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Chapter XV

Magic With a Stripper Pack of Cards

A tapered pack that lets you cut, strip, and locate cards by touch alone.

The principle: The Stripper (Tapered) Pack

In this chapter

54 tricks
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The Turned Card

A reversed card is instantly located in a shuffled deck thanks to a quietly tapered pack of cards.

Discovery40m
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To Separate the Red Cards

A thoroughly shuffled deck is instantly split into all the red cards in one hand and all the blacks in the other.

Reversal8m
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The Four Ace Trick

Four aces lost in a shuffled deck vanish completely, only to be produced from the performer's pocket.

Discovery8m
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Finding a Card in Any Position

A freely chosen, shuffled-back card appears at any number the spectator requests.

Discovery8m
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Selected Cards Pass Through a Handkerchief

A chosen card melts straight through the deck and a covering handkerchief to land on the table below.

Reversal8m
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The Turned Card

After a card is named, you drop the deck onto the table and that very card turns itself face up on top.

Reversal8m
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Finding Any Number of Selected Cards

Several freely chosen cards are lost in the deck, then produced all at once or one by one, even out of sight.

Reversal8m
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Finding All But A Chosen Card

You let the entire deck drop away but keep just the spectator's chosen card pinched in your hand.

Discovery8m
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Companionable Kings

Four Kings are pushed into separate spots in a shuffled deck, yet they magically reunite as a group in the center.

Reversal8m
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Passing a Card Through a Table

A chosen card seems to penetrate solidly through the tabletop and arrive in your waiting hand below.

Reversal8m
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The Animated Card

A freely chosen card mysteriously crawls out of the deck on its own and slides into your waiting hand.

Reversal8m
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Cutting At A Chosen Card

A spectator's card is lost in a shuffled deck, yet you cut straight to it in a single casual motion.

Reversal8m
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The Blown Card

A chosen card is lost in the deck, then a single breath sends it flying out into the air.

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Card From Spectator's Pocket

A shuffled deck goes into a spectator's own pocket, yet you pull their chosen card straight out.

Discovery8m
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The 'Cut' Count

You cut a pile from the deck and instantly announce its exact count without ever counting the cards.

Reversal8m
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Out Of The Room Discovery

While you wait outside, a card is freely chosen and lost; you return and find it by seemingly impossible means.

Reversal8m
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The Court Cards

All the picture cards are lost into a thoroughly shuffled deck, yet you instantly pull every one of them out again.

Discovery8m
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Naming The Cards

After the deck is cut over and over, you name three hidden cards before producing each one.

Divination8m
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Magnetized Card

A spectator rubs the deck, and her chosen card clings to your fingertips as if pulled by magnetism.

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At Any Number From Pocket

After the deck goes into a spectator's pocket, you deal to any freely named number and arrive at their card.

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Card Through Handkerchief

A chosen card melts right through a handkerchief that completely wraps the deck.

Discovery25m
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Just The Reverse

A freely chosen card is sealed away in its own case, yet you read the spectator's mind and find it flipped face up inside the deck.

Mind Reading8m
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The Four Kings

Three Kings vanish from a buried packet and reunite with the fourth King, which has waited alone for them all along.

Reversal8m
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'Stripper' Stabbing

Blindfolded, you plunge a borrowed knife into a spread of mixed cards and impale the spectator's freely chosen card.

Reversal8m
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Card In The Hat

A chosen card vanishes from the deck and is found waiting inside an empty hat shown moments before.

Discovery8m
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Reunion

Two cards chosen from neighboring positions are buried apart in the deck, yet they magically find each other again.

Transposition8m
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Satan's Mail

A chosen card vanishes from the deck and reappears sealed inside an envelope that was examined empty moments before.

Prediction8m
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Card And Plate

A shower of cards is thrown into the air and a plate catches the one chosen card from the falling cascade.

Discovery8m
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Another Rising Card

A chosen card mysteriously climbs up out of the deck, seeming to cling to the magician's beckoning fingertip.

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The Startler

A sharp downward strike knocks the whole deck from a spectator's hand, leaving only their chosen card behind.

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Cards From The Air

The magician hurls the deck into the air and snatches two chosen cards from the falling shower.

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Acrobatic Jacks

Four Jacks are pushed into different parts of the deck yet all gather back together as a story unfolds.

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The Captain Card

A chosen card vanishes from the deck and is found alone inside a borrowed hat, the captain who stayed aboard.

Discovery25m
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Flying Card

A chosen card invisibly travels from the deck to join a small packet of cards held nearby.

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Positions Unknown

Blindfolded, the performer instantly produces any card, run of cards, or entire color named by the audience.

Reversal8m
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Educated Die

A spectator freely rolls a borrowed die, and wherever the count lands, it always points to their chosen card.

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Stop Me At Any Time

A spectator calls stop wherever they like as you draw cards, yet their card is always at the face of the packet.

Reversal8m
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The Four Aces

Four aces dealt into a chosen heap vanish from the pack and appear together when that heap is turned over.

Discovery8m
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Rising Card

A chosen card slowly rises from the deck on its own as you hold the pack at your fingertips.

Rising Card25m
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Reversible Cards

A deck dealt half face up and half face down visibly rights itself with a single magical pass.

Discovery8m
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The Shuffled Speller

A freely chosen card is spelled to letter by letter, and the very last letter lands on the card itself.

Spelling8m
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Like Thoughts

A card chosen from one deck is matched, face down, by its exact twin pulled from a completely separate, shuffled deck.

Mind Reading8m
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Three Card Reverse

Three chosen cards, lost separately and shuffled away, all turn face up together in the middle of the deck on command.

Reversal8m
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Finding Three Cards

Three chosen cards are produced in turn, each appearing at a number the spectators themselves call out.

Reversal8m
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Card Divination

A freely chosen, shuffled-away card is divined by the performer, color then suit then value, with the deck never looked at openly.

Mind Reading8m
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Lifting Any Number Of Cards

The performer cuts off any number of cards a spectator calls for, hitting the exact count by feel.

Reversal8m
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Lifting Any Number Of Cards

You cut a packet from the deck and announce its exact count, or seem to judge it by weight alone.

Reversal8m
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A Divination Effect

A spectator takes a small batch of cards, writes their names privately, then buries the batch in the deck, cuts, and slips the whole pack into a pocket.

Reversal8m
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Sympathetic Numbers

You seal a small packet in an envelope and stand a prediction envelope beside it, then deal four face-down cards onto an easel.

Prediction8m
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The Advantages of the Stripper Pack

This is a teaching discussion rather than a single trick, explaining what the stripper pack makes possible: cards genuinely vanishing from the deck, sure forces that survive a real shuffle, and effort

Prediction25m
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End Strippers

An explanation of end-tapered stripper cards and the clean ways they let you control a chosen card.

Poker & Gambling25m
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A 'Stop' Discovery

A spectator calls stop as you drop packets onto the table, and the very card stopped at is their chosen one.

Reversal25m
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Red Or Black

You riffle the deck and only red cards flash by, then again and only black cards appear, like magic sorting.

Reversal8m
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The Ambitious Card

A chosen card is buried in the deck again and again, yet it stubbornly keeps climbing back to the top.

Reversal40m
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