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Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Card manipulation is often used to perform card tricks in magical performances, especially in close-up, parlor, and street magic. A person who practices card manipulation may be called a card sharp, card shark, or card mechanic.

Card manipulation techniques

• Dealing
  • Bottom dealing
  • Second dealing
• Shuffling
  • Faro shuffle
• False shuffling
  • Zarrow shuffle
• Palming
  • Back palm
  • Gambler's palm
  • Magician's palm
  • Tenkai palm
• Other techniques
  • Card marking
  • Double lift
  • Herrmann pass
  • Mechanic's grip
  • Si Stebbins stack
  • Trick decks

Named card tricks

• The Acme of Control
• Ambitious Card
• Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
• The Circus Card Trick
• The Four Burglars
• Out of This World
• Spelling Bee
• Twenty-One Card Trick

Other related concepts

• Card throwing
• Cardistry

v t e Magic and illusion
General	Assistants Clubs Conventions Exposure Stores
Genres	Bizarre Card (techniques) Cardistry (history) Children's Close-up magic Coin Escapology Gospel Mathemagic Mental Platform Séance Stage Street
Tricks and techniques	Levitation Equivocation Misdirection Sleight of hand Pepper's ghost
Guidebooks	The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) Modern Magic (1876) The Expert at the Card Table (1902) Tarbell Course (1928–) Thirteen Steps to Mentalism (1961) Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic (1975) Conjuring (1992)
Periodicals	Abracadabra Genii Hugard's Magic Monthly The Jinx The Linking Ring Magic Magigram Mahatma Smoke & Mirrors The Sphinx
Lists	Conjuring terms Films about magicians Magicians Museums Publications Timeline Tricks
Related	Indian magicians Midnight ghost show

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