sleightless.

Self-working card magic, explained properly.

Tricks that need no sleight of hand — laid out so you can deal along on screen, and explained so you understand why they work rather than only what to do.

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Deal along on screen

The 21 Card Trick

Somebody chooses one of twenty-one cards. You only ever ask which pile it is in, and you find it. Deal it through here and watch the possibilities fall from twenty-one to one — then learn why their card is always the middle of the last pile.

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Out of This World

Someone calls red or black for card after card, face down, and gets every one right. Call them yourself, then see why one of the two lines always comes out exactly backwards.

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The Si Stebbins Stack

A deck in a secret order that looks shuffled. Two small sums give you the card under any card named, and where any card sits. Work it out here against the real arithmetic, then drill it without the sums in front of you.

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Writing

Notes on method, memory and practice — what makes a trick performable rather than merely known.

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