Racherbaumer, Jon: Paul Diamond's Big-Easy Card-Cunning
©1994, Jon Racherbaumer
Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 47 Pages

©2002 Second Edition
Softcover, Comb-bound, 8.5x11", 39 pages

©2001 Third edition, eBook format


Racherbaumer: Big Easy Card Cunning
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Big Easy Card
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Comments: Jon Racherbaumer notes, "these tricks are not my invention. Some are my variations." 31 creations that require a minimum of sleights. Title seemed to be later revised to just "Big Easy Card Cunning"
Note: the second edition adds two additional routines - Above and Beyond and Lollapallooza Prediction;
The third edition adds one additional routine - Incredi Ble Spell.

Contents (from book):

1 Introduction

3 Simplex Physical & Mental: one card  selected by cutting and another mentally and both are found
5 Telephenomenal: find the spectator's card selection over the phone
7 21 And Then Some: Selected Queen helps find a second card selection
8 Guesstimation City: magician estimates differences in number of cards in two packets, and then produces 4 Aces
9 Marked Calculation: the card deck is presented as a mathematical tool
11 What Is the Question?: Selection found using cards formed in the shape of a Question Mark
13 Easy Prefiguration: Magician selects a match to the spectator's card selection
14 Klutzy Forces: an easy force
16 Hobson Chooses Again: another easy force
18 Punch-Line Division: amusing effect using the Klutz Force
19 Simple Sync: a two deck coincidence
21 Is Your Pants On Fire?: lie detector plot
22 Made In the Shade: two selections end up face up in face down deck
24 No-Clue: another version
25 Hands Off: selected card is returned to deck and case behind spectator's back, yet magician names card and it is reversed in the deck
27 Chan’s Turn: spectator cuts deck behind back and places cards face to face and magician names face to face cards
28 Locatrix: spectator turns one card face up behind his back and inserts it in the deck, and it finds a previous selection
29 Klutz’s Cunning Cutting Sequence: a fake three-way cut
30 James Game: magician predicts outcome of a card game
32 Reflection: two marker cards inserted by spectator are found next to their matches
34 Four-Part Harmony: effect with a small set-up
36 Fast Eddie & The Kid: a story trick with another small set-up
38 Dunbury Lie Speller: based on an automatic placement
39 Eighteen-Card Version: another version
40 Hull-Quick: another one ahead two card revelation
42 Poker Tell: demonstration of a poker "tell"
43 Chance & Necessity: a four Ace production
43 Locators Galore: locator cards locate the selection
45 Forked Tongue Spell-Down: a clever card spelling effect
45 Homespun Spell: another speller
46 Do You Know Something We Don’t Know?: another Ace production from seeming random piles

Additions to 2000 and 2001 eBook editions:

Above and Beyond: effect with a partially stacked deck
Lollapallooza Prediction: four card predictions from a single paper
Incredi Ble Spell: card found by spelling "Incredible"



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