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The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks-Cover

The Encyclopedia

Card

Tricks

1. Miscellaneous Impromptu Card Tricks

2. Spelling Effects in Card Magic

3. "You do as I do" Card Mysteries

4. Card Subtleties Utilizing Key Cards

5. "Slick" Principles in Card Magic

6. Card Mysteries Employing Diachylon

7. Double-Back Mysteries in Card Magic

8. Magic Utilizing Double-Face Cards

9. Card Mysteries Using a One-Way Back

Design

10. Mysteries using "Reversed" Ordinary Cards

11. Calculation Tricks with Ordinary Cards

12. Mysteries of an Prearranged Ordinary Pack

of Cards

13. Magic with a Svengali Pack of Cards

14. Magic with a Mene-tekel Pack of Cards

15. Magic with a Stripper Pack of Cards

16. Magical Mysteries with Special Packs, etc.

17. The Use of Short Cards in Magical Effects

18. More Miscellaneous Tricks

19. Indispensable Sleights

20. The Nikola Card System

Originally Compiled by

Glenn Gravatt

Revised and Expanded by

Jean Hugard

Associate Editor

John J. Crimmings, Jr.

José Antonio González

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Chapter I

~Miscellaneous Tricks~

Contents

Card and Crystal Ball, The

Card Detectives

Card Doctor, The

Card Miracle-Certain, The

1. Tucker's Version

2. Abbott's Version

3. The Nelson Downs Original

Cards Of Chance

Color Divination

Cut in Detection

"Easy" Card in Wallet, The

Find The Queen

Finger Points, The

Five Card Mental Force, The

In His Pocket

"Just Think" Mental Mystery

Magic Breath, The

Magic Thrust, The

Matching The Aces

Naming Cards in the Dark

New Card Discovery

Prediction

Push

Reversed Court Card

Sagacious Joker Nº1, The

Sagacious Joker Nº2, The

Sagacious Joker Nº3, The

Sagacious Joker Nº4, The

Secret Mathematician N° 1, The

Secret Mathematician N° 2, The

Self Control

Sleight Of Foot

Smart Location, A

Stampedo

Super Card Prediction

Surpasso

Thought Card from Pocket

Trio, The

Twin Souls

U Find Your Card

Unknown Leaper, The

Vanishing Pair, The

Whispering Queen, The

Twin Souls

Al Baker

T HIS effective trick can be done with any pack of cards. Begin by

having the pack shuffled by a spectator. In taking it back sight the

bottom card, make an overhand shuffle, bringing it to the top and note

also the bottom card at the end of the shuffle. Go to a lady and say

you will make a prediction foretelling exactly what she is about to do.

Write on a slip of paper, "The gentleman will get the......of......" filling

in with the name of the top card of the pack. Fold the slip and put it on

the table under a glass or some other object. Hand the pack to the

lady and ask her to think of a number, then when your back is turned,

to deal that number of cards face down on the table, turn the top card

of those dealt, note what it is, replace the packet on the pack and

make one complete cut burying the chosen card in the middle. Turn

away while the lady does this.

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When she is ready, turn again and take the pack. Go to a gentleman

and under pretense of fixing on a suitable card to impress on his mind,

run over the faces of the cards, find the former bottom card and cut at

that point. Note the card thus brought to the top. On a second slip

write, "The lady will get the......of......" fill in the name of this top card.

Fold the slip and put it with the first. Ask the lady to whisper the

number she chose to the gentleman. Hand the pack to him and tell

him to deal the cards face down and note the card at that number.

This done, reassemble the pack and shuffle it as you build up the

effect by re-capitulating what has been done. Hand out the slips in the

reverse order to that in which you wrote them. Have the two cards

named, then have the slips opened and read, proving that you

predicted the choice of those very cards.

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The Magic Breath

T HIS is a good example of how the presentation can be made to

transform a simple trick into a striking effect. The trick is that in which

a card is sent to any number chosen by the spectator, the first time

the cards are counted a wrong card appears but on a second count the

right one turns up. The method is simplicity itself. The card is on the

top so that the first count brings it to the number required so when the

packet is replaced on the pack and again counted it is found at the

correct number. In the older method the cards were replaced on the

pretext of a miscount, a very weak procedure.

A card having been freely chosen, noted, replaced and brought to the

top, execute several shuffles keeping it there. Addressing the

spectator you say, "Have you a magic breath ? Well I will show you

how to find out. If you have you can send your card to whatever

position you please merely by breathing gently on the cards. Will you

choose a number? Nine? Then just blow on the pack and think intently

of that number as you blow." Spectator blows, turn your head away

with a slight grimace. "Your breath does not seem to be very magical,

but I may be mistaken. Will you take the pack and count down to your

number?"

He does this and turns a wrong card. Take the pack, put the packet

counted on top and execute a false shuffle; take the card he turned up

and push it in somewhere amongst the top eight cards. "I knew you

would fail," you say, "instead of thinking while blowing, you blew while

thinking, not the same thing at all. Let me show you a real magic

breath. See, just a gentle zephyr, but it has sent your card to the

number required. What was it you chose? Nine?" Deal eight cards,

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have the spectator name his card and turn the ninth.

The testing of the spectator's breath can be done delicately or broadly

according to the type of audience.

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Reversed Court Card

Jordan

EFFECT. Four cards are placed in a row, faces up. While performer's

back is turned a card is turned end for end. He finds the one that has

been reversed.

METHOD. This is a development of the very old trick which was done

by using cards the white margins of which were a little wider on one

side than the other. In this method pick out of a pack of Bicycle cards

the K, Q and J of S. Note the small white spades used in the body of

the design. The J has five small spades pointing up or down according

to the way the card is turned. The Q has seven pointing to left or right

and in the center of the K design the large jewel is shaded at one end

only.

Lay these cards in a raw face up noting the way the designs point and

invite a spectator to place any other Court card down with them. Turn

your back while the spectator turns one card end for end. If he turns

one of the S you recognize it by the changed position of the design,

but if these are unchanged then you know that the fourth card must

have been turned.

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The Sagacious Joker N°1

Jordan

U SING any pack, the Joker is first placed face up and a spectator is

asked to shuffle the cards, then take out any face-down card and

without looking at it put it in his inside coat pocket with its back

outwards. This done he passes the pack to a second person who does

the same thing. The process is repeated with a third and fourth

person. Thus four cards have been selected at random and even the

spectators who have them in their pockets do not know what cards

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