There was a time when the Tilt, or Depth Illusion, was a top-secret technique known only to a few select insiders. The history of this move is somewhat murky, but most credit Dai Vernon with its invention. Marlo claimed he came up with it independently, which I find plausible. Regardless of who first had the idea, the Tilt is a wonderful deception. Over the years, refinements and subtleties have been added by several cardmen. Today, the Tilt is one of the core techniques most card magicians have in their arsenal.
The concept of the Tilt is the following: A card is apparently buried in the center of the deck. The audience sees the card going into the middle of the pack. But in fact, the card is inserted at or near the top or bottom of the deck. After the card is inserted and the deck is squared up, there is no move, no shift, no cut; the card is already in position near the top or bottom of the deck.
This work by Jon Racherbaumer collects all you need to know about this technique and will teach you several excellent routines and refinements. It incorporates Marlo's original manuscript. Edward Marlo's Full Tilt was originally limited to 100 copies, and it was later reprinted as part of a larger book: Flashpoints.
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Two Letters
- How Deep Is This Illusion?
- More Bluff Shifts
- For One Card: (Added Ideas)
- Bluff Shift: To The Top Or At Any Number From The Top
- Bluff Shift: To The Bottom Or Any Number From The Bottom
- Bluff Shift And Palm Off
- Flexible Bluff Shift
- D'amico Touch
- A One-Hand Tilt
- One-Handed Tilt II
- Double Tilting
- The 380-Degree Tilt
- Convincing Tilt
- Tilt Throw-Off
- Cardician's Tilt Throw-Off
- Tilt Throw-Off II
- Ambitious Phases
- Wafting Upward
- Smack Up
- Tilted Doubly Ambitious
- Ambitious Card Bit
- Houdini Would Have Bought This!
- All You Have To Do Is Watch
- Hither & Yon
- Tilted Transposition
- Four-And-Four Transposition
- Tilt And K.M. Move Transpo
- Hip-Hop Aces
- Criss-Cross Transposition
- Psychic Entertainments
- Do As I Do
- Open Or Closed Prediction
- Mental Elimination
- Sandwich Stuff
- Trapped
- Pinchers
- Tilt Sandwich
- Tilt Sandwich II
- Tilt Sandwich III
- Sundry Effects
- Tilt Stab
- Simple Blues For Simple "S"
- Clan Gathering
- Another Classical Quickie
- Tilted Classical Quickie
- Aces To Pocket
- Surprise
- Numbered Tilt
- Tilted Aces
- Tilted Dunbury
- Fake Center Deal
- Tilt Addition
- Visible Tilt
- Late Entry Tips
- First Tip
- Second Tip: Tilted Slip Cut
- Epilogue: Tailwind
1st edition 1992, 110 pages; PDF 92 pages.
word count: 22872 which is equivalent to 91 standard pages of text
