Card tricks – Trick using blind shuffling
This is my own created trick with me doing it. Duh?! If not then why would I upload it. Adios!
Task #6) How to utilize the Blind shuffles?
Here’s the URL!!
Playing Cards – Important Terminology Used
These terminology will be used throughout the posts in the category Card Tricks so I would be mindful of these.
Remember Case #1) How to be an expert at the card table.
Reference: S.W. Erdnase’s “The Expert at the card table”. (PDF version by Takro the Great)
#5) Task: What is the terminology commonly used in card manipulation?
Stock – that portion of the deck that contains certain cards, placed in some particular order for dealing.
Jog – A card portruding a little from any part of the deck to fix the location of any particular card or cards.
Break – A space or division held in the deck. While shuffling it is held at the end by the right thumb.
Culls The desired cards – To cull is the act of selecting one or more desired cards.
Blind – Any method of shuffling, riffling, cutting or culling, designed to appear regular, but in reality retaining, or arranging, some preconceived order.
Filet/ First Card – The card on top of packet held by the right hand to be shuffled.
Trick Decks (Playing cards)
A Stripper Deck (also known as a Tapered Deck, Wizard Deck or Biseauté Deck) allows the magician to easily control the location of a card or group of cards within the pack. Even after being shuffled into the deck by a spectator, the magician can cut to a selected card; or after being lost in different parts of the deck, the magician can control multiple cards to the bottom or top of the deck with a few innocent shuffles.
The Svengali deck can be dribbled or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary.
Svengali deck
A marked deck has a subtle mark on the decorative side of the cards. Usually the mark is placed in a certain position to indicate the number of the card and the mark is a certain color or shape to indicate suit.
With the Mental Photography Deck, you can fan the deck and show both sides and they will seem to be completely blank, but when you cut the deck a card will appear. It is all self-working. Then you may flip through the deck and show that all the cards are printed and then return back to blank if you wish.
A “Cold deck” is a stacked deck which is typically switched with the deck actually being used in the game in question, to the benefit of the player and/or dealer making the switch.
CORRECTION: Task #2 – which concerned card tricks is in fact a CASE, which I would call case #1, hence the category of ‘card tricks’. In effect, this post can be technically called #2 Task) What kind of trick decks should I be familiar with to… Case #1, be an expert at the card table.
