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phonic69 Special user 560 Posts |
Readers of my other posts may be aware that I have been working consistantly over the last few months with stacks. Now I have memorised a stack, and I would like to put it into practice.
What effects do you rate the most when performing with a stack? I'm not talking about hidden qualities in individual stacks such as dealing out perfect bridge hands (Aronson) etc, but for effects that can be done with ANY stack. Thanks in advance! |
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JimMaloney Inner circle 1184 Posts |
Though I haven't done a whole lot of research on memorized deck effects, Juan Tamariz's "Four of a Kind" from his Lessons in Magic video is a good one. Briefly, a card is selected and put into the spectator's pocket, unseen by anyone. The magicians then states that he will try to find the three matching cards in the deck. He finds one card, and everyone is happy. Then he turns over a second card...and it's different then the first. Uh-oh! It's ok, he says, the first card was wrong, it's really the second one. So he goes and turns over the next card...and it's completely different than the other two. He's completely flustered now and apologizes profusely to the audience and asks if he can start over. He turns the three cards back over while the spectator takes the card out of her pocket. Out of curiosity, the magician looks at the card the spectator chose, which is completely different that the three previously seen cards. But then he starts to think...and he waves the card over the deck. When he spreads the deck, three cards have reversed, and they match the chosen card! It's a miracle!
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RandyWakeman V.I.P. Plainfield, ILLINOIS 1617 Posts |
The "Think-a-Card" plot is one of the strongest uses.
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Ian Richards Loyal user 226 Posts |
My two favorite memorized deck effects are:
The Invisible Card from "Try The Impossible" - A spectator removes an invisible card from the deck names it and then replaces it. When the invisible card is returned to the deck it is the only face down card in the face up deck. Topsy Turvy from "Simply Simon" - Three spectators each select a card and then shuffle their packets and the remainder of the deck together face up and face down in a similar manner to Triumph. The perfomer reveals the selections from the face up and face down spread deck. Both books are by Simon Aronson and although I use the Aronson Stack, these effects are stack independent. |
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
Over in "Penny for your thoughts...", on a thread about memory, I've posted a nice, long reference list concerning memory-related effects:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/archive1/vie......start=15 I posted this list before I had time to add things from "Try the Impossible" and "Bound To Please", but I recommend those books, as well. I love the Invisible Card from "Try The Impossible"! |
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PMVIVA Elite user Argentina 460 Posts |
I think the best effect I know or I have seen made with a stack of cards is the effect Spell the aces, where you shuffle the deck, you cut the deck, you loose the aces in the deck, and then you spell each ace, and you find it spelling them, and then, you turn over the cards that were put in the table while you spelt the aces, and they are the 2 to K of the same suite of the ace you have spelt.
This effect is very strong. I always do it with the Si Stebbin's Setup. First I do some tricks with this ordered deck, without change the order of the deck and then I do this effect with aces, and then I move into a four aces routine.
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Kard16 Regular user 144 Posts |
I hate all stacked tricks, but many will disagree. Many people use stacked tricks as openers, me being from Chicago, use the Chicago Opener, but again it preference. I dunno that many stacked trickes but there is a good poker one by Vernon, I think it is one of the Ammar series.
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Phreedom New user Naptown U.S.A. 1 Post |
I also think the Si Stebbins is a great deck stack
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
My favorites with a memorized deck are:
1) "Outsmart" (AH-HA!, David Harkey & Eric Andersen) - A spectator is asked to name their very favorite playing card. The magician then spells the phrase "Your favorite card" and finished on their card! No sleights or moves (not even so much as a cut), just clean, direct, unexplainable magic. 2) "Invisible Card" (Try The Impossible, Simon Aronson) - A spectator pulls out the only "invisible" card out of the deck and names it. It is shown that the named card really is gone! The spectator puts the invisible card back into the deck. The deck is spread and the named card is face-up in the middle! 3) "Any Card At Any Number" (Theater of the Mind, Barrie Richardson) - pretty much what the title says. The person names a card,then names a number. The deck is removed from the card case, and the magician counts down to the number. At that number is the selected card. 4) "Angel Flight" (Theater of the Mind, Barrie Richardson) - 3 spectators each select a card. The cards are divined in successively more impressive ways. |
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
Two very strong effects with any memorized deck are Histed Heisted and Everybody's Lazy. The first is from Bound to Please by Simon Aronson and the second is from Simply Simon by the same author.
The books are available on Simon's Website: http://www.simonaronson.net
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Nicodemus Special user 644 Posts |
My vote goes to ' Angel Flight ' by barry Richardson and " Photo-static Deck ' by Ted Lesley.
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Marcus Selle New user Berlin, Germany 58 Posts |
My vote goes to "Past, Present, Future" by S. Aronson.
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RandyWakeman V.I.P. Plainfield, ILLINOIS 1617 Posts |
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On 2002-08-05 16:46, Kard16 wrote: Hate ALL of them? But what if you were a laymen, and you yourself had already shuffled the cards? Isn't it the effect that counts, not the method? |
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phonic69 Special user 560 Posts |
That is so true Randy, and as I have said in other posts, there are people here who could show you an effect with a stacked deck that will blow you away.
Maybe you just need to see a really good stack effect to change your opinion! |
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Kard16 Regular user 144 Posts |
Yea I need to take my statement back because I learned like 7 false cuts and when mixed with the faro shuffle the effect could be strong, but still its hard to get them in order (Sam the bellhop is good)
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DaveM Special user Germany 788 Posts |
My personal favorite is off Nash's Volume One of "Master Card Magician". I think its his version of "Mental Topper".
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CS Sheridan New user 65 Posts |
Sam the Bellhop. Straightforward, people love the story, and with the right false cuts and shuffles, it looks impossible to a lay audience.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2002-08-06 16:09, Marcus Selle wrote: My vote would go to P, P, F or "Some People Think" in Aronson's Bound to Please. |
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teejay Inner circle Liverpool, UK 1831 Posts |
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On 2002-08-05 14:22, Scott Cram wrote: I lost my bookmark for this amazing resource After a long search I found the above link but it is no longer working Can anybody help? Cheers TJ |
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teejay Inner circle Liverpool, UK 1831 Posts |
Found it now
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