Synopses & Reviews
Kids: dazzle your friends with your magical card tricks! It's easy--just practice each step of a trick until you can do it automatically, then give equal time to the show-biz moves that will delight and amaze your friends. Master all 20 card tricks; it doesn't take long, because they're broken into simple steps that show ways to hold, shuffle, cut, and spread the deck as well as how to hide and show each card. Illustrations and instructions help you cause a card to float out of a deck, rise to the top, or turn upside down without you touching it. You can even find the cards volunteers select by detecting their fingerprints, staring into their eyes, reading their minds, or predicting their choices in advance.
Synopsis
It won't take long to master these 20 amazing card tricks, because they're broken into simple steps that show how to hold, shuffle, cut, and spread the deck as well as how to hide and show each card. Illustrations and instructions help you cause a card to float out of a deck, rise to the top, or turn upside down without you touching it. You can even find the cards volunteers select by detecting their fingerprints.
Table of Contents
Card lessons -- The rising card -- Amazing aces -- The perfect prediction -- The key card method -- Fingerprints -- The next card -- Lifting weights -- Mind reader -- Inside out -- The Inside out again -- One-way deck -- The four thieves -- The four thieves, part two -- Messy shuffle -- Divided deck -- Divided deck, part two -- Two-card prediction -- Dealing the aces -- Royal party.