Card Tricks for Beginners

by Wilfrid Jonson

Overview

Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing.
Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques — among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, The Slip Force, and Reading the Pack. No special dexterity is needed to successfully complete any of these methods.
With its special emphasis on presenting magic for the spectator's entertainment, Card Tricks for Beginners was acclaimed by Hugard's Magic Monthly as "extremely well done."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486154251
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Dover Magic Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
Part I
	"That's it"	9
	A Mathematical Certainty	11
	False Shuffling I	12
	The Seven Heaps	13
	False Shuffling II	15
	The Changing Card	16
	False Shuffling III	17
	The Sense of Touch	18
	The Matching Cards	21
	The Pick up Control	22
	The Card and the Number	23
	The Corner Crimp	24
	The Reversed Card	25
	Sensitive Finger Tips	26
	Thought Divined	27
	Palming	28
	Hypnotism!	31
	The Card in the Pocket	33
	Think of a Number	34
	Educated Fingers	35
	False Shuffling IV	37
	Spell it Out	38
	The Marked Card	42
	From the Fan	43
	The Spectator Does it	46
	Turn Over	47
	The Forecast	48
	A Card Puzzle	49
Part II
	The Glide	53
	The Inseparable Aces	55
	The Inseparable Aces II	56
	The Four Aces I	59
	The Glide Force	63
	The Four Aces II	63
	The Thirteen Principle	65
	The Slip Force	66
	With a Forced Card	68
	The Card Under the Carpet	70
	The One Way Pack	72
	One Way Elimination	73
	The Transposed Card	74
	In Your Hands	75
	The Five Card Trick	76
	The Pack Reveals it	77
	Odd and Even	78
	With Two Packs	79
	Eight Kings	81
	Three Card Divination	83
	Si Stebbins' Arrangement	84
	One in Five	84
	Reading the Pack	85
	Prepared Cards	87
	In Conclusion	90
	Bibliography	93
	Index	95