Trick Terminology (N-Z)

One Way Deck -- Here is a deck that you dont have to buy, you arrange the
back of the deck pictures all the same way and when the spectator picks his
card just switch the deck around. Then it is s the only one that is backwards.
No more fake shuffles!
Overhand Shuffle -- A shuffle where you hold the cards in your right hand
and you pull them off a few at a time into your left hand.
Palming a Card -- Method of concealing a card. Click on title for
complete description.
Pass -- A sleight.
Patter -- The talk a magician uses to accompany a trick.
Reversed Card -- Any card that is face up in a face-down pack (or faced
down in a face-up pack).
Riffle Shuffle -- Common shuffle, used often. Click on title for complete
description.
Sandwiched Card -- Any card that is placed, or located, between two other
pre- designated cards.
Self-Working Tricks -- Tricks that don't require sleight of hand.
Shuffle -- The process of mixing a deck of cards
Slip Force -- Quick Force. Click on title for complete description.
Spot Cards -- Any card from ace through ten in any suit.
Springing Cards -- A flourish in which you bend the cards, let go, and catch
them with the other hand
Stranger Cards -- Not a card that's extra weird. A Stranger Card is a card
taken from another deck, and added to the deck you're using. This allows you
to perform many tricks in a much more mystifying way. For instance, cards
inserted into the middle of the deck can be made to instantly reappear on the
top or bottom. (See: The Teleporting Card in the Easy Trick index.) Some
Stranger Cards are specially manufactured, to make things happen that
couldn't, otherwise. A good example is the gag card made to look like a Threeand-
a-half of Clubs! (You can find these at your local Magic store, and many
novelty shops.)
Stripper -- This deck is cut in sort of a subtle 'trianglar' shape. meaning the
top is wider than the bottom. therefore, if a card is place in upside down, the
wider end of the card now matches with the decks lower end, thus making it
easy to locate or even slip the card right out of the middle of the deck. Click
on title for complete description.
*Svengali -- The Svengali Deck consists of 26 ordinary cards, all different,
and 26 short cards all of the same suit and value. The latter may be narrower
as well as shorter, but short duplicates only are generally used. The pack is set
up by arranging the two sets alternately, thus every other card from the top is
a card of the same suit and value. Click on title for complete description.
Switch -- A sleight or move in which one object is secretly substitued for
another.
Vegas Shuffle -- The vegas shuffle is the same as the reno shuffle when you
cut the deck into two piles and with your thumbs merge them together. It is
the same except you only merge the two piles in the corners, and then you
straighten them out..
Vanish -- The act of making an object suddenly become nonexistent.

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