Spectator-Shuffle Effects

2025 Lecture

Book
2025
Written by Justin Higham*
Work of Justin Higham*
28 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations
Language: English
28 entries
Cover photograph
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Justin Higham* Foreword
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Part 1: "Nearly Shuffled"
5
Justin Higham* Pseudo-Memory Deal/Location brief description
Also published here
Inspired by
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Justin Higham* Spectator Shuffle after a Cull or Multiple Shift "Pseudo-Memory"
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 5
Justin Higham* Pseudo Memorisation Plus spectator shuffles once, card forced, its identity divined and then matching three-of-a-kind found, two cards preset on each half (mini-Gilbreath), brief description
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Variations
 6
Justin Higham* The Queen Has It spectator riffle shuffles and removes top card and repeats this until three cards are tabled, one chosen, it is predicted (two-way out by Queen of Spades holding the Six of Spades)
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 7
Edward Marlo Three-Card Equivoque
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 7
Justin Higham* Shuffled Three Location spectator names cards, performer removes Three of Spades, spectator riffle shuffles and cuts Three into deck which is used to locate selection, with method to get named card openly under control while removing the Three of Spades, brief description
Also published here
Inspired by
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Justin Higham* Half-Bluff Location performer and spectator each choose a card, one card in deck touched, selections are on either side, brief description
Also published here
 9
Justin Higham* Fake-Silver five fours of a kind are produced, with some improvisation
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 9
Justin Higham* Illusory Thompson-Elias Production
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Justin Higham* Part 2: "Really Shuffled"
13
Justin Higham* Fate, Chance, Freewill featuring a multiple out force
  • Diary Glimpse Subtlety (miscalling)
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 13
Justin Higham* A Magician Fooler card selected, performer cuts at same card in borrowed deck
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 16
Justin Higham* Name-a-Card producing named card from shuffled deck, some vague examples
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Justin Higham* Prefigured Draw Poker impromptu full house cull
  • Drawing From the Discards (re Marlo's Bluff Poker Stack)
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Justin Higham* Sure-Fire Prefigured Full House impromptu full house production
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Justin Higham* Eight-Card Spread-Separation Cull No. 2 drop-stacking a hand on the fly
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 20
Justin Higham* Covered Spread-Separation Cull
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 22
Justin Higham* Royal-Flush Combination Cull bringing five cards together
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 22
Christian Gambin, Justin Higham* Another Royal Prophecy royal flush reveal from shuffled deck
Inspired by
  • "Royal Prophecy" (Justin Higham, John Carey and Friends, 2022, p. 101)
 23
Justin Higham* Another Quick Coincidence
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Justin Higham* "1-5" Overhand Cull-Stack
  • 1-5 Full-House Cull-Stack
  • 10-Hand 1-5-4 Blackjack
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Justin Higham* Culling Through Shuffling
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Justin Higham* Saturday Night / Sunday Afternoon categorization of magic effects into two types (short/visual, longer)
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Justin Higham* Hidden in Plain Sight table surface as impromptu shiner
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Justin Higham* One-Shot Effects on effects with a repetitive structure
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Justin Higham* The One-Faro Principle on using only one faro in a trick
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Data entered by Denis Behr, September 2025.