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Sharps and Flats is probably the most important early book on cheating devices and methods. Sharps being the cheaters and flats being the cheated, the mark. Maskelyne details among others, marked cards, holdouts (Kepplinger holdout), reflectors and manipulation. He describes not just cheating at the card table but also cheating with dice, cheating at Sporting houses, and at Roulette. The book is very thorough with many wonderful illustrations.

1st edition, 1894, Longmans, Green and Co., New York and London; reprinted, Gamblers Book Club, Las Vegas; 335 pages.

7. Preface to the Second Edition ...

Hugard's Magic Monthly consists of almost 2500 pages in 21 volumes and is packed with contributions from the finest artists and thinkers magic has to offer. People like Victor Farelli, Ted Annemann, Martin Gardner, Harry Lorayne, Milbourne Christopher, Ross Bertram, George Kaplan, Cliff Green, Fred...

You get all 52 volumes (597 issues), almost 17,000 pages as color PDF files (one for each volume). We have added to that a complete index stretching over 540 pages. (Don't ask us how long it took to prepare this index because it will bring up painful memories.) Additionally you receive an introduction...

1. ... of Paper
223. The Cigarette-Paper Trick
223. A Japanese Trick
225. The Disappearance of a Glass of Water, by Okito (Theo. Bamberg)
229. A Temperance Trick
230. The Chinese Rice Bowls (With Variations by Conradi)
236. Firing a Girl From a Cannon Into a Trunk
237. A Fruitful Experiment
239. Something From Nothing
242. The Adhesive Dice
242. The Antispiritualistic Cigarette Papers
244. The Spirit table (by Germain)
248. The Needle Trick (by Clement de Lion)
249. The Vanishing Glass of Water
253. Phantasma (by Félicien Trewey)
254. A Traveling Wand
255. A Mysterious Flight
259. The New Die and Hat Trick (by Will Goldston, London)
261. A Girl Produced From Empty...

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  1. ... to appear in such Heap as the Company may choose
  115. To change a Drawn Card into the Portraits of several of the Company in succession
  116. A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack shuffled, to place on the Table six Rows of six Cards each, and to discover the chosen Card by a throw of the Dice
  117. A Card having been withdrawn and replaced, to call it from the Pack, and to make it come to you of its own accord
  118. Mode of Preparing specially adhesive Wax for Conjuring Purposes
  119. The Whist Trick. (Improved Method.) To deal yourself all the Trumps, the three other Players holding the usual mixed...

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  1. ... Stanyon's Method
  483. Maurice Garland's Method, with Colour-Change
  484. The Melting Coin (Improved)
  490. The Great Dictionary Trick
  497. My Friend in Thibet
  502. The Flying Thimble
  502. The Original Trick
  506. The Thimble and Paper Cone
  506. The Patriotic Thimble
  508. The Multiplying Thimble
  513. The Vanishing Thimbles
  514. The Changing Dice
  515. Improved Methods
  519. Chameleon Water
  522. Rainbow Water
  525. The Magic Organ Pipes (Le Souper du Diable)
  531. New Method
  538. Devant's Jar of Water and Hat
  544. Devant's Bag of Mystery
• CHAPTER XIII. NEW MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  557. The Rice and Water Trick
  566. The Vanishing Rice
  568. Tao Li Tao, The Chinese Mystery
  571. Balloons...

1. ... OF GENERAL UTILITY
1. Magical Mats
5. Fairy Flower-Pots
8. Patter Introducing the Flower-Pots
10. Adhesive Cards and Tricks Therewith
12. The Missing Card
    
17. NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF THE "BLACK ART" PRINCIPLE
17. Black Art Mats and Black Art Patches
23. A Magical Transposition
26. The Detective Die
32. Dissolving Dice
38. Where is It?
    
46. CARD TRICKS
46. Arithmetic by Magic
49. Those Naughty Knaves
55. Magnetic Magic
57. The Telepathic Tape
60. A Card Comedy
63. The Fast and Loose Card-Box
64. A Royal Tug of War
66. Sympathetic Cards
68. Tell-Tale Fingers
72. Divination Doubly Difficult
77. A New Long Card and Tricks Therewith
83. The Mascot Coin...

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  1. ...To illuminate water
  119. To make flash paper
  114. To obtain fire by applying water
  115. To set fire to a handkerchief without injuring it
  119. To smoke with two empty pipes
  116. To suspend a ring by a burnt thread
• CHAPTER VII
  122. PARLOUR TRICKS
  136. Ascent of wine in an inverted glass of water
  137. Burning coal on a muslin handkerchief, a
  140. Dice trick, the
  139. Electrified pipe, the
  126. Glass of water suspended by a thread
  133. Glass of water that cannot be moved without spilling the whole
  136. Grape seed in the glass of champagne, the
  132. Juggler's dessert, the
  137. Magdeburg hemispheres, the
  131. Magical mirror, the
  132. Musical poker, the
  134. Mysterious paper bands,...

THE 5 POINT 5 TRICK: The classic gag "The 31/2 of Clubs" (why always Clubs?) always seems to go down well, despite the fact that the magical depth is shallow, because once the gag has registered it is not impossible for the method to be reconstructed by almost any lay person, as the properties of dice are well known today. OK, it 's only a gag, but we are also a magicians aren't we? Here is the version I constructed which is, I think, methodically sound, and the finish, though different, has the same punch as with the original. The force belongs to Bob Ostin.

DRAW POKER: This trick came about...

A STEBBISH LOCATION: While your back is turned, a spectator rolls two dice to get a random number. He deals that number of cards and notes the card at that position. A second spectator, using the same number, deals further into the deck and he too notes a card. Deck is squared then cut by the spectators. Without looking through the cards, you instantly produce the first...

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  1. ... Marlo
  24. Afterthought Aces Jon Racherbaumer
  16. All Backs David L. Bendix
  14. Another Visual Surprise Edward Marlo
  3. Closet Cupid (name withheld)
  12. Collectwist Robert Walker
  14. Collectwist Dave Solomon
  9. Colorful 21-Card Trick Edward Marlo
  19. Curtailed Placement Edward Marlo
  16. Dial Operator 999 Jon Racherbaumer
  14. Dice Combine Marvin Johnson
  20. Dunbury Sandwich Robert Walker
  18. Ever-Ready C.O.C. Roland Hurley
  6. Every Chance Jon Racherbaumer
  15. First Aid Sandwich Edward Marlo
  6. Four-Play Jon Racherbaumer
  15. Fourtold Four-Fold From Scratch Gene Castillon
  18. Futzless! Carmen D'Amico/Jon Racherbaumer
  4. I Need A Magic Wand Edward...

1. ... into the other by Legerdemaine
49. How to make sixe pence seeme to fall thorow a Table
49. How to seeme to blow a sixpence out of another mans hand
50. How to deliver to one man one sixpence, and to another another sixpence, and to make both the testors come into one mans hand
51. Conveyance of Cards and Dice
52. Of Confederacy

"I've been doing magic 40 years, and this may be one of my five favorite tricks. Excellent thinking. Hard to top." - Clyde Hayre, US.

A spectator is asked to throw three fair dice (this is an absolute fair throw or even just a mental throw - no force here). From the number fairly thrown you construct a perfect magic square. For a kicker, the cards are put together and the face of a King of Hearts appears.

There is no palming of cards or exchanging of decks or anything like it. You work with 16 cards and 16 cards only without any sleight-of-hand.

You get 16 specially printed cards...

"I've been doing magic 40 years, and this may be one of my five favorite tricks. Excellent thinking. Hard to top." - Clyde Hayre, US.

LOVE IT! I've been looking for a trick to help promote my business and this is perfect as I trade under the name "That's Magic" - Barry Harvey, UK.

You get 16...

1. ... card in a startling manner.
160. CHAPTER NINETEEN. -- POT POURRI.
     This chapter contains several items of Dai Vernon's magic which are either not complete tricks in themselves, or, if complete, are not of sufficient descriptive length to form a chapter on their own. DAI VERNON'S CLIMAX FOR A DICE ROUTINE. A beautiful series of moves which provide an excellent climax for any dice routine. DAI VERNON'S "ONE UNDER AND ONE DOWN". A spectator hands the performer ANY ten cards from the pack, then names any one of them. Leaving the cards in exactly the same order as they were handed to him,...

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  • ... mind is not a pushover
  • He is consciously intelligent
  • Details do the trick
• CHAPTER VIII - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NORM
  • How the spectator views the performer's appearance
  • The important norm
  • Discord brings damaging attention
  • Characteristic naturalness
  • Bewilderment not deception
  • Disguise
  • Dice and rabbits
  • Palming a card
  • Diversion
  • The importance of naturalness
• CHAPTER IX - THE NORM IN SPEECH
  • Speech in deception
  • The norm in speech patterns
  • Variations "telegraph"
  • What as well as how
  • Subject matter norm
  • Undue emphasis
  • The strength of implication
  • An example with bonds ...

If he'd had a touch of larceny in him, he could have been the number one card sharp of all time. Instead, the author of these fabulous memoirs, born to a mother who considered gambling the "devil's tool," puts his extraordinary gifts to far different purpose.

He has used his incredible gambling sense, his miraculously dexterous fingers, his brilliant mathematical mind, his fascination with carnival and gambling life, to become America's number one authority on gambling and odds.

He was the greatest practitioner and analyst of card and dice sleight of hand. His artistry impressed FDR as...

This Orson Welles ebook is a case study of an individual that was able to think "out of the box". Each small fact presented leads to the whole of a thinking process that will always provide an unexpected Third Option. The process that is presented here is the kernel of all deception theory. It's why...

John Scarne invented many games. None had any lasting success, although many of them a very clever inventions. This is a collection of games with dice.

From the back cover:

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  • ... Cards
• Card Locations
  • Behind The Back Trick
  • The Four Packs
  • Finding A Selected Card
  • Mind Control
  • Braude's Mental Card Trick
  • Locatrix
  • Breath Control
  • Lorayne's Mindreading Trick
  • The Impossible Location
  • Behind My Back
  • The Second Guess Card Trick
  • The Atomic Location
  • Double Revelation
  • Dice Will Tell
  • Scarne's Knockout Card Trick
  • Leipzig's Pocket Card Trick
  • The Traveling Card
  • Hands Off Miracle
  • The Stopper Mindreading Trick
• Divinations
  • The Whispering Card
  • Cardology, Card Trick Without
  • Ribbon Spread
  • The Poker Face Card Trick
  • The Talking Card
  • Double Duty
  • The Card That...

The Amazing World of John Scarne holds revelations and experiences in gambling, magic, carnival and show business; together with startling disclosures about hypnotism, extra-sensory perception and other mental effects.

The once world's number one expert on gambling tells in this no-punches-pulled, startlingly frank book the whole inside story of gambling, and reveals all the dodges, gimmicks and tricks used by cheaters at dice, cards, roulette and other games of chance. His sensational revelations extend also to magic and escape tricks, to the chicaneries of carnivals and even to the blasting...