The Royal Road to Card Magic

Book
1948
Written by Frederick Braue, Jean Hugard
Work of Various
292 pages (Paperback), published by Dover Publications
Illustrated with drawings by Francis J. Rigney
Language: English
177 entries
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Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
The Overhand Shuffle 3
Controlling the Top Card 5
Controlling the Bottom Card 6
Retaining the Top and Bottom Card in Position 6
The Run single card run
 7
Top Card next to bottom Card and back to the top 7
The Injog basic handling for overhand shuffle
Related to
 8
The Undercut cutting to the Injog
Related to
  • The Injog (The Royal Road to Card Magic, 1948)
 8
Overhand Shuffle Control 9
Overhand False Shuffle Hunter style
 10
Topsy-Turvy Cards 13
Bottom Reverse bottom card stays in place as deck is turned over
 14
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve crude handling
 14
A Poker Player's Picnic no-touch, little bit of dealing involved
Also published here
Related to
Variations
 16
Open Cull while looking through the deck, bold
Variations
 16
A Pocket Discovery deck in pocket, card produced at named number
 18
Telepathy Plus one of five, simple
 21
Thought Stealer progressive set up
Variations
 23
Pinkie does it
Related to
 25
A Card and a Number card is found at number which was "dealt" by spectator before
 26
The Riffle Shuffle 28
Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck 30
Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards 30
Riffle Shuffle in the Air 31
An Instinct for Cards interlocking chains
Variations
 32
Jack McMillen Mirror of the Mind suit together
 		34
Ultra Card Divination 10, 9, 8... count to arrive at card which is predicted on piece of paper, 34. position
 35
Displaying the Top Card three handlings
 		37
The Ruffle riffling one-handed, two-handed and with single card
 39
The Click bottom card click
 		41
Spread and Turnover on cloth-covered table & bare table
 42
Springing the Cards 44
Gathering the Ribbon-Spread Pack 45
A Flourish Count 46
Throwing a Card 47
Waterfall Shuffle 48
The Fan 49
One-Hand Fan wide type
 50
Thumb Fan 51
Pressure Fan 52
The Glide 53
Design for Laughter
Related to
Variations
 54
The Observation Test
Variations
 56
Bottom-Card Glimpse three methods
 		59
Top-Card Glimpse I 61
Fan Peek glimpsing a card in center of small packet fan
 		62
Gray's Spelling Trick 63
Round and Round down-under-deal
Related to
 66
The Key Undercut see also applications
 		69
Key Undercut Shuffle shuffling after placement
 		69
Do as I Do 70
Paul Rosini The Three Piles key card
 		71
The Twenty-Sixth Card remote key
Variations
 73
Remote Key 73
A Meeting of the Minds remote key, alomst challenge
 		74
The Non-Poker Voice no-touch, suit
 		76
Intuition with Cards two card initialed, spectator and magician each chose them
 		78
Sliding Key Card under-spread placement
 		80
Top Palm, I (Single Card) 83
Top Palm, II (Several Cards) 86
Palm Glimpse glimpsing palmed card
 		88
Replacing Palmed Cards two methods
 		88
Card in the Pocket from top stock thought of with its position
 		90
Flying Palm card is thumbed off and palmed... context
 		91
Now You See It! palm section
Related to
Variations
 92
one of four 94
Grab-Bag Card cards are withdrawn from packet, remaining card is selection
 		96
Good-Luck Card magician sits on card
 		98
Do it and Fail red black dealing sequence
 		100
Gathering of the Clan Nomad style
Variations
 102
Spring Catch 105
A Vested Interest actually card to vest
 		105
Piano Trick
Related to
 106
The Backslip slip cut right side
 		109
Backslip Control 110
Backslip Force slip type
Variations
 110
Lightning Card 111
The Tantalizer twenty-second position and packet dealing
Related to
Variations
 112
Under Your Hat
Related to
 114
Injog and Break 116
Overhand Break Control 117
Overhand Lift Shuffle 117
Lift Shuffle Force 119
Spread and Break securing a break at selection
 		120
Holding a Break 121
Spread and Break Control getting in Overhand Shuffle Position
 		122
The Sevens
Related to
 123
Obliging Aces 125
Leapfrog leaps into view
 		126
Spectator's Card Trick 127
Edward Marlo, Martin Gardner* A Poker Puzzle
Related to
 129
Charlier Charlier Shuffle 131
Optical Shuffle 131
The Cut several methods
 		133
Second Method 134
Third Method 134
Fourth Method 135
An Incomprehensible Divination small packet challenge location
 		136
Palm Cut 136
Circus Card Trick "the next card I turn over..."
Variations
 138
Black Jack, Detective two cards come together in the pack
 		139
The Double Lift and Turnover 141
Double-Lift Glimpse 143
Double-Lift Reverses three methods
 		144
Rapid Transit 145
The Trey transforming card into "tray"
 		146
Ambitious Card including push-through sequence
 		147
Throughth and Consequences 150
Insidious Dr. Fu Liu Tu offbeat presentation
 		151
The Pass 154
Riffle Pass 156
Off Agin, On Agin, Finnegin! card vanishs and reappeares via pass
 		157
Spread Pass classic style
 		157
Spring Pass 157
Kangaroo Card jumpes out of hat
Related to
Variations
 159
Righting a Wrong little bit different effect
 		160
Blindfolded Pack tabled
 		161
Double Speller 163
Color Change 166
Double Color Change two cards simultaneously
 		167
The Changing Card 168
Self-Cutting Deck 169
A Pretty Cut 171
Pop-Up Card 171
A Bit of Byplay 172
Charlier Charlier Cut 172
Acrobatic Aces aces come to top and bottom via charlier cut
 		173
Reverses different methods
Also published here
Related to
 177
Reversed Location using a reversed card
 		180
Spellbound 181
Sid Lorraine A Tipsy Trick slop shuffle
 		183
Double Reverse 185
Mentalivity 186
Mountebank Miracle kind of thought-of-procedure
 		188
Hindu Shuffle 190
Hindu Shuffle Control 191
Hindu Shuffle Control 192
Hindu Shuffle Force 193
Hindu Shuffle Glimpse 194
Natural Jog 195
The Step hindu shuffle context
 		195
Twelve-Down Riffle as card is returned
 		196
All Change Here Hindu Shuffle
 		197
Ewephindit 200
The Classic Force 201
One-Hand Force exposing a card in fan
Related to
 204
Bottom Force spectator cuts from bottom, deck in magician's hands
 		205
Slide-Out Force knive
 		206
Two-Card Force 207
Riffle-Break Force 208
Sliding-Key Force 209
Double-Lift Force 210
Cut Force criss cross
 		210
Justice Card Trick Card is found blindfolded
 		211
Fours of a Kind dunbury delusion presentation
 		213
Pulse Trick divination by performer and spectator
 		214
Top Change 216
The Changing Card top change
 		218
Top-Change Byplay 220
Bottom Change 221
Top and Bottom Changes handling tips
 		222
The Selective Touch finding matching cards from pocket for any named card, binary four card set-up that combines to any card
Variations
 225
A Future in Cards one of five
 		227
Jacks Wild 228
Think Stop 229
Deal Away 231
The Educated Cards 232
Reds and Blacks divided pack
 		234
Conus Ace Trick Aces transform in spectator's hand, travel to his pocket
 		249
Ladies' Looking Glass 255
Everywhere and Nowhere 260
Egyptian Pocket combo
 		263
Cards to Pocket ten cards
 		268
Enlarging and Diminishing Cards classic fan technique
Related to
Variations
 276
Three Card Across 278
Everybody's Card, I transforms into four chosen cards, platform
Related to
Variations
 281
Everybody's Card, II transforms into 3 chosen cards, platform
 		286
Data entered by Denis Behr, January 2004.