A spectator is invited to step forward and is requested to assist the conjurer in the trick about to follow. Introducing an ordinary pack of cards the performer asks the spectator to select a card, (say the Five of Hearts), and to return it to the pack, which is then shuffled. Handing the pack to [...]
The artist requests the spectators to select, during their absence, any number of cards from an unprepared deck (preferably borrowed). The selected cards are placed in a separate heap on a table, and covered with a borrowed handkerchief. After returning the performer is blindfolded, and the selected cards shuffled into the pack, which is then [...]
The artist requests a spectator to select from the pack any card they desire and then to mark it so they will be sure to recognize it. The same spectator is then handed the pack and requested to replace their card and shuffle the cards. The performer next introduces an ordinary china plate that is [...]
On two small tables or stands, situated one on each side of the stage, are placed two glass goblets. Both are sufficiently large to admit a pack of cards. A card is then selected, returned to the pack, and the pack then placed in the goblet on the left. The performer now commands the chosen [...]
A very clever trick, apparently depending upon a phenomenal memory possessed by the conjurer, is the following one. As the title indicates the trick is accomplished by the aid of trickery alone; the pretense of mnemonics being only part of the setting up of the trick. The performer commences the experiment by distributing at random [...]
The following trick, which originated in this city several years ago, has since then become popular with conjurers the world over (being no doubt one of the best of latter-day tricks). I can honestly advise my readers who until today were unacquainted with the trick to add it to their repertoire. After a card has [...]
In many tricks with cards it is necessary that a pack of cards, after having been examined and shuffled, is exchanged for a pack prearranged or otherwise prepared. To accomplish this neatly has so far been a rather difficult matter, but since the introduction of the Card Servante, Fig. 28, the task of exchanging packs [...]
There are two kinds of False Shuffles. The first kind aims to keep in view one or several cards only, while the remainder of the pack is given a genuine shuffle. In the other False Shuffle the entire pack, which is generally prearranged, is kept in the same order throughout. The various methods by which [...]
In this sleight, which is mostly used as a finale to a card trick, the pack (which is held face downward) is dropped on the floor or table. As this occurs a card (usually a selected one) appears at the top of the pack, reversing itself during this operation so that it now lays face [...]
The glide is a simple but useful form of the Change, where the bottom card of the pack is apparently removed and placed on the table. In reality, the performer takes the second card from the bottom instead. The performer first holds the pack in a perpendicular position, thus exhibiting the bottom card. The hand [...]