User:Nepomuk/Card Sleight of Hand

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Note: Magicians often refer to a "trick" as an "effect"; these two term will be used interchangeably in these articles.

Note: These descriptions assume the magician is right handed.




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[edit] Palming Cards

Palming means to conceal cards in one's hand (or at the back of the hand). There are various ways that cards can be concealed in the hand, palmed from the deck, put back on (or into) the deck, as well as transferred from hand to hand.

    • Positions for Concealed Card(s) in the Hand
    • Methods of Palming Card(s) from the Deck
      • Top Palm
        • Single Card
          • One handed
          • One handed table palm
          • Two handed
        • Multiple Cards
          • One handed
          • One handed table palm
          • Two handed
      • Palming from Middle of the Deck
        • Single Card: "Side Steal"
        • Multiple Cards: "Erdnase Diagonal Palm Shift"
      • Bottom Palm
        • To Right Hand
          • Single Card
          • Multiple Cards
        • To Left Hand
          • Erdnase Method
    • Methods of Moving Cards Secretly from Palm to Deck
    • Transferring Card(s) from Hand to Hand


[edit] Switching Cards

    • Color Changes
      • Paintbrush Change
      • Snap Change
      • Bertram Change
    • Switching cards into/out of a packet: "Hand Mucking"
    • Top and Bottom Changes
    • Changing Card on Table
      • McMillan Turnover Switch
    • Switching Entire Decks: "Cold Deck Switching"


[edit] Controlling Location of Spectator's Card

    • Key Card (is this sleight of hand though??)
    • Palming from Center of Deck: "Side Steal"
    • "Hofzinser Spread Control"
    • Double Undercut
    • Overhand Shuffle Control
    • Hindu Shuffle Control
    • Using "The Pass"
    • "Erdnase Diagonal Palm Shift"
    • The Crimp (but is this sleight of hand?


[edit] Forcing the Spectator to Choose a Card

    • Classic Force
    • Riffle Force
    • Hindu Shuffle Force
    • Force Deck (sleight of hand??)
    • Mathematical Forces
    • One Card Stands out in a fan or spread of cards
    • Using Second Deal and Dealing Down to Card


[edit] The Double Lift

    • Two Handed
      • Second Deal Push-off Method
    • One handed


[edit] False Counts and other Sleights with Packets of Cards

    • Elmsley Count
    • Biddle Move

Note: For palming and switching cards from packet see Hand Mucking


[edit] False Shuffles

    • Shuffles that Don't Mix the Deck
      • False Riffle Shuffles
        • Table Methods
          • Push Through Shuffles
            • Standard Method
            • "Triumph" method
          • Zarrow Shuffle
            • Standard Method
        • In the Hands Methods
          • Two Handed
            • Guy Hollingworth Method -- refer them to place to buy book
          • One Handed - Does this even exist?
      • False Overhand Shuffles
      • False Hindu Shuffles
      • False Washing (spreading all the cards on the table) Shuffles]]
      • Faro shuffle
      • 8 normal "In" Faro Shuffles returns deck to its original order


[edit] False Cuts

Note: also see The Pass/Shift

      • In the Hands
      • On the Table


[edit] Stacking the Deck

Arranging cards in a desired order during shuffling.

      • Riffle Shuffle Methods
      • Overhand Shuffle Methods
      • Washing Methods
      • Faro Shuffle Methods
      • The Tabled Riffle-Faro Shuffle

Note: See the section Faro Shuffle for a description of this shuffle; this section explains how a normal Faro shuffle can be used to not mix the cards or stack the cards.

[edit] False Deals

    • Second Deals
      • Strike Method
        • Standard (face down)
        • Stud (face up)
      • Push Off Method
        • Standard (face down)
        • Stud (face up)
      • One handed methods
    • Bottom Deals
      • Standard (face down)
      • Stud (face up)
      • One handed methods
    • Center Deals


[edit] The Pass or Shift (Correcting the Cut)

    • Two handed
      • Classic Pass
      • Perfect Pass
      • Invisible Pass
      • Herrmann's (or Hofzinser) Pass
      • Riffle Pass
    • One handed
      • Charlier Pass
    • Table Passes


[edit] Miscellaneous

    • Holding a Break


[edit] Flourishes

    • One Handed Cuts

Please see Cuts

    • One Handed Shuffles

Please see Shuffles


[edit] Routine Card Handling

    • Shuffles
      • Riffle Shuffle
        • On table
        • In hands
        • Overhand Shuffle
      • Faro Shuffle
        • In hands
        • On table
      • Hindu Shuffle
      • Wash Shuffle

Note: See False Shuffles and Cuts for "trick" versions of these shuffles.

    • Cuts
      • On table
      • In hands
        • One handed
        • Two handed

Note: See False Shuffles and Cuts for "trick" versions of these cuts, and Flourishes for fancy cuts.

    • Spreading Cards
      • On table
      • In hands
        • One handed
        • Two handed

Note: Also see Fanning and "Hofzinser" Spread Control