Lots of great effects here. Some I haven't heard of, will need to do some investigating. A couple of others I like are twisted sisters, phantom deck , they get good reactions.

I would say my favorite card effect is Biddle trick.
Reason: First of all this is the first card I have ever learned when I start playing with cards and practicing sleight of hands.
Second the effect is strong and has a huge portion of involving audience
Third it is easy to do and audiences are love this effect

Darwin Ortiz - Hard Target - The Ephemeral Lecture Notes
Ralph Hull - The Tuned Deck - Greater Magic
Harry Lorayne - Ace Spell 2-Card Location - Greatest Teacher Ever Volume Two (VHS)
Bill Malone - Leipzig Would Have Loved This - Malone Meets Marlo Vol.4
Larry Jennings - Gambler's Triumph - Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic
Darwin Ortiz - Passing Through - The Ephemeral Lecture Notes
Harry Lorayne - Revolving Flush - The Classic Collection Vol.1
Harry Lorayne - Fortitude - The Classic Collection Vol.1
As for my reasons; I love these because they are tried and tested, fun to perform and the audience reactions are great to every one of them.

I love " Out of this world" Eugene Burger version on his Penguin Lecture. It is just "hand off" trick and blow the person away. You could even add a little bit of cold reading before the trick and it is just so powerful trick. I love it!

I love this version too, genuinely shuffled deck and the spectators get to deal some of the cards as well. His whole lecture was great.

I like Finger on the Card, Die of Destiny and Sympathetic 10.

Someone posted this list of tricks on Reddit. Figured I would share it with everyone here even though it's not my list. I think most of these tricks can be done with a normal deck.

Easy Aces (David Williamson)
Interlaced Swindel (David Williamson) (variation on the cannibal cards)
Do As I Do (John Carey)
Time Machine (Steve Freeman)
Any Card at Any Number (Justin Miller)
More Discrepancies (Gaston Quieto)
Too many cards (Aldo Colombini)
Any Card At Any Number (John Carey)
Any Assistant Mindreading (Daryl)
Dunbury Aces (Charlie Miller)
Business Card Prophesy (Bill Goodwin)
Twisting The Aces (Dai Vernon's original version and Wayne Houchin's take on it)
Righting A Wrong (Daryl)
Ambitious Card Routine (Various Artists)
Dr. Daleys last trick (Dr. Daley)
Be Honest, Where Is It (Eddie Fechter)
Pseudo Brainwave (Benjamin Earl)
Route 66 (Alvo Stockman)
Biddle trick (Elmer Biddle)
Clutch (Oz Pearlman)
My favorite opener (Bill Malone)
Ultimate Impossible transpo (Oz Pearlman)
French Kiss (Wayne Houchin)
Renegade (Oz Pearlman)
Do As I Do (Oz Pearlman)
Stigmata (Wayne Houchin)
Card Opener (James Brown)
Cards Across (Paul Harris. This version works better when there are 5 or less people)
Cards Across (Bill Malone. This one works in bigger crowds)
Branded (Tim Trono)
Card to pocket (Benjamin Earl)
Blueprint (Dai Vernon/Chris Kenner)
Peek, Four-of-a-kind-revelation (Various Artists)
The Gun Trick (Ken Krenzel)
Cardini Snap Change (Cardini)
Invisible reverse (Jim Ryan)
Dr. Fun (Paul Harris)
Diminishing Switch (James Brown)
Brainless Travellers (James Brown)
Catch The Sandwich (Frank Simon)
Between Your Points Of Departure (Earl Nelson)
Subway (Dan Buck)
Band-up! (James Brown)
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Self-cutting Deck: Rubberband (Fenn & Jordan)
Amazing Prediction (Harry Loraine)
Hotel Mystery (Ed Marlo. Found on George McBride's DVD)
A Simple Ace Routine (Ed Marlo)
Reset Reset (Earl Nelson)
Shipwrecked (Daryl/Bill Malone)
Which One's Missing? Rub The Aces (Bill Malone)
Think, Touch, Turn (Ed Marlo)
Spectator Signed Card To Envelope (James Brown)
The Gemini Twins (Ending Story) (Bill Malone)
Double Swap Sandwich (George McBride)
Search & Destroy (Aaron Fischer)
Spell The Name (Various Artist)
Invisible Palms (Paul Harris)
Sow By The Lug (Benjamin Earl)
You Shuffle As I Shuffle (Frank Simon)
The Trick That Can't Be Explained (Dai Vernon)
Solomon’s 10 (David Solomon)
Triumph (Dai Vernon)
Open Triumph (Benjamin Earl)
Card Under The Box (James Brown)
I Should Have Done It Myself (performed by Bill Malone)
Chicago Opener (performed by Bill Malone)
Open prediction,5th reversed from bottom (Ed Marlo)
Prediction trick (Bill Malone)
Four Seasons-Aces (Jim Ryan)
Simple Ace Revelation (Bill Malone)
Count On It (Paul Cummins)
ESP Numbers (Aldo Colombini)
4,5,6-packet trick (Sal Piacente)
How to cheat at 21 (Andrew Wimhurst)
Among The Discards (Simon Aronson)
An Ace production sequence (Various Artists)
A Lucky Card HCDS/CHSD(Richard Wollmer, Aldo Colombini)
Count On Them (Aldo Colombini)
Four Card Reiteration (Dan Garrett, performed by Michael Close)
Blind (Daniel Madison)
Extraordinary Proof (Andrew Gerard)

The Overturned Card - from Now You See It, Now You Don't by Bill Tarr. The plot is simple. The spectator signs a card and I let them keep it at the end. People come to me years later saying that they still have the card. I get a lot of mileage from this in performance.

Tag - Chastain Criswell and Mark Mason. Just discovered this and now I leave a spectator with a signed card and my business card.

Not sure of the name of the effect, but Eugene Burger has an effect where you give a spectator half a deck and you each select a card from your respective halves, you put the cards in the other person's half. The halves are placed on the table and when spread, the two chosen cards are reversed. I love this effect because there looks like there are no moves and it's just so impossible.

Fickle, False, and Dead One by E. Henning (Magic, May 2007) - A Fortune Telling Fish divines a spectators chosen card. I have so much fun with this. This has been in my performing set ever since I read it.

I Hate David Copperfield Trick - I have my own version, re-routined it so it automatically resets. It just got Geoff Williams approved this past November. I like it because the phases look like special fx in a movie. At times I'll have people off to the side that don't want to come close to see the magic because they're not interested. But they're there watching anyway. After the first phase, they're watching close. After the second phase, they come closer.

B'Wave by Phil Goldstein - it's a stunner that packs a triple climax that makes it even more impossible as it unfolds.

Circus by Phil Goldstein - I had this packet trick when I was a teen. I loved it then, and I still love it. It's just a fun routine.

Halo Aces by Harry Lorayne - I don't think this is the "true" Halo Aces. I force a card and have it replaced in the deck. Then I give it to the spectator to shuffle. I take it back, look thru the cards trying to "find" their card while culling their card and three mates to the top. I ask them to give me four chances to find their card. I then do the cut four times and take the top card of the appropriate pack and before I turn it over, ask them their card...then I turn it over and do the final kicker reveals.

Dream Card by Daryl - This is a great routine when someone hands you a deck and asks you to do a trick. I usually act disinterested while the spectator goes thru the phases of the routine. The final reveal leaves them stunned.

Color Monte by Jim Temple - It's a fun routine with an unexpected ending. Since it's the most sold packet trick ever, it reminds me that despite all the sales, there are tons of people who have never seen it. It's a good reminder for a lot of the magic we do.

The Trick That Can't Be Explained by Dai Vernon - It's a good mental exercise to see how many ways you can bring about an ending. It tests your card mettle.

The Ruler Trick - I don't know where I got this from. I don't know if I saw someone else do it. I know I thought about a trick I have called "The Card Ruler" and the idea popped from that. I force a card. Have the spectator shuffle the deck. I spread the cards face up. Take out a small tape measure and spread it over the cards and say, "Yep, there it is at 6 and three quarter inches, the four of spades."

Sidewalk Shuffle by Martin Lewis - the jumbo version for stage/parlor work. It's a great con game routine.

Yes, Evildan, I've written that specific presentation for my HaLo Aces somewhere. Any "makes sense" production of four of a kind does "make sense." For example, one of the things I sometimes do is - as the spec. is shuffling the cards I ask him for his favorite four of a kind. He says "Jacks." I take the shuffled deck and patter about estimation as I run through the cards faces toward me, acting as if I'm memorizing the positions of the four jacks. I mutter to myself - "fourteenth, twenty-seventh ..." etc. And of course, culling the four jacks to top. Then - as I cut the four packets - "Let's see, 14th, 27th..." And I show that my "estimations" were all correct! Anyway...

Very nice Harry. I'll be playing around with that presentation as well. I remember seeing you at one of the NY Symposiums. You were in the hallway. They dragged you in and asked if you could do something quick. You borrowed a deck of cards from someone. Asked if they were shuffled. Looked through them to confirm. Cut four piles. Flipped over an ace in each pile then left the room. The crowd was stunned. I wanted to be able to do that.
So, thank you for sharing then and now.

Wow. Excellent idea! Thank you for sharing that.

I'm mostly a coin guy that likes walk-around closeup, so I enjoy a lot of card tricks with regular cards but only do a few to break up the coin work. Mostly I will do Twisting The Aces as it always plays well, and I always pull it out and ask the specs if they've ever seen my famous 4 ace trick? At other times I will do The Daley Trick (Bill Malone version). And when I got time to use a deck (which is not often), I like to do a little ACAAN or a little play with the ACR. These were easy enough to learn and with some good practice, I became pretty good at them.

These tricks are "classic" for a reason, a nice easy-enough respite from the coin. Makes an almost decent coin guy look like a pretty darn good card man as well.

Currently I like
1) Stand up monte
2) Twins (Micheal Ammar ETMCM)
3) Impossible opener
4) I'm just starting to polish Between the Palms, ETMCM. Although I haven't played it out, it seems pretty baffling.
5) MacDonald's Aces
6) ACR to wallet with BD or s***l. Both get big smiles, and decent tips.

If you can ever get a hold of one, good luck, Farky Hollis Predicts is worth it's weight in gold. I've used 12 or so over the years because after tons of performances they do wear out. I buy them everytime I find one because it is so good.

If anyone has one and disagrees I'll be happy to take it off your hands.


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Whilst it may not be ideal, I would not go so far as to say it is "meaningless". At the very least you have an effect that should be worthy of further investigation, particularly if it is mentioned by several Café members. Just a thought imho.
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In what video or book does Paul Wilson teach this trick?

Scarne’s aces followed by Erdnase’s acrobatic jacks but I use the aces I cut Always astounds laymen.

I'm not sure, either. But it sounds like it might be an alternative title for a three-card transposition of Paul's that appeared in Genii, called "Through the Drinking Glass."

I do know that "Two Up and One Down" in Paul's video 10X10 - currently a freebie from Vanishing Inc Magic, as described here.

But that's somewhat of a low-key effort, so I figured he must teach it elsewhere too.

The first person I saw do the 51 cards to pocket was Johnny Paul.