Top 5 Impromptu Card Tricks?

[Shanku]

What are your top 5 favourite, hard hitting, impromptu effects?

[madisen]

These I like:

Time Machine by Steve Freeman - easy hard hitter
Impromptu Rising Card - fools magicians
Ambitious Card Routine - has become a classic, great trick
Penalty Box - One of my favourite Sankey trick
3 card monte - New York, here I come!

[socter]

1. Biddle Trick - Simple Trick. Magic happens in their hands and transposition happens from your hands to theirs

2. a logical lesson - this requires some set-up. However, the reaction is better than all the other tricks that i have stated

3. Influential (original trick) - 4 jokers are shown. one visually changes into their card. Next, the other three are placed into the spectators hand where they change to a four of a kind. You are left absolutely clean. The deck is given to the spectator to hold throughout. No gimmicks are used. However, there is small set-up involved and 4 jokers are needed to make it look realistic

4. 2 card monte - Again magic happens in their hands and ends unexpectedly. (requires little set-up)

5. Among the discards - nice 'sandwich' trick where the sandwich occurs at unexpected place

[Gimmickless]

Stand up/Street

Subway - Bucks
Queens - Bucks
Ambitious - Lots of people
Biddle - Elmer Biddle
Back In Time - Sankey I think

Table

Reset (Repro Retro) - Bebel
Jacksyna(ps)ces - Ernest Earick
Sandwich Routine - Robbie Moreland
Mary Kate & Ashley - Brett Bishop
Invisible Palm - Larry Jennings

Edited: thanks socter

[socter]

Elmer Biddle invented the biddle trick. Originally named biddled across. Dick Ferguson also came up with the same trick and named it wow

[Djmckee]

Like He Sed, Haha

[Jordan Lapping]

Here's a few from the "impromptu list" that I perform on a regular basis:

Asher Twist – Lee Asher
Easy Ace Estimation - Creator undefined to my knowledge
Repro Retro - Bebel
Biddle Across Variation - Bebel
Everywhere & Nowhere - Bebel

Take care,
Jordan

[Studentz]

Hi everyone,

Repro retro - Bebel.
Biddle across varation - Bebel.
Everywhere & nowhere - Bebel.
Impromptu 3 card monte also known as "color monte" - Bebel.
Sandwich routine - Me.

M.

[zeanator3581]

i only have one card trick that isn't impromptu and it uses a double facer, but i have so many that i couldn't list them but my #1 favorite is jumping gemini

[y2john]

I'll list 5 impromptu ones I like, but there are lots more

I'll name 5 that have not yet been mentioned so as to help get a greater variety of effects

Thought of cards across- Christopher Williams and Gary Jones's versions.
James Brown also has a great version called Brainless Travelers.

Card to pocket- James Browns version

Catalyst- Signed card transpo by Peter Harrison

Back to basics- Peter Harrison effect/routine

FU2- T&R by Sean Fields

[joshua barrett]

impromptu i do either john bannons secrets and mysterys routine
less time somthing similar to james browns cards opener

[y2john]

James Brown's card opener is a great piece

I think most of his stuff from Still Fancy a Pot of Jam is great material

[Tempest]

The Trick That Can't Be Explained - Dai Vernon
P.H. Invisible Palm - Paul Harris
Card to Mouth - Not sure of the certain version
Hedberg's Peak - Dan and Dave
Deja Vu - Dan and Dave

I'm really digging D&D's new Trilogy, good stuff.

[Dills]

Simple Switch P.H
Card to Pocket
coin matrix (using cards):rolleyes:
card under glass
invisible palm P.H.

[Tempest]

Simple Switch P.H
Card to Pocket
coin matrix (using cards):rolleyes:
card under glass
invisible palm P.H.


I forgot Simple Switch! : (

|| sean ||

[The Dark Angel]

Stigmata
Sinful
ACR
Liquid Metal
Greed

[wpt1031]

In no particular order

1.Triumph
2.Dr. Daleys Last Trick
3. Biddle Trick
4. Ambitious Card
5. Invisible Palm

[Jordan Lapping]

The Trick That Can't Be Explained - Dai Vernon

It's nice to know that someone uses this, I think it's great. The only downside for me is that I personally I don't have the guts to perform it without looking an idiot; my ideal routines to use are ones that are "scripted" (as are most).

Anyway, good choice man,

Jordan

[Denon]

Whack your PACK!!!
Lennart Green's Card Matrix.

[socter]

Whack your PACK!!!
Lennart Green's Card Matrix.

card matrix? where is that taught? Is it on his Green Magic series?

[garrett94]

1. Biddle Trick
2. Deja Vu
3. Steve Freeman's Time Machine
4. Tivo 2.0
5. Tivo

[Blindside462]

Kaos

Stigmata

Card Opener by James Brown

Brainless Travellers by James Brown

Tivo 2.0

[TheDude]

Strongest Effects that are dead simple you can do in your sleep:

Sandwhich effect. My own variation..make sure each faze gets increasingl inpossible.

Biddle trick..I like to get the "5" cards and say was it... no wait .. until i say there cards name they say yes..then tent vanish any one of the 4 cards and it hightesns the effect massively.

Standing Challenge By Aaron Fisher..This is in his book The Paper Engine and is deffinetly a magician fooler. So completely fries lay people i highly recomment you pick up his book its awesome.

Buffaload- An erdnase idea with suprise ending..This is the cleanest 2 card tranposition iv ever seen and i love performing it..It fries magicians and uses no duplicates. Seriously clever.


52 to 1. Dunno whose this is by but still an awesome different effect where they select a card its returned and shuffles. then u deal one card to the spectator and 1 to you alternatly till no cards are left. Then again u deal from your piles alternatly half each so they have 39 now u only have 13. keep doing this till you only have 1 and they have 51. What are the odds you have they card? Well you do. Killer trick


Regards, The Dude

[sidrohc]

I am surprised Stigmata has only been posted once. Anyway, that is my top 1.

[kissdadookie]

Biddle trick.
Ambitious card.
Any good sandwich effect especially if it's in their hands.
Any good card switch from spectator's hand.
The variation on the selection transportation to a 4 of a kind which I like a lot (done in the spectator's hand) which I learned off of James Brown's Still Fancy a Pot of Jam (it's called Diminishing Cards or something like that, it uses the Diminishing Lift sequence).

[Denon]

card matrix? where is that taught? Is it on his Green Magic series?

I learnt it straight from Lennart during the Melbourne magic convention.
I assume that it's on one of his DVDs also tho.
He is a great guy, one of the most approachable and down to earth genius' there are about the place I'd say.


Just imagine a coin matrix, but revesed.
you put the cards under the coins.

[dancedany]

1.A trick i camed up with(i hope it's original <---> i do a spread,...a spectator chooses a card(any card) then he inserts it back into the deck.I slap the deck and instanly all the cards in the deck turn face up, only he's card remains face down...and i end up totaly clean.
2.Ambitious card routine.
3.KAOS - i forgot who invented it
4.STIGMATA by Wayne Houchin
5.Any force can be turned into a great trick.There are a million posibilities.

[Dills]

Dancedany make sure you check your crediting on Kaos. It is not Daniel Garcia's and I warn you because its creator is on these forums.

And for the creator...you can never forget simple switch!

[Timj32]

Hmmm.... Lets see...

1. ACR
2. Biddle trick
3. Anniversary waltz
4. The dance of the cannibals
5. The whistle

These are the ones I tend to use a lot.

Tim

[Brundo]

Ultimate Transpo

Biddle Trick

Subway

Tivo Transpo

Ambitious Card


-Brundo

[mousquebiere]

Here's my 2 cents on this topic :

- Triumph, definitively one of my best reaction getters !
- 4, 5, 6 packet trick in Sal Piacente's expert card magic lecture notes. Looks absolutely impossible ! (quite similar to Devastation on Geoff William's "Miracles for Mortals", but stronger in my opinion).
- The eye of Stonehenge by Lennart Green
- Stigmata by W:H of course, so simple to perform and yet SO hard hitting
- KAOS, by Sean Beard...WOW a signed CTW which is also impomptu !!! Could you ask for more ?

I didn't mention it here, as it requires a pen to sign a card, flash paper and a lighter (not so impromptu, so a bit off topic, but appart from that "The Phoenix Effect" from Jay Sankey is unbelievable !)

[Tricky Nicky]

-Biddle Trick
-Be Honest, Where Is It?
-Dr. Daley's Last Trick
-Hot Shot Cut
-Razzle Dazzle Cut

[jedijames]

Hello.
I am looking for a trick called Mary Kate & Ashley - Brett Bishop.
I can't find it.
Where can I see or read this perormance?
I have never heard about this trick.
Hope you can help:)

[awimagic]

Hello.
I am looking for a trick called Mary Kate & Ashley - Brett Bishop.
I can't find it.
Where can I see or read this perormance?
I have never heard about this trick.
Hope you can help:)

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXf-StyKAa0

[kino]

what does impromptu mean?...what is impromptu?

[Blindside462]

what does impromptu mean?...what is impromptu?
1. Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance: an impromptu party.
2. Spoken, performed, done, or composed with little or no preparation; extemporaneous: a few impromptu remarks. See Synonyms at extemporaneous.


adv. With little or no preparation; extemporaneously.

[Twozwozer]

Dancedany make sure you check your crediting on Kaos. It is not Daniel Garcia's and I warn you because its creator is on these forums.

And for the creator...you can never forget simple switch!

Well He worked with Sean Beard to create the new effect, so you could say Co-creator.

My Favorite tricks on the spot.

ACR
Weighted Ace - Greg Wilson
Time Machine - Not Sure
Snow Flake (I think, taught on David Stone's DVD, the one where the deck disappears and your left with 4 cards)
2CM
The Joker reveale (Joker in Ghost Deck)


Cheers, Tom

[Cody Fisher]

Two words:

Paul Cummins

The stuff in FASDIU 1 and 2 is just as the name implies, from a shuffled deck in use, and some of the most hard hitting and practical material one can find anywhere.

I use quite a few things from these works on a regular basis.

Cody

[rebekah]

Hi folks, I want to learn magic card tricks. Actually I want to take this as a profession and I want to earn money through this. I know a decent number of card tricks and I'm pretty good at them, but now I'd like to turn that into some cash. I don't want to do "magic shows" for kid’s parties or corporate events; I just want to do card tricks for people on the street. How can I make money with card tricks?

[Bijlogg]

It's virtually impossible to earn good money by doing card tricks for people you walk up to on the street. I would suggest you get a proper job and keep magic as your hobby. It's much more fun that way around.

Tom

[aznofspades]

Ambitious Card Routine
Card to Pocket-Francis Carlyle, Darwin Ortiz, Jay Sankey
Big Time Las Vegas Leaper-Paul Harris
Stigmata- Wayne Houchin/ Banachek

Ninja Transpo-loosely based on Backlash (Paul Harris), Lapse (Daniel Madison), and 2 Card Monte (David Blaine/ Eddie Fechter)

You guys made me really want to get James Brown's DVD!

[brainblower]

Biddle trick
Ambitious card
Back in time - Jay Sankey
Waving aces
Sandwitch

[Ravi]

Several mentioned Reset (Repro Retro) by Bebel.

Can you tell me where I can see some of his work or where I can learn this trick?

Thanks in advance.


R.

[magicman1212]

Sandwich Routine
Biddle Trick
Invisible Palm
Punk'd
2 Card Monte

[vernonfanatic]

1. twisting the aces
2. dr daley's last trick
3. triumph
4. reset (several versions)
5. biddle trick

[brklynmutt]

The Queens - Bucks
Ambitious Card
Criterion - Chad Nelson
Elevation - Joshua Jay
Back in Time - Jay Sankey/Joshua Jay variant

[druix]

It's virtually impossible to earn good money by doing card tricks for people you walk up to on the street. I would suggest you get a proper job and keep magic as your hobby. It's much more fun that way around.

Tom

I'd have to disagree with you here. I know many people who make more busking than I make at my job, and actually make their living off of it. (though my business income is more than both, hehe). I'd have to say get some experience on the streets and work on your presentation. As far as actually making money, there are plenty of threads here that explain it. (if not here, then I know Ellusionist's forums do)

Anyway, not to get off topic, my top 5 are, in no particular order...

ACR
Out of Sight
A trick I created that has yet to be named
2CM
Sinful (I know it's not a card trick, but with how much I love it, I had to add it)

planning on getting Stigmata and Indecent soon, and with how much I like watching them, I'll probably like doing them and add them to my "top 5" list.

[Ravi]

Noone out there who can tell me where to find some routines fom Bebel?

It has been mentioned several times but I never heard of him.


Thanks,


R.

[ramosynthesis]

As of my current knowledge :p, I'd say:

1 - Ambitious Card Routine
2 - Two Card Transpo
3 - Two Card Monte
4 - Stigmata
5 - Card to Mouth :D

[The_other73]

Wow guys... you guys are missing possibly the best trick ever created.... 21 Card Trick FTW!!!:D. Can't answer the question at the moment. Only a beginner here...

[copperfield 14]

Anything from by forces unseen.

[Monkeyofmanipulation]

Impromto is tricky at first but such a huge lesson for performers.

My CUrrent top 5 are:

1. Keshian crossover (my own)
2. Twistz (Rory schlimer)
3. Ambitous card (hehe i dont actually know...practically everyone)
4.card to mouth ( i think this is possibly the cheekiest and simplest card trick i know)
5. Spiral flux (me)

One nice touch that with practise canbe made into a half decent trick is simply palming the deck. At first i was like "are you serious? people are not that dumb" it is not a question of inteligence. It is how well YOU do it. I often use it to "blag" past people if i dont wantto perform. I say like i lost my cards or..they keep moving... try it.....

oh my goodness i blabbered far to much.

-Jon

[Urbanus]

My 5 are:

* Serendipity
* Twisting the Aces
* 5Xspeed
* Among the Discards
* Matching the Cards

[Cushing0]

if someone asks 'show me some card tricks' I just throw out a few of the following

transpo
biddle trick
two card monte #(i always get good reactions from this for some reason)
hofzy
but before hofzy I do a DM 4 ace production taughht on the dangerous dvd that links nicely

and maybe lapse

[PjPinsonnault]

Easy Ace Estimation - Creator undefined to my knowledge

This effect is credited to Paul Gordon from his book Nocturnal Creations, and I believe it's originally Ed Marlo's.

The main workers from my repertoire:
1) My collectors routine, Copperfield Aces.
2) Ambitious Card
3) Card to spectator's shoe
4) Liar- an effect of mine I perform all the time.
5) Paperclipped

Pj

[Jack The Magician]

My current top-5 impromptu card tricks:
1. Believe
2. Blow (aka Card to Pocket Transposition)
3. Biddle Trick
4. Invisible Palm
4. Bad Influence
5. ACR

Cheers,
JTM

[Bonnermagic]

I know a lot of impromptu card stuff...
-Twisting the Aces (Vernon)
-Dr. Daley's last trick (Daley)
-Ambitious Card w/ paperclipped (Sankey) or card to wallet
-Card Warp (Roy Walton)
-My handling of "Out-Standing Triumph"(Jennings) as well as my own original handling of triumph
-Las Vegas Leaper (Paul Harris)
-Ambitious Classic (Jennings)
-Stigmata (Wayne Houchin and Banachek)
-The Moving Pencil (Harry Loranyne)
-Lazy Man's Card trick (Al Koran)
-Ghost (David Stone and others)
-Biddle Trick (Biddle)
-My handling of "The Apex Ace"(Frank Garcia)
-Funny Business (Iain Moran I believe)
-Re-set (Paul Harris)
-That's It (Eddie Fechter)
-2 Card Monte (Eddie Fechter)
-Reading their mind via a force
-Thought of Card to Pocket (Benjamin Earl)
-Super Swindle (Paul Harris)
-Subway (Buck Twins)
-Cardician's Blendo (Paul Harris)

-Alex

[ramosynthesis]

*Update* LOL

1. Stigmata
2. Beleive
3. Ambitious Card Routine
4. Card to Mouth
5. Two Card Transpo

;)

[Shanku]

I know a lot of impromptu card stuff...
-Twisting the Aces (Vernon)
-Dr. Daley's last trick (Daley)
-Ambitious Card w/ paperclipped (Sankey) or card to wallet
-Card Warp (Roy Walton)
-My handling of "Out-Standing Triumph"(Jennings) as well as my own original handling of triumph
-Las Vegas Leaper (Paul Harris)
-Ambitious Classic (Jennings)
-Stigmata (Wayne Houchin and Banachek)
-The Moving Pencil (Harry Loranyne)
-Lazy Man's Card trick (Al Koran)
-Ghost (David Stone and others)
-Biddle Trick (Biddle)
-My handling of "The Apex Ace"(Frank Garcia)
-Funny Business (Iain Moran I believe)
-Re-set (Paul Harris)
-That's It (Eddie Fechter)
-2 Card Monte (Eddie Fechter)
-Reading their mind via a force
-Thought of Card to Pocket (Benjamin Earl)
-Super Swindle (Paul Harris)
-Subway (Buck Twins)
-Cardician's Blendo (Paul Harris)

-Alex

So much for "top 5"...:D
You could last the whole night (giggity giggity giggity) with that set!

[magicman2292]

Stigmata
Sinful
ACR
Liquid Metal
Greed


Danny Garcia's Greed?

Thats not Impromptu...

[The Dark Angel]

Danny Garcia's Greed?

Thats not Impromptu...

I don't remember making this post, but apparently I thought it was. Obviously, I am wrong. :(

TDA

[Deechristopher]

I love impromptu stuff - It's so much fun. I always have a deck of cards on me with at least one dupe floating around to do a nice transpo, but as for 'borrowed deck' territory, I'd say:

- Stigmata
- Cold
- Broken Wings
- A mex. turnover routine
- Cinders

Fun :D

D.

[Shanku]

Danny Garcia's Greed?

Thats not Impromptu...

It is if you carry it in your wallet all the time... But in the sense of the meaning of "impromptu" for this thread, no, it's not impromptu.

[52 card pickup]

I love doing the invisble card as presented in card college very powerful easy effect

[Dima]

I love doing the invisble card as presented in card college very powerful easy effect

What volume may i ask?

[Shanku]

What volume may i ask?

The Invisible card effect can be found in Volume 3 of Roberto Giobbi's Card College series.

[52 card pickup]

Yea volume 3 first chapter last effect its and awsome effect as well as time machine in that same volume

[Tumbleweed]

5? Hmmmm
1. Stigmata wins
2. Card in hand rocks my world
3. Dramatic, made it almost a year ago.
4. Something improvised with a double lift
5. Invisible Reverse (which is impromptu with my set up speed, I think I hold the world record at 3 seconds)
By the way Shanku, you must be proud of your thread here, looks like it'll be up on top after a year.

[DamageINC]

1. Own created sandwich routine
2.biddle
3.Triumph
4.Lapse
5.own created card transformition

[Cringe Magic22]

1. stigmata
2. believe
3. shapeshifter
4. kaos
5. 1/2 vanish

these are the thing i practice most i know a lot of people here would disigree with me though.

[sayanika]

Hello everyone, I once saw a video of David Blaine pulling his heart out (on a TV show). It looked incredibly realistic. I suspect he used latex or something to cover up his body but the fingers went pretty deep inside and the heart coming out looked very real. How did he do that? Any clues on how he did that? Thanks a lot in advance for any real reference.

[Joey144]

1. Benjamin earls Collectors 2
2. my own triumph routine
3. A very simple and short sandwich routine
4. A in the hands four card production sequence ala Ricky Jay
5. A quick mindreading effect I came up with/ steve freemans Time Machine

[datskanars]

in random order
1 stigmata-wayne houchin,(banacheck)
2 indecent-wayne houchin
3 lapse DM
4 my version of collectors(a mix of D&D- queens,Nathan Kranzo-Double sandwich,DM colt45 and DM-falling. took something from each and added the collectors plot)
5 Believe-joel paschall

[bcp on pcp]

The 5 that I like are pretty much classics
1. ACR- Dai Vernon
2. Biddle trick
3. Triumph- Dai strikes again
4. I don't know the name for this one, but it requires "set up" but you call the set up "predictions" basically you lay down for prediction cards, have the spectator choose a card, and then go through the prediction cards asking questions about their cards, and then reveal the last prediction to be their signed card- I believe it was made by Columbini
5. Card to Pocket-IDK who the genius was that made this

[Dima]

Yea volume 3 first chapter last effect its and awsome effect as well as time machine in that same volume

Thanks men

[CJ11]

In no particular order:
Punk'd - Kevin Ho
Hand to Mouth - Dan and Dave
Edge - Justin Miller
Tivo 2.0 - Dan and Dave
Collector’s Edition - Syd Segal

[stephenprayogo]

In no particular order:
-Stigmata (W:H & Banacheck)
-Triumph
-ACR
-Invisible Palm
-Indecent (W:H)

[taychenghong]

1. Stigmata by Wayne Houchin

2. Triumph

3. Ambitious Card Routine

4. Bad Influence (From Daniel Madison's Dangerous)

5. Shifty by Chris Kenner

[DavidMisner]

In no particular order, I'd go with:

Stigmata: Wayne Houchin
Hand to Mouth: Dan and Dave Buck
Ego: Daniel Garcia
Minority: David Misner
Unnamed Sandwich/ Transpo/ Prediction Effect: David Misner

If I can't include my own, I'd throw in Ben Earl's Ace Assembly, Syd Segal's Collectors Edition, and the Easy Ace Estimation.

David

[greeney]

Hmmm... my most commonly performed would probably be the basic stuff you learn just starting out (tyvm Brad Christian). So, not including those obvious routines like ACR, 2CM, Biddle, etc., then a couple are (in no particular order):
Half vanish, DM - very recently saw it & realised how cool it looks
Card to pocket - usually I cop it though, my classic palm sucks
Hand to mouth, D&D - scares the hell out of people
Random card force/prediction/mind reading - always worth a try
Gambling routine