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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.
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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.
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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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Robert M Inner circle 2482 Posts |
That was an incredible post, Lawrence. Thank you.
Robert |
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magico Special user Connecticut 862 Posts |
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On 2009-01-22 23:03, Lawrence O wrote: Steve's routine was published originally in Profile magazine. |
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Scott Fridinger Special user Gloucester Pt, VA 893 Posts |
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"In the Hands Wildcard" by Tom Dombrowlski that's currently available at a dealer near you, or from Tom, who's not. I second this for the walk around guys.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Here is my revised list on Wild Card corrected and streamlined thanks to your help:
Aldini. Roughly Wild ©1969 marketed effect. & Poker - X by Aldini marketed effect in Bridge or Poker width. 5 cards are shown with the backs out. One the backs is an odd color so you replace it with a joker which is a wild card. Now you have four Jacks, which you show. "But" you say, "Never go to Vegas to play poker because they cheat there" As you say this you throw your hand on the table face down. All the backs are totally different! Watch them go for the cards - but there's nothing to discover. Ayres, Mick: Decipiatur ©1992 by Mick Ayres. The Wild Rovers offers a baffling no-gimmick wild-card routine where it is easy to find how to assemble the cards. Bach, Al: Bermuda Triangle ©2008 Marketed Item including custom cards and instruction on DVD. Several cards are shown: Planes, Divers, Choppers, Ships and lastly The Bermuda Triangle. As the story goes, anything too close to the triangle will disappear. Show the cards once more to find only a plane remaining. The divers, choppers and ships are gone. Then right before your eyes the plane vanishes.. Very creative with an interesting plot: I just think that the card he puts aside in his pocket should have been a map to escape the Bermuda triangle: hence the ensuing catastrophes. Bannon, John. Smoke and Mirrors Return of the Magnificent Seven: Seven duplicate cards are shown and a card is selected. Each and every one of the duplicates now changes into the selected card. Everything is examinable & Impossibilia: Return of the Magnificent Seven & John Bannon's Smoke and Mirrors DVD: Call of the Wild (performance only) & Call of the wild. ©1995 Marketed Item with all the cards we need, beautifully made in Bicycle backs. John Bannon's Call of the Wild accomplishes three effects: Blank cards change into identical Aces, Blank cards change into different Aces, Blank cards change into a Royal Flush in one powerful routine. It is an entertaining, updated version of the classic Wild Card routine. When the Ace of Spades is brought in contact with blank cards, they all change into Aces of Spades!! The Ace is then placed with four other blanks and they change into Aces of Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts and Spades! In an unexpected climax, the first set of Aces now change to the matching King, Queen, Jack and Ten to complete the Royal Flush. Call of the Wild is easy to do and very powerful. & Bauer, Ron: Private Studies #2 Sudden Death Gypsy Curse The Gypsy Curse has been a killer wild card type routine since its creation by Emerson & West years ago. Here is Ron Bauer's handling, excellent scripting and routine of this classic effect. We tell the story of a hustler who used to cheat the unsuspecting public with a pack of antique looking cards. One day this hustler was approached by a Gypsy who put a curse on the cards and he was never able to cheat anyone again. Ron teaches several techniques of powerful direction and misdirection that completely conceal sleight-of-hand. All of Ron Bauer's material comes with complete performing rights, patter, bits of business, etc. Everything we need. We just need to supply the simple set of Gypsy Curse cards to perform this routine (see Peter Kane) Bigbee, North. Joker Plus. The New Phoenix N° 385 December 1963, page 368. Bilis Bernard: French Pasteboards ©by Bernard Bilis: Wild Card Combination requires the usual special cards & Stars of magic video #6; It's Really Wild: no gimmick wild card routine. & Wild to the 2nd power Apocalypse 11-15 p 1577 © by Harry Lorayne. Requires 4 duplicate regular cards (no double facers). The effect is that four aces change to four lost selected cards. Then the four aces magically reverse themselves in the deck. Another card is selected (the wild card) and the four aces change to duplicates of that card. Bruno, Joe. Wild Card - Another Version. The linking Ring, Vol. 53, N° 11 November 1973 © by Harry Lorayne. The routine is performed with 6 cards, 5 reds and 1 black. The progress in this version is supplied by the fact that there are no special cards and everything can be left for checking. Bicycle Shattered is a specially printed Bicycle backed card which shows a 10 of spades where the pips seem 'broken' as if they had been printed on a now broken glass. The effect is simple. A selected card is hit or snapped onto the table, and the ink is seen to have shattered! The card can then be handed out for examination. Two different methods are included in the instructions and it can be used within the frame of a Wild card (Duvivier/Daryl style) Cameron, Francis: Out of Order DVD by Cameron Francis. A Strangely Skewed Wild Card Effect. Explaining that magicians go through a lot of playing cards you display a packet of special 'printer cards' - blank on both sides - That you explain can be used to print new cards. Two selections are made from an ordinary pack, let's say the Jack of Hearts and the Ten of Spades. You continue, "...so, if I wanted to make a copy of the Jack of Hearts, all I do is rub it on the printer cards and...", one by one you print three perfect duplicates of the Jack of Hearts! Turning your attention to the selection; you attempt to print a few duplicate Ten of Spades but nothing seems to be happening. It's now that you realize that some of your printer cards are actually out of order. The blanks are turned over to reveal large 'Out Of Order' signs on the back! Undeterred you soldier on and for a finale, proceed to print three duplicate Ten of Spades right on the backs of the Jack of Heart you printed earlier! Cervon, Bruce. Really Wild Genii, N° 05 May 1972 © by Bruce Cervon. Impromptu routine. & Bruce Cervon's Dirty Deal; Five cards are shown, four are of like value, the fifth different- a poker hand. These cards are counted showing all blue backs. One card is placed on the table face down. A red backed card is removed from the wallet and placed on top, now all the cards change to red backs. One is placed on the table next to the first and a multi-colored back is removed from the wallet and placed on top of the packet. All of the cards change to multi-colored backs. One is removed and placed next to the other two on the table and a third patterned back card is removed from the wallet and added to the packet, all of the cards change once again to match this third patterned back. One of these cards is placed on the table where four different colored backed cards are seen. Turning the cards over that remain in his hand, the performer lays them out on the table and each is a completely different color and design back altogether. Each of the nine cards on the table have a different back. Chris, Tony: The Crossroads. A “bizarre” take on Peter Kanes’ Gypsy effect where a cheat about to have his soul taken by the devil beats him at 21 to save himself. Close, Michael: The Ultimate Worker Vol 2 DVD combines two previously released videos: Michael Close's Very Very Close, Volumes 2 and 7. Red Blue Mama Fooler - This trick has a strange name, but the effect is killer. The audience decides on the name of any card. A red-backed deck is spread; there is one blue-backed card in the deck. It is the named card. For a kicker, a blue-backed deck is spread. There is only one red-backed card in it. It is also the named card. Colombini Aldo. What’s Up Deck ? ©1995, page 112: Joker Wild. & Wild Mix. The routine is excellent for walk-around and restaurant performances as you are instantly reset and the entire routine may be performed completely in the hands. Converso, Pat. Chaos. Revue Genii, Vol. 41, N°4 April 1977 ; page 235. The routine involves only 5 cards, four white cards and a joker. Cummins, Paul W. The Workingman’s wild card. Apocalypse 11-15 p 1855 © by Harry Lorayne. A Himber wallet, the regular 3 double facers, and 10 duplicate cards are required. The routine starts and ends with the regular 52 cards deck. The double facers have jokers on one side and say an 8H on the other side. All the duplicates, in this case, are 8H. The duplicates have different colors and back designs. Place three 8H duplicates with assorted backs on to the table. Place three double facers, jokers facing outward onto these cards. Place this group on one side of the wallet. On the other side of the wallet, place the remaining seven duplicate 8H, remembering what is on what side. The backs of the deck used must match the back of one of the seven duplicate 8H. Force a card. Explain that every time you open a deck you save the joker. Open the Himber wallet on the joker side and do the wild card routine, changing the jokers into the chosen card. To clean up, square up the packet and place it into the wallet, the 8s facing outward. Start placing the deck in your pocket but stop half way through, stating that you need an 8 for this deck. Ask the spectators to guess which one has the same back as the deck. If he does you have an extra miracle, otherwise turn all the cards face down, to find the right one and place it back in the deck. This is a smart way to leave the cards to the spectators for inspection without saying so. It could complete very nicely Tommy Wonder’s approach of having the cards inspected half way through. Cyprian, Father: Supper Subtle Card Miracles by Frank Garcia; four jokers change into four aces Dacri, Steve: Signature Wild Cards DVD 1 A truly commercial effect with a few blank cards and the performer’s signature. One by one, the blank cards create a photocopy of the signature, and the fronts and backs of every card are plainly shown. Steve uses this one in Vegas, and also for trade shows, with the company name or logo appearing on the cards & Signature Wild Cards Marketed effect with the cards and a 4 page photo illustrated magic manual and CD-ROM, detailing the routine and performing ideas, plus one extra set of gimmicked cards. The hit of Steve Dacri's first lecture at The Magic Circle in London, and all over Britain. The basic idea of blank cards with signatures existed already with Franck Garcia. De Camps, Eric: Jokers are Wild; Stars of magic video #11. Eric's Jokers Are Wild is a fabulous version of Wild Card featuring a dramatic payoff when the cards turn into money. Stars of Magic DVD #6 - Eric DeCamps: Jokers Are Wild De Cova, Alexander: 9-Card Monte Alexander De Cova's Treasures - The Video Series - Vol. One . De Cova's handling of Wild Card. De Cova is one of Germany's top professional magicians. deSouza, Marc: Award Winning Close Up Magic DVD Curse Of The Rasta: A wild card type of routine, based on the work of Peter Kane and Fred Kaps, with a gambling theme. Eight fours and a queen change into eight queens and a four... and everything is examinable. Dill, Dean: Wild Thought; all the cards can be examined at the end Dingle, Derek. Fabjance Studio ©1970 The wild move. & Wild Fire New Stars of Magic, Series 1, N° 1 (1972) Derek Dingle launches this famous series with a Wild Card effect. & Impromptu Wild Card. Kabbala, Vol. 2, N° 1 September 1972, page 4. From a borrowed deck, the performer takes out 8 cards between the ace and the 10, and transforms them one by one in Court cards. & The complete works of Derek Dingle ©1982 p 37 The Wild Move is a rework of “Wild Fire”. The Joker is openly placed on to the table. The special cards are also placed face up between the three other cards face down. Close the spread having therefore a back at the top of the packet. Add the wild card. Reverse count the cards showing that it brings the wild card to the bottom. Reverse count again, flip the packet: the wild card is still on the bottom. Double lift the wild card, turn it face down and place it face down onto the table. Replicate the moves of the double lift and place the card face down on the table as well… p 40 Derek Dingle on Larry Jenning’s wild card. p 42: Impromptu wild card. Dobrowolski, Tom. In the hands wild card DVD. ©2005 by Chicago Magic Bash. Tom performs and teaches his version of the classic Wild Card plot on this DVD. Tom has taken this classic routine and raised it off the table and put it into the magician's and spectator's hands making it a great routine for the walk around and table entertainer. Duraty. Frissons magiques [Magical Shivers] « Folle et facile » p. 32 à 34. One of the strong points of this routine by one of the most creative French close up performers is to be found in the initial display of the cards which is simplified and very fluid. Duvivier, Dominique: Carte Folle Impromptue Dominique’s 1998 Lecture notes: this version created in 1970, doesn’t use any special cards. It appeared in and is reprinted in various French magic magazine and is now accessible to English speaking magicians in Duvivier’s DVD & Cartomagie 2008, Tome 2. « Folles Porno » 1983 New version. D. Duvivier/ P. Guedin.. & Revue Cartes oh Magie ? ©1975 by Dominique Duvivier. « Folles, folles, folles » a 7 cards wild card routine routine. & Cartomagie 2006 which actually are 1977 Lecture notes. « L’Imprimerie » (Printing) and now with M.M.M. (the oldest French Magic shop Mayette Magie Moderne taken over by Dominique Duvivier). The English version was initially marketed by Daryl who, using Duvivier’s principle, created his Presto Printo, a very nice variant getting rid of the Hamman counts & Printing. ©1977 Marketed effect (in French). Dominique is the first to have realized that given a proper progressive explanation for different changes appearing on the cards, the cards could be left for examination. His printing the card case on the card as a climax is superb. & Dominique Duvivier European Lecture 1998 In January and February of 1998, Dominique Duvivier embarked on a European lecture tour. Here are the original lecture notes from that tour. 30 Spiral bound pages of excellent magic fully illustrated with black and white photos. Contents include Impromptu Wild Card & Magic of Duvivier Vol 2. Impromptu Wild card Falanga, Louis: Apocalypse Vol 7 p 894 © by Harry Lorayne. Lake Tahoe Wild Cards: Four blue backed Jokers magically change to four red-backed AS. Needed are a red backed AS two blue backed AS and two red backed jokers. Place the red backed AS in one side of a Himber wallet, there are four red backed aces in the other side of the wallet. D.M. count showing blue backs, and turn the packet face up. Take the wallet out and open it to drop the Red back AS face down on to the table. Use the joker to flip the AS face up and place the Joker back under the face up packet. Repeat the D.M. count to show four jokers. As far as the spectators are concerned you have four blue backed jokers and one red backed AS. Slide the face up ace under the two face up jokers. Turn the packet to show the red backed card among the blue ones. Flip the packet face up, square the cards and do a Modified Jordan count displaying two face up Jokers, the AS, and two face up jokers. Flip the packet face down and show two blue backed cards, a red backed one and two blue backed cards, confirming that everything is all right. Turn the packet face up and place the Jokers under the packet to focus on the ace and explaining what a wild card is. Modified Jordan count to show five aces trun them face down and Elmsley count with diamond sleight on the last one. Put the cards back in the empty side of the wallet, seem to remember that you only had one in there, reopen and pull out the four tabling them casually. . Farmer, Bob: Headhunter ©1990 comes complete with the necessary cards and uses the Elmsley count. Fedko, John: Fedko school of magic video series vol 7. Simplex Wild Card Fleshmann, Dan: Excellence of Dan Fleshmann by John Mendoza; includes Wild Jokers Frost, Ron. The Magic of Ron Frost Video ©1981 by Multi-Video Inc. Wild Card Outdone. Farmer, Bob. "Headhunter," (not presently available) is a combination of a Wild Card and a monte effect (it was originally published as "Wild Card Monte.") Garcia, Franck: Wild Card Miracles ©1977 The first complete book only on the wild card. Franck Garcia Wild Card handling; The performer counts out a small packet of cards, slowly and deliberately. The spectators see that there are nine cards, eight with identical faces and one of a different value and suit - a Wild Card! The eight duplicates are placed on the table and then tapped with the wild card. Mysteriously, one at a time, each of the duplicates changes to match the Wild Card! The cards are once again shown and counted, slowly and deliberately. Here are all the seminal works, 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 & Million Dollar Card Miracles. Wild Cards: cards with performer’s signature multiply & Le Magicien [magazine] p. 4109 à 4111, one of the first studies published in French and inspired by Frank Garcia’s writings on the wild card and edited in French by Daniel Ruffin. The routine involves 9 cards. 8 jokers are displayed one by one. They change for blank face cards as soon as they are touched by the wild card. & Revue Arcane n°16 ©1979 p. 27 à 30. « La carte folle » Frank Garcia method translated from his book « Wild Card Miracle », with Michael Skinner, Ricky Jay and Dai Vernon variant. & Revue de la Prestidigitation n°441. 1992. « La Carte Folle » Frank Garcia’s routine translated from his Wild Card Miracle book. The same as the ones in Arcane n°16 of 1979. Giobbi, Roberto: Card College 2 The Really Wild Nine-card Trick & Roberto Giobbi Taped Live at the British Close Up Magic Symposium DVD: Wild Business & Revue Imagik. N° 9. p. 7 à 9. 1995 les Cartes de visite folles Good version in French along Fred Kaps footsteps where 9 blank cards are transformed into printed business cards. Goldstein, Phil. Con-clusion. Son of the Bat, Jr. N° 10 (1975). Griffin, Gerry: The Wild Card - Magic Trick DVD with Gerry Griffin by Magic Makers The package includes Special Bicycle Cards; Gerry Griffin does not only teaches the basic routine, he shows us a multitude of variations that will fit any performance's style. Hades, Micky: Hades Gone Wild Lecture notes Hallas, Paul. ESPecially Wild ©1986 Marketed effect by Meir Yedid who bought the rights in 1987 and the trick hit the market during the course of 1987 or 1988 in the US. Fifth effect in the New Wave Thaumatology Series published by Meir Yedid. Paul made it up initially with Piatnik ESP cards, when Meir's first sets were printed on Fox Lake cards and he added the colored symbols. This two-phase routine has to be seen to be appreciated. It leaves a powerful impact on your audience. Two sets of colored ESP symbols are shown. You select an ESP symbol from your set and the spectator selects one from his set (Free Choice). They of course match. Stop right now and you have a miracle. But, this routine has a kicker. Using the freely selected symbol you magically transform all the other symbols into the selected one. Strong visual magic. The innovations made in this routine make it twice as powerful as the classic Wild Card. ESPecially Wild gets away from all alike cards, which cause suspicion. ESPecially Wild gives you two effects for the price of one. ESPecially Wild gives the impression that the cards change to match a freely selected symbol. & Cartes folles ESP . During 1986 this trick was an underground hit, then it reached the magic dealers . 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 special cards. The faces represent each one of the five different ESP symbols. 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. Hallema, Flip. Flip’s Wild Card. Kabbala, Vol. 2, N° 4 de December 1972 page 25 Flip’s Wild Card & Pabular Vol 1 N° 8 Aprils 1975 page 89: Wild Card.. A card is selected, for example the 3 of diamonds. The magician takes out a small packet of nine cards which are all identical 10s of spades. The chosen card is rechecked. All the 10 of spades progressively change into the selected 3 of diamonds. & The Very Best of Pabular Ed. Magix p. 20 à 25. « La Carte Folle » by Flip. (French translation). A card is chosen, for example the king of clubs. The magician takes out a small packet of nine cards, each and every one an eight of heart. What was the chosen card? No problem all the cards change into a king of clubs. Hamilton, Steve: Profile magazine In The Hands Wild Card routine & 5X5 by Peter Duffie; Scotland book: In The Hands Wild Card routine. Hamman, Brother John:, The card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S.M ©1958. The Mystic Nine: nine cards are dealt face down. A tenth card is shown to be red and turned face up. The nine cards are shown to be black cards. After a short series of color transformation, the performer ends up with eight red cards and only one black card. As a climax, the cards change into 5 red cards and 5 black ones. & Brother John Hamman, #. 38 Greater Magic Video Series ©1991, by Steven Magic Emporium. Br Jhn Hamman presents Wild All the Way. & The Secrets of Bro. John Hamman page 222 Wild All the Way: a version gaffed to the extreme but props are available on the market. & Alan Ackermann teaches Bro John Hamman video Vol 2. Wild All The Way & Richard’s Almanac, N° 14 October 1984 ©Richard Kaufman. Wild all the Way, page 131. Harlan, Dan: The band shark – the Dan Harlan Video Tame cards: Dan's diabolically clever, non-gaffed Wild Card routine Hofzinser, Jehann Nepomuk: Kartenkünste by Ottokar Fischer; 1st edition, 1931, George Johnson, London; reprint, 1973, Karl Fulves; reprint, 1986, Dover Publications, New York; "any card at any number" and the "open prediction" tricks Hollins, Ed. Technicolor Munchies ©1981. Prima Facie. This is a triple Wild Card. 4 red backed indifferent cards become 4 blue backed jokers, which become white. The original Joker (the Wild Card) changes its identity and the other cards change into a single card where it is printed “THE REST”. In the same book, Wiz of the West is another wild card : 1 court card and 9 indifferent cards change into 9 court cards and 1 indifferent card. Then 5 of the court cards return to be indifferent cards and finally change into a Royal Flush In Spades! Howard, Max. Effective Presentations. Vidéo ©1993. Six routines directed by Monte Johnson. A Wild Card presentation in Dr. Rhine’s steps. International Magic: Rotten Apples Marketed item by International Magic A novel wild card routine involving specially printed cards and an amusing theme, produced by International Magic. Eight cards are show to have a rosy red apple printed on each. A ninth card has a roten apple printed on it, the rotten apple is rubbed onto the face of the rosy apple, the result is two rotten apples. This is repeated for each of the cards, until all but one are rotten apples, how did it happen? The surprise culprit appears on the final card. Jay, Joshua: Talk About Tricks Vol. 1 DVD From the pages of MAGIC Magazine to our TV screen, the "Talk About Tricks" DVD Box Set is one of the most eclectic, unexpected collections of magic and magicians captured on DVD: Deuces are Wild. & Close Up Up Close DVD Joshua’s version of Duvivier’s printing with a very simplified initial presentation of the cards which works fine. Jenning,s Larry. Epilogue Spécial N° 3 - 1975 Impromptu Wild Card. & The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings ©1986 by Mike Marxwell,; page 168. Kane, Peter: Hugard’s Magic Monthly Vol XIX N°8, Apl 1962, p 89: Watch the Ace. Effect marketed circa 1967 and reproduced in Racherbaumer’s: The Wild Card Kit. This effect started a wild saga & Gipsy Curse Peter Kane's Variation of his own "Wild Card" card effect using old fashioned style cards and a great story line about a "Gypsy's Curse". Seven ancient playing cards are shown to be six black spot cards and one King of Diamonds. you tell the story of a game of chance owner at an old traveling fair who divides the seven cards into two groups and asks the spectators to wager as to which group contains the Diamond. An elderly Gypsy woman having wagered and lost, placed a curse upon the man and his game. When next he attempts to operate his game it is found that all the cards are winners! The cards are fanned to show all the faces are Diamond Kings and all the backs are normal. Beautifully clean finish. all the cards are shown back and front in a fan at the conclusion & Kane 1982 ©by Peter Kane p. 53: A Very Attractive Lady Kaps, Fred: "Signature Wild Card" Fred would show a handful of blank cards, signed his name on one of them... and ala Wild Card make them end up all with his signature Knepper ,Kenton & Townsend, Mark: Kenton's Full House DVD Subliminally Wild which is an inspired variation on Frank Garcia's "Wild Card". & Cards of Influence: Subliminally Wild Lavand, René: Rene Lavand Close-Up Artistry DVD Vol 3 Pygmalion: A Wild Card routine where eight queens turn into nines as the story of Pygmalion is recounted Lederman, David: M-U-M, Vol. 53, N° 12 May 1964 Making the Wild Card Wilder. Lewis, Eric C. Genii, Vol. 34, N° 6 February 1970 page 268. The Philosopher’s Stone. The effect is adapted for Jumbo cards crediting Peter Kane. Longman, Millard: Apocalypse 6-10 p 1175 © by Harry Lorayne. Impromptu Wild Card Variation Maddison, Walt: Apocalypse 7 p 990 © by Harry Lorayne Twist and Show: demonstrates some very clever changes with five cards. Some of it may be used in a wild card effect. Marini, Vinny. The God Father Wild Card. E-Film. A totally different approach with normal cards well served by two very smart moves. A great natural misdirection is built into the moves. Malinson, Scotty & King, Jimmy & Paul Diamond: Wild Card Routine. Marketed effect. As furnished by the manufacturer, the outfit consists of 4 special cards and 5 regular ones. The effect is the basic "Wild Card" routine but here we have a variety of presentations. You get the necessary cards to go into one of these routines. Marlo, Ed. Expert Card Conjuring by Alton Sharpe page 126: The Wild Purist. & Marlo’s Wild Card Wild selections © 1968 by Ed Marlo p 125 & Personalized Wild Card marketed item for Marlo’s signature wild card where the signature of the performer is duplicated on blank cards & Those Wild, Wild Aces marketed by Magic Inc © 1971 with “The Wild Deck as a bonus & The Unexpected Card Book © 1974 by Ed Marlo p 58-64: Wild Card Routine & 21st Century Card Magic. © 1982. with James Nuzzo: Marlo’s Unforgettable Wild Card. Hard to find 20 pages manuscript including 10 pages devoted to the Wild Card. The rest is packed with ideas and suggestions as well as a rising card (Named Card Rise) & The manuscript is reprinted in Art and Ardor at the Card Table ©2003 by Dr. James Nuzzo. & Marlo’s Plus Package © 1983 by Dr. James Nuzzo. A crazy routine for the wild card. Here is what Richard Kaufman said about it in Richard’s Almanac, Vol. 1, N° 11, July 1983, page 96. « The first Wild Card routine covers 18 pages. It requires a normal deck, 12 double back cards, 10 white cards, 8 white back cards and 13 double white. It includes lapping and switches and the performer will need a card index etc. It’s long, sometimes very good, but the probability to use it is very small. Marshall, Peter: Apocalypse Vol 6 p 805 © by Harry Lorayne Really Wild Jokers. Martinez, Daryl: Richard’s Almanac, N° 19 March 1984 © by Richard Kaufman page 179: Two Bit Wild Card explores the idea of taking the images off the cards and give them a "reality" & Our Best #1 DVD: Carboard Chameleons & Presto Printo. ©1994 Marketed effect including special cards with Bicycle backs. After marketing and reworking Dominique Duvivier’s “Printing”, Daryl went along the same path of using special cards which would change according to a progressive logic and would be left for examination. His version is very commercial straight and to the point. Mentzer, Jerry: Card File Two. The Wild Exchange Merlin, Jean: Livre de Close Up, Tome 2. (1972) Without any possible debate the most advanced study on the wild card with 11 different variants to use particularities still ignored about possibilities with the traditional wild card packet: A major treasure still to be translated in English and being rediscovered. Miesel William: P.: The Creative Card Magic of William P Miesel Wild card Ortiz, Darwin: Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table © 1988, page 123: Darwin's Wild Card. & At The Card Table – The Darwin Ortiz video. © 1992 by A-1 Multimedia: Darwin's Wild Card Pages, Jean-Claude : Revue Mad Magic. « Carte folle de Jean-Claude Pages » is described by Bernard Bilis. Very good professional version using five cards. Five cards with white faces are shown, one by one they transform into the selected card. For the audience the effect is similar to Jonathan’s one but Jonathan is using cards which are (apparently) blank on both sides. Both routines are technically adequate, but Jonathan’s routine placed the bar higher and is therefore more sophisticated. Racherbaumer, Jon: Kabbala, Vol. 3. 1976, page 43: Hand-out Wild Card. A version between Flip Hallema and Ed Marlo & Taming The Wild Card September 1991 issue of The New Tops & Jon Racherbaumer: The Wild Card Kit ©1992. The second book on the subject after Frank Garcia’s one supplies more than 40 references on the wild card, including Peter Kane’s original effect. Regal, David. West Coast Conjurers DVD by Tony Clark. David Regal's mind boggling Wild Card Routine. If we think we know how Wild Card Works, David will fool us bad with his handling of this classic routine. We'll swear we've seen both sides of every card. Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène: Comment on devient sorcier (1868) p 303 Jeu Protée. & Jeu Protée Marketed Item © Académie de Magie George Proust. Three cards are chosen , the whole decks assumes the identity of the first of the three cards, then of the second, then of the third Rogers, Mike: Wild card Stevens Magic Emporium web site. © 1986 by Mike Rogers; Eight identical cards change to the value of one single wild card. 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. Samelson, Peter. Theatrical Close-Up © 1984 by A Magical Publication p 80: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Wild Card effect with a presentation based on the movie of the same name by an expert in emotional justification. Seidenstein, Moe: Moe And His Miracles by William P. Miesel. Clear Xerox copy, over 50 pages. Moe Seidenstein was a legendary character who baffled the magic convention attendees in the 1930s with "Moe's Move a Card" and "Think a Card," stunning effects with no possible hint as to method. Then, Moe disappeared in 2003. Now you can learn 11 of Moe's tricks. Sheridan, Jeff: lecture on International Magic video offers a way to get to the cards with a Svengali deck: a good idea for justifying the use of similar cards by a full deck effect where all the cards in the deck are the same except for one which had been left out. & Original Magic Creations Video Vol 3: Clone Cards. Wild Card outdone. Several cards turn into a duplicate of a selected card. For the incredible finale, the entire deck is spread to show that every card now matches the selection. Smith, Jed B.: Really Wild Deuces; Apocalypse 16-20 p 2545 © by Harry Lorayne. Tabary, Francis : Revue de la Prestidigitation de février 1994. p. 28 à 30. « La carte folle, impressionnant, non ? ». A card is chosen from the deck, let say the Queen of hearts and seven cards shown to be blank change into the selected queen of hearts. Takagi, Shigeo: Wilder Card Apocalypse Vol 8 # 8 p 1096 © 1985 by Harry Lorayne and The Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagi by Richard Kaufman, © 1990 & lecture notes & video. The rational of properly and elegantly laying out the cards to reverse the double facers for changing the cards reaches artistry. Naturally this requires more table space than Tommy Wonder’s routine, but not more than Dominique Duvivier or Daryl’s routines. & Arcane © 1985 Translated in French from Apocalypse with permission « Des cartes très folles ». The seven card wild card routine. Townsend, Jonathan: Apocalypse 1-5 p 595 © by Harry Lorayne. Impromptu Wild Card Four tens turn into their equivalent jack when rubbed against a Joker. Cleverly built; The initial switch, briefly using the gambler’s cop, is very smart but the triple lift under the joker helping swapping the cards has to be kept all along (a weakness). Using a double facer Joker with the regular cards, would possibly be an initial improvement & Lecture Notes © 1987 by Jonathan Townsend A chosen card imprints non printed cards (white on both sides) Tucker, Stephen: Stephen Tucker’s Twister Continuum DVD by Big Blind Media. Original release date June 2008: Wild Twister. Trixer, Hans. Wild, Man, Wild. Ken Brooke. The back of jokers change from red to blue. Trost, Nick: Wild Deuce. © 1974 Marketed effect & Half Wild. © 1977 Marketed effect & Blanco Wild Card © 1982 & Jokers Wild © 1985 & 4 Flush. Marketed effect. A “Wild Card” effect with six cards: we show five blank-faced cards and one Four of Spades. The Four is brushed against two of the blank cards and they change to Fours! This is repeated with the other blank cards and for the finale, all six cards have changed to the Four of Spades: a Four Flush. No double-faced cards are used, yet spectators seem to see the face and back of every card & Dealers choice. Marketed effect & Subtle Card Magic Part Two: No Sleight Wild Card. Tyler, Diamond Jim: "Mirrors" DVD by Diamond Jim Tyler Mythos. A wild card routine that spins the many myths around mirrors into a feat of magic. Stage magicians have used smoke and mirrors for hundreds of years to amaze their audiences. And now these magical reflectors have been brought into the hands of close-up wizards to further their mythology in an intimate gathering! Included with this DVD we receive 20 special mirror gimmicks to perform many routines including Mythos. van Rhee, Tonny: Gypsy Curse set, containing the necessary gaffed cards which are the same as the ones for The Golden Coin of the Gypsy by Peter Kane, but with the sophisticated routine by van Rhee. Wagner, J. C. 7 More Secrets. ©1978 Marketed item by Aspen Universal including the gaff card: A general/wild card effect featuring very clean shows, magical changes and an ending that leaves the performer completely clean. West, Larry: Wild Wild West. Marketed effect. Performer shows ten cards, nine of which have a blue spot, and one which has a red spot. Performer mixes the red one among the blues. Holding the packet face down, he starts moving one card at a time from the bottom of the stack to the top, telling the spectator to stop him when he thinks that the red card is on the bottom. Spectator calls stop, performer turns packet face up and shows that the spectator missed as the bottom card is blue. The surprise comes when the magician deals the blue card on the table and shows that the remaining nine cards are now RED. Performer explains that the odds were against the spectator, he only had one chance in ten of picking the correct card. So, he gives the spectator better odds...one in five. Performer deals four reds face down next to the blue one, shows the remaining five reds and puts them aside. Then he mixes the blue one among the four reds. Again, holding the cards face down, he starts moving cards one at a time from bottom to top asking spectator to say stop when he thinks the blue one is on the bottom. Spectator says stop. The performer turns the cards face up and there is the blue one...the spectator is a winner this time. Performer then tables the blue card face up. He says if you picked one of these remaining four cards you'd be a real winner. Performer deals the four cards face up, and Instead of being red ones, they are four of the necessary cards to make a Royal Flush (for instance, a ten, queen, king, and Ace). Then performer magically changes the blue card into the remaining necessary card (in our example, the jack) making this a Royal Flush. A real winner. Wethington, Jason: Wild card (publication unknown) Jason’s wild card uses the Elmsley count as a display instead of using it as a count: at last… Wild, Boris: Boris Wild Remarkable Card Magic DVD Set: a fantastic, multi-phase routine combining All Backs, Triumph and Wild Card! & Very Wild © 2003 Marketed effect: Four indifferent cards visually transform into four aces right in front of the people’s eyes. Roughing fluid and very good magic management. & WPT Wild Poker Trick. Marketed Item by Boris Wild on his own site and by International Magic. Five indifferent cards are shown one by one on both sides. They are interlaced face up face down and squared. When fanned, without any suspicious move, the identity of the cards changed to form a Royal Flush and the back of the cars are again shown as well. Wilson, R. Paul: A-1 All Stars DVD Volume 5: Wild with the Ladies & Extreme Possibilities DVD 4: Wild with the Ladies. Paul's impromptu Wild Card routine - pure magic Wonder, Tommy. Books of Wonder. Vol 1 p 183 ©1996 by Stephen Minch; The Tamed Card. Yedid, Meir: Live in London Video. Some very smart moves in handling the changes with the double facers very much in the same spirit but with different moves than Shigeo Takagi’s routine.& Cardinal Card Marketed Item with cards and black and white photo illustrated instructions. visual packet routine along the lines of Wild Card but with an interesting twist. Seven cards are shown front and back. All seven are identical. Six are placed on the table. You explain how cards are manufactured in three layers. The card in your hand is then "split" into three layers, a face with no back, a back with no face, and the center section which is blank on both sides. You then take this center section and cause each of the tabled six cards to also become blank center sections of card. Nice smooth and easy handling. An interesting premise for a card trick. & Meir Yedid Published & Unpublished DVD Wild Card #2001 & Meir Yedid’s Smiling Assassin comes with a custom printed poker-size deck of cards, a small toy pistol, caps, photo-illustrated instructions and four extra assassinated cards. Routine based on the ones of Terry Farrett and Jeff Stewart. This is a wonderfully entertaining card routine that always gets a great reaction. You display deck of cards with smiling faces on its back. One of the cards is selected by a spectator and lost in the deck. The spectator is handed a small gun. The gun is aimed at the deck and the trigger is pulled. The gun goes off with a loud bang. The cards are then dealt face down on the table until you come to one card with a frown on its face, a hole through its head and blood splattered all over its face. The card is turned over and it proves to be the selected card. Everything is examinable.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
My own routine couldn't be on there as I never published it
Both for rememberance of a good friend (Tommy Wonder) and in gratitude for the magicians here at the café who completed my search, I decided to release it. Apart for a little alteration done to show different backs with several casinos, the routine is the same as Tommy Wonder but performed with the backs instead of the faces. The plot is original and the story so emotionally absorbing that most magicians do not even recognize Tommy's routine. Lawrence O's Wild Gamblers' Club: Several cards with the same face but different casino backs are shown: "These cards were [allegedly] stolen from casinos at Black Jack tables (to form a Club of selected magicians, skillful enough to steal a full deck over 24 hours from any casino in the world despite video surveillance). Now if you'd do this in the wrong casino with proper video surveillance, you're at risk of getting a hand chopped off by casino employees working for the wrong owners. Stealing cards in a casino is a serious offense. It changes the odds of the game: they don’t like it. Let me give you an example without risk (classic force a face down card or dribble force it). See that card has a different back, that’s normal because you didn't have the choice on that, but it has a face which is perfectly looking like the ones which serve as membership card to our very select magicians' club. So let’s change the back of your card and you’ll have a membership card of the Casino Magicians Club without putting your hand, not even a finger, at risk." [Go along Tommy Wonder's routine but with the back of the cards] "Have a look at the cards: these are not dangerous any more" [All the backs change to become similar to the normal card chosen by the spectator and you show them that the cards are normal along the way: this is my tribute to Tommy Wonder’s routine] "It’s safer for you actually and it's probably safer even for the members of our club: so you are welcome as a new member."
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David Regal V.I.P. 828 Posts |
Hi -
The Wild Card routine of mine that you mention can also be found in Approaching Magic. Thanks for including it on the list, and for the nice comment. David |
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DanGarrett Regular user Atlanta, GA 169 Posts |
Lawrence O is a wonderfully thorough magical historian, even on projects which possibly would be impossible to complete, such as every Wild Card routine in print.
I am very pleased to see Paul Hallas' ESPecially Wild get some mention here. I favor the outstanding Max Howard presentation, and I was the publisher of this augmented set of instructions. We bought the original Paul Hallas trick and added this presentation when we sold it (at no extra charge above the normal retail price). This is unfortunately out of print. But as for getting audience reaction, this one is hard to beat, as it has the mentalism element to augment the spectator's suspension of disbelief. Thank you, Paul! Wild Card (the Frank Garcia routine published by Tannens) by Peter Kane is the very first packet effect I ever purchased. I've always loved the effect. I have performed many of the variations professionally, including the popular Gypsy Curse. Great thread!
Dan Garrett
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jhostler Loyal user 278 Posts |
Another for the list:
Ed Marlo's "Card of a Thousand Faces" (found in Randy Wakeman's Formula One Close-Up)... |
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
As expected, this list takes on a life of its own. But since Lawrence has the ball rolling, I suppose we should include the genre: "Wild Card / Gypsy Curse presented as a Deal with the Devil story". Which would include Darwin Ortiz's "Beat the Devil" and Christian Chelman's excellent version, the name of which escapes me.
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Medifro Inner circle Miami 1258 Posts |
Lawrence, add to the list:
DaOrtiz, Dani. Que_Raro! DVD, version called Magic Nine. normal deck, starts as ribbon spreading the deck showing all reds, taking out wild card, spreading shows normal red/black deck. Then moves into the routine. uses lapping to make all cards examinable. The red wild card changes to black as climax. - Feras |
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