Gaff cards are playing cards that have been doctored ion one way or another so you can do magic tricks that would be very difficult or impossible to do with an ordinary deck. I got The Blue Gaff Deck a few months ago and I love it. There are some amazing tricks you can do with it, and because they have the familiar Bicycle backs, no one will know that you are using gaff cards (as long as you don't flub).
You can do 40 different tricks with the deck (and it comes with a DVD so you can learn them all) (a reader alerted me that they did not get a DVD. I got one in my deck). My favorite is the B-Wave, which is worth the price of the deck:
Eric Chien’s got some nimble fingers, a shit-ton of showmanship, and a magic trick that’ll blow your mind. The trick is so frigging good that Chien won a 2018 Fism Grand Prix award with it.
Tenyo is a Japanese magic trick company that’s been around since 1960. They are well known for making clever props. (My friend Richard Kaufman, who often writes for Boing Boing, wrote a 1,400-page two-volume set about the company, called Tenyoism) Here’s a Tenyo puzzle trick called The Perpetual Puzzle (It’s available on Amazon). You start […]
I became interested in magic when I was a young teenager, then dropped out for one reason or another. About five years ago I started getting interested again, this time in card magic (as opposed to stage magic). I had fun making doctored cards to use in my tricks, so in 2015 I wrote and […]
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