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Hey guys, I love this trick but I cannot do it! Can anybody point me to a book or other resource that teaches it please? A non-gimmicked version please Thanks gang!

well, Tarbell has about 30 versions in it.

Wayne Dobson's is well worth learning,

Wayne Dobson's is probably the best because of the way he spins the cards away in such a spectacular manner. I have seen Julie Eng do it this way too. I just dump them on the table in a boring manner. I use sleight of hand and the count I use is the Vernon push off count. I have been doing this trick for decades. It is absolutely wonderful as an opener because for some reason it quietens an inattentive audience at the beginning of the show.

Eddie Joseph has an ungimmicked version in his book 'The Art of Eddie Joseph' which really does only use 6 cards.

There is a version of the Six Card Repeat using the Buckle Count in Pat Page's The Big Book Of Magic.

Check out Terry Lunceford's routine, absolutely brilliant!

Gary Jones.

There's also a version in "The Dai Vernon Book of Magic" by Lewis Ganson which includes a new technique. However, false counting is also required, which Ganson simply instructs you to do by "the thumb push-off method", which he doesn't describe in any way. Disappointing. (There's a thumb push-off false count described in one of Vernon's effects in Stars of Magic which may be what he had in mind.)

I performed this years ago using the glide. I'm not sure where I read the method; I think it's in Tarbell but I hadn't read that at the time I used it. It's easier than the buckle count but doesn't look so convincing.

Barry

the method i have used a number of times is probably the easiest in the world.
You have to have balls of steel mind. Its only saving grace is, you can do it close up. Really close up. As it only works if they are looking straight down at teh cards, or straight at the face, if you do it on stage.

The biggest part of the method is, people know what to expect to see when the magician asks "have you seen the trick where.."

The glide is a bloody awful method for this trick. The best count I have found is the one described in one of the Vernon Card books by Ganson. I think (but can't swear to it) that it is in the second of the inner secrets of card magic series. I think it is called the push off count. If I had the energy to check it out I would but I haven't so I won't.

I have been doing this trick for decades. I didn't want to do it but Harry Stanley insisted on it and virtually forced me to try it. I told him that it was a corny trick with a corny story and there was no climax to it. I resisted the trick like hell. He told me there WAS a climax and he taught me it. I resisted his version because instead of throwing away 3 cards as per normal you have to throw away two. In the end I gave in and recited the corny story and performed the corny trick.

One of the best moves I ever made.

This is one of the first tricks i ever saw performed and have loved it ever since.
I know what you mean, Mark, about it being corny but people do enjoy seeing it, especially kids!
I did not know about some of the other versions mentioned here so I'm off to check them out!

not just kids, i open with it every time

I have tried it for kids. For me anyway, it never seemed to mean much. I suppose it didn't fit my kid entertainment style. Perhaps if I presented it differently then I would get better results. However, for adults I have found it a very practical item. I am doing it here in a noisy restaurant with waitresses wandering back and forth. It does settle them down. I think the repeated counting pummels them into submission.
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