Card Sleights
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Biddle Move
- Secretly steal a card onto the bottom of a packet as you count through that packet.
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Boomerang Toss
- A method for throwing a card in the air and having it come back to you.
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Bottom Herrman Pass
- Secretly control a card or group of cards to the bottom of the deck.
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Bottom Retention Overhand Shuffle
- Maintain a packet of cards on the bottom of the deck while shuffling.
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Braue Pop Up
- A bent card in the middle of the deck visibly pops to the top of the deck.
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Buckle
- Secretly separate the bottom or top card from the deck or a packet of cards.
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Charlier Cut
- A fancy one-handed cut.
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Control
- A method for moving a card or packet of cards to another location within the deck.
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Cut
- Move for splitting the deck and swapping the packets.
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Double Lift
- Show two cards as if they were one.
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Double Turnover
- Turn over two cards as if they were one.
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Double Undercut
- Control a card to the top or bottom of the pack while cutting the deck.
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Dribble
- Flourish in which cards are sent from one hand to the other.
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Elmsley Count
- Hide the third of four cards as you count them.
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False Riffle Shuffle
- Maintain a packet of cards on the top and bottom of the deck while performing a riffle shuffle.
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Flash
- Quickly show a spectator a card.
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Flustration Count
- Make an entire packet appear is if it is made of duplicates of a single card.
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Gambler's Cop
- Secretly steal a card or packet of cards from the bottom of the deck.
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Glide
- Deal cards from the bottom of the deck while retaining the position of the bottom card.
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Herrmann Pass
- Secretly cut the deck.
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Injog
- Mark the location of a card in the deck.
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Jordan Count
- Hide the last of four cards as you count them.
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KM Move
- Remove the hidden card from a double lift.
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Magician's Force
- Force a selection on the spectator.
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Marlo Tilt
- Place a card second from top under the guise of inserting it into the middle of the deck.
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Mexican Turnover
- Switch a card on the table with a card in your hand while turning over the card on the table.
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Necktie
- Tilt the deck upwards so that the spectator can't see the top of it.
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Outjog
- Mark the location of a card in the deck for spectator's to see.
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Overhand Shuffle
- A method for shuffling the cards in a deck.
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Palm
- Secretly conceal a card in your hand.
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Pass
- A control in which the deck is secretly cut.
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Peek
- Secretly look at the face of a card.
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Pinky Break
- Secretly hold a division in the deck with your pinky.
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Pinky Count
- Method for getting a break below a desired number of cards from the top of the deck.
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Pinky Pulldown
- Method for getting a break above a desired number of cards from the bottom of the deck.
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Ribbon Spread
- Spread the cards out on the table.
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Riffle
- Method for quickly thumbing through the cards in a deck.
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Riffle Force
- Force a card by riffling through the deck and having the spectator stop you at a card.
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Riffle Shuffle
- Method for mixing up the cards in a deck.
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Rumba Count
- Make an entire packet appear is if it is made of duplicates of a single card.
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Spread
- Fan the cards in between your hands.
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Square
- Align the cards in the deck.
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Thumb Base Break
- Secretly hold a division in the deck with your thumb while in Mechanic's grip.
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Thumb Break
- Secretly hold a division in the deck with your thumb from above..
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Thumb Break
- Secretly hold a division in the deck with your thumb while in Biddle grip.
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Thumb Fan
- Spread the cards in a fan in your hand.
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Tip-Over Change
- Secretly load a card on top of another card as you turn it over.
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Top Change
- Secretly exchange the top card with another card.
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Triple Turnover
- Turn over two cards as if they were one.
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Vernon Strip-Out Addition
- Secretly load a card or packet of cards onto the bottom of a group of cards that you remove from the deck.
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Wrist Kill
- Turn the deck downwards so that the spectator can't see the top of it.