Hey guys, I am curious about your top 5 tricks from Royal Road to Card Magic.

Looking foward...

Niels

In no particular order:

Do As I Do
Three Cards Across
Ambitious Card
The 26th Card
Design for Laughter

Honourable mention to Topsy Turvy.

I second those exact choices!

I have had a lot of fun with "Design for Laughter".

Great trick

I have absolutely freaked people out with "Thought Stealer." I don't have RRTCM handy, so I can't give you the page number.

Here's the effect: The spectator thinks of a card. You shuffle the deck. Have the spectator spell silently to themselves the name of the card, one letter each for every card you thumb off the deck. At the last letter, they tell you to stop. Turn the card over and it's their card. Recall that the spectator merely thought of the card and never announced what it was, and yet you somehow reveal their card. I stunned my wife with it (she's not easily mystified).

Jim

I like the Do as I Do Trick the most. It is so deceptive you can do it 1 million times and no one will figure it out.

#2 Good Luck Card

#3 Obliging Aces

#4 Poker Puzzle

#5 I like all the platform tricks so I can't say my fifth.

"The Royal Road to Card Magic" is a great book and my favorites:

1. The Sevens
2. Double Reverse
3. Righting a Wrong
4. Design for Laughter
5. Do as I do

It's kinda hard just selecting five!

I'm going to second magic barry's vote. I also like The Sevens a lot, and of course acrobatic aces is a good quickie. IMO, Design for Laughter is one of the simplest and most effective card tricks from RR if you do it right.

(Even if you don't it's still pretty decent )
Happy holidays

I don't use many effects from Royal Road, but a variation on Design for Laughter is easily my favorite. I've gotten some incredible reactions from this (which is very entertaining for me!). They just can't backtrack on it because it all seems so fair. It's a perfect exercise in condition the spectator(s).

I also have to agree with Barry. But my most favorite is design for laughter

Everywhere and nowhere is so far the best effect I've come across in this title.

Do As I Do
Poker Players Picnic
Design For Laughter
The Three Piles
Gathering Of The Clan

My List:

1. Design for Laughter
2. Double Reverse
3. Everywhere and Nowhere
4. Do As I Do
5. A Tipsy Trick

Honorable mention to "The 26th Card".

My favourite effects from Royal Road are as follows.

Thought Stealer
The Typsy Trick
Do as I DO
Cards Across
The Conus Aces
EveryWhere and Nowhere
Ladies Looking Glass
Cards to Pocket
Everybodies Card
The Piano Trick

These effects I still use to this day. Timeless classics

My list would be:

1) 'Piano trick'
2) 'Design for laughter'
3) 'Everywhere and nowhere'
4) 'Topsy Turvy cards'
5) 'The Ambitious Card'
Jason

Man I guess I need to pick this book up. I have in on order, I can't wait until it comes, sounds like fun...

My favourites are:

1. Design for Laughter
2. Ambitious Card
3. Do as I Do
4. Card in the Pocket
5. Three Cards Across

Thanks

Please explain the effect on Design for laughter for me.

Humm... for me it would be (in no order)
1. Thought Stealer
2. Ambitious Card
3. Design for Laughter
4. EveryWhere and Nowhere
5. Card in the Pocket

Everybody is right in there with my top five picks. . . but I would add Fours Of A Kind, on page 224. Great, great trick!

Regards,
Brett