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(I cut this card with an extreme taper so you can get an idea of the shape. In other words, the deck is shaped like a wedge rather than a rectangle, as shown in Figure 1. Secretly pull a spectator’s selected card from the center of a deckĪ stripper deck consists of cards that have been slightly tapered so that one short edge is narrower than the other. To give you an idea of the book’s contents, here are some excerpts from the Stripper Deck chapter, along with two brief videos. The deck hacks are classics: Marked Deck, Stripper Deck, Invisible Deck, Brain Wave Deck, Oil and Water Deck, and Nightmare Card.
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Trick Decks: How to Hack Playing Cards for Astounding Magic details six different trick decks and how you can make them. In 77 print-equivalent pages, Mark shows how you can easily alter standard playing cards to be able to do some really impressive and puzzling card tricks. One of Mark’s ongoing interests has always been magic tricks, and now, we get to see him sharing some of what he’s learned of this art in a lovely new ebook. Mark is driven by his curiosity and his passions, which he details on the aforementioned sites and in books like Made by Hand and Maker Dad. Make:‘s founder, Dale Dougherty, likes to describe makers as fundamentally enthusiasts and there is no better description of Mark Frauenfelder than that. Mark Frauenfelder (former Make: editor-in-chief, Boing Boing co-founder, and currently, Cool Tools and Wink Books co-editor) brings out the Boodini in me again with his very wonderfully presented Trick Decks: How to Hack Playing Cards for Astounding Magic ebook. For a shy, nerdy kid who didn’t have great social skills, magic tricks were a great way of breaking the ice and starting conversations, even if I lived up to my Boodini moniker. I was fascinated by the cards, the wonder that the tricks would generate, and I loved the sense of pride I would feel whenever I got everything about a trick right and was successful in generating that wonder in my audience. My family and friends dubbed me Master Boodini. The family joke was that, once I got the deck and tried to recite the commercial while actually demonstrating the tricks, I was all thumbs and flubbed timing.
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The TV Magic Cards were heavily advertised on TV in the late 1960s and I had learned the entire routine from the commercial by heart (“TV Magic Cards, the magical deck that works ALL by itself…once YOU know the secret”). When I was around 12 or 13, my parents gave me a magic kit and a deck of Marshall Brodien’s TV Magic Cards (basically a rebranded “Svengali deck”) one Christmas. Graphics and More to Help Spread the Word Learn More About the Amazing Maker Awards Subscribe to the premier DIY magazine todayĬommunity access, print, and digital Magazine, and moreīrowse and Vote on Your Favorite Projects Skill builder, project tutorials, and more
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