Cards on the Table by Jerry Sadowitz

This was Jerry’s first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven’t read any of Jerry’s material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians.

The book opens with “Fetch”, an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. Or what about “A Million to One” in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you really want to fry brains, try “The Backward Card Trick” – it looks very weird.

There’s a special section on pre-determined estimation – a devastating principle. It allows for genuinely impossible looking card locations, and no matter how well versed you are you’ll be unable to reconstruct the method.

Finally, Jerry presents Name a Card Triumph. With this you can produce any card named within seconds.

Cards on the Table contains 25 items in all, top class card magic by Jerry Sadowitz.

1st edition 1989; 2nd edition 2003 (105 pages).

Table of Contents

3. CONTENTS
4. FOREWORD
4. DEDICATION 
5. CHAPTER ONE
5. Fetch!
6. Side Slip and Turnover
8. Jack Hodes
9. A Million to One
13. Aces in Kings
14. The Backward Card Trick
15. Slop Shuffle Variation
18. The Last Laugh 
20. CHAPTER TWO
20. Consolation
21. No Questions Asked
23. Thanks to Hofzinser
26. The Healers
28. Split Marriages
32. Broken Hearts
35. Ambitious Spots
37. Ambitious Spots 11
39. The Card that doesn’t go to Pocket 
43. CHAPTER THREE
43. Delayed Elias
44. Palm Switch
45. Shuffle Reverse
47. Jog Palm 
49. CHAPTER FOUR
49. Basic Discovery
49. Wilder
51. Tears in Rain 
54. CHAPTER FIVE
54. Name a Card Triumph 
61. FINAL NOTES