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The Si Stebbins Pro Stack is highly interesting for any card stack enthusiast. Dr. Solka has taken the venerable Si Stebbins Stack and removed an inherent weakness, the rigid alternation of suit colors and strict suit rotation. The way he has done this is ingenious and will fly by everybody - magicians included. The single rule to remember is so simple that anybody can do it effortlessly. The seemingly random sequence of colors and suits is such that the deck can be spread face up without risk of detection from lay people as well as magicians.

The Card to Position relationship is explained...

Der Si Stebbins Pro Stack ist für jeden der gelegte Spiele liebt ein muss. Dr. Solka hat vom altbekannten Si Stebbins eine entscheidende Schwäche entfernt. Seine Variation verhindert die strikte Abfolge von rot, schwarz, rot, schwarz, usw. Es gibt nur eine einfache Regel zu merken. Das ganze ist genial und kinderleicht. Jetzt kann das gelegte Spiel völlig frei gezeigt werden ohne den Verdacht auf eine Präparation zu wecken.

Der Zusammenhang von Karte und Position ist leicht verständlich erklärt. Es ist ein einfacher Schritt vom klassischen Si Stebbins zum Si Stebbins Pro. Und die meisten...

You will learn how to prepare the Si Stebbins stack with two faro shuffles.

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This is the first known publication of the Si Stebbins stack and several tricks that go along with it. It is a reproduction from the Sunday 18th December 1898 issue of the St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper.

1st edition, 1898; PDF 5 pages.

Resolving the alternating color issue of the Si Stebbins stack

You can now use the easy Si Stebbins stack without guilt. The alternating color issue has been resolved. Use it with confidence. Continue to perform every effect you already perform with the Si Stebbins stack, with the alternating black/red color issue resolved.

Included in this updated PDF Alexandre's closely guarded presentation/effect using this stack (or any stack for that matter!) "MENTAL STEBBIN - The Predictive Physiological Anticipation Effect".

This was one of my first offerings to the Magic and Mentalism community...

An easy-to-calculate version of the Si Stebbins stack.

The name 'Snibbets' (Stebbins reversed) was coined by Rusduck. It denotes a reversed Si Stebbins stack where instead of adding 3 to get to the next card's value one substracts 3. The first to publish a negative step version was Ernest Hammond in The Magic of Tomorrow. While this may seem a rather inconsequential change, it has some advantages over the classic Si Stebbins stack. In this ebook, Dr. Solka takes you through the details of this lesser-known version of Si Stebbins.

1st edition 2022, PDF 19 pages.

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.

1. Can a Si Stebbins PLUS TWO stack be made useful for stack magic?
2. Can the values of this stack be made to look random enough for fair scrutiny?
3. Can this stack be made useful as a memorized deck - knowing the card at a given position and vice versa - without a sweat?
4. Can this stack have a monodistic sequence instead of the repeating tetradistic sequence like the regular Si Stebbins stack?
5. After having achieved all the above, will the stack still remain simple and easy to learn?
6. Can this same framework be applied to the other Stebbins +3 or +4 stacks?
7. Finally, will it be possible to perform...

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.

• ... 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...

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...

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...

If you are a fan of magic involving memorized decks or algorithmic stacks, you may wish to check out the following manuscript, called The Bart Harding Secret. As many of you may know, Darwin Ortiz published a method of transforming a deck from New Deck Order (NDO) into Si Stebbins order, which he called the The Si Stebbins Secret. Similarly, the Bart Harding Secret describes how to transform a deck from NDO to the Bart Harding Stack (BHS). Although the Si Stebbins stack is highly versatile, one drawback is that it does not look very random, and so many magicians will not use it for effects in which the...

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...

• ... of or named aloud.
• Choice and Chance / John Carey: A spelling effect that ends with a four-of-a-kind production.
• The Automatic Bottom Palm / Biz: In Biz's new monthly Sleight Corner, he teaches his automatic bottom palm, disguised in the actions of a swing cut.
• Splell / Scott Baird: Get into Si Stebbins Stack from new deck order by performing an easily customizable spelling trick with a tongue-in-cheek presentation.

• Branding and Magic / Scott Baird
• Inevitable Reinvention / Scott Baird

• ... Principle"
• Direct Ace-X-Ace
• Thoughts on "Money Power"
• Black Aces - Red Kings
• This is a Four King Trick
• Marlo's Visible Phantoms
• Pocket Princess
• Marlo on the Christ Force
• The Wheeling Three
• That Twist Again
• Sid's Super Stab
• Martin Gardner's "Wink Change"
• Tilt Tip and Mock Placement
• Si Stebbins Sorcery
• "The Chicago Miracle"
• Si Stebbins on the Road
• Liar's Fortune
• New Aces To Pockets
• Laser Card To Pocket
• Logical Challenge Cards to Pocket

1st edition 1970, reprinted 1976, 1st digital edition 2016, 89 pages.

Paul Fleming wrote:

1. ...
   • ...
   • The Biff-Bat Mystery - Will Blyth
   • Another Three-Card Monte - Tom Sellers
   • A Silken Secret
   • Chameleon Liquids
205. Jottings - C. Ducarel
     • The Apostle Trick
     • A Novel Card Move
     • A Magic Wand
     • Blindfold Card Trick
207. Book Notes
     • Secrets of My Magic - David Devant
     • Si Stebbins' Legacy - Si Stebbins
     • Frank Lane's Ideas, No. 2 - Frnak Lane
     • More Magic for You - Leeds Magical Society
     • 20 Best Pocket Tricks - Monte R. Viceroy
     • 20 Best Card Tricks - Monte R. Viceroy
209. Programmes
     • Frakson at the Price of Wales Theatre
     • Ronald Frankau at the Price of Wales Theatre
     • Cingalee at the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle
209. The Longshoreman - poem
209. A Christmas Production Idea - Frank Lane
210. Correspondence
     • Stars
     • New Books
     • A Buffet Table
     • Economics
211. A Mongoose Story - humor
212. Olla Podrida...

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 ...

Numbers 253-256

228 pages

1. Vol. 46, Part One, Number 253, [1957] [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. editorial comments - George Armstrong
   • Farewell to an Old Friend
   • Magic and Television and News
2. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • Routines
     • The Regular Routine
     • The Riler
     • The Boomerang ...

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...