Synopses & Reviews
Impromptu card tricks, telephone tricks, shuffle setups, telepathy with cards, gambling secrets, tricks with torn and folded cards, card-forcing secrets, card tricks with props, vanishing cards, tricks with aces only, card deck that operates like a calculator, more. 96 illustrations.
Synopsis
Card magic has captivated man for many centuries. Today, it remains the most popular area of legerdemain, accounting for half of all tricks performed by magicians.
Now Karl Fulves, noted writer in the field of magic, has compiled a new treasury of foolproof card tricks, the definitive sequel to his popular Self-Working Card Tricks. This book contains a wealth of new material -- captivating and baffling card wizardry that will amaze your audience and astonish even accomplished magicians.
Fulves shows you how to perform such classic card maneuvers as Miraskil, The Open Prediction, Flip Top and The Jaks Two-Deck Trick. Clear, easy-to-follow directions, complemented by 96 instructive illustrations, help guide the novice through each trick.
Chapters on special areas of card magic and technique include: Impromptu Card Tricks; Two-Deck Card Tricks; Telephone Tricks; Telepathy with Cards; Riffle-Shuffle Setups; and Gambling Secrets.
Neither great dexterity nor long hours of practice are required to master tricks offered in this collection -- all succeed instantly by virtue of the step-by-step instructions.
Discover how this rich assortment of self-working tricks will mystify and delight friends and relatives -- anyone intrigued by the ancient appeal of card magic.
Table of Contents
IMPROMPTU CARD TRICKS
1 Gemini Twins
2 Computer Dating
3 The Dating Game
4 Penny Plain
5 Miraskil
6 The Seven-Up Mystery
7 The Open Prediction
8 Flip Top
9 Television Dice
10 Deckspert
11 Crazy Clocks
12 To Lie or Tell the Truth
RED-BLACK MYSTERIES
13 Chromatic Caper
14 Flying Colors
15 Oil and Water
16 Checkers
17 Influential Pairs
18 Red Magic
19 Odd Color Out
20 The Color of Thought
TELEPHONE TRICKS
21 Twentieth-Century Telepathy
22 The Percival Code
23 Calling Ms. Wizard
24 The Great Phone Mystery
25 A Remote Miracle
26 Poker by Phone
27 Shylock's Card
28 No Questions Asked
29 The Connection
30 Linear Blackjack
31 The Ultra Code
32 Time Squared
RIFFLE-SHUFFLE SETUPS
33 Stack a Pack
34 Magnetic Colors
35 Self-Matching Colors
36 A Devilish Secret
37 ESP + Math
38 Color Prophecy
39 Blind Choice
40 Replica Poker
41 Posi-Negative Cards
42 Incorporated Color Control
43 Why You Can't Win
TWO-DECK CARD TRICKS
44 Hypnotisn't
45 The Jaks Two-Deck Trick
46 The Dream Deck
47 The Clueless Card Trick
48 Criss Cross
49 Jumpback
TOPOLOGICAL CARD TRICKS
50 The House That Jack Built
51 Moving Parts
52 The Linking Cards
CARD-FORCING SECRETS
53 The X-Force
54 Hornswoggled
55 Coloroto
56 Cut Deeper
57 On the Lam
58 Speak of the Devil
59 The Stapled Card
TELEPATHY WITH CARDS
60 The Prediction Deck
61 Last October
62 Mental Rescue
63 Past and Future
64 Houdini's Secret
65 Hex Squared
66 The Square Ring
67 The Unmatch Game
68 The Master Mind
GAMBLING SECRETS
69 Flim Flam
70 Monte Miracle
71 Whiz Bang Poker
72 Any Hand Called For
73 The Omega Bet
74 Aces for Experts
75 Face-Up Poker
CONJUROR'S QUARTET
76 Invisible Con Man
77 The Calculator Card Trick
78 Bandit Aces
79 Houdini Card
THOUGHT-CARD METHODS
80 Psychorama
81 Thot-Card Monte
82 Hypnodeck
83 Ritual of the Kings
84 Duo Spell
MIRACLES WITH ACES
85 Four-Star Aces
86 Ace Triumph
87 Eyewitness
88 Wild Aces