Wikipedia : Shuffling
Tricks Revealed on Video
Best Card Trick in the World
[revealed by Greg Solomon].
3-Card Monte
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Amazing 4-Card Trick
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The Switch
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Pierced Arm
The Psychology of Magic (43:48)
by Gustav Kuhn (RI, 2019年10月07日).
10 magic tricks explained (in French, 30:05)
by Fred Ericksen (2015年05月12日).
To respects the rights of magical creators, we do not condone exposure of copyrighted illusions. The magical effects and techniques presented here are believed to be common knowledge or classics which are not privately owned.
The art of an illusionist is to produce extraordinary "effects".
What the spectator sees seems impossible mostly because some of the causes
are cleverly hidden. Something wonderful is essentially created by
cheating. Elsewhere on this site, we discuss many of the wonderful
things that can be experienced without cheating in the
mathematical or physical universe.
Some of that can be so surprising that a magician could present it without
trickery (mathematical magic).
Yet, a scientist should be acquainted with some of the techniques
magicians use to fool people in order to debunk false science.
Also, it's just entertaining to investigate those things.
A spectator trained in magic will not be so easily fooled and will often
be able to explain away many "new" tricks in terms of basic techniques.
Likewise, a trained scientist may think of causes or mechanisms which
provide explanations for new observations.
To paraphrase Martin Gardner, the Universe itself
may well be a huge magical trick waiting to be explained...
Because lying is usually neither acceptable nor expected, magicians do get away with it. Lying is simply part of their trade and people keep believing them...
For example, an illusionist who uses a stacked deck will routinely flash it for a quick inspection to "conclude" that the cards are not ordered in any special way. The exact opposite is true, of course, but people will normally assume that whatever they are told is true, unless proven otherwise. Lying is the crudest form of psychological manipulation. It's very effective.
Misdirection is the act of focusing the attention of the spectator away from the point where a dubious action is taking place. It is one way to hide things more effectively and can be construed as a subtle form of nonverbal deception.
This scam was often performed for money around race tracks many years ago.
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Wikipedia : Cups and Balls
This effect uses a gimmicked cup whose basic design is named after Alvin H. Wheatley (1901-1964) an australian-born magician performing in oriental garb as Tung Pin Soo or "Chop-Chop". On stage Wheatley used a bamboo gaffed cup.
The idea of incorporating a magnet in a cup designed for magic effects seems much older than that... It appears in the expanded version (1723) by M. Grandin of the work first published by Jacques Ozanam's (1640-1718) as Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694).
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Reference guide and
Article on the Chop Cup
by Douglas Atkinson.
MagicPedia (Chop cup)
Legendary
Chop Cup Routine by Paul Daniels (1985)
If the magician forces a choice, he will not have any trouble guessing what it was!
A choice can be forced either by substitution or reduction. In the former case, a chosen item is substituted for another before whoever made the choice is even aware of the outcome of that choice. One example is the ribbon spread force were the spectator points to the back of a card in a pack spread before him. The magician moves the bottom card underneath the chosen card under the pretense of squaring the deck before turning it over at the chosen point, thus forcing the bottom card to be "chosen" every time.
3 ropes of unequal length become equal.
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Fraid Knot (Video by Magic Geek)
There are two ways to solve this problem. One of them is honest (purely mathematical) whereas the other uses deceit and sleight of hand (to hide the fact that you are letting go of one end.
The honest way to proceed is to cross your arms before you graps the ends of the rope... As you uncross your arms, a knot forms on the rope! 3 ropes of unequal length become equal.
A half-hitch knot through a ring can be undone..
The secret is to use a square knot.
The Cow hitch is a popular knot consisting of two half-hitches. A cow hitch through a ring can be undone by expanding the knot beyond the size of the ring.
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Ring and Rope Penetration revealed
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The Glide by
This popular trick appeared on YouTube on 2007年02月05日 xxx with the following narrative:
A guy came up to me in the street the other day and he said: Look, I've got a little game that I'd like to play with three playing cards. We've got THIS card, THIS card and THAT card. He said: "All you've going to do is keep an eye on THAT card. As he said that, he moved it to the bottom of the pile.
Surprisingly, people will not notice if you never let go of the bottom of the deck as you shuffle cards
As a spectator inserts a business card (or a regular signed card) into a fanned deck of playing cards, the move forces the card to appear between two predetermined cards.
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Prophecy Move
references at The Magic Café Forum (2003).
"Card Magic for Amateurs and Professionals" by Bill Simon (1998 reprint of "Effective Card Magic", 1952).
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The Zarrow shuffle
(c. 1940) by
Herb Zarrow
(1925-2008)
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MagicPedia
A false shuffle is a sequence of move that leaves a deck of cards undisturbed.
A perfect shuffle consists in splitting a deck of 2n cards into two equal halves of n cards
This sounds silly, but this disarmingly simple technique is routinely used by magicians whenever they are seated at a table.
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Link Two Rubber Bands (Scam School) by Brian Brushwood (crediting Michael Ammar).
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The Invisible Deck by Mismag822.
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Cups & Balls - Miser's Dream by Pen and Teller.
