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This marvelous treasury of card magic presents the exact details of 155 professional card tricks -- none of them requiring sleight-of-hand dexterity -- assembled by the world's number-one card wizard, John Scarne. An authority on gambling and card tricks, Scarne won renown for teaching professional gamblers how to sharpen their skills and avoid being fleeced. For this collection of mystifying and effective maneuvers, he assembled an exciting series of original effects and classic card tricks, reworked to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand.
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Here is everything you've ever wanted to know about the histories and variations of the world's most popular card games.

"Mr. Scarne was not one who, when the boys rode off to war, gave them good advice, chocolate bars, or woolen underwear. Rather he took the men aside, first singly and then in groups, warning that if they like to gamble with dice and cards they were heading for an Army and a Navy abounding in plain and fancy sharpers and crooks. Then, from his incomparable knowledge of the subject, he instructed in spotting such crooked gentry and, if necessary, exposing them.

"In due time Mr. Scarne's activities around his New Jersey home became of interest to the editors of Yank, the Army weekly....