Card Selection

1993
Written by Peter Duffie
Work of Peter Duffie
30 pages (Loose-leave collection), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
26 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Peter Duffie Introduction
Peter Duffie Deep Thoughts cut deeper force to decide on two sandwich cards, those sandwich a card which matches another chosen card, sandwich cards change to other two cards of that value
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Peter Duffie Double Decker Jokers travel down to sandwich two selections
Inspired byAlso published here 2
Table Tap Cover for Half Pass
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Peter Duffie Magician three spectators simultaneously select a card from packet from three to eight cards, spelling and down-under to locate it
Inspired by 4
Peter Duffie Triplicants card chosen from three-card packet twice, repeated three times, three value pairs, values predicted as well
Inspired by
  • "Triple Coincidence" (Robert Harbin, Abracadabra & Harbincadabra)
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Bottom Tilt two cards inserted in deck, one of them slides to the bottom
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Peter Duffie The Eighteen Card Trick streamlined
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Peter Duffie Betwixt and Between card chosen, Christ Cut to select a number by counting turned-over block, then Jokers turn over and trap that number of card, then the selection
Inspired by 8
Peter Duffie The Psychic Speller with packet of ten cards
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Peter Duffie A Far Out Faro Chart For Faro Fantasizers table in which can be seen which cards transpose in a single faro shuffle with packets from eight to fifty-two cards (like 18 <-> 35 in a full deck)
Inspired by
  • "Countdown to Purgatory" (Rod Ethtie, Al Smith's Abacus, Vol. 1 No. 11)
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Peter Duffie The Magic Shuffle three selections in fifteen-card packet
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Peter Duffie Weight Problem spectator cuts off less than half, performer matches the number under the table
Variations 14
Peter Duffie Adding Some Weight spectator cuts off cards, two cards that add up to that number are reversed by performer and the number of cards between them also matches
Inspired by 15
Peter Duffie Handout four packets with an Ace in each, cards are placed on deck in random order, when four hands are dealt, one gets all Aces
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Peter Duffie The Static Deck Prediction card and its position remembered, later the card is found at predicted position, two phases
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Establishing a Break from a Bridge enlarging a break
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Peter Duffie The Telling Hand Ace of Spades is produced with Christ Cut Force, three selections are found sandwiched between other four Royal Flush Cards
Inspired by 19
Peter Duffie Chain of Events four packets shuffled and combined, every suit spelled out and last card is of that suit
Inspired by 21
Peter Duffie Trading Places sandwiched card in pocket transposes with reversed card in deck
Inspired byVariations 23
Alex Elmsley, Edward Marlo ATFUS
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Peter Duffie Oil Foil 5&5
Inspired by 24
Peter Duffie Fair Game
Inspired byAlso published here 25
Peter Duffie The Numbers Game dealt poker hand's values add up to named number, seven card stack
Also published here 27
Peter Duffie Fault Finding
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Peter Duffie Card Selection four-of-a-kind production from shuffled deck
Inspired by 29
Data entered by Denis Behr, March 2020.