Aldo Colombini – Knock-Outs

Discover ten innovative packet tricks using standard playing cards that require no preparation. Here’s what you’ll learn:

• The First Hotel Mystery (Nick Trost): Two Queens are placed side by side, and four Kings are added to create two three-card packets. In the end, the Queens and Kings are separated into distinct piles!
• Alternating Current (Norman Houghton): Four cards are laid face down, with four face-up cards on top. Watch as they magically alternate between face up and face down!
• Dazzler Mark One Million (Paul Gordon): After shuffling cards face up and face down, spectators remember six cards. Ultimately, only those six remain face up, revealing a Royal Flush!
• Auto Gambler (Karl Fulves): From a shuffled packet, a four-of-a-kind is revealed. Simple yet impressive!
• Over Under Spell (Jack Avis): Four Jacks are lost in a twelve-card packet, but they are found one by one, culminating in a surprising twist!
• The Peak (Aldo Colombini): The four Queens and Kings are shuffled together, yet spectators successfully pair them by suit!
• Name It (Joe Riding): From a selection of ten cards, you reveal a freely chosen card!
• Three to Two Poker (Howard Adams): In this unique poker game, two spectators each select three cards, leaving you with two that form the highest hand!
• Black September (Peter Duffie): Two red Kings with a red Ace between them and two black Kings with a black Ace. Watch as the selected Kings rise magically, and the Aces switch places!
• Bop Aces (Max Maven): An extension of Peter Kane’s “Jazz Aces,” where the Aces swap places with four indifferent cards!