Giobbi, Roberto

Book

2003
Written by Roberto Giobbi
Work of Various

318 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with drawings by Barbara Giobbi-Ebnöther
Language: English

86 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

David Regal (Genii, Vol. 66 No. 8, Aug. 2003, p. 89)
Michael Close (MAGIC, Vol. 12 No. 10, June 2003, p. 34)
Philip Reed Willmarth (Hokus Pokus, Vol. 65 No. 4 & 5, 2003, p. 34)
Roberto Giobbi (Hidden Agenda, Issue Apr 25, 2016, p. 120)
Roberto Giobbi (Hidden Agenda, Issue Aug 18, 2016, p. 238)

Card College — Volume 5 (written by Roberto Giobbi, work of Various, 2003)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	AA	Categories
John Carney	Foreword	Commencement Speech to Card College Graduates, Class of 2003		lxi		Articles / Intros & Epilogues Articles / Articles
Roberto Giobbi	Introduction to Volume 5			lxiii		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Roberto Giobbi	Versatile Jokers	Adding or Subtracting Special Cards Starting with Jokers and Special Cards in the Card Case Gimmicked Jokers Jokers and Simple Setups		1099		Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order Cards / Sleights / Case Things / Case as Holdout Cards / Sleights / Ditching Cards / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Additions / Miscellaneous
Edward Marlo, Tom Sellers	Credit Card Force	on joker		1102		Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Forcing Gaff Cards / Sleights / Force / Stabbing Force / Miscellaneous
Roberto Giobbi	Three-card Monte	idea of using the jokers for monte		1103		Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Roberto Giobbi, Fred Kaps	Twin Fools	selection jumps between two tabled jokers, second phase into card case		1104		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Cards traveling (from Sandwich) to Sandwich
	Gesture Replacement	on tabled cards		1105		Cards / Sleights / Palming / Classic Palm / Right Hand / Replacement
Trevor Lewis, Ken Krenzel	Monte Move		Related to Eight Against One (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 10, 2015)	1106		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Monte Throw & Switches
Edward Marlo	Card in Case Load			1108		Cards / Sleights / Case Things / Card to Case Techniques
Charlier	The Charlier Shuffle			1110		Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Charlier
Roberto Giobbi	The Overhand Lift Shuffle Run-up		Also published here SLOWR - Runup With Overhand Shuffle (Roberto Giobbi, MAGIC, 2001)	1113		Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking
Roberto Giobbi, Laurie Ireland, Charles T. Jordan	On the Red-black Overhand Shuffle	finesse to eliminate long single run	Also published here Ireland Red-Black Shuffle (Roberto Giobbi, MAGIC, 2001) also in: Red-Black Overhand Shuffle (Roberto Giobbi, Genii, 2008) Related to Red/Black Shuffle (Laurie Ireland, Darwin Ortiz, Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table, 1988)	1119		Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / False / Divided Deck
Roberto Giobbi	The Overhand Shuffle Glimpse			1122		Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Bottom or near Bottom
	The Gamblers' Bottom Card Glimpse			1123		Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Bottom or near Bottom
Roberto Giobbi, Juan Tamariz	Step-by-step Revelation	selection found, used to build a setup for next trick		1124		Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations
Roberto Giobbi, Juan Tamariz	Secret Setup	strategy for setting up small setups in front of an audience, with trick examples	Related to Set-Up in front of Spectators (Juan Tamariz, Scams & Fantasies with Cards, 2002) Openly Arranging Cards (Juan Tamariz, Jason Ladanye, Game Changer, 2018)	1125		Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Partial Stack (DONT USE THIS)
	Conjuror's Choice Procedure	three items		1126		Cards / Principles / Equivoque Random Object / Miscellaneous
Roberto Giobbi	Effect Using a Partial Deck	strategy for building small setups in front of an audience		1127		Cards / Sleights / Culling / Arranging the Order
Tony Kardyro, Henry Christ	Double Turnover from a Spread in the Hands			1129		Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
	The Snap-over Color Change			1133		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed
Roberto Giobbi	Obtaining a Duplicate of a Spectator's Signature	ruse to get duplicate signature, first attempt apparently smudged	Also published here Obtaining a Duplicate of a Spectator's Signature (Roberto Giobbi, Genii, 2003) Related to A Tool In The Toolbox (Brett Bishop, Deal or No Deal, 2008)	1134		Cards / Principles / Duplicates / Signed Duplicate
Herb Zarrow, Roberto Giobbi	A Psychological Test	spectator cuts deck into four piles, the top four cards match four prediction cards	Also published here Der Psychotest (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Inspired by "Matched Revolvers" (Herb Zarrow, Linking Ring, July 1977) Related to "The Translating Deck" (MUM, Sept. 1995) also in: Zarrow Translating Deck (The Magic of Johnny Thompson, 2018)	1139		Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Multiple Card Prediction Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Prediction in form of Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to the Aces
Roberto Giobbi	Strange Harmony	Giobbi's solution to problem 8, two handlings	Related to Strange Harmony (Roberto Giobbi, Card College Lighter, 2008)	1146		Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Hofzinser Problem Number 8
Dai Vernon	Vernon Transfer	brief		1150		Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Vernon Transfer
John Scarne, Roberto Giobbi	Affinity in Numbers	Prediction	Variations A Compatibility Test (Nick Trost, Subtle Card Creations — Volume 1, 2008)	1153		Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Number Prediction
Walter B. Gibson*, Roberto Giobbi, Harry Blackstone	The Happy Birthday Card Trick	card found by dealing to song lyrics, from Blackstone's Modern Card Tricks	Related to The Tune Detective (Theodore Annemann, SH-H-H--! It's A Secret, 1934) also in: The Tune Detective (The Living End*, 1972)	1157		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations
	Crocodile Technique	replacing a card to a special position, brief		1157		Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Passive Placement Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Spread Controls
Roberto Giobbi	The Quick Change Artists	Queens change one by one into Aces	Also published here Die Verwandlungskünstlerinnen (Roberto Giobbi, Fantasia in As-Dur, 1987) also in: The quick change artists (Roberto Giobbi, Opus, 1989)	1163		Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Father Cyprian, Al Smith	Flip Flop Change	time-delayed transformation		1164		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
	Side Steal Transfer	transferring bottom card to top		1165		Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Side Steals (not to palm!)
Frederick Braue, Roberto Giobbi	Braue Addition Handling	brief		1166		Cards / Sleights / Additions / from the Top of the deck
Roberto Giobbi	Biddle to Pinch Grip			1167		Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / Double Card Handlings
	Double Paintbrush Change	two cards		1168		Cards / Sleights / Color Change / Multiple Cards at the same time
Dai Vernon, Roberto Giobbi	Countdown Stop	1-x-1 set-up	Inspired by Vernon's Automatic Mento Stop Trick (Dai Vernon, Jacob Daley's Notebooks, 1972)	1170		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Roberto Giobbi	Pasteboard Blendo		Also published here Blendo (Roberto Giobbi, Lecture Notes, 1985) also in: Blendo (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Inspired by Cardician's Blendo (Paul Harris, Las Vegas Close-Up, 1978) also in: Cardician's Blendo (The Art of Astonishment — Book 1, 1996) Quick Change (Father Cyprian, The Elegant Card Magic of Father Cyprian, 1980)	1174		Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Fusion Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
	Two-Card Catch	see also page 1177		1175		Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed
Roberto Giobbi, Father Cyprian, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser	Coalaces	four aces change into single selection		1178		Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Topological Effects / Miscellaneous
	Spread ATFUS			1178		Cards / Sleights / Switches / ATFUS & Variations
Frank Thompson	Thompson's Aces			1183		Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Richard Vollmer, Roberto Giobbi	How Lucky Can You Get?			1188		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax
	Faro Slough-Off	brief		1188		Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Faro Shuffle / Partial Faro
Richard Vollmer, Allan Ackerman, Simon Aronson	The Cards of Destiny		Related to Lucky Gemini II (Nick Trost, Subtle Card Creations — Volume 4, 2013)	1192		Cards / Effect Themes / Mates / Mates Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator finds four of a kind Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Gemini Twins Placement
Frank Garcia	Sign of Four	production as deck is cut to table		1199		Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Tabled Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Frank Garcia	False Cut Sequence			1200		Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Complete / Hands & Table
Roberto Giobbi	Using "Sign of Four" to Close an Act	deck is sorted in new pack order after ace production		1202		Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Deck
Roberto Giobbi, Henry Christ	Study for Four Aces			1207		Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Christ Aces
Charlie Miller, Roberto Giobbi	The Joker is a Diakka	joker placed aside, ace with three x cards on table, other aces vanish, pile becomes four jokers, joker becomes ace, then pile becomes aces again	Also published here Die verrückten Joker (Roberto Giobbi, Charlie Miller, Lecture Notes, 1985) Inspired by The Jest of the Joker (Charlie Miller, An Evening with Charlie Miller, 1961)	1220		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / more or less off-beat variations
Roberto Giobbi	Packet Switch	addition and switch handling		1222		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using the Deck
Bill Simon, Roberto Giobbi, Edward Marlo	Multiple Lift Display Sequence			1227		Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike
Roberto Giobbi	The Knowledgeable Cards			1233		Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Hofzinser & Victor Ace Problem
Roberto Giobbi	Top Change Handling	for a kicker transformation at end of routine		1238		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Top Change
Roberto Giobbi	Slow Henry		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) O'Henry (Slow Motion) Four Aces (Frank Garcia, Roger Smith, Super Subtle Card Miracles, 1973) also in: O'Henry Four Aces (Lecture Notes No. 2, 1973) … and 1 more	1239		Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / O. Henry Finish Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Slow Motion
Roberto Giobbi	Switch-Out Sequence	as aces are removed from deck two of them are switched out		1239		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Spread Switches
Roy Walton*, Fred Kaps	Kaps Switch	brief		1241		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Spread Switches / Laydown Switch (Walton)
Tenkai Ishida	Pivot Break			1247		Cards / Sleights / Break / Break Finesses
Roberto Giobbi	The History of Playing Cards	all values are spelt out in piles, Ace through King are on top of the piles		1253		Cards / Effect Themes / Chaos & Order / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Through Suit or Values
Edward Marlo	Immediate Bottom Deal			1257		Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / Strike
Roberto Giobbi	The Homesick Jesters		Also published here Die Rückwanderung der Joker (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Inspired by The Disassembling Jokers (Jon Racherbaumer, The Lost Pages of the Kabbala, 1981)	1260		Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Reverse Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Slow Motion
Roberto Giobbi	Packet Switch Handling			1261		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Card Switches / Using a Packet
Roberto Giobbi	The Endless Loop	finding a card before it is selected	Also published here Die seltsame Schleife (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Related to Timeline (Roberto Giobbi, Hidden Agenda, 2016)	1269		Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Signed Card & Mystery Card
Dai Vernon	Vernon Transfer			1273		Cards / Sleights / Transfers / Vernon Transfer
Roberto Giobbi	Stop!	psychological	Also published here Stop! (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Inspired by The Psychic Stop! (Expert Card Technique, 1940)	1276		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Stop Trick / Position indicated by Spectator
Larry Jennings	T.N.T. Bottom Deal	take and turn		1280		Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / Push Out
Roberto Giobbi, Frank Travers, Dai Vernon	Fantasist at the Card Table	draw poker, stud poker, blackjack, bridge	Related to Gambler at Large! (Frank Travers, The Jinx, 1937)	1285		Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Blackjack Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Bridge Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Combinations Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Multiple Phase Routines
Steve Belchou, Roberto Giobbi	The Poker Player's Royal Flush	Aces are cut to, royal flush appears as well	Also published here Die Prüfung zum Spieler (Roberto Giobbi, Steve Belchou, Hokus Pokus, 2003) Related to A Poker Player's Picnic (The Royal Road to Card Magic, 1948) also in: Paul Rosini's Four Ace Effect (The Magic of Jimmy Grippo, 1981) Easy Aces (Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children, 1989) … and 1 more Variations A Poker Player's Puzzler (Nick Trost, Subtle Card Creations — Volume 2, 2009)	1298		Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to the Aces Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax
Roberto Giobbi	Poker Burn		Inspired by Impromptu Poker Deal (Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937)	1303		Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand.
Francis Carlyle	Carlyle Turnover			1305		Cards / Sleights / False Display / Paddle Move with Cards
Bruce Cervon, Richard Vollmer, Jon Racherbaumer	Insured Prediction	predicted by two cards and found by their values		1311		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card
	Pivot Break Glimpse			1311		Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Top or near Top
Roberto Giobbi, Dai Vernon	Mind- and Sightless			1318		Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Out of Sight, Out of Mind
	Swivel Cut Glimpse			1320		Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / Bottom or near Bottom
	Angle Glimpse			1323		Cards / Sleights / Glimpse / For single Card or small Packet
Jerome Sharp, Roberto Giobbi	Telekinesis			1326		Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers)
Roberto Giobbi, Juan Tamariz	The Color-Changing Deck	red/blue double backer	Inspired by Dai Vernon's Colour Changing Pack (Dai Vernon, Inner Secrets of Card Magic, 1959)	1333		Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Color Changing Deck Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Double Backer / Different Colors
Michael Skinner	Removing the Deck from the Case			1334		Cards / Sleights / Handling Basics
	Hindu Shuffle Display			1338		Cards / Sleights / False Display / All alike
Roberto Giobbi	SuperLative Lover	kiss appears on face of selection, its back becomes red	Also published here SuperLative Lover (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Inspired by "Latin Lover Opener" (Tony Binarelli, Playmagic, 1976) Related to Chicago Opener (Frank Everhart, Million Dollar Card Secrets, 1972) also in: Chicago Opener (Lecture Notes No. 1, 1973) Kiss (Bedros "Spidey" Akkelian, MAGIC, 2010) also in: Kiss (Talk About Tricks, 2022)	1344		Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Off-beat Predictions Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Red Hot Mama
Roberto Giobbi	The Joker Folds Up	Joker signed by spectator changes into named card, Joker then found folded in box under glass	Also published here The Joker Folds Up (Roberto Giobbi, Pabular, 1984) also in: Jolly Joker (Roberto Giobbi, Lecture Notes, 1985) Joker Power (Roberto Giobbi, CardPerfect, 1987) Variations Pandora's Paradox (Michael Vincent, Genii, 2023)	1349		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Box Container (Hennig style)
	Mercury Card Fold			1354		Cards / Sleights / Miscellaneous / Folding
Fred Kaps	Fred Kaps Presentation & Method	for folded card in box		1359		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Box Container (Hennig style)
Roberto Giobbi	All's Well That Ends Well	red-black shuffle, Triumph, single ambitious phase, time-travel presentation	Also published here Die Zeitmaschine (Roberto Giobbi, Card Stories, 1987) Inspired by Travellers in Time (Roy Walton, Cardboard Charades, 1971) also in: Travellers in Time (The Complete Walton — Volume 1, 1981) Back Into Time (Omerta, 2001) Morlock's Revenge (Larry Jennings, Roy Walton, The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 2, 1983)	1361		Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Turning Time Back Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Triumph / Effect Variations
Arthur Finley*, Juan Tamariz	Riffle Shuffle Finesse	spectator pushes cards together		1362		Cards / Sleights / Controls / Spectator shuffles - Subtleties
Roberto Giobbi	On the LePaul Envelope Set		Also published here Der präparierte Kuvertsatz nach Le Paul (Roberto Giobbi, Persönliche Notizen zum Seminar, 1993) also in: Roberto Giobbi on the Le Paul Envelope Set (Roberto Giobbi, The Las Vegas Lecture Notes, 1996) Inspired by Cards in a Sealed Envelope (Paul LePaul, The Card Magic of Le Paul, 1949) Related to Envelope Load (John Lovick, The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc., 2016) Variations Envelope Load (John Lovick, The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc., 2016)	1367		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Envelope(s) Paper / Envelopes / Loading
Roberto Giobbi	Wallet Bound	card to envelope inside wallet		1375		Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Envelope(s) Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Roberto Giobbi	Lines and Bits: Humorous and Practical	General Considerations on the Use of Jokes and Lines Humor for Various Situations		1385		Cards / Principles / Theory & Essays Articles / Theory & Essays Articles / Joke Comedy Magic & Comedy Props
Roberto Giobbi	Bibliographic Notes			1395		Articles / Bibliography

Data entered by Denis Behr, December 2009.

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