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I

Chapter I

Miscellaneous Tricks

A grab-bag of impromptu wonders that need nothing but a borrowed pack and a little nerve.

In this chapter

43 tricks
Ordinary deck

Twin Souls

Two written predictions, sealed before anyone chooses, exactly name the cards a lady and a gentleman freely arrive at.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Magic Breath

A spectator tries to send their card to a chosen number by breathing on the deck, fails, then you make it work.

Transformation15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Reversed Court Card

Four face-up cards lie in a row; while you look away one is turned around, and you instantly spot which.

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Sagacious Joker No.1

Four spectators pocket unseen cards, yet you name every one by touching a Joker to their pockets.

Discovery25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Sagacious Joker No.2

Four pocketed, unseen cards are each named by the Joker, with no awkward fumbling at the pockets.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Sagacious Joker No.3

A spectator cuts, freely buries cards, and pockets three; the Joker names all three correctly.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Sagacious Joker No.4

Four spectators pocket unseen random cards, and a wise Joker reveals each one by touch.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Trio

Three cards are buried, pocketed, and handed out unseen, yet you reveal all three as if reading minds.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Cards Of Chance

Three named cards vanish from the deck, and your written predictions match them perfectly.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Push

A spectator peeks at a card buried in the deck, yet you name it without ever seeing it yourself.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Card Detectives

Two cards in your pockets mysteriously identify the two cards a spectator pocketed, through pure sympathy.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The "Easy" Card in Wallet

A freely chosen, marked card impossibly appears inside a wallet taken from your pocket.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Prediction

You write two card names in advance, and after a spectator freely cuts the shuffled deck, those exact two cards land on either side of your sealed prediction.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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A Smart Location

A spectator buries their freely chosen card in the deck, yet you control it to any position you wish for a clean reveal.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Whispering Queen

A chatty Queen seems to whisper the identity of the bottom card of each of four heaps directly into your ear.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Card Doctor

A signed selected card is torn to pieces during a hospital story, yet at the end it is whole again and still bears the spectator's initials.

Transformation25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Stampedo

A postage stamp marks a chosen card placed among ten others, yet the stamped card vanishes from the packet and reappears in the deck.

Transposition15m
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Color Divination

A spectator buries a random red card among the black cards, and you reveal it from a prediction you wrote before they even chose.

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Vanishing Pair

Two named cards vanish from a shuffled packet and reappear inside the card case sitting in plain view.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Unknown Leaper

A card merely thought of, never touched, mysteriously jumps from the spectator's hand to yours during a fair counting deal.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Self Control

A card freely pointed to turns out to be the very card a spectator only thought of moments later.

Prediction40mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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In His Pocket

A spectator merely thinks of one of three cards, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.

Mind Reading15m
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Find The Queen

Five sealed envelopes are mixed, yet you unfailingly identify the one holding the Queen among four Aces.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Super Card Prediction

You predict a card in writing, then a freely inserted card lands precisely beside your written forecast.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Finger Points

A spectator merely thinks of a card while shuffling, yet you single it out of the spread without a single question.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Five Card Mental Force

Five cards lie face up; a spectator merely thinks of one, and you hand them the very card they pictured.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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"Just Think" Mental Mystery

A spectator writes their thought-of card among four others, yet you pluck it from a fully shuffled deck.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Matching The Aces

A spectator freely lays down one of their four Aces, and it matches the Ace you set out before they chose.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Surpasso

A spectator buries their card in the cased deck while your back is turned, yet you instantly produce it.

Prediction15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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New Card Discovery

A freely chosen card is lost in the deck through cuts and shuffles, yet you locate it with ease.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Thought Card from Pocket

A spectator merely thinks of one card from a small group, yet you pluck it from a pocketed deck instantly.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Naming Cards in the Dark

In total darkness a spectator drops a card into your hand and you name it instantly, every time.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Magic Thrust

A spectator pushes a card into the deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own chosen card.

Reversal8mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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U Find Your Card

Following your instructions behind their own back, a spectator locates their own freely chosen card.

Reversal15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Card and Crystal Ball

A card placed unseen in your hand behind your back is divined by gazing into a small crystal ball.

Mind Reading15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Secret Mathematician No. 1

A pocketed packet of cards instantly yields a card matching any named suit and value with arithmetic precision.

Coincidence15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Secret Mathematician No. 2

A spectator buries random cards in their own pocketed packet, yet your fingertips pluck out any card named on demand.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
Ordinary deck

The Card Miracle-Certain

A spectator cuts the deck freely and remembers a card, yet you slice straight back to it moments later.

Discovery15m
Ch. ILearn it
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Tucker's Version

A spectator cuts, peeks, and buries their card with endless cuts, yet you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.

Mind Reading60mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Abbott's Version. The Certain Card

A spectator peeks at a card, deals the deck into a grid, and you locate it from one simple question.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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The Nelson Downs Original

A spectator cuts near centre and remembers a card, and you produce it from the deck, your hand, or your pocket.

Discovery60mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Cut in Detection

A spectator cuts, returns a card to the centre, and you reveal it, sometimes found reversed in the heart of the deck.

Reversal25mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it
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Sleight Of Foot

A spectator buries their chosen card in the deck, yet you find it without ever touching the cards.

Discovery15mNo setup
Ch. ILearn it