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Chapter V

Slick Principles in Card Magic

One slippery card and the pack practically cuts itself to your command.

The principle: The Slick (Slippery) Card

In this chapter

10 tricks
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The "Slick" Card

A chosen card vanishes into a freely shuffled deck, yet you locate it again as if the pack reported its position to you.

Discovery25m
Ch. VLearn it
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The Half Moon Location

A card is chosen from a ribbon-spread fan, returned, and cut beyond hope, yet you reveal its exact distance from the top.

Discovery15m
Ch. VLearn it
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Location Plus

A spectator takes a card, returns it, shuffles to their heart's content, and you still name their card.

Discovery15m
Ch. VLearn it
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Everybody's Card

Several people each pull a card from a freely shuffled deck, yet every single one of them names the very same card.

Coincidence40m
Ch. VLearn it
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Stage Location

Three chosen cards travel from a deck tucked in a spectator's pocket to that spectator's own hand, one impossible production after another.

Discovery40m
Ch. VLearn it
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The Master Card Speller

A spectator mentally chooses one of six cards, shuffles, and then spells their card's name to deal straight to it.

Mind Reading15m
Ch. VLearn it
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Counting By Eye

You claim to count a packet of cards at a glance and then prove it by producing any number a spectator calls for.

Discovery15m
Ch. VLearn it
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Odd Or Even

A spectator calls odd or even, and you instantly cut off a packet that proves to be exactly that.

Discovery15m
Ch. VLearn it
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The Mystic Cut

A spectator freely cuts the deck, then deals down to a number set by the cut and arrives exactly at their own chosen card.

Discovery15m
Ch. VLearn it
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A Slick Card Routine

A chosen card is matched, predicted in writing, and found again across a chain of seemingly impossible coincidences.

Prediction60m
Ch. VLearn it