Weapons of Mass Destruction

Written by Andru Luvisi, Steven Youell

2004
Work of Steven Youell

65 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
No illustrations.
Language: English

(36 entries)

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Steven Youell Preliminaries
  • Acknowledgements
  • Dedication ("First, to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ")
  • License
 3
Steven Youell The Card Trick That Has No Explanation challenge presentation for Cervon's speller
  • The Spelling Procedure
Inspired by 5
Steven Youell Dribble Peek glimpsing card at break during dribbling action, see also p. 43
 6
Steven Youell The Ultimate Weapon two decks, two spectators select one from each, performer apparently memorises the decks, names position of selections in other decks, then another removed card named
Inspired by 10
Steven Youell The Image Fades card changes into selection in spectator's hand and back
 14
Steven Youell, Sid Fleischman The Infamous Non-Working Self-Working Card Trick Joker stabbed between two cards, suit and value of cards above and below used to compose new card, it is found in pocket
Inspired by
  • "The Infamous Non-Working, Self-Working Card Trick" (Sid Fleischman)
 16
Stanley Collins Stabbing Force
16
Steven Youell Dead Solid Perfect card thought of from a group, progressive set up, made impromptu
Inspired by 18
Steven Youell Spelling Numbers learning with how many letters a card spells
 19
Steven Youell Gaffus Maximus unknown odd-backed card placed into deck, spectator choses one from the face and it is the odd-backed one, red/blue long-short deck
  • Ditching the Gaff
 21
Steven Youell The Perfect Choice spectator deals down in shuffled deck and stops, performer knows the card, faro
Related to 24
Steven Youell Blinded By The Sleight performer blindfolded, spectator selects a card and takes out five cards one of which is the selection, performer hold each up while spectator says "no" to each, selection found
Related to 26
Steven Youell The Hacker Stack using Si Stebbins as memorized deck
Related to 29
Steven Youell Flummoxed! challenge location designed for magicians
 30
Steven Youell The Adequate Cardshark Poker and Bridge deal from Si Stebbins
Inspired by 31
Steven Youell Setting The Combination Vernon's Aces with Free Cut Principle and stack to get packets of right size
 32
Steven Youell Harry The Hacker three cards removed and named as memory demonstration, cards next to removed cards culled
 34
Steven Youell Hacker Stack Basics memorizing Si Stebbins
  • Step One - The Phonetic Alphabet
  • Step Two - Turning Numbers Into Pictures
  • Step Three - Translating Playing Cards Into Pictures
  • The Final Step - Learning The Stack
Related to 36
Steven Youell The Power Of Peeks
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Henry Hay The Henry Hay Peek handling for step peek
 42
Steven Youell The Dribble Peek after fingertip peek, deck is turned over and dribbled
Also published here 43
Steven Youell The Flex Peek
43
Steven Youell The Riffle Glimpse
44
Paul Chosse The Flicker Glimpse credit claim
 44
Unknown The Pivot Glimpse all around square-up
 44
Cardini, Steven Youell The Cardini Multiple Shift overhand shuffle
Inspired by 45
Steven Youell The Foundation of ProActive Control mostly about handling mistakes and confidence
  • The Cause of Fear & Loathing
  • Step One: Introspection
 47
Steven Youell ProActive Strategies mostly about handling mistakes and confidence
  • Emotional
  • Mental
  • Mental Floss
 51
Steven Youell Fail-Safe Guidelines avoiding mistakes
  • Rule #1
  • Rule #2
  • Rule #3
  • Rule #4
 55
Steven Youell Liar! spectator reads off cards and lies at his selection
 55
Steven Youell Sonar Detection spectator displaces his card, performer listens to riffle and names card, with out when spectator lies
 56
Steven Youell Your Momma! spelling "YOURMOMMA"
 57
Steven Youell I HATE that card! idiosyncratic way to cull a card to the top
 58
Steven Youell The Off Center Shuffle getting a glimpsed selection to the top
 58
Steven Youell The Implications of the "Fight or Flight" Syndrome on getting great reactions
 61
Paul Chosse Triple Header spectator removes any three random cards, they are used to "calculate" name of selection with pseudo rules
Inspired by 64
Data entered by Denis Behr.