The Royal Road to Card Magic

1948
Written by Frederick Braue, Jean Hugard
Work of Various
292 pages (Paperback), published by Dover Publications
Illustrated with drawings by Francis J. Rigney
Language: English
177 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Unknown The Overhand Shuffle
3
Unknown Controling the Top Card
5
Unknown Controling the Bottom Card
6
Unknown Retaining the Top and Bottom Card in Position
6
Unknown The Run single card run
 		7
Unknown Top Card next to bottom Card and back to the top
7
Unknown The Injog basic handling for overhand shuffle
 		8
Unknown The Undercut cutting to the Injog
 		8
Unknown Overhand Shuffle Control
9
Unknown Overhand False Shuffle
10
Unknown Topsy-Turvy Cards
13
Unknown Bottom Reverse bottom card stays in place as deck is turned over
 		14
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve crude handling
 		14
Unknown A Poker Player's Picnic no-touch, little bit of dealing involved
Related toVariationsAlso published here 16
Unknown Open Cull while looking through the deck, crude
Variations 16
Unknown A Pocket Discovery deck in pocket, card produced at named number
 		18
Unknown Telepathy Plus one of five, simple
 		21
Unknown Thought Stealer progressive set up
Variations 23
Unknown Pinkie does it
25
Unknown A Card and a Number card is found at number which was "dealt" by spectator before
 		26
Unknown The Riffle Shuffle
28
Unknown Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck
30
Unknown Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards
30
Unknown Riffle Shuffle in the Air
31
Unknown An Instinct for Cards one suit in order
Variations 32
Jack McMillen Mirror of the Mind suit together
 		34
Unknown Ultra Card Divination 34. position, ten backwards count
 		35
Unknown Displaying the Top Card three handlings
 		37
Unknown The Ruffle riffling one-handed, two-handed and with single card
 		39
Unknown The Click bottom card click
 		41
Unknown Spread and Turnover on cloth-covered table & bare table
 		42
Unknown Springing the Cards
44
Unknown Gathering the Ribbon-Spread Pack
45
Unknown A Flourish Count
46
Unknown Throwing a Card
47
Unknown Waterfall Shuffle
48
Unknown The Fan
49
Unknown One-Hand Fan wide type
 		50
Unknown Thumb Fan
51
Unknown Pressure Fan
52
Unknown The Glide
53
Unknown Design for Laughter
Related toVariations 54
Unknown The Observation Test
Variations 56
Unknown Bottom-Card Glimpse three methods
 		59
Unknown Top-Card Glimpse I
61
Unknown Fan Peek glimpsing a card in center of small packet fan
 		62
Unknown Gray's Spelling Trick
63
Unknown Round and Round down-under-deal
Related to 66
Unknown The Key Undercut see also applications
 		69
Unknown Key Undercut Shuffle shuffling after placement
 		69
Unknown Do as I Do
70
Paul Rosini The Three Piles key card
 		71
Unknown The Twenty-Sixth Card remote key
Variations 73
Unknown Remote Key
73
Unknown A Meeting of the Minds remote key, alomst challenge
 		74
Unknown The Non-Poker Voice no-touch, suit
 		76
Unknown Intuition with Cards two card initialed, spectator and magician each chose them
 		78
Unknown Sliding Key Card under-spread placement
 		80
Unknown Top Palm, I (Single Card)
83
Unknown Top Palm, II (Several Cards)
86
Unknown Palm Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
 		88
Unknown Replacing Palmed Cards two methods
 		88
Unknown Card in the Pocket from top stock
 		90
Unknown Flying Palm card is thumbed off and palmed... context
 		91
Unknown Now You See It! palm section
Related to 92
Unknown one of four
94
Unknown Grab-Bag Card cards are withdrawn from packet, remaining card is selection
 		96
Unknown Good-Luck Card magician sits on card
 		98
Unknown Do it and Fail red black dealing sequence
 		100
Unknown Gathering of the Clan Nomad style
 		102
Unknown Spring Catch
105
Unknown A Vested Interest actually card to vest
 		105
Unknown Piano Trick
106
Unknown The Backslip slip cut right side
 		109
Unknown Backslip Control
110
Unknown Backslip Force slip type
 		110
Unknown Lightning Card
111
Unknown The Tantalizer twenty-second position and packet dealing
Related toVariations 112
Unknown Under Your Hat
114
Unknown Injog and Break
116
Unknown Overhand Break Control
117
Unknown Overhand Lift Shuffle
117
Unknown Lift Shuffle Force
119
Unknown Spread and Break securing a break at selection
 		120
Unknown Holding a Break
121
Unknown Spread and Break Control getting in Overhand Shuffle Position
 		122
Unknown The Sevens
Related to 123
Unknown Obliging Aces
125
Unknown Leapfrog leaps into view
 		126
Unknown Spectator's Card Trick
127
Edward Marlo, Martin Gardner A Poker Puzzle
Related to 129
Charlier Charlier Shuffle
131
Unknown Optical Shuffle
131
Unknown The Cut several methods
 		133
Unknown Second Method
134
Unknown Third Method
134
Unknown Fourth Method
135
Unknown An Incomprehensible Divination small packet challenge location
 		136
Unknown Palm Cut
136
Unknown Circus Card Trick "the next card I turn over..."
 		138
Unknown Black Jack, Detective two cards come together in the pack
 		139
Unknown The Double Lift and Turnover
141
Unknown Double-Lift Glimpse
143
Unknown Double-Lift Reverses three methods
 		144
Unknown Rapid Transit
145
Unknown The Trey transforming card into "tray"
 		146
Unknown Ambitious Card including push-through sequence
 		147
Unknown Throughth and Consequences
150
Unknown Insidious Dr. Fu Liu Tu offbeat presentation
 		151
Unknown The Pass
154
Unknown Riffle Pass
156
Unknown Off Agin, On Agin, Finnegin! card vanishs and reappeares via pass
 		157
Unknown Spread Pass classic style
 		157
Unknown Spring Pass
157
Unknown Kangaroo Card jumpes out of hat
Related to 159
Unknown Righting a Wrong little bit different effect
 		160
Unknown Blindfolded Pack tabled
 		161
Unknown Double Speller
163
Unknown Color Change
166
Unknown Double Color Change two cards simultaneously
 		167
Unknown The Changing Card
168
Unknown Self-Cutting Deck
169
Unknown A Pretty Cut
171
Unknown Pop-Up Card
171
Unknown A Bit of Byplay
172
Charlier Charlier Cut
172
Unknown Acrobatic Aces aces come to top and bottom via charlier cut
 		173
Unknown Reverses different methods
Related toAlso published here 177
Unknown Reversed Location using a reversed card
 		180
Unknown Spellbound
181
Sid Lorraine A Tipsy Trick slop shuffle
 		183
Unknown Double Reverse
185
Unknown Mentalivity
186
Unknown Mountebank Miracle kind of thought-of-procedure
 		188
Unknown Hindu Shuffle
190
Unknown Hindu Shuffle Control
191
Unknown Hindu Shuffle Control
192
Unknown Hindu Shuffle Force
193
Unknown Hindu Shuffle Glimpse
194
Unknown Natural Jog
195
Unknown The Step hindu shuffle context
 		195
Unknown Twelve-Down Riffle as card is returned
 		196
Unknown All Change Here Hindu Shuffle
 		197
Unknown Ewephindit
200
Unknown The Classic Force
201
Unknown One-Hand Force exposing a card in fan
Related to 204
Unknown Bottom Force spectator cuts from bottom, deck in magician's hands
 		205
Unknown Slide-Out Force knive
 		206
Unknown Two-Card Force
207
Unknown Riffle-Break Force
208
Unknown Sliding-Key Force
209
Unknown Double-Lift Force
210
Unknown Cut Force criss cross
 		210
Unknown Justice Card Trick Card is found blindfolded
 		211
Unknown Fours of a Kind dunbury delusion presentation
 		213
Unknown Pulse Trick divination by performer and spectator
 		214
Unknown Top Change
216
Unknown The Changing Card top change
 		218
Unknown Top-Change Byplay
220
Unknown Bottom Change
221
Unknown Top and Bottom Changes handling tips
 		222
Unknown The Selective Touch finding matching cards from pocket for any named card, binary four card set-up that combines to any card
Variations 225
Unknown A Future in Cards one of five
 		227
Unknown Jacks Wild
228
Unknown Think Stop
229
Unknown Deal Away
231
Unknown The Educated Cards
232
Unknown Reds and Blacks divided pack
 		234
Unknown Conus Ace Trick Aces transform in spectator's hand, travel to his pocket
 		249
Unknown Ladies' Looking Glass
255
Unknown Everywhere and Nowhere
260
Unknown Egyptian Pocket combo
 		263
Unknown Cards to Pocket ten cards
 		268
Unknown Enlarging and Diminishing Cards classic fan technique
Related to 276
Unknown Three Card Across
278
Unknown Everybody's Card, I transforms into four chosen cards, platform
Related to 281
Unknown Everybody's Card, II transforms into 3 chosen cards, platform
 		286
Data entered by Denis Behr.