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From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• A New Jumping Card Trick
• Steps
• A Card From Pocket Trick
• Card Divination
• On The Top
• A Trick With The Si Stebbins Pack
• The Persistent Joker
• An Excellent Card Change
• The Laughable Rising Card
• Lift A Few
• Unique Card Prediction
• Finding A Selected Card At Any Number Called For
• A Two Person Telepathy Effect
• Named Card And Slates
• The Paired Card
• A Practical Prediction
• Unique Control...

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...

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...

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...

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.

• ...39 - The Three Heaps
• 40 - Jordan's Spelling Card Mystery
• 41 - Thought Foretold
• 42 - Getting the Spectator's Number
• 43 - Jack-Jack-Jack
• 44 - Number Trick
• 45 - Just a Teaser
• 46 - What Card Am I Thinking Of?
• 47 - Letter "P" Trick
• 48 - The Whispering Queen
• 49 - You Can't Miss
• 50 - A Peculiar Turn Around
• 51 - Si Stebbins' Master System

1st edition 1935; PDF 66 pages.

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...

• ...
  • ... 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 ...

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...

• ... 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

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...

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.

This is a collection of three similar but distinct publications by Si Stebbins, explaining his famous card stack and various tricks one can do with it. These three are reproduced in facsimile but made searchable with added bookmarks for easier navigation.

The first one has the title "Si and Mary Stebbins" and opens with a wonderful photo of Si and his wife Mary, original Barnum & Bailey Rube. It was printed by Press of Rex Printing House in Philadelphia. No publishing date is given but must be after 1913*. It features the system, rules, and 10 tricks followed by an additional section on Pinochle,...

• ...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.

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...

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...

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:

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.

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...

What would happen if "8 Kings chased Mr. Stebbins and shocked his wits?"

This is an idea that got delayed by 25 years. And I am sorry for the delay. Although familiarity with 8 Kings and Si Stebbins stacks would help, you can also apply this Yogik Deck idea/principle to any other stacks of your choice and create your own new customized stack.

Included is a spooky-comic routine which is probably possible only with the Yogik Deck.

HAUNTED HOTEL (It had only 13 rooms)

Travelers who lost their way. Past sunset. A lonely haunted hotel. 3 rooms out of the total 13 rooms are supposedly...