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Yeah those two books go great together, they give enough tricks that should almost a lifetime.

I was lucky enough to pick this up for £1.50 in an Oxfam shop a couple of months ago Te He !!

Just got my copy today as I found it going for £3.00 in a second hand shop, I saw it and remembered the material people recommended in another thread. Just started reading it and I already love it, thanks to everyone who recommended it, planning on ordering RRTCM from amazon soon as well.

One effect I recommend from this book, and it has brought great reactions, is Miraskill. (Look it up!)

Seemingly easy to bypass this one, but it can be presented as a psychic feat and can be repeated three times without any fear of detection. A simple sleight is used and you are given the perfect cover for misdirection.

The basic effect is that you ask the spec to choose a colour, either black or red and then you write a prediction. THEY then shuffle the deck and deal out the card in pairs. If there are two red or two black they go into seperate piles and if the cards are different colours they are placed in a third pile. They then count the red and black cards and then open your prediction which states, depending on their choice "I/you will have four more cards" this can be repeated with a different outcome and finally, you write the prediction without even asking them to choose a colour and it's spot on again!

It all happens in the specs hands which astonishes them even more and if there is a group of people, 2-3 specs can take part. It's a goodie. Trust me.

I love the last section on the Nikola system. It was the first time I came across this kind of peg system for memorising a deck - and it works like a dream! I'm now reading Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind which has a fascinating chapter on memory. Brilliant stuff.

This is a damn good book that sits perfectly alongside RRTCM and is just as easy to get your head around all the effects as they are explained in the book. There are very few illustrations but frankly there is not really much that you cannot pick up simply from the descriptions.

Personally, I don't really follow the Nikola system but something like this is completely down to your own personal choice and what fits the way your brain works.
Derren Brown covers some of this mnemonic stuff in Trick of the Mind but if you want to look into this kind of thing a little deeper without getting bogged down in all sorts of jargon, head over to Tony Buzans "Use Your Memory" and "Master Your Memory" books.

For those who have not come across it before, I would urge you to head along to :
http://www.thelearnedpig.com.pa

As this site has the Encyclopedia in PDF format for your reading pleasure ABSOLUTELY FREE!

Yes...

free.

The Encyclopedia or Card Tricks is in my mind an absolute must for anyones library. An unsung classic.

Got the encyclopedia when I got RRTCM.

I havent really read it like a book more like flick thru and see whats nice.

Mr Walton of Tam Shepards Fame told me this is the only book on card tricks to devote complete sections to Svengali, Mene-Tekel, Stripper packs.