This marvelous treasury of card magic presents the exact details of 155 professional card tricks ? none of them requiring sleight-of-hand dexterity ? assembled by the world's number-one card wizard, John Scarne. An authority on gambling and card tricks, Scarne won renown for teaching professional gamblers how to sharpen their skills and avoid being fleeced. For this collection of mystifying and effective maneuvers, he assembled an exciting series of original effects and classic card tricks, reworked to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand.Simple instructions and clear diagrams illustrate Houdini's "Card on the Ceiling," Blackstone's "Card Trick Without Cards," Carlyle's "Piano Card Trick," Milton Berle's "Quickie Card Deal," and dozens more. Also included are Scarne's "Drunken Poker Deal," "Knockout Card Trick," and others from his repertoire ? tricks that have fooled some of the world's leading magicians.Scarne presents all tricks with advice on accompanying patter, offering helpful suggestions about the kinds of words and gesturers that give performances a professional gloss. Anyone can learn these tricks, and this single volume contains everything a would-be master of card magic needs to know.

IntroductionA New Era in Card Tricks1. Calling the Cards2. Aces from the Pocket3. The Upside-Down Deck4. Traveling Aces5. Dunninger's Mental Card Trick6. Behind the Back Card Trick7. Scarne's Predicto8. The Four Royal Flushes9. Egg à la Card10. The Turn Around Cards11. It's Natural12. The Talking Card13. You Do as I Do14. You Do as I Do (Using one pack of cards)15. Heath's Master Speller16. Cardini's Mind Reading Card Trick17. Sensitive Fingertips18. Separating Red and Black Cards19. Sympathetic Aces20. The Four Packs21. The Wizard22. Reverso23. The Dean's Poker Deal24. The Memory Test25. Spectators' Magic Count26. Topsy-Turvy Deck27. Finding a Selected Card28. Thought Control29. Magic in Your Own Hands30. Mathematical Finder31. Swimmers32. The Weigle Aces33. The Mathematical Card Trick34. Nomenclature35. Hands-Off Miracle36. The Photographic Match37. Perplexity38. The Initials Will Tell39. Double Duty40. The Love Birds41. Hit the Deck42. The Betting Card Trick43. The Card That Tells44. Mind Control45. The Whispering Card46. The Stubborn Card47. Color Scheme48. Magic Numbers49. The Acrobatic Card50. Flighty Aces51. Braude's Mental Card Trick52. The Magic Number53. Instanto54. Switcheroo55. Quadruple Coincidence56. The New Deal Poker Hand57. Houdini's Double-Talk Card Trick58. Loatrix59. Double Prediction60. Card Counting Extraordinary61. Double Surprise62. The Stapled Card63. Allerchist Card Trick64. The Triple Deal Card Trick65. The Spelling Bee66. Double Revelation67. Walsh's Long Distance Card Trick68. Scarne's Drunken Poker Deal69. Perfect Prediction70. The Puzzler71. Selected Card Vanishes into Pocket72. James's Miracle73. The Obedient Cards74. The Traveling Card75. Personification76. My Lucky Card77. The Poker-Face Card Trick78. Winning Poker79. Scarne's Follow the Leader80. The Great Poker Demonstration81. Up and Down82. The Magic Four-Spot83. Garcia's Card Location84. Breath Control85. Vernon's Three Card Assembly86. Scarne's Twenty-Two Stop Trick87. Jack Goes to Town88. Lyle's Four of a Kind89. Cardini's Color Discernment90. Miraskill91. Lorayne's Mind Reading Trick92. The Quickie Card Trick93. Scarne's Birds of a Feather94. Five Nine King95. The Eight Ace Routine96. Scarne's Lie Speller97. Scarne's Tappit98. The Piano Card Trick99. Cross Suits100. The Card on the Wall101. Variation on Card on the Wall102. Scarne's Red and Black Speller103. "Scarne, Please Help Me"104. Carlyle's Migrating Decks105. Buckle Up106. Double Empathy107. Scarne's Six-Way Baffler108. Variation on The Six-Way Baffler109. Dice Will Tell110. Affinity in Numbers111. Gardner's Sympathetic Cards112. The Last Two Cards113. Three-in-One Card Trick114. The Drunk Plays Bridge115. Scarne's Phone Miracle116. Scarne's Knockout Card Trick117. The Stopper Mind Reading Trick118. "Cardology-or, A Card Trick with-out Cards"119. Card on the Ceiling120. Variation on Card on the Ceiling121. Leipzig's Pocket Card Trick122. Thurston's Card Mystery123. Scarne's Miracle Card-Finder Trick124. The Spirit Card Trick125. Double Location126. Ribbon Spread127. The Odd Will128. The Uninvited Joker129. The Impossible Location130. The Complementary Cards131. Behind My Back132. Si Stebbins' Master Memory Test133. Si Stebbins' Master Tricks134. The Mishap Poker Deal135. The Twenty-One Card Spelling Trick136. The Future Deck137. Leipzig's Sympathetic Cards138. Thought Ablaze139. Add Libb140. Seeing Through the Deck141. General Arnolds Master Speller142. The Psychic Number Seven143. On the Square144. Scarne's Sympathetic Card Trick145. The Second-Guess Card Trick146. The Atomic Location147. Scarne's Power of Thought148. The Card Through a Handkerchief149. The Card in the Wallet150. The Card Clock151. Automatic Pencil Writing152. The Four Deuces153. Wild Bill Hickock's Hand154. Einstein and the Magician155. Scarne's Color Control