Trick Decks - How To Hack Playing Cards For Astounding Magic

164 Pages·2016·7.62 MB·English

by  Mark Frauenfelder

TRICK DECKS
How to modify playing cards for
astounding magic
MARK
FRAUENFELDER
trickdecks.org
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
1. Marked Deck
2. Stripper Deck
3. Invisible Deck
4. Brain Wave Deck
5. Nightmare Card
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Mark Frauenfelder
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For Jane, my partner in magic.

Foreword
What Mark teaches you, in this fantastic
book, is magic. Magic you can
appreciate immediately, and marvel at
its workings without ever performing for
more than yourself.
Herein lie activities that are fun for
the whole family!
Activities that create illusions you’ll
never forget – or forget how they work!
The entire STEM course load that is
so popular today is here in Spades!
Clubs! Hearts! Diamonds!
It is truly magic on so many levels.
So much about magic is intentionally
damn confusing. I have a large library of
books on card magic. Few of them are
comprehensible to folks who don’t
spend hours trying to figure out how to
use them! It is like law school! Fancy
names for card sleights that are harder to
remember than the moves themselves,
illustrations from Lascaux, and dialect
from the renaissance-faire are frequently
used to keep the barrier to entry high.
Mark has worked hard to share easy,
achievable methods to get immediate,
amazing results. You can delight in
magic in a way that took me over a
decade, working with only a single deck
of Bicycle 808 playing cards and a
candle, in a damp, dark room, trying to
perfect a double lift. I have not, but