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Ricky Jay - Amazing Card Trick/Manipulation

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A three-minute clip of magician Ricky Jay performing a card manipulation routine, including table faro shuffles. The routine builds in intensity and ends with a surprising finish.

HN people share it as a classic example of sleight-of-hand mastery whose ending is mind-blowing.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@greghendershott2015 · in “Show HN: Learn Magic Tricks Online”

52Kards on YouTube has many free tutorials at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels: [LINK] Although I just dabble I think they're mostly very good. They're definitely easier to grasp than the books I remember as a kid. Recently he's moved to doing non-free material: [LINK] In my limited experience YouTube has almost everything. Search for, I don't know, "table faro shuffle", and you'll find a few meh results and one gem. (Table faro shuffles are arguably what Ricky Jay is doing at the start of this classic, if you don't believe it's just a camera edit: [VIDEO] )

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@duxup2018 · in “Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (1993)”

I didn't know who Ricky Jay was but ages ago i ran across this youtube video and was just floored, the whole thing just builds and builds and builds. [VIDEO]

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@onychomys2023 · in ““Cards as Weapons” by Ricky Jay (1977)”

I am not 100% convinced that this isn't just actual magic. The manipulations are pretty amazing and then at the end it's mindblowing. [VIDEO]

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