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sohaib Special user San Ramon, CA 577 Posts |
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On 2009-01-21 17:25, Paul wrote: Hahaha, it would certainly seem that way Paul! I'll probably just pick out some routines and write about those. To do a complete study would be a monumental task - it looks like you could write a 300-page book just on this card plot alone! - Sohaib |
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Does anyone know where the Kaps Signature routine is published?
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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Robert M Inner circle 2482 Posts |
Isn't this in the Frank Garcia Wild Card book?
I think Mike Close might also have a version on his Very, Very Close DVDs (Vol. 2). Robert |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Two more versions of "wildcard" around - one where you change the faces AND backs - one at a time - for four cards and the other where you use a variation of the Ghost count to show faces and backs and can then proceed as a packet trick.
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
To add just from memory:
Steve Dacri has a routine similar to Kaps re his signature appearing on previously shown blank cards. The routine is in his lecture notes. I will look uo the title and add it to this thread. Peter Marshall has a routine in Apocalypse called Really Wild Jokers. I am certain will think of more. Peace, Vlad PS: Shigeo Takagi's Wild Card routine in Apocalypse may or may not be the same as previously mentioned. In addition, I was pleased to see Flip's routine in Kabbala mentioned. |
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One Man Elite user Frederick, MD 491 Posts |
Just got an email from Denny Haney (dennymagic.com) and he has some copies of the Wild Card Miracles by Frank Garcia for sale. Contact him!
Info from email newsletter: WILD CARD MIRACLES by Frank Garcia-$20.00 I just located some of these original first editions of the Frank Garcia 148 page book on the Wild Card. Originally created by Peter Kane, this classic effect was made famous by Frank Garcia in the sixties. Here is all the work, all the moves, various routines, presentations on this classic card effect. Contributions by Allerton, Carlyle, Lederman, Vernon, Frost, Jennings, Skinner, Ricky Jay, Bobby Baxter, Flip, Fedko, Kaps, Slydini, Takagi, and many more. Everything you need to know about Wild Card. Kevin |
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Demonbrn Veteran user Oakley, CA 338 Posts |
Here is the place to buy 'The Crossroads', if you click to view product, there is a video with Tony Chris presenting it. Another good video I forgot to mention is Gerry Griffin's wild card, he show's you about 6 diffrent routines of wild card.
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Paul Chosse V.I.P. 1955 - 2010 2389 Posts |
"Sudden Death Gypsy Curse" - the best!
Best, PSC
"You can't steal a gift..." Dizzy Gillespie
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gkfreed Special user 532 Posts |
I've been doing a version of Bob Farmer's "Headhunter" for over 10 years. This is a killer routine that I've not seen anyone else use. It's worth checking to see if it's still available.
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
This is awful to admit. I bought so many packet backups in 60's, that I am still using Aviator Bridge cards for this trick!
Great effect! Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
There are a few avenues not investigated here
Jon Racherbaumer did a full book on the effect Dominique Duvivier created "Printing" a wild card effect hich leaves everything to be examined at the end. This was reworked brilliantly by Daryl as Presto Printo, and by Joshua Jay Rogers, Mike: Wild card Stevens Magic Emporium web site (free explanations) Credit for the one sleight needed goes to Brother John Hamman. Inspirational credit for the method of showing the like cards all together goes to Derek Dingle. Francis Carlyle deserves mention, too, as he was told that his ending duplicates Francis Carlyle’s ending, though he never saw Carlyle do the trick. Eight identical cards change to the value of one single wild card.
Magic is the art of emotionally sharing live impossible situations
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Jonathan Townsend’s Wild card (from his lecture notes)
(comments) Jonathan’s take on the Wild Card plot: The performer asks a spectator to cut the deck and replace the cut section cross the other one. He then, as an afterthought, takes out an envelope with a set of unprinted cards. He explains that House of card sent him white unprinted cards for him to invent a trick to be performed with them that they could market. He then casually demonstrates that even though they are white, these cards are nevertheless just regular playing cards: they are just not printed. The performer explains that he will show what he came up with using 4 of the white cards which are placed on the table, the others being replaced on the envelope they came from. He then proceeds for a spectator to select a card (bottom card of the top portion or top of the lower part) where the deck was cut. The performer picks up one of the tabled white cards by placing the chosen card over it and immediately picking both. The cards are passed through the fist and the white card is shown to have taken the appearance of the other. Then the other card is shown to ave fully kept its value and back. Another blank card is taken from the table and placed between the two cards now in hand. The packet is passed through the fist gain and the three cards are now shown to be the same. The performer tables tow of the cards just printed and picks up the third white unprinted card. The cards are passed again through the fist and again the blank card turns face down into the chosen card. Pick up the last white card by placing the chosen card over it and pass them trough the fist and show both to be the same as the chosen card. Pick the cards from the table to be and show all four to be the same. Problems solved by the routine A. Why does the performer carry similar cards, kept apart in a special wallet? Could it mean that these cards are gaffed cards? This problem is solved in various ways by the different performers: Most performers using eight cards presented as similar (most often -but not exclusively- thanks to a Hamman count) aim at proving that the cards are normal cards. The common excuse generally refers to collecting (Mike Rogers, Tommy Wonder). Suspicion can be reduced by using Jokers (Mike Rogers) which are expected by some of the spectators to act wild and can be accepted to exist in a larger number when each card by essence is supposed to be unique. In Jonathan’s routine the white cards can be told to have been sent for inventing a routine. This presents the advantage that, at the end of the trick, it makes sense nt to give the cards for examination since it’s a new trick that the House of cards will market for money. Suspicion can be further attenuated with a humoristic circumstance (Tommy Wonder.) and by “magician’s failure” (Tommy Wonder). Some try to solve the suspicion problem by using regular cards but are most of the time limited to using the four aces or the four kings or the four queens: in any case a series of four rather than eight cards suggesting a much bigger impossibility. An interesting alternative is supplied by Jeff Sheridan: at the end of a previous full deck effect, all the cards in the deck are the same except for one which had been left out (possibly the chosen one). Specially printed cards offer an infinite number of solution: as an example Terry LaGerould has cards printed with painting frames and the wild card is a print of Mona Lisa. Dominique Duvivier and Daryl Martinez also use specially printed cards B. What is this wild card? Very few performers take the trouble to supply a real reason for the wild card’s ability to change the other cards. It just marks the magic moment but nothing explains what makes the wild card be a cause. In Jonathan’s routine, allowing the spectator to choose the card (forcing it) lets the spectator project his own representation in a card. The most common (implicit) attempt to support the domination of the wild card is to give it a chance to influence blank cards, which represent an absence of personality. The effect would gain if we could know what makes this wild card strong enough to spread its influence. Values (political, religious, social, psychological,), health can be symbolized by the wild card and its happy propensity for spreading. Famous people (politicians, military heroes, literary figures, movie stars, sport stars, poets, geniuses, scientists) also transform their environment. Bad things (sickness, loneliness, sadness, pessimism…) can also be shown to spread if things get back in order for a happy ending. Comparing the assisting spectator to a vaued figure creates a positive atmosphere and makes the suspension of disbelief easier. C. Why do the white cards change? Because the extra card is wild: that’s the standard plot. (Peter Kane, Frank Garcia, Jon Racherbaumer, Larry West, Derek Dingle, Meir Yedid…): the drawback of this type of plot is that it (subconsciously) reassures only the ego of the magician over his capacity to influence the audience. It is arrogant in a subtle way toward the audience and what is arrogant is rarely totally entertaining and never really magic even when it is surprising. Suspension of disbelief is more easily reached if the mass, represented by the identical white cards, adheres to the values or the example illustrated by the wild card. It can also be positively received, when the wild card illustrates a spreading catastrophe which is ultimately fixed by the magician: this supplies a better climax than just having finished handling all the cards. It can be symbolically expressed by the back of the cards having changed color. Because the first change didn’t work as expected and that the performer is attempting to adapt (Tommy Wonder) or that there are some printing problems getting solved along the way (Duvivier, Daryl), certain plots have become very popular: it’s the audience’s environment and its constraints which are represented by the similar cards. The selected magician (the wild card) has to abide by the same unpredictable rules as the audience creating a dramatic structure. D. Why can’t we check the cards afterwards? The effect is symbolically reaching so deep and so strong that the spectator’s aroused suspicion cannot wait to touch the cards. Part of this need can be found in the desire of the spectator to be reassured that he is not that stupid and manipulated by the wild magician: it has to be a tricked representation of him. It cannot really represent him being manipulated. In Jonathan’s routine, the patter can solve this since the white card can be presented as the ones doing the trick, the magician being only the inventor. This problem is automatically solved by Tommy Wonder, who gives the cards for examination half way through the trick for the spectator to feel free to be entertained. There is no such problem either with Dominique Duvivier, and Daryl’s routines where the spectator not only dominates the wild card, but is invited to check that the transformation of the wild card, which they (the similar cards, the environment) generated is real: the similar cards did not get tricked, they gained personality along the way. In Jonathan’s routine, if the patter is about the House of cards having requested the magician to create a trick, there is a perfect justification not to show the cards since the House of card has paid for an exclusivity of the trick. In other routines some performers solve the problem by the proper use of the wallet where the cards are kept. It can be a Himber wallet, allowing switching the cards for cards which can be verified. This could be put in play in Jonathan’s routine as a replacement to the envelope. After the cards are shown at the end, they are placed into the wallet as if forgetting the original double blank cards. The wallet is then reopened to add the blank cards to four duplicates of the force card. The gesture is stopped half way through and, after committing the spectators to secrecy, these cards are handed out to them. Another workable feint could be imported in Jonathan’s routine: it allows a normal wallet itself to be changed in the performer’s pocket as he seemingly realizes that the wild card was the card chosen by the spectator and belongs to the deck and not to the cards sent by the House of cards (the wallet is brought out again and the chosen card taken out, the wallet being casually left aside on the table within reach of indelicate spectators). However if the theme of the effect is not illustrating a valorization of the audience, these wallet subtleties only aggravate the aggressive impact of the show: the performer has no way of showing the cards which prove that the spectators were actually so weak that they could be modified by an illusion. The only solution around the problem would be to change all the deck since the spectators then understand that, despite their urge, they are not supposed to touch anything (I could never figure out why, but it is so). This is easy to achieve at the end of Jonathan’s routine. Initially use a Svengali deck with the card to be forced handled as in JT’s routine and, at the end of the effect, ribbon spread the deck face down from left to right before progressively reversing it from right to left. This seldom known handling shows all the cards to be the same. As a conclusion, the theme and the plot should remain subtly positive and put the blank cards in the front stage. The wild card should not obtain dominance over the white cards, but may spread a positive influence: leadership differs from dominance. Being aware of the symbolical keys of the effect should keep the performer away from the purely pedagogical track: it is rarely entertaining for being another way of indirectly demonstrating a dominance of the magician over the audience. The methods Very sophisticated and well designed, Jonathan’s wild card method is based on a set including duplicate cards, some form of stickiness, double blank cards white face/ regular back cards and regular face (matching the force card) with white back. The method works perfectly. The only weak point on the method side is the misdirection used for tabling down the double card, and some Arturo Ascanio or Raphael Benatar way of handling the double card (which stick in Jonathan’s routine) would add casualness in the handling (which doesn’t lack it otherwise).
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
There's an item in Robert-Houdin's book where you have three selections made and use them to change the entire pack into duplicates of each of the three in turn ... entire deck wildcard!
Going back a bit further in time there's a Hofzinser trick where you have a selection appear wherever a volunteer chooses and for a climax they name a number and that many cards from the pack become duplicates of their card. The term "wildcard" does a pretty good job of suggesting the basic effect.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
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On 2009-01-20 00:11, magico wrote: Could not find this one can you give a more precise reference? Thanks from us all
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Great work Lawrence in putting this extensive list of Wild Card routines together.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
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vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10957 Posts |
Etienne Thank you for mentioning the Godfathers wild card.
yes it is still a work in progress. Hopefully getting better vinny ps Etienne you are the the most knowledgable magicican I have ever come across amd I want to personally thank you for your invaluable information that you bring to the magic Café and the magic community. |
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martin1025 Regular user 170 Posts |
Wilson, R. Paul: Wild With The Ladies. A-1 All Stars vol 5 video. An impromptu small packet Wild Card. "Four jokers magically change into a spectator's selection. For the incredible finale, they change into the four Queens!" By the way Lawrence thank you for providing such an amazing list with the different sources.
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Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts |
Lawrence,
Looking at your list there are a couple of things I'd like to query. The Max Howard routine mentioned is probably ESPecially Wild. He had a patter presentation for it about Dr. Rhine's last ESP card experiment. Dan Garrett used to supply Max's routine with Especially Wild when he sold it. I developed Especially Wild and started to sell it in 1986, Meir Yedid bought the rights in 1987 at a convention in Spain, so it probably went on the market in 1987 or 1988 in the USA. It has been through many printings. I made it up initially with Piatnik ESP cards, Meir's first sets were printed on Fox Lake cards. Meir added the colored symbols. What surprised me was when you wrote this: "- « Cartes folles ESP ». During the 1970s this trick was an underground hit, then it reached the magic dealers . It is nowadays easy to reconstruct. 10 ESP cards, meaning two sets of 5 different cards, are lined up. The performer places a first row 1 face down with the square sign, and mixes row 2 made of double face cards. The face represent each one of the five different ESP symbols. Their back figures a square similar to the symbol . The performer openly shuffles the cards of the second row, eliminates four cards and leaves one face up with the Square figure. The spectator is requested to mix his cards face down and to eliminate four of them. The final revelation is double : both selected cards have the same Square figure: the one of the performer as well as the one of the spectator. As a climax all the cards are turned and they all figure a square. " That is the effect of "ESpecially Wild". During the seventies?Are you sure this was not late eighties AFTER "ESpecially Wild" was released? When Meir released it, the effect was the hit of the I.B.M. and S.A.M. conventions. In just over 20 years this is the first I have ever heard of an earlier version of my effect. If you know anyone at all in France with any dated instructions for this please let me know. I am sure when "ESPecially Wild' was released, it being such a hit, if anyone had invented the routine prior we would have heard about it. An earlier printing of ESPecially Wild did involve a square. Every time Meir has reprinted he used a different symbol. And, of course, you've just exposed the effect in an open thread. Best wishes, Paul Hallas. |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Paul is right
I apologize for the inconvenience We'll ask to withdraw the list and I'll issue a new one without the damaging indications. Sorry (it was just like that in my notes and I missed erasing that part)
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
Lawrence, I think you'll enjoy this reference: "Wild Card Combination" by Bernard Bilis, in "French Pasteboards". This appears to be the same effect as the one in Apocalypse, however, "Wild Card Combination" does require gaffs.
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