Karl Fulves 
Self-Working Close-Up Card Magic 
56 Foolproof Tricks

'Close-up card magic is performed right under the noses of the spectators. It has an immediacy that cannot be duplicated by platform magic. Seasoned professionals agree there is no better way to learn how to handle an audience than when they are inches away.’ — Karl Fulves.

Karl Fulves is one of the most popular and respected magic authorities writing today. In
Self-Working Close-Up Card Magic he shows beginners how to perform 56 tried-and-true, crowd-pleasing tricks for the kind of small, close-up audiences that gather at parties and family get-togethers. The tricks are simple to master. The performer needs only a deck of cards and a few everyday objects like a coin or a rubber band. The kind of close-up performing these tricks require offers beginners the best possible way to learn how to engage and handle an audience.

Among the tricks are 'openers, ’ which quickly get an audience’s attention and set the stage for the rest of the act; memory tricks that make it appear the performer has an uncanny ability to memorize cards; gambling tricks that seem to give the performer an expert ability to control the cards in games of chance; and 'gimmicked’ cards that create eye-popping visual magic. Simple step-by-step instructions, accompanied by clear, carefully drawn illustrations, make these applause-winning tricks absolutely foolproof, requiring no long practice or dexterity to perform.

Spis treści

OPENERS

1 Magic by Design

2 True Colors

3 Flyaway Cards

4 Too Many Cards

5 Caught Between

6 Perplexing Pen

7 The Almanac Deck

8 Ace Finds Ace

CRIME DOES NOT PAY

9 The Three Burglars

10 Bonnie and Clyde

11 Go to Jail

12 Pack of Lies

MEMORY TRICKS

13 Super Count

14 Mental Countdown

15 Mind Mirror

16 The Memory Expert

THE FOUR ACES

17 Stop at an Ace

18 Tap Reverse

19 Double-Dealing

20 Dealer’s Choice

NO-CLUE DISCOVERIES

21 This Is Not the Card

22 Coincido

23 Five-Card Mental

24 The Square Deal

25 A Card Is Found

GAMBLING TRICKS

26 Beat the Cheat

27 Gambler’s Last Chance

28 Straight Up

29 The Lazy Gambler

30 Test Your Skill

31 The Wizard of Odds

GIMMICKED CARDS

32 Mona Lisa

33 Laser Printing

34 Simon Says

35 Chase the Ace

36 Mc Donald’s Aces

THE THREE-JACKS DEAL

37 Jack Jack Jack

38 Three-Jacks Improved

39 Unstacked Jacks

40 Three Jacks and a Pat

41 Progressive Poker

NOVELTY CARD TRICKS

42 Spell Purple

43 Pushbutton Magic

44 Tale of the Tape

45 A Word in Thousands

46 Tic-Tac-Toe

RISING-CARD TRICKS

47 Simplex Card Rise

48 Cards from the Case

49 Excelsior Card Rise

50 Special Delivery

THE COLOR-CHANGING DECK

51 Reverse Colors

52 Chemical Reaction

53 The Red and the Blue

54 The Forgetful Gambler

55 52-Card Monte

GUESSING THE COLORS

56 Out of This World

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Karl Fulves is one of the most respected authorities in the field of magic. For over 40 years, he has written hundreds of books on the subject and taught the art of illusion to thousands of people of all ages. This legendary figure also edited and published such magazines as
Epilogue and
The Pallbearers Review.