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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...

Interspersed amongst this goldmine of advice are 18 strolling routines to add to your repertoire:

• Spin Out
• A Bite To Eat
• Intuition
• The Hypnotised Coin
• My Card Sir
• Badgered
• The Department Store
• Paper Money
• The Magic Ring
• Beer Money
• A ‘Groan’ Man
• Aces Under Control
• Name Dropper
• Copy Ring
• The Caught Card
• The Acrobatic Coin
• Credit Scare
• Simplex Hopping Halves

Paul Fleming wrote:

An act in itself. Seven cards are selected. One card is signed by a spectator and then all seven cards are lost in the deck. Eventually, one by one, they are found by the performer. The signed card continuously reappears and then finally, it is found inside your wallet. It also contains a multiple control of cards called Colombini's B.S. Control.

CHAPTER VIII:
Illusions And Disillusion - Disappearing Man - The Veiled Woman - An Escape In Mid-Air - The Caged Woman - The Girl And The Dominoes - Fire And Water - Illusions With Mirrors - The Country Girl - The Hammock - The Arbour

CHAPTER IX:
Card Tricks - Examples Of Thought-Reading - A Code - The Jumping Cards - Magnetic Aces - The Change Over - A Feat Of Strength - The Boomerang Card - Cutting The Cards - The Torn Card - Vanishing Cards By Pistol - The Four Aces - The Herschell Card-Stabbing Trick

1st edition 1931, 279 pages; PDF...

From the Introduction:

If you want to know how this ebook relates to the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks get A Comparison of the Gravatt and Hugard Encyclopedias of Card Magic by William Rugh, who made a detailed comparison of the contents.

• Introduction
• Chapter One. Mental And Miscellaneous Miracles
  • Perplexo
  • Pythagoras
  • Uni Mentality ...

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.

Actually because Expert Card Technique did not sell well...

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  • ...
• Side Strippers or Humps
  • Concave Strippers
  • Combination Strippers
  • Wedge Strippers
  • Banker and Broker or High and Low Strippers
  • Strippers and Readers
• Instant Shading Daub
• Check Cop
• Blockout Ink
  • Shading Ink
  • Cutout Ink for White Work
• Glassine Tissues
• Perfection Corner Cutter
• Evans' Card Shears
• Arm Pressure Holdout
• Common Sense Holdout
• Playing Cards
• Ring Holdout
• Bug Holdout
• Detachable Holdout
• Card Pricks for Second Dealing
• All Purpose Shiner
• Rhum Board
• Convex Shiner
• Books
  • Monte Carlo Secrets
  • Handbook on Percentages
  • The Sealed Book "Protection"
  • Hoyle's Standard...

This is Jack Merlin's Order trick from And a Pack of Cards. The performer and spectator each give the deck a legitimate riffle shuffle. Then all the Spades are removed from the deck, shown in a ribbon spread, counted to be 13, and magically end up in order from ace to king.

runtime: 4min 16s

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  • ... Machine
  • The Table Bug
  • The End Bug
• Steering Against the "T" (Meaning the tip-off)
• Four of a Kind: Sitting pretty, are they not?
• Hank's Sure Way Of Making A Flush For His Partners
• Cross Lifting
• Cold Decking
• The Touch System
• The Telegraph System
• Getting The Sucker To Cold Deck Himself
• Card Room Bandits In A Duel To Death With Seattle, Washington, Police.
• Two Gunmen Taken In Hold-Up
• Forewarned Is Forearmed
• The Master Key To Read Cards Marked In The Manufacture Or Otherwise
• The Master Key
• Bee 67 Back
  • Reduced Diamonds
  • Specks
  • All-Over Shade
  • Glazed Work
  • Needle Pricks
  • Color...

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...