Card Tricks for BeginnersHere's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing. Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques — among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, The Slip Force, and Reading the Pack. No special dexterity is needed to successfully complete any of these methods. With its special emphasis on presenting magic for the spectator's entertainment, Card Tricks for Beginners was acclaimed by Hugard's Magic Monthly as "extremely well done." |
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Ace of Clubs Ace of Spades arranged ask the selector ask the spectator assisting spectator audience bottom card card conjuring card replaced card tricks carpet centre chosen card coat pocket complete the cut corner crimp count crimped card cut the pack deal the cards face upwards false shuffle finger tips five cards four aces four cards give glide hand the pack heap hold Jack of Diamonds Joker key card King of Clubs King of Hearts leave left hand left thumb little finger look marked card method number of cards pack of cards palm the card pause Put the card Queen of Spades replace the card reversed card right hand second card second finger selected card sense of touch shuffle the pack shuffled pack simple spread the cards take the pack take the top tell three cards top card top stock transposed card