SYNOPSIS:
Card College by Roberto Giobbi is a five-volume course widely regarded as the definitive modern textbook on card magic. Beginning with the fundamentals and progressing through advanced sleight-of-hand, the series combines detailed instruction with theory, psychology, practice techniques, and complete routines. Rather than simply teaching moves, Giobbi explains how to construct deceptive, entertaining performances, making the series an essential resource for anyone serious about mastering card magic.
BOOK DETAILS:
Author/creator: Roberto Giobbi
Publisher: Hermetic Press
Edition: 1st
Publication Year: 1996-2003
Subjects: Cards
Pages: 1417
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Professional
Availability: Vanishing Inc., Penguin Magic
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK 1
Foreword (p. xi)
Introduction to Volume 1 (p. xiii)
The Art of Performing Magic with Cards (p. 1)
A Personal Note (p. 1)
How to Get the Most from this Book (p. 1)
The Best Way to Learn from this Book (p. 2)
A Comment on the Illustrations (p. 2)
On the Terminology (p. 3)
Thinking Beyond What is Immediately Required (p. 3)
Art and Expression in the Handling of Cards (p. 3)
How Much Theory is Necessary? (p. 4)
The Path of the Master (p. 4)
A Brief History of Playing Cards (p. 5)
Instruments and Tools (p. 8)
The Hands (p. 8)
The Playing Cards (p. 9)
The Close-up Pad (p. 12)
Chapter 1: Fundamental Techniques (p. 13)
• Dealing Position (p. 15)
• The End Grip (p. 17)
• Elevated Dealing Position (p. 18)
• Squaring the Deck (p. 19)
• The All-around Square-up (p. 20)
• Giving the Deck a Complete Cut (p. 21)
• Spreading the Cards in the Hands (p. 21)
• Outjogging Cards as They are Spread Between the Hands (p. 23)
• Dribbling Cards (p. 24)
• Dealing Cards (p. 24)
• Dealing Cards Face Down—The Draw Method (p. 25)
• Dealing Cards Face Up—The Stud Method (p. 26)
• The Swing Cut (p. 27)
• The Break (p. 28)
• The Little-finger Break (p. 28)
– Forming a Little-finger Break Under the Top Card—Two-handed Method (p. 29)
– Forming a Little-finger Break Under the Top Card—One-handed Method (p. 30)
– Forming a Little-finger Break Under Multiple Cards (p. 31)
• The Thumb Break (p. 32)
• The Step (p. 33)
• The Riffle (p. 34)
• The Ribbon Spread (p. 35)
Chapter 2: Overhand Shuffle Techniques, Part 1 (p. 37)
• The Overhand Shuffle (p. 39)
• Running Single Cards (p. 42)
• Control of the Top and Bottom Cards (p. 43)
– Control of the Top Card (p. 43)
– Control of the Bottom Card (p. 43)
• Controlling the Top Stock of the Deck—The Injog Shuffle (p. 44)
• Controlling the Bottom Stock (p. 47)
• Tricks with the Overhand Shuffle (p. 49)
– Thought Stealer (p. 49)
– The Spectator Cuts the Aces (p. 51)
Chapter 3: False Cut Techniques, Part 1 (p. 55)
• An Optical False Cut from the Hand (p. 57)
• The False Swing Cut (p. 58)
• A Simple False Cut (p. 59)
• A Triple False Cut (p. 60)
• The Slip Cut from Dealing Position (p. 61)
• Tricks with False Cuts (p. 62)
– Hat Trick (p. 62)
– Court Card Conclave (p. 63)
Chapter 4: Card Controls (p. 65)
• The Overhand Shuffle Control (p. 67)
• The Whoops! Control (p. 68)
• The Diagonal Insertion (p. 69)
• The Peek Control (p. 72)
• The Post-peek Overhand Shuffle Control (p. 74)
• A Peek Control for Two Cards (p. 75)
• The Multiple Peek Control (p. 76)
• The One-card Middle Pass (p. 77)
• Other Controls (p. 79)
• Tricks with Card Controls (p. 80)
– The Shamus Card (p. 80)
– The Question Is… (p. 81)
Chapter 5: Force Techniques, Part 1 (p. 83)
• The Crisscross Force (p. 85)
• The Balducci Force (p. 86)
• The Goldin Force (p. 88)
• The Ten-to-twenty Force (p. 90)
• A Trick with the Force (p. 91)
– The Lie Detector (p. 91)
Chapter 6: Transfer Cuts (p. 93)
• The Double Cut (p. 95)
• The Triple Cut from Top to Bottom (p. 97)
• The Triple Cut from Bottom to Top (p. 98)
• Tricks with Transfer Cuts (p. 99)
– Triple Coincidence (p. 99)
– Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (p. 101)
Chapter 7: Riffle Shuffle Techniques (p. 103)
• The Closed Riffle Shuffle (p. 105)
• Squaring After the Shuffle (p. 107)
• The Open Riffle Shuffle (p. 108)
• Riffle Shuffle Stock Controls (p. 109)
– Control of the Top Stock (p. 109)
– Control of the Bottom Stock (p. 109)
• The Waterfall Riffle Shuffle (p. 110)
• Tricks with Riffle Shuffle Techniques (p. 113)
– The Red-black Location (p. 113)
– Royal Flush Finale (p. 114)
Chapter 8: The Glide (p. 119)
• The Glide (p. 121)
• Tricks with the Glide (p. 123)
– The Acrobat Family (p. 123)
– The Coué Test (p. 125)
Chapter 9: The Double Lift, Part 1 (p. 127)
• A Double Lift (p. 129)
• A Double Turnover (p. 130)
• Tricks with a Double Lift (p. 132)
– Rise and Swap (p. 132)
– A Card in Hand (p. 133)
Chapter 10: The Key Card (p. 135)
• Key-card Placement (p. 137)
• The Key Card in a Hand-to-hand Spread (p. 137)
• Key Card in a Ribbon Spread (p. 138)
• Glimpse and Placement (p. 140)
• Location, Identification and Control with a Key Card (p. 142)
• Control in a Hand-to-hand Spread (p. 142)
• Tabled Ribbon Spread Control (p. 143)
• Further Thoughts on the Key Card (p. 144)
• Shuffling with a Key Card (p. 144)
• Letting the Spectator Shuffle with a Key Card (p. 144)
• Tricks with a Key Card (p. 145)
– A Phenomenal Memory (p. 145)
– Your Number—Your Card (p. 147)
– Thot Echo (p. 149)
Chapter 11: Hindu Shuffle Technique (p. 153)
• The Hindu Shuffle (p. 155)
• Placing a Key Card with a Hindu Shuffle (p. 157)
• Glimpsing the Bottom Card with a Hindu Shuffle (p. 157)
• The Hindu Shuffle Force (p. 158)
• Hindu Shuffle Card Controls (p. 160)
– Controlling a Single Card (p. 160)
– Controlling Multiple Cards (p. 161)
• Tricks with the Hindu Shuffle Technique (p. 162)
– The Magus Card (p. 162)
– The Lucky Card (p. 164)
Chapter 12: Flourishes, Part 1 (p. 167)
• Turning Over the Top Card I (p. 169)
• Turning Over the Top Card II (p. 170)
• Turning Over the Top Card III (p. 171)
• The Charlier Cut (p. 172)
• The Swivel Cut (p. 173)
• The Boomerang Card (p. 175)
• The Spring Riffle Shuffle (p. 176)
• Jack Merlin’s Riffle Shuffle (p. 177)
• The Pop-up Card (p. 178)
• The Wind-up Gag (p. 179)
• The Two-handed Fan (p. 179)
• The Broad One-handed Fan (p. 181)
• The Reverse One-handed Fan (p. 182)
• The Ribbon Spread Turnover (p. 183)
Chapter 13: Spread Cull Techniques (p. 185)
• The Spread Cull (p. 187)
• The Under-the-spread Force (p. 189)
• Tricks with the Spread Cull (p. 191)
– The Magic Phone Number (p. 191)
– As You Like It (p. 192)
Chapter 14: Useful Auxiliary Sleights (p. 195)
• Thumb Counting (p. 197)
• The Little-finger Count (p. 201)
• The Secret Addition of Cards (p. 203)
• The Braue Addition (p. 204)
• The Tip-over Addition (p. 206)
• ATFUS (p. 208)
• The Single, Double and Multiple Push-over (p. 211)
• Buckling One or More Cards (p. 212)
Chapter 15: Force Techniques, Part 2 (p. 215)
• The Classic Force (p. 217)
– Technique, Handling and Structure (p. 217)
– The Psychological Management of the Spectators (p. 220)
The Inner Game of the Performer (p. 221)
How to Practice the Classic Force (p. 222)
Outs (p. 222)
Direct Methods (p. 223)
Indirect Methods (p. 223)
Final Observations (p. 224)
The Riffle Force (p. 224)
More Tricks with the Force (p. 227)
– The Jumping Pulse (p. 227)
– Headliner! (p. 228)
Chapter 16: The Top Change (p. 231)
• The Top Change (p. 233)
• Top Change Covers (p. 236)
• The Top Change as an Out for the Classic Force (p. 238)
• Tricks with the Top Change (p. 239)
– Metamorphosis (p. 239)
– The Lucky Coin (p. 241)
Bibliographic Notes (p. 245)
Index (p. 248)
BOOK 2
Introduction to Volume 2 (p. xiii)
Chapter 17: Overhand Shuffle Techniques, Part 2 (p. 251)
• Bringing the Bottom Card to the Top (p. 253)
• Controlling the Top and Bottom Stocks (p. 254)
• The Lift Shuffle (p. 257)
– Top Stock Control with the Lift Shuffle (p. 257)
– Key-card Placement with the Lift Shuffle (p. 258)
• Controlling the Entire Deck: the G. W. Hunter Shuffle (p. 259)
• Controlling the Entire Deck: the Optical Shuffle (p. 260)
• More Tricks with the Overhand Shuffle (p. 262)
– Subconscious Poker (p. 262)
– Aces Off the Cuff (p. 265)
Chapter 18: Palming (p. 269)
• Theoretical Considerations (p. 271)
• The Palm Grip (p. 272)
• The Top Palm (p. 273)
• Palming Multiple Cards from the Top (p. 276)
• Concealing Palmed Cards in the Hand (p. 277)
• Replacing Palmed Cards (p. 285)
• Tricks with Palming (p. 288)
– Homing Card Plus (p. 288)
– The Cards of Capistrano (p. 292)
Chapter 19: The Pass (p. 295)
• The Classic Pass (p. 297)
• Covers for the Pass (p. 300)
– The Riffle Pass (p. 300)
– Other Covers (p. 302)
• Tricks with the Pass (p. 304)
– Finnegins Rewake (p. 304)
– Card Through Handkerchief (p. 305)
Chapter 20: False Display Counts (p. 309)
• The Elmsley Count (p. 311)
• The Jordan Count (p. 314)
• The Hamman Count (p. 315)
• The Buckle Count (p. 318)
• The Push-off Count (p. 319)
• The Hamman Two-for-Four Count (p. 320)
• Tricks with False Display Counts (p. 321)
– The Really Wild Nine-card Trick (p. 321)
– The Royal Acrobats (p. 324)
Chapter 21: The Double Lift, Part 2 (p. 329)
• Another Double Turnover (p. 331)
• More Tricks with the Double Lift (p. 335)
– Vanished without a Trace! (p. 335)
– The Ambitious Card (p. 337)
Chapter 22: The Crimp (p. 345)
• Crimping with the Index Finger (p. 347)
• Crimping with the Heel of the Thumb (p. 347)
• Crimping with an Overhand Shuffle (p. 348)
• Cutting to a Crimped Card (p. 349)
• Applications (p. 349)
• A Trick Using the Crimp (p. 350)
– Transposition Extraordinary (p. 350)
Chapter 23: The Glimpse (p. 353)
• Top-card Riffle Glimpse (p. 355)
• Top-card Double Lift Glimpse (p. 356)
• Top-card Riffle Shuffle Glimpse (p. 356)
• Bottom Card All-around Square-up Glimpse (p. 357)
• Situational Bottom Card Glimpses (p. 357)
• Center-card Glimpse (p. 359)
• Tricks with the Glimpse (p. 360)
– Card Catcher (p. 360)
– Impossible! (p. 363)
Chapter 24: The Reverse (p. 365)
• The Braue Reverse (p. 367)
• Double Lift Reverse (p. 368)
• Double Turnover Reverse (p. 370)
• The Leg Reverse (p. 371)
• Deck Turnover Reverse (p. 372)
• Tricks with the Reverse (p. 374)
– The Whistle (p. 374)
– Reversible Mix-up (p. 376)
Chapter 25: False Cut Techniques, Part 2 (p. 379)
• A True, Single, Tabled Cut (p. 381)
• Single, Tabled, False Cut I (p. 384)
• Single, Tabled, False Cut II (p. 385)
• A True Running Cut (p. 386)
• Up the Ladder (p. 388)
• Dai Vernon’s Cold-deck Cut (p. 389)
• Affas-gaffas False Cut (p. 391)
• Gambler’s False Triple Cut (p. 392)
Chapter 26: Flourishes, Part 2 (p. 393)
• Turning Over the Top Card IV (p. 395)
• Turning Over the Top Card V (p. 396)
• Turning Over the Top Card VI (p. 396)
• Springing the Cards (p. 398)
• The Cascade (p. 399)
• The Swiveleroo Cut (p. 401)
• The Flip-flap Cut (p. 402)
• One-handed Riffle Shuffle (p. 404)
Chapter 27: Theory (p. 407)
• Some Thoughts on Theoretical Subjects (p. 408)
• Presentation (p. 409)
– The Role of Presentation (p. 409)
– The Role of the Performer (p. 410)
– Style (p. 413)
– Theme (p. 414)
– The Script (p. 415)
– The Audience (p. 417)
– Humor, Comedy and the Joke (p. 418)
– Diverse Presentational Strategies (p. 420)
– Presentation and Construction (p. 421)
– Concluding Remarks (p. 423)
– Recommended Reading (p. 423)
• Construction (p. 426)
– The Construction of a Trick (p. 426)
– The Construction of a Routine (p. 428)
– The Construction of the Program (p. 429)
– In Conclusion (p. 432)
– Recommended Reading (p. 432)
• Directing Attention (p. 434)
– The Means of Perception (p. 434)
– The Physical Direction of Attention (p. 436)
– Mental Direction of Attention (p. 438)
– Reading Your Spectators (p. 442)
– Summary (p. 444)
– Recommended Reading (p. 444)
• Technique, Handling and Management (p. 446)
– Technique (p. 446)
– The Handling (p. 448)
– Management (p. 453)
– Concluding Remarks (p. 454)
– Recommended Reading (p. 454)
• Timing (p. 456)
– Timing and Duration (p. 456)
– Timing and Rhythm (p. 456)
– Timing and the Moment (p. 457)
– Timing and Coordination (p. 458)
– Timing and Simultaneity (p. 459)
– Summary (p. 460)
– Recommended Reading (p. 461)
• Outs for Disasters and Disturbances (p. 461)
– Disasters (p. 464)
– Disturbances from the Audience (p. 474)
– Conclusion (p. 475)
– Recommended Reading (p. 476)
• The Study of Card Conjuring (p. 476)
– Choosing, Sifting and Collecting Material (p. 477)
– Studying a Card Trick (p. 478)
– General Remarks (p. 481)
– Accessories (p. 483)
– Training Techniques (p. 484)
– Concluding Remarks (p. 484)
– Recommended Reading (p. 487)
Bibliographic Notes (p. 487)
Index (p. 491)
BOOK 3
Foreword (p. xxxv)
Words for Enthusiasts (p. 495)
An Enticement to the Introduction (p. 495)
Contents (p. 495)
What Is in These Books? (p. 496)
The Principle of Reading Satisfaction (p. 496)
Principles Rather than Techniques (p. 496)
The Study (p. 497)
Trust (p. 497)
Intellect, Intuition and Inspiration in Practice (p. 498)
The Sensuality of Card Magic (p. 498)
Gestalt (p. 499)
What Else? (p. 499)
The Prop as Instrument (p. 500)
Simplicity (p. 500)
Selecting the Right Trick (p. 500)
The Iceberg (p. 501)
The Secret (p. 502)
Some Comments on Terminology (p. 503)
Reactions to Date (p. 503)
Absolute Versus Relative Frames of Reference (p. 503)
Card College References (p. 504)
Chapter 28: Assorted Techniques and Refinements (p. 505)
• The Biddle Steal (p. 507)
• Counting Cards in a Fan (p. 509)
• Counting Cards While Spreading Them Between the Hands (p. 510)
• Setting Multiple Key Cards (p. 511)
• The Spin Revelation and Display (p. 512)
• The Vanish of a Card (p. 513)
• The Bluff Cut (p. 514)
• Holding Back a Card in the Card Case (p. 515)
• The Transfer Move (p. 516)
• The K. M. Move (p. 518)
• The Vernon Addition (p. 520)
• Tricks with Assorted Techniques and Refinements (p. 523)
– The Invisible Card (p. 523)
– The Four Seasons (p. 525)
Chapter 29: Techniques with Breaks, Steps and Injogs (p. 527)
• Techniques with the Break: (p. 529)
– The Dribble Break (p. 529)
– The Crocodile Technique (p. 531)
– Transferring a Break from the Little Finger to the Heel of the Thumb (p. 532)
– Inserting a Card into a Break (p. 533)
– The Erdnase Break (p. 534)
• Techniques with the Step: (p. 535)
– Ribbon Spread and Step (p. 535)
– A Spectator Holds the Step (p. 536)
– Fan and Step (p. 536)
• Techniques with the Injog: (p. 538)
– The LePaul Automatic Jog-control (p. 538)
– The Drop Jog (p. 540)
– The Diagonal Insertion and Fan (p. 540)
– An Injog Handling (p. 541)
– Injog and Step After the Cut (p. 542)
– General Reflections on Injogged Cards (p. 543)
• Tricks with the Break, Step and Injog (p. 544)
– The Master Grip (p. 544)
– Remember and Forget (p. 546)
Chapter 30: Card Controls, Part 2 (p. 549)
• The Convincing Control (p. 551)
• The Bluff Pass (p. 555)
• A Direct Overhand Shuffle Control (p. 559)
• The Logical Control (p. 560)
• The Spread Crimp (p. 561)
• The Bridge Control (p. 562)
• Refinements and Final Thoughts (p. 563)
• More Tricks Using Card Controls (p. 565)
– A Sure Bet (p. 565)
– Ambitious 1-2-3-4 (p. 568)
Chapter 31: The Double Lift, Part 3 (p. 571)
• The Push-over Double (p. 573)
• A Double Lift from the Center (p. 575)
• Small Packet Double Lift (p. 577)
• The Optical Replacement (p. 579)
• The Turnover Replacement (p. 580)
• The Vernon Replacement (p. 582)
• A Double Lift Finesse (p. 584)
• More Tricks with the Double Lift and Turnover (p. 585)
– The Palindrome Cards (p. 585)
– The Time Machine (p. 588)
– Rise and Switch (p. 590)
Chapter 32: False Display Counts, Part 2 (p. 593)
• The Ascanio Spread (p. 595)
• The Ascanio Spread Fan (p. 598)
• The Open Display (p. 599)
• The Olram Subtlety (p. 603)
• The Gemini Count (p. 604)
• The Over-count (p. 606)
• The Multiple-lift Display Sequence (p. 607)
• The Flushtration Count (p. 609)
• Displaying All the Cards as Identical (p. 610)
• The D’Amico Spread (p. 611)
• More Tricks with False Display Counts (p. 613)
– The Strasbourg Waltz (p. 613)
– Set-reset Plus (p. 616)
– The Dance of the Cannibals (p. 619)
Chapter 33: Riffle Shuffle Techniques, Part 2 (p. 627)
• The Zarrow Dynamic (p. 629)
• The Zarrow Shuffle (p. 632)
• The Direct Zarrow Shuffle (p. 634)
• The Pull-through False Shuffle (p. 637)
• Vernon’s Pull-through Shuffle Variant (p. 641)
• The Triumph Shuffle (p. 642)
• A Combination False Shuffle (p. 645)
• Controlling the Top Stock with a Riffle Shuffle (p. 645)
• A Combination False Shuffle and Cut (p. 646)
• The Block Transfer (p. 648)
• A Red-black False Shuffle (p. 649)
• An In-the-hands False Shuffle (p. 651)
• More Tricks with Riffle Shuffle Techniques (p. 654)
– Triumph (p. 654)
– Dad Stevens, King of the Card Cheats (p. 657)
Chapter 34: The Multiple Shift (p. 661)
• The Insertion of the Cards (p. 663)
• Swing Cut Multiple Shift (p. 664)
• Bluff Multiple Shift (p. 668)
• The Vernon Multiple Shift (p. 669)
• Cardini’s Overhand Multiple Shift (p. 671)
• Carney’s Natural Multiple Shift (p. 673)
• The Simple Shift (p. 674)
• The Tabled Multiple Shift (p. 676)
• A Trick with the Multiple Shift (p. 679)
– The Vanishing Deck (p. 679)
Chapter 35: The Faro Shuffle (p. 681)
• The Partial Faro (p. 683)
• The Faro Slough-off (p. 686)
• The Perfect Faro (p. 687)
• The Incomplete Faro Control (p. 689)
• Faro Types (p. 691)
• The Mathematical Basis of the Perfect Faro Shuffle (p. 692)
– Mathematical Principles (p. 692)
• Tricks with Faro Techniques (p. 694)
– The Acrobatic Aces (p. 694)
– The Two Detectives (p. 697)
– Numerology (p. 700)
Chapter 36: Advanced Palming Techniques (p. 703)
• The One-handed Palm (p. 705)
• The Gambler’s Cop (p. 707)
– Management Strategies for the Gambler’s Cop (p. 709)
– Replacing Cards in Gambler’s Cop Under the Deck (p. 710)
• The Transfer Palm (p. 710)
• The Loewy Palm (p. 712)
• The Left-hand Bottom Palm (p. 713)
• The Right-hand Bottom Palm (p. 717)
• The Right-hand Bottom Palm of Multiple Cards (p. 720)
• Norman Houghton’s Pocket Extraction (p. 722)
• Producing a Card from Your Inner Right Jacket-pocket (1) (p. 724)
• Producing a Card from Your Inner Right Jacket-pocket (2) (p. 727)
• Replacing Palmed Cards on the Bottom of the Deck (p. 729)
• More Tricks with Palming (p. 731)
– The Card in the Glass (p. 731)
– The Open Prediction (p. 733)
Chapter 37: Color Changes (p. 737)
• The Side-slip Color Change (p. 739)
• The Slap Change (p. 741)
• The Wave Change (p. 742)
• The Houdini Color Change (p. 744)
• The Flip-flop Change (p. 747)
• The Fadeaway Card Change (p. 748)
• Final Thoughts (p. 750)
• Tricks with Color Changes (p. 751)
– Through and Through (p. 751)
– Holy Smoke! (p. 755)
Chapter 38: The Side Steal and Diagonal Palm Shift (p. 757)
• The Side-steal Transfer (p. 759)
• Covers for the Side Steal (p. 762)
• The Side-steal Bottom Placement and Variations (p. 764)
• The Side-steal Palm (p. 765)
• The Simplified Side-steal Palm (p. 766)
• The Diagonal Palm Shift (p. 767)
• The Convincing Control Palm (p. 771)
• Tricks with the Side-steal Transfer and Palm (p. 773)
– Picnick at the Summit (p. 773)
– The Return of the Phantom (p. 775)
Bibliographic Notes (p. 779)
Index (p. 787)
BOOK 4
Foreword (p. xlix)
Chapter 39: Force Techniques, Part 3 (p. 791)
• The Under-the-Table Force (p. 793)
• The Ribbon-spread Force (p. 793)
• The Toss Force (p. 795)
• The Peek Force (p. 796)
• The Cut Force (p. 796)
• The Credit-card Force (p. 797)
• The Curious Count (p. 799)
• The Packet Force (p. 799)
• The Mishmash Force (p. 801)
• Forcing Under a Handkerchief (p. 802)
• The Bottom Bluff Force (p. 803)
• The Dribble Force (p. 804)
• Tricks Using Forces (p. 805)
– A Question of Sex (p. 805)
– The Card in the Wallet (p. 807)
Chapter 40: Card Switches (p. 809)
• The Curry Turnover Change (p. 811)
• The Simple Turnover Switch (p. 813)
• The Card-spread Switch (p. 814)
• The Allerton Change (p. 815)
• The Kaps Switch (p. 816)
• The “Hofzinser” Top Change (p. 818)
• The Push-in Change (p. 820)
• The Glide Change (p. 822)
• The Mexican Turnover (p. 824)
• Tricks with Card Switches (p. 827)
– Everywhere and Nowhere (p. 827)
– Underground Twins (p. 831)
– Trapped in the Future (p. 834)
Chapter 41: Packet Switches (p. 837)
• The Veeser Concept (p. 839)
• The Toss Switch (p. 840)
• The Talazac Switch (p. 842)
• The Gamblers’ Packet Switch (p. 844)
• The Jinx Change (p. 845)
• The Pendulum Switch (p. 846)
• Olram’s Jinx Switch (p. 848)
• The Turnover Palm Switch (p. 849)
• The Steamboat Switch (p. 851)
• The Count Switch (p. 853)
• Tricks with Packet Switches (p. 855)
– Flash Transposition (p. 855)
– Day Trippers (p. 857)
– Three-way Excursion (p. 859)
Chapter 42: The Deck Switch (p. 863)
• The Direct Deck Switch (p. 865)
• The Gamblers’ Deck Switch (p. 865)
• The Joker Switch (p. 867)
• The Deck Switch in the Context of a Trick (p. 868)
– The Trojan Deck (p. 868)
– Through the Table (p. 870)
– In a Flash (p. 871)
– The Cardsharp (p. 873)
– The Vanishing Deck Reconsidered (p. 874)
• Final Thoughts on Deck Switches (p. 875)
Chapter 43: Estimation (p. 877)
• Visual Estimation (p. 879)
• An Application (p. 879)
• Location Using Outs (p. 880)
• Fingernail Estimation (p. 883)
• Tricks with Estimation (p. 885)
– The Miracle Aces (p. 885)
– Impossibility (p. 889)
– Miraculous Coincidence (p. 891)
Chapter 44: Culling (p. 895)
• The Grismer Cull (p. 897)
• The Lessinout Shuffle (p. 898)
• The Downjog Cull (p. 899)
• The Above-the-spread Cull (p. 901)
• The Green Angle Separation (p. 903)
• Tricks Using Culls (p. 906)
– Trimental (p. 906)
– The Stop Trick (p. 910)
Chapter 45: Stacking (p. 913)
• The Erdnase Stack Shuffle (p. 916)
• The Milk-build Shuffle (p. 916)
• The Frank Lane Stack (p. 917)
• Riffle Shuffle Stacking (p. 918)
• Final Observations (p. 920)
• Tricks with Stacking (p. 921)
– Moracle (p. 921)
Chapter 46: False Dealing (p. 923)
• The Cards (p. 924)
• The Basic Grip and the True Deal (p. 929)
• The Double Deal (p. 931)
• The Push-off Second Deal (p. 934)
• The Strike Second Deal (p. 936)
• The Bottom Deal (p. 938)
• The Sail (p. 940)
• A Trick Using False Deals (p. 942)
– Call Your Hand (p. 944)
Chapter 47: Sandwich Techniques (p. 947)
• The Display Load (p. 949)
• The Direct Load (p. 950)
• The Kosky Switch (p. 951)
• The Simple Sandwich Load (p. 952)
• Tricks with Sandwich Techniques (p. 953)
– Cheops’s Dunbury Sandwich (p. 953)
– Hold the Mayo (p. 954)
Chapter 48: Lapping (p. 959)
• General Observations on the Application of Lapping (p. 961)
• The Bottom-card Lap (p. 961)
• The All-around Square-up Lap (p. 963)
• Jean-Claude Pages’s Lapping Method (p. 963)
• The Lap Control (p. 965)
• The Trousers-fold Holdout (p. 966)
• The Knee Holdout (p. 967)
Chapter 49: Advanced Pass Techniques (p. 969)
• The Basic Technique (p. 971)
• The Invisible Pass (p. 973)
– Cover Suggestions for the Invisible Pass (p. 974)
• The Turnover Pass (p. 976)
• The Spread Pass (p. 978)
• The Dribble Pass (p. 982)
• The Cover Pass (p. 984)
• The Display Pass (p. 985)
• The Spread Half-pass (p. 987)
• The Christ Twist (p. 988)
• More Tricks with the Pass (p. 990)
– Catch 22 (p. 990)
– Super-sensitive Fingertips (p. 992)
Chapter 50: Tilt (p. 995)
• Tilt (p. 997)
• One-handed Tilt Get-ready (p. 999)
• Tilt Finesse I (p. 1000)
• Tilt Finesse II (p. 1000)
• Final Thought (p. 1001)
• Tricks with Tilt (p. 1002)
– Card Collection (p. 1002)
– Ultra-ambitious (p. 1005)
Chapter 51: Flourishes, Part 3 (p. 1013)
• The Side Shuffle (p. 1015)
• The Wave Cut (p. 1016)
• The Toss Cut (p. 1017)
• The Twin Falls Shuffle (p. 1017)
• The Four-card Turnover Display (p. 1019)
• The Star Turnover Display (p. 1020)
• The Frank Shields Display (p. 1020)
• The Pirouette (p. 1022)
• The Twirl (p. 1022)
• The Ravelli Pop-out (p. 1024)
Chapter 52: Reverses, Part 2 (p. 1027)
• The Swing-cut Reverse (p. 1029)
• The Future Reverse (p. 1030)
• The Palm Reverse (p. 1032)
• The Larreverse (p. 1033)
• FIRP (p. 1036)
• The Riffle-shuffle Reverse (p. 1037)
• More Tricks Using Reverses (p. 1039)
– Reverse Interlude (p. 1039)
– Surprise Spelling (p. 1040)
Chapter 53: Turnovers (p. 1043)
• The All-around Square-up Turnover (p. 1045)
• The Through-the-Fist Flourish (p. 1046)
• The Gamblers’ Turnover (p. 1048)
• The Wristwatch Turnover (p. 1049)
• The Spectator Turnover (p. 1051)
• The Okito-box Turnover (p. 1051)
• The Transfer Turnover (p. 1052)
• Tricks with Turnovers (p. 1053)
– The Easy Poker Demonstration (p. 1053)
– Ace-capades (p. 1055)
Chapter 54: The Structure of Magic (p. 1057)
• The Magic Pyramid (p. 1059)
• The System (p. 1060)
• Effects, Intellectual and Emotional (p. 1065)
• The Magic Iceberg (p. 1067)
• Final Thoughts (p. 1068)
Bibliographic Notes (p. 1071)
Cumulative Index (p. 1079)
BOOK 5
Foreword (p. lxi)
Introduction to Volume 5 (p. lxiii)
Chapter 55: Miscellaneous Techniques (p. 1097)
• Versatile Jokers (p. 1099)
• Adding or Subtracting Special Cards (p. 1099)
• Starting with Jokers and Special Cards in the Card Case (p. 1101)
• Gimmicked Jokers (p. 1102)
• Jokers and Simple Setups (p. 1103)
• Tricks Using the Jokers (p. 1103)
– Three-card Monte (p. 1103)
– Twin Fools (p. 1104)
• The Charlier Shuffle (p. 1110)
• The Overhand Lift Shuffle Run-up (p. 1113)
• On the Red-black Overhand Shuffle (p. 1119)
• The Overhand Shuffle Glimpse (p. 1122)
• The Gamblers’ Bottom-card Glimpse (p. 1123)
• Secret Setup (p. 1124)
• Double Turnover from a Spread in the Hands (p. 1129)
• The Snap-over Color Change (p. 1133)
• Obtaining a Duplicate of a Spectator’s Signature (p. 1134)
Chapter 56: Starting Easy (p. 1137)
• A Psychological Test (p. 1139)
• Strange Harmony (p. 1146)
• Affinity in Numbers (p. 1153)
• The Happy Birthday Card Trick (p. 1157)
Chapter 57: Quick Effects (p. 1161)
• The Quick-change Artists (p. 1163)
• Countdown Stop (p. 1170)
• Pasteboard Blendo (p. 1174)
• Coalesces (p. 1178)
Chapter 58: Ace Overtures (p. 1181)
• Thompson’s Aces (p. 1183)
• How Lucky Can You Get? (p. 1188)
• The Cards of Destiny (p. 1192)
• Sign of Four (p. 1199)
Chapter 59: Four for the Aces (p. 1205)
• Study for Four Aces (p. 1207)
• The Joker is a Diakka (p. 1220)
• The Knowledgeable Cards (p. 1233)
• Slow Henry (p. 1239)
Chapter 60: Firm Favorites (p. 1251)
• The History of Playing Cards (p. 1253)
• The Homesick Jesters (p. 1260)
• The Endless Loop (p. 1269)
• Stop! (p. 1276)
Chapter 61: Gambles (p. 1283)
• Fantasist at the Card Table (p. 1285)
• The Poker Player’s Royal Flush (p. 1298)
• Poker Burn (p. 1303)
Chapter 62: Mental Effects (p. 1309)
• Insured Prediction (p. 1311)
• Mind-and Sightless (p. 1318)
• Telekinesis (p. 1326)
Chapter 63: Cards Co. (p. 1331)
• The Color-changing Deck (p. 1333)
• Superlative Lover (p. 1344)
• The Joker Folds Up (p. 1349)
• All’s Wells That Ends Wells (p. 1361)
• On the LePaul Envelope Set (p. 1367)
• Wallet Bound (p. 1375)
Chapter 64: A Cardman’s Humor (p. 1383)
Bibliographic Notes (p. 1395)
Cumulative Index (p. 1403)
INDEX
• above-the-spread cull (V4) 901–903
• accessories for learning (V2) 481–483
• Ace-capades (V4) 1055–1056
• Aces Off the Cuff (V2) 265–268, 429
• Ackerman, Allan (V3) 771, (V5) 1192
• Acrobat Family, The (V1) 123–124, (V2) 395, 421, 429
• Acrobatic Aces, The (V3) 694–697
• active techniques (V2) 447
• aesthetic (V1) 4
• affas-gaffas false cut (V2) 391–392
• Affinity in Numbers (V5) 1153–1156
• Al Baker’s Second Book (V3) 679
• Alfonso (V2) 324
• all-around square-up (V1) 20
• all-around square-up lap (V4) 963
• all-around square-up turnover (V4) 1045–1046
• Allerton, Bert (V2) 476, (V4) 815, 1016, 1040
• Allerton change (V4) 815–816
• All’s Wells That Ends Wells (V5) 1361–1366
• Ambitious 1-2-3-4 (V3) 568–570
• Ambitious Card, The (V2) 337–343, 421, 428, 429, 430
• …And a Pack of Cards (V4) 844
• Anderson, Gene (V2) 482, (V4) 1065
• Andra, Rolf (V5) 1149
• Andrus, Jerry (V4) 1022
• Annemann, Theodore (V1) xii, 7, 133, 228, (V2) 374, 440, (V4) 845, 924, 944, 946
• Aronson, Simon (V5) 1192
• “as if” principle (V2) 426–427
• Ascanio, Arturo de (V1) xi, xii, 7, 236, (V2) 271, 317, 321, 409, 427, 448, 457, 477, 480, (V3) xxxv, xxxvii, 595, 598, 599, 612, 643, 759, (V4) 853, 997, 1017, 1058, 1059, 1062, (V5) 1239, 1246, 1342
• Ascanio spread (V3) 595–598
• Ascanio spread fan (V3) 598–599
• Aste, Charles, Jr. (V4) 1000
• ATFUS (V1) 208–210
• Baker, Al (V1) xxii, (V3) 568, 679, (V4) 874
• Balducci card wallet (V2) 470
• Balducci, Ed (V1) 86
• Balducci force (V1) 86–87
• Balducci wallet (V5) 1375
• Bannon, John (V4) 803
• Barnhart, Russell (V4) 1037
• Bauer, Ron (V3) 573
• Baxter, Ian (V1) 114
• Belchou, Steve (V5) 1298
• Benatar, Rafael (V3) 533
• Benzais flourish spin cut (V1) 116
• Benzais, John (V1) 116
• Bertram, Charles (V1) 7
• best way to learn from this book (V1) 2
• Biddle, Elmer (V3) 507
• Biddle steal (V3) 507–509
• Bilis, Bernard (V3) xxxvi, 616, 617, 733, (V4) 1033
• Bilis transformation (V3) 617–618
• Binarelli, Tony (V5) 1344
• Blavatsky, H. P. (V5) 1220
• block push-off (V4) 853
• block push-off, Marlo’s (V4) 854
• block transfer (V3) 648
• Bloom, Gaëtan (V2) 438, (V5) 1390
• bluff cut (V3) 514
• bluff multiple shift (V3) 668–669
• bluff pass (V3) 555–558
• body language (V2) 412–413, 443
• Book of Thoth, The (V5) 1253
• Books of Wonder, The (V4) 1059
• boomerang card (V1) 175–176
• Borer, Christoph (V3) 546, (V4) 1000
• Bossi, Vanni (V1) 7, (V3) 731, 755, (V4) 797, 798, 807, (V5) 1344, 1391
• bottom bluff force (V4) 803–804
• bottom card all-around square-up glimpse (V2) 357
• bottom-card lap (V4) 961–962
• bottom deal (V3) 586, (V4) 940–942, (V5) 1280–1281
• bottom palm, left-hand (V3) 713–716
• bottom palm, right-hand (V3) 717–720
• bottom palming multiple cards in your right hand (V3) 720–722
• Braue addition (V1) 204–206
• Braue, Frederick (V1) xii, 7, 49, 51, 101, 125, 204, (V2) 341, 350, 367, (V3) 580, (V4) 973
• Braue reverse (V2) 367–368
• break (V1) 28–32
• break, covering transfer of (V1) 198–200
• break, techniques with the (V3) 529–534
• break, transferring from thumb to little finger (V1) 198
• break, transferring from thumb to heel of thumb (V1) 197
• break, wedge (V5) 1322
• bridge control (V3) 562–563
• bridge-size decks (V1) 10–11
• bringing the bottom card to the top (V2) 253
• broad one-handed fan (V1) 181–182
• Brooke, Ken (V5) 1349, 1381
• Bruce, Gordon (V3) 580, 722, 766, (V4) 1035
• bubble peek (V4) 993
• buckle (V1) 212–213
• buckle count (V2) 318–319
• Buckley, Arthur (V3) 759
• Bühler, Max (Cherry Maxim) (V5) 1149
• Burger, Eugene (V2) 435, 478
• Burgess, Clinton (V4) 984
• Call Your Hand (V4) 944–946
• Calvino, Italo (V3) xxxvii
• Cannibal Cards, The (V3) 619, 700
• card case (V1) 11
• Card Catcher (V2) 360–362
• Card Collection (V4) 1002–1005
• card decks (V1) 10
• Card in Card Case (V5) 1108–1109
• Card in the Glass, The (V3) 731–732
• Card in the Wallet, The (V4) 797, 798, 807–808
• Card Magic of LePaul, The (V3) 694, (V5) 1367
• card size (V1) 9
• card-spread switch (V4) 814–815
• Card That Wasn’t There, The (V3) 775
• Card Through Handkerchief (V2) 305–307, 431
• Cardano, Girolomo (V1) 6
• Cardini (V3) 671
• Cardini’s overhand multiple shift (V3) 671–672
• Cards Across (V2) 292
• Cards of Capistrano, The (V2) 292–294, 422, 453
• Cards of Destiny, The (V5) 1192–1198
• Cardsharp, The (V4) 873–874
• Carlyle, Francis (V2) 288, (V3) 740, (V4) 801
• Carney, John (V3) 529, 673, 674, (V4) 840
• Carney’s natural multiple shift (V3) 673–674
• Carré, David (V3) 766
• Carroll, José (V2) 448, (V4) 855
• cascade, the (V2) 399–400
• Catch 22 (V4) 990–992
• center-card glimpse (V2) 359
• Cervon, Bruce (V1) 114, 116, (V3) 631, 693, (V4) 1045, (V5) 1311
• Cervon pivot revelation (V1) 117
• Chamberlain, Kenneth (V1) 228
• changes (V1) 232
• Charles V, Emperor (V1) 6
• Charlier (V1) 172, (V5) 1110
• Charlier cut (V1) 172–173
• Charlier shuffle (V5) 1110–1112
• Chelman, Christian (V4) 949
• Cheops, Fernando (V4) 953
• Cheops’s Dunbury Sandwich (V4) 953–954
• choosing material (V2) 476–477
• Christ, Henry (V3) 700, (V4) 988, (V5) 1129, 1207
• Christ twist (V4) 988–989
• Ciurò, Padre R. P. Wenceslao (V1) xii, 7
• classic force (V1) 217–224
• classic pass (V2) 297–299
• Cliff Green’s double lift (V4) 822
• close-up pad (V1) 12
• closed riffle shuffle (V1) 3
• Coalaces (V5) 1178–1180
• cold-deck cut, Dai Vernon’s (V2) 389–390
• Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Volume II, The (V3) 693
• Collins, Stanley (V1) 206, (V4) 814
• Colombini, Aldo (V5) 1388, 1392
• Color-changing Deck, The (V5) 1333–1343
• combination false shuffle (V3) 645
• combination false shuffle and cut (V3) 646–647
• complete cut (V1) 21
• concealing palmed cards in hand (V2) 277–285
• conjurer’s choice (V2) 440
• Conradi-Horster (V1) 7, 60
• construction (V2) 426–432
• construction of a program (V2) 429–432
• construction of a routine (V2) 428–429
• construction of a trick (V2) 426–428
• control of the bottom card (overhand shuffle) (V1) 43–44
• control of the bottom stock (overhand shuffle) (V1) 47–48
• control of the bottom stock (riffle shuffle) (V1) 109
• control of the top card (overhand shuffle) (V1) 43
• control of the top stock (overhand shuffle) (V1) 44–46
• control of the top stock (riffle shuffle) (V1) 109
• controlled riffle shuffle (V1) 10
• controlling the entire deck the G. W. Hunter shuffle (V2) 259–260
• controlling the entire deck the optical shuffle (V2) 260–261
• controlling the top and bottom stocks (V2) 254–256
• controlling the top stock with a riffle shuffle (V3) 645–646
• convincing control (V3) 551–554
• convincing control palm (V3) 771–772
• Corinda, Tony (V2) 460
• Cornelius, John (V4) 904
• Costi, Davide (V4) 797
• Coué, Emil (V1) 125
• Coué Test, The (V1) 125–126, (V2) 415, 420, 428, 431, 436
• count switch (V4) 853–854
• Countdown Stop (V5) 1170–1173
• counting cards in a fan (V3) 509
• counting cards while spreading them between the hands (V3) 510–511
• Counts, Cuts, Moves and Subtlety (V2) 310
• Court Card Conclave (V1) 63, (V2) 429
• cover pass (V4) 984–985
• cover-up cut (V2) 326
• credit-card force (V4) 797–798
• credits (V1) xiii
• crimp (V1) 79, (V2) 346–348
• crimped card, cutting to a (V2) 349
• crimping with an overhand shuffle (V2) 348
• crimping with the heel of the thumb (V2) 347–348
• crimping with the index finger (V2) 347
• crisscross force (V1) 85, 224
• crocodile technique (V3) 510, 531
• cull (V1) 186
• cull, Grismer (V4) 897–898
• curious count (V4) 799
• Curry, Paul (V3) 733, (V4) 811, (V5) 1333
• Curry turnover change (V4) 811–813
• cut force (V4) 796
• cut, true running (V2) 386–387
• cut, true, single tabled (V2) 381–383
• cut, up the ladder (V2) 388
• Cyprian, Father (V3) 747, 748, (V5) 1178
• da Vinci, Leonardo (V1) 6, (V3) 512, (V5) 1260
• Dad Stevens, King of the Card Cheats (V3) 657–659
• Dai Vernon’s cold-deck cut (V2) 389–390
• Daley, Dr. Jacob (V1) xii, (V2) 368, 370, (V3) 641, (V5) 1170
• D’Amico, Carmen (V2) 360, 396, (V3) 611, 670, (V4) 822
• D’Amico spread (V3) 611–612
• D’Amico’s double lift (V2) 396
• Dance of the Cannibals, The (V3) 619–626
• Daryl (V2) 451, (V3) 560, (V4) 1000, (V5) 1289
• Davis, A. J. (V5) 1220
• Day Trippers (V4) 857–858
• de Courcy, Howard (V2) 404
• de Ferrara, Giovanni de Jasone (V1) 6
• de Gebelin, Court (V5) 1253
• De Stultitate (V1) 6
• dealing cards (V1) 24–25
• dealing cards face down (V1) 25
• dealing cards face up (V1) 26
• dealing position (V1) 15–16
• deck switch in the context of a trick (V4) 868–875
• deck turnover reverse (V2) 372–373
• Decremps, Henri (V5) 1276, 1326
• Design for Laughter (V1) 125
• Dhotel, Dr. Jules (V1) 7, 178
• Diaconis, Persi (V1) 113, (V4) 1024
• diagonal insertion (V1) 69–71
• diagonal insertion and fan (V3) 540
• diagonal palm shift (V3) 767–771
• Dingle, Derek (V1) 7
• direct deck switch (V4) 865–868
• direct load (sandwich) (V4) 950
• direct overhand shuffle control (V3) 559–560
• direct Zarrow shuffle (V3) 634–636
• directing attention (V2) 434–445
• disasters (V2) 461–464
• Discoverie of Witchcraft (V1) 7
• display load (sandwich) (V4) 949
• display pass (V4) 985–986
• displaying all the cards as identical (V3) 610–611
• disturbances from the audience (V2) 464–474
• double-crossing the gaze (V3) 728
• double cut (V1) 95–96
• double deal (V4) 934–936
• double lift (V1) 7, 129–130
• double lift, Cliff Green’s (V4) 1009–1010
• double lift, D’Amico’s (V2) 396
• double lift finesse (V3) 584
• double turnover from a spread in the hands (V5) 1129–1132
• double lift from the center (V3) 575–577
• double lift reverse (V2) 368–369
• Double Rise (V3) 590
• double turnover (V1) 130–131, (V2) 331–334
• double turnover reverse (V2) 370–371
• Dowd, Tommy (V3) 724
• downjog cull (V4) 899–901
• Downs change (V3) 753
• Downs, T. Nelson (V3) 753, 759
• draw method of dealing (V1) 25
• dribble break (V3) 529–530
• dribble force (V3) 547, (V4) 804
• dribble pass (V2) 301, (V3) 547, (V4) 982–983
• dribbling cards (V1) 24
• Driebeek, Bob (V3) 755
• drop jog (V3) 540
• Duffie, Peter (V4) 834
• Dunbury Delusion, The (V3) 565
• Easy Poker Demonstration (V4) 1053–1054
• economics (V1) 3
• Editorial Frakson (V1) xii
• Edmuller, Andreas (V4) 1017
• Edwards, Doug (V4) 840
• El Prestidigitador Optimus (V4) 873
• elevated dealing position (V1) 18
• Elevator Cards (V1) 123
• Elias, Neal (V3) 664, (V5) 1145
• Elliott, Dr. James W. (V2) 299, 300, 479
• Elmsley, Alex (V1) 7, 208, (V3) 619, (V4) 834
• Elmsley count (V2) 311–314, (V3) 499
• Emotional Reaction (V2) 470, (V3) 564
• Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (V5) 1303
• end grip (V1) 17
• Endfield, Cy (V1) 72, (V3) 752, (V4) 818
• Endless Loop, The (V5) 1269–1275
• Erdnase break (V3) 534
• Erdnase, S. W. (V1) xii, 4, 7, 107, (V2) 391, (V3) 543, 612, 729, 738, 744, 767, 771, (V4) 898, 915
• Erdnase stack shuffle (V4) 915–916
• Erdnase system of cull shuffling (V4) 907
• Escher, M. C. (V5) 1269
• Escorial conferences (V1) xxi
• Escuela Magica de Madrid (V1) x, xi, (V2) 432, (V3) xxxvi, (V4) 1058
• estimation (V5) 1147
• estimation, fingernail (V4) 883–884
• estimation, visual (V4) 879–883
• Everhart, Frank (V5) 1344
• Everywhere and Nowhere (V4) 827–831
• Expert at the Card Table, The (V1) 7, (V3) 646, 744, 767
• Expert Card Technique (V1) 101, (V2) 350, (V3) 693, 748, (V5) 1276
• fadeaway card change (V3) 748–749
• false cut, affas-gaffas (V2) 391–392
• false cut, Dai Vernon’s cold-deck (V2) 389–390
• false cut from the hand, optical (V1) 57
• false cut, gambler’s triple (V2) 392
• false cut, simple (V1) 59
• false cut, single, tabled (V2) 384, 385–386
• false cut, triple (V1) 60
• false deal (V1) 8
• false display, rhythm for 317
• false Hindu shuffle (V4) 904
• false riffle shuffle (V1) 10
• false shuffle (V1) 8
• false swing cut (V1) 58
• fan and step (V3) 536–537
• fanning powder (V1) 11
• Fantasist at the Card Trick (V5) 1285–1297
• faro control, incomplete (V3) 689–691
• faro, in- (V3) 691
• faro, incomplete (V3) 692
• faro, out- (V3) 691
• faro, partial (V3) 683–686, 691
• faro, perfect (V3) 687–689
• faro shuffle, mathematical basis of the (V3) 692–693
• Faro Shuffle, The (V3) 686
• faro slough-off (V3) 686–687
• faro, straddle (V3) 692
• Ferguson, Dick (V3) 523
• Fialho, Philippe (V5) 1359
• Fields, Eddie (V4) 944
• Fine Art of Magic, The (V4) 802
• fingernail estimation (V4) 883–884
• Findley, Arthur (V1) 49
• Finnegins Rewake (V2) 304–305
• Finnell, Gene (V3) 697
• FIRP (V4) 1036–1037
• Fischer, Ottokar (V1) 7, (V3) 548, (V4) 818, (V5) 1146
• Flash Transposition (V4) 855–857
• Fleischman, Sid (V5) 1387
• flip-flap cut (V2) 402–404
• flip-flop change (V3) 747–748
• Florensa, Alfredo (V3) xxxvi
• flourishes (V1) 168
• Flushtration count (V3) 609–610
• forcing under a handkerchief (V4) 802–803
• forming a little-finger break under multiple cards (V1) 31
• forming a little-finger break under the top card—one-handed method (V1) 30
• forming a little-finger break under the top card—two-handed method (V1) 29
• forming an injog (V1) 44
• Forte, Steve (V4) 920
• fortunetelling (V1) 6
• four-card turnover display (V4) 1019
• Four Seasons, The (V3) 525–526
• Fox, Karrell (V1) 81
• Frakson, José (V3) 498
• Frank Lane stack (V4) 917–918
• Frank Shields display (V4) 1020–1021
• Freeman, Steve (V3) 588
• Fricker, François (V5) 1394
• Fu-Manchu (V4) 1, 1064
• Fulves, Karl (V4) 921
• future reverse (V4) 1030–1031
• G. W. Hunter shuffle (V2) 259–260
• Galasso, Horatio (V1) 7
• Gambler in Person, The (V4) 924–927
• gamblers (V1) 6
• gambler’s bottom-card glimpse (V5) 1123
• gambler’s cop (V3) 707–710
• gambler’s cop, management strategies for (V3) 709
• gambler’s cop, replacing cards under deck (V3) 710
• gambler’s deck switch (V4) 865–867
• gambler’s false triple cut (V2) 392
• gamblers’ packet switch (V4) 844–845
• gamblers’ turnover (V4) 1048–1049
• Ganson, Lewis (V1) 7, 239
• Garcia, Frank (V1) 7, (V2) 376, 391, (V3) 635, (V4) 1055, (V5) 1199, 1239, 1344
• Gardner, Martin (V2) 262, (V3) 700
• Gaultier, Camille (V1) xxii, 7, (V4) 795
• Gemini count (V3) 604–606
• German Card Workshop (V1) 224
• Gestalt (V3) 499–500
• get-ready, double lift (V1) 128
• Gide, André (V5) 1303
• Giochi di Carte bellissimi di regola, e di memoria (V1) 7
• glide (V1) 121–122
• glide change (V4) 822–823
• glimpse and placement (V1) 140–142
• glimpse, bottom card all-around square-up (V2) 357
• glimpse, center-card (V2) 359
• glimpse, gambler’s bottom-card (V5) 1123
• glimpse of bottom card with a Hindu shuffle (V1) 157
• glimpse, overhand shuffle (V5) 1122
• glimpse, top-card double lift (V2) 356
• glimpse, top-card riffle (V2) 355
• glimpse, top-card riffle shuffle (V2) 356
• glimpses, situational bottom card (V2) 357–358
• Gödel, Escher, Bach (V5) 1269
• Goldberg, Gary (V4) 1036
• Goldin force (V1) 88–89
• Goldin, Horace (V1) 88
• Goldstein, Phil (V1) 7, (V2) 324, 440
• Good Number, A (V1) 191
• Goodwin, Bill (V4) 954
• Goshman, Albert (V4) 961, (V5) 1394
• Grant, U. F. (V1) 68
• Green angle separation (V4) 903–905
• Green, Cliff (V4) 1009
• Green, Lennart (V4) 903, 1065
• Grippo, Jimmy (V1) 145, (V2) 288, (V5) 1391
• Grismer cull (V4) 897–898
• Grismer, Ray (V4) 897
• half-pass, spread (V4) 987–988
• Hamman, Brother John (V2) 315, 320, 321, 324, 448, (V3) 577, 604, (V4) 834, 836, (V5) 1269, 1359
• Hamman count (V2) 315–317
• Hamman two-for-four count (V2) 320
• Hamman’s sandwich switch (V4) 836
• hand care (V1) 9
• hand strength exerciser (V2) 481
• hand weights (V2) 481
• handling (V2) 448–452
• hands (V1) 8
• Happy Birthday Card Trick, The (V5) 1157–1159
• Harris, Paul (V1) xxii, (V3) 616, 775, (V5) 1174, 1394
• Hartman, J. K. (V2) 268
• Hat Trick (V1) 62
• Hatch, Richard (V2) 466
• Headliner! (V1) 228–229, (V2) 431
• Hennig, Bruno (Joro) (V5) 1349
• Herrmann, Alexander (V4) 976
• Hierophant, The (V5) 1311
• Hilliard, John Northern (V1) xii, 7
• Hindu shuffle (V1) 79, 155–156
• Hindu shuffle control of a single card (V1) 160–161
• Hindu shuffle control of multiple cards (V1) 161
• Hindu shuffle force (V1) 158–159
• History of Playing Cards, The (V5) 1253–1259
• Hofmann, Professor (V1) xii, 7
• Hofzinser, J. N. (V1) xii, 4, 7, 186, 189, (V2) 292, (V3) 546, 720, (V4) 1, 851, 818, 827, (V5) 1146, 1178, 1233, 1269
• “Hofzinser” top change (V4) 818–820
• Hofstadter, Douglas R. (V5) 1269
• Hold the Mayo (V4) 954–957
• Holden, Max (V1) 85
• holding back a card in the card case (V3) 515
• holdout, knee (V4) 967
• holdout, trousers-fold (V4) 870, 966
• Holy Smoke! (V3) 755–756
• Homing Card (V2) 288
• Homing Card Plus (V2) 288–292, 426, 428, 431, 440, 453, 457
• Homesick Jester, The (V5) 1260–1268
• Horowitz, S. Leo (V2) 368, (V4) 910
• Horster, Conrad (V1) 7, 60
• Houdini color change (V3) 744–746
• Houdini, Harry (V3) 744
• Houghton, Norman (V3) 668, 722
• How Lucky Can You Get? (V5) 1188–1191
• how to get the most from this book (V1) 1
• Hugard and Braue (V3) 748
• Hugard, Jean (V1) xii, 7, 49, 51, 101, 125, (V2) 350, (V4) 973
• Hull, R. W. (V4) 891
• humor (V2) 418–420, (V5) 1385–1394
• Hunter, G. W. (V2) 259
• Impossibility (V4) 889–891
• Impossible! (V2) 363
• In a Flash (V4) 871–873
• in-faro (V3) 691
• in-the-hands false shuffle (V3) 651–653
• in-transit actions (V2) 334, 457–458
• incomplete faro (V3) 692
• incomplete faro control (V3) 689–691
• Ingold (V1) 6
• injog (V1) 31, 44
• injog and step after the cut (V3) 542
• injog handling, an (V3) 541
• injog shuffle (V1) 44–46
• injog, techniques with the (V3) 538–543
• injogged cards, general reflections on (V3) 543
• inner game (V1) 221–222
• inserting a card into a break (V3) 533
• insertion of the cards for a multiple shift (V3) 663–664
• Insured Prediction (V5) 1311–1317
• Invisible Card, The (V3) 508, 523–525
• invisible pass (V4) 973–976
• Ireland, Laurie (V5) 1119
• J. N. Hofzinser’s Card Conjuring (Kartenkünste) (V3) 548, (V5) 1146
• Jack Merlin’s riffle shuffle (V1) 177–178
• Jacob Daley’s Notebooks (V5) 1170
• James, Wesley (V3) 619, 626
• jass (V1) 56, 10
• Jay, Ricky (V1) 4, (V4) 1068
• Jean-Claude Pages’s lapping method (V4) 963–964
• Jennings, Larry (V1) xii, 51, 239, (V3) 534, 565, 575, 607, 720, (V4) 846, 1033, (V5) 1233, 1269, 1281, 1361
• Jinx change (V1) 240, (V2) 459, (V4) 845–846
• Jinx, The (V4) 845, (V5) 1285
• Joker Folds Up, The (V5) 1349–1360
• Joker is a Diakka, The (V5) 1220–1232
• joker switch (V4) 867–868
• Jordan, Charles T. (V1) 113, (V2) 314, (V5) 1119
• Jordan count (V2) 314–315
• Joro (Bruno Hennig) (V5) 1349
• Jumping Pulse, The (V1) 227–228, (V2) 428
• K. M. move (V3) 518–519
• Kalanag (Helmut Schreiber) (V5) 1349
• Kalush, William (V1) 7
• Kane, Peter (V3) 694, 695, 697, (V5) 1239
• Kane’s shooting joker production (V3) 695–696
• Kaplan, George (V1) xii, (V3) 523, (V4) 802
• Kaps card wallet (V2) 470, (V5) 1375
• Kaps, Fred (V2) 260, 322, 434, 438, 444, (V3) 500, 555, 709, 733, 755, (V4) 816, 853, 962, 1017, 1066, (V5) 1104, 1265, 1349, 1359
• Kaps switch (V4) 816–818
• Kardyro, Tony (V3) 518, (V5) 1129
• Kaufman, Richard (V1) 7
• Keable, Ian (V5) 1392
• key card (V1) 79, 136–144
• key-card control in a hand-to-hand spread (V1) 142–143
• key card in a hand-to-hand spread (V1) 137–138
• key card in a ribbon spread (V1) 138–140, (V2) 413
• key card, letting spectator shuffle with (V1) 144
• key-card placement (V1) 137–140
• key card, placement with a Hindu shuffle (V1) 157–158
• key-card placement with the lift shuffle (V2) 258–259
• key card, shuffling with (V1) 144
• Klause, Roger (V3) 770, (V4) 1016, (V5) 1335
• knee holdout (V4) 967
• Knowledgeable Cards, The (V5) 1233–1238
• Koomwinder, Dick (V2) 466, (V5) 1390
• Kosky, Gerald (V4) 951
• Kosky switch (V4) 951–952
• Krenzel, Ken (V1) 77, (V3) 697, (V4) 990, (V5) 1106
• Krenzel’s gun production (V3) 697
• Lacerda, Pedro (V3) xxxvi
• Lambert, Hubert (V2) 401
• Lane, Frank (V2) 357, (V4) 917
• lap, all-around square-up (V4) 963
• lap, bottom-card (V4) 961–962
• lap control (V4) 965
• lapping method, Jean-Claude Pages’s (V4) 963–964
• Larreverse (V4) 1033–1036
• Larreverse, Gordon Bruce handling (V4) 1035–1036
• Lavand, René (V1) xii, (V2) 448, 451, (V4) 1061, 1064, 1068
• Leech, Al (V2) 265, (V4) 1017, 1055, (V5) 1344
• Lees, Walt (V3) 766
• left-hand bottom palm (V3) 713–716
• Lees, Walt (V5) 1269
• leg reverse (V2) 371–372
• Leipzig, Nate (V1) 173, (V2) 401, 432, 465, (V3) 502, 694, 695, 740, 741, 743, 758, 759, 763, (V5) 1349
• Leipzig’s paintbrush card production 695
• Leipzig’s swivel cut (V1) 173–174, (V2) 401
• LePaul automatic jog-control (V3) 538–539
• LePaul envelope set (V5) 1367–1374
• LePaul fan control (V3) 770
• LePaul, Paul (V1) xii, (V3) 538, 555, 694, 695, (V4) 822, 978, 1032, (V5) 1367
• LePaul’s acrobatic ace production (V3) 694–695
• lessinout shuffle (V4) 898
• Lewis, Trevor (V5) 1106, 1375
• l’Homme Masqué (V4) 795
• Lie Detector, The (V1) 91–92, (V2) 431
• Liebenow, Erhard (V4) 1019
• lift shuffle (V2) 257–259
• lift shuffle, key-card placement with the (V2) 258–259
• lift shuffle, top stock control with the (V2) 257–258
• little-finger break (V1) 28–29
• little-finger count (V1) 8, 201–202
• Loewy palm (V3) 712–713
• Loewy, Professor Morris (V3) 712
• logical control (V3) 560–561
• Lorayne, Harry (V1) 6, 113, (V5) 1269, 1311
• Lorca, Garcia (V3) xxxv
• Low, Frederick (V3) 573
• Lucky Card, The (V1) 164–165, (V2) 431
• Lucky Coin, The (V1) 241–244, (V2) 420, 431
• McBride, Jeff (V5) 1391
• M.I.N.T., Volume 1 (V1) 210
• Magic Castle (V2) 324
• Magic Phone Number, The (V1) 191–192, (V2) 430
• Magic Pyramid (V4) 1059–1069
• Magische Welt (V4) 1024
• Magus Card, The (V1) 162–164, (V2) 428, 431, 435
• management (V2) 453–454
• Mantovani, Tony (V5) 1267
• Marlo, Edward (V1) xii, 7, 75, 87, 123, 171, 191, 208, 210, (V2) 265, 326, 339, 360, 446, (V3) 518, 573, 603, 610, 626, 664, 674, 676, 686, 689, 724, 727, 759, 764, (V4) 793, 797, 807, 840, 848, 849, 854, 855, 867, 885, 898, 952, 1000, 1030, 1035, 1037, (V5) 1108, 1145, 1269, 1344, 1387
• Maro, Sven (V1) 132
• Maskelyne, John Nevil (V1) xii
• Master Grip, The (V3) 544–546
• Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (V3) 700
• Max Maven’s Book of Fortunetelling (V5) 1254
• mechanical reverse (V4) 991
• Maxim, Cherry (Max Bühler) (V5) 1149
• Meier, Carlhorst (V2) 289, 307, (V4) 868, (V5) 1104, 1350
• Mendoza, Harry (V5) 1344
• Mendoza, John (V4) 840
• Mentzer, Jerry (V2) 310
• Merlin, Jack (V1) 177, (V4) 844
• Metamorphosis (V1) 239–241, (V2) 420, 430
• metronome (V2) 482
• Mexican turnover (V4) 824–826
• Michel, Andreas (V4) 1065
• milk-build shuffle (V4) 916–917
• Miller, Charles Earle (V3) 671, (V4) 1039, (V5) 1220
• Minch, Stephen (V1) 7
• Mind and Sightless (V5) 1318–1325
• Miracle Aces, The (V4) 885–888
• Miraculous Coincidence (V4) 891–893
• mirror (V2) 482
• misdirection (V2) 434–445
• mishmash force (V4) 801
• mistakes, technical (V2) 462–464
• Moe’s Move a Card (V1) 145
• Monarchs’ Quartette (V1) 239
• Monde primitive, Le (V5) 1253
• Monreal, Luis (V1) 5
• Montague, Frederick (V3) 555
• Moracle (V4) 921–922
• Moser, Fritz (V1) 132
• moving finger force (V4) 805–807
• Müller, Reinhard (V3) 598
• Mullica, Tom (V4) 924, (V5) 1390
• multiple controls (V1) 161
• multiple lift display sequence (V3) 607–608, (V5) 1227–1229
• multiple peek control (V1) 76–77
• multiple shift (V1) 161, (V3) 661–680
• Mysterious Kid, The (V3) 641
• Nash, Martin A. (V2) 442, (V3) 544, 573, 645, 676, 759, (V4) 873, (V5) 1233
• naturalness (V2) 449–452
• Navajas, Joaquin (V3) xxxvi
• Navajas y daltonismo (V5) 1342
• negative insertion (V2) 427
• Nelson, Earl (V2) 265, (V3) 771
• New Stars of Magic (V3) 656
• Newton, Sir Isaac (V4) 1064
• Norman Houghton’s pocket extraction (V3) 722–724
• Numerology (V3) 700–702
• Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée (V5) 1239
• obtaining duplicate of spectator’s signature (V5) 1134–1136
• O’Connor, Billy (V3) 498
• Off Again, On Agin, Finnegin! (V2) 304
• Oil and Water (V3) 508, 711
• Okito-box turnover (V4) 1051–1052
• Olram subtlety (V3) 603
• Olram’s Jinx switch (V4) 848
• one-card middle pass (V1) 77–79
• one-handed palm (V3) 705–707
• one-handed riffle shuffle (V2) 404–406
• one-handed tilt get-ready (V4) 999
• open display (V3) 570, 599–602
• Open Prediction, The (V3) 733–735
• open riffle shuffle (V1) 3
• optical replacement (V3) 579
• optical shuffle (V2) 260–261
• Ortiz, Darwin (V2) 392, 451, (V4) 920, (V5) 1239
• out-faro (V3) 691
• outjog (V1) 23, (V2) 255
• outjogging cards as they are spread between the hands (V1) 23
• outs (V1) 222–224, (V2) 462–474
• over-count (V3) 606–607
• overhand lift shuffle run-up (V5) 1113–1118
• overhand shuffle (V1) 29–48, (V2) 252–261
• overhand shuffle control (V1) 67
• overhand shuffle, crimping with an (V2) 348
• overhand shuffle glimpse (V5) 1122
• Pabular (V5) 1375
• packet force (V4) 799–800
• Pacioli, Luca (V1) 6
• Page, Bob (V3) 686
• Pages, Jean-Claude (V4) 963
• paintbrush color change (V5) 1165–1168
• Palindrome Cards, The (V3) 585–588
• palm grip (V2) 272
• palm, Loewy (V3) 712–713
• palm, one-handed (V3) 705–707
• palm reverse (V4) 1032–1033
• palm, transfer (V3) 710–711
• palming (V1) 8, 24
• palming multiple cards from top (V2) 276
• palming, theoretical considerations (V2) 271
• Parrish, Robert (V5) 1220
• Partagas “Sell”, The (V3) 565
• Partagas, Joaquin (V1) 125, (V4) 873
• Pasqua, Gianni (V4) 1020
• pass (V1) 8, 79
• pass, classic (V2) 297–299
• pass, covers for (V2) 300–303, (V4) 984–985
• pass, display (V4) 985–986
• pass, dribble (V2) 301, (V4) 982–983
• pass, invisible (V4) 973–976
• pass, riffle (V2) 300–301
• pass, spread (V4) 978–981
• pass, turnover (V4) 976–978
• passive techniques (V2) 448
• Pasteboard Blendo (V5) 1174–1177
• Paviato, Aurelio (V3) xxxv, xxxvi, (V5) 1359
• peek control (V1) 72–74
• peek control for two cards (V1) 75–76
• peek force (V4) 796
• Pemper, Frank (V4) 867
• pendulum switch (V4) 846–847
• performance sectors (V5) 1213
• personality (V2) 410–411
• Phantom, The (V3) 775
• Phenomenal Memory, A (V1) 145–146, (V2) 421, 426, 428, 431, 438, 439
• Picasso, Pablo (V4) 1059, 1066
• pick-up stack (V4) 926
• Picnick at the Summit (V3) 773–775
• Picnick, Mack (V3) 773
• Picnick’s Aces (V3) 773
• pinch grip (V2) 311
• Pinetti, Giuseppe (V1) 7, (V5) 1276
• piquet (V1) 6, 10
• pirouette, the (V4) 1022
• Petite aventures de Jérôme Sharp, Les (V5) 1326
• plunger principle (V3) 539
• pocket extraction, Norman Houghton’s (V3) 722–724
• poker (V2) 262
• Poker Burn (V5) 1303–1307
• Poker Player’s Royal Flush, The (V5) 1298–1302
• poker-size decks (V1) 10–11
• Ponsin, J.-N. (V5) 1239
• pop-out, Ravelli’s (V4) 1024–1025
• popover move (V2) 268
• pop-up card (V1) 178, (V2) 341–343
• positive insertion (V2) 427
• post-peek overhand shuffle control (V1) 74–75
• presentation (V2) 409–425
• principle of mounting interest (V2) 428–429
• producing a card from your inner right jacket-pocket (1) (V3) 724–726
• producing a card from your inner right jacket-pocket (2) (V3) 727–729
• Professional Card Magic (V5) 1207
• program structure (V2) 430–431
• Pseudo-stack, The (V4) 923–924
• Psychological Test, A (V5) 1139–1145
• pull-through false shuffle (V3) 637–640
• push-in change (V4) 820–822
• push-off count (V2) 319–320
• push-off second deal (V4) 936–938
• push-over double lift (V3) 573–574
• push-over, single, double and multiple (V1) 211–212
• Question Is…, The (V1) 81, (V2) 413
• Question of Sex, A (V4) 805–807
• qui gong balls (V2) 481
• Quick-change Artists, The (V5) 1163–1169
• Racherbaumer, Jon (V4) 867, (V5) 1260, 1311
• Ramsay, John (V2) 437, (V4) l
• Ravelli (Dr. Ronald Wohl) (V2) 436, (V4) 839, 1024, (V5) 1397
• Ravelli pop-out (V4) 1024–1025
• Raxon, Fredo (V5) 1390
• Really Wild Nine-card Trick, The (V2) 321–324, 431
• red-black false shuffle (V3) 649–650
• Red-black Location, The (V1) 113–114
• red-black overhand shuffle (V1) 113, (V5) 1119–1121
• references (V3) 504
• Remember and Forget (V3) 546–548
• replacing palmed cards (V2) 285–287
• replacing palmed cards on the bottom of the deck (V3) 729–730
• Return of the Phantom, The (V3) 775–778
• reverse, Braue (V2) 367–368
• reverse, deck turnover (V2) 372–373
• reverse, double lift (V2) 368–369
• reverse, double turnover (V2) 370–371
• reverse, future (V4) 1030–1031
• Reverse Interlude (V4) 1039–1040
• reverse, leg (V2) 371–372
• reverse one-handed fan (V1) 182–183
• reverse, palm (V4) 1032–1033
• reverse, riffle-shuffle (V4) 1037–1038
• reverse, swing-cut (V4) 1029–1030
• Reversible Mix-up (V2) 376–377
• Rezvani, Medjid-Khan (V5) 1326
• Rhod, Daniel (V2) 282, (V3) 579
• ribbon spread (V1) 35–36
• ribbon spread and step (V3) 535
• ribbon spread control with a key card (V1) 143
• ribbon-spread force (V4) 793–794
• ribbon spread turnover (V1) 183–184
• riffle force (V1) 224–226
• riffle pass (V2) 300–301
• riffle shuffle, closed (V1) 105–107
• riffle shuffle, Jack Merlin’s (V1) 177–178
• riffle shuffle, one-handed (V2) 404–406
• riffle shuffle, open (V1) 108–109
• riffle shuffle reverse (V4) 1037–1038
• riffle shuffle stacking (V4) 918–920
• riffle shuffle starting position (V1) 105
• riffle shuffle stock controls (V1) 109
• riffling the cards (V1) 34
• right-hand bottom palm (V3) 717–720
• right-hand bottom palm of multiple cards (V3) 720–722
• Rise and Swap (V1) 132, (V2) 431
• Rise and Switch (V3) 590–591
• Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène (V1) xii, 7, 221, 223, 232, (V2) 331, 408, 411, 456, (V4) l, 793, (V5) 1103
• Robinson, Fred (V1) xi, 189
• Rohnstein, Dr. Reinhard (V4) 857
• Ron McMillan’s Day of Magic (V3) xxxv
• Rosales, Luis (V3) xxxvi
• Roses, Terry (V4) 915
• Rosini, Paul (V1) 147
• Rossetti, Carlo (V1) 7
• Rotterberg, August (V1) xii, 7
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques (V1) 7
• routines (V2) 428–429
• Roxy (V4) 1020
• Royal Acrobats, The (V2) 313, 324–327, 431
• Royal Flush Finale (V1) 114–118, (V2) 429
• Royal Road to Card Magic, The (V1) xii, 49
• rule of three, the (V2) 422
• running single cards (V1) 42
• sail, the (V4) 942–943
• Sanders, Richard (V5) 1134
• Sanvert, Jean-Jacques (V3) 619
• Scarne, John (V1) 99, (V5) 1153
• Scarne on Card Tricks (V5) 1153
• Scherer, Christian (V2) 253, (V3) 676, 677
• Schmidt, J. K. (V2) 262
• Schwartz, Sam (V1) 149
• Schwarzman, Howard (V3) 744, (V4) 1000
• Scot, Reginald (V1) 7
• Scott, Walter Irving (V2) 481
• script, the (V2) 415–417
• Searles, Lin (V3) 525, 619, (V4) 921, (V5) 1239, 1388
• second deal, push-off (V4) 936–938
• second deal, strike (V4) 938–940
• secret addition of cards (V1) 203–204
• secret setup (V5) 1124–1128
• Seidenstein, “Moe” (V1) 145
• Selbit, P. T. (V3) 738
• Sellers, Tom (V4) 797
• Set-reset Plus (V3) 616–619
• setting multiple key cards (V3) 511
• Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (V1) 101–102, (V2) 427, 435
• Shamus Card, The (V1) 80, (V2) 428
• Sharpe, S. H. (V5) 1146
• Shields, Frank (V4) 1020
• Show Time at the Tom-foolery (V4) 924
• shuffle action (V1) 40
• shuffling off (V1) 40
• side shuffle (V4) 1015
• side-slip color change (V3) 739–740
• side steal, covers for the (V3) 762–763
• side-steal bottom placement and variations (V3) 764–765
• side-steal palm (V3) 765–766
• side-steal palm, simplified (V3) 766–767
• side-steal transfer (V3) 759–761
• Sign of Four (V5) 1199–1204
• silent script (V2) 416–417
• Simon, Bill (V3) 590, (V4) 840
• Simon, Frank (V3) 771
• simple (multiple) shift (V3) 674–676
• simple sandwich load (V4) 952
• simple turnover switch (V4) 813
• simplified side-steal palm (V3) 766–767
• single, double and multiple push-over (V1) 211–212
• single, tabled, false cut I (V2) 384
• single, tabled, false cut II (V2) 385–386
• skat (V1) 6, 10
• ski-jump 29
• Skinner, Michael (V3) 763, (V5) 1335, 1359
• slap change (V3) 741–742
• slip cut from dealing position (V1) 61
• Slow Henry (V5) 1239–1250
• Slydini, Tony (V1) xii, (V2) 289, 432, 448, 451, (V3) 729, (V4) l, 961, 1068, (V5) 1380
• small packet double lift (V3) 577–578
• Smith, Al (V3) 747
• snap-over color change (V5) 1133
• soap (V1) 9
• Solomon, David (V4) 953, (V5) 1258
• Soma, Francesco (V1) 7
• somersaulting card production (V1) 116
• Spectator Cuts the Aces, The (V1) 31, 51–53, (V2) 414, 430, 435, 453, 454, (V4) 796, (V5) 1139–1145, 1298–1302
• spectator holds the step (V3) 536
• spectator turnover (V4) 1051
• spectator’s signature, obtaining duplicate of (V5) 1134–1136
• spin revelation and display (V3) 512
• Spiritualism—Bottom Facts (V5) 1220
• spread crimp (V3) 561–562
• spread cull (V1) 79, 187–189
• spread-cull switch (V4) 833
• spread half-pass (V4) 987–988
• spread pass (V3) 543, 762, (V4) 978–981
• spreading the card in the hands (V1) 21
• spring riffle shuffle (V1) 176–177
• springing the cards (V2) 398–399
• squaring after the riffle shuffle (V1) 107–108
• squaring the deck (V1) 19
• stacking, riffle shuffle (V4) 918–920
• stage manipulations (V1) 168
• Stanton, Noel (V3) 585
• Stanyon count (V3) 621
• Stanyon, Ellis (V4) 984
• star turnover display (V4) 1020
• Stars of Magic (V3) 573, 656
• Steamboat switch (V4) 851–853
• step (V1) 33
• step, techniques with the (V3) 535–537
• stock (V1) 40
• Stop! (V5) 1276–1282
• Stop Trick, The (V4) 799, 910–912
• Stover, Mel (V1) 57
• straddle faro (V3) 692
• Strange Harmony (V5) 1146–1152
• Strasbourg Waltz, The (V3) 613–615
• strategy of posing questions (V2) 441
• strike second deal (V4) 938–940
• stud method of dealing (V1) 26
• Study for Four Aces (V5) 1207–1219
• study techniques (V2) 476–485
• Subconscious Poker (V2) 262–265, 431
• Suey, Richard (V3) xxxvi
• Super Subtle Card Miracles (V5) 1239
• Superlative Lover (V5) 1344–1348
• Super-sensitive Fingertips (V4) 992–994
• Sure Bet, A (V3) 508, 565–568
• Surprise, Jim (V4) 1002
• Surprise Spelling (V4) 1040–1041
• Susskind, David (V5) 1199
• swing cut (V1) 27
• swing-cut multiple shift (V3) 664–667
• swing-cut reverse (V4) 1029–1030
• swivel cut, Leipzig’s (V1) 173–174, (V2) 401
• swivelleroo cut (V2) 401–402
• T.N.T. bottom deal (V5) 1280–1281
• tabled multiple shift (V3) 676–678
• Talazac, Jean-Jacques-Maurice (V4) 842
• Talazac switch (V4) 842–843
• Tamariz, Juan (V1) xi, 7, 145, 203, 221, (V2) 289, 334, 335, 422, 437, 438, 442, 472, 476, 482, (V3) xxxvi, 498, 509, 580, 581, 635, 636, 649, 676, 693, 728, (V4) l, 827, 846, 852, 906, 918, 963, 1058, 1063, 1068, (V5) 1106, 1124, 1148, 1216, 1233, 1255, 1300, 1326, 1333, 1362, 1380
• tape recorder (V2) 482
• Tarbell, Harlan (V1) xii
• Tarot (V1) 6
• Taylor, Fred G. (V4) 799
• Taytelbaum ace production (V1) 115
• Taytelbaum, Eddy (V1) 115
• technique (V2) 446–448
• techniques, active (V2) 447
• techniques, passive (V2) 448
• Telekinesis (V5) 1326–1329
• terminology (V1) 3, (V3) 503–504
• Teschner, Rainer (V1) 224
• theory (V1) 4
• theory of false solutions (V2) 441–442
• Thompson, Frank (V5) 1183
• Thompson, Johnny (V3) xxxvi, (V5) 1139, 1320
• Thompson’s Aces (V5) 1183–1187
• Thot Echo (V1) 149
• Thought Stealer (V1) 49–51
• Three-card Monte (V5) 1103
• Three-way Excursion (V4) 859–862
• Through and Through (V3) 751–755
• Through the Table (V4) 870–871
• through-the-fist flourish (V4) 1046–1047
• thumb break (V1) 32
• thumb count (V1) 8, 197–200
• tilt (V4) 997–998
• tilt finesse I (V4) 1000
• tilt finesse II (V4) 1000–1001
• tilt get-ready, one-handed (V4) 999
• Time Machine, The (V3) 588–590
• Time Machine, The (V5) 1361
• time misdirection (V1) 85
• timing (V2) 456–460
• tip-over addition (V1) 206–208
• top-card double lift glimpse (V2) 356
• top-card riffle glimpse (V2) 355
• top-card riffle shuffle glimpse (V2) 356
• top change (V1) 233–238
• top change covers (V1) 236–238
• top palm (V2) 273–275
• top palm, multiple (V2) 276–277
• Tosheroon (V3) 755
• toss cut (V4) 1017
• toss force (V4) 795
• toss switch (V4) 840–842
• training techniques (V2) 483–484
• transfer cuts (V1) 79, 94–98
• transfer move (V3) 516–517
• transfer palm (V3) 710–711
• transfer turnover (V4) 1052
• transferring a break from the little finger to the heel of the thumb (V3) 532–533
• Transposition Extraordinary (V2) 350–351, 431
• Trapped (V3) 697
• Trapped in the Future (V4) 834–836
• Travers, Frank (V5) 1285
• treating cards (V1) 11
• Trick That Cannot Be Explained, The (V1) 148
• Trimental (V4) 906–910
• Triple Coincidence (V1) 99–101, (V2) 431, 436
• triple cut from bottom to top (V1) 98
• triple cut from top to bottom (V1) 97
• Triumph (V3) 654–657
• triumph shuffle (V3) 642–644, 648
• Trojan Deck, The (V4) 868–870
• Trost, Nick (V1) 63
• trousers-fold holdout (V4) 870, 966
• true running cut (V2) 386–387
• true, single, tabled cut (V2) 381–383
• Tucker, Tommy (V3) 555
• turning over the top card I (V1) 169
• turning over the top card II (V1) 170
• turning over the top card III (V1) 171
• turning over the top card IV (V1) 124, (V2) 395
• turning over the top card V (V2) 396
• turning over the top card VI (V2) 396–397
• turnover, all-around square-up (V4) 1045–1046
• turnover, gamblers’ (V4) 1048–1049
• turnover, Okito-box (V4) 1051–1052
• turnover palm switch (V4) 849–851
• turnover pass (V4) 976–978
• turnover replacement (V3) 580–581
• turnover, spectator (V4) 1051
• turnover, transfer (V4) 1052
• turnover, wristwatch (V4) 1049–1050
• twin falls shuffle (V4) 1017–1019
• Twin Fools (V5) 1104–1109
• twirl, the (V4) 1022–1024
• Twisting the Aces (V2) 324
• two-card catch (V4) 955
• Two Detectives, The (V3) 697–700
• two-for-four count (V2) 320
• two-handed fan (V1) 179–180
• Two Hands: Four Aces (V2) 265
• Ultra-ambitious (V4) 1005–1011
• under-the-spread force (V1) 189–190
• under-the-table force (V4) 793
• Underground Twins (V4) 831–834
• up the ladder cut (V2) 388
• vanish of a card (V3) 513
• Vanished without a Trace! (V2) 335–336
• Vanishing Deck Reconsidered, The (V4) 874–875
• Vanishing Deck, The (V3) 679–680
• Vaquera, Carlos (V3) xxxvi
• Varela, Ramón (V5) 1333
• Veeser, Bob (V1) 51, 114, (V4) 839
• Veeser concept (V4) 839
• Vernon addition (V3) 520–522
• Vernon, Dai (V1) xxi, xxii, 7, 74, 76, 94, 148, 168, 170, (V2) 253, 273, 284, 324, 389, 411, 413, 418, 470, 478, 480, (V3) 498, 502, 512, 513, 516, 520, 522, 536, 542, 564, 568, 573, 582, 632, 641, 642, 646, 649, 654, 669, 710, 724, (V4) l, 813, 821, 839, 853, 857, 883, 916, 996, 1016, 1037, 1038, 1046, 1068, (V5) 1145, 1170, 1207, 1239, 1260, 1269, 1278, 1285, 1311, 1318, 1321, 1333, 1376
• Vernon multiple shift (V3) 669–670
• Vernon replacement (V3) 582–584
• Vernon’s pull-through shuffle variant (V3) 641–642
• Versatile Jokers (V5) 1099–1109
• video recorder (V2) 482–483
• visual estimation (V4) 879–883
• voice (V2) 411–412
• Vollmer, Richard (V1) 7, (V2) 265, (V3) 613, 616, 697, 700, (V4) xliii, 912, (V5) 1155, 1188, 1192, 1269, 1311, 1315
• von Rheinhelden, Johannes (V1) 6
• Walker, Robert (V4) 953
• Wallet Bound (V5) 1375–1382
• Walton, Roy (V2) 264, (V3) 568, 573, 619, 632, (V4) 987, 990, 1002
• waterfall riffle shuffle (V1) 110–112
• wave change (V3) 742–743
• wave cut (V4) 1016
• wedge break (V5) 1322
• Weigle, Oscar (V5) 1333
• Weiner, Irv (V4) 859
• Wells, H. G. (V5) 1361
• Whistle, The (V2) 374–375
• “whoops!” control (V1) 68, 136
• widening a break (V4) 997
• Williamson, David (V1) 202, (V5) 1365
• wind-up gag (V1) 179
• “windows” between the fingers (V2) 272
• Wohl, Dr. Ronald (Ravelli) (V2) 436, (V4) 839, 1024, (V5) 1397
• Wolff, Baron von Keyserlingk (V2) 478
• Wonder, Tommy (V4) 1059, 1068
• Wow! (V3) 523
• wristwatch turnover (V4) 1049–1050
• York, Scotty (V2) 476, (V5) 1350
• Yoshigahara, Nob (V5) 1389
• Your Number—Your Card (V1) 147–148, (V2) 431
• Zarrow dynamic (V3) 629–632, 644
• Zarrow, Herb (V3) 629, 632, (V4) 981, 1024, (V5) 1139
• Zarrow shuffle (V3) 632–634, 644
• Zarrow shuffle, direct (V3) 634–636
• Zens, Michael (V4) 944
• zinc stearate (V1) 11
• Zingone, Luis (V4) 906
