Card Tricks and Brain Teasers

A Beginners and Intermediate’s Guide to Card Tricks, Puzzles and Brain Teasers of All Sorts

by Panayiotis Nestoros

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Card Tricks and Brain Teasers

A Beginners and Intermediate’s Guide to Card Tricks, Puzzles and Brain Teasers of All Sorts

by Panayiotis Nestoros

Published Dec 31, 2013
192 Pages
6 x 9 Color Paperback
Genre: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Magic


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Book Details


What every magician needs! From the amateur magician who wants to learn how to do a couple of cool tricks and be the talk amongst his friends, to the intermediate magician who wants to improve and expand on his arsenal of tricks, this book can do just that and much, much more.

No matter what situation you are in, prepared or not, you will learn enough tricks to amaze everyone in the room. Whether it's with your own deck of cards, which has been prepared in advance, or with a deck of cards you are handed over by your friends to prove if your skills are as good as you lead them to believe.

And as the card tricks start to get old, challenge your friends to some brain teasers and puzzles that will have them thinking for a very long time. So go on, see how far you can push your friends into believing that Magic ..... truly does exist!

 

Book Excerpt


To me, a card trick or a brain teaser is not just a way to impress and elude others, or a way to show off by figuring out a trick I've been shown; it's much more profound than that. To me, they are a way of opening up an entirely different way of thinking.

Tricks helped me improve my ability to think outside the box, not limit myself while searching for solutions, and trained me in using every bit of information given to me in order to understand how things work, not only for tricks but on a day to day basis with life.

Tricks are also a good way to prove to others that things they thought impossible are quite plausible. A simple card trick can leave even the most skeptical of spectators wondering how it happened and not only that; they might even beg you for the secret. Even more importantly, to me, a trick is the perfect way to put a smile on someone's face.

This book contains all the material I have ever learned and performed. Each trick is explained in a step-by-step procedure making it easier to follow, and the requirements for each trick are explained along the way.

 

About the Author

Panayiotis Nestoros

From a young age magic always fascinated me as I'm sure it did you; whether you admit it or not. Little did I know that I would soon grow up to find it as extensively useful as it is entertaining. At the age of sixteen, my devotion for magic turned primarily to cards and I eventually started performing to friends, family and, well, the mirror. So here's my story.

After ages of studying, studying and more studying, I realized that my brain had decided to retain almost nothing. So one day I decided to take a break and found myself watching numerous videos regarding magic tricks. Whilst watching, I challenged myself to solving and figuring out the methodology behind each trick and succeeded in doing so many times.

When I eventually returned to my studies, my brain began to associate and organize the topics at hand in a comprehensive manner. Hours later, I decided to take another break and watched a few more videos. Once again, I returned to my studying only to realize that not only was I absorbing the current information like a sponge, but I could still remember the information from my last break. My brain had somehow begun to reorganize and appropriate the material in accordance to its own manner of functioning.

Long story short, one year of high-school and four years of university later, after having watched countless videos and read books so as to learn the theories behind magic tricks and performances, I thought it was about time I did something to contribute to the magic world; and here it is.