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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.
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.
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.
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.
Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
Three spectators pick cards, and one by one each card answers its name, appears on top, then turns over by itself.
The Whispering Speller
The top card seems to whisper another card's name to you, and you spell straight to that card.
The Joker Spelling Routine
You spell card names one by one, but a single mischievous Joker keeps barging in until a final surprise.
Lazybones
Two spectators each lose a card, then one finds the other's card reversed in the deck and spells straight to its match.
A Close Work Discovery
Two people each pick a card from separate shuffled packs, and the two chosen cards turn out to be identical.
The Flying Card
A chosen card vanishes from the shuffled deck and reappears inside a previously empty card box.
Twin Aces
A freely chosen card is shuffled into the deck, yet it is found trapped between two matching Aces.
Turno
A signed selection is placed back into the deck the right way, yet it is later found mysteriously reversed.
Melrose
A freely shuffled, freely cut card vanishes from the pack and then reappears the instant a spectator silently thinks 'stop'.
Two Viewpoints
Two spectators each lose a freely chosen card in a shuffled deck, then you find both blindfolded by stabbing them with a borrowed knife.
Diachylon Stop Trick
A freely chosen card is hopelessly lost and shuffled, yet you locate it by feel while dealing face down, naming it before it's turned.
Flyaway Cards
An initialed card vanishes, another card reverses itself in its place, and finally the signed card reappears reversed in the spectator's own hands.
Ace Transposition
Two aces sealed in separate glasses on opposite sides of the table magically trade places on command.
Card In Pocket
A freely chosen card vanishes from a shuffled deck and is found waiting in the performer's pocket.
The Sympathetic Pair-No. 1
Two people each think of and write down a card, yet those very cards are found nestled together in the shuffled deck.
The Sympathetic Pair-No. 2
Two named cards are lost in a shuffled deck, yet they mysteriously find each other and end up side by side.
Alice In Wonderland
A freely chosen card reverses itself deep in the deck, then magically travels to be spelled out letter by letter.
Double-Backed Card Routine
A flowing five-part routine where cards change color, refuse to stay put, and reverse themselves on command.
Transposition Extraordinary
A spectator's chosen card appears in one deck while the matching card in another deck vanishes and trades places.
Chameleon Backs
Two cards repeatedly seem to swap which back belongs to which face, then make one final impossible color change.
Double Reverse
Two freely lost cards each turn themselves face up in the deck, one after the other, matching a pair.
New Card Monte
A card placed in a spectator's pocket keeps changing identity, baffling them about which card they are actually holding.
A Changing Card
A freely stopped-at Ace stubbornly transforms into a King, then mends itself face up inside a banded packet.
Ne Plus Ultra
Five cards are freely chosen and lost in a shuffled deck, yet you read four minds and produce the last card in a striking finish.
Name O' Card
A spectator merely thinks of any card and names it, and you instantly produce it in a way that fits that card.
The Ambitious Card
A chosen card is buried in the deck again and again, yet it stubbornly keeps climbing back to the top.
X-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.
Think 'Stop'
A spectator shuffles, cuts the pack near the middle, peeks at a card, buries it, and cuts repeatedly.
The Slap Trick
A spectator's selected card keeps leaping invisibly to the top of the deck no matter where it is buried.
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.