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TRICKS
YOU CAN DO
YOU WILL DO
EASY TO DO
Compiled by W. F. (Rufus) Steele
Author of
'Card Tricks You Will Do" "Card Tricks You Can Do*
"Card Tricks Easy to Do"
Card Tricks That Require No Sleight-of-Hand
Contains over 50 of the
finest card tricks with a
borrowed deck and from
the brains of our very
best card magicians
Published by
LOUIS TANNEN
120 W. 42nd Street
New York 18, N.Y.
INTRODUCTION
RUFUS STEELE has intrigued me for many years. Tall,
slender, grey-haired, with penetrating eyes peering
through his bi-jocals. His almost school-teacherish ap-
pearance belies the strange tales which are whispered about
his lifetime oj between sixty and seventy years.
Little did he think when he began keeping cases in a
Faro Bank game in the back bay district in Boston that he
would use cards as a means oj livelihood.
Few men possess his fund of anecdotes concerning men
who follow the game of chance. That he himself is a past
master of the mechanics, subterfuges and procedures of
gambling is, of course, common knowledge among conjurors.
A book about Rufus Steele is as much in order as a book
by Rufus Steele.
We welcome, nevertheless, the appearance of another
volume from his pen. A book by Steele is an event because
ten years have been sandwiched between the publication of
each of his three preceding volumes. Volume number one is
being called for at one hundred dollars a copy and that book
contains only ten tricks. In no hurry to rush into print this
writer waits, selects, and discards his possibilities, goes out
in search for more until finally he has the choice effects he
really wants to publish.
The result is a book of practical, effective, easy-to-do,
sure-fire pieces of magical wizardry which will delight the
heart of any man looking for desirable program material. As
was expected he has had to go to some of the best known
card men in the country in order to get what he wanted.
You'll find it all in these pages.
The donors of these tricks do not always claim origi-
nality for the basic ideas involved but do for the final dress
in which the trick is presented. Over half a hundred tricks,
presented by friends of Rufus Steele, prove that this book
not only contains many card mysteries but also that Rufus
Steele is a man of many friends.
Anyone who studies and masters the different card tricks
in this little book need never be at a loss to do his bit when
called upon. You will astonish your friends and add greatly
to the gaiety of the gathering.
With best wishes,
John Booth
CONTENTS
Community Do As I Do Bert Allerton 5
A "Chic" Trick "Chic" Schoke 6
Colors Will Tell Eddie Morton 7
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Mix Cut and Look Billy O'Connor 9
Location From New Deck Arthur Buckley 10
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Your Number Your Card Paul Rosini 11
This Is Your Card George Coon 12
Money On The Line George Foster 13
Do It For Me Gene Bernstein 14
Mathematical Marvel Arden Morris 16
Number Transposition Ed Mario 17
DeLuxe Spelling Trick 18
Improved Jack-Jack-Jack 19
An Old Trick in a New Dress Eric Peterson 20
While I Turn My Back Paul Rosini 21
Triple Divination Clarke C. Crandall 22
Cards and Pellets Stewart Judah 25
"Reverso" "Dorny" 26
Ducy-Ducy Dai Vernon 27
Number Trick 29
The Great Mental Mystery From Pinochle Little Johnny Jones 30
Spectator's Name Martin Barnett 32
Mathematical Discovery Harry Blackstone 33
That Number Down Doc Miller 34
Phenomenal Memory Paul Stadelman 35
You Could Have Selected That One Frank Shepard 36
Allerton's Indicator Bert Allerton 37
I Should Judge 38
Passe Shuffle Bill Baird 40
Three Card Location 40
Simplicity Transposition Lt. Royal H. Brin, Jr., USN 41
Name Your Cards Bo Bo 42
Figures Don't Lie 43
You Remember This One Bert Allerton 44
Spelling Card Trick With Duplicate Queens Bill Salisbury 45
Simplicity Poker Deal Lt. Royal H. Brin, Jr., USN 46
Twenty Card Sequel Lt. W. T. Williard 47
Riffle Shuffle 49
Two Digits 49
Tapping Trick Ed Miller 50
Bridge and Poker Demonstration W. F. (Rufus) Steele 51
Missing Deuce Bert Allerton 53
Royal Flush 55
Number Trick _ Van Osdol 56
Prediction Doc Roberts 57
Making It Stick 58
Mental Thought Bill Bowman 59
Revelation Bob Oswald 61
Ten Card Effect 62
Poker Stack From New Deck Bill Salisbury 62
In The Middle 63
Whose Tricks?
Here's to the tricks we've stolen and
stealing is certainly wrong.
But after we've bought and paid for them,
to whom do they really belong?
For if S. A. M. doesn't claim them, and
I. B. M. doesn't fuss
We hold our heads up proudly and say
they really belong to us.
For if you had a barrel of apples
and left them to rot
And a neighbor came along and claimed them,
Would this be stealing? Most certainly Not.
For apples were made to be eaten, and
tricks were made for delight,
That's what we tell our conscience
when it keeps us awake at night.
Dedicated to
a patient and helping friend oj all magis
Jeneva Cox
Secretary to America's Professional Magic President
Gene Bernstein
Copyright 1946
By W. F. (RUFUS) STEELE
Chicago, Illinois
Cover by Herbert J. Borin
Chicago, Illinois
COMMUNITY DO AS DO
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By Bert Allerton
This trick was originated by Bert Allerton who has been in
the Pump Room of Chicago for 5 years doing close-up work.
Effect: Any number of people up to eight all take a
card from the deck which is unknown to the performer. They
are told to remember their card and replace same in deck.
Then the deck is separated into piles of six cards each, one pile
to each spectator who selected a card. The performer now
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asks them to do as he does place the top card of their pile on
the bottom of their pile and the next card on the table, the
next card on top place on bottom next card on table, this is
carried on until there is only one card left face down in spec-
tator's hand and when spectator names his card the card he
is holding is that card.
Secret: The secret is very simple. The whole trick lays
in the fact that each selected card in each pile is the second
card from the bottom in the pile handed to the spectator who
is told "to do as you do".
When you gather the cards from the spectators see that
they are all kept together in rotation of the way the spectators
give them to you. In other words you must remember your
"number one" spectator and the last spectator.
Now with the cards replaced in the deck they are brought
to the top of the deck with the first spectators card on top of
the deck, second spectators card next and so on until you
have covered your audience that have selected cards.
Now if you can false shuffle the deck keeping the specta-
tors cards on top of the deck well and good. If you can't false
shuffle just place them on top of the deck and do a bit of talking
and then they will over-look the false shuffle. Now turn the
deck face up in your hand and say "you took a card, and you
also took a card" until you get the number of cards down on
the table as spectators taking part in the trick. For instance,
there are five people who have selected cards there will be
five cards face down on the table, because as you place a card
on the table from the deck which is face up in your hand be
sure and turn it face down. Now turn the deck over and place
one card at a time on the cards on the table. Each one of these
cards belong to your spectators. Now ask where you will take
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the next cards from top, bottom or middle and again place
down another card on top of each pile. Now we have three
cards face down in each pile. Ask spectator where you
will take the next cards from and how many cards. Top,
bottom or middle. If he says "three cards" fine, you now
place three cards on each pile face down, and you are ready
to give each spectator a pile making sure you give "number
one" spectator the pile his card is in "the first pile" and so on
to the last pile. Now you tell them what to do. Take the first
card on top of the deck and place on the bottom of the deck
and the next card face down on the table. This will be carried
out until you have placed five cards on the table and the card
they have in their hand is the selected one.
Should you have less than eight people take part in this
effect, then I would take a pile for myself for demonstrating
purposes, which always helps.
A "CHIC" TRICK
By "Chic" Schoke
The deck is shuffled by performer and spectator is invited
to take a group of cards from anywhere in the deck.
Tell spectator, "If I were to ask you to take a card and
replace it in the deck you would be suspicious that I could con-
trol the card in some way. Now select a bunch of cards, and
as I run the faces in front of you, while my head is turned, I
want you to think of any card in the bunch. Now while my
head is turned take this bunch of cards and take your card
from it and place it face down on the side. Now shuffle the
balance and place them on top of the deck. Place your card on
top. I may have known the bottom card, so here is a bunch
from the bottom. Shuffle these and place these on top. Cut the
deck". Performer then takes the deck, spreads it and finds the
selected card.
Secret: Before shuffling deck glimpse top card and keep
it there. When they take a bunch of cards, take them in your
hands and as you pass them in front of his eyes count them.
If there are 10 cards then the selected card will be the tenth
from known top card of the deck.
For instance:
1. Top card glimpsed (Ace of Hearts).
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2. Shuffled.
3. Group taken.
4. Deck placed on table and group placed in your hands.
5. Count cards as you pass them from hand to hand.
(12 cards).
6. Give him group and ask him to take his card from
them and place on side.
7. He shuffles his remaining 11 cards and places on top
of Ace of Hearts on deck.
8. He places his selected card on top.
9. You take group from bottom of deck and he shuffles
these and places on top, then cuts deck.
10. Spread cards face up and look for Ace of Hearts.
Count 12 to your left and the 12th card will be his selected
card.
COLORS WILL TELL
By Eddie Morton
Here is a prediction trick that is new and merits some at-
tention. My friend did it with a lump of sugar but it can be
done by just writing your predicted card at the start of the
trick. I will describe it as Eddie worked it for me.
Effect: After the deck is shuffled have spectator divide
deck in two equal piles of 26 cards each. Spectator when he ar-
rives at 26 cards is told it is not necessary to count the others
as there is no joker in the deck. Ask that the 26 cards be
separated as to colors in two piles, (this should be done singly
especially in the last group of 26 cards). Have the remaining
cards also divided in colors. If the first card is a red card that
is placed on the red heap and the black card you start a third
heap (or it can be black and then a new red pile). Now this
procedure gives you two outside piles of one color. Take the
spectator's hand and ask him to point to one of the outside piles.
What ever pile he chooses, whether it be the right or left hand
pile, he is to count the number of cards in that pile. When he
tells you the number of cards, you pick up the middle pile and
count that number and there will be the predicted card which
you selected at the start of the trick.
Secret: If you use a lump of sugar print the initials of
the card, say 10 D. clearly and have same in your trouser
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pocket. With the initial side downward or as you like. Just
before you take spectator's hand you dampen the thumb with
the tongue or from a glass of ice water. (I usually have a cold
glass of "something" in front of me and the sweat on the glass
furnishes the moisture for the thumb) Upon pressing the
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damp thumb to the lump of sugar the initials are transferred
to the thumb. With the thumb still damp take the spectator's
hand in the course of showing him what you wanted done.
With your thumb against the fleshy part of this hand and the
fingers pressing on the back, your thumb will leave an impres-
sion of the printed 10 D. on the fleshy part of spectator's palm
unbeknown to spectator. Now when the palm is shown to
some other spectator he is as much surprised as the owner of
the palm. If you don't care to use the sugar idea just write the
predicted card while the spectator is counting his 26 cards.
The predicted card is naturally known by performer as
he has glimpsed the bottom card of the deck when he asked
spectator to count off 26 cards and that is the card he must
use in this trick. Of course if the sugar idea is used you write
that on the sugar long before you go to your entertainment
and this card must now be placed on the bottom of the deck
in your favorite way.
The dividing colors is an old idea as you have 26 red cards
and 26 black cards. Therefore should there be eleven red cards
and fifteen black cards in one half the other half would natur-
ally have fifteen red cards and eleven blacks. The one thing
that you must keep track of is your piles, the first 26 cards I
keep the color of the predicted card in the center and the re-
mainder of those cards at the left. Now when the other 26
cards are counted I place the predicted card on the center
pile and the opposite color I make a new pile at the right. Now
you have two small outside piles of one color and one center
pile of 26 opposite color cards. The first card off the bottom
of the remaining 26 cards heap is the predicted card. Now after
the cards are all separated in colors the spectator has pointed
to one of the outside piles. You have him count the cards, and
what ever number he has you count down in the center pile
to that number and there the card is. If he points to the right
hand pile you leave the center pile as it is face up and if he
points to the left hand pile you turn the center pile over (face
down) and count whatever number his pile totaled and turn
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