Ackerman, Allan

Book

1970
Written by Allan Ackerman
Work of Allan Ackerman

39 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Allan Ackerman
Language: English

25 entries

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Edward Marlo	Foreword				Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Allan Ackerman	Introduction				Articles / Intros & Epilogues
	alpha-routines				Articles / Chapter Heading
Allan Ackerman	On Kane's Blank Thought Deck	blank deck, spectator thinks of any card, performer removes a blank card, all cards get faces and isolated card is thought-of one	Inspired by The Blank Thought Deck (Peter Kane, A Card Session with Peter Kane, 1967)	1	Cards / Principles / Sticky Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / free Choice (all 52 cards) Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting"
Edward Marlo	Double Lift Substitute			2	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous
Allan Ackerman, Edward Marlo, Dr. James Nuzzo	Elevator Shaft	Ace, Two and Three or all Aces penetrate pack one at a time	Inspired by Penetration (Edward Marlo, Dai Vernon, The Cardician, 1953)	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Elevator / Deck
Allan Ackerman	Joker Sandwich	thought of card in sandwich in deck	Inspired by Think and it's Trapped (Bruce Cervon, Expert Card Mysteries, 1969) Variations Sandwich Sequence (Roger Crosthwaite, Roger's Thesaurus, 1994)	6	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Miscellaneous
Allan Ackerman	The Spectator Refuses to Cut to the Four Aces		Also published here The Spectator Refuses to Cut to the Four Aces (Allan Ackerman, Tesseract, 2019) Related to The Spectator Cuts to and Turns Over the Aces (Randy Wakeman, Formula One Close-Up, 1985) Spectator Cuts the Aces (Erik Nordvall, Lecture Notes Asia 2006, 2006) … and 1 more Variations Misplace Your Bets (Michael Powers, Top Secret Stuff, 1990) Mayhew's Aces (Steve Mayhew, Labyrinth, 1998) also in: Mayhew's Aces (Mayhew, 2014) … and 1 more	7	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Spectator cuts to and turns over the Aces
Allan Ackerman	Everywhere and Nowhere	three cards become the selection and change into aces		9	Cards / Effect Themes / Illogical Things / Everywhere and Nowhere Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards
Edward Marlo	Three Card Monte Climax	showing all the same		10	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Allan Ackerman	All Backs	all backs then all faces, while retaining a stack		11	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Full Stack (DONT USE THIS) Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / All backs / Deck
Allan Ackerman	All Backs Additional Notes			17	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / All backs / Deck
Allan Ackerman	Pokerface	while trying to find the selection the four of a kind is produced	Related to Foursome (Harry Lorayne, Deck-Sterity, 1967) also in: Vierertreff (Intermagic, 1987)	18	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / As a Climax Cards / Sleights / Culling / Spread Cull / for Culling cards to front or back
	moves			22	Articles / Chapter Heading
Allan Ackerman	The Real Work on Adhesive	where to put the tape		23	Cards / Principles / Sticky
Allan Ackerman	Minus One Bottom Deal		Variations Marlo Technique for Minus Multiple (Edward Marlo, Marlo's Magazine — Volume 1, 1976)	24	Cards / Sleights / False Dealing / Greek Deal & multiple minus
Edward Marlo	Pseudo Centers	four aces face up, greek deal		25	Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Poker / False Dealing
Edward Marlo	Proving Count	card at number, with greek deal		26	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers)
Allan Ackerman	The Nest Reverse	during a table riffle shuffle		27	Cards / Sleights / Reverses / More for One Card or a few Cards / Active
Allan Ackerman	A Card Pass		Also published here Card Pass (Allan Ackerman, Session, 2007)	29	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Convincing Control & Variations
Allan Ackerman	Counting Four as Three			30	Cards / Sleights / False Count / Undercounts (as less than are there)
	omega-bits for cardmen			32	Articles / Chapter Heading
Dick Koester, Allan Ackerman	Smyth Myth Retold	cards are shuffled face up into face down, pairs put on the table, when one spectator sees his card he says stop, the other card face down is the second selection		33	Cards / Principles / Stooge Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Multiple Cards
Allan Ackerman	Snap Change Idea	card is exposed, it's another card, magician's gag		35	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / free handed Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags
Allan Ackerman	The Programmed Deck	always dealing into two piles and eliminating one pile, last card is named selection, Named Tantalizer	Related to Sorting the Deck (David Solomon, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8, 2010) Variations The Thought Algorithm (Allan Ackerman, Card Theater, 2019)	36	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck Cards / Principles / Elimination Procedures / Tantalizer Deal

Data entered by Lorenz Schär, November 2015.

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