Musgrave, Andrew "The Burnaby Kid": The Jolly Almanac of Card Knavery ©2018 Andrew Musgrave PDF Download, 238 pages

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Contents (from book):

8 Foreword
 
9 Introduction
 
12 1 The Overhand Shuffle
12 1-1 Introduction
12 1-2 Overhand Shuffling Technique
19 1-3 A Pocket Discovery
20 1-4 Further Than That
22 1-5 I Think It Stopped
23 1-6 Three Fancy Card Revelations
24 1-6-1 Pinkie Does It
24 1-6-2 A New Top Card Production
25 1-6-3 A Rising Card Comedy
 
27 Interlude 1: Uniformity of Action
 
30 2 The Riffle Shuffle
30 2-1 Introduction
30 2-2 Riffle Shuffle Technique
32 2-3 Riffle Shuffle Control
32 2-3-1 Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck
32 2-3-2 Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards
32 2-4 Riffle Shuffle in the Air
34 2-5 Waterfall Shuffle
34 2-6 A Poker Puzzle
36 2-7 An Instinct For Cards
36 2-8 A Tipsy Trick
38 2-9 Two Four-Ace Productions
38 2-9-1 Catching Cards at the Fingertips
39 2-9-2 The Milky Way Ace Production
39 2-10 The Joker Speller
 
41 Interlude 2: Conflict
 
44 3 The Key Card
44 3-1 Introduction
45 3-2 Key Undercut Shuffle
45 3-3 The Hindu Shuffle
46 3-4 The Sliding Key Card
48 3-5 Using a Reversed Card As A Locator
48 3-6 Gray's Spelling Trick
49 3-7 The Circus Card Trick
50 3-8 Do As I Do
51 3-9 The Non-Poker Voice

53 Interlude 3: Audience Management
 
56 4 Full-Deck False Shuffles and Cuts
56 4-1 Introduction
56 4-2 The GW Hunter False Shuffle
57 4-3 The Optical Shuffle
58 4-4 SW Erdnase's Fourth Method
59 4-5 The Charlier Shuffle
59 4-5-1 Royal Road's Description
60 4-5-2 Erdnase's Thoughts
61 4-6 A Blu False Cut
61 4-7 A False Cut With Many Piles
61 4-8 The Prearranged Deck
61 4-8-1 Si Stebbins
62 4-8-2 Eight Kings
62 4-8-3 Other Stacks
63 4-8-4 Prearranged Stack Strategy
63 4-8-5 Other Applications of Stacked Decks
64 4-9 Some Basic Prearrangement Effects
64 4-9-1 Dual Sympathy
65 4-9-2 Psychic Card Test
65 4-9-3 Shark Food
65 4-9-4 Si Stebbins Up The Sleeve
66 4-10 Psychic Vibrations
67 4-10-1 Further Thoughts
67 4-11 Par-Optic Vision
68 4-12 A Poker Demonstration
70 4-13 The Divided Deck
71 4-13-1 Card Minded
 
73 Interlude 4: Premises Dynamics and Texture
 
76 5 The Glide
76 5-1 Introduction
76 5-2 A New Glide
77 5-3 The Traditional Glide Technique
78 5-4 The Lost Card Second Method
79 5-5 Design For Laughter
81 5-6 A False Display
82 5-7 Like Seeks Like
83 5-8 Hijacked Mid-Flight
85 5-8-1 Solo Flight Aces

89 Interlude 5: Misdirection
 
95 6 Forces
95 6-1 Introduction
95 6-2 Cross Cut Force
96 6-3 Riffle-Break Force
97 6-4 Hindu Shuffle Force
98 6-5 The Force That Couldn't Be Done
99 6-6 The Classic Force
102 6-7 The Sliding-Key Force
103 6-8 Some Revelations of a Forced Card
103 6-8-1 Thoughts Ablaze
104 6-8-2 Before Your Eyes
104 6-8-3 Psychic Writing
105 6-8-4 Salty Surprise
106 6-9 The Pulse Trick
106 6-10 Card In The Orange
108 6-11 The Backslip & Backslip Force
110 6-12 RW Hull's Force

112 Interlude 6: The Critical Interval
 
115 7 The Double Lift
115 7-1 Introduction
115 7-2 The Double Lift Technique
117 7-3 The Robert-Houdin Get-Ready
117 7-4 The Push-O
120 7-5 Thumb Count & Transfer
121 7-6 Transpositions
121 7-6-1 Rapid Transit
122 7-6-2 Perambulating Pasteboards
123 7-6-3 Uneasy Aces
124 7-7 The Ambitious Card
124 7-7-1 Basic Opening Sequence
126 7-7-2 The Pop-Up Card
126 7-7-3 Advanced Opening Sequence
128 7-7-4 Further Thoughts
129 7-8 Magician vs Gambler
130 7-9 A Paradox of Pairs
130 7-10 The Homing Card

134 Interlude 7: Conditioning
 
136 8 Miscellaneous Techniques
136 8-1 Introduction
136 8-2 Injog and Break
137 8-3 Overhand Lift Shuffle
139 8-4 Twelve-Down Rie
140 8-5 The Lie Speller
141 8-6 Top-Card Glimpse
142 8-7 Double-Lift Glimpse
142 8-8 Hindu Shuffle Glimpse
143 8-9 Reverses
143 8-9-1 Against the Leg
144 8-9-2 The Braue Reversal
144 8-9-3 Double Lift Reversal 1
145 8-9-4 Double Lift Reversal 2
145 8-9-5 Double Lift Reversal 3
145 8-9-6 Double Lift Reversal 4
146 8-10 The Natural Injog
146 8-11 The Cull
147 8-12 Vernon's Multiple Shift
149 8-13 False Counts
149 8-13-1 The Carlyle False Count
150 8-13-2 The Jordan Count
151 8-13-3 The Stanyon Count
151 8-13-4 Further Thoughts and Applications

153 Interlude 8: The Internal and External Reality
 
156 9 The Palm
156 9-1 Introduction
157 9-2 Palming
158 9-3 Erdnase's Top Palm First Method
160 9-4 Erdnase's Top Palm Second Method
160 9-5 Top Palm Single and Multiple Cards
162 9-5-1 Top Palm I (Single Card)
163 9-5-2 Top Palm II (Several Cards)
164 9-6 Replacement of Palmed Cards
168 9-7 A Psychological Impossibility
170 9-8 The Card and Handkerchief
171 9-9 The Penetrating Cards
172 9-10 Three Cards Across
174 9-11 Out Of Sight
174 9-12 The Spring Catch
175 9-12-1 Spring the Cards A New Method
175 9-13 An Unwitting Wizard
176 9-14 The Card In The Shoe

179 Interlude 9: Motivation
 
182 10 The Top Change and Other Switches
182 10-1 Introduction
182 10-2 The Top Change Technique
184 10-3 The Changing Card
186 10-4 Top Change Double Lift
186 10-5 You Put It In
186 10-6 Everywhere and Nowhere
188 10-7 The Invisible Flight
189 10-7-1 The Palm Change
190 10-8 The Two-Card Monte Switch
192 10-9 Three Card Monte
196 10-10 The Mexican Turnover

198 Interlude 10: Timing
 
200 11 The Pass
200 11-1 Introduction
200 11-2 The Classic Pass Technique
200 11-2-1 The Grip
201 11-2-2 Left-Hand Action
201 11-2-3 Right-Hand Action
202 11-3 The Rie Pass
203 11-4 The Erdnase Two-Handed Shift
204 11-5 The Invisible Turn-Over Pass
207 11-6 Change In Hand
208 11-7 The Card and Envelope
208 11-8 The Undercover Mystery
210 11-9 The Jacks Have Your Back
210 11-10The Erdnase Two-Handed Transformation
211 11-11 An Easy Color Change

213 Interlude 11: Theory of False Solutions & Cancelling Methods
 
217 12 Miscellaneous Tricks
217 12-1 Introduction
217 12-2 Double Reverse
218 12-3 Face to Face
219 12-4 Miraskill
220 12-5 Pseudo-Psychometry
222 12-6 Faces or Backs Which?
222 12-7 A Sweetheart
223 12-8 The Princess Card Trick
224 12-9 Equivoque
227 12-10 The Psychic Stop!
228 12-11 The Ten Card Poker Deal
230 12-12 The Burnaby Blu

235 Interlude 12: The Magic Cause
 
238 Conclusion