Deck Deception
Authored by
Ed Marlo
Magic, Inc., 1942 (Stapled), 23 pages
(14 entries)
(typed in by Denis Behr)
Creator
Title of Routine or Sleight
Comment
Page
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Categories
Ed Marlo
&
Martin Gardner
Casanova Card Trick
2 at a time production of queens when 2 halfs are rubbed face to face
5
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Four of a kind Effects
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Production
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One by One
Ed Marlo
Setting Up in Front of Spectator
strategy, context
7
Cards
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Sleights
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Culling
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Arranging the Order
Ed Marlo
Double Vanish and Recovery
2 cards vanish from face of two halfs when rubbed together, reappear in deck, see also
Variations on Double Vanish & Recovery
8
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Vanish
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Multiple Cards
Cards
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Sleights
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Color Change
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Multiple Cards at the same time
Ed Marlo
Torn Deck Mystery
deck is torn in quarters which are mixed in hat, performer locates 4 pieces of selection without looking
10
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Location
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One Card Location
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Torn & Restored
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Miscellaneous
Ed Marlo
A Good Number
spectators stops while performer is shuffling 4 times and cards are turned over, next to aces
11
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Four of a kind Effects
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Spectator finds four of a kind (or at least helps)
Ed Marlo
Number Transpo
card at chosen position changes to different chosen position
13
Cards
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Effect Themes
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"Number Effects"
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Two Cards change position
Ed Marlo
Marlo's Running Cut
in-the-hands swing cut running cut, also as top stock control
14
Cards
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Sleights
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Cuts
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Real Cuts
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Running Cut
Cards
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Sleights
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Cuts
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Real Cuts
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Swing Cut
Cards
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Sleights
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Cuts
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False Cut
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Partial
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Top Stock
Ed Marlo
Marlo's Lessinout System of Cull and Stock Shuffles
without injogs or outjogs
Lessinout Cull
Lessinout Stack
14
Cards
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Sleights
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Shuffles (non-riffle)
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Overhand
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Culling
Cards
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Sleights
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Shuffles (non-riffle)
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Overhand
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Stacking
Ed Marlo
The Spy
17
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Travelling
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Packet to Packet
Unknown
Tip-Over Switch
context
17
Cards
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Sleights
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Switches
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Single Card Switches
/
Tip-Over Switch
Ed Marlo
Divining Hanky
handkerchief finds card by bending its corner by itself to identify it
18
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Location
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"Funny" Locations (whatever that means...)
Silk & Handkerchief
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Animation
Ed Marlo
Card to Card Case
palmed onto case and removed
19
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Travelling
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Card(s) to Card Case
Cards
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Sleights
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Case Things
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Card to Case Techniques
Ed Marlo
The Magical Gambler
performer gets queens, spectator kings, queens change to aces
20
Cards
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Effect Themes
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Gambling
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Poker
/
Pokerhand Transformations
Unknown
Buckle Count
context
21
Cards
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Sleights
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False Count
/
Undercounts
Cards
/
Sleights
/
Break
/
Buckling
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