Synopses & Reviews
What is a self-working card trick? A trick that does not depend upon legerdemain or special abilities on the part of the magician, but a trick that works automatically because of the mathematics inherent in the card deck itself. Long practice and supernormal dexterity are not needed to perform these tricks, yet they are often among the most entertaining and most spectacular of all card tricks.
Some of these sure-fire tricks are simple, a good place to begin. Others were specially adapted from professional routines and are here presented for the first time for amateurs. Almost all of these tricks can be worked informally, with a borrowed deck of cards. Some also adapt to stage presentation.
Individual tricks in this book have sold for more than the price of the entire book. Amateurs can use them to get a start in magic and to feel, at once, the rewards of giving a professional performance. Advanced and professional magicians will find tricks to add to their acts or informal routines. Author Karl Fulves is one of the best-known writers and editors in the field of magic.
Synopsis
A guide to card tricks which work automatically because of the mathematical relationships within the card deck.
Synopsis
Seventy-two spectacular and entertaining tricks: card locations, coincidence tricks, mental magic with cards, tricks with double endings, tricks with two decks, predictions, tricks with borrowed decks, trick poker deals. Easy-to-learn, clearly illustrated, these tricks produce spectacular effects with a minimum of practice. 42 illustrations.
Synopsis
Noted magician and magic authority offers 72 tricks that work automatically through nature of card deck. No sleight of hand needed. Often spectacular. 42 illustrations.
Table of Contents
CARD LOCATIONS
1 No-Clue Discovery
2 A Sporting Proposition
3 Spello
4 The Lazy Magician
5 Trapped
6 Whispering Joker
IMPROMPTU CARD ROUTINES
7 "Any Deck, Any Time"
8 Mental Mates
9 Deuces Wild
10 Rapid Transit
11 Z-Ray
12 Matching Matches
13 The Magic 13
POKER DEALS
14 Lesson in Larceny
15 Automatic Poker
16 Naming the Aces
17 The Three-Jacks Deal
18 Cutting the Aces
19 The Bridge Hustler
20 Aces Up
21 Poker Expert Outdone
COINCIDENCE TRICKS
22 Do as I Do
23 The One-Deck Version
24 Child's Play
25 Unseen Powers
26 Double Disclosure
27 Ultra Coincidence
MENTAL MAGIC WITH CARDS
28 The Card Revealed
29 The Haunted Name
30 Though Speller
31 The Duplex Mind
32 Pre-Figured
33 Three on a Match
34 Computer Mind
35 The Stop Trick
36 Sensitive Fingertips
37 Think of an Ace
38 Pocket Prediction
39 Psychic Magnet
40 Fate #1
41 Fate #2
42 Double Prophet
TEST CONDITIONS
43 Blind Date #1
44 Blind Date #2
45 Hocus-Pocus
46 Out of Sight
47 Long Distance
48 The Phone Miracle
49 A Card and a Number
50 Magic by Proxy
51 "Signed, Sealed and Delivered"
STRANGE SECRETS
52 Impossible Location
53 Slim Chance
54 The Blue Phantom
55 It's in the Bag
REVELATIONS
56 The 3 1/2 of Clubs
57 The Geiger Counter Card Trick
58 Opposites Attract
59 60 Seconds Flat
60 Personality
61 Jumping Joker
62 Calculator Cards
63 Process of Elimination
64 The Joker Knows
65 The Controlled Cut
MIRACLES WITH CARDS
66 Follow the Leader
67 Mental Miracle
68 Twins
69 O. Henry Card Trick
70 Astro Twins
71 Topsy-Turvy
72 Quick as a Wink