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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.

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 ...

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

runtime: 2min 37s

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...

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...

• ... 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.

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Paul Fleming wrote:

• ... 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.

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

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

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.

• ... 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...

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...

version 2.02, 16 pages.