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Lorayne:

The Classic Collection Omissions, Additions, Decisions, Revisions, Upgradings and Updatings for and of

Close-Up Card Magic, Personal Secrets, My Favorite Card Tricks & Deck-Sterity Bonus

The Epitome Location Extra Special Bonus New Stuff!!!

Books by Harry Lorayne Close-Up Card Magic • Personal Secrets • My Favorite Card Tricks Deck-Sterity • Best of Bill-Fooled The Hundred Dollar Book • Dingle’s Deceptions Reputation-Makers • The Great Divide • Tarbell #7 Rim Shots • Afterthoughts • The Epitome Location The Magic Book • Finger Fantasies • Card Animations The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel • Quantum Leaps Best of Friends, Volume I • Best of Friends, Volume II Star Quality • Trend Setters • Doug Edwards Packs A Wallop The Himber Wallet Book • Personal Collection Lorayne: The Classic Collection How To Develop A Super-Power Memory Secrets of Mind Power • Instant Mind Power Miracle Math • Memory Isometrics Course Mental Magnetism Course • Good Memory—Good Student!

Good Memory—Successful Student! • The Memory Book Remembering People (The Key to Success) The Page-A-Minute Memory Book • Memory Makes Money Super Memory—Super Student The MEMORY POWER Package (sold on national television) Monthly magic magazine: Apocalypse, Bound Volumes I through IV Videos by Harry Lorayne Stars of Magic • Magic Video #2 L & L Publishing Video Series

Lorayne:

The Classic Collection Omissions, Additions, Decisions, Revisions, Upgradings and Updatings for and of

Close-Up Card Magic, Personal Secrets, My Favorite Card Tricks & Deck-Sterity Bonus

The Epitome Location Extra Special Bonus New Stuff!!!

Harry Lorayne Photographs by Robin Chantawan Design & Composition by Andrew J. Pinard Harry Lorayne, Inc. 62 Jane Street New York, NY 10014 U.S.A. harrylorayne.com

Copyright Š 2005 by Harry Lorayne, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, which are now known or to be invented, without the written permission of the author.

Dedicated to all lovers of card magic and To my wife, RenĂŠe and my son, Robert.

Contents Preface ................................................................................................................. xiii

CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC Introduction (Dai Vernon) ................................................................................... 3 Foreword ................................................................................................................ 5 CHAPTER I—NECESSARY SLEIGHTS Hindu Shuffle ...................................................................................................... 9 Faro Shuffle ........................................................................................................ 10 Jog Shuffle .......................................................................................................... 12 Double-Lift Palm ............................................................................................... 13 CHAPTER II—EFFECTIVE CARD MYSTERIES Location Supreme .............................................................................................. 17 Two Card Reverse .............................................................................................. 20 Salt-Less .............................................................................................................. 23 Aces Wild ............................................................................................................ 25 Revelation ........................................................................................................... 28 Stab-Two ............................................................................................................. 31 The Sloppy Card Trick ..................................................................................... 35 Coincidentally Yours ......................................................................................... 37 Take Me To Your Leader .................................................................................. 41 Lorayne’s Ambitious Card Routine ................................................................. 44 Little Fella’—Big Fella’ .................................................................................... 53 Stop! ..................................................................................................................... 56 Impossibility ....................................................................................................... 59 Quinella! ............................................................................................................. 62 Out Of This Universe ....................................................................................... 64 Red-Black Set-Up ......................................................................................... 68 This Is Mindreading? ........................................................................................ 70 vii

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CHAPTER III—NOVEL CARD MYSTERIES In The Side Pocket ............................................................................................ 73 The Apex Ace ..................................................................................................... 75 Ose’s (Collectors) Addition ............................................................................... 78 Ose’s Cut .............................................................................................................. 79 Automatic Mindreading ................................................................................... 81 Revolving Aces ................................................................................................... 83 Force Prediction ................................................................................................. 86 Tell My Fortune ................................................................................................. 88 Three For The Money ...................................................................................... 90 Three Again ....................................................................................................... 93 Three Times And Out ...................................................................................... 93 Fourtitude ........................................................................................................... 95 Sam-Ultaneous ................................................................................................... 96 Flash Aces ........................................................................................................... 98 The Spread Control ......................................................................................... 100 Two Variations ............................................................................................ 101 Personally Yours .............................................................................................. 103 Through The Table ......................................................................................... 105 CHAPTER IV —UNIQUE CARD TRICKS The Inseparable Four ...................................................................................... 109 Sensitive Touch ................................................................................................ 111 Lorayne’s Poker Deal ...................................................................................... 113 The Moving Pencil .......................................................................................... 117 Vernon’s Aces ................................................................................................... 120 The Lorayne Force .......................................................................................... 123 Sympathetic Decks .......................................................................................... 125 Mated! ............................................................................................................... 127 Reverse Location .............................................................................................. 130 Lost And Found Aces ..................................................................................... 133 Lazy Man’s Card Trick ................................................................................... 136 Challenge Aces ................................................................................................. 139 Push-Through Change ................................................................................... 140 Push-Through Poker ...................................................................................... 145 The JB Kard Kop ............................................................................................. 148

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CHAPTER V—THE TURNOVER CHANGE The Turnover Change .................................................................................... 153 The Little Card That Wasn’t There ............................................................. 157 Mentalamazement ........................................................................................... 159 Chango-Cards .................................................................................................. 162 Prediction Extraordinaire ............................................................................... 162 Random Thoughts ........................................................................................... 163 Quickie Prediction ...................................................................................... 164 Cross-Over Change..................................................................................... 164 In-Hand Change ......................................................................................... 164 Hole Card Switch ....................................................................................... 166 Multiple Turnover Change ............................................................................. 167 Ambitious Aces ........................................................................................... 168 The Traveling Jewels ....................................................................................... 169

PERSONAL SECRETS Foreword ............................................................................................................ 175 Four Of A Kind ............................................................................................... 177 Red & Black Fantasy ........................................................................................ 181 Leap Frog .......................................................................................................... 186 Magician Vs Gambler ...................................................................................... 190 Color Quickie ................................................................................................... 194 Revers-All ......................................................................................................... 196 The Fantastic Card Square ............................................................................. 199 Ten Card Puzzler............................................................................................. 206

MY FAVORITE CARD TRICKS One-Eyed Jack Sandwich ............................................................................... 211 Four-Ace Extension .................................................................................... 214 Color Coincidence ........................................................................................... 215 Out Of My Control .......................................................................................... 218 Criss-Cross ........................................................................................................ 221

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Impromptu Out Of This World .................................................................... 226 Hummer Addition .......................................................................................... 229 Aces Only—With Kings ................................................................................. 231 Toss-In Reverse ................................................................................................ 235 Any Four Of A Kind ....................................................................................... 238 Transposition Breakthrough #1 ..................................................................... 240 Transposition Breakthrough #2 ..................................................................... 244 Your Choice ...................................................................................................... 246 Pseudo Memory ............................................................................................... 249

DECK-STERITY Foreword ............................................................................................................ 255 The “Kick” Double Lift .................................................................................. 257 Double Put-Down ........................................................................................... 260 The Flip-Over Locator ................................................................................... 263 Foursome .......................................................................................................... 265 The Magic Step ................................................................................................ 270 New-Fangled Color Change .......................................................................... 275 Outrageous Revelation .................................................................................... 280 That Burns Me Up ........................................................................................... 282 The Card Pyramid ........................................................................................... 284 Out Of This World Memory .......................................................................... 289 Double Billemma ............................................................................................. 291 The (Easy) Indicator ........................................................................................ 295 Ten-Card Poker Deal ...................................................................................... 300 Cointrol ............................................................................................................. 308 Mental Photography ........................................................................................ 312 1-2-3 Aces .......................................................................................................... 317 Favorite Aces And Kings ................................................................................ 322 Stabbed In The Pack ....................................................................................... 328 The Strip-Out Sleight ..................................................................................... 332 Vice Triumphant .............................................................................................. 334 The Flying Aces ............................................................................................... 336 The Choice Is Yours ........................................................................................ 339

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To Change A Card ........................................................................................... 342 Deal & Duck ..................................................................................................... 344

BONUS—THE EPITOME LOCATION Foreword ............................................................................................................ 355 Basic Principle ............................................................................................. 355 Reasoning and Logic .................................................................................. 358 Calculations ................................................................................................. 359 Endings ........................................................................................................ 361 Presentations ................................................................................................ 363 Stalemate ...................................................................................................... 364 Poker Face ................................................................................................... 365 Twice As Fast Breakthrough ..................................................................... 369 Another Way ............................................................................................... 372 Completely Impromptu Half At A Time ................................................ 373 No-Sleight Stalemate .................................................................................. 374 Triple Mate .................................................................................................. 374

EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS (ALL NEW STUFF) The Colorful Assembly, Spectator-Cuts-Aces, Trick .................................. 383 Really! ................................................................................................................ 385 In The Second Place ........................................................................................ 389 Gamblers Luck ................................................................................................. 392 Four-Second Wonder ...................................................................................... 394 Progressive Elevator, Plus ............................................................................... 399 Assembly Backfire ........................................................................................... 405 Any-Deck Tally-Ho Extended ...................................................................... 411 Four (Ace) Flusher .......................................................................................... 415 Instant Startler .................................................................................................. 420 Full-Deck Slide-In Shuffle ............................................................................. 424 Automatic Double ........................................................................................... 426 Who Do We Appreciate .................................................................................. 428

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This Is Better! ................................................................................................... 430 Aces Over Easy ................................................................................................. 432 The One-Of-Two Switch ............................................................................... 434 LAST WORD ....................................................................................................... 441

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Preface I’ve wanted to do this for a long, long, time. I’ve wanted to do it for a number of reasons. I’ve been annoyed because, for the last printings of CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC, for years, the copyright date has been listed as 1976—and that’s an out and out lie. I wrote CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC in 1961, and Lou Tannen couldn’t wait to publish it. It first saw the light of day in October of 1962. That’s the copyright date of the first printing and should have been the listed copyright date for all other and future printings.

I’m not pleased about the incorrect copyright date because I wrote much better in 1976 (fifteen years later) than I did in 1962, because I see no reason, nor is there a reason, for not having the correct date in the book, because it will screw up the publishing sequence for historians, and because I hate lies.

But I’ve wanted to do it for a more important reason. For decades people have talked about the good to great stuff in these four books of the 1960s.

Because of that I’ve felt, as the years flew by, that they should be updated, written the way I’ve learned to write through the years. And, that the effects and routines I stopped using and am no longer excited about should be omitted, eliminated, so that the books would not only be written much better, grammar-wise and syntax-wise, but would be “tighter” and much, much, better “teachers.”

At first, my thinking was to re-write each book as a separate entity. But then I thought of other remarks I’d heard through the years, remarks about finding it a bit of a pain to “run” from one book to another or finding it difficult to locate a copy—many times after misplacing it or loaning it out. The obvious solution was, is, to put all four of them between the same two covers, the covers you’re holding in your hands right now. That solution was pushed into the foreground as so many people continued to ask me to do just that.

(As usual, I went a step or two further. I added two special bonuses. One is my re-write, additions to, THE EPITOME LOCATION. And—I had a small book of new stuff all done, with some more advanced stuff than in the basic “collection.” I can’t publish it by itself because I’d sworn that PERSONAL COLLECTION was my last book of my own new stuff, so it’s here as an extra special bonus.)

I’m quite pleased with the outcome. As I’ve told you, I’ve omitted some stuff that, in my opinion, most readers wouldn’t use anyway. That doesn’t xiii

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mean that I originally included them as “fillers.” No; I was much younger, of course, and nowhere near as knowledgeable or selective as I am now. I’ve added new ideas (but carefully, so as not to take away too much of the originality of the books), in the body of some items and occasionally in the Afterthoughts at the end of each and every item. You’ll often see an update of a particular point in parentheses. I’ve also had all the illustrations re-done (making them photographs), and I’ve added quite a few new illustrations—about one hundred not counting the photos for the new stuff. Please be aware that there are a few duplications of, or similar, photos in the book. I’ve done that purposely because I didn’t want you to have to flip back to other areas to check a photo. Once I have your attention I don’t want to lose it!

And no, that dark mark you may see under and to the right of the left thumbnail in many of the photos is not dirt! It’s a “tattoo” I’ve had there since I was nine years of age—when a school friend(?) jabbed a #2 lead pencil point deep into that area. When you see it you know that I posed for that shot (as I did for all of them).

I never dreamed that the “Afterthoughts” concept would become so “attached” to me, become part of my writing persona, just as I never imagined that Close-Up Card Magic, and the others, would become the “classics” that they’ve become. (I sure would have made better business deals had I known!)

In any case, aside from some editing, I’ve kept the Forewords of Close-Up Card Magic (my thinking now hasn’t changed much from the thinking then) and some others. I’ve moved my Last Word (another writing concept that’s become a sort of trademark of mine) to the very end—because what I originally wrote there “works” for all the sections.

Well, again, I’m pleased with the outcome. I know that those who have one or all of the originals will still welcome this, and I know that those who don’t have the originals are, in the opinions of so many, in for quite a treat.

Welcome to the Classic Collection.

Harry Lorayne