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Easy miracles using a new stack of cards.

This eBook collects a series of no less than seven tricks that are very simple to perform in front of one's audience, but all very impressive. All this is only possible thanks to a particular pre-arrangement of the pack of cards, derived from Si Stebbins but which, unlike it, will not be recognizable even to the majority of magicians, appearing on first examination to be entirely similar to a real shuffled deck. I have called this pre-order: VR Stack Pro and I will describe it extensively on the following pages.

Below you will find the effects...

Semplici Miracoli Usando un Nuovo Ordinamento del Mazzo

Questo eBook raccoglie una serie di ben 7 trucchi molto semplici da eseguire di fronte al proprio pubblico, ma tutti d grande effetto e resi possibili solamente da un particolare preordinamento del mazzo di carte, derivato dal Si Stebbins ma che, a differenza di esso, non risulterà riconoscibile nemmeno dalla maggioranza dei prestigiatori, apparendo ad un primo esame, del tutto simile ad un mazzo realmente mescolato. Ho chiamato questo preordinamento VR Stack Pro e verrà ampiamente descritto nelle prossime pagine.

Di seguito gli...

• ... slams?!)
• Quickly determine the sum of values for any group in the sequence
• Secretly transform Frac Stack into a red-black alternating sequence, with suits in rotational order
• Includes ideas and 7 effects (mostly sleight-free)

Bonus! Bertie teaches his special system of mnemonics for the Si Stebbins stack: The Anchor System. No more confusing calculations. This innovative approach enables fast card-to-position and position-to-card determinations.

1st edition 2023, PDF 37 pages.

After learning this approach, you can even create your own such stacks or simply put to use the 1260 or 78 stacks which are explained. Almost all the stack magic tricks available for Si Stebbins or 8 Kings stacks can be...

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. ... Hudson - Edward W. Dart
162. Echoes From The Guild Hall - Edward Dart
163. International Brotherhood of Magicians News Highlights - Luther Southworth
     • Dr. A. L. Baldwin, I.B.M. International Secretary - Al Munroe
     • Around the Rings
164. Publicity of the Month
     • Final Curtain of Life Drops for Si Stebbins
     • Fowl Play? - Don Grosini
     • Genii
     • Sorcar - photo
     • Albert Ching Jr. - photo
165. News of the P.C.A.M. - Everett Lyda, editor
     • P.A.C.M. Personalities - Robert A. Young, Second Vice President
     • News Highlights
166. European Tour of Ralph Read's Conventioneers - Ralph W. Read
167. Next Month ...

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...

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....

You don't even need a table. It can be done in your hands without having to create a fan. Once mastered you can do it while you patter...

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...

Thurston explains fundamental sleights such as the Pass, Palm, Force, Change, Back-Palm and his system of expert card manipulation, which appeared for the first time in this book. It also describes a unique gimmick to make the Back-Palm almost effortless.

Thurston also lays claim to what we today call the Si Stebbins stack. He writes that it is his invention but he also thanks Si for his contributions and help.

1st edition, 1903, Henry J. Wehman; 83 pages.

1. CHAPTER I. A Few Incidents in the Life of Howard Thurston, Premier Card Manipulator of the World
10. CHAPTER II. Indispensable Sleights
19. CHAPTER...

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...

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 ...

"Your Know Stack is a gem!!" - Dr. Hans Christian Solka

1. Know Stack is a cyclical stack. Given any card, you can know the next card immediately.
2. For some perhaps easier than 8 Kings stack or even Si Stebbins Stack.
3. More random looking than Si Stebbins stack.
4. No math (but some memorization) needed to know the next card.
5. Option to have either random suits or rotating suits.
6. Can be learnt in under 100 seconds.
7. Very easy to learn. Very difficult to forget.
8. Bonuses included.
9. Most cyclical stack routines/effects can be performed with this.

1. Dates Deck
2. Cue Stacks

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The book also has a comprehensive explanation of how to calculate card-to-position and position-to-card for any Si Stebbins-like stack.

The Bart Harding stack is explained with some Poker deals. And more ...

• Introduction 1
• About Mathematical Stacks
• Bracelet Sequences
  • Binary Bracelet Sequences
  • Base Four Bracelet Sequences
  • Memorized Decks
  • The Cherry Stack and the Red Stack
  • Stacks Created by Other...

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.