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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.

Stage name of William Henry Coffrin, aka "Wm. Vino". Pro circus "rube" and card manipulator. Invented the Si Stebbins System (1898). [Note that Howard Thurston mentions in his book Card Tricks that he himself invented the stack and that Si helped him with suggestions and ideas.] As "Wm. Vino" wrote Si Stebbins' Card Tricks. Also wrote Si Stebbins Legacy to the Magicians (1935).

The owners of this ebook can purchase 6 Special Stebbins Stacks in 60 Startling Seconds for half price.

This is a secret method in plain sight. Maybe this can also be called as Si Stebbins Easy Memory System.

A simple method to use Si Stebbins +3 stack as a Memorized Deck. Given a card position you will know the card identity or vice versa, very easily. Once you learn this you are bound to get the "why didn't I think of this myself" feeling. There is also a novel but easy suit sequencing method which makes the suit order more random instead of the red/black alternating look of chased, shocked etc.

A cool routine is also included where...

If you already own 13MM of Si Stebbins or purchase along with this, you will get this ebook for half price.

An unbelievably simple method. No Kidding. You will learn 6 special Si Stebbins stacks in just 60 startling seconds. Does it sound Strange? Shocking? Staggering? Yes, it is simply superb! Just one simple set of easy rules and you can learn 6 stacks in one shot. And all of these as memorized decks, not just cyclical stacks.

In the earlier release 13MM of Si Stebbins, with one single effort you could get triple payoff. Here, your one single effort gives you 6 times the payoff. The rules are so easy that a school kid could...

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...

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:

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. ... 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. ... 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

This is a stack that retains the simplicity of a Si Stebbins or Eight Kings stack, but randomizes colours and suits.

Why Another Stacked Deck?

The two most popular stacked decks are Si Stebbins and Eight Kings. Why should this be so? Because both systems are easy to do, under fire, under pressure and any other interruptions you find when performing. There are other systems out there but they are more complex and more demanding, unless you are using them all the time.

But the Si Stebbins and the Eight Kings have one glaring fault (if fault you could call it) and that is the alternating...

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  • ... 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 ...

Ronnay (Franz Rosensteiner) ist besonders durch seine tollen Kleinpäckchentricks bekannt geworden. Dieses Werk jedoch widmet sich ausschliesslich Kartentricks mit einem vollständigen Spiel. Ronnay beschreibt auch einige Griffe die besonders praktisch sind.

• Die letzte Karte
• Die letzte Karte II...

This is a collection of three similar but distinct publications by Si Stebbins, explaining his famous card stack and various tricks one can do with it. These three are reproduced in facsimile but made searchable with added bookmarks for easier navigation.

The first one has the title "Si and Mary Stebbins" and opens with a wonderful photo of Si and his wife Mary, original Barnum & Bailey Rube. It was printed by Press of Rex Printing House in Philadelphia. No publishing date is given but must be after 1913*. It features the system, rules, and 10 tricks followed by an additional section on Pinochle,...

• ...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.

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...

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,...

• ...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.

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...

This third part of my card project (each volume is, in any case, totally independent of the others) includes 3 new original A.C.A.A.N. effects requiring no sleight of hands:

• Two Cuts Too Fast To ACAAN
• Cut & Create ACAAN
• Si Stebbins ACAAN.

It's a new series of hands-off self-working card magic effects, that will all happen in your viewer's hands. No particular skill is required, just the ability to instruct and pay attention to what the viewer is doing... In this third eBook you will find a colour Pdf that will allow you to perform amazing automatic "Any Card At Any Number" Effects. ...

Questa terza parte del mio ultimo progetto cartomagico (ogni volume é, in ogni caso, totalmente indipendente dagli altri) include 3 nuovi effetti A.C.A.A.N. originali che non richiedono alcuna manipolazione:

• Due Tagli Veloci all' ACAAN
• ACAAN Taglia e Crea
• Si Stebbins ACAAN.

Si tratta di una nuova serie di effetti di Cartomagia Automatica che avverranno nelle mani dello spettatore! Non è richiesta alcuna abilità particolare, solo la capacità di istruire e prestare attenzione a ciò che lo spettatore dovrà fare...

In questo terzo eBook troverete un Pdf a colori che vi permetterà...

• ... 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...

• ... DEL MAZZO CONICO
• SEZIONE GIOCHI
  • INDOVINARE IL NOME DELLA CARTA SCELTA
  • NOMINARE LA CARTA ALLO «STOP»
  • UNA CARTA RIVELATA DA ALTRE DUE
  • UNA CARTA FRA QUATTORDICI
  • LE SETTE CARTE IN FILA
  • CHIAMARE LE CARTE
  • INDOVINARE LE CARTE IN FONDO AI MAZZETTI
  • UN BOOK TEST CON IL ‘SI STEBBINS’
  • ANY CARD AT ANY NUMBER
  • IL SOGNO DEL BARO
  • COLORI, SEMI E VALORI MAGNETICI
  • LA BILANCIA MAGICA
  • ALLO STESSO POSTO
  • CARTA E NUMERO
  • DUPLICE SCELTA
  • MAGICA ATTRAZIONE
  • TRADITO DALLA VOCE
  • UN GIOCO DI PAROLE
  • MEMORIA PRODIGIOSA
  • LA CARTA SCELTA
  • I TRE MAZZETTI ...

He counts twelve cards and, indeed, finds his selection!

Everything is examinable. Easy to do. No sleights. No marking system. No Si Stebbins stack. No gimmick. The deck, the envelope and the piece of paper are completely normal. A red envelope and piece of paper are used to fit the "emergency" theme but any color will do.

In detail:

The magician shuffles a deck of cards. He explains that what he is about to perform is...