176 pages (Hardcover), published by Magic, Inc.
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
41 entries
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Lance Pierce Foreword
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Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman Introduction
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Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman The Basics Misconceptions about tapered decks, terminology and basic handlings
  • Sides and Ends
  • The Cut
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Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman How to Cut Cards
  • Purchase
  • Card Trimmer
  • Stripper Jig (Eoin O'Hare)
  • Paper Cutter
  • "Bathroom Strippers"
  • Rounding Corners
Related to 18
Ryan Plunkett Collect Yourself three cards selected and lost, four Aces magically appear on top of the deck, then three cards appear sandwiched between the Aces
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Ryan Plunkett Multiple Cull Control
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Dribble Jog dribbling cards on top of deck with jog
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Hal. Merton Mahatma Control
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Looy Simonoff Flippant with single card
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Syd Segal Two, Two, Two Tricks in One! finale for Collectors in which the three selections transpose with the four-of-a-kind that's bin distributed on top of the tabled spread deck
Inspired byAlso published here
  • DVD "Simply Sydney" (2008, D&D)
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Ditch on Spread
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Ryan Plunkett Dual Thought two cards lost and found under "test conditions"
Inspired by 38
Ryan Plunkett Shuffleupagus deck shuffled by two spectators, then shown to be almost separated into red and blacks, now in new deck order
Inspired byVariations 40
Ryan Plunkett Shuffleupagus Redux deck is shuffled and shown to be mixed, shuffled again, placed in box. When taken out, deck is in new deck order (in the hands routine, no table required)
Inspired by 49
Nancy Colwell Pseudo Riffle Stacking Pseudo riffle stacking demo, with deck separated into red/black as kicker
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Frank Fogg Out Of This Spread Cards that spectator select will always be of opposite color from magician's selections
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Charles Nyquist Ribbon Spread Hideout with faroed deck
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Ryan Plunkett A Satisfying Sequence Getting a card turned end for end and returned reversed in the deck, out of magician's hands
Related to 58
Ryan Plunkett Cherry Control Variation Cherry Control with Stripper Deck
Inspired by 59
Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman Stay Stack: An Introduction Describing the basics of Stay Stacks
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Ryan Plunkett Twin Peeks Know which card spectator is peeking at during riffle peek
Related to 64
Kick Count moving break one card higher
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Ryan Plunkett Subtleties displays for a stripper deck in which every second card is secretly reversed
1. Spread Subtlety (in-the-hands spread with ribbon-spread hide-out)
2. Riffle Subtlety
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Ryan Plunkett The Nearly Final Countdown Spectator peeks at card, mates appear at same position in two halves
Related to 76
Ryan Plunkett Ode to Rusduck card and location divined by magician
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Edward Marlo Incomplete Faro Control
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Michael Feldman The Complete Faro Control doing Marlo's Incomplete Faro Control with tapered deck from squared condition
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Edward Boswell Color Shift Deck changes color from blue to red, except selection which remains blue
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Nancy Colwell Rotator Shifts how to secretly turn a card/packet end for end for use in a tapered deck routine
  • Method One
  • Method Two (based on Nathan's "Long-Fingered Half Pass")
  • Method Three
Inspired byRelated to 93
Nancy Colwell Hofzinser's Suit Selection Spectator selects card from a packet of random cards, all the cards change to match the suit of the selection, Ace to King
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Michael Feldman Cutting High Magician always cuts to high card, spectator always to a low card
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Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman Triumph: An Introduction
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Brian O'Neill Trick Play Spectator's thought of card is found reversed in deck. Deck is shuffled face up/down, end with Triumph ending
Inspired by 113
Ryan Plunkett The Hallucinogenic Shuffle As deck is shuffled, more and more face up cards appear. Selection made, lost, dead cut to selection, then deck is all face down
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Ryan Plunkett Flash Triumph Clean handling of Triumph, selection appears in deck suddenly after all cards shown to have turned face down first
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End-Turnover Reverse deck turned over on top of cards in left hand cop position
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Lance Pierce, Charles T. Jordan A Tactile Location tapered deck used as open index
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Michael Feldman The Law of Conservation of Bullsh*t Packet mixed face up/down transposes with face down packet repeatedly, then later both packets shown to have all backs, then later returned to normal
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Michael Feldman Dangerous Bonus stripper deck face-up/face-down, cards pulled out and faro-fan made as display
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Harapan Ong The Incomplete Strip-Out stripping cards out from a tapered deck with an unsquared deck
  • Shuffle stacking sandwich demo: shuffling selection between two Jokers
  • Full deck red-black separation
  • Oil and Water: Spectator separates the colors themselves
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Ryan Plunkett, Michael Feldman Epilogue
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Data entered by Harapan Ong & Denis Behr.