Making the Cut

A Peek into the Magic of Ryan Schlutz

2011
Written by Ryan Schlutz
Work of Ryan Schlutz
138 pages (Hardcover), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Jessica Toledo
Language: English
50 entries
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Ryan Schlutz Dedication
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Charlie Justice Foreword
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Ryan Schlutz Introduction
  • Introduce Wonder (While Wearing Body Armor)
  • Build on Their Emotional Connection
  • Leave Them a Memory
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Ryan Schlutz Introduce Wonder While Wearing Body Armor Chapter 1 intro
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Ryan Schlutz Pivotal Peek after spectator's peek
Also published here 7
Ryan Schlutz Peek as a Control bridge
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Ryan Schlutz Pulse Detection card peeked at, value found via reading body language, spectator finds card among four
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Ryan Schlutz The Keeper card divined after three fun random questions
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Ryan Schlutz, Josh Arroyo The Keeper - Additional Handling card divined after three fun random questions, despite card apparently not being amongst sample cards
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Edward Marlo Unit Upjog Addition brief
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Ryan Schlutz When in Doubt, Read a Palm card with palm on it, selection found by other spectator, back of palm-card is selection as well
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Eddie Fechter, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser Timing Cut Force
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Ryan Schlutz Visual-Pocket Management and Routine Recall
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Ryan Schlutz Build on Their Emotional Connection Chapter 2 intro
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Ryan Schlutz Sense-sational three selections (one thought of, two chosen) found
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Divided Deck Shuffle riffle shuffle by spectator
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Ryan Schlutz A Lesson in Gravity two sandwich cards with black holes on them used for multi-phase sandwich routine
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Edward Marlo Sandwich Load
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Wesley James Coming Up in the World
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Ryan Schlutz Fraternal Bond three chosen cards match 3 prediction cards
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Ryan Schlutz The Schlutz Switch "Schlitz", two handlings
Inspired by 46
Ryan Schlutz Fing-Jit-Su spectator breaks small wood with finger, then flicks deck at selection
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Breather Crimp
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Gary Plants Key Card Placement originally from Precursor (Sept. 1992)
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Ryan Schlutz Sprung & Dagger banded deck, card pops out at right angle
Inspired by 57
Ryan Schlutz Misfit Queens
Inspired by 65
Bubble Peek
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Ryan Schlutz Foregone Conclusion card disappears from deck and reappears popping out of fan
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Jon Racherbaumer, Gene Maze Fan-Antic Control
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Fan Pop-Out card pops out of fan
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Ryan Schlutz Reaching Thousands Through One
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Ryan Schlutz Leave Them a Memory Chapter 3 intro
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Ryan Schlutz Insignia signed card, back of magician's name tag predicts selection and then even has the signature
Inspired by 81
Gary Ouellet The Touch Force
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Dai Vernon Optical Monte Move
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Noel Stanton Twirl Change see "The Pivot Color Change" (The Gen, Vol. 20 No. 2, 1964)
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Ryan Schlutz Jumbled Thoughts jumbled friXion pen prediction corrects itself
  • Method 1: Free Choice of a Card
  • Method 2: Forced Selection
Inspired by
  • "Sympathetic Ink" (Mathieu Bich)
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Ryan Schlutz Creating a Mental Pose
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Ryan Schlutz Add-on Bits Chapter 4 intro
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Ryan Schlutz, Doug Otto Otto-matic Aces
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Doug Otto Otto-Matic Revelation two card pop-out
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Ryan Schlutz Otto Finder four-of-a-kind found in four ways
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Ryan Schlutz, Harry Lorayne Treasure Hunt Three of Diamonds used to find selection via multiple out
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Ryan Schlutz Stop Killing the Magic!
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Ryan Schlutz We Can't be all "Penn" Without Some "Teller" Chapter 5 intro
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Jeff Pierce, Ryan Schlutz The Untouchables
  • number of reds in one pile equals blacks in other pile
  • small packet OOTW with two spectators
  • two-card location with red black separation of packet
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Ryan Schlutz How to Print on Cards "Personalizing the Experience"
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Ryan Schlutz Schlouble inserting double safely into deck
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Ryan Schlutz KM Sandwich
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Ryan Schlutz Pocket Management Blank Template
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Data entered by Denis Behr, September 2016.