ROBERTO GIOBBI’S PROFESSIONAL CARD MAGIC WITHOUT SLEIGHT-OF-HAND Card College Light Photo by Zakary Belamy LYBRARY www.lybrary.com preserving magic one book at a time Originally published in German as Roberto Light by Magic Communication Roberto Giobbi. Copyright © 1988 by Roberto Giobbi. English-language edition copyright © 2006 by Roberto Giobbi and Stephen Minch. Ebook Mastering by Lybrary.com Ebook published by Lybrary.com. It is the digital version of the book published by Hermetic Press, Inc., Seattle: ISBN 978-0-945296-54-6 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. ISBN 1-59561-011-1 Contents Thanks xiii Foreword xv The Presentation of Sleightless xvii Card Tricks Routine 1 1 T.N.T. Te magician reveals two cards chosen in a way 3 that would seem to make this utterly impossible. Intuition. Trough the power of intuition, two spec- tators are able to separate the shufed deck into 9 red and black cards. Te Telephone Trick. Te performer’s medium is called and is able to discern over the telephone 14 the card freely selected from a shufed deck. Routine 2 19 Tot Echo. Someone selects two cards under the fairest conditions, and the magician succeeds in 21 fnding them. Royal Flush. Ten cards randomly chosen by a spec- tator are thoroughly shufed by him and then 27 dealt into two poker hands. Te magician’s hand is shown to be a royal fush! R o b e r t o G i o b b i Te Waiwiki Shufe. A subconsciously controlled swing of a pendulum reveals to the performer the 35 identity of a chosen card. Routine 3 39 Fingertip Sensitivity. Te magician guesses the actions a person performs with a packet of cards 43 under the table. Muscle Reading. Someone chooses any card, then shufes it thoroughly into the deck. Tanks to the magician’s ability to read this person’s uncon- 49 scious muscle impulses, he is able to successfully fnd the card. The Lie Detector. Someone notes a card and shuffles it back into the deck. She next takes seven indifferent cards, keeps them hidden and calls their names to the magician; but for one of the indifferent cards she calls the name of 57 the card she selected. Because the magician possesses the sensitivity of a lie detector, he is able, unbelievable as it may seem, to discover the woman’s card! Routine 4 63 Te Circus Card Trick. After the audience has become convinced that the performer has failed to 67 fnd a selected card, he manages to save the situa- tion in a surprising and amusing way. Te Fingerprint. A freely chosen card is replaced in the deck by the spectator, under the strictest conditions. In spite of this, the magician is able 76 to fnd the card by means of the “fngerprints” left on it! C a r d C o l l e g e l i g h t Magical Match. Te magician twice determines, in an inexplicable manner, the exact number of 81 cards the spectator has cut from the deck. Routine 5 87 Cards Never Lie! Someone selects a card and shuf- fes it back into the deck. Te magician asks three questions about the card, and his subject either lies or tells the truth. Nevertheless, the performer 93 is able not only to ascertain the chosen card, but he also immediately produces the other three cards of the same value! Digital Dexterity. A chosen card is shufed back into the deck by the person who selected it, and the deck is placed into the magician’s pocket. With 100 seemingly unbelievable dexterity, he is able to fsh the chosen card out of the deck! Tink Stop! Someone freely selects a card, then shufes it back into the deck. Nevertheless, the 104 magician is able to fnd the card through that person’s silent thought-command alone. Routine 6 109 Card Caper. Two spectators each select a card from a deck that they shufe themselves. Tey further shufe their cards back into the deck. Neverthe- 111 less, the magician is able to fnd both spectators’ cards in an astonishing manner. In the Hands. Someone from the audience shufes a deck of cards and remembers two of them, which he himself loses back into the deck. In spite of 118 these impossible conditions, the magician is able to locate both noted cards. R o b e r t o G i o b b i Back to the Future. Te magician transports him- self into the future, memorizes what happens there, returns to the past, and then predicts the 122 occurrence in the present: a confusing story with a clear efect. Routine 7 127 Manto. Te magician writes a prediction and places it inside the card case, which a spectator guards. An audience member and the performer mix the cards face up into face down, throwing the deck 129 into a chaotic condition. Nonetheless, the predic- tion states how many cards lie face up and how many of those are black and how many red! Vernon’s Miracle. Te magician fnds a card selected 136 under the fairest conceivable conditions. Tat Is the Question. Te magician asks no ques- tions, yet he answers them while guessing and 141 fnding a freely and fairly thought-of card. Afterword 145 A list of recommended books on card magic. Notes 147 Further background on the tricks. Card College Light