I would most appreciate your thoughts on the best effects to use in building a complete routine incorporating the mem'd deck. Have you ever constructed an entire routine with every effect relying on the mem'd deck? What are the best non-mem'd deck effects (whether yours or someone else's) to use in such a routine? Obviously, tricks like Venon's "Triumph" that maintain the stack are great.

Have you ever followed a mem'd deck routine with a card effect that doesn't rely on the stack (after the stack is destroyed)? I've found it better usually to move on to something different (like a book test).

Basically, I'm asking about routining ideas.

Thank you,
CM

I've answered this elsewhere, in several other threads. But the short answer is:

my DVD Volume 3 does exactly what you want.

Simon

Just an example from a corporate function I had the other night. I had 15 minutes left of a 2 hour strolling job, and wanted to do material that people hadn't already seen me do. Some guests had begun to leave and so, for the first time that night, there was table space available. That meant mem-deck time.

I kind of improvised the set from routines I often do separately. Here's how it went:

Two Card "No Touch" Location (from Bound to Please) with the piles dealt face-up.

Claiming to have memorised the cards in the two piles, I then simply called them out in stack order, thus reseting the small part of the stack that had been upset. (see A Subtle Game in Encyclopaedia of Card Tricks)

Finally I finished with Christ-Aronson Aces which can be found on Simon's website.

All up, I had about 15 minutes of strong material that gave the overall impression of complete mastery over a shuffled deck of cards. I was particularly pleased with A Subtle Game, as I hadn't thought of using it in that manner before. I don't think I would want to do it with the entre deck, but with a dozen cards or so, it's great.
So, yes, an entire mem-deck routine is not only possible, but kind of cool too.

Michel

Nice idea for restacking "Two Card No Touch Location," creating yet another effect! And then you're still in business. Good sequence.

Simon

That's the kind of routine I was asking about. Thanks for sharing this, FM. Does anyone else have a combination of mem'd deck tricks that they think would make a great routine?

Thanks to all,
CM

Past, Present and Future leads quite nicely into Shuffle-Bored as you know the number of cards on the table. I think Simon refers to this in Simply Simon.

So . . . how about:

Invisible Card (From TTI, easy stack reset)
Past Present Future
Shuffle-Bored

They'll need a chance to catch their breath after that!


Jack Shalom