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Duoquadragesimus New user 51 Posts |
I love Mnemonica, but I also use regular Si Stebbins occasionally.
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marc_carrion Special user 639 Posts |
Mnemonica and Si Stebbins here too
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IMAGINACIAN Special user In Your Thots 558 Posts |
Is stack magic not so popular ? Anyone seeing this thread may have to believe so. Out of over 60k Café members, only about 100 respond about their stacks - that too in about 2 years. Or am I missing something ? However, this thread is a great effort.
I have been with 8 Kings & Stebbins all these years. But now trying to look around and pick up another one.
There is no better freedom than choice and no better choice than freedom.
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Terrible Wizard Inner circle 1973 Posts |
The current, updated totals so far:
Mnemonica 35 Aronson 23 Si Stebbins (any variation, but usually 3 CHSD) 25 BCS 11 Joyal Stack 5 NDO 6 Woody Aragon's Stack 4 Stay Stack 4 (all variations, not sure how to group this) 8Ks 5 QuickerStack 4 STB 3 Own Stack (not public) 6 Nikola 2 DAO 2 Kindergarten Stack 2 Greg Chapman's Stack 1 Luke Jermay's Story Deck 1 Zenith Zener Symbol Stack 1 Maigret Stack 1 Robinr's Stack 1 Shadow Stack 1 Isis Stack 2 |
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misamagic New user 51 Posts |
Joyal Stack (CHaSeD)
Just a beginner. |
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blurrylines Regular user 185 Posts |
Aronson
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M. Tesla Regular user Coral Springs, Florida 154 Posts |
Quote:
On Jan 7, 2016, doriancaudal wrote: Isn't that a terrorist stack?
While the amount of water has remained static, the amount of Tequila and Triple Sec available for making Margaritas has expanded enormously. So you see, we have made progress after all. ~Anonymous
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carlyle Regular user 166 Posts |
Si Stebbins, in CHaSeD order. I only use it for a couple of tricks, but after learning how to determine the position of any card named, it's become kind of a fun thing to practice. Not that it'll ever be automatic (the math's not that hard, but still requires too much thought for me at the moment). Learning another stack would probably be easier in the long run (and much handier for more effects, probably).
For a control, I've been working on ideas using a partial stack (say the clubs in order from king to ace). Not sure it counts as a stack per se, but it's fun working out the different possibilities. It's also been very good practice at estimation and false cuts/shuffles. Particularly for estimation - I've been wanting to get the stack down to perhaps five or six cards, then you could almost do it impromptu. Or alternatively, learn to memorize the bottom five or six cards in a shuffled deck in order - but that's for some other time. It seems difficult enough, but utterly confusing when I actually try to practice it more than a couple of times in a row. |
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RDeNatale New user 74 Posts |
I'm learning Mnemonica.
I'm curious, I think I saw one or two replies saying they had memorized a sequential stack like BCS or Si Stebbins. Do people really do this? To me, memorizing a stack means that you know the location of each card and can quickly retrieve the card for any location, or the location for any card, Sequences let you given a card, determine the next, and with varying difficulty, the previous card. They trade off the need to memorize the stack or some mental calculation. Si Stebbins and Eight Kings are based on simple calculations, but the color and value patterns make them seem fishy. BCS addresses this at the cost of a more complex calculation to go forward in the sequence, and an even more complicated calculation to go backwards. |
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sgtgrey Special user Austin, TX 839 Posts |
There are some who memorize those stacks. I know a few who have memorized Si Stebbins as a memorized deck. The benefit to this is that you retain all the properties of the rosary stack and the unique "built-in" effects that use the Si Stebbins pattern (e.g. Up the Ante immediately comes to mind), as well as the ability to very quickly shuffle into it from NDO. The cons of a Si Stebbins stack also remain, however. After experimenting with a few different stacks and for many individual reasons, I settled with Mnemonica, personally.
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IMAGINACIAN Special user In Your Thots 558 Posts |
A curious observation here. Some popular stacks have so far drawn a blank here.
Boris Wild stack and Charles Gauci stack for example. Or Karma Deck which claims to be the best selling stack. Or the more recent stacks like Requeim or Solution which made quite a splash here. One of my favs 8K is nowhere as popular as it should have been (just my opinion)
There is no better freedom than choice and no better choice than freedom.
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A. Evans Regular user Florida 105 Posts |
I tend to use either the:
Si Stebbins or the Nikola
"It's better to have 3 amazing tricks than 10 good ones"
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everitt99 New user 30 Posts |
Mnemonica and Si Stebbins 3 CHSD for me. I also want to learn Aronson's stack, but don't know how it will conflict with Mnemonica.
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Imirik New user 28 Posts |
I use only the Mnemonica
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cfirwin3 Loyal user Rochester, New York 233 Posts |
My own version of Sam the Bellhop that turns the original 4 personalities into 3 so that I can end in a royal flush. I also use the jokers as quick gags.
Apart from that one stack and the need for partial retentions of culled cards, I don't use any other stacks. |
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Terrible Wizard Inner circle 1973 Posts |
The current, updated totals so far:
Mnemonica 39 Si Stebbins (any variation, but usually 3 CHSD) 28 Aronson 24 BCS 11 NDO 6 Own Stack (not public) 6 Joyal Stack 6 8Ks 6 Woody Aragon's Stack 4 Stay Stack 4 (all variations, not sure how to group this) QuickerStack 4 STB 4 Nikola 3 DAO 2 Kindergarten Stack 2 Isis Stack 2 Greg Chapman's Stack 1 Luke Jermay's Story Deck 1 Zenith Zener Symbol Stack 1 Maigret Stack 1 Robinr's Stack 1 Shadow Stack 1 Boris Wild 0 Charles Gauci 0 Karma Deck 0 Requeim 0 Solution 0 |
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LoganPorterMagic Regular user 137 Posts |
Mnemonica is the way to go
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goochelen New user Hexagonia 76 Posts |
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On Oct 6, 2016, LoganPorterMagic wrote: I suggest to ignore the above post as the person who posted this seems to have posted many message on various forums on the same day in order to increase his quota of number of messages posted. Secondly, mentioning "mnemonica is the way to go" does not mean anything. Regards, g. |
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doriancaudal Inner circle 1532 Posts |
Isis !
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NeverMind Loyal user Right up there. On the stage. 279 Posts |
Si Stebbins +3 CHSD
It is better to be trusted than liked.
Under promise. Over perform. |
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