Barnowski, Larry: Counting on Deception ©2013 Larry Barnowski Hardcover, w/dj, 256 pages

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Contents (from Larry's website, page numbes numbers courtesy magicbooks.be; descriptions compiled from TheMagicCafe.com):

9 Preface
11 Introduction

11 Cards:
13 Nine Shuffle Paradox: shuffles with a 24 card deck end with blacks face up and reds faith down and featuring the Gilbreath principle
19 15 Card Poker Deal: story trick with a gambler with the Constant Stack
25 Sort-ability: applies same math concpet to a packet of 15 cards
29 Iron Certain Poker
35 Four For Sure: spectator finds four of a kind
39 Ambitious Card
35 One At A Time Aces
51 The Trick That Fooled Me: cards become separated by suit
57 Underhanded Deception: number of face down cards predicted
61 Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction: value of addition pyramid predicted
67 Eliminating Control

71 Cards In New Deck Order
71 The 39th Card: prediction of the result from three card piles
77 Until There Were Four: packet sorts to five piles of four of a kind
83 Loser’s Poker
87 Prime Number Prophecy: prediction in wallet for a new deck
91 Shall We Switch

95 Cards - Setups
95 All Roads Lead to Rome: uses memorized deck stack
101 Match Game: red/black separation
107 Hidden Order
113 Pascal’s Prediction
119 Pass the Pack: multiple spectator participation where magician deals himself four of a kind
125 The Uncertainty Principle: three phase routine for any memorized deck
133 As Many Hands As You Want
139 Oldest Trick in the Book

143 Cards - Gaffed
143 Drawing a Blank: version of six card repeat with a chosen card effect
149 Parallel Uniforce
153 Shuffle Survivor
157 The Fabulous Athletic Aces

165 Props:
165 Crayola Payola: spectator colors a card and prediction matches card and colors
171 Periodic Table Prediction
179 Abracadabacus: abacus matches a selected date
185 Salty Air: a production of salt
189 Mind Reading Cards: prediction of number selected from a set of cards
195 Force To Be Reckoned With
201 Tale of the Tape
2-5 The Illusion of Free Choice
209 No Lose Musical Chairs

215 Coins:
215 Coins, Cards, and Caps: find the object under the cap
219 Change of Mind
223 Undercover Queen

227 Balls:
227 Patriotic Balls: chop cup routine with a a small cover that fits under the cup
235 Color Me Clairvoyant: magician identifies color of balls in a bag
241 Silent Colorama: magician names outcome of switches of three balls
245 Glass, Tube, and Bag Mystery: sponge ball, tube, and glass routine

255 References