A stacked deck is an incredible powerful tool for the magician. A memorized deck is for the most part committing a particular order of cards to memory. It will require work, practice and frequent use to keep remembering the stack. For systems of how to do this see our Memory & Mnemonics category.

An algorithmic stack allows one to calculate the card value (either the next card or a card at a particular position in the deck) without having to memorize an entire deck. The most famous such stack is Si Stebbins. Each method has its pros and cons. Try them out and see what works best for you.

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Simon's collected early works, compiled in one volume. Contains the complete texts of his first three books, The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson (1978), A Stack to Remember (1979) and Shuffle-bored (1980).

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Psychic Card Revelations

Devin Knight
Effect: Two people each select a card. The performer then shuffles the deck by giving it a riffle shuffle. The spectators take the deck and returned the cards with the deck in their own hands in such a manner that there can be no suspicion of trickery. The two cards are not forced.

The performer now spreads the deck face up on the table so all the faces are in full view. The first card is found by contact mindreading (apparently). The first spectator holds the performer's wrist while he moves his fingers over the face up cards. Suddenly, the performer's finger drops down on a card and it..

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Hold'em Poker Stacked Decks

Bruce Carlley
You will learn stacks for 2 - 10 players which allow you to do the following:

Presentation: Bring out the card case and remove the cards. Briefly show the cards and hand the deck to one of the players. Have them cut the deck. And cut again. State that you think he (or she) is lucky and let them deal. He deals and he wins! They have no explanation. He cut the cards and dealt and you did not touch the deck after he cut the cards.

1st edition 2019, 16 pages.

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King Stack

Unknown Mentalist
The King Stack is a cyclical stack. Probably the world's easiest cyclical stack to date. As easy as the Si Stebbins stack. But much more random looking for both values and suits. If you can add 1 and 2 then you can instantly learn the King Stack, it is that simple and easy. It should not take more than 3 minutes to actually fully learn it. The real core principle of this stack can be explained in just 2-3 sentences. It is that simpleand yet looks fairly random.

The King Stack is so named because the Kings have a special place in this stack and play a key role. A hidden beauty of the ..

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Si Stebbins Card Routine

Gene Anderson
An apparent demonstration of total card mastery, this series of card effects entertains and baffles a lay audience. The magician names missing cards by glancing at a riffling pack, listens to the riffling cards to count packets or locate any card, and detects truth from lies by spelling with the cards.

1st edition 1988, 5 pages; PDF 6 pages.

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The Expositor

William Frederick Pinchbeck
A series of letters, between an unidentified friend and his correspondent (William Frederick Pinchbeck) comprising of how to train a pig, invisible lady and acoustic temple, philosophical swan, penetrating spy glasses, several magic tricks, such as how to catch a bullet, and reflections on ventriloquism.

This book includes the first known description of the 'Eight Kings' card stack.

  1. Method of teach the Pig – from Letter I. to IX. See also Letter V. Appendix
  2. Principles of the Acoustic Temple – from Letter IX. To XIV. See also Letter II. Appendix.
  3. A Demonstration of the philosophical..
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Ten Mystifying Card Tricks

Hugh R. Johnston
Easy to learn, hard to detect. A booklet of routines that use the Si Stebbins stack.

This is an early publication by Hugh Johnston predating his larger Modern Card Miracles by several years. Includes research on its likely publication date by Chris Wasshuber.

  • The Secret
  • Rapid Counting
  • Weighing the Cards
  • To Tell the Center Card of Pack
  • To Locate Any Card Called For
  • To Have the Joker Tell You What Card is Drawn
  • To Tell the Number and Suit Of As Many Cards As Are Drawn
  • To Tell Card That Is Drawn While Blindfolded
  • To Cut the Cards in Three Heaps and Tell Bottom Card of Each Heap
  • Reading the Cards
  • To Have Pack Cut and Name Bottom..
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Optik Deck

Unknown Mentalist
Optic Deck is an optical/visual memorized deck. You 'see' a number 1-52 in your mind's eye and you 'optically' or visually know what card is at that number. Similarly you 'see' any card in your mind's eye and you again 'optically' know what position the card is at.

The stack looks very random, the suits look random, there is no red/black alternating pattern and even after reasonable scrutiny it would be almost impossible to spot a sequence, because there is none. Even magicians after being told that there is a stack involved will find it extremely difficult to spot the stack.

This is a..

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Modern Card Miracles

Hugh R. Johnston & F. B. Sterling
A complete card-act with patter.

This ebook describes moves and routines for a stacked deck. The authors are using the Si Stebbins stack, but most of what is taught applies to other stacks, memorized or algorithmic. At the very end a simply two person code is taught.

Dornfield, President of the Chicago Society of Magicians writes in The Sphinx magazine, November 1919 page 209:

'On the same program, Hugh Johnston put over his line of incomprehensible sliders and puzzlers. The way that fellow can make a card or a whole deck do his bidding is nothing short of miraculous. He is at present busily engaged in conducting the only..
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Mnemonica for Everybody

Geoff Williams
Mnemonica for Everybody is a streamlined, graphical method for easily and quickly learning the Tamariz stack.

It's the same Peg Memory System (PMS) I developed that I used to learn the Aronson Stack in an hour while driving. BTW, this same technique works great for every memorized stack out there including the Aronson Stack, The Six-Hour Memorized Deck by Martin Joyal, the Nikola stack and others.

Even though there are no actual tricks taught in this manuscript, it does contain links to several free memorized deck tricks and other resources (including a free e-book from Simon Aronson).

Please refer to the writings..

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Lucky Deck

Unknown Mentalist
This is a combo of 2 ebooks. Lucky Deck and Suit Order Systems Vol. 5.

Lucky Deck is a very special stack. Because this arrangement of the deck can be used both as a memorized deck and/or as a cyclical stack. Both the values and suits look fairly random. Just by learning 3 simple and easy rules, you will be able to pick up the entire stack within no time. Probably by the time you finish reading this manuscript, you should be able to pick up this stack.

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Given any position, you will be able to name the card and vice versa. Also given any card, you will be able to get the next card as well..

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Recycling Stebbins Again

Steve Sanders
More fun with the original Si Stebbins Stacked deck. Contains an explanation of the original Si Stebbins stack and how to set up any deck of cards in that order.

Four different effects using the stack:

Kind of a Four
The spectator chooses a card and the performer prognosticates what that card is by looking at 'indicator' cards. Eventually, the 'indicator' cards are shown to be the three 'mates', matching the value of the chosen card, making four of a kind in all.

Curried Stebbins
A version of Paul Curry'sOut of this World where two spectators randomly pick cards and it transpires that one spectator chose all..

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Si-Step

Steve Sanders
Si-Step is a system which enables you to know what card is at a given position in the deck or get the position of any named card. Specially developed for the original Stebbins Stack and for people who do not like mental arithmetic.

It was originally published in 2014 in Recycled Stebbins.

PDF 8 pages.

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Jack's Pack

Jack Yates
Jack Yates was a very clever and innovative magician who has somehow stayed below the radar and is completely unknown - undeservedly so - to many particularly in the US. Jack's Pack is a clever stacking method for finding any card in a deck by way of using numbers, names, words, etc.

Edited and with additional notes by Ken de Courcy.

1st edition 1978, 8 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, PDF 10 pages.

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Aronson Stack for Everybody

Geoff Williams
In 1979, Simon Aronson gave the world of magic an incredible tool - A Stack To Remember - which has come to be known as the 'Aronson stack,' a seemingly random arrangement of cards that has amazing miracle properties built into it.

Many magicians have avoided adding memorized deck work to their repertoires because of the daunting task of committing a stacked deck to memory. Struggling to grasp the associations of the cards and their locations within the stack, most quit after a few hours or days. I was the same way.. until a Harry Anderson manuscript got me to thinking about how to make..

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Si Stebbins Bundle

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Stack Bundle

Unknown Mentalist
  • Bonus: Anatomic Stack
'You are unbelievably fantastic and ripe with GREAT ideas' - Marc Salem

'His passion for stacked decks is so big that also with this release he gives us demonstration of his ability to combine two well known principles in one! Making all easy and at the same time hiding the secrets even more. I wish him continued success!' - Luca Volpe

'I'm surprised that no one has thought of this before. Combining two different stacks will certainly fool those 'in the know' about stacked decks. I hope others take your encouragement and try other combinations of different stacks to see..

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Stebbins Surprise Stack

Unknown Mentalist
  1. Can a Si Stebbins PLUS TWO stack be made useful for stack magic?
  2. Can the values of this stack be made to look random enough for fair scrutiny?
  3. Can this stack be made useful as a memorized deck - knowing the card at a given position and vice versa - without a sweat?
  4. Can this stack have a monodistic sequence instead of the repeating tetradistic sequence like the regular Si Stebbins stack?
  5. After having achieved all the above, will the stack still remain simple and easy to learn?
  6. Can this same framework be applied to the other Stebbins +3 or +4 stacks?
  7. Finally, will it be possible to perform..
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Magic Card System

Percy Abbott
This is one of the books that Abbott published for the troops during wartime in the 1940's. It uses Si Stebbins system, except the step size is 4 rather than 3, also known as 'The Riverboat Stack'. Routines can be performed with most other stacks.
  • Foreword
  • The Magic Card System: The Rules That Make It Work
  • Effect Number One: A Skeptical Spectator Interrupts
  • Effect Number Two
    • It Might Happen To You
    • Effect Number Two As Performed By Two Persons
  • Effect Number Three
  • Effect Number Four
  • Effect Number Five
    • The Effect Done With An Assistant
  • Effect Number Six
  • Effect Number Seven
  • Effect Number..
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Memorable Mentalism: Mysteries With the Mnemonic Deck

Enrico Varella
'The only people who speak of the difficulties of the memorising a deck of cards are those who've never seriously tried to learn one.' - Simon Aronson
Would it be useful to you if you knew the identity of the top card of a shuffled deck? What if you knew both the identity of the top and bottom cards of a shuffled deck in use? If you know the identity of four cards on the top of a shuffled deck, how would you apply this knowledge? Would you desire to demonstrate that you can speed memorise a packet of cards within seconds? Now, imagine this: You know the identity of every card in an entire..
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Monk Stack

Unknown Mentalist
The Monk Stack is a simple cyclical stack. It was designed to solve two famous problems of the Si Stebbins stack and the 8 Kings stack. Like the Si Stebbins stack, this does not have an obvious sequence. And unlike the 8 Kings, this does not need the memorization of a mnemonic.

In fact, the single, simple rule of the Monk Stack is so easy that you will learn the stack instantly after reading the rule. Not only that, it will also be almost impossible for you to forget the rule thereafter. Frankly, the cool rule which is the core of the Monk Stack can be stated in just one single sentence..

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Aronson

Simon Aronson - Art Decko. Effects both stack independent and tailored to the Aronson stackEccentrics - a grab bag of effectsPredictions. Yes, Simon teaches a mnemonic system in 'Bound to Please'. Anything short of brute force memorization will always add an extra layer of mental anguish in actual performance. For me, brute force memorization was a bit too much anguish for me.

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Your looking for memorized deck work, right?
Me too. but I had already learned how to memorizea deck from the Nikola stack chapter at the end of Encyclopdedia of Card tricks.
I foundAronson's stack on the internet and memorized it.
So I wanted 'bound to please' to learn somegood mem deck work.
Problem is, there are some mem deck effects, but most are card tricks formagicians.. Quite simply, I find (right now) one of the most potent tricks with any mem deck issimply have spec take a card, you glimpse any adjacent card to INSTANTLY tell him his card. For alay spec, its complete mastery of a 'selection-location'. He picks any card. You instantly nameit.
Was it Dai Vernon who said something like, the simpler an effect is to describe, the morepowerful it is? (e.g. Invisible Deck: A thought of card. Only one reversed. (Minds blown!))
.. this is NOT the case with what I'm seeing from Aronson's work. IN FACT he oftendeliberately makes procedures MORE 'muddy' to disguise the simpler true method. This is ONLY tothrow of knowledgeable cardicians.
A the end of one of the enclosed books, 'A stack toremember', is a bibiliography of mem-deck work'. Perhaps any of these would be more interesting tome.
Also, I feel somewhat underwhelmed by 'shuffle-bored' for the same reasons mentioned above.Is it really that earth-shattering to predict how many cards are face up in a face down deck? Again, the procedure is too muddy.
This material will intrigue magicians that you performfor, so get it if you want to wow your buddies at the magic club. But for a lay audience, stickwith more entertaining or direct effects.
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