By Forces Unseen

The Innovative Card Magic of Ernest Earick

1993
Written by Stephen Minch
Work of Ernest Earick
206 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with drawings by Kelly Lyles
Language: English
85 entries
This publication has been reviewed by
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Stephen Minch Acknowledgement
ii
Ernest Earick Apologia on sleight-of-hand
 		v
Ernest Earick Claptrap three cards jump out of deck one by one by clapping the hands every time, last one produced between the hands
Also published here 3
Martin A. Nash, Ernest Earick Nash Multiple Shift Variation
Also published here 3
Ronald Lubowiecki Automatic Rear Jog real origin unknown, tabled deck
 		4
Swing Cut
8
Gerald Kosky Applause Card Disclosure card jumps out of tabled deck when hands are clapped, air pressure
 		11
Ernest Earick Clap Spin-Out Revelation for single or double cards
Also published here 12
Gambler's Cop stealing card from a double
 		12
Ernest Earick Clap Midair Production
Also published here 13
Ernest Earick Proteus indifferent changes into selection via snap change
 		15
Ernest Earick Bow-to-stern Control
Related toVariations 16
S. W. Erdnase Erdnase Break barely described
 		19
Ernest Earick Rotary Reverse as deck is turned over
Related to 19
Horace Goldin, Ernest Earick Goldin Change Variant snap change, nice clean up
 		21
Ernest Earick Jack Syna(ps)ces Jacks distributed face up in deck change places with Aces on top of deck once deck is slapped
Inspired byRelated toVariations 27
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Ernest Earick Spread Pass single-card cull
 		28
Ernest Earick Elevated Addition as packet is squared above pack
Variations 30
Ernest Earick Step to Break Transfer
31
Ernest Earick Wrist Turn Steal from packet to top of pack
 		35
Dai Vernon Strip-Out Addition
36
Ernest Earick Bluff Shift Variant straight to bottom
Related to 39
Ernest Earick Turnover Top Palm the Erdnase Top Palm (see reference) adapted into the turning over of the deck
Inspired by 42
Nate Leipzig Slap Color Change
44
Ernest Earick Lonely at the Top kind of assembly, packet of face-down cards and face-up Ace changes to four face-up Aces
Related to 45
Ernest Earick Braue Reversal Variant
46
Ernest Earick Slip Cut Switch
47
Ernest Earick Endfield Slip-Cut Variant
48
Ernest Earick House Guest fingertip handling
 		52
Ernest Earick Broadside Center Steal centre to right Tenkai palm, with replacement to bottom
 		55
Frederick Braue Spreading the Jog spreading cards with side jog
Related to 55
Ernest Earick Tenkai Palm, modified
56
Ernest Earick Swivel Load 1 from Tenkai palm to under deck or case
 		58
Ernest Earick Card from Case extraction
60
Ernest Earick The Longitudinal Swivel Steal centre to right hand longitudinal palm, with replacement to bottom as control, see also the related applications of the swivel action on p. 71 and p. 74
Related to 63
Ernest Earick Swivel Load 2 from LTP to under deck
 		66
Bill Simon Taps Control slapping card through deck
 		68
Ernest Earick Swivel Steal Lapping one handed
 		71
Ernest Earick Thought Manifest peeked at card appears visually in empty hands
 		72
Ernest Earick Post-Peek Riffle Display
73
Max Malini Deck Flexing while holding a break
 		73
Ernest Earick Left-Hand Swivel Steal see p. 80 for a one-handed application
 		74
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Ernest Earick Palm-to-Palm Transfer (Hofzinser), variant 1 see also similar technique on p. 88
 		76
Ernest Earick Between the palms Production visual
 		79
Ernest Earick Bureau d'Échange four Kings change place with selection in pocket
Related toVariations 81
Ernest Earick One-handed Convincing Control see page 90 for mention of the sleight as cull, force, palm, switch
Variations 83
Ernest Earick Bottom Palm, one-handed independent of Curry's palm
Related toVariations 85
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, Ernest Earick Palm-to-Palm Transfer (Hofzinser), variant 2 at table edge, also described on p. 131, see also similar technique on p. 76
 		88
Ernest Earick Kato-nine-tails deck tabled, slapping hand empty
 		91
Ernest Earick, S. W. Erdnase Diagonal Palm Shift, Delayed Handling
92
Ernest Earick Palm-to-Palm Transfer, classic to flat
96
Ernest Earick Katosoarus Toss card tossed from palm onto deck as other hand slapps the deck
 		100
Ernest Earick Yours, Mine, Yours coin with card face up in centre of deck
Inspired by 102
Ernest Earick Palm-to-Palm Transfer, flat to classic
103
Ernest Earick Spellbound Coin to Card Change
105
Ernest Earick Fingertip Coin Cut handling for producing a palmed coin from centre of deck
 		108
Ernest Earick Alone in a Crowd centre portion of deck with selection is turned face up, all except selection turn down again
Inspired by 111
Flicker Glimpse as card is displayed with one hand
 		112
Ernest Earick Teeter-Totter Turnover Pass with screening action
 		113
Ernest Earick Zorro Break / Z-break two breaks with thumb base and fourth finger
 		115
Ernest Earick Covered Flippant block in centre is reversed with Simonoff's flippant action
 		116
Ernest Earick A Flippant Triumph nice visual ending
 		119
Herb Zarrow Zarrow Shuffle
120
Ernest Earick Flippant Pop-Out
Inspired byRelated to 123
Ernest Earick Bottomland Aces spectator shuffles, performer cuts to four Aces
 		125
Ernest Earick Lazy-Susan Tabled Palm tabled palm in left hand lateral palm
Variations 127
Edward Marlo Revolving Replacement
132
Ernest Earick Deal-and-Load Production transfer of a card from packet to packet while turning over top card of one packet
 		136
Ernest Earick Double Damned
VariationsAlso published here 141
Charlier Charlier False Shuffle small packet
 		146
Ernest Earick Cross Purposes card rises perpendicular from deck on table
Inspired by 153
Ernest Earick Swivel Steal Reverse palm and replacement as reverse
 		155
Karl Fulves Riffle Shuffle Center Control getting angle jog from step
 		160
Ben Harris Crosswize Rize
162
Ernest Earick Lustig for Life named value is cut to, selection at that number
Variations 165
Riffle Stacking
167
Ernest Earick Benzais spin-cut handling
168
Dai Vernon, Ernest Earick Vernon Shuffle Transfer, variant 1
Inspired by 170
Ernest Earick One Shuffle - One Winner black jack for any number of players from shuffled deck
 		173
Ernest Earick Poker Blind two shuffle stack for four cards, five hands
 		178
Dai Vernon, Ernest Earick Vernon Shuffle Transfer, variant 2
Inspired by 180
Ernest Earick Tandem in One one shuffle stack for two quartets, five players, random positions
 		182
Ernest Earick The Case of the Inconstant Player adjusting five player stack if up to three leave or two arrive
Related to 192
Ernest Earick A Little Bit Patter presentation for restacking the deck when a player leaves
Related toAlso published here 199
Stephen Minch Index of Sleights
205
Data entered by Denis Behr, November 2004.