Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 5

• Two Outa Three Ain't Bad
• As Ye Sew
• Thought Provoking
• Here's Looking At Ya Kid
• We All Have Our Cross To Bear
• Royal DisgrACES
• Holes Apart

PDF 11 pages

An early publication filled with routines from the creative mind of Stephen Tucker.

1st edition 1984; 56 pages

Table of Contents

4. Intro
5. Shaken And Stirred
8. Double Vision
12. Sounds Too Good To Be True
15. Space Oddities
18. Halve Your Oil Bill
19. Generation Gaps
22. They're Back
23. Unburied Treasure
25. Laundering
27. Black Power
30. Throwaway
31. Silent Running
33. Within Your Reach!
35. Poles Apart
38. The Born Leader
40. Overnight
42. Between The Lines
44. Splash!
46. On And On And On And On And On...
48. Sledgehammer
51. Top Secret
53. Queen Of Controversy
55. Girl Talk

More than 30 card effects and 7 bonus coin routines.

1st edition 1984, 70 pages; PDF 87 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dunbury Well
6. Judy
8. Distraction
11. Back From The Brink
13. All Change!
16. Creating A False Impression
19. Olympia
21. Variations
23. Those That Do And Those That Don't
25. Open Till Late
27. Short Break
29. Con Tents
31. Compute
33. Chicken Curry
35. Fake!
38. Back For Seconds
40. Sufferer
43. Superking
45. Enigma
47. Day Of Reckoning
50. Incentive
52. Three's Company
54. Mimik
56. Zig Zag Zone
59. Revisit
61. Twist And Twist Again
64. Better By Half
66. Xtro
67. Less Choice
68. Sell Out!
69. Trouble Spots
71. Paradise Twins

    Bonus Section

73. Glassgo
75. The...

23 fantastic card routines.

1st edition 1984, 52 pages; PDF 61 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Who's The Dirty Rascal?
6. Stitches In Time
8. Footsteps
11. Just A Few Wrinkles…
14. Breaking The Silence
16. Doppelgaenger
19. Tried And Twisted
22. Rock Around
25. The Inner Limits
28. Scanner
31. Withdrawal
33. All Heart
36. The Dance Master
39. Raiders Of The Last Ace
41. Indexlink
44. Revealed
47. Face
49. Finding New Strength
51. Thoughts!
51. Weekend
53. Ambassador
55. Empress
57. Mirage
60. The Brail Deck

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the first part of the trilogy.

1st edition 1983, 36 pages; PDF 44 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Mexican Revelation
9. The Nervous Card
13. Upstaged
16. Encounters Of The Fourth Kind
19. May The Force Be With You
24. Fast Moves
27. The Centre Of Attention...
31. Only Jo
33. Diversity
35. Cops And Robbers
38. Down Under
41. Under Observation
42. The Time Warp

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the second part of the trilogy.

1st edition 1984, 36 pages; PDF 40 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Total Control
6. Henchmen
10. Going Nowhere
14. Cutting Remarks
17. The Alternative
18. Edge Hog II
20. III
21. Chinese Tuckaway
24. To Have And To Hold
26. A Sticky System
28. In The Best Of Taste
30. The Other Side
32. You Only Get Out What You Put In. Or Do You?
34. Pneumatic
35. For Whom The Belle Told
38. Snap And Tickle
40. Bye!

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the third part of the trilogy. 20 stunning effects.

1st edition 1984, 40 pages; PDF 49 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Intro...
5. Making Light
6. Cocktail
8. Busy Doing Nothing
9. Conversaceon
11. So Be It!
13. Royal Passage
15. Oil Well That Ends Well
17. The Tuckount
20. Face Value
22. Spot The Difference!
25. Case In Question
27. Back From The Front
29. A Passing Interest
32. There Must Be A Catch
34. So What Else Is New?
37. You Must be Psychic
38. Electron
40. Mohammed
43. Disgracefull
47. Over And.......
49. Bye.....

This is a miracle trick from the fertile, inventive and, dare we say, dangerous mind of Stephen Tucker.

You have three red-backed cards: two cards marked THIS one card with the word THAT. All you have to do is keep your eye on THAT but most of the time you get THAT wrong and it is THIS and when you get THIS and THAT wrong suddenly the back of THIS turns blue!

At the end of the routine you deal the three cards down on to the table and a new card appears bearing the word OTHER. So you have to explain as you deal the cards that to do this trick properly you will need THIS, THAT and a bit...

An amazing twist to the Red Hot Mama/Chicago Opener routine.

A card is selected and placed back into the middle of the deck. The magician states the selected card will reveal itself to him. As he spreads through the deck, a card with a different colored back and a paperclip with a note attached to it is seen. The note reads "Your Card!"

The card is turned over, revealing the selected card. The paper-clipped card is set aside, facing down. A second spectator selects another card and an attempt is made to repeat the effect.

As the magician spreads through the cards, a second with an...

Seven great effects in one eBook, all based around James Ward's Wordsmith Deck - a pack of some fifty cards consisting of fifty different words.

Voyage and Return
Three spectators put their chosen word into an envelope, the envelopes are mixed by a fourth spectator. The first three spectators are then asked to choose an envelope - they all choose the envelope containing their word.

Rags to Riches
Random words are picked from a dictionary, a spectator, or number of spectators, pick a word each. Each of these words are then discovered and revealed by the magician.

Rebirth
A volunteer...

A simple and easy, but, effective way of doing the famous, or infamous, Three Card Monte. The effect where three cards are placed on a table and the 'money' card keeps appearing or disappearing!

Using the story-line of Field Marshal Montgomery's attempts, during WWII, to keep the enemy guessing where he was, you use the cards to illustrate the story and allow you to use a very bad pun.

You will need to buy a 'special' card or two to do this effect. But, these cards can be very easily found on the internet or obtained from your local friendly magic dealer. (Or you can make them yourself!) ...

A streamlined approach to the thought of Card in Wallet / pocket idea. Fans of this type of plot are sure to enjoy this.

The work and ideas involved in this could be easily adapted to your current version of the routine and maybe streamline or inspire you to rethink your current handling of the plot.

1st edition 2018, 5 pages.

This is a routine that can be presented as an impossible gambling skill or as a true telepathy demonstration with playing cards.

The routine is semi-automatic and borders on self-working. It seems exceptionally fair to the spectator. If you can riffle shuffle a deck of cards you can perform this piece of astonishment.

A brief description of the effect is that the spectator takes a deck of playing cards that he has mixed and deals them one by one as the performer has his back turned. The spectator stops dealing every time he sees a picture card and is asked to send the playing cards identity...

You will learn two versions for the classic Homing Card effect. The first one uses only one palm and is for the beginner and the second version uses two palms.

runtime 6min

Here are twelve remarkable card tricks invented and performed by Stewart James in Canada, England and the U.S. So many magicians asked to learn these tricks that Stewart decided to reveal them for the first time in this book. Most all of his card magic is done without difficult sleights or trick cards, using subtlety instead.

CONTENTS:

MIKE AND IKE: — The famous look-alike detectives capture a gang of criminals and identify their leader. A spectator (witness) doesn't tell how the sleuths are disguised until the case is closed.

SEVEN WONDERS — No preparation is necessary to illustrate...

This is a work mostly of card magic, but not exclusively so. It has some photos and some illustrations by Sid Lorraine. From the introduction by H. Adrian Smith:

A series of clever little tricks, made possible with the specially printed miniature cards as originally supplied by Supreme Magic.

• Forcing a Card
  • One-Way Force Deck
  • Svengali Deck
  • Rough And Smooth Deck
  • Classic Fan Force
  • Henry Christ Method
  • The Handkerchief Force
  • Simplicity Force
  • Another One
• Effect No. 1. A Prediction Gag
• Effect No. 2. The Card Knife
• Effect No. 3. Card Catching
• Effect No. 4. A Betcha
• Effect No. 5. Wise-Guy
• Effect No. 6. Crystal Gazing Extra-Ordinary
• Effect No. 7. Caxton’s Dream
• Effect No. 8. Sixteen Cards
• Effect No. 9. World’s Fastest Pass
• Effect...

T.G. not only teaches tricks and flourishes in Imagication, but he also tried to teach how to create your own sleights and magic so that you will never again be dependent on others for your card work. It is taught throughout the book.

T.G.'s Mid-Air Triple Cut is fully explained in Imagication. This has become his trademark and a benchmark for others. Over the years, this flourish has become known by many different names. There are many ways to do this flourish improperly and only one way to do it correctly. In his next book, there will be many advancements taught with this flourish and...

In the late twenties Larsen & Wright (William Larsen, Sr. and T. Page Wright) were prominent names in magic. They produced a flood of contributions to magic magazines, over one hundred in The Sphinx alone in 1927-28 (so many in fact that The Sphinx felt compelled to publish much of it under a variety of pseudonyms). But in addition there were the Larsen & Wright publications, a large series of printed books and manuscripts offering a mass of original material not appearing in the periodicals.

When T. Page Wright died tragically in 1930, he left behind the finished manuscript for a mooted book. Incredibly,...

A Storytelling card effect. An effective card mystery that also serves as an exercise to improve your improvisational storytelling skills.

1st edition 2016, 2 pages.

This book is actually two books: Ted Annemann's Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks and Annemann's Miracles of Card Magic. Annemann, perhaps more famous for his mental magic, was an extraordinary card man, a master of subtleties and misdirection. That is why most of the tricks in this collection do not require difficult moves, which does not mean that they are all easy to perform. His tricks have often the impromptu quality and can thus be performed without any prior preparation. You will also find contributions from such famous masters of card magic as Dai Vernon, Dr. Daley, Jean Hugard, Al Baker, Audley Walsh, Stewart Judah, and many others. ...

[Note: In Jinx #103, page 624, fourth paragraph, Annemann states that he never published this manuscript. He calls it a fakeroo.

Annemann’s Stop Trick
Performer removes pack from case and shuffles cards. The spectator is asked to cut the pack in half and keep either part. A card is chosen from one of the piles, and the spectator replaces it in the same pile. The performer deals from the other pile, asking the spectator to stop the deal whenever he chooses and to turn over the card at which he stops the performer. Assuming the stop card is a six, the cards immediately before and after the six are shown...

A borrowed credit-card vanishes and reappears between the layers of a marked playing card.

Effect: (Basic routine)

A credit-card is borrowed from a member of the audience. It is put into an envelope. The envelope is destroyed. Another spectator is asked to come forward to the working area or on the stage. He selects a card from a normal deck of playing cards and marks it with his name. The card vanishes out of the deck and is found in a sealed envelope.

After a lot of byplay, the credit card is found...BETWEEN THE LAYERS OF THE MARKED PLAYING CARD WHICH THE SPECTATOR HANDLED ALL THE...

An incredible effect based on a topological principle. Two cards are shown glued back to back. The spectator may examine them as there is nothing to find.

The performer takes the cards, gives them a few deft folds and then hands them back to the spectator ... but now the cards are face to face. It looks impossible because the cards are still glued together. What's more, they are the same cards that the spectator handled earlier. There is no switch of any kind.

You won't believe it yourself the first time you perform it.

[Note: Originally this booklet was supplied with a Jumbo cards already prepared and glued together. This ebook comes without a set of glued cards. However, the ebook has clear explanation of the construction. You can prepare a set from regular cards with a knife and tape in a few minutes.

1st edition 1985, 1st digital edition 2013, 11 pages.

[Below is a demonstration where the two cards are oriented in the same direction and not 90 degree rotated like Terri has originally designed it. The advantage of a 90 degree offset is that the card that is folded can at one time be seen partly from the front and partly from the back which is a very magical moment. This moment is missing from this version.]

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