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Bag of Tricks newsletter, (1979–95) Cranking Out Adventure (1976) Cowstails and Cobras (1977) High Profile (1981) Silver Bullets (1984) ISBN 0-8403-5682-X [collection from Bag of Tricks] The Bottomless Bag (1988) ISBN 0-8403-6633-7 [collection from Bag of Tricks] The Bottomless Baggie (1991) ISBN 0-8403-6813-5 [collection from Bag of Tricks]
This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects . Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects.
The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.
Card manipulation is often used to perform card tricks in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic. A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp , card shark, or card mechanic.
Mixed Complementarity Problem (MCP) is a problem formulation in mathematical programming. Many well-known problem types are special cases of, or may be reduced to MCP. It is a generalization of nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP).
Illusions performed with playing cards are constructed using basic card manipulation techniques (or sleights).It is the intention of the performer that such sleights are performed in a manner which is undetectable to the audience—however, that result takes practice and a thorough understanding of method. [11]
In its simplest form, the trick works by placing the hat on a specially made table or chest, often a hole in both the hat and the table. Both the hat, and the surface it is placed on, will have a hidden opening in them, through which an object stored in a compartment in the table or chest can be pulled.
In contract bridge, various bidding systems have been devised to enable partners to describe their hands so that they may reach the optimum contract.Key to this process is that players evaluate and re-evaluate the trick-taking potential of their hands as the auction proceeds and additional information about partner's hand and the opponent's hands becomes available.