Fetsch
     • Additional...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
       • ...
       • 1 - Side Slip Action
       • 2 - Palm Slip Action
       • 3 - The Crimp Action
     • Ace Control
4. Remember Twenty-Two - Dr. Maurice
5. Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
   • Dynamic Personality Tests
     • Test No. 4 - Absolute Love
7. Card and Ring - Roxy
8. A Teaser - Si Stebbins
8. Mathematical Spirits - Roxy
8. Cardomatic - Stewart James
9. The Shirt Pulling Trick
9. re: The Amazing Cazan (Vantine and Cazan)
10. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
    • The Razor Blades
10. re: Percy Abbott
11. Calculated Confusion - J. P. Mintz, QM1 USN
12. Cigo - A Clean-Cut Cigarette...

1. ...
   • Herrmann Homar
10. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
12. Toots from the Calliope - L. E. Roba Collins
14. Fox Tales - Karrell Fox
15. P.C.A.M. & Magigals Convention at San Diego in July
16. Fooling Around - Ren Fetzer
    • Pro-diction
17. A Triple Mental Test - U. F. "Gen" Grant
17. The Si Stebbins 'Set-Up'
18. Entre Nous - Dorny (Werner Dornfield)
19. Poet's Corner - Marie Antoinette Dornfield
20. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
21. The Amazing Dr. Faust
22. Chain Of Penitence - Eddie Joseph
23. Patter & Presentation - Gene Gordon
    • Patter For R. W. Hull's Nudist or Mental Photography Cards - Harry Voldini
24. Tops Photo Quiz...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
   • Newsbits
22. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Stayfast" hair clips - Paul Fishman
    • perforate folds for paper tearing - F. Bruce Fowler
23. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
26. photo - re: Bob Lynn
27. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Spelling Effect with the Si Stebbins Set-Up
28. On The Spot - Ed Mishell
    • Trick of the Month - watch winder gag - Morty Rudnick
29. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
    • An Un-Authorized Report on the 1970 Abbott Get-Together
32. Ventopics - George McAthy
    • Things Are Tough All Over - John J. Bogorae
34. A Tribute to Howard Thurston - Part 4 - Robert E. Olson
    • Bowl of Fire
    • Duck Transposition
36. Final Curtain
    • Chester A. Chylinski
37. The International Congress - Benjamin J. Kleinman
38. Just for Us Young Guys - John Sherwood
    • Starting In Magic (Part Eight...

1. ...
   1. ... Kop - Seth Kramer
90. Turn It Around - Magic For The Family Audience - David Kaye
    • Accenting to The End
    • Michael Sondermeyer
101. Who's Where
     • United States
     • International
     • Touring
124. Where To Find Magic Magazine
127. Advertisers Index
128. 50 Years Ago - Final Curtain Drops - re: Si Stebbins - The Milwaukee Journal
129. Upcoming In Magic
130. Finally

1. Magic - Volume 10, Number 4 - December 2000 - 132 pages
1. Cover - Wee Wizards
9. Contents
13. From the Editor - Stan Allen
    • Build It And ...
17. Letters
21. Guest Editorial - No Secrets - Jonathan Pendragon
23. Guest Editorial - The Best Trick In The World - Randy Wakeman
27. Inside Magic
    • Television ...

• ...
  • ... Second Deal in the World
  • Gary Kurtz's Convincer
  • Wesley James' Load Up Move
• Multiple Selections
• Classic Palming a Coin
• The Three Ball Trick
• The Unequal Ropes
• The One Way Deck
• Spellbound
• Changes
  • The Too Perfect Theory
  • Card to Envelope
  • The Book Change
• Stacked Decks
  • Eight Kings
  • Si Stebbins
  • Three Way Mind Reading
• Knots
  • Cut and Restored Get Ready
  • The Knot Routine
• Juggling
• The Classic Force
• Sleeving
• Cards to Pocket
  • Gordon Bruce's Load
  • Francis Carlyle's Homing Card
  • Ad Lib Jacket Load
• The Muscle Pass
• One Coin Routines
  • Ian's One Coin Routine
• Adaptability ...

This is one of the books that Abbott published for the troops during wartime in the 1940's. It uses Si Stebbins system, except the step size is 4 rather than 3, also known as "The Riverboat Stack" or "Mark Twain Stack" (see New Card Tricks with the Mark Twain Stack). Routines can be performed with most other stacks.

• Foreword
• The Magic Card System: The Rules That Make It Work
• Effect Number One: A Skeptical Spectator Interrupts
• Effect Number Two
  • It Might Happen To You
  • Effect Number Two As Performed By Two Persons
• Effect Number Three
• Effect Number Four
• Effect Number Five
  • The Effect Done With An Assistant
• Effect Number Six ...

This ebook is also part of the collection Strange Secrets 1.

• Introduction: Points On Presentation And Patter
• Feeling The Spots
• Reading The Cards
• The Lip-Reading Test
• Important Features
• Hints About Blindfolding
• The Master's Touch
• Reading Dates On Coins, Numbers On Bills, Etc.
• Miracle Color Vision
• Reading "Ordinary Printed Matter" With The Fingertips
• Here's Your Card
• Snappy Number
• Psychometry
• In Conclusion
• The Si Stebbins Pre-Arranged Pack

1st edition 1948, 42 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 19 pages.

Easy to learn, hard to detect. A booklet of routines that use the Si Stebbins stack.

This is an early publication by Hugh Johnston predating his larger Modern Card Miracles by several years. Includes research on its likely publication date by Chris Wasshuber.

• The Secret
• Rapid Counting
• Weighing the Cards
• To Tell the Center Card of Pack
• To Locate Any Card Called For
• To Have the Joker Tell You What Card is Drawn
• To Tell the Number and Suit Of As Many Cards As Are Drawn
• To Tell Card That Is Drawn While Blindfolded
• To Cut the Cards in Three Heaps and Tell Bottom Card of Each Heap
• Reading the Cards
• To Have Pack Cut and Name Bottom...

The King Stack is a cyclical stack. Probably the world's easiest cyclical stack to date. As easy as the Si Stebbins stack. But much more random looking for both values and suits. If you can add 1 and 2 then you can instantly learn the King Stack, it is that simple and easy. It should not take more than 3 minutes to actually fully learn it. The real core principle of this stack can be explained in just 2-3 sentences. It is that simple and yet looks fairly random.

The King Stack is so named because the Kings have a special place in this stack and play a key role. A hidden beauty of the ...

Paul Fleming wrote:

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• A New Jumping Card Trick
• Steps
• A Card From Pocket Trick
• Card Divination
• On The Top
• A Trick With The Si Stebbins Pack
• The Persistent Joker
• An Excellent Card Change
• The Laughable Rising Card
• Lift A Few
• Unique Card Prediction
• Finding A Selected Card At Any Number Called For
• A Two Person Telepathy Effect
• Named Card And Slates
• The Paired Card
• A Practical Prediction
• Unique Control...

Key Points

1. Deceptive, both for lay people, cardicians and mentalists.
2. It simply requires knowledge of any pre-ordered deck of cards, such as Mnemonica by Tamariz or Si Stebbins stack, and no other special mnemonic effort.
3. A new mathematical stack is introduced and fully explained.
4. The VR Stack Pro sequence looks absolutely random and the cards will seem well-shuffled also for most expert magicians.
5. The one in use will be a standard deck of 52 different cards,...

You can perform almost all the stack-independent memdeck material out there with this deck too.

BONUS

As a bonus, the Dictum Deck is also included. This is a cyclical stack that is very random-looking and yet almost as easy to learn as the Si Stebbins stack.

The first few cards of this stack are as follows: AC 9H QD XC 7H JD 3C 6S 8D 5C 2S 4D

Again, you can perform almost all the cyclical stack material out there with this deck too. If I remember right, this is the 27th stack I have released.

1st edition 2021, PDF 14 pages....

There are so many possibilities with a stacked deck, or better yet, "Impossibilities." That's because these decks look regular but what you can do with them quite casually can appear incredible. It's an old stack that's still worth its salt is, "The Si Stebbins Stack." It's sorta the granddaddy of this kind of amazing card magic. And it has a mathematical build to it that allows for a variety of other approaches as to magically finding a selected card and or knowing where or what a card is as to its position. This effect is a refreshing and fun way I found to make a bit more magic happen...