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A treatise on the science and art of the stock, cull, odd-number, and cull-stock shuffles. Presenting the Braue system, bringing these useful stratagems within the reach of every performer, together with a full description of a number of brilliant card feats made possible by this amazingly simple system.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Twentyone fantastic tricks with cards. Comes with several photos for a better and clearer description. If I had to get one book by Peter Duffie, this would be it.

1st edition, 2000.

KICK-START ACES: A spectator locates the four Aces in your deck (without looking!).

SWEET SIXTEEN: You show the four Fours which you point out total 16. You turn one face up. The face up four splits into two Twos. This leaves two face down cards. Question: "If the cards total 16, what should the remaining two face down cards total?" The audience reply, "Twelve?" "That's right," you say. "Well, actually it's...

Twenty-two card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive. This ebook in particular shows Peter's fondness of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and his ace problem.

1st edition, 2000.

PSYCHIC MATH: This is a card discovery that appears impossible for two reasons: first, it doesn't seem possible for you to know where the card is in the pack, and second, the card is found using the values of two random cards that were selected before the trick began. The only requirement is a full pack of fifty-two cards.

THE ANTI-GRAVITY SHUFFLE: A sort of mathematically induced multiple sandwich!

ANTI-GRAVITY + THOT: This is...

Twenty-five card tricks some of which use the extremely versatile Gilbreath principle.

1st edition, 2000.

TWO'S COMPANY: You remove the four Kings from the deck, then have two spectators each select a card. Both selections are lost into the deck. You now offer the audience a choice of Kings, the red ones or the black ones. They might opt for the red Kings. You pick these up and turn them over whereupon the first spectator's selection appears reversed between them. You place this sandwich on the table then pick up the two black Kings, which you place face up on top of the deck and give...

Twenty fine card tricks.

1st edition, 2003.

A Pain in the Ace: You push a selected card into the middle of the deck - it rises to the top. You push it back into the middle and flip over the top card. Unfortunately it's not the selection. It's an Ace. You - or a spectator - give the deck a fair cut to bury the face up Ace in the middle. Upon spreading the deck all four Aces are now face up together in the middle - but there's one face down card caught in the middle. This proves to be the awkward selection.

The ROLEX Gang: You remove the four Aces then place a random card between them....

You also want to check out Michael Close In Review, another review collection which gives you a second opinion.

• 13 PROPHETS, Karl Fulves
• 21ST CENTURY CARD MAGIC, James Swain
• 101 MOST ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT LAS VEGAS & CASINO GAMBLING, George Joseph

• A CANDID VIEW OF THE MASKELYNES, 1916-17, Anne Davenport and John Salisse
• A CANDLE IN THE DARK, Thomas Ady
• A PRICE GUIDE TO MAGIC BOOKS: 1639-1990, Michael Canick
• ABRACADABRA KID, Sid Fleischman ...

Andrew Perry, or Drew as his friends call him, started out with cards and they are still his favourite genre. Therefore you will find mainly card tricks and sundry sleights in his new ebook. But there is also something with matchboxes and several interesting ideas and techniques. His one handed double lift is quite a treat.

1st edition, 2002.

1. Introduction
1. Foreword by Peter Duffie
2. Impromptu Rising Card
3. Ungimmicked Rising Matchbox
4. Matchbox Madness
5. The Better Bet Count
6. Coin Monte Surprise
7. Clip 'n' Swap
8. Water Monte
9. A Perfect Gambling Demonstration
10. The Telephone Number Trick
11. Impromptu Counting...

An Ambitious Card routine which cleverly uses the Card Box to heighten the effect.

1st edition, 2004.

Section Three: Introduction to Cards (tutorials)Bees, Bicycles, and Tally-Ho’s; Overhand, Hindu, Riffle shuffles; Mechanics Grip; Biddle Grip; Pinky breaks, thumb breaks, transitioning breaks; Double Lifts; The Glide; Standard palming; Riffle Force; Slip Force; Swing and Swivel Cut; Ribbon Spread; Basic Card Control; Fanning the Cards; False cut; The Charlier Cut; Tilt; One-Handed Fan; Elmsley Count; Erdnase Color Change; Tenkai Palm; Slop Shuffle; Top Change; Spread Cull; Classic Pass; Springing the Cards; Twirl Change

Section Four: The Underlying Skills (essays) Where to shop; Practicing; Routining;...

This is a colleciton of the best of Daniel Tyler's inspirations over the past five years. The first section covers effects and routines, the second section moves. You will find new ideas and variations of old classics. Overall solid commercial material.

1st edition, 2005; 125 pages.

THE EFFECTS

Counterfeit Card The best method I have ever seen or come up with for a countdown routine.

P4 – Peppermint Patty Power Puncher A cross between Torn & Restored and Healed & Sealed ... with Peppermint Patties!

Dirty Laundry The cleanest and easiest card-to-sock routine.

Lincoln’s Trick One of the...

The act opens with a wonderful version of a modem classic, Gambler vs. Magician. A tale of the world's greatest gambler challenging the world's finest magician is related. A card is chosen, sight unseen, and the magician is challenged to cut to the three mates of the unknown card from a shuffled deck. He succeeds in cutting to three mates, but it is discovered in the end that they do not match the value of the selected card. A surprise ending is achieved when the three...

Learn the In-The-Hands Faro Shuffle

Many magicians consider the faro shuffle to be one of the toughest moves in card magic. The thought of performing consistant, perfect faros seems an impossible dream - until you read this ebook.

The ability to do perfect faro shuffles is a powerful weapon in the card magician’s arsenal of sleights. It is a genuine shuffle; the cards are truly being mixed. But it is also a controlled shuffle, meaning that the resulting order of the cards is not random. For this reason, it is an excellent adjunct to memorized deck work. Michael likes to start with a memdeck...

These are Daniel Garcia's 2004 - 2005 Lecture Notes. A sell out at the 2004 LVMI Convention.

"Danny Garcia's magic is the FFFF.....it Fools you, Fries you , Freaks you out, and F**ks you up." - Chris Kenner

"How much of this material can I put on my DVD?" - Paul Harris

This is a collection of three card effects with a Mentalist's presentation. Because of this, there are no knuckle-busting sleights or use of anything but a standard deck of cards (although one of the effects works better with a single double-backer).

Not only do you get three audience-tested, astounding effect, but you also get a video explaining the author's improved method for the cascade control and many extra tips, tricks and alternate endings. The video is in wmv format. You are taught everything you need to perform all the effects to know except the humble double lift.

You will learn...

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  • ...
    • ...Reading Sealed Envelopes
    • Book Tests
    • Mirror Principle
  • Two People, Operator and Medium
    • Talking Codes
    • Thought Transference
    • Blackboard Feat
    • Another Method
    • Knight's Tour
    • Marvelous Memory
• XVII. Playing Cards
  • Introduction
  • Sleights
    • Overhand Shuffle
    • Riffle Shuffle
    • Hindu Shuffle
    • Controlling Single Card
    • Controlling Several Cards
    • Forcing a Card
    • Sighting a Card
    • A Simple Pass
    • The Palm
    • Replacing Palmed Cards
    • The Glide
    • The Double Lift
    • The Force
    • The False Count
  • Flourishes
    • The Fan
    • Springing the Cards
    • Spreading the Cards
  • Tricks
    • Magic Breath
    • Cards to Pocket
    • Five Card Discoveries ...

Effortless is probably just as apropriate or misleading as self-working. It doesn't mean that these tricks don't require any effort on your side. You have to read the descriptions, remember the sequence of actions and perform the act - entertain, which in my book is neither self-working nor effortless. But what these terms try to convey is that you will not need to master difficult moves or finger breaking sleights to perform these effects. And they are very good effects. Often an 'effortless' trick can be performed to greater effect because the performer can pay more attention to audience managment,...

False Memory
In an attempt to control coincidence, the performer writes a prediction on the card case which is displayed and set aside in full view. When a card is selected and doesn't prove to match the prediction, it would seem the experiment has been a failure. However when the card case is checked, its found that the prediction...

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  • ...Interpretation to confound
  • Conviction
  • By these signs ye shall know them
  • Acting
  • Diebox deception
• CHAPTER III - CONVICTION AND NATURALNESS
  • The important ingredients
  • If you believe it, it's so
  • Convince yourself
  • Spectator instinct
  • Naturalness
  • How to convince without argument
  • Disguise and attention
  • Attention control comes forward
  • Reasons
  • The importance of convincing yourself
• CHAPTER IV - WHAT ACTUALLY DECEIVES THE SPECTATOR
  • Money to burn
  • Marked and borrowed, but found in an impossible place
  • Behind the scenes
  • The plant
  • Pilferage
  • Disappearing rubber
  • No machinery necessary
  • All through psychology ...

This is by far the best ebook on self-working card tricks. (For the second volume in this series see Card College Lighter. For the third volume see Card College Lightest.)

From the author of Card College, the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.

For whom is this ebook intended? It is for beginners, of course - but by no means in total. This ebook is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex routines,...

Part II from Al Mann Zodiac Series. You will find here several card techniques and a special card trick: how to deal five Aces to any seat at the poker table with a shuffled and cut deck. From the introduction, by Al Mann: I have been told by magicians who should know, that Poker demonstrations and Mentalism should not mix. I disagree with the above 100%... I have seen the amazed look in the eyes of a person when the Mentalist reads his mind... And I have also seen the terrible look in the eyes of the spectator after the miracle man deals five aces (4 aces and the joker), to any seat at the...

• ... what life was like on the road for a female magician from Canada.
• Jerry Conklin gives George Schindler a tour of the Colon cemetery, each giving insights on the famous names found there.
• Ed Ellis, the fastest hands in the world, works with the basics of the double lift and controlling the card to the top.
• Jim Moody gives us a taste of his lecture, "How to be Show-Wise".
• Kevin & Caruso reveal the history of their Miami magic show "New Wave Magic" and how they continue to perform their act on the cruise ships.
• Tomas Medina teaches us a couple of his favorite magic tricks, accompanied...

• ... and reminisce about his career, his mentors and a few of his secrets.
• George Schindler, John Bohannon and Tom Klem give us not only the history behind the Houdini gravesite, but also a broken wand ceremony.
• Ed Ellis, the fastest hands in the world, works with the basics of controlling the card to the bottom and the false cut.
• Gary Darwin opens his Las Vegas doors for a tour of his famous collection of magic memorabilia which left us breathless.
• New York City's Monday Night Magic is the premiere showcase for magicians in Manhattan, and they come from around the world to perform. ...

In 1947 Paul approached his longtime friend and fellow magician Rufus Steele to aid him in writing a book of his tricks. Steele was a mysterious character whose background was questionable to say the least. An electrical engineer by trade, Rufus was also a gambler and card trickster. Rosini died before he and Steele had the chance to complete the book. So, in 1950, Steele published Paul Rosini's Magical Gems as a memorial to his friend Paul. Rosini's knowledge was not lost.

The prolific author of conjuring Robert Parrish is credited with only editing the book,...

Scarne 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...