Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 76

The Monk Stack is a simple cyclical stack. It was designed to solve two famous problems of the Si Stebbins stack and the 8 Kings stack. Like the Si Stebbins stack, this does not have an obvious sequence. And unlike the 8 Kings, this does not need the memorization of a mnemonic.

In fact, the single, simple rule of the Monk Stack is so easy that you will learn the stack instantly after reading the rule. Not only that, it will also be almost impossible for you to forget the rule thereafter. Frankly, the cool rule which is the core of the Monk Stack can be stated in just one single sentence....

Over 200 different impromptu take-a-card trick endings.

From the introduction by John Braun:

The spectator selects, remembers, and returns a card to the deck. Without any unnecessary handling the performer counts down to its value, then spells the suit. The selected card is turned over at the end of this counting/spelling sequence.

Based on a trick by Frederick Mosteller in 1943 that used two decks. This is a streamlined and more commercial one deck version.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

Ed Marlo performs and teaches some of his greatest secrets, gleaned from private footage.

This 60 minute video offers the richest, most complete teaching tape ever released of the world's greatest cardician, Edward Marlo, with over twenty-five quality ideas, moves and routines jam-packed into one video. Watch as Ed demonstrates and explains: Spectator Cuts the Aces, The Fifth Peel, Vanishing Aces, Shake the Spots Off . . . and much, much more. Ed Marlo lectures on Shank and Zarrow shuffle sequences and applications, gives advanced tips on card handling, and adds performances of items from...

This is a new effect from Devin Knight's recent East Coast lecture tour. It uses a special Svengali deck in a way that magicians will never suspect. So you know, you will need to own or buy a Svengali Deck and gimmick it to do this trick. Take this to your next magic club meeting and puzzle the members.

EFFECT: The performer shows a deck of cards and mixes them. He invites a spectator to stop him as he deals the cards face down on the table. The person can stop him anywhere in the deal, there are no restrictions. The performer deals until the person says stop. The performer shows the card...

From the Preface:

Sometimes we confuse progress and novelty. Not everything new is an improvement.

What the off principle offers is not newness but rather simplicity. The Off-principle is not trying to replace breaks, peeks or controls and yet it is making them less relevant. The off principle is not an advanced move or trick and yet it is able to improve almost every card trick. The off principle is complex in it s applications and yet simplifies almost any card trick you are about to perform.

Yesterday you used controls to keep track of the spectators card, now it is still possible but unnecessary. Yesterday...

More tricks based on the binary and ternary number system. Miller also exploits figures that cannot physically exist, subtly reinforcing the apparent impossibility of his trick creations.

• Binary Dice
• Ternary Dice
• Day Off
• Unreal Realities
• More Impossible Figures
• Zodiac Puzzle 1
• Zodiac Puzzle 2
• Zodiac Puzzle 3
• Crazy Laces
• Ariadne
• ESPectulator
• Dicey ESP
• Twin Assistance
• Multiple U/D Choice
• Progressive U/D Deals
• Semi-Progressive U/D Deals
• Marching Lock-Step
• Follow the Star!
• Get Me Out!
• The (Not So) Easy Task

1st edition 2017, 35 pages.

This e-book offers three similar effects all based on a singular premise.

1. Australian Aces: The performer casually shuffles a pack of cards, then hands it to a volunteer. The performer need not touch the cards for the duration of this feat. The volunteer cuts off roughly a quarter of the pack. The volunteer names any Ace freely. He spells its name and gives the packet an Australian Shuffle. The last card he holds is the Ace he named! The volunteer now spells the word 'Ace' and the Ace matching the color of the named Ace turns up. Finally the volunteer spells the suit of the named Ace and...

Distorted Siblings combines the best aspects of several tricks by John Bannon, Max Maven, and Aldo Colombini. The routine is this:

A packet of red-backed cards and a packet of blue-backed cards are placed face-down on the table. It is explained that each packet contains the four kings and that one in each packet is face-up as a prediction. Two spectators each name a king. The named kings are in fact the face up kings. The kings are turned face down and it is shown that each king is in their opposite packets.

Each king is then placed back into its own packet. All four blue cards are together as are the red cards,...

Some sixty complete routines are performed and explained! As far from a "one trick wonder" type offering as can be imagined, when you get the series you are just paying one dollar and thirty-five cents per routine.

This is the complete set of all four vintage Randy Wakeman instructional videos. now available by download for the very first time. It includes performances and thorough explanations of most of the pieces from Randy's first trilogy of books (Formula One Close-up, Randy Wakeman's Special Effects, Randy Wakeman Presents), Randy's Linking Ring Parade, Randy's Genii issue, Randy's...

Visual sleight-of-hand card magic.

• Acetral Projection
• Do You Feel Lucky?
• Unbelievably Copless
• The Devil and Randy Wakeman
• Miracle Move Aces
• Professional Reverse Assembly
• Eidetically Yours
• Marlo's Aerial Change
• Randy Fooler
• Expecting the Unexpected
• A Dime A Dozen
• Topsy Turvey Charlie
• Marlo's Unbelievable Aces
• Spectator's Invisible Palm
• A Frantic Tumble and a Shy Goodbye

1st edition 1990, length 1h 20min

All card routines except one, which is a torn and restored paper money effect.

• All That Jazz
• Three Phase Follow-Up
• I Like Nice Things
• The Odds Against Me
• The Bill Tear
• Marlo's Six Card Trick
• Mini Surprise Stab
• The Force is with You
• Heba Haba's Favorite
• R.W. Ambitious Card Routine
• Exploding Aces
• The Formula One Card Routine
• The Card of a Thousand Faces
• Smorgasbord Cannibals
• Playing on the Three-Way
• Reverse Reverse Surprise
• Did You Get The Odd One?
• Shuffle Them Twice ... They Rollover Nice

1st edition 1989, length 2h

A selection of Randy Wakeman's favorite card routines.

• Ascension Transposition
• Spectator on Stage
• The Randy Revelation
• The Natural
• Give Us This Day Our Daley Aces
• But Fast!
• Free Choice Sudden Aces
• The Mystic Card
• Marlo's Bluff Ace Assembly
• Triversion
• One-Hand Center Deal
• The Emergency Card
• Overclock
• R.W. Four Card Stunner
• Fore-Figuration
• Maximum Penetration

1st edition 1988, length 1h 24 min

• Last Card to Laugh (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Sounds of Silence?
• Face Value?
• Elevated Elevator (Edward Marlo, Frank Garcia)
• Shiner Notes (Files of Jon Racherbaumer)
• Remembrance of Things Passed (Jon Racherbaumer)
• About a Procedure for the Clock Trick (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Cardini Control (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Niggling Narrativity (Jon Racherbaumer)
• New-And-Clear Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Bare-Faced Boys With Decks In Hand (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Impromptu Casino Shuffle (Gene Castillon)
• Notes on Peek Decks
• Marlo's Spread Lift (Edward Marlo)
• Magic: On the Edge: Trick-Soup For Dummies? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Constructive Criticism ...

Variety assortment of card routines of all kinds - self-working, sleight-of-hand, quickies, classics.

• The Slow Motion Nudist Pack By John Derris
• Ten Knights In A Card Room By Bill Hendricks
• Color Change Illusion With Cards By Everett Lyda
• New Three Card Monte Move By Victor Comello
• All Fair Card Transposition By Jack Avis
• Cardlepathy By Theo Dore
• All Fair Hallucination By Jack Avis
• The Switchless Switch By Edward Marlo
• The Utility Prediction By Victor Comello
• Sympathetic Card Miracle By Roy E. Smith
• Super Do As I Do By Geoffrey Buckingham
• A Double Change By Al Leech
• Kings On The Loose By Al Leech
• Preface To Out Of This World By Harry Riser ...

In this vintage and somewhat wacky video, Randy Wakeman demonstrates and explains in great detail his work with "Small Packet Ambitious," "The Visitor," the Rainbow Deck, Tom Gagnon's Impromptu Haunted Deck, Gagnon's "LBD Aces," and much, much more.

Miscellaneous mayhem by Simon Lovell is also included. And yes, although this isn't exactly "Team America" . . . puppets are involved.

length 1 hour

Between 2009 and 2011 a very special column appeared in M-U-M, the in-house magazine for the Society of American Magicians. Conceived to be an introduction to sleight of hand aimed at beginners, the thirty-six lessons ended up being one of the most detailed courses in conjuring to date. The topics covered included all aspects of magic; cards and coins, balls, ropes and cups, stand up and close up, interspersed with real-world performance hints and tips from someone who has spent time in the trenches.

This e-book version contains all thirty six Basic Training columns, plus two extra lessons...

• Winning At Gin Rummy
• Hole Card Wild
• Cards Of Unrest
• Double Denouement
• Mental Reverse
• The Incredible Prediction
• Four-Card Finale
• Thoughts Across Space
• Miracle From Smoke
• Miracle From Smoke (No. 2)
• Impromptu Daub Location
• Cards Do Not Lie

PDF 14 pages.

Here is a deceptive, all purpose false shuffle that every card man will be able to do. Marlo's detailed steps of instruction brings this revolutionary technique into sharp focus and also gives you some very magical effects using it. Students of card magic will find this provocative, controversial treatise an important addition to Riffle Shuffle arcana. Newcomers will be introduced to the skills and workings of front-rank card magic.

• Foreword
• Commentary
• The Shank Shuffle
• Marlo's Variations Of The Shank Shuffle
• The Work
• To Keep An Alternated Red-Black Set-Up
• The Shank Shuffle With Block...

This is a quick playing card divination effect. The performer divines the card merely thought of by the participant and the best part is that there is no need of any physical deck of cards. Just one single business card is used.

There are no sleights, no stooges, no preshow, no peeks, no impressions, no outs, no tears. Nothing to reset and instantly repeatable for other participants.

The method is an old classic reworked for this effect. The underlying principle is very flexible and can be put to multiple uses with a little creativity.

A new design shared by Michael Lyth is included. Another cool...

A wonderful look at the life and times of Ed Marlo, with vintage, rare, underground footage. Called "one of the most important tapes of the Millennium" by Matt Field, this tape lets you get to know the real Ed Marlo.

1st edition 2000, length 1h

Based on a classic principle, the 4 routines explained in this ebook can become reputation makers for you. Right from a rank beginner to an experienced professional, any performer can adapt these routines to his/her stature and pull off these seemingly impossible card mentalism miracles.

There is no sleight of hand and all the routines are totally hands off. The principle is completely self-working and almost impromptu. Only ordinary decks of playing cards are used - no gaffs or gimmicks are needed. The bonus is an esp routine performed with an ordinary esp deck.

No preshow. No stooges....

"I think your routine is very good. I may use it a couple times myself." - Brian T. Lees (a.k.a. Topper)

Effect:

You produce a deck of cards and hand it to a spectator. (You will not touch it or see it any more). The spectator shuffles the deck, selects a card, folds it and puts a rubber band or a paper clip tight around it. Despite these lab conditions, you try to guess their card! And believe it or not, you will always succeed. Their card can be given back as a souvenir. It does...