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) PackIn this chapter
54 tricksThe Turned Card
A reversed card is instantly located in a shuffled deck thanks to a quietly tapered pack of cards.
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.
The Four Ace Trick
Four aces lost in a shuffled deck vanish completely, only to be produced from the performer's pocket.
Finding a Card in Any Position
A freely chosen, shuffled-back card appears at any number the spectator requests.
Selected Cards Pass Through a Handkerchief
A chosen card melts straight through the deck and a covering handkerchief to land on the table below.
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.
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.
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.
Companionable Kings
Four Kings are pushed into separate spots in a shuffled deck, yet they magically reunite as a group in the center.
Passing a Card Through a Table
A chosen card seems to penetrate solidly through the tabletop and arrive in your waiting hand below.
The Animated Card
A freely chosen card mysteriously crawls out of the deck on its own and slides into your waiting hand.
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.
The Blown Card
A chosen card is lost in the deck, then a single breath sends it flying out into the air.
Card From Spectator's Pocket
A shuffled deck goes into a spectator's own pocket, yet you pull their chosen card straight out.
The 'Cut' Count
You cut a pile from the deck and instantly announce its exact count without ever counting the cards.
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.
The Court Cards
All the picture cards are lost into a thoroughly shuffled deck, yet you instantly pull every one of them out again.
Naming The Cards
After the deck is cut over and over, you name three hidden cards before producing each one.
Magnetized Card
A spectator rubs the deck, and her chosen card clings to your fingertips as if pulled by magnetism.
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.
Card Through Handkerchief
A chosen card melts right through a handkerchief that completely wraps the deck.
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.
The Four Kings
Three Kings vanish from a buried packet and reunite with the fourth King, which has waited alone for them all along.
'Stripper' Stabbing
Blindfolded, you plunge a borrowed knife into a spread of mixed cards and impale the spectator's freely chosen card.
Card In The Hat
A chosen card vanishes from the deck and is found waiting inside an empty hat shown moments before.
Reunion
Two cards chosen from neighboring positions are buried apart in the deck, yet they magically find each other again.
Satan's Mail
A chosen card vanishes from the deck and reappears sealed inside an envelope that was examined empty moments before.
Card And Plate
A shower of cards is thrown into the air and a plate catches the one chosen card from the falling cascade.
Another Rising Card
A chosen card mysteriously climbs up out of the deck, seeming to cling to the magician's beckoning fingertip.
The Startler
A sharp downward strike knocks the whole deck from a spectator's hand, leaving only their chosen card behind.
Cards From The Air
The magician hurls the deck into the air and snatches two chosen cards from the falling shower.
Acrobatic Jacks
Four Jacks are pushed into different parts of the deck yet all gather back together as a story unfolds.
The Captain Card
A chosen card vanishes from the deck and is found alone inside a borrowed hat, the captain who stayed aboard.
Flying Card
A chosen card invisibly travels from the deck to join a small packet of cards held nearby.
Positions Unknown
Blindfolded, the performer instantly produces any card, run of cards, or entire color named by the audience.
Educated Die
A spectator freely rolls a borrowed die, and wherever the count lands, it always points to their chosen card.
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.
The Four Aces
Four aces dealt into a chosen heap vanish from the pack and appear together when that heap is turned over.
Rising Card
A chosen card slowly rises from the deck on its own as you hold the pack at your fingertips.
Reversible Cards
A deck dealt half face up and half face down visibly rights itself with a single magical pass.
The Shuffled Speller
A freely chosen card is spelled to letter by letter, and the very last letter lands on the card itself.
Like Thoughts
A card chosen from one deck is matched, face down, by its exact twin pulled from a completely separate, shuffled deck.
Three Card Reverse
Three chosen cards, lost separately and shuffled away, all turn face up together in the middle of the deck on command.
Finding Three Cards
Three chosen cards are produced in turn, each appearing at a number the spectators themselves call out.
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.
Lifting Any Number Of Cards
The performer cuts off any number of cards a spectator calls for, hitting the exact count by feel.
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.
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.
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.
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
End Strippers
An explanation of end-tapered stripper cards and the clean ways they let you control a chosen card.
A 'Stop' Discovery
A spectator calls stop as you drop packets onto the table, and the very card stopped at is their chosen one.
Red Or Black
You riffle the deck and only red cards flash by, then again and only black cards appear, like magic sorting.
The Ambitious Card
A chosen card is buried in the deck again and again, yet it stubbornly keeps climbing back to the top.