World's Greatest Magic: The Secrets of Packet Tricks Vol. 1 - DVD Book and instructions for some basic

and instructions for some basic routines

The magician opens his wallet and the spectator reaches inside to pull out the bill -- but instead lies their selection

the performer makes it vanish

Conjuring historians have traced the origins of the Ambitious Card plot back to a French conjuror named Alberti who performed in the early 1800's but the idea of placing a card into the middle of the back and having it return to the top almost certainly occurred to card magicians prior to that

The last card is completely examinable

World's Greatest Magic: The Secrets of Packet Tricks Vol. 1 - DVD Book and instructions for some basicIt seems to be commonly believed that the genre of card magic known as packet tricks that is, card tricks that use a small number of cards rather than the entire deck are a relatively recent invention in the history of conjuring but this is not the case. While it's true that packet tricks became insanely popular in the magic community of the 1960s and 70s (Jon Racherbaumer even coined the word "packeteer" to describe magicians who specialized in these