Let’s be honest, there’s nothing cooler in your card magician’s bag of tricks than making your audience think you’re mixing the deck when you’re really just having a cheeky laugh at their expense. If your spectators reckon those cards are getting a proper shuffle while you’re keeping them exactly where you want them, you can pull off some proper jaw-dropping miracles! This one skill can turn those self-working tricks into mind-bending feats of impossibility!
Now, there are a million ways to fake a shuffle or a cut, but don’t worry—this isn’t just another boring list of techniques. This is the crème de la crème, the golden nuggets that Liam Montier has painstakingly sifted through and tested for you. To make the cut (pun intended), each shuffle or cut had to be practical, utterly sneaky, and something you’d actually want to use!
These killer skills are within reach of any card handler (seriously, some are so simple you could do them in your sleep!) and you’ll be up and running in no time. Just mastering a couple of these techniques is a no-brainer, but the more you learn, the better you'll be at mixing and matching to create the undeniable illusion that you’re actually shuffling the deck. These are solid techniques—whether you're on the move doing walk-around magic or chilling at a coffee table with mates, you’ll have them all scratching their heads in disbelief!
And just to sweeten the deal, at the end of the project, you’ll also learn four incredible magic tricks, so you can hit the ground running and show off those new skills straight away!
FALSE SHUFFLES Overhand Shuffles Basic Overhand False Shuffles
Blind Shuffle
Ireland Shuffle
Running Cut Shuffle
Optical Shuffles Wiggle Woggle Shuffle
Optical Shuffle
Mike O'Dowd's Slop Shuffle
Stock Shuffles The Lift Shuffle
The Jog Shuffle
Swing Cut Shuffle
Bottom Stock Shuffle
Riffle Shuffles False Riffle Shuffles
The Push Through
The Triumph Shuffle
General Shuffles Charlier False Shuffle
Up The Ladder
FALSE CUTS Swing Cut
Swivel Cut
Charlier Cut
Bobby Bernard Cut
Jay Ose Cut
Tarbell 3 Way Cut
Royal Road Cut
Erdnase Cut
Frank Thompson Cut
The Cut
Owen Packard's Crane Beak Cut
John Bannon's Flytrap Cut
John Bannon's Crocodile Cut
Gary Ouellet Cut
Lewis Jones Cut
David Acer's The Trinary
Mini Sybil
THE TRICKS Paul Curry's THINK OF A CARD
John Bannon's SHOCK TREATMENT
Dai Vernon's TRIUMPH
Erdnase's WEIGH
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