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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.

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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 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:

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 ...

• ... 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 ...

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...

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...

• ... 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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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:

• ...
  • ... 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 ...