Debits, Credits, and other Leftovers
by Jon Racherbaumer

Polishing and old principle of mooted origin ...

Jon Racherbaumer explores an old but fascinating self-working trick which can be performed with any set of counters, be they cards, sticks, stones, coins, matches, business cards, bottle caps, gummi bears, ...

• Prelude
• Introduction
• My Introduction To The Version With Playing Cards
• The Quickie Card Trick
• Beginnings
  • A Novel Card Trick (Howard L. Grant)
  • Toothpick Magic (U. F. Grant)
  • Counting Trick (Rufus Steele)
  • A Matter Of Debit And Credit (John Northern Hilliard)
• Spin-Offs
  • Balancing Debit And Credit (Ian Baxter)
  • The Trick That Fooled Einstein (Harry Franke)
  • Estimation (Gene Grant)
  • The Worm Turns (Edward Marlo)
  • Picking On Rainman (Michael Weber)
• Expansions
  • Guesstimation City (Jon Racherbaumer)
  • Climax Estimation (Al Thatcher)
  • Dig It! (Harry Lorayne)
• Jackpot Coins Versions
  • Jackpot Coins (Al Koran)
  • Correct Change (Jon Racherbaumer)
  • Little Jackpot Coins (Barrie Richardson)
• Postscript
• Bibliography

1st edition 2016, 50 pages.
word count: 14560 which is equivalent to 58 standard pages of text