Deceptive Practices

see also Supplement and Typecast
1992
Written by Karl Fulves
Work of Karl Fulves
83 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt
Language: English
52 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Karl Fulves Introduction
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Karl Fulves Change X Change two chosen numbers via dice are counted down and a value of the other number is found in each case, selection found as well
Inspired byRelated to 3
Karl Fulves Don't Ask repeat poker deal for two players, spectator wins and loses in final round
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Karl Fulves Wire Room packet placed in case, selection paper clipped to top of case, cards removed until stopped, this card is forced and matches clipped selection, two methods
Related to 7
Karl Fulves Bottom Deal from Case
9
Karl Fulves Gnomenclature with some references for the plot
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Karl Fulves Juliet packet trick in which a card is signed with heart, it vanishes, card changes back and heart reappears
 		14
Karl Fulves Fly by Wire card paper clipped to case as prediction, card chosen from cased cards matches prediction, clip vanishes an reappears at mates with other color
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Jack Miller Momentum Sleeving any small object
 		18
Karl Fulves Median card predicted by 2 other cards - its value must be between the prediction cards, in second phase one of the prediction cards vanishes to make it fit
 		19
Karl Fulves Letter of Intent one of three envelopes chosen by exchanging number cards and adding some, number range force
 		20
Karl Fulves Bar Room Bingo cards distributed in six glasses, two glasses selected, aim is to get near 14 but not over
 		22
Karl Fulves The Parallel Police spectator choses card from eight-card packet and mixes the Jacks into packet with procedure, performer finds card without looking at any faces
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Karl Fulves Face Value cards shuffled face-up/face-down, cards dealt into performers hand until he calls stop, number of face-down cards then equals face-up cards
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Karl Fulves A trick fragment predicting that all pairs come off with a red and a black card after riffle shuffle in off-beat way
 		26
Karl Fulves Push Thru Poker two Twos and an Ace shown in spread, Twos pushed through other two cards one by one, then change into Aces
Inspired by 27
Karl Fulves AKA card selected, then pages in a dictionary are selected with card values, words are encircled on the pages and with those the performer divines the selection
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Karl Fulves Wire Copy paper-clipped AS in center changes into selection
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Karl Fulves Baby Grand Piano Trick, with red and black packet
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Karl Fulves Blue Note Piano Trick, with red and black packet and odd-packet traveling card
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Karl Fulves Red Shift count forcing a Two, jokers from beginning change in Twos to indicate value and position (22) of selection
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Karl Fulves Future Glimpsed spectator choses two cards, they're aces, other aces are face-up in deck
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Henry Christ Henry Christ Force
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Karl Fulves Diamond Jack Jr. selection in one half is at same position as detective card in other half, story really improvised with eight cards
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Karl Fulves Background
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Karl Fulves Overhand Shuffle Placement card under x cards
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Karl Fulves A Trap Cut sandwiched card in deck turns out to be later selection
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Karl Fulves Transfer of Power Aces cut into deck, rubber band around deck, it disappears and traps Aces in center
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Karl Fulves Yumpin' Yake jacks cut into packet, rubber band around packet vanishes and traps jacks with previous selection
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Karl Fulves A-B-C-D four piles, pile A dealt to A-B-C-D position, same with the others, problem about distribution after deal
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Karl Fulves Counterfeit seven high red and one low black cards shuffled, performer claims to weigh out the odd card in several stages, it's red and all other cards changed to black
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Karl Fulves Balancing Act spectator places some blacks in pocket, performer places some more there, number of pocketed blacks equals number of reds in a packet, varied repeat
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Karl Fulves Second Approach Miraskill-type effect, but repeat has different outcome with same make-up of cards
Inspired byRelated to 51
Karl Fulves An anti-Miraskil card problem Miraskill-Gilbreath-combination posed as problem
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Karl Fulves Breakaway Palm top card palmed either in right hand, or held in unusual clip position between left fingers for color change application
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Karl Fulves Wire Service paper clip transferred from AS to other card which then changes into AS
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Karl Fulves Switchblade case held with deck in kind of switchblade knife position, selection travels into case, posed as problem
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Karl Fulves Blindfold Aces Aces arranged into a ten-card-packet by spectator, performer deals three hands and gets three Aces, three methods
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Dave Ossip Double Cut as Stacking
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Karl Fulves Wrong Way William named ace should turn over, but instead three kings turn over and named ace is only card left face-down, two methods
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Karl Fulves Background credit information
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Karl Fulves Legal Tender card found by spelling words on dollar bill
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Karl Fulves, Charles T. Jordan The Jordan Double Cut
Inspired by 67
Karl Fulves By Proxy prediction card reversed on top of face-up deck turns out to be later selection
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Karl Fulves Self Cutting Deck getting the deck to cut itself when wrapped with rubber band, posed as problem
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Karl Fulves Zodiac Sell card chosen in spectator's hands, another card turns face-up, ZODIAC is spelled to find selection
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Karl Fulves Turnover Draw two cards chosen by spectator, AH sandwiched and sandwich cut in deck, with cards on either side it forms a Royal Flush, Henry Christ Force handling
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Karl Fulves A Martian Chronicle
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Karl Fulves Mira, Mira Miraskill variations and problems, final pair's condition named
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Karl Fulves Etaoin Shrdlu card divined via messy words typed on typewriter
Inspired byRelated to 77
Karl Fulves Witness six spectators with cards and pens, one of them writes an X on his card behind performers back, those with red cards must speak truth, black must lie, performer finds murderer
Inspired byRelated toVariationsAlso published here 78
Sam Schwartz Partner in Crime version of "Witness" in which criminal has a partner
Inspired byRelated to 80
Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2016.