With more games than you ever knew existed and as many tricks as a professional magician has up his sleeve, this super-huge collection gives you days' and days' worth of fun! Some take as little as 10 minutes, for others you'll need to master some rules first, but when you get in the swing of it you'll never put down that deck of cards. Try rummy, poker, euchre, whist, and hearts--all the basic games, with all the instructions and scoring procedures--as well as solitaire for those moments when you're alone. But, when you've got an audience, put on a show with such card capers as "I Love the Piano," where you transfer a card from one pile to another with a magical "snap" of the fingers. You won't ever want to stop playing!

Learn when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with Card Night, a collection of 52 classic card games, including rules and strategies. Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, and two indexes that organize each game by difficulty and number of players needed, Card Night includes directions for playing all the most popular card games, including Hearts and Bridge, Rummy and Go Fish. In addition to providing the rules of standard game play, Card Night also details the fascinating stories and peculiarities behind some of the world's most famous card decks, some of which were used as currency, tools for propaganda, and even as a means for sending coded messages. Offering one game for each week of the year, Card Night is the go-to companion for weekly game nights, long car rides, and rainy days spent at home. Wow your friends and family with your game playing prowess and keep them entertained with fascinating details from playing card history.

If it’s in the cards, it’s in this super big dual book of card games and tricks. There are games for the family with young children, quick 10-minute games, many kinds of solitaire and variations of War, Authors, Stops, Casino, Rummy, Trump, Whist, and Hearts. For a little trickery, flip the book over and get expert instructions on all the skillful moves (controlling a card, cuts and false cuts, shuffles, sleights). Then, wow everyone with the Tick Tock Trick; mind reading; Face-up, Face-Down; and a grab bag of card magic.

"The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin Gardner Amaze friends, astonish your family, and fascinate any audience by infallibly dealing a royal flush, correctly predicting the outcome of the World Series, unmasking a psychic fraud, and performing a host of other dazzling deceptions. You can do it with the help of this book, one of the best guides to magic tricks that don't require long hours of practice or elaborate preparation. You'll find invaluable techniques — clearly demonstrated with abundant illustrations — for accomplishing magical feats with cards, coins, rope, comedy magic, mental displays of dexterity and much more, as well as expert advice for practicing psychological misdirection and dramatic presentation. Although the tricks in this book require little in the way of props, sleight of hand or a high degree of skill, the effects they produce are astounding. Novices especially will find Big Book of Magic Tricks a wonderful introduction to the art of conjuring but the book is crammed with so much choice new information that even professional magicians can learn something. "This book is quality — the tricks are effective, the methods ingenious, and the advice Fulves gives on presenting the tricks properly is excellent." — Robert Dike Blair

Demonstrates how to perform different types of card tricks with step-by-step instructions and photographs.

Learn to do astounding tricks with cards, coins, rope; also, comedy magic, mental dexterity, more. Abundantly illustrated directions. 247 illustrations.