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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...

A complete card-act with patter.

This ebook describes moves and routines for a stacked deck. The authors are using the Si Stebbins stack, but most of what is taught applies to other stacks, memorized or algorithmic. At the very end a simply two person code is taught.

Dornfield, President of the Chicago Society of Magicians writes in The Sphinx magazine, November 1919 page 209:

The Monk Stack is a simple cyclical stack. It was designed to solve two famous problems of the Si Stebbins stack and the 8 Kings stack. Like the Si Stebbins stack, this does not have an obvious sequence. And unlike the 8 Kings, this does not need the memorization of a mnemonic.

In fact, the single, simple rule of the Monk Stack is so easy that you will learn the stack instantly after reading the rule. Not only that, it will also be almost impossible for you to forget the rule thereafter. Frankly, the cool rule which is the core of the Monk Stack can be stated in just one single sentence....

• ... 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.

The Mark Twain stack is a Si Stebbins stack with a four-apart sequence in SHoCkeD order. It was first published in the February 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix and Inventions magazine. This is a reproduction of this article.

The Mark Twain stack, also called the Riverboat stack (see for example Magic Card System), due to the abundant gambling on Mississippi riverboats, gets its name from the practice on these riverboats to frequently having to measure the water depth. If it was two marks, pronounced 'mark twain', it was ok.

1st edition 1935; PDF 4 pages.

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   • 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...

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   • 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...

The Next Stack is a cyclical stack that is as easy to learn as the Si Stebbins stack but can withstand scrutiny, unlike the Stebbins stack. In the Stebbins stack, the increment of 3 or 4 could be visible to a participant if observed keenly. But in the Next Stack it is almost impossible to recognize the sequence.

The Next Stack is named as such because literally it is based on the "Next" principle, which is a novel, innovative principle. Given any card you can instantly know the next card.

It will take all of 5 minutes for you to learn this cool principle and start applying it. This principle...

Quodlibet Omnia is a bridge between the past and the future of these famous number tables and the...

QUODLIBET OMNIA è un ponte tra il passato e il futuro di queste famose tabelle numeriche...

A classik twist to a classik stack. Now this 2nd edition includes a printable image of the Rasik Deck stack for visual practice and a cool method suggested by Rick Silberman for getting into the Rasik Deck stack from new deck order.

A Shocked Duchess became Si Stebbins' Karma (Destiny). If Si Stebbins would have learnt the Karma Deck this would have been the result. The Rasik Deck is the surprising result of applying the Karma Deck principle to the age old Si Stebbins stack. And added to this is a novel method of using existing suit systems to create a random suit sequence. So the final end result is a fabulously refreshing stack with many...

We all think we know the Si Stebbins Stack, so did I, until I dug a bit deeper. This publication describes the stack used by Si Stebbins himself and it's not the old favourite that we all know and love.

Not just a one-trick pony, a deck of cards set up in the Si Stebbins System can be used to build a complete card routine, consisting of many different card effects. Six such effects are described and explained in this text. Also included is a simple diary or planner with a named card at every date, which can be used in the "Planner Ahead" effect.

Plus you get a new, 'low maintenance' method...

More fun with the original Si Stebbins Stacked deck. Contains an explanation of the original Si Stebbins stack and how to set up any deck of cards in that order.

Four different effects using the stack:

Kind of a Four
The spectator chooses a card and the performer prognosticates what that card is by looking at 'indicator' cards. Eventually, the 'indicator' cards are shown to be the three 'mates', matching the value of the chosen card, making four of a kind in all.

Curried Stebbins
A version of Paul Curry's Out of this World where two spectators randomly pick cards and it transpires that one spectator chose all...

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,...

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...

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  • ... Face Card Trick
  • The Talking Card
  • Double Duty
  • The Card That Tells
  • Card Counting Extraordinary
  • Double Revelation
  • The Puzzler
  • The Magic Four Spot
  • Cardini's Color Discernment
  • Miraskill
  • The Quickie Card Trick
  • Scarne's Six-Way Baffler
  • Variation On Six-Way Baffler
  • Thurston's Card Mystery
  • Si Stebbins' Master Memory Test
  • Si Stebbins' Master Card Tricks
  • Seeing Through The Deck
  • On The Square
• Poker Demonstrations
  • The Four Royal Flushes
  • The Dean's Poker Deal
  • The New Deal Poker Hand
  • Scarne's Drunken Poker Deal
  • Winning Poker
  • The Great Poker Demonstration
  • The Mishap Poker Deal ...

A.C.A.A.N. effects are a genre of effects now considered classics in card magic and mentalism, ever since David Berglas, who precisely first proposed a legendary version of it, called it "Any card At Any Number."

The idea of trying to write this special eBook came about while I was preparing my Contactless Automatic Card At Number series of Volumes (now at 6 Volumes) and experimenting in particular with the possibility of creating new automatic effects by making use of various stacks, including Si Stebbins and my VR Stack Pro (see Vol. 2 & 3):

From here to examining the Si Stebbins Pro, devised by Dr. Hans Christian Solka, was a short step, and with pleasure...

Gli effetti A.C.A.A.N., in Italia notI anche come “Carta al Numero”, sono un genere di effetti oramai considerati dei classici nella Cartomagia e nel Mentalismo, da quando ne propose una versione leggendaria David Berglas, che appunto per primo l’ha definito “Any card At Any Number”.

L’idea di provare a scrivere questo speciale eBook è nata mentre preparavo la mia serie di Volumi Contactless Automatic Card At Number (giunta a 6 Volumi) e sperimentavo in particolare la possibilità di creare nuovi effetti automatici servendomi di vari stack, tra cui il Si Stebbins ed il mio VR Stack Pro (vedi i Vol. 2 & 3).

Da...

version 2.02, 16 pages.

An apparent demonstration of total card mastery, this series of card effects entertains and baffles a lay audience. The magician names missing cards by glancing at a riffling pack, listens to the riffling cards to count packets or locate any card, and detects truth from lies by spelling with the cards.

1st edition 1988, 5 pages; PDF 6 pages.