Tamariz, Juan & Rafael Benatar: Mnemonica, Bewitched Music II ©2004 Juan Tamariz, Stephen Minch, Hermetic Press, Inc., Seattle, WA Hardcover, w/dj, 432 pages ISBN: 0-945296-47-9

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Comments: "Symphony in Mnemonic Major". Memorized Deck Magic. Translated from the Spanish by Rafael Benatar

Contents (from book ToC, updated with additional detail July 2021):

xvii Introduction (Simon Aronson)
xix Preface
xxiii Contributors

3 Part I

3 Chapter One — The Memorized Deck: a Bit of History
5 The Key Card
5 From Ace to King
5 The Mathematical Deck
6 The Rosary Deck
7 Non-periodical Numerical Decks
7 Disguised Arithmetical Decks
7 The Mnemonic Deck
8 The Mnemonic Deck with Added Properties
10 Tamariz's Mnemonica

11 Chapter Two — Tamariz's Mnemonica (Structure)
13 1. The Order of Mnemonica
14 2. How to Attain This Order
14 - First Method: With Faros
16 - Second Method: Without Faros
16 - Third Method: Direct Setup
17 3. Specific Properties of Mnemonica
19 4. From Mnemonica to Stay-stack

21 Chapter Three — Ultra-Rapid Memorization
23 Questions and Answers
24 1. The Auditory Method
25 2. The Visual Method
26 3. The Muscular Method
26 4. The Conceptual Method
27 5. The Security Method

29 Chapter Four - Tricks Specific to Mnemonica - Tricks with Stay-Stack
31 1. Super Poker
34 2. Aces, Kings and Other Poker Hands
35 3. Everything in Order, an Outstanding Climax
35 4. A Grand Bridge Deal
36 5. Other Tricks

37 Chapter Five - Specific Tricks With the Mnemonica Order
39 1. Deal of a Complete Suit
39 A. The Heart Suit
41 B. Other Versions for Producing the Heart Suit (Cuesta and Tamariz)
42 C. The Club Suit
43 D. The Spade Suit
43 E. The Diamond Suit

44 Spellings
44 2. Spelling a Thought-of Card
45 3. Spelling the Color Value Suit and Card
46 4. Spelling Four Cards and Four Aces

48 Gambling Demonstrations
48 5. Any Poker Hand Called For
48 - Pair
48 - Two Pair
48 - Three of a Kind
49 - Low Full House
49 - Middle Full House
49 - Four of a Kind
50 - Straight Flush - Including a Royal Flush
51 - Resetting the Stack
52 - Other Deals
53 - Observations
53 - A General Presentation
54 6. Rummy Exhibition
54 7. Blackjack Exhibition (Jim Krenz)
56 8. Flushes and Pluses (Ariston)
60 9, Back-to-back Deals—After Dai Vernon’s Formula (Cuesta)
62 10. Poker Demonstration for Eight Players

64 Other Tricks
64 11. Controlled Pairs
65 12. The Three Hours (Aronson-Riobóo)
68 13. Prediction a la Kruskal (Antonio Jose Arenillas)
69 14. A Strange Coincidence (Angel San Frutos)
71 15. The Good Fortune Routine

77 Chapter Six — Tricks with the Whole Stack
79 Five Classics
79 1. Divination
82 2. Any Card at Any Number
82 A. The Classic Method With the Pass
83 B. With a Different Back (Mago Antón)
84 C. Impossible Conditions (Mago Antón)
84 D. With False Dealing
85 E. With the Tamariz Perpendicular Control - TPC
85 3. The Three Piles
87 - First Variation With a Medium
88 - Second Variation - Ideas
88 - Third Variation - A Classic
88 4. Obedient Cards
89 5. Total Memory
89 A. The Classic Version
90 B. My Version - Triple Threat Memorization

91 Three Crown Jewels
91 1. Prediction
91 A. The Hofzinser Method
92 B. With a Regular Deck, and Two Jokers
93 C. With a Regular Deck, Without Jokers
93 D. With a Stranger Card
94 E. A Stage Version - The Joker
94 2. All of a Kind
97 3. Mnemonicosis (Tamariz): on Ideas by Marlo and Vernon
98 A. Mnemonicosis
99 B. Card Control
101 C. Mnemonicosis Over the Phone

102 Eight More Jewels
102 1. Flying Through Thin Air
104 2. Cards to Pocket
105 A. With Ray Grismer's Shuffle
106 B. With the Zarrow Shuffle
106 3. Sha-la-la-la-la (A Multiple Musical Location)
111 4. Memorized Brainwaves
112 - Variation I With a Waxed Card (Antón López)
113 - Variation II With an Ungimmicked Card
113 5. Coincidence with Two Decks and Three Cards
116 6. Control in Chaos (Aronson-Rioboo)
119 7. Carbuquillo
123 8. Cutting the Aces or Any Four of a Kind

124 A Few Direct Ones
124 1. The Direct Production of Cards Called For
125 2. Rising Cards
127 3. Double Color Change
128 4. Reversed Cards (Mago Anton-Tamariz)
129 5. Cards Called For to Pocket
129 A. One Card
130 B. Two Cards
130 6. Thought-of Card to Pocket with an Added Advantage
132 7. A Card Vanishes Instantly

133 Other Beautiful Tricks
133 1. Sympathy: Tamariz's version of a classic
133 - First Variation - Through Pencil Reading
133 - Second Variation - With a Nail Writer
133 - Third Variation - With a Billet Index
134 - Fourth Variation - Using a Pass
134 - A Presentation - Muscle Reading (Oscar Hugo)
135 2. A Star is Born
137 3. The Stop Trick
137 A. First Version With the Second Deal
137 B. Second Version With Other False Deals
138 4. Face to Face (Marlo-Tamariz)
139 5. A Grand Triumph (Camilo Vazquez)
140 6. A Predicted Triumph
141 7. The Theft of the Century
142 8. Royal Location
143 9. Double Prediction (Zingone-Tamariz)
145 10. Exact Location (Jordan-Clive-Tamariz)
147 11. Cards from Pocket Stop Trick (Ramblar)
148 12. Named Card from Pocket (Ramblar)
149 13. Card to Number in Pocket (Ramblar)
149 14. Card to Wallet (Ramblar)
150 15. Assembly of Selections in Poker Hands (Leipzig-Tamariz)

151 Miscellaneous Ideas
151 1. A Special Idea - The Eight Mnemonicas
156 2. Stay-stack with Mnemonica
157 3. A Card Index
157 4. An Assortment of Very Beautiful Loose and Simple Ideas
161 5. An Idea for Magicians: Mnemoncia and Strippers

162 The Art of Improvisation with Mnemonica
162 1. To Introduce the Subject
163 2. The Techniques
164 3. The Effects

165 Chapter Seven — Tricks Specific to Mnemonica Using Stay-stack
167 1. The Missing Card (Marlo-Tamariz)
168 2. Prodigious Memory (Evans-Hull-Annemann-Tamariz)
169 3. The Rite of Initiation (Luis Garcia Soutullo)
170 A. Tamariz Version with Faros
171 B. Tamariz Version Without Faros

 Part II
175 Prologue to Part II

177 Chapter Eight — Tricks Unique to Mnemonica Using the Half Stack
179 1. Incredible Card Control
182 2. Total Spell (Dr. Jacob Daley)
182 - First Version - Classic and Daley's
182 - Second Version (Tamariz)
182 - Third Version (Tamariz)
184 3. Spelling to Four Cards
185 4. Spelling to the Four Deuces
186 5. Colors on Parade
187 - To Reassemble a Stack
187 - A Good Routine
187 - Another Routine
188 - Scarne's Concept
188 - Alternated Sequence From Normal Mnemonica Order
188 - Color Separation With a Divination
189 6. Two Stories
189 - First Story With the Top Half of Mnemonica
190 - Second Story With the Bottom Half of Mnemonica

193 Chapter Nine — Tricks with the Half Stack
195 One to Begin With
195 Memory Jumble

197 Three Classics and a Semi-Classic
197 1. Weighing the Cards
201 2. Total Memory
201 - Version With Faros
203 - Version With Deals - Antifaros
204 3. Sense of Touch—and Other Senses
204 I. Sense of Touch
206 II. ...and Other Senses
206 a. Eye-Scan
206 b. Fine Eyesight
207 c. Subtle Hearing
207 d. A Spectacular Routine
207 4. A Card and a Number (Gombert-Baker-Tamariz)
210 - Variations

211 Five Aces
211 1. Any Cards Called For (Jordan-Tamariz)
211 - Mago Antón's Variation
214 2. Come and Go
218 - Variation
218 3. The Liar—A Classic (Dalban-Nyquist-Tamariz)
220 4. Answering Computer
222 - Other Presentations
222 A. The Trip
222 B. The Labyrinth
222 C. Hangman
223 5. T.N.T. (Finley-Jordan-Tamariz)

226 Three Coincidences
226 1. The Miracle (Chesbro-Thompson-Tamariz)
228 2. Telescopic Coincidence
230 3. Stop at the Same Time

231 Four Direct Ones
231 1. A Gambling Demonstration
234 2. Card to Wallet (Daley-Tamariz)
234 3. The Reversed Card
236 4. The Selection Between the Aces

237 Five Divinations
237 1. Fingerprints and Cardprints
239 2. Double Divination
240 3. Jumbled Divination
242 4. Mnemonicosis with a Half Stack
243 5. Spectator Misses Magician Hits
244 - A Different Climax

245 Five Assorted Ones
245 1. Half Sympathy
245 2. Pocket Calculator (Mago Anton)
246 3. Tell Me Who You’re with and I’ll Tell You Who You Are
248 4. Bingo!
249 5. How Many Reds?
250 - Variant I
251 - Variant II

253 Two Ideas
253 1. Mnemonica with the Spanish Deck or with Other Decks
253 2. The Half Stack with the Spanish Deck

254 ...And an Ending
254 1. Some Time Ago (Dr. Daley)
 
257 Appendix I — Tricks That Improve with Mnemonica
259 Neither Blind nor Stupid - Version for a Half Stack
261 The Clock - A Classic
262 Stop at the Same Time - Second Version
263 A Curious Coincidence (Hofzinser?)
264 Triumph (Dai Vernon)
265 Mnabacus (Jack London)

267 Appendix II - About Order and Disorder
269 Tricks That Don't Alter the Stack
270 Actions That Don't Alter the Stack While Appearing to Do So
274 - Multiple False Cut
277 Resetting the Stack
277 A. Resetting One Card
278 B. Resetting Two Cards
278 C. Resetting a Group of Cards
279 D. Resetting the Stack After a Spectator's Riffle Shuffle
280 E. Resetting the Entire Stack After a Spectator's Overhand Shuffle
282 F. Resetting Stack After a Riffle Shuffle and an Overhand Shuffle
282 G. Resetting the Half Stack
283 H. Resetting the Stack After Several Hands of a Card Game
285 4. Setting Up the Stack in Front of the Audience
285 A. Setup from a New-deck Order...
286 - With Faro Shuffles
286 - With Antifaros
286 B. From a Random Order
287 I. In One Stage
287 a. The Cardoso Method
287 b. The Nikola Card System
287 c. Between the Fingers
288 d. Stacking a Borrowed Deck
289 II. In Two Stages (Half and Half)
289 a. Memory Jumble
290 b. Biddle Style
292 c. Two-pile Divination
293 d. Divining One Card Out of Thirteen
295 e. Using he Methods of Stacking the Whole Deck
295 III. In Three Stages (A Half a Quarter and a Quarter)
296 a. The Clock
297 b. The Imaginary Trick
298 c. Directly Behind Your Back
298 d. Using a Strip-Out
299 e. Using the Methods for Stacking Half the Deck

297 Appendix III — Notes About Any Poker Hand Called For

309 Appendix IV — About the Structure of Mnemonica

319 Appendix V – The Antifaro Concept
321 1. For a Fifty-two-card Deck
321 - Out-antifaro-1
321 - Out-antifaro-2
321 - Out-antifaro-3
322 - Out-antifaro-4
322 - Antifaro-4 Pick Up, Two Handed
323 - Justifying the Antifaros
323 2. For a Thirty-two-card Deck
324 3. A Very Important Observation

325 Appendix VI — Useful Sleights
327 1. Glimpses
327 A. Glimpsing the Bottom Card of the Deck
328 B. Glimpsing the Top Card of the Deck
329 C. Glimpsing a Card in the Middle of the Deck
330 D. The Chorus-Line Multiple Top Glimpse
331 E. The Chorus-Line Multiple Bottom Glimpse
331 2. Finding Cards
331 A. With the Charlier One-Handed Cut
331 B. By Estimation
332 C. By Riffling
332 D. Learning the Identity of a Selection Without Glimpsing It
333 3. Shifting the Position of a Card
333 First Objective: To Move a Card Without Altering Rest of Stack
333 A. With the Tamariz Perpendicular Control - TPC
333 B. With a Slip Cut
334 C. With a Double Break and a Double Cut
334 D. With the Hofzinser Spread Cull
335 E. With Dai Vernon's Triumph Shuffle
336 F. With the Zarrow Shuffle
337 G. With the Side Steal
338 Second Objective: Pretending a Selected Card is Returned...
338 - Multiple Divination
339 Third Objective: To Exchange Two Cards...
339 A. With Multiple Cuts
339 B. With an Overhand Shuffle (Ariston)
340 Fourth Objective: To Gather Several Cards...
341 4. False Shuffles
342 - The False Butt-Shuffle
344 - Other Kinds of False Shuffles
346 5. Deck Switches
346 A. Seated at the Table
347 B. Inside the Pocket
351 C. With Gimmicks
352 D. Other Switches
354 E. Switching Half the Deck
354 Other Useful Sleights
354 A. The Corner Crimp
355 B. Counting Cards Secretly
356 C. Palms
356 D. Hofzinser's Spread Cull
359 E. The Tamariz Perpendicular Control - TPC
361 F. The Green Angle Separation
362 Lorayne's Great Divide and Marlo's Fifth Objective Culls

364 Note for Sailors
365 Bibliography (with Commentary)