Chapter XVIII
More Miscellaneous Tricks
A second chapter of mixed marvels, from story tricks to four-ace routines.
In this chapter
86 tricksX-Ray Everywhere And Nowhere
A chosen card is shown displayed on a stand, yet it keeps changing identity until it seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once.
The Original 'Stop' Trick
Three chosen cards are buried in the deck, yet each spectator calls "Stop" at the exact instant their own card appears.
'Say When'
Cards are dropped one at a time into a hat, and each spectator calls "Stop" exactly as their own card lands.
A Means To An End
With a borrowed deck, cards slide along a ribbon between two hats and a spectator stops you on each chosen card.
Think 'Stop'
A spectator shuffles, cuts the pack near the middle, peeks at a card, buries it, and cuts repeatedly.
The Psychological Stop Trick
A spectator deals cards into your hand, stops whenever they feel like it, and lands on their own chosen card.
Number Please
Over the telephone, you name a card a distant friend shuffled to and merely thought of.
The Case Of The Four Kings
Four Aces and four Kings are dealt into two piles, yet the families magically trade places.
The J. M. Rising Card
A chosen card slowly rises out of the very center of a squared, borrowed deck, with no finger pushing it up.
Miraskill
Before a shuffled deck is even sorted, you predict the exact outcome of a long color-pairing process, and you are right.
Master Card Location
A spectator freely stops at a card, notes it, cuts the deck repeatedly, and you still find it.
Miracle Card Location
A chosen card is buried, the deck is shuffled by the spectator, and you find it instantly.
Card Detected By Pulse Beat
By feeling a spectator's pulse, you name their freely chosen card as it appears in the deal.
Imitation Seconds
You appear to deal phantom 'second' cards, yet a spectator's hand keeps filling with Jacks every single round.
Psychological Force
From a small row of face-down cards, a spectator freely picks one, and it's the very card you intended.
Face-Up Location
A spectator's chosen card mysteriously ends up paired with a random face-up card they stuck into the deck themselves.
The Dream Card
A card sealed in an envelope before any selection turns out to match the very card a spectator stops the deck on.
Elimination
Through rounds of dealing and discarding, a spectator's two freely chosen cards survive to the very end.
A Super-Reverse Problem
A spectator merely names any card they think of, and that card is instantly found face up in the face-down deck.
Card In The Orange
A signed, torn playing card vanishes and is discovered whole inside a borrowed-looking orange, with one corner still missing.
The Slap Trick
A spectator's selected card keeps leaping invisibly to the top of the deck no matter where it is buried.
The Conjurer's Touch
Three freely chosen cards are produced one by one from inside a borrowed-looking handkerchief, even penetrating it visibly.
The Card Through the Handkerchief
A chosen card visibly pushes its way through a borrowed handkerchief wrapped tightly around the deck.
The Penetrating Cards
A chosen card appears to pass through both its sealed card case and a borrowed handkerchief.
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
A spectator holds a shuffled deck behind their own back and somehow finds their own freely chosen card.
The Princess Card Trick
Four spectators each pick a card, one is merely thought of, and that single mental selection vanishes from your hand.
The Clock Trick
Twelve cards are laid in a circle like a clock.
Paint Brush Card
A pip appears to lift right off a five of spades and jump across onto a two, transforming both cards.
The Eclipse Vanish
Five cards are laid out, one is freely chosen, and when the cards are dealt again only four remain.
The Card From The Pocket
A spectator merely thinks of a card and its position, and you produce that exact card from your pocket.
Card From The Pocket
A shuffled, freely handed card is pocketed, yet it vanishes from a counted position and reappears there.
Banner Card Discovery
Someone shuffles the deck, then while your back is turned silently picks a number and notes the card resting at that position.
Like Seeks Like
Four cards are dropped one into each of four hats, yet at your command the matching values gather together so each hat holds a complete set.
The Master Riddle
Six spectators each keep a freely drawn card, yet you name every one of their cards in turn without ever seeing them taken.
Transposition — Box to Envelope
One spectator draws a card and seals it inside a small card box; another spectator has a card placed into an envelope.
Mental Card Mystery
You write a prediction, seal it away, and the spectator's own freely cut card matches it exactly.
Satan's Mail
A freely chosen card vanishes from the pack and is found sealed inside an envelope across the room.
Card And Envelope
A prediction sealed in an initialed envelope correctly names the card a spectator later selects.
Card And Envelope No. 2
A sealed, initialed envelope predicts the spectator's chosen card, then is shown holding that very card.
Tuned Minds
A spectator writes a famous name on their card, and you mysteriously write the identical name on yours.
Two-Card Slate Prophecy
Two slate prophecies correctly name the separate cards a lady and a gentleman each select.
The Spectator Finds Your Card
After endless shuffling and cutting, the spectator's lost card and yours are discovered side by side.
Watch His Elbow
With your back fully turned, a spectator quietly lifts cards from the top, stops wherever they like, peeks at the next card, and drops the cards back.
Two Pile Trick
A spectator buries a card they merely glanced at, yet you bring it to any number you name.
The Voice Of The Spirit
A freely chosen card is named by a hidden assistant in another room, with no word ever spoken.
The Buddha Whispers
A small Buddha figure sits between four numbered glasses.
Triple Card Mystery
Three spectators each lose a card in the deck, yet all three are found, the last while you are blindfolded.
Infallible Prediction
A spectator draws one card sight unseen, and your written prediction is found already on its face.
Faces Or Backs, Which?
A spectator hides a card among face-up and face-down cards, yet you still find the one they chose.
The Life Saver
A spectator picks any card, shuffles the deck freely, yet you still pluck their card from the pack with ease.
The Magnetized Cards
Cards spread across your open hand cling there when you turn the hand over, then drop on command.
Tearing The Pack
You tear an entire pack of cards in half with your bare hands, a feat of apparent raw strength.
Reversed Cards
You deal cards alternately face up and face down, then magically they all turn the same way.
Simplicity Four Ace Trick
Four aces are dealt into separate piles, yet they keep gathering together by themselves.
Another Simplicity Four Ace
After a spectator shuffles and cuts the deck into piles, an ace appears on top of each one.
Inseparable Aces
The four Aces are buried in separate parts of the deck, yet they all arrive together in the deal.
Slates And Aces
A prediction on a sealed slate matches the single Ace a spectator freely chooses from four.
The Trend Of The Times
Four Kings are placed throughout the deck, yet at the climax they have vanished from view and the Queens reign in their place.
The Great Pearl Mystery
A story of four queens, their precious pearls, a sneaky robber, and a sleepy guard told entirely with cards in glasses.
Parade Of The Queens
Four queens are paraded between glasses and at the finish they have mysteriously all gathered into a single tumbler.
Buried Alive
Four jacks are inserted every-which-way into the pack, yet at the climax they all turn out to be facing the same direction.
Reading The Cards
Holding a shuffled pack faces-down, the performer appears to read the cards one after another by pure sensitivity.
Hindu Miracle
A spectator shuffles the pack into a hat, yet the performer reaches in and pulls out named cards one after another.
The Belt Trick
After a borrowed pack is shuffled, the performer reads the top cards one by one as if seeing through them.
Modern Card Reading
With the deck out of sight behind your back, you call card after card by name without ever seeing their faces.
Any Time, Any Day, Card
Anywhere, anytime, with a borrowed shuffled deck, you read cards by name with the pack hidden behind your back.
Mystery Card Reading
You appear to read several face-down cards from a borrowed deck, naming each before its face is ever shown.
Read Them Off
Holding the deck so its backs face the room, you read card after card by name without seeing their faces.
X-Ray
A spectator riffle shuffles the deck openly, yet you correctly name every card as you turn it face up.
Reading Cards. Mirror Method
You appear to sense the identity of face-down cards, naming them hesitantly as if reading them by touch.
Another Method
Blindfolded or not, you 'feel' the faces of cards held by a spectator and name them one at a time.
A Subtle Set Up
You let a spectator hand you the four Aces one by one, yet you still deal them straight into your own hand.
A Memory Feat
You claim to memorize a freely shuffled deck, then name the exact card at any number called.
The Poker Shark
You deal a friendly poker game, lose hand after hand to better players, then reveal four aces wins it all.
Double Poker Deal
You deal four poker hands, gather them, and deal again, with the winning hands changing dramatically the second time.
Poker Player's Deal
After mixing the high cards, you instantly produce all five cards of any suit the spectator names.
Poker Demonstration
You demonstrate how a card sharp stacks the deck, dealing yourself unbeatable hands across two rounds of poker.
Quadruple Poker Trick
A spectator calls for any poker hand and you instantly produce it from cards taken straight out of your pocket.
Poker Set-Up
You shuffle the deck in a perfectly ordinary-looking way and then deal a four-handed poker game.
Another Poker Set-Up
After a few casual riffle shuffles and cuts, the dealer quietly arranges a winning poker hand to fall to himself.
The Gambler In Person
You deal five poker hands face up from a borrowed and shuffled pack, showing them as nothing special.
The Gambler Is Back Again
Spectators freely call out poker hands, the cards are cut, and the dealer still ends up holding a Royal Flush.
Klondyke Poker
From a freshly opened deck the dealer deals seven hands; six are full houses and the dealer draws to a Straight Flush.
Impromptu Poker Deal
After a fair-looking cut and deal, the dealer draws and reveals all four aces in a friendly two-handed game.
Effective Poker Deal
After a fair-seeming shuffle, you deal yourself an unbeatable Royal Flush, proving skill beats luck.
The Perpetual Almanac, or the Gentleman Soldier's Prayer
Using an ordinary deck as a storybook, you map every card to a date, a number, and a meaning of life.