Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards

Plus Games of Solitaire

Book
1949
Written by Joseph Leeming
Work of Joseph Leeming
112 pages (Hardcover), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
87 entries
Cover photograph
Tricks and Stunts With Playing Cards (written by Joseph Leeming, work of Joseph Leeming, 1949)
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Joseph Leeming How We Got Our Pack of Cards History of playing cards
 		1
Tossing Cards Into a Hat Technique taught for tossing cards into a hat accurately
 		7
Magnetizing A Card Sticking a playing card to a wall with static electricity
 		8
The Five Touching Cards Challenge audience to arrange five cards so that each card is touching the other four
 		8
An Amusing Card Catch Five cards arranged on table. Remove two cards, add three cards to get the same arrangement of cards
 		9
The Six-Card Lift Interlock six cards together so they can be picked up together
 		10
The Old Army Game Which two Jacks were rejected by the American Army? (one-eyed)
 		10
A Surprising Card Deal Down Under Deal on eight cards, result in a row of cards alternating face card and spot card
 		11
One Card Under The Other How to hold a card under a King on the table, without moving the King
 		12
The Master Aim How to drop a card into a hat without the card fluttering away
 		12
To Make Four Fives Equal 16 Lay four Fives on the table so they total sixteen
 		13
The Thirty-Card Race Spectator and magician pick up one to six cards from a pile of thirty, last person to take a card wins, magician always wins
 		13
The One-Two-Three Card Race fifteen cards, take turns taking one, two or three cards, takes the last card is loser. Magician always wins
 		14
Making a Card Invisible Challenge: make a card invisible to one person, but visible to everyone else
 		14
Standing A Card On Edge 15
The Whispering Queen Queen of Hearts whispers to you identity of person who was secretly chosen by audience when you left the room
 		15
You Can't Lose Predict that when spectator's cards and magician's cards are added together, there will be an even number or odd number
 		16
Coin On Card Stunt Balance card and coin on finger, flick card out under the coin
 		16
Card Cross Stunt Six cards used, form two rows of cards with four cards in each row
 		17
All In Order Down Under Deal on thirteen cards, get Ace to King in order
 		18
A Baffling Card Stunt The Trick That Fooled Einstein with cards
 		18
What's On Your Mind? Six cards dealt to two people, each person get three cards - spectator always gets three Queens (spectator always thinking about women?)
 		19
The Elevens Stunt Mathematical stunt, place three cards on table, numbers can always be divided by eleven
 		20
Building Card Castles 21
Spelling Bee Spell Ace, Two, Three... by moving cards to bottom of the packet one by one, each time getting the Ace, Two and so on
 		22
Telling a Chosen Card Divine value of playing card via mathematical method (multiply by three, add six, divide by three)
 		25
The Reversed Card Spectator reverses any card in a row of five cards (end for end) while magician's back is turned, magician can tell which card is turned
 		25
Cut The Pack Cross Cut Force
 		26
The Lie-Detector Trick Simple card divination with lie detecting premise
 		27
Instantaneous Reversal Seven of Clubs and Eight of Spades placed in deck, instantly reverses in deck
 		28
Mystic Tappit Clock Trick type of routine
 		29
Sure Way to Find a Chosen Card Basic key card location of selection
 		30
Four-Ace Production Deck placed in pocket, can extract and locate four Aces
 		30
The Three Friendly Queens One Queen on top, one Queen in middle, one queen on bottom. The deck is cut, all three queens are together in the deck
 		31
The Three-Card Answer Mathematical number divination with playing cards
 		31
A Famous Four-Ace Trick One Ace placed on top, one Ace placed on bottom, two Aces placed in middle of the deck. They assemble together in the middle.
 		32
The Great "Stop!" Trick 33
Magic Card Revelation Pull out cards from pocket that always add to selected card
 		34
Instant Card Location Two halves, cards selected in one half replaced in the other, easily located
 		34
Hit The Deck Weird card location with key card
 		35
The Mahatma Marvel Card Trick Location with spectator dealing and distant key card
 		35
Miracle Spot Revelation Divine number of spots on card, very procedural and mathematical
 		36
Changing The Rows 41
The Add-To-18 Puzzle 42
Three-In-A-Row 43
The Sixteen-Card Puzzle 43
Alternate Cards 43
The Five-Kings Puzzle 43
The Noble Lords and the Commoners 44
Tricky Triangle 45
Face-Up 46
The Star Puzzle 46
The Jealous Kings 46
The Hourglass Puzzle 47
The Eighteen-Card Circle 48
A Card Brain-Twister 49
How Can This Be? 49
Card Pickup Puzzle 50
Turn Over All But One 51
The Give-and-Take Puzzle 51
Odd Or Even? 52
The Twenty-Four Card Puzzle 52
Silly Sam's Pack of Cards 54
The Reverse-Order Puzzle 54
Card Leapfrog Puzzle 55
Put-Them-In-Order Puzzle 56
Ace-Two-Three-Four Puzzle 57
Canfield 77
Klondike 80
Elevens 83
Perpetual Motion 83
Even Up 85
Beehive 85
Gaps 87
Roll Call or Talkative 88
Idle Year 89
Round the Clock 90
Pirate Gold 91
Lazy Boy 93
Auld Lang Syne 94
Grandfather's Clock 95
Idiot's Delight 97
Streets and Alleys 99
Royal Marriage 101
Hidden Cards 102
Fifteens 104
Ten of Clubs 106
Data entered by Harapan Ong, April 2017.