Table Of ContentROBERTO GIOBBI’S
PROFESSIONAL CARD MAGIC
WITHOUT SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
Card College
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Originally published in German as Roberto Light
by Magic Communication Roberto Giobbi.
Copyright © 1988 by Roberto Giobbi.
English-language edition copyright © 2006
by Roberto Giobbi and Stephen Minch.
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Contents
Thanks xiii
Foreword xv
The Presentation of Sleightless xvii
Card Tricks
Routine 1 1
T.N.T. Te magician reveals two cards chosen in a way
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that would seem to make this utterly impossible.
Intuition. Trough the power of intuition, two spec-
tators are able to separate the shufed deck into 9
red and black cards.
Te Telephone Trick. Te performer’s medium is
called and is able to discern over the telephone 14
the card freely selected from a shufed deck.
Routine 2 19
Tot Echo. Someone selects two cards under the
fairest conditions, and the magician succeeds in 21
fnding them.
Royal Flush. Ten cards randomly chosen by a spec-
tator are thoroughly shufed by him and then
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dealt into two poker hands. Te magician’s hand
is shown to be a royal fush!
R o b e r t o G i o b b i
Te Waiwiki Shufe. A subconsciously controlled
swing of a pendulum reveals to the performer the 35
identity of a chosen card.
Routine 3 39
Fingertip Sensitivity. Te magician guesses the
actions a person performs with a packet of cards 43
under the table.
Muscle Reading. Someone chooses any card, then
shufes it thoroughly into the deck. Tanks to
the magician’s ability to read this person’s uncon- 49
scious muscle impulses, he is able to successfully
fnd the card.
The Lie Detector. Someone notes a card and
shuffles it back into the deck. She next takes
seven indifferent cards, keeps them hidden and
calls their names to the magician; but for one
of the indifferent cards she calls the name of 57
the card she selected. Because the magician
possesses the sensitivity of a lie detector, he is
able, unbelievable as it may seem, to discover
the woman’s card!
Routine 4 63
Te Circus Card Trick. After the audience has
become convinced that the performer has failed to
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fnd a selected card, he manages to save the situa-
tion in a surprising and amusing way.
Te Fingerprint. A freely chosen card is replaced
in the deck by the spectator, under the strictest
conditions. In spite of this, the magician is able 76
to fnd the card by means of the “fngerprints”
left on it!
C a r d C o l l e g e l i g h t
Magical Match. Te magician twice determines,
in an inexplicable manner, the exact number of 81
cards the spectator has cut from the deck.
Routine 5 87
Cards Never Lie! Someone selects a card and shuf-
fes it back into the deck. Te magician asks three
questions about the card, and his subject either
lies or tells the truth. Nevertheless, the performer 93
is able not only to ascertain the chosen card, but
he also immediately produces the other three
cards of the same value!
Digital Dexterity. A chosen card is shufed back
into the deck by the person who selected it, and
the deck is placed into the magician’s pocket. With 100
seemingly unbelievable dexterity, he is able to fsh
the chosen card out of the deck!
Tink Stop! Someone freely selects a card, then
shufes it back into the deck. Nevertheless, the
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magician is able to fnd the card through that
person’s silent thought-command alone.
Routine 6 109
Card Caper. Two spectators each select a card from
a deck that they shufe themselves. Tey further
shufe their cards back into the deck. Neverthe- 111
less, the magician is able to fnd both spectators’
cards in an astonishing manner.
In the Hands. Someone from the audience shufes a
deck of cards and remembers two of them, which
he himself loses back into the deck. In spite of 118
these impossible conditions, the magician is able
to locate both noted cards.
R o b e r t o G i o b b i
Back to the Future. Te magician transports him-
self into the future, memorizes what happens
there, returns to the past, and then predicts the 122
occurrence in the present: a confusing story with
a clear efect.
Routine 7 127
Manto. Te magician writes a prediction and places
it inside the card case, which a spectator guards.
An audience member and the performer mix the
cards face up into face down, throwing the deck
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into a chaotic condition. Nonetheless, the predic-
tion states how many cards lie face up and how
many of those are black and how many red!
Vernon’s Miracle. Te magician fnds a card selected
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under the fairest conceivable conditions.
Tat Is the Question. Te magician asks no ques-
tions, yet he answers them while guessing and 141
fnding a freely and fairly thought-of card.
Afterword 145
A list of recommended books on card magic.
Notes 147
Further background on the tricks.
Card College
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