Smith, Al

Book

1980
Written by Al Smith
Work of Al Smith

41 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Les Johnson
Language: English

31 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Walt Lees (Pabular, Vol. 6 No. 7, July 1980, p. 881)
Jeff Busby (Epoptica, Issue 1, May 1982, p. 49)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Al Smith	Court Card Connexion	picture cards shown to be mixed, then later all paired up in mates	Also published here Al Smith's Version (Al Smith, The Card Magic of Nick Trost, 1997) Inspired by Matched Picture Cards (Nick Trost, Stewart Judah, Subtle Card Magic — Part Two, 1976) also in: Matched Picture Cards (The Card Magic of Nick Trost, 1997) Related to Al Smith's earlier handling in Abra #1768 Matched Picture Cards (Nick Trost, Stewart Judah, Subtle Card Magic — Part Two, 1976) also in: Matched Picture Cards (The Card Magic of Nick Trost, 1997) Variations Bonus Era Court Card Connexion (Al Smith, Hot Stacks & Cold Decks, 1991) Puzzling ESP Pairs (Nick Trost, Subtle Card Creations — Volume 7, 2019)	1	Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Complete Matching / Packets
Al Smith	Cross Over Aces	using pick-up from wrong packets	Also published here Cross Over Aces (Al Smith, The Talon, 1978) Related to Notes (David Britland, The Talon, 1979) Three-Second Wonder (Gary Ouellet, Apocalypse, 1987) also in: Three Second Wonder (Close Up Illusions, 1990) Three Second Wonder (A Dream of Aces, 1993) … and 1 more Variations Shuffle Cut Aces (David Britland, Genii, 2019) The News Force (Steve Beam, Smokers, 2021) … and 1 more	2	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Magician cuts to the Aces / Tabled
Al Smith	Stebbinside	unknown card pocketed by spectator, another card is sandwiched via faro, it's the mate	Inspired by "Si Stebbins Hits The Trail" (Al Smith, Abra)	3	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Super-Senses / Memory / Naming missing card(s) Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Cyclical & Tetradistic Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Power Stack (26-Apart-Stack) / Full Deck
Al Smith	Tradacez		Inspired by Heavy Metal Aces (Al Smith, The Talon, 1980)	5	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Slow Motion
	Biddle Steal			5	Cards / Sleights / Switches / Special Techniques for stealing Cards back to Deck
Al Smith	Combo	intro to a collection of sandwich effects		7	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Al Smith	Combo: One	spectator places reversed card in center, performer cuts tabled deck, card below reversed card is mated of reversed card	Inspired by Mated! (Harry Lorayne, Close-up Card Magic, 1962)	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates
Al Smith	Combo: Two	spectator stabs a King into the deck between two other Kings	Related to Stabbed Coincidence (Larry Jennings, Stabbed Coincidence, 1976) also in: Stabbed Coincidence (Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy, 2020)	8	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stabbing Routines / In the Deck
Larry Jennings	Business Card Prophecy Move Handling	for credit information see Busby review	Related to Cards on Demand (Jeff Busby, Al Smith, Epoptica, 1982)	9	Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Business Card Prophecy
Al Smith	Combo: Three	card travels to tabled sandwich, it is removed and lost in deck and travels to sandwich again		10	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
	Standard Sandwich Load			10	Cards / Sleights / Sandwich Loading Techniques
Al Smith	Combo: Four	card travels from between black Kings to red Kings, using deck		11	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
Al Smith	Combo: Five	simplified Visitor		12	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Visitor
Al Smith	Perpetual Ginsberg	four Ace production using the poke action	Inspired by Ginsburg Poke (Dai Vernon, Inner Secrets of Card Magic, 1959) also in: Vernon's Ginsburg Poke (Einige Griffe der Kartomagie, 1976 ca.) Related to Production Move (Al Smith, Pabular, 1983) Poke Poker (Marty Kane, Apocalypse, 1991) Variations Tipping Point (John Guastaferro, The N^th Degree°, 2023)	14	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Revelations without "pop" Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Al Smith	Cut:22	two card revelation using cut deeper force	Inspired by "Quadruple Profit" (Dave Solomon, Sticks and Stones No. 7)	16	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Force / Cut Forces / Cut-Deeper Force
Al Smith	The Smith Shift		Also published here The SMITH Shift (Al Smith, The Talon, 1979) Inspired by Simple Shift (Edward Marlo, The Cardician, 1953)	17	Cards / Principles / Plunger Principle Cards / Sleights / Controls / Multiple Shifts / Active / Cut Controls
Al Smith	Surprise Ambush	collectors with odd-backed collector cards, duplicate	Inspired by Surprise Collectors (Jim Surprise, Card Cavalcade, 1972)	20	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Collectors
Edward Marlo	ATFUS			20	Cards / Sleights / Switches / ATFUS & Variations
Al Smith	On Duplicates	having one in every deck		22	Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Miscellaneous
Al Smith	Trio	two cards chosen from one deck are located with an indicator card chosen from another deck	Inspired by Fourtitude (Harry Lorayne, The New Phoenix, 1954) also in: Fourtitude (Close-up Card Magic, 1962) Fourtitude (The Magic Menu, 1994) The Spectator Locates (Harry Lorayne, The Magic Book, 1977)	22	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Al Smith	P.C. Change		Also published here Twitch Switch (Al Smith, Wayne Dobson, The Talon, 1981) also in: Twitch Switch (Al Smith, Wayne Dobson, Spell-Binder, 1984) The Flip-flop Change (Father Cyprian, Al Smith, Card College — Volume 3, 1998) Related to P.C. Change (Al Smith, Cards On Demand, 1980) also in: Twitch Switch (The Talon, 1981) Twitch Switch (Spell-Binder, 1984) … and 1 more About the Illogical Double Lift, Latest K.M. Move, P.C. Change, and Tilted and Turned (Jon Racherbaumer, Swipe, 1992) Variations Expertalk: Kris Nevling on the P.C. Change (Kris Nevling, MAGIC, 2011) also in: Expertalk: Kris Nevling on the P.C. Change (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	24	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / K.M. Move
Al Smith	Kace	two-phase transposition of two cards, one in the case	Inspired by Everyman Cards, 1979 also in: Eingekastelt (Jedermanns Karten + Drei Knüller, 1980)	25	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / Normal Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Facer / Different Faces
Al Smith	WBD - Well Behaved Deck	in the hands		28	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Classic Effect (with or without selections)
Al Smith	WATA - Where Are The Aces?	Collins Aces, spelling finish	Inspired by Aces for Connoisseurs (Stanley Collins, Cy Endfield, Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic — Part II, 1955) Where Have All the Aces Gone? (Al Smith, Pabular, 1979)	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Collins Ace Routine Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Four-of-a-Kind
Al Smith	Senior Control	overhand lift shuffle handling		32	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / False / Partial
Al Smith	Botstok	overhand lift shuffle for bottom stock		34	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / False / Partial
Al Smith	Adding Cards	placing certain number of cards above top stock with lift overhand shuffle		35	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Shuffle Placement Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Transfers & Displacements
Al Smith	Magic Countdown	spectator remembers card and its position, after a shuffle it is no longer in its position but spelled with word "MAGIC", faro		36	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Al Smith	Jazlik	4&4	Inspired by Jazz Aces (Peter Kane, Another Card Session with Peter Kane, 1971) also in: Jazz Aces (Card Cavalcade II, 1974) Peter Kane's Jazz Aces (Packet Tricks, 1982) … and 1 more Jazz Aces (Hokus Pokus, 1990)	37	Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / Oil & Water / One Back Color
Al Smith	Gambit	small packet ambitious card routine with Ace through Four, all change to Aces as climax	Inspired by "Ace Opener" (Wayne Dobson, Third Notes)	39	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Small Packet Sequences & "Ambitious Classic"
Al Smith	Comments Credits Chatter			41	Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Denis Behr, June 2022.

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