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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 Few Seconds on Stay Stack (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Speaking of the Clock (Marvin A. Johnson)
• Prediction Surprise and Clock Combination (Edward Marlo)
• Predetermined Hour (Edward Marlo)
• Impromptu Predetermined Hour (Edward Marlo)
• Easy Determined Hour (William Zavis)
• Tell-Tale Clocks (Roy Walton)
• The Magic Clock (Roy Walton)
• Time For Si Stebbins (Edward Marlo)
• Time Zones (Eward Marlo)
• Stolen Hours (Edward Marlo)

2nd edition 2002; 32 pages.

• ... 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.

Si Stebbins-Rest: Two people fairly select a card each and bury them into the deck themselves. You explain that you have two lucky numbers... 3 and 5. Using those two numbers... you discover their cards!

Christmas ESP: You table a small envelope and then deal five ESP cards into a row. You ask someone...

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...

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...

the Multiple Shift. And, the text is enhanced by the inclusion of some twenty excellent line drawings which make this book a most enjoyable reading and learning experience." - Peter Duffie

"A promising collection of thinking card work from a fellow cardshark. His shift, center deal demo, and Si Stebbins routine are particular standouts." - Tony Cabral

"Well written, and full of solid, creative, material. I found Michal Kociolek's illustrative style to be clean, contemporary, and elegant." - Tom Gagnon

"This is an outstanding book. I read the proof on a plane ride recently and couldn't...

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...

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...

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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...

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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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   36. A Magical Rag Picture - Lionel Watkins
   36. Routine with Borrowed Half-Dollar - Carl Bertolas
   37. "Tops" - Maury Kaine
   37. The Sounding Card - Fred Braue
   38. The Sympathetic Turnover - Fred Braue
   39. A Mental Problem - Harry A. Canar
   40. P.C.A.M. Seattle Convention - Charles N. Smith
12. re: Si Stebbins
41. Heigh Ho! Come to Colon for Abbott's Get-Together
41. There'll Be Some Changes Made - re: "Tops"
42. Among the Magic Clubs
    • Magicians' Guild Meets at Lansing - Walter A. Harris
    • Wizard Club of Chicago Close Season - Jack F. Hecht
    • Wizard Club of Chicago - Zito
43. Cardini Elected President of S.A.M. - Charles A. Rosskam & Vynn Boyar
44. re: Opening of Snyder's Magic Shop in Cleveland
44. re: Decatur Demons' Club to hold fifth annual picnic
45. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • So That's Where the Idea Came From Department
    • Our Mysteries - John...

1. ... Amy
20. Reversed Six-Card Repeat - A Simplified Version - Roxy
20. We Pay the Postage - George McAthy
21. Has Old Magazines for Sale - re: Augustus Rapp
22. Magic Outdoors - L. E. Roba Collins
22. Ministerial Magic - Gene Nielsen
23. re: Lieut. Lee Allen Estes
23. The Future Greats - Bill Pitts
24. re: Tommy Windsor
24. Si Stebbins Dies

1. The "Tops" - Volume 15, Number 12 - December 1950 - 32 pages
3. With the Editor - Mel
3. Contents
4. Doo-Ply-Kate - George F. Wright
4. [Don] Sweets Show for Kraft Cheese
5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • What's New Department
     • Professional Patter - Robert Orben
     • No-Not - National Magic Co.
     • Kardkut - "Hen" Fetsch
     • Additional...

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       • 1 - Side Slip Action
       • 2 - Palm Slip Action
       • 3 - The Crimp Action
     • Ace Control
4. Remember Twenty-Two - Dr. Maurice
5. Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
   • Dynamic Personality Tests
     • Test No. 4 - Absolute Love
7. Card and Ring - Roxy
8. A Teaser - Si Stebbins
8. Mathematical Spirits - Roxy
8. Cardomatic - Stewart James
9. The Shirt Pulling Trick
9. re: The Amazing Cazan (Vantine and Cazan)
10. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
    • The Razor Blades
10. re: Percy Abbott
11. Calculated Confusion - J. P. Mintz, QM1 USN
12. Cigo - A Clean-Cut Cigarette...

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 ...

IDEAL HOLMES: The effect of the following was inspired by Steve Hamilton's 'Thinking Out Loud' (see The Crimp, No.10, and Roger's Thesaurus, by Roger Crosthwaite and Justin Higham). However, the principle employed stems from an observation made by Tom Sellers' in "A Trick with the Si Stebbins Pack" in Card Tricks That Work.

ALL SQUARE FORECAST: Stewart James seems to be among the first to realize the true potential of the magic square when applied to individual cards rather than simply having figures on a grid. While the following adaptation of the idea requires duplicates,...

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...

He counts twelve cards and, indeed, finds his selection!

Everything is examinable. Easy to do. No sleights. No marking system. No Si Stebbins stack. No gimmick. The deck, the envelope and the piece of paper are completely normal. A red envelope and piece of paper are used to fit the "emergency" theme but any color will do.

In detail:

The magician shuffles a deck of cards. He explains that what he is about to perform is...

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   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...

A mix of cards, mentalism, and quite unusual manipulation with glasses and thimbles.

1st edition 1937, reprinted 1963; 65 pages.

• CARD AND MENTAL MAGIC
  9. The Heal Coincidence Trick
  9. Telephone Telepathy
  11. Telephone Telepathy Again
  11. Alias Divination
  14. Magazine Miracle
  15. Strange Interlude
  18. A Slate Writing Method
  20. Slate Psychics
  22. The Ultimate One Man Sealed Message Heading System
  26. Predetermination
  32. And a Routine
  33. An Improved Four Ace Routine
  35. Selective Card in Pocket
  36. Si Stebbins Up the Sleeve
  37. The Perfect Card Routine
• MOSTLY MANIPULATIVE — With Glasses
  42. Glass of Liquid from Card Fan
  43. Some...

1. ... Card Routine
2. Favorite ESP Card Trick
3. Secret Setup
4. Zarrow Shuffle
5. Escuela Magica de Madrid
6. How to Navigate Information
7. Favorite Non-Card Effects and Books
8. Magician Fooler
9. Notebook and Journal
10. Repertoire Books
11. How to Archive Tricks
12. General Card
13. Deck Switches
14. Stand-up Deck Switch
15. Best Si Stebbins Trick
16. Magic Pizza
17. Audience's Reality
18. Clocking the Deck
19. Performing Opportunities
20. Alternative Sleights
21. Kolossal Killer

1. ... Card Routine
2. Favorite ESP Card Trick
3. Secret Setup
4. Zarrow Shuffle
5. Escuela Magica de Madrid
6. How to Navigate Information
7. Favorite Non-Card Effects and Books
8. Magician Fooler
9. Notebook and Journal
10. Repertoire Books
11. How to Archive Tricks
12. General Card
13. Deck Switches
14. Stand-up Deck Switch
15. Best Si Stebbins Trick
16. Magic Pizza
17. Audience's Reality
18. Clocking the Deck
19. Performing Opportunities
20. Alternative Sleights
21. Kolossal Killer