Bound to Please

Collected Early Works of Simon Aronson

Book
1994
Written by Simon Aronson
Work of Simon Aronson
182 pages (Hardcover), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
69 entries
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Simon Aronson Foreword
Selections from Kabbala
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Simon Aronson Some People Think interlocking chains
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Simon Aronson Lie Sleuth several lies detected, missing card in pocket known, interlocking chains
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Variations
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Simon Aronson Group Shuffle three cards, no touch possible
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The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson
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Edward Marlo Foreword
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Simon Aronson Introduction
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Simon Aronson Simon's "Favorite Card" Trick spectator names a card and selects a card, Twisting Ace through Four, last card transforms into spectator's named card, Four is reversed in deck and used to count to selection
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Edward Marlo ATFUS
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Robert Walker Wily Turn Wiley Turnover
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Variations
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Simon Aronson Mis-Mate card shown and put out-jogged in deck, spectator says stop during biddling count, it is not the mate of the out-jogged card, but that one changes to match the selection
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Edward Marlo Marlo Swivel Change variation of Push-In Change
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Edward Marlo Who's Hockley Stop Force Biddle Count stop force
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Edward Marlo Book Break Glimpse
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  • MUM, May 1977, p. 29
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Simon Aronson The Spectator Really Cuts To The Aces four-way forcing deck
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Variations
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Simon Aronson Aces Up, Countdown selection lost, Aces put in different places, they turn over together in the center except the one with matching suit, value of selection used to count to Ace, reversed card in Ace packet is selection
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Simon Aronson Under Cover Four-Play Ace through Four travel through handkerchief one by one to join under jumbo card or cardboard
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Simon Aronson Lucky 7 two cards peeked at, Seven turns face up, both cards are counted to from the Seven
  • First Method
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Fourth Method
  • Fifth Method
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Variations
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Simon Aronson Two-Card Placement running cut after peek
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Simon Aronson Symmethree three cards peeked at, first selection turns face up, both remaining selections are counted to from the first one using its value
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Simon Aronson Turning the Corner Twisting Ace through Four, last card changes into selection, clean handling
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Simon Aronson The Aronson Artifice spectator stops anytime during dealing, takes two cards, then one of those, it is divined and predicted, Koran meets Gilbreath
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Simon Aronson Off-Center Fishing credit information
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Mel Brown Joker Deck Switch Jokers forgotten on table
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Simon Aronson Stranger Deranger unknown blue-backed selection put in red deck, card chosen from red deck face up, blue-backed deck counted face up and the card just chosen is missing, it is then shown to be the blue-backed card
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Simon Aronson "I'll Go First" spectator and performer both turn a card over in their decks, it matches, sophisticated combination of stacked and invisible deck, with deck switch
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Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #1
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Veeser Count
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Simon Aronson Odd-Backed Thought Card Across #2
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Simon Aronson Red See Passover
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Simon Aronson General Observations on the Memorized Deck on memorizing a deck, difficulties, assumptions
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Simon Aronson Two Card "No Touch" Location spectator cuts off a packet and remembers bottom card, second spectator shuffles same packet and chooses a card, both named by performer
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Simon Aronson Four Stop Intersection four spectators cut to cards, all shuffled, performer deals through cards face up and stops at selections
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Simon Aronson Histed Heisted matrix card divination, last card predicted
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Simon Aronson S-D Plus (or, "Notes on the S-D Location")
three phases
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Simon Aronson Center Cut Location spectator pulls out packet from center and remembers bottom card
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Simon Aronson It Pays to Advertise comments on the advertising cards, uses for example: key, crib sheet, as forcing gaff, ...
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A Stack to Remember
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Jon Racherbaumer Foreword
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Simon Aronson A Stack To Remember
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Simon Aronson 1. The Aronson Stack introduces the Aronson stack
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Simon Aronson 2. Features of the Aronson Stack
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Simon Aronson Draw Poker Deal a), built into the Aronson Stack
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Simon Aronson Stud Poker Deal b), built into the Aronson Stack
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Simon Aronson Ten Card Poker Deal c), built into the Aronson Stack
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Simon Aronson Poker Routines d), routining the previous effects
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Simon Aronson Perfect Bridge Hand e), built into the Aronson Stack, deals a perfect no-trump hand
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Simon Aronson Spelling f), built into the Aronson Stack, spelling bank
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Simon Aronson Any Poker Hand Called For g), built into the Aronson Stack, based on the Zensational stack
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Simon Aronson 3. Memorizing the Aronson Stack tips and mnemonic system for the Aronson stack
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Simon Aronson Note 1994
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Simon Aronson Selected Bibliography on Memorized Deck Magic
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Shuffle-Bored
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Simon Aronson Foreword
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Simon Aronson Shuffle-Bored
  • The Basic Shuffle-Bored Effect (only number of reversed card is divined)
  • The Secret
  • The Set-Up
  • The Procedure
  • Preliminaries
  • The Cancellation Combination
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Simon Aronson Controlled Shuffle-Bored number of reversed cards can be predicted
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Simon Aronson Divided Deck Shuffle-Bored
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Simon Aronson Delayed Location Effects doing divided deck locations after Shuffle-Bored
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Simon Aronson Color Separation Revelation all reversed cards are black, not recommended
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Simon Aronson Color Discernment performer knows number of reversed red and black cards
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Simon Aronson Selection Shuffle-Bored Shuffle-Bored combined with a location
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Simon Aronson Prediction Shuffle-Bored
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Simon Aronson Background and Credits
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Simon Aronson Shuffling Off
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Appendix
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David Solomon David Solomon's variation of Ed Marlo's "But What About My Number?" spectator thinks of a small number and reverses that many cards twice in the deck, deck shuffled face-up/face-down by spectator, performer knows number of reversed cards and the spectator's number coincides with the number of red cards that are reversed
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Simon Aronson Ad-Jacent advertisement card is used to stab between selections in tabled spread, rewritten description
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Variations
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Simon Aronson Bibliography of Simon Aronson
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Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2022.