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Originally Compiled by
Glenn Gravatt
Revised and Expanded by
Jean Hugard
Associate Editor
John J. Crimmings, Jr.
This html version © 1999
José Antonio González
 Encyclopedia of Card Tricks-Chapter 1
The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
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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
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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
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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
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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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