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• Right About Face Deck
  [[Right About Face Deck]] is a [[Mechanical Deck]] with a blue backed Joker and red back deck.
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• Modern Art
  ...t to later be split at the waist. As the top half moves to one side, their face, hand and feet remain visible. Doors on both halves are opened, revealing t
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• Genii 2011 August
  *Page 17: In Your Face! by Steve Duperré
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• Conjuring Terms
  ...ughed deck enabling the deck to be fanned and any card to be shown face up/face down.
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• Michel Huot
  ...agician shows 15 cards, each with a different billiard ball printed on the face. A spectator is asked to "rack the balls," dealing the cards randomly onto
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• Extreme Close-Up
  Four aces erupt from a face-down deck in a sudden, explosive display. A borrowed finger ring links to t
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• Jazz Aces
  ''Effect'': The performer places the four aces face down on the table in a row. He holds four black spot cards and places one o
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• Open Travelers
  * ''Face-up Flyers'' by [[Dai Vernon]] and [[Bruce Cervon]] in [[Epilogue]] No. 4, N * Cards are done face-up.
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• Card Warp
  ...ges inside out (i.e., if it begins folded back-outward it emerges folded ''face'' out). {{Youtube Thumb|niOdPPzGhLA}} {{Youtube Thumb|Yxduxhr-2XE}}
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• Paul Harris in Print
  ...& Looy--Prediction card matches spectator's, two cards then placed face to face, melt together forming double-backed card. ...wisted ala Twisting the aces and the spade visibly turns from face down to face up
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• Jay Sankey
  ...Hall) a television series called [[Spellz]], devoted to teaching children about the art of magic. The series is going into its third season and airs exclus == Books by and/or About Jay Sankey ==
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• Art of Astonishment Volume 3
  ...ose-Up Kinda Guy). A deck is twisted so that one end is face up and one is face down and then restored. ...ver. A waiter is asked to set your watch to a random time and conceal it's face from you. You borrow a friends watch and set it to a random time. They matc
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• Art of Astonishment Volume 2
  ...Close-Up Entertainer): A spectator blows you a kiss which is caught on the face of a selected card. You remove the kiss in the form of a pair of wax lips. ...low dart gun'. A spectator blows the selection into the center of the deck face up and unfolded!
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• Bizarre Twist
  .... The cards are twisted and the black card visibly turns from face down to face up. This is repeated and on the third turn the back visibly changes to a di
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• Doug Henning
  ...arted talking among themselves. The man came to me with a big smile on his face, and said, "Now, we know why you're doing that. It's because your people ha "I cried right then… I said, "Thank you for teaching me about the magic. I didn't know." That was really the first time I knew what wonde
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• Open Prediction
  ...n the face up cards dealt. It does not appear. Spectator turns up the sole face down card. It is the card that was openly predicted at the start. #The performer never knows when the spectator will leave a card face down until after they have done so.
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• Natural Selections
  ...cian introduces a deck of cards, each of which has a country listed on the face, and has two countries chosen. The magician then borrows a bill and proceed
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• Dai Vernon
  ...Vernon "do it again". Finally Houdini's wife, and Vernon's friends said, "Face it Houdini, you're fooled." For years afterward, Vernon used the title "The ...ates of America looking for card cheats and anyone who might know anything about sleight of hand with cards. He was famously under-credited for much of the
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• Gilbreath Principle
  ...The magician says, "Not bad—let's look at mine," then turns over all his face-down cards, showing every one of his pairs to match in suit, making them wo ...ician to have a spectator deal eight cards from a thoroughly shuffled deck face down onto the table, whereupon the magician accurately divines whether each
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• Faro Shuffle
  ...ique of shuffling that made it virtually impossible to see indices or card face values.<ref> http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showfla
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• Tobias Leendert Bamberg
  Under his father he worked as "Smallest conjurer of the world" until he was about 17. ...ed to be fairly successful, and later enlarged his act by engaging a black-face comedian. The act was called "Okito & Polising."
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• Threshold
  A card is freely chosen, signed on the face by a spectator, then signed on the back by the magician, whereupon a corner
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• Flushtration Count
  ...u Shuffle technique in the Jinx, no. 44, May 1938, where the same back (or face) is flashed intermittently."'' ...n Count wherein the packet begins face up in dealing position (rather than face down), then is grasped and revolved by the opposite hand as the count is ex
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• Jorback Count
  ...''' is a false card display where 4 cards are displayed which conceals one face and two backs.
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• Christ Force
  ...e spectator remove the face up packet and turn over the card on top of the face down packet.
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• Tim Ellis
  ...rnational Comedy Festival Illusionarium with Ellis & Webster and Something About Needles & Razorblades. Later that year he performed The Wizards of Aus at
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• Close-Up Illusions
  ...on the Top: Selection "shown" not to be on the top or the bottom from the face up deck *222 The Slider Switch: deck face down
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• Packet tricks
  .... This is repeated two more times so in the end, all four Aces have turned face up. Has likely prompted more variations than any other packet trick. *[[Ron Frost|FROST, Ron]] Face the Facts (Meir Yedid Magic)
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• Karl Fulves
  ...epeatedly turned down all requests for interviews. There is not much known about him other than his incredible output of magic literature. ...ws you to place a odd-backed card into the deck (without anyone seeing its face) and have someone think of one of the cards from a spread. Then, you show t
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• MacDonald's Aces
  ...s an [[Ace Assembly]] using gaffed cards where four Aces are shown, placed face up on the table, and covered with three other cards. One by one the Aces va ...[[Magic Christian]], '''The Power of Belief'''). Also, the use of double face cards in a four of a kind routine was in the [[Hofzinser's Card Conjuring]]
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• Carneycopia
  ...nt of each, the number corresponding to the value of the face up card. The face card of each pile is an Ace. 164 Triumph Rip-Off: Face up/face down mixed up deck is instantly righted, with the exception of the selected
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• Ibidem
  * 266 - When You Can't Face It (Ric Schonblom) * 295 - All Face-Up Oil and Water
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• Ovette Master Move
  ...on of the move in [[Art of Astonishment]] (1996) within an effect called ''Face-Lift'' by [[Allan Ackerman]].
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• Rumba Count
  ...ly showing one. The packet begins face up in dealing position (rather than face down), then is grasped and revolved by the opposite hand as the count is ex ...Jean-Pierre Vallarino published in [[Genii 2003 December]] - Shows only 2 face cards while apparently showing the faces of all cards in the packet. (Origi
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• Buster Keaton
  ...ently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
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• Jinx
  ...pers and Real Tempting Tales). When Annemann made some disparaging remarks about [[Burling Hull]] in an issue of the Jinx, Hull published "The Linx" in 1936 **44 The Face Up - Face Down Location (Ted Annemann)
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• Everchange Count
  ...ne. It can be used to display a face-up card apparently in the middle of 4 face down cards.
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• Wild Card
  ...ght cards of the same value are placed on the table, some face up and some face down. The magician then introduces the "wild card", which is different tha
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• Kane Count
  [[Kane Count]] is a false count with four face-down cards where only two of the backs are shown. The count was developed b
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• Dunbury Delusion
  ...g that the magician has already failed. However, after turning the 3 cards face down, the magician triumphantly produces the chosen card from the pack, the
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• Cut Deeper Force
  ...top again. Ask the spectator to spread the cards and slide out the first face-down card that appears.
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• Epilogue
  <td valign=top>Face-up Flyers (Vernon-Cervon)</td>
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• Swami
  <td valign=top>About Face! (Anton York)</td>
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• Paul Kleist
  :''"Kleist appeared as a clown in costume and make-up, white face—not funny face, but clown white. The stage was black and the "headlights" were adjusted th
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• Howard Brooks
  ...its Brooks with inventing the Whistling Belly Button gag, where you draw a face on your stomach with your belly button as the mouth. Rik Brooks, his grands
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• Expert Card Technique
  ...but which Braue put into the book anyway. Vernon was apparently not happy about this, however he did eventually contribute material to the third edition it Here's what [[Harry Riser]] wrote in [[Secrets of an Escamoteur]] about Expert Card Technique (page 21):
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• Bullet Catch
  ...oof glasses, strong gloves on his hands with which he covered parts of his face, and his front teeth were made of steel. A .22 rifle was fired, and the bul
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• Twisting the Aces
  ...ne another two more times until the magician has made all the Aces to turn face up.
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• Ace Assembly
  ...ce upward and then added to each three low cards, placing then fanwise and face upwards...etc., etc...''
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• Invisible Deck
  ...table; freely 'selecting' a card; 'replacing' it face-down among the other face-up cards; and 'returning' the deck to its box. ...removes the deck, face-up, from its box and spreads the cards to show one face-down card. The spectator removes the card to find it is the one he/she name
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• Brainwave Deck
  ...y one that's face-up. As a second climax to the trick, this card is turned face-down and shown that its back color is different from that of the rest of th ...wn written to Mr. Larsen was published on Page 546 of [[Genii 1984 July]] about "Brainwave" and how he had created the effect years before Vernon populariz
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• Forcing Decks
  .... Providing he only shows half of the deck, the magician can fan the cards face-up to supposedly demonstrate that all cards are different. When offered to
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• Pop Eyed Popper Deck
  ...ce up between your hands and show them to be different, then turn the deck face down and offer a free selection of what will ultimately (and always) be you
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• Equivoque
  In a simple example, the performer may deal two cards face down onto the table, requiring for the purposes of his trick that the card
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• Color Change
  ...r. The usual procedure is done by passing a hand over a deck which is held face up by the other hand. Many methods require [[Palming]] a card. More advance ...es the deck to his mouth so he can blow on it. Upon lowering the deck, the face-up card is seen to have become an entirely different card. Also published i
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• Triumph
  ...become the name for an effect wherein a deck of cards is mixed face-up and face-down, and are then magically righted, with the exception of a selected card ...ormer dealing the pack onto the table in a pile, flipping every other card face-up, before showing that the cards were all facing the same direction. It wa
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• Torn and Restored Card
  ...is initials on the back of the card and the spectator does the same on the face. ...s torn into bits and the pieces buried in the deck. The magician holds the face-down deck by its inner end and riffles up the outer end with his free hand,
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• Tap Dancing Aces
  ...rets]] makes a few changes in order to make it possible to spread the deck face down to show that, except for the two selections, all of the backs have cha
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• Stop Trick
  ...in deck at the point a spectator says "Stop" as the cards are being dealt face down on to the table by the magician or the spectator. Another variation is
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• All Backs
  ...ing a deck of cards to change to all double-backs then later to all double-face cards was first brought to the magic-world's attention by [[Ralph W. Hull]] ...The women are intrigued by it. It is one trick that they remember and talk about and invariably when another occasion arises it is the one trick they reques
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• Oil and Water
  ...e deck on the table and makes two packets. Immediately each half is turned face-up, showing all the red in one half, all the blacks in the other."''</ref>
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• Card Magic Classification
  * [[Color Change]] (face of card) ...Reverse Card Routine]] (packets of cards are repeatedly mixed face-up into face down, straightening themselves out each time)
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• Collectors
  ...the deck, then reappear interlaced (and face down) between the cards in a face-up four-of-a-kind (e.g., Aces, Kings, Queens). ...anipulations Series 1]] by Jean Hugard (1938), except that the kings are face down
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• Sandwich
  * [[Sandwich|Instant Sandwich]] in which two cards are placed face-up in widely separated parts of the pack. Then without any cuts or shuffles
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• Chaback Count
  ...h the backs and fronts of four cards are seemingly shown but, in fact, one face and two backs are hidden.
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• Clock Trick
  ...in card magic in which the cards are displayed corresponding to a 12-hour face of a clock and a card is divined usually using a mathematical principle.
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• Color Changing Card
  See [[Color Change]] for changing the face of the card.
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• Haunted Deck
  ...[[Korem Without Limit]] - the deck cuts itself and turns the selected card face up. It is also repeatable (1985).
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• Follow the Leader
  ...o piles. As the top cards are turned face up and switched, the pile of the face down cards are shown to have followed with them.
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• Roll-Over Aces
  ...developed by [[Derek Dingle]] where the deck is given several face-up and face-down shuffles then following occurs:
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• Visitor
  ...n the red Kings and the black Kings. For the finale, the selection appears face up in the center of the deck.
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• Lie Detector
  ...and then, while the performer’s back is turned he deals the cards slowly face up onto the table, each time calling aloud the name of each card as dealt.
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• Koran deck
  The spectator is given the deck and is told to deal the cards one at a time, face up and to stop whenever he feels. The card stopped at matches the predictio
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• Boomerang Illusion
  ...ed difference in size. Imai found that the maximum reported difference was about ten percent. He also found that the inner radius should be 60% of the outer ...on the back using both arches. In Monkey Puzzle the two bananas become the face of a monkey, in Butterfly Puzzle the caterpillars become a butterfly and in
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• Three-Card Monte
  ...they can find the money card, for example the queen of spades, among three face-down playing cards. In its full form, the three-card Monte is an example of ...e-Card Monte from the era appear in books not about magic, but ones by and about gamblers and con men. The game played a part in many of the stories in famo
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• Scarne on Card Tricks
  *77. The Poker-Face Card Trick
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• Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets
  * i Paul Harris...Just Another Pretty Face? by Patrick Snowden
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• Bob Hummer
  * Face-up, Face-down Mysteries (1946, Werner)
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• When Creators Collide
  This book about "The Close-Up Creations of Jay Sankey and [[Richard Sanders]]" features mag **Ending #1: Face-Up Finale
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• The Life and Time of a Legend: Annemann
  Book compiled and commented by Max Abrams about [[Ted Annemann]]'s magic. 273 Face Up - Face Down Location
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• Slate Writing
  Another presentation is to wrap two slates face to face with a chalk inside.
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• Playing cards
  The front (or "face") of each card carries markings that distinguish it from the other cards in
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• US Playing Card Company
  ...ck designs (including the traditional rider back and older Vintage backs), face designs (inclduing Jumbo Index and Lo Vision cards for the visually impaire ...re traditional face layout due to complaints from players. The "PokerPeek" face design was integrated into the Bicycle Pro series of casino-quality cards a
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• Hocus Pocus Junior
  ...bly the first from the viewpoint of a performing magician. Little is known about the actual author. *36: How to make the face of a Childe to appeare in a pot of water
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• The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus in Perfection
  *72: To thrust a piece of lead into your eye, and to drive it about with a stick between the skin and flesh and forehead, until it be brought t *104: A device to multiply one face, and make it seem to be a hundred or a thousand
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• Close-Up Entertainer
  ** 125 Ackerman's Face Lift by [[Allan Ackerman]]
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• Braue Reversal
  A sleight which permit to reverse a card in the act of showing the face card of the two portions when cutting.
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• The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard
  ...in the final published version of Greater Magic. There was a great hubbub about the missing material. A number of magicians entered the hotel room where he *104 Poker Face (Al Baker)
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• Elmer Biddle
  Biddle invented the sleight which changed the face of the card magic for the average cardman, to wit The [[Biddle Move]] which
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• The Mystery Lounge
  ...r's magic show, it's interactive with the audience, and it's right in your face."'' - The Improper Bostonian (Magazine) 2001
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• Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic
  ** 6. Staring Him in the Face.
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• Secrets of the Astonishing Executive
  ...]] - A waiter is asked to set your watch to a random time and conceal it's face from you. You borrow a friends watch and set it to a random time. They matc
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• Fusion
  ...wo cards become fused either back-to-face (ordinary looking card), face-to-face (double backer) or back-to-back (double facer). ...sented as a transposition rather then as a fusion of two cards. ''(back to face)''
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• Cannibal Cards
  * '''Ackerman's Face Lift''' ([[Allan Ackerman]]): [[Paul Harris]], ''[[Close-up Entertainer]]'' * '''Bones About It''' ([[Nick Trost]]): ''[[Precursor]]'', No. 54 (May 1996, pp. 14-15).
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• The Merry Companion; or Delights for the Ingenious
  ..., except one, whom you please, and yet be to have the same Liberty to walk about the Room as the rest of the Company *71 How to shew any one their Wife's, or their Husband's Face in a Glass
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• Eight Card Brainwave
  A spectator is given a free choice from eight face-up cards and it's place aside. The remaining cards are turned over to show
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• Super Swindle
  ...e selected card is gone. The deck is spread and the selected card is found face-up, unharmed.
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• Let's Pretend
  * Face Up
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• Inversion
  ...basic effect is that the deck instantly reverses (the face down deck turns face up) around a selected card, which does not turn over.
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• Genii 2006 December
  *26 About Face! by Richard Hucko
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• Slop Shuffle
  ...20s by [[Sid Lorraine]], in which you apparently shuffle cards face-up and face-down.
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