Teaching Magic

Don't have a trick yet? Still decidedly no problem!

"This is really, really good." - Mike K.

There are few card tricks that will bring your audience to their knees and have women lunging at you... Sure, parting the Red Sea might be more impressive, but to cut five stacks of cards to reveal four aces and a queen in a dazzling numbered jitterbug after your hand - and then to reveal a royal flush by instantly reassembling the deck and cutting another five stacks - well, even Moses would have to admit, that's pretty awesome.

This is just one of the effects in Cheat! Here's another: a spectator names any hand and you immediately cut the deck into five parts to reveal that hand.

If you can cut cards, you can do these tricks. If you can't cut cards, see my other manuscript, Card Tricks for People Who Can't Cut Cards.

Many photographs provide instructions for each step.

Special note from Bob Farmer: Aside from all the silly advertising bluster, this manuscript is the result of years of research and experimentation. It solves one of the major mysteries of card magic - the origin of the widely used sleight of hand - but until this manuscript - has never been analysed and its origins have never been discovered. I have traced it through 25 magicians and all the information is revealed here.

Content:

INTRODUCTION
OPTI-CON PART I
CUTTING A ROYAL FLUSH
OPTI-CON PART II
JIVE ASS ACES
CUTTING ANY POKER HAND CALLED FOR
THE LAGGING EDGE
ACE CUT RUSE REFERENCES
1952/54 DeStefano, Joe
1956 Haxton, Francis
1956/64 Veeser, Bob
1957/76/95 Marlo, Ed
1969 Baxter, Ian
1971 Grippo, Jimmy
1976 Harris, Paul
1977 Curry, Paul
1978/79 Smith, Al
1979/2001 Lorayne, Harry
1980 Cyprian, Father
1986 Jennings, Larry
1987 Wagner, J.C.
1987 Ouellet, Gary
1987 Hierling, Thomas
1990 Takagi, Shigeo
1992 Giobbi, Roberto
1993 Bronstein, Mike
1994 Ackerman, Allan
1995 King, Bob
2001 LaGerould, Terry
2002 Long, Chad; Cummins, Paul
2007 Stenberg, Patrick
2011 Goodwin, Bill