Underhanded Delivery

And Other Sharp Tools for the Thinking Card Magician

2009
Written by Arie Vilner
Work of Arie Vilner
108 pages (Paperback), published by The Cairn Press
Illustrated with drawings by Tony Dunn
Language: English
58 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Arie Vilner Acknowledgements
4
Ken Krenzel Foreword
5
Arie Vilner Introduction
10
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery stealing a card from the tabled card case to an in-the-hands spread above the case, reverse of TPC load
Inspired byRelated toVariations 12
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery Application - The Mighty Force under-the-spread force from a shuffled deck using Underhanded Delivery steal from tabled case
Related to 15
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery Application - Lucky Digits card at any number using Underhanded Delivery steal from tabled case
Related toVariations 17
Ken Krenzel Four Aces at Four Numbers using four times Underhanded Delivery steal from tabled case
Inspired by 18
Arie Vilner Card at Any Number Prediction card at freely named position predicted in shuffled deck, using Underhanded Delivery steal from tabled case
Inspired by 18
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery Application - The Wide Open Prediction using Underhanded Delivery steal from tabled case
Related to 20
Arie Vilner The French Open Larreverse
 		21
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery Squared handling of the addition from the case to a squared deck or packet
Inspired by 23
Arie Vilner Sensitive Fingers bottom card of freely cut and shuffled packet divined by touch, using Underhanded Delivery Squared from tabled case
 		23
Arie Vilner Underhanded Delivery Upstream loading a previously lateral palmed card first to outside of case and then into case as deck is removed, also a second method of loading the case in the lap
 		25
Arie Vilner Le Paul Subtlety - Under the Spread spreading the deck with palmed card and holding out while gripping one's other arm
Inspired by 28
Arie Vilner Penultimate Placement replacing a palmed card to second from top, top card stays in sight
 		30
Arie Vilner Wild Chicago Jazz Chicago Opener handling
 		32
Arie Vilner Tabled Lateral Palm off the tabled deck, one-handed
 		34
Arie Vilner Two Handed TLP off the tabled deck
 		35
Arie Vilner LP Application - The Bent Card Switch using lateral palm
  • Ambitious Card sequence
Related to 36
Arie Vilner LP Application: In-the-Hands Secret Transfer stealing top card of deck into right hand lateral palm as another card is displayed in the right hand
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Arie Vilner TLP Variation - Penultimate TLP lateral palming the second from top card off the tabled deck
 		39
Arie Vilner TLP Variation - The Wallet Load top card of tabled deck is lateral palmed off and loaded into ungaffed wallet as it is opened and closed
 		40
Arie Vilner TLP Application - Slow Motion Sandwich unknown sandwiched card turns out to be later selection
 		42
Arie Vilner TLP Sandwich Switch sandwich switch with tabled lateral palm off the tabled deck
Related to 43
Arie Vilner TLP Application - Palms Away using lots of lateral palm
 		45
Arie Vilner Card Production from Lateral Palm tabled, reverse of Snap Deal
Related to 46
Arie Vilner A Gambler's Dream using two Gambler's Cops
 		49
Arie Vilner Packet Cop from small packet that has an out-jogged card
 		51
Arie Vilner The Thumb-less Double Lift flourishy spinning action of double off the deck
Related to 53
Arie Vilner Thumb-less Double Lift Application - The Quickie Vanish one of four cards vanishes
 		54
Arie Vilner The Flip-Flop Turnover Pass
Variations 56
Arie Vilner FFT Variation: Displaying the Top Card cover action
Inspired by 58
Arie Vilner FFT Variation: Top Card Cover Pass
Inspired by 58
Arie Vilner FFT Variation: A Color Change
Inspired by 59
Arie Vilner The Reverse Turnover Pass reverse action to standard Turnover Pass
Related to
  • "The Slow Motion Pass Or The Card Pass I Use" (James Kater Thompson, The Berg Book, 1983, p. 219)
 60
Arie Vilner How Not To Fool Your Audience
62
Arie Vilner The False Faro Shuffle with bridge into jogged packets and passive strip-out
Related to 64
Arie Vilner The Cut-First Shuffle with honest cut to delay strip-out, shuffle can start in the hands
Variations 67
Arie Vilner The CFS Version 2 - The "V" Shuffle riffling lengthwise
Inspired by 68
Arie Vilner False Shuffles Applications: Rhapsody in Color deck remains separated into red and black despite shuffling, then the cards mix themselves, faro spread
Related to 70
Arie Vilner A Few Words on Controls
72
Arie Vilner The Quick Fan Control into right-hand classic palm as fan is closed, same action as in Cornelius Fan Steal
Related to 73
Arie Vilner The Table Spread Control card inserted into tabled spread and controlled/culled as spread is gathered up
Related to 74
Arie Vilner The Squeeze Control insertion from the side with deck in end grip (Simon Control), then card is stolen or lapped
  • Version 1 - One Handed SC
  • Version 2 - Two Handed SC
  • Version 3 - Using the Longitudinal Palm (holding pen as cover)
Inspired by 77
Arie Vilner Wallet O' Plenty two signed cards travel into tabled wallet
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Arie Vilner Swift Transfer - One card vanishes from deck and appears among five cards that are in the spectator's pocket
 		85
Arie Vilner Swift Transfer Two - Red, White and Blue odd-backed version, card vanishes from deck and appears among five cards that are in the spectator's pocket
 		86
Arie Vilner Swift Transfer Three - Impossible Infiltration card vanishes from deck and appears among five rubber-banded cards, signed card version
 		87
Arie Vilner Swift Transfer Four - Eternal Bond performer's signature travels from packet to packet, odd-backed
 		88
Arie Vilner Your Favorite Heart verbal psychological force of the Heart suit, followed by instructions to remove a card with a lot of white-space, leads to force card
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Arie Vilner Notes on the Card under the Seat signed
 		92
Arie Vilner The Smiley Solution signed
 		94
Arie Vilner How to Fool A Magician
96
Arie Vilner The Real Secret
99
Arie Vilner The Statue of Liberty card travels into bread, torn corner verification
 		104
Michael Ammar Torn Corner Switch
Related to 105
The Fan Force of the Lorayne Force type
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Arie Vilner Final Comments
108
Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2022.