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mtstic44 Loyal user 280 Posts |
I just wanted to know what effect or effects found in the Karl Fulves books that everyone likes to perform the most.
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WalterPlinge Veteran user 357 Posts |
Gemini Twins from More Self-Working Card Tricks.
Mental Mates and Ultra Coincidence from Self-Working Card Tricks. Color Flite from the The Big Book of Magic Tricks. |
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mtstic44 Loyal user 280 Posts |
They are all great effect I do like the gemini twins alot. I am an amataur at card magic but it is a beginning.I am a truck driver by trade but I do love magic too bad I didn't make it a career.
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
Almost everything in "Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups."
I will check this week end and offer my three favourites from this great book!
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
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drhowell New user Cookeville, TN 29 Posts |
Gemini Twins
To Lie or Tell the Truth Color Flite Miraskil -Cliff |
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Andy Moss Special user 713 Posts |
Peter Duffie has a lovely variation of Gemini twins called 'Foursome' that is worth hunting down. With it you can use the principle to either produce a four of a kind (such as the four queens for example) in a playing card deck or to force any four specific cards. This has numerous applications. For example one might create a false reading using tarot cards. One might also use alphabet cards that spell someone's name out or number cards that one might then work with/predict. For a purer mentalist presentation use colour or images on the face of the cards. The possibilities are many and diverse.
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ropeadope Elite user Mississippi 453 Posts |
Andy,
Thanks for the tip on Duffie`s 'Foursome', sounds really useful. Is this a commercially sold trick or explained in a book? If a book, which? John
Nothing is better than more.
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Andy Moss Special user 713 Posts |
Have sent you a PM John.
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Hushai Elite user St. Louis, Missouri, USA 459 Posts |
Does anyone know "Voodoo Clue," from "My Best Self-Working Card Tricks"? It is the cleverest, least obvious use of the Automatic Placement I have ever seen.
I also like the chapter on the Color-changing Deck in "Self-Working Close-up Card Magic," especially #53, "The Red and the Blue." |
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ropeadope Elite user Mississippi 453 Posts |
Thank you for your very helpful PM reply Andy!
Have fun, John
Nothing is better than more.
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WalterPlinge Veteran user 357 Posts |
In Self-Working Card Tricks, p. 29, "The 3 Jacks Deal" -- I'm a little confused. A straight beats a 3 of a kind -- so the trick makes no sense. Am I missing something?
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WalterPlinge Veteran user 357 Posts |
Anyone have a chance to check this out?
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Atom3339 Inner circle Spokane, WA 3242 Posts |
Hi Walter,
I checked this out and it worked as instructed. I'm confused about the 3 Jacks beating a Straight also as it would NOT in a typical five card deal. But these are three card deals so maybe??? Just don't know. Maybe someone with more knowledge will chime in here. I can think of other ways to present this effect without having the "better hand" idea involved.
TH
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WalterPlinge Veteran user 357 Posts |
Thanks Atom3339. I must have been having a brain freeze. I just did a search, and found that in 3 card poker, 3 of a kind beats a straight. It was just so ingrained in my mind that a straight beats a 3 of a kind...I've never heard before of 3 card poker.
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alicauchy Veteran user Málaga, Spain 310 Posts |
It is an interesting example of how probabilities are not always intuitive.
The reason is that using "three card deals" modify the balance between number of combinations of a straight (much easier to obtain with just three cards) and 3 of a kind (which essentially remain the same).
So much to do, so little time . . .
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cybob New user 60 Posts |
Quick As A Wink
It is the last trick in his Self-Working Card Tricks. |
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
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On 2012-09-20 14:40, drhowell wrote: Great effects but Miraskil(l) is actually a Stewart James effect. It first appeared in The Jinx. MANY magicians have done very cool variants of it, but, credit where credit is due. The effect can also be found in Stewart James in Print, variations in The James File, The Essential Stewart James, and Scarne on Card Tricks. Namaste, Vlad PS: If you like Gemini Twins, check out volume 4 of Nick Trost's Subtle Card Magic published by H&R Magic. There are fantastic variants of this great Fulves effect. |
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WalterPlinge Veteran user 357 Posts |
Double-Dealing in Fulves' Self-Working Close-up Card Magic -- same as Nick Trost's Double Discovery in The Card Magic of Nick Trost.
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts |
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On 2012-08-24 10:37, panlives wrote: Panlives, Wow! I had never heard of this book by Karl Fulves. Thanks for sharing that information. Mike
Magic is a vanishing Art.
This must not be Kansas anymore, Toto. Eschew obfuscation. |
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Claudio Inner circle Europe 1927 Posts |
Fulves's booklets on the riffle shuffle are very few and far between. Good luck getting one.
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