Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge in the Hands

A Manual on Flourishes and the Art of Manipulating Cards

2001
Written by Dan Buck, Dave Buck
Work of Dan Buck, Dave Buck
60 pages (Paperback), published by DMB Publications
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
56 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Ricky Smith Introduction
7
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Forward
8
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Carney fooled Hugard four red cards transpose with four black cards
 		10
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Card to Mouth spectator pushed card flush, then card is seen dangling from the mouth by corner
Also published here 11
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Extended Floop double card spun out of center with top half in right-hand end grip
Inspired byAlso published here 11
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Card Across card pushed into one half visually appears out-jogged from other half
Inspired by
  • "Back to the D.E.C.K." (Aaron Fisher, video Card Freak)
Also published here 		12
Dan Buck, Dave Buck As a Control Extended Floop as control
 		13
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Another Sandwich card instantly appears between sandwich in deck, loading move
 		13
Dan Buck, Dave Buck "Is this your Card" wrong card tabled face down, it later is shown to be selection, lapping top card of tabled double
Related to 14
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Exchange Second Deal card in LTP is switched in while dealt card is palmed in LTP
Inspired by
  • "Exchange Second Deal" (Ricky Smith)
 16
LTP Deal Steal double dealt to table, bottom card stolen into LTP
 		16
Dan Buck, Dave Buck D.M.B. Spread Control out-jogged card switched as in-the-hands spread is lowered
VariationsAlso published here 17
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Ambitious Lateral Steal top card of deck out-jogged and apparently taken with right hand, lateral palmed card is switched in
 		19
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Finesse on Lateral Steal
Inspired by
  • "Lateral Steal" (Lennart Green, Green Magic video)
 19
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Center Switch top change with in-jogged card in center
 		20
Dan Buck, Dave Buck One Handed Lateral Palm off the top of the deck, also as color change
 		20
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Finding the Aces four-of-a-kind found while dealing through shuffled deck, doing face-up push-off second deals and glimpsing next card, also for vanishing named card(s)
 		21
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Helicopter Doubles double spins from one hand to the other, two methods
 		21
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Bounce up Double top card tabled and it slides forward
Inspired by 22
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Amend top card of tabled double stolen off
 		23
Dan Buck, Dave Buck One Card Flourish top card of deck dances around between both thumbs
 		25
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Fan Flourish deck wobbles around thumb and index finger as soon as fan is closed
 		25
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Two-card production top two cards produced at once, starts with strike second deal
Related toVariations 25
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Bottom Shot bottom cards of deck shoot out one by one
 		26
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Boomerang Deck deck thrown and caught as a block
 		26
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Shuffled Aces Freeman Display, during in-the-hands riffle shuffle
Related toVariationsAlso published here 28
Dan Buck, Dave Buck, Ashford Kneitel A.K. Nightmare four Aces held in hands, they move into pretty display, two methods
 		28
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Another Ace Production in-the-hands
 		30
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Expeditiousness in-the-hands
Variations 31
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Molecular Aces in-the-hands
 		32
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Day Dreaming in-the-hands
 		33
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Apparition Aces in-the-hands
 		34
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Brooklyn Bridge Production tabled
 		35
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Las Vegas Strip tabled, also as an effect to reveal a selection as well
 		35
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Sudden Impact tabled
 		36
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Pandemonium at the card table tabled
Related toVariations 37
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Formality three packets
 		40
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Kryptonite false one-handed triple flourish cut, see Nursery Rhymes 2 for corrected description and credit information
Also published here 41
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Air Born top half flies into other hand
Inspired by 42
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Zero Gravity top half turns over and then is spun up, one-handed
 		42
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Kick Flip three packets
 		42
Brian Tudor Revolution Cut Charlier cut in which one half spins 180°
Also published here
  • video Show Off
 43
Dan Buck, Dave Buck CO2 three packets
 		43
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Sonic top half thrown up and caught under lower half
 		44
Dan Buck, Dave Buck 360° cut two packets, one half spins
 		44
Herb Zarrow Z grip starting position for following cuts
 		44
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Variation on Z grip
45
Variation on Spin City
45
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Three Packet False Cut
46
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Molecule three packets
Related toVariations 47
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Leno Cut involving display with many packets
 		48
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Madonna involving display with many packets
Inspired by
  • "Bad Habit" (Brian Tudor, video Show Off)
 50
Dan Buck, Dave Buck The Hurricane involving display with many packets
 		52
Dan Buck, Dave Buck West Coast Chaos four packets
Variations 53
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Genesis real or false
Inspired by 54
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Epilogue "The Psychology of Flourishes"
 		55
Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2020.