Systematic Cutting To Control

[Maaz Hasan]

So a while back, I started messing around with an idea to have a deck in New Deck Order or a stack and use a system of crimps, cuts, and sleights to get to any card. This has had many uses, but I want to know if something similar has existed and where I can find it. I'm sure I'm not the first person to use it, and would really like to read up on it and see how the ideas differ.

 

[DavidL11229]

Memorized deck books are full of methods on how to get to any card in the stack. Mnemonica (or Aronson) is likely the place to start. Memorandum (Aragon) has a section on using a crimped card, but generally refers the reader to Mnemonica for discussions of technique. For a more lengthy discussion see "The Open Index" in Simply Simon by Simon Aronson. There is a short section on "Tools for the Arranged Pack" which can be found in Temporarily Out of Order by Redford. And Pit Hartling discusses "Cutting a Card to the Top" in his most excellent book In Order to Amaze. As a related note, this is also commonly discussed in ACAANs. These are likely the places to look. I do not recall if any of these discuss any systems utilizing more than one crimped/gaffed card, but I don't thinks so. At least not like what it sounds like you are describing.

 

[DavidL11229]

It is buried in the middle of the description of a trick, but there is something more along theses lines with multiple crimped/gaffed cards on page 142 of Redford's Temporarily Out of Order.