Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks

Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks

Author: Karl Fulves

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780486269313

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Covers impromptu tricks, banded decks, stacked-deck tricks, gambling secrets, sleight-of-hand tricks, prepared-card tricks, shuffle systems, four-ace tricks, one-way decks, and sample card routines


Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks

Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks

Author: Ellis Stanyon

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780486405308

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Hundreds of tricks for amateurs and professionals alike -- from relatively complex maneuvers involving mathematical calculation to simple tricks for beginners such as "The Traveling Ace."


My Best Self-Working Card Tricks

My Best Self-Working Card Tricks

Author: Karl Fulves

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0486156699

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Mystifying, entertaining illusions include "Prediction Wallet," in which the card a spectator has chosen is found in the magician's wallet; "Suspense," in which a card remains dangling in midair, others. 116 black-and-white illustrations.


Self-Working Card Tricks

Self-Working Card Tricks

Author: Karl Fulves

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0486156567

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Noted magician and magic authority offers 72 tricks that work automatically through nature of card deck. No sleight of hand needed. Often spectacular. 42 illustrations.


Magical Mathematics

Magical Mathematics

Author: Persi Diaconis

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-10-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0691169772

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"Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card trick introduces a new mathematical idea, and varying the tricks in turn takes readers to the very threshold of today's mathematical knowledge. For example, the Gilbreath principle--a fantastic effect where the cards remain in control despite being shuffled--is found to share an intimate connection with the Mandelbrot set. Other card tricks link to the mathematical secrets of combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, topology, the Riemann hypothesis, and even Fermat's last theorem. Diaconis and Graham are mathematicians as well as skilled performers with decades of professional experience between them. In this book they share a wealth of conjuring lore, including some closely guarded secrets of legendary magicians. Magical Mathematics covers the mathematics of juggling and shows how the I Ching connects to the history of probability and magic tricks both old and new. It tells the stories--and reveals the best tricks--of the eccentric and brilliant inventors of mathematical magic. Magical Mathematics exposes old gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card monte, traces the history of mathematical magic back to the thirteenth century and the oldest mathematical trick--and much more"-


Classic Card Tricks

Classic Card Tricks

Author: Edward Victor

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780486433554

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Simple, easy-to-follow instructions and 105 figure drawings show how to execute more than 35 amazing card tricks using such ordinary items as a handkerchief, notepaper, piece of string, candle, and a deck of cards. Beginners will soon be performing remarkable feats iincluding The Thirty Card Trick, A False Riffle Shuffle, and more.


Mathematical Card Magic

Mathematical Card Magic

Author: Colm Mulcahy

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1466509767

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Mathematical card effects offer both beginning and experienced magicians an opportunity to entertain with a minimum of props. Featuring mostly original creations, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects presents an entertaining look at new mathematically based card tricks. Each chapter contains four card effects, generally starting with simple applications of a particular mathematical principle and ending with more complex ones. Practice a handful of the introductory effects and, in no time, you’ll establish your reputation as a "mathemagician." Delve a little deeper into each chapter and the mathematics gets more interesting. The author explains the mathematics as needed in an easy-to-follow way. He also provides additional details, background, and suggestions for further explorations. Suitable for recreational math buffs and amateur card lovers or as a text in a first-year seminar, this color book offers a diverse collection of new mathemagic principles and effects.