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Cardini Multiple ShiftSteven YouellA multiple shift allows you to control several cards inserted at different places in the deck to the bottom or top of the deck.
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Cardiac StimulationStephen TuckerStephen 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
- Total Control
- Henchmen
- Going Nowhere
- Cutting Remarks
- The Alternative
- Edge Hog II
- III
- Chinese Tuckaway
- To Have And To Hold
- A Sticky System
- In The Best Of Taste
- The Other Side
- You Only Get Out What You Put In. Or Do You?
- Pneumatic
- For Whom The Belle Told
- Snap And Tickle
- Bye!
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Card Conspiracy 1Peter Duffie & Robin Robertson 12 Chapters, 50+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.
- Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
- Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
- Cut Force: Diminishing Matches; Beastly Assembly; Faith Counter; 51 Faces North
- Daley's Delight Switch: Hotel Daley; Shifty King; Repelling & Attracting; Double Rouge et Noire; Daley's Do-as-I-Do
- Daryl's Diminishing Count: Bad Guys Wear Black; Just a Little off the Top, Please; Repligator; Blackjack & Blackjacks
- Divide and Conjure (Marty Kane)
- Double Deal Turn-over:...
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Card Conspiracy 2Peter Duffie & Robin Robertson 14 Chapters, 70+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.
- Interlocked Principle: Topmost; Blackjack Aces; Between 2 Worlds
- Jog Switch: The Producers; JS Ace Production; Rags to Riches
- Kosky Switch: Compression Agents; Compression Agents Revisited; Fan Dancing Queens; Infallible Foolable Kings; Self Correcting Sandwich & variants
- Misc. - General: Bottom Biddle Following Orders; Change-Over Queens; Clockwise; Con-found; The Piston; Shiftless Royalty; Impaired Royalty; The Ringmaster; Return to Sender; Traveling Queen; Vollmer Variant; Ambitious & Overworked
- Misc. - Set-ups: Flexible Choice; Harvey's...
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Card Magic: a Svengali Deck RoutineDr. John D. BainThe Svengali deck of cards is a specially prepared deck of playing cards (Poker-sized or Bridge-sized) that can be used by magicians or entertainers to perform various tricks. The deck and the tricks performed with it are assisted by its unique design and require almost no skill. It is based on a very old principle of entertaining deception and confidence game manipulation.
The cards of the deck can be flipped or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary. It can even be apparently mixed and shuffled. The trick involves a spectator choosing a card from the deck and... | $2.99 to wish listPDF |
Card College 1: Chapter 06Roberto GiobbiRiffle Shuffle Techniques
The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2
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Card Fare(Jerry) J. K. HartmanGet ready for a firework of card magic starting where a card just vanishes, a pair of cards mysteriously rise, another shoots out of the deck as soon as named, and two others change locations. Jerry also presents his spin on prior work by by Trost, Krenzel, Corin, Dingle, Fulves, and others.
- I. Short Subjects 6
- Easy Go 6
- Bi-rise 9
- Shootout 10
- Changed Changeling 11
- II. Selected Subjects 13
- Trap-ease 13
- Go-llectors 15
- III. Subjects under Control 17
- Twist on the Aces 17
- A New Twist 19
- Ace Backwards 22
- An Impact on Impact 24
- Poker Face-to-Face 26
- IV. Subject to Changes 28
...
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Card Tricks That WorkTom SellersFrom the Foreword:
Sometimes the most simple tricks are the most effective. The card tricks here described are all simple in principle. I trust you will find them entertaining and effective.
- 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...
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Losing ControlLee AsherLosing Control is a move that allows you to easily bring a selection to the top.
"So simple, yet so brilliant!" - Dave K.
How long have you been practicing a move like the classic pass? It's been over twenty years, and Lee is still working on his! One day he will master it, but until then, the Losing Control is his preferred way to control a card to the top.
This clever maneuver gives you the ability to have a card selected, plainly and cleanly placed back into the middle of the deck and yet have the card secretly remain on the top of the pack.
The Losing Control technique does... | ★★★★★ $19.95 to wish listPDF |
Ackerman Convincing ControlAllan AckermanThis is Ackerman's variation of the Convincing Control.
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A.C.E. Anytime Card ExtractionCameron Francis
"ACE really is A Cunning Effect and A Clever Enigma!" - Stephen Tucker
"A new classic of impromptu magic in my opinion. I'll use it until I can't hold playing cards anymore!" - Raphael Czaja
"A.C.E. is one of my favorite new impromptu card tricks. An absolutely brilliant way to handle
cards." - Jeff Prace
"Wowwwwwww!... This is the best thing you have released so far in my opinion." - John Carey
Cause a signed card, which is fairly pushed into the center of a cased deck by the spectator, to appear in your pocket or virtually anywhere else!
A.C.E. (Anytime Card Extraction) is a totally impromptu utility system... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Howard Thurston's Card TricksHoward ThurstonThurston explains fundamental sleights such as the Pass, Palm, Force, Change, Back-Palm and his system of expert card manipulation, which appeared for the first time in this book. It also describes a unique gimmick to make the Back-Palm almost effortless.
Thurston also lays claim to what we today call the Si Stebbins stack. He writes that it is his invention but he also thanks Si for his contributions and help.
1st edition, 1903, Henry J. Wehman; 83 pages.
- CHAPTER I. A Few Incidents in the Life of Howard Thurston, Premier Card Manipulator of the World
- CHAPTER II. Indispensable Sleights
- CHAPTER...
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The Royal Road to Card MagicJean Hugard & Fred Braue The younger generation of card magicians probably knows or has heard of Card College by Roberto Giobbi. The Royal Road to Card Magic is very similar but of older vintage and doesn't cover as much ground. It introduces the novice into the art of card magic one move and principle at a time, always with tricks accompanying the moves. It is therefore not a mindless list of moves but a well prepared and thought out textbook. It will take the beginner to an intermediate level. Once The Royal Road to Card Magic has been mastered one can move on to Expert Card Technique which requires a higher skill level.
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Scarne on Card TricksJohn ScarneScarne describes 155 easy to do tricks with cards. No sleight of hand skill whatsoever is required in these tricks. But don't assume that this makes them weak effects.
For this book Scarne obtained from Dunninger, Cardini, Dai Vernon, Francis Carlyle, Cliff Green, Russel Swan, Nate Leipzig, Thurston, Houdini and other famous magicians and card experts the secrets of some of their most notable tricks and effects. Together with these he has included many entirely new creations of his own. The demonstrations and explanations of the tricks are accompanied by illustrations. In addition, Scarne has included full instructions on... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
More Card ManipulationsJean HugardThis is the sequel to Card Manipulations. It is a collection of four booklets. Emphasis is put on practical methods without any apparatus.
1st edition, 1938-1941, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1974, Dover Publications, New York; 205 pages.
- No. 1.
- Part I. - TRICKS
- The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan
- The Sheep and the Goats
- Snap - A Quick Trick
- Crime Club Detection - Dr. H. Walter Grote
- Infallible Prediction - Audley V. Walsh and Hal Haber
- The Continuous Spelling Trick - Jack McMillen
- The Burglars - Orville W. Meyer
- The Magic Thrust - Orville W. Meyer
- The Two Jokers - P. W. Miller
- The Ladies'...
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Fingertip ControlAllan AckermanAllan teaches two fingertip controls, one by Charlie Miller from Expert Card Technique and the other by Ed Marlo from his Fingertip Control book.
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Effective Card MagicWilliam (Bill) SimonThis book was edited by Jean Hugard and illustrated by Stanley Jaks.
Martin Gardner had the following to say:
"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."
This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listPDF |
Expert Card TechniqueJean Hugard & Fred Braue This is the 3rd edition which includes an additional chapter by Dai Vernon and another one by Dr. Daley. (The popular Dover version is a reprint of the 2nd edition and is lacking these two interesting chapters.) This book describes serious stuff. Card moves and tricks for the advanced card man. (For an excellent introduction to card magic see The Royal Road to Card Magic or the Card College series.) Expert Card Technique lists and explains in detail a large quantity of card moves. Card moves are abundant and any good card man will come up with his own variations and twists due to his constant use of cards and tireless perfection of... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listPDF |
Overhand Shuffle Control and Slip ShuffleAllan AckermanThis is a basic card control - easy to do, but also easy to mess up. It allows you to control the top half of the deck. Allan teaches several fine points and variations, including the slip shuffle where the bottom card is maintained during an overhand shuffle.
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Hofzinser Control To TopAllan AckermanUse a Hofzinser Card Control type action to control a card to the top.
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Fingertip Control ForceAllan AckermanThis is similar to a riffle force but in fingertip control position. You riffle while the spectator says stop.
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Convincing ControlAllan AckermanThis is a very deceptive and very popular control attributed to both Ed Marlo and Larry Jennings.
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Simon-England Convincing ControlAllan AckermanFrank Simon and Don England independently came up with this variation on the Convincing Control.
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The Expert at the Card TableS. W. ErdnaseOriginally entitled Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table, is probably the most cited and referenced book about card gambling moves - a classic in the history of magic literature. A must read for any card magician or aspiring gambling expert and an indespensable reference book. While the authorship of this book is hotly debated we are convinced it was Edward Gallaway. (For a detailed work on the search for Erdnase see Hurt McDermott's Artifice, Ruse & Erdnase.)
[A copy of this book is also included in Michael McDougall's Card Mastery. This ebook is also available in a German translation.
Paul Fleming wrote:
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