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  2. List of card manipulation techniques - Wikipedia

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    List of card manipulation techniques. Card trick. Upper left: "Pick a card, any card". Upper right: Palming a card. Bottom left: A "spring" flourish. Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving ...

  3. Card manipulation - Wikipedia

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    Bottom right: Mixing the cards allows for card trick preparation. Card manipulation is the branch of magic that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic. Some of the most recognized names in this ...

  4. The Expert at the Card Table - Wikipedia

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    978-0-486-28597-9. The Expert at the Card Table, is an extensive book on the art of sleight of hand published in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase, a pseudonymous author whose identity has remained a mystery for over a century. [1] As a detailed manual of card sharps, the book is considered to be one of the most influential works on magic or conjuring with ...

  5. Category:Card tricks - Wikipedia

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    T. List of card manipulation techniques. Tenkai palm. Three-card monte. Trick deck. Twenty-One Card Trick.

  6. Glossary of magic (illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Packet trick – a card magic effect involving a small quantity of cards. Palm – to secretly hold an object in the hand in a manner which is unnoticeable. Pass – a secret move to transpose the halves of a pack* a way to secretly cut a deck of cards. Patter – The dialogue used in the performance of an effect.

  7. Cold reading - Wikipedia

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    Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. [1] Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly obtain a great deal of information by analyzing the person's body language, age, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. during a line ...

  8. Bottom dealing - Wikipedia

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    Bottom dealing or base dealing is a sleight of hand technique in which the bottom card from a deck of playing cards is dealt instead of the top card. It is used by magicians as a type of card illusion, and by card sharps and mechanics, and as a method of cheating in poker or other card games. The deck is typically held in a modified mechanic's ...

  9. Contact juggling - Wikipedia

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    In the film's credits, Moschen is credited for "crystal ball manipulation." In the summer of 1990, John P. Miller (now better known by his pen-name, James Ernest), wrote and published the first edition of the book Contact Juggling, which covers all of the basic contact manipulation techniques and methods for learning them. The first edition had ...