"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."
This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience participation and patter. Bill Simon writes at great length on the second deal and describes in full detail his excellent routine, Call to the Colors.
Foreword
Introduction
Observations
Part I Choice Tricks
Coincidence
Business Card Prophesy
The Instant Reverse
Three Queens Monte
Sympathetic Control
Elevator Cards
The Turnabout Cards
Card Affinity
The Gambler Controls The Aces
A Touching Experiment
The Ambitious Card
Part II The Second Deal Tricks With The Second Deal
The Component Parts Of The Second Deal
Exercises
Performing The Deal
Concluding Thoughts
Tricks With The Second Deal
Call To The Colors
Two Numbers
Danbury Delusion
The Middle Deal
The F.B.I. Card
Four Card Location
Part III New Sleights And Tricks Therewith
The Simon Card Control
Set-Up Of Four Cards
The Two Card Peek
A Piquant Peek
The Peek Force
The Simon Fan Steal
Telepathy
Automatic Writing
The Simon Secret Addition
The Thought-Of Ace
A Transposition
Cover For The Side-Slip
Tricks With The Cover For The Side-Slip
Predict Switch
Part IV Interludes (Quick Tricks)
Discoveries
The Finger-Stab
A Trick With A New Twist
Half And Half (Elimination)
A Strange Card
Card In The Mouth
Four Deep
Unexpected
Part V More Choice Tricks
The Magnetic Cards
Double Rise
Reverse Card Effects
The Ubiquitous Jack Of Spades
Rapid Transit
Mind Reading
"Touch" Retouched
Similar Twins
The Locator Three Of Clubs
The Somersault
Night Club Card Assembly
Double Prediction
Four Deuces And The Ace Of Spades
Deuces Wild
Four-Way Coincidence
Part VI Shuffles And Cuts
The Basic Cut
The Simon System Of False Riffle Shuffles
The Top Stock Control
The Bottom Stock Control
1st edition 1952, 181 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, PDF 141 pages.
word count: 58226 which is equivalent to 232 standard pages of text
