In this volume, one of today's best-known writers on magic has compiled a wealth of Jordan's most impressive card tricks — impromptu tricks, banded-deck tricks, stacked-deck tricks, sleight-…Full description
A quick and easy revelation of a chosen card. A spectator shuffles his own pack, then lays out 3 heaps of 6 cards each. It doesn't matter whether they are dealt, pushed off in a packet, or h…Full description
In this volume, one of today's best-known writers on magic has compiled a wealth of Jordan's most impressive card tricks — impromptu tricks, banded-deck tricks, stacked-deck tricks, sleight-…Full description
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A Collection Of Top Ten Hottest Trick For Card Players And Magic Tricks For Cards Written By Anonymous
Introduction In an earl# issue of The *at the 4ublisher= 1lo#d ,. >ones= 0rote? @There are fello0s 0ho 0ould like to do a fe0 card tricks= nothing elaborate= but sim4le tricks that can be done at an# time. There are so man# good tricks aailable that it seems a shame that most 4eo4le 0ho like to do tricks and een those 0ho call themseles magicians are at a loss 0hen handed a strange 4ack of cards. The# fumble= the# hem and ha0= 4erha4s the# cant think of a single thing to do= 4erha4s the# hae no time to 4re4are their es4eciall# 0onderful trick= 4erha4s the# hae left that 4re4ared deck at home.B ose4h= Ste0art >ames= ,d Marlo= -al4h ack Miller= (rancis Carl#le= (rank :arcia= :eorge ean= Sid 1a0rence= Scalbert= Tom Sellers= Ned -utledge= Perc# *ee= -ufus Steele= Paul "ahn= and others= including of course some of :lenn :raatt. Sometimes t0o originators get the same idea. There is no 0a# to 4roe 0ho thought of it first= so 0hile assignment of credits cannot be guaranteed to be correct= credit has been gien 0here kno0n.
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50 Modern Card Tricks
There are a great man# card tricks that are so old and hae a44eared in 4rint so often that man# la#men are familiar 0ith them. These hae been omitted. 1ike0ise man# hae been 4ublished a44arentl# for the beginner or rankest amateur because the# are eas# to do but are so sim4le #ou could hardl# ho4e to fool an#one 0ith them is these so4histicated times. These also hae been omitted. No one likes to read long 0inded descri4tions so those in this book are 4ur4osel# brief= the 0a# in 0hich the trick is 4resented being left to the good Eudgment of the 4erformer. The 0ise magician 0ill use sho0manshi4 to 4ut an effect oer and cloak it 0ith suitable 4atter= some of 0hich is designed to mislead the onlooker a0a# from the real method em4lo#ed. Also a good 4erformer 0ill not Eust sim4l# run through the deck to find a chosen card= but reeal it is some dramatic manner. It hardl# needs to be mentioned that in all cases 0here #ou reeal a chosen card #ou kee4 it face do0n until the s4ectator names his card= then #ou turn it oer. 6ut of all the tricks that follo0= there are onl# one or t0o 0here 4erha4s it is not feasible to use a borro0ed deck. There are onl# four or fie 0here a s4ectator cannot shuffle the 4ack at the start= and een a shuffle is 4ossible 0ith these fe0 tricks if #ou are able to sight the to4 or bottom card after0ards. +ou 0ill find all of them reall# im4rom4tu= eas# to do= no skill needed= m#stif#ing and entertaining.
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50 Modern Card Tricks
Ambitious Card No Sleight Method Eect? A card is sho0n= then 4laced in the middle of the deck 0ith half of it left 4rotruding. The card is then 4ushed flush 0ith the deck and a moment later is sho0n to hae come to the to4. This effect is usuall# accom4lished b# sleight of hand but (rank :arcia has deised a er# cleer method= one that is so eas# an#one can do it= #et beautiful to 0atch and er# confusing een to 4rofessional card men.
Take the deck and state that #ou 0ill remoe a card. 8hat #ou do is to fan the 4ack before #ou= suare u4 an# ' cards in 4erfect alignment= and remoe them as one. +ou can remoe the to4 '= the bottom '= or 0hateer ha44ens to be easiest for #ou. No0 this is far different from the sleight commonl# kno0n as the @ouble 1ift=@ 0hich reuires 4ractice and is difficult for some. +ou merel# remoe ' cards from the deck kee4ing them eened so that the# a44ear as one. This is uite eas#. +ou hold these in #our right hand 0hile retaining the 4ack in the left. 8ith the right hand dis4la# the ' cards as one= asking them to 4a# 4articular attention to it Gfront one of the 'H so that the# 0ill recogniDe it 0hen the# see it later= that it is er# im4ortant for them to remember it. Place the card GcardsH on to4 of the 4ack= immediatel# 4ushing the to4 card for0ard so that it 4roEects a cou4le of inches from the narro0 edge of the deck. The 4lacing of the cards and the 4ushing out of the to4 card is all done in one action= and 0ithout hesitation. The 4roEecting card is of course the indifferent one but is 4resumed to be the one Eust sho0n.
The !roessor"s Card Trick Start b# sa#ing? @I once kne0 an old 4rofessor 0ho did a trick that 0ent like this? (irst he had someone shuffle the deck. G
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