General Comments

45 entries in Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / General Comments
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Professor Hoffmann Introducing a Stacked Deck
1890 More Magic 74
Unknown Delayed Stack Use starting with a trick that does not change order
 		May. 1895 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 1 No. 5) 76
Unknown The Prearranged Pack Principle
1935 Mental Magic with Cards 15
Unknown Shuffling a Stacked Deck short shuffle, credit to Stanyon's Magic
Also published here 1936 The Jinx (Issue 19) 108
Jean Hugard The Set-Up
1936 Card Manipulations (Issue 5) 146
Unknown To Know Which Card Has Been Selected cutting deck at selection and then sighting bottom card
 		1944 The Art of Illusion 48
John Mulholland Shuffling the Deck and A Trick in Connection Therewith to give impression that stacked deck was shuffled, have duplicate deck shuffled and card selected, switch in stacked deck and have card replaced, find card and continue with stacked deck
 		1944 The Art of Illusion 58
Unknown Shuffling a Stacked Deck short shuffle
Also published here 1944 Practical Mental Effects 19
Jean Hugard More Card Magic (Continued) brief introduction on stacks
  • The Eighth Overhand Shuffle
 		Jan. 1945 Hugard's Magic Monthly — Volumes I, II, III and IV (Vol. 2 No. 8) 94
Russell "Rusduck" Duck Re: Stacked Decks
1958 The Cardiste (Issue 7) 2
Jerry Mentzer Prearranged Decks chapter intro
 		1982 Simple yet Effective Tricks with Cards 29
T. Page Wright Chapter 7 - Card Effects Requiring Prearrangement
1991 Page Wright's Manuscript 179
Claude Rix Constitution d'un chapelet on different memorized decks
 		1995 Claude Rix et ses 52 partenaires 11
Claude Rix Comment s'entrainer? how to learn a memorized deck
 		1995 Claude Rix et ses 52 partenaires 19
Claude Rix Comment apprendre son chapelet on how to learn a memorized deck
 		1995 Claude Rix et ses 52 partenaires 22
Claude Rix Chapelet et mnémotechnique learning a memorized deck with mnemotechnique
 		1995 Claude Rix et ses 52 partenaires 23
Martin Joyal Differences Between a Stack, a System and a Memorized Stack
1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 1
Martin Joyal An Overview of Complete Deck Stacks
  • New Deck Stacks
  • Ordered Values Stacks
  • Ordered Suit Stacks
  • Grouped Value Stacks
  • Grouped Suit Stacks
  • Pair Stacks
  • Divided Stacks
    • The Red-black Divided Stack
    • The Mixed Suit Divided Stack
    • The High-low Divided Stack
    • The Curl-No-Curl Divided Stack
    • The Odd-even Divided Stack
    • The Odd-even Divided Stack with Mixed Colors
    • The Odd-even Divided Stack with Mixed Suits
    • The One-eyed and Two-eyed Divided Stack
  • Red-Black Stacks
  • Pointer Stacks
  • Reflected Stacks
  • Matched Setups
  • One-Two-Four-Eight Stacks
  • Forcing Stacks
    • Card-Forcing Stacks
    • Number-Forcing Stacks
    • Word-Forcing Stacks
  • Stacks used for Revelations
  • Counting and Spelling Stacks
  • Storytelling Stacks
  • Gambling Demonstration Stacks
  • Solitaire Stacks
  • Other Stacks
  • Summary
 		1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 5
Martin Joyal An Overview of Card Systems
  • System Categories
    • Sequential System Characteristics
    • Ordered System Characteristics
  • Overview of Systems
  • The New Deck System
  • The Grouped Value System
  • The Si Stebbins System
  • The Eight Kings System
  • The Stanyon System
  • The Joseph System
  • The Esscee Prearranged Pack
  • The Harding System
  • Jack's Pack
  • The Cornelius System
  • The Osterlind System
  • The Boudreau Systems
  • The No Memory Card Stack
  • The Lusthaus System
  • The Memory-deck
  • The Reymond System
  • The Wild System
  • Richard's Stack
 		1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 27
Martin Joyal An Overview of Memorized Stacks
  • Memorized Stack Characteristics
  • Overview of Memorized Stacks
  • The Nikola Stack
  • The Ireland Stack
  • The McCaffrey Stack
  • The Steele Stack
  • The Marlo Stack
  • The Skinner Stacks
  • The Aronson Stack
  • The Aldrich Stach
  • The Rix Stack
  • Summary
 		1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 49
Martin Joyal Looking at the Stack on memorizing decks
  • Replacing Mnemonics with Rules
  • The Difference Between a System and a Memorized Deck
  • Memorization Methods
  • Popular Memorized Stacks
  • An Easy Stack to Memorize
  • Learning with Mnemonics
  • Learning Using Rules
  • Order of Suits
  • Card Numbering
  • Learning Steps: Twelve Hours to Miracles
  • Practical Exercises
  • The Rule of Rules: Master and Do Not Forget
  • A Last Piece of Advice
 		1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 59
Martin Joyal Appendix B: The ShuffleMeter
  • A New Deck
  • Is Your Deck Shuffled?
  • A Well-Shuffled Deck
  • The ShuffleMeter
  • The Spreads
  • The Permutations
  • The Distributions
  • The Groups
  • The Breaks
  • The Shuffle Index
  • Sequence Comparison
 		1997 The Six-Hour Memorized Deck 205
Karl Fulves Suit Assignment terminology for next tricks
 		2004 When Psychics Play Poker 13
Karl Fulves Pictures For Numbers value substitution in stacks
 		2004 When Psychics Play Poker 14
Juan Tamariz The Memorized Deck: A Bit of History from the key card to Tamariz stack
 		2004 Mnemonica 5
Juan Tamariz Ultra-Rapid Memorization Question and Answers
  • 1. The Auditory Method
  • 2. The Visual Method
  • 3. The Muscular Method
  • 4. The Conceptual Method
  • 5. The Security Method
 		2004 Mnemonica 24
Juan Tamariz Mnemonica with the Spanish Deck or with Other Decks
2004 Mnemonica 253
Juan Tamariz The Half Stack with the Spanish Deck
2004 Mnemonica 253
Juan Tamariz Tricks That Don't Alter the Stack
2004 Mnemonica 269
Juan Tamariz Actions That Don't Alter the Order of the Deck While Appearing to Do So
  • a. Faro shuffles followed by antifaros
  • b. Eight faros (and other combinations)
  • c. Out-antifaros that add up to eight
  • d. A riffle shuffle done by the spectator followed by a cull
  • e. The "G"
  • f. Floursihes
  • g. All kinds of false cuts
  • h. As you deal cards one at a time
  • i. Most visual card revelations
  • j. The Charlier cut
  • k. Mnemonica and Strippers
  • l. Nonchalant handling
 		2004 Mnemonica 270
Juan Tamariz Resetting the Stack
  • A. Resetting One Card
  • B. Resetting Two Cards
  • C. Resetting a Group of Cards
  • D. Resetting the Stack after a Spectator's Riffle Shuffle
  • E. Resetting the Entire Stack After a Spectator's Overhand Shuffle
  • F. Resetting the Stack after a Riffle Shuffle Followed by an Overhand shuffle
  • G. Resetting the Half Stack
  • H. Resetting the Stack After Dealing Several Hands of Poker or Another Card Game
 		2004 Mnemonica 277
Denis Behr Finding the Way Home essay on stacked deck strategies and management
  • Possible strategies for rearranging cards systematically
Related to 2007 Handcrafted Card Magic 41
Jon Racherbaumer Note on Pre-Arranged Deck
2007 Marlo on Erdnase 213
Patrick Dessi Généralités on different stacked decks, cyclical and memorized decks
  • Le chapelet
  • Les différents types de chapelets
 		2009 Le chapelet Periodo-Aperiodique C-PAP 15
Patrick Page The PaPa System general remarks on stack decks, thoughts on Si Stebbins and Eight Kings and anecdotes of Charlie Edwards, Robert Harbin, David Berglas
 		2011 Magic Page by Page 78
Patrick Page Things You Should Know About a Stacked Deck on rotation / cyclic stacks
 		2011 Magic Page by Page 81
Patrick Page Handling a Stacked Deck. on shuffles and cuts
 		2011 Magic Page by Page 82
Tom Crosbie Other Stacks to Consider
  • Mnemonica - Juan Tamariz
  • Aronson - Simon Aronson
  • Card Kindergarten - Michael Weber
  • B. W. Instant Memorised Deck - Boris Wild
  • Memorised Breakthrough Card System - Richard Osterlind
 		2013 Just Be Croz 138
Garrett Thomas Don't Read Your Own Mind tips for working with a memorized deck
 		2013 Just Be Croz 199
Harapan Ong Memorized Decks: Frequently Asked Questions
  • What is a memorized deck?
  • Why should I learn a memorized deck?
  • Is it really that useful?
  • How do you memorize a deck of cards?
  • Which memorized deck should I learn?
 		2019 A Stack to Forget 4
Harapan Ong Tip #1: Use a deck of cards to help you memorize.
2019 A Stack to Forget 16
Harapan Ong Tip #2: Don't bite off more than you can chew.
2019 A Stack to Forget 18
Harapan Ong Tip #3: Use mini games to test your own memorization.
  • The Mixer Fixer
  • The Number Namer
  • The Imagination Indoctrination
  • The Faster Pass-ter Master
 		2019 A Stack to Forget 20
Harapan Ong A Short Word on Gambling Routines Why the stack has no gambling routines built in
Related to 2019 A Stack to Forget 34
Matt Baker Variations Part I (The Buena Vista Shuffle Club) Discussion on the memorized deck
 		2019 The Buena Vista Shuffle Club 59