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	Easy Card Tricks Free Card Magician Secrets
		Professional card magicians get there by putting in plenty of practice with sleight of hand, card fans and polishing their glide and card forcing moves know how.
		After giving the cards a thorough shuffle the magician attempts to guess the spectators card and appears to be unsuccessful.
		Then after a few attempts he throws the cards at a window in a fit of rage and upon closer inspection the spectators card is now stuck to the other side of the window!
	www.howtodotricks.com (569 words)

	Mathematical Card Tricks
		A four-hour MAA minicourse on "An Introduction to Mathematical Card Tricks" was given (jointly with Jeffrey Ehme) at the joint winter meetings, January 2004, in Phoenix.
		A three-hour MAA short course on "An Introduction to Mathematical Card Tricks" was given (jointly with Jeffrey Ehme) on 10th March 2000, at the 79th Annual Southeastern Section Meeting, in Charlotte, NC.
		Of course, card tricks have proved to be a popular form of diversion outside of the classroom for hundred of years, and armed with a good card trick one and relatives and highly-trained professional mathematicians.
	www.spelman.edu /~colm/cards.html (1153 words)

	History of Card Tricks
		he precise origins of card magic are subject to debate though it's generally believed that card tricks were first developed by gamblers who wanted to improve their chances of winning when playing card games.
		Playing cards themselves originated in the Orient with China and India amongst the main contenders for the claim of country of origin and it's thought that cards may have been introduced to Europe in the 14th century by Arabs who had travelled from the Orient.
		One of the earliest, general references to card tricks is an article from 1408 which tells of a card cheat in Paris who sought to gain advantage by manipulating the cards he was playing.
	www.card-trick.com /card_trick_history.htm (197 words)

	20 sneaky credit card tricks
		Credit card companies can be as slippery as a handful of greased Jell-O. They have all kinds of tricks to gouge your wallet and drive up your bill.
		Apparently, the credit card company gave him a card with a much lower limit and transferred as much of his balance as the card could hold.
		Many credit card companies are shrinking that time down to 20 days, meaning that by the time you get your bill, you may already be paying interest.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/cc/20021106a.asp (1431 words)

	Card Tricks - Magic Tricks
		In setting the plate on the hat, the chosen card is dislodged, either by the finger or by the brim of the hat, and it falls in the hat.
		A pack of cards is cut, and the paddle is laid between the portions of the pack, after both sides of the paddle have been shown.
		This trick has a very surprising conclusion; it is not difficult to operate, as the paddle turning is very easy-simply an adaptation on an old trick known as the "Jumping Peg Paddle".
	www.oldandsold.com /articles02/cardtricks1.shtml (1945 words)

	Card Magic Tricks
		Card magic is one of the most popular categories of magic throughout the world.
		These are card tricks of a caliber that the vast majority of people have never seen performed (If they have seen stuff like this performed it was probably on TV).
		The card is placed somewhere in the deck, which the magician holds on the palm of his hand.
	www.penguinmagic.com /europe/browse.php?category=card (614 words)

	Front to Back Cut - Card Tricks - Learn tricks with a deck of playing cards. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is due to the fact that during the trick you are almost holding two lengths of cards in your hand.
		Move the cards back towards the pinky finger with your thumb, making sure to pass them behind the cards that were not moved by your thumb.
		For a variation of the card trick, you can move the half into the middle of the other half instead of behind it.
	pokerchiptricks.com /cardtricks/archives/2005/11/07/front-to-back-cut (388 words)

	Hacknot - Testing and Card Tricks
		The discarding of the top card from the shuffled deck, together with the suggestion that it is your card which is being discarded, reinforces the illusion and gives you a ready (but false) explanation for the absence of your card when shown the remaining four.
		You approach the four cards in front of you with the subconscious intent of confirming the hypothesis foremost in your mind.
		So intent are you upon confirming that your card is missing that you fail to notice that all of the other cards you were first shown are also missing.
	www.hacknot.info /hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=65 (1282 words)

	Amazing Magic Card Tricks Guide, Get Noticed Doing Card Tricks! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It requires a lot of effort for a dedicated magician to go through hundreds or even thousands of card tricks and find the ones that may or may not have the best results for them.
		If there was one large encyclopedia of card tricks, then everyone would naturally buy it and most likely be doing all the same material.
		Scattering the information around is what forces magicians to seek out their card tricks and not rely on just one book or one encyclopedia.
	www.amazing-card-tricks.com /Encyclopedia-Card-Tricks.htm (318 words)

	General Card Tricks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For when an ungimmicked deck of 52 cards is on the table, the performer, with his back turned or from the next room, instruct three spectators to each select a card.
		The trick was over and when they, themselves, turned over the predictions, one had to sit down, one called me a very bad name and the third just kept shaking his head and opening and closing his mouth.
		A card is chosen from a deck and then replaced.
	www.grandillusions.com /en-us/dept_30.html (915 words)

	Card Tricks
		Among the tricks are "openers," which quickly grabs your audiences' attention and sets the atmosphere and excitement for the rest of your act.
		A trick that does not depend upon legerdermain or special abilities on the part of the magician, but a trick that works automatically because of the mathematics inherent in the card deck itself.
		The magician then proceeds to show the three cards to the spectators noting, two of the cards are identical and the remaining card is different.
	www.hobbytron.com /CardTricks.html (2256 words)

	Card tricks
		Please send me tricks too, this is very important as I only have my own ones at the moment and although this is enough for one routine, I need more to fill my site.
		Any really good tricks sent (which I use) will be rewarded with some of my better tricks.
		I will post all tricks I am sent (unless they are really, really bad or are so good that they are to be rewarded).
	www.geocities.com /rpgmasteruk/cardtricks (440 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Encyclopedia of Card Tricks: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This book encyclopedia of card tricks is meant to be a compnaion to royal road, "not a subtitute or replacement for it".
		The tricks are described in no more than one page and the tricks provided are very simplistic with many tricks being repeated with just different patter etc.
		A rather impressive collection of tricks from experts such as Jordan and Vernon, although I must admit that it is not my favourite book of card ticks.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486212521 (698 words)

	Easier Card Tricks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The cards are thumbed through until the first down faced card is found and this is tabled face down.
		As they place their finger there, palm the top card off and ask,"What was your card?" After their response (which you've heard already), put your hand in your pocket and remove the Ace.
		After they tell me the selected card's name, I look through the deck of coins and state that the selected card is not in the deck and that they must have put it into the deck in my pocket, and by making a mistake like that they probably put it in reversed.
	members.aol.com /MagicDan/docs/cc1.html (3201 words)

	Free Magic Card Tricks and Easy to Learn Card Tricks
		We want to provide aspiring magicians easy card tricks to learn but we will not cross the line and be guilty of exposure.
		It is good to take pictures when you are starting out with this card trick and then compare them to pictures when you are further along with the trick.
		Some card tricks work well with cards that are fairly old and broken in while other tricks work best with new cards.
	www.21ace.com /poker_card_tricks.html (2820 words)

	No-table Card Tricks for walk around
		I do a sleight of hand version of hopping halfs and know a couple good tricks with the S&S set that I have (which is a PK type for easy reset, esp. in a restaurant setting).
		I fear that placing a card or cards on the spectator's hand will tempt them to grab at it and look at it prematurely.
		By casually waving the spread packet in a circular motion, the red card apparently travels to the middle of the packet and then back to the bottom from where it is remove.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~roy/magictalk-wisdom/discussions/no_table_card_tricks.html (1507 words)

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		I want you to mentally select any one of these six cards at random.
		He may look like a goldfish but he's actually a shark...a card shark that is! Sparky used to work at the fljack tables in Vegas, don't mess with him because he's always packing heat.
		When you're positive that you know your card click on Sparky and he'll shuffle the cards for you.
	members.tripod.com /~andybauch/trick.html (115 words)

	Card Tricks
		Below are unique card trick decks and we are always looking at new ways to offer that shock factor when performing any type of card trick.
		If there is any card trick that you want to learn or cannot find on our site, do not hesitate to drop us an email at customerservice@thisismagic.com and we will help you out in any way!!
		Stated as one of the greatest card tricks in the world.
	www.thisismagic.com /html/card__tricks.html (508 words)

	Self-Working Card Tricks
		72 spectacular and entertaining tricks: card locations, coincidence tricks, mental magic with cards, tricks with double endings, tricks with two decks, predictions, tricks with borrowed decks, trick poker deals.
		A famous card expert demonstrates sleights-of-hand—shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, steals and spectacular deceptions—that have left theater audiences amazed, and that card-playing professionals have used profitably.
		95 foolproof card tricks that can be done either by beginners or by experienced magicians.
	store.doverpublications.com /0486233340.html (251 words)

	Free Magic Card Tricks
		Ask him to remember the card and show it to the rest of the audience (this is important as the trick is useless if the spectator forgets the name of the card and no-one else has seen it!).
		We hope you like this card trick, if so may we suggest that the Blank Deck is an excellent entry level trick that will blow their socks off, with no sleight of hand!
		Invisible Deck is probably one of the most baffling card tricks of all time, again with no sleight of hand.
	www.abrakazam.com /free_tricks_cardtricks.htm (543 words)

	Science News Online, Ivars Peterson's MathTrek (8/1/98): Magic of Perfect Shuffles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In one trick, the magician tosses a new deck of cards into the audience, where it is caught by someone, whose name turns out to be Susan.
		To find Susan’s card, he returns the deck to its case and tosses it to a randomly selected member of the audience.
		Similarly, in the card trick, position 4 (fifth card from the top) is 100, so the magician performs one in-shuffle, followed by two out-shuffles.
	www.sciencenews.org /pages/sn_arc98/8_1_98/mathland.htm (1007 words)

	How to do magic card tricks \| Learn magic card tricks \| magic card tricks
		If you'd just love to be able to do great magic card tricks, but have never had enough confidence to perform in public before...
		These Amazing, mind-boggling card tricks are favourites of the pros' and are guaranteed to baffle and delight any audience and amaze and amuse even the most sceptical of family and friends.
		Also the audience tend to regard themselves as pretty knowledgeable and sophisticated and they assume that the tricks must be done by lasers or electronics or something really clever and scientific to fool someone as clever as them.....
	www.getcardtricks.com (3000 words)

	Amazon.com: Self-Working Card Tricks (Cards, Coins, and Other Magic): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A guide to card tricks which work automatically because of the mathematical relationships within the card deck.
		There are tons of different types of tricks, including a few tricks to do on two people at one time which I love.
		I have been doing the card tricks I have gotten out of this book along with tricks from "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAGIC (which is a great book, has great instructions, photos and coin, rope, card, string magic) and the tricks are great.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486233340?v=glance (1135 words)

	Fool.com: Card Tricks [Credit Center]
		If you are shopping for a new credit card -- or just want to see how yours stacks up -- be sure to read the dos and don'ts outlined for all types of cards in "Finding The One." To cover the rest of your bases, read on and watch out for these card tricks:
		You transfer your balance, and, boom, the dumped card charges you retroactively the higher rate because you didn't read the microscopic print, which points out that you cannot transfer a balance for an entire year.
		Watch out for cards that force you to pay a higher rate retroactively or charge you a penalty fee if you cancel the card.
	www.fool.com /ccc/secrets/secrets04.htm (886 words)

	Costly Credit-Card Tricks - Personal Finance News Story - KPRC Houston
		A fixed-rate card simply means that the company needs to inform you in writing at least 15 days before changing its rate.
		Using your credit card in a foreign country used to be the best deal in town.
		Probably the best way to find a new card is to collect the offers you receive in the mail for about six weeks, and then apply for the best one.
	www.click2houston.com /personalfinance/8037518/detail.html (1604 words)

	Merlin's Magic Card Tricks
		The deep secrets of these two magic card tricks will NEVER be revealed.
		The first trick involves a layout of 21 cards and you give me three hints (tell me which row your card is on).
		Now in your mind select a card, concentrate on it for 3 full seconds and then give me a hint by clicking at the END of its row (Row1, Row2, or Row3).
	www.zdaily.com /tricks (179 words)

	Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (Cards, Coins, and Other Magic): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation by S.
		Jean Hugard's "Encyclopedia of Card Tricks" remains one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive texts on card effects even after 60 years of being in publication.
		The cardtricks book is well written and PACKED with card tricks - more than you could deal with in a lifetime.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486212521?v=glance (1088 words)

	KIDS’ MAGIC CARD TRICKS
		Boxed together in this attractive package are two decks of playing cards and an illustrated 64-page book containing how-to instructions for performing 25 astonishing card tricks.
		They’ll also discover the secrets behind “Clip a Card,” in which a paper clip moves mysteriously from one card to another.
		These and many more feats of card magic are clearly explained and supplemented with color photos that demonstrate each move.
	www.barronseduc.com /0764176439.html (143 words)

	Card Tricks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Now she would be too busy dealing with clow card monsters to enjoy any of it.
		Sakura flipped through the pile of cards in her hand.
		"Better use two." One at a time, she threw the cards into the air and swung her wand at them, pinning each of them in midair with the wand's bright red beak.
	www.maisonbellchan.net /fanfic/cardtricks.html (420 words)

	Free Card Tricks, Easy Card Tricks, Card Tricks for Sale
		Here you can find many free card tricks from the easy to the unusual, learn the history of the art, read about some of the world's greatest card magicians or find out how to master card sleights.
		The range of card tricks for sale has been carefully selected and we've made sure that different levels of skill are catered for.
		So whether you are looking for free card tricks to amuse your friends or card tricks to buy, we welcome you to our site.
	www.card-trick.com (128 words)

	Card Tricks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ask any online merchant what the biggest problem with accepting credit cards is and you'll hear the term "chargeback." A chargeback occurs when a customer disputes a charge on his or her bill, often due to unreceived merchandise or disappointment in quality.
		In the offline world, where the card and cardholder are present, credit card companies take liability for chargebacks.
		Credit card companies are making some moves to bring fraud and chargeback rates in the virtual world in line with the offline world.
	www.entrepreneur.com /article/0,4621,296464,00.html (832 words)

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