Elias, Neal

Book

1946
Written by Neal Elias
Work of Neal Elias

20 pages (Stapled), published by George Snyder Jr
Illustrated with drawings by R. A. MacKenzie
Language: English

24 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Fred Robinson (Pabular, Vol. 2 No. 11, July 1976, p. 287)

At the Table Tricks (written by Neal Elias, work of Neal Elias, 1946)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	AA	Categories
Neal Elias	Foreword			2		Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Neal Elias, Bert Fenn	A Reverse Sleight	deck reversed over card	Related to Turnover Move Handling (Edward Marlo, Roger's Thesaurus, 1994) Variations A Reverse Sleight Variation (Neal Elias, Bert Fenn, Joseph K. Schmidt, Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups, 1973)	3		Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
	Bottom Buckle			3		Cards / Sleights / Break / Buckling
Martin Gardner*, Neal Elias	Vanishing Card	from deck		4		Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Single Card
Neal Elias	On the Card to the Pocket	palmed card transferred to inside pocket	Also published here On the Card to the Pocket (Neal Elias, Missing Almost Every Thing, 2024) Inspired by Card in the Pocket (Tommy Dowd, Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3, 1943) also in: Card in the Pocket (The Living End, 1972) Card in the Pocket (Card Stories, 1997) Related to Card in the Pocket (Tommy Dowd, Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 3, 1943) also in: Card in the Pocket (The Living End, 1972) Card in the Pocket (Card Stories, 1997) Card from Pocket (Dai Vernon, Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic, 1961) also in: Card from Pocket (The Magic of Johnny Thompson, 2018)	4		Cards / Sleights / Cloths and Cards / Producing (palmed) Cards from Pocket Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Pocket / Single Card
Neal Elias	Turnover Switch	card turned over on deck with cards in right hand	Related to Racherbaumer Letter to Bill Larsen (Jon Racherbaumer, Facsimile, 1994)	5		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Mexican Turnover Cards / Sleights / Switches / Single Card Switches / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Bottom Deal / Push Out
Bob Taylor	A Truly Fan-cy Cut		Related to Peek & Cut Control (Neal Elias, Gambling Notes, 2000)	6		Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / Flourish Cuts
Neal Elias	One Hand Center Cut		Also published here The One Hand Center Cut (Neal Elias, Mind Your Poker, 1997) also in: One Hand Center Cut (Neal Elias, The Anthology of One Handed Card Cuts and Flourishes, 2007) Related to The Joe Berg One-Hand Shuffle (Joe Berg, The Anthology of One Handed Card Cuts and Flourishes, 2007)	7		Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / One Handed Cuts
Neal Elias	Card From Center		Also published here Card From Center (Neal Elias, The Anthology of One Handed Card Cuts and Flourishes, 2007)	7		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Flashy Location Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / One-Handed Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Revelations without "pop"
Neal Elias	Follow the Leader		Related to Following Elias (Milton Kort, Epoptica, 1984) Variations Following Elias (Milton Kort, Epoptica, 1984)	9		Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Follow the Leader
	Optical Monte Move		Variations Heir to the Throne (Milton Kort, Kort, 1999)	10		Cards / Sleights / Switches / Switching two visible isolated Cards or Packets
Frank Csuri	Here It Is!!		Inspired by There It Is! (Paul LePaul, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Flip (The Living End, 1972) Related to There It Is! (Paul LePaul, Expert Card Technique, 1940) also in: Flip (The Living End, 1972)	11		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Neal Elias	Torn Corner Card Trick	torn pieces vanish, card restored reversed in deck		12		Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / At once
	Necktie Second Deal	as simple switch		12		Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Second Deal / Strike
Neal Elias	Torn Card Vanish with Pull			13		Pull & Holdouts Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Miscellaneous Cards / Props & Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Frank Csuri	A Spelling Change	wrong card spelled to, changes into selection		13		Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu
Neal Elias	"Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do"	using a combination cull stock shuffle		14		Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / You just get the winning Hand. Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Stacking / Overhand
Bob Taylor	Combination Cull and Stock Shuffle			14		Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Culling Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Stacking
Neal Elias	Blindfold Poker Deal	brief idea		16		Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Blindfold Poker & Think-a-Card
Neal Elias	Zingone Spread Poker Deal	idea	Inspired by The Zingone Spread (Louis Zingone, Expert Card Technique, 1940) Related to The Zingone Spread (Louis Zingone, Expert Card Technique, 1940)	16		Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / Miscellaneous
Neal Elias	Screwy Square	optical thing with a line on a square sheet of cardboard	Variations Turn the Button (R. M. Jamison, Hugard's Magic Monthly, 1947)	16		Paper / Miscellaneous Paper / Topological Effects Paper / Chinese Compass
Neal Elias	No Gimmick Card Spread	long spread, using perpendicular card	Related to Cliff Hanger (Meir Yedid, Best of Friends — Volume II, 1985) A Flourish From the 30x (Sid Fleischman, The Charlatan's Handbook, 1993) … and 1 more Variations Spreading it a Little Too Thin (Randy Wakeman, Formula One Close-Up, 1985) Setting Up for No Gimmick Card Spread (Neal Elias, Cheat Sheet*, 1991) … and 1 more	18		Cards / Effect Themes / Animation / Defying Gravity
Tommy Dowd, Neal Elias, Bert Fenn	We Both Spell		Inspired by John Doe ... Magician (Tommy Dowd, The Phoenix, 1945) also in: John Doe - Magician (The Best in Magic, 1956) Related to John Doe ... Magician (Tommy Dowd, The Phoenix, 1945) also in: John Doe - Magician (The Best in Magic, 1956)	19		Cards / Effect Themes / Spelling / Miscellaneous / Impromptu Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Spectator plays Magician
Neal Elias	Well, that's it!			20		Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Denis Behr, May 2013.

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