Cutting The Aces

Video footage of the late, great John Scarne performing his famous trick “cutting the aces” on a chat show in the 1970’s.

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Scarne on Card Tricks

This marvellous treasury of card magic presents the exact details of 150 professional card tricks - none of them requiring sleight-of-hand dexterity - assembled by the world's number-one card wizard, John Scarne. An authority on gambling and card tricks, Scarne won renown for teaching professional gamblers how to sharpen their skills and avoid being fleeced. For this collection of mystifying and effective manoeuvres, he reworked some classic card tricks to eliminate the need for sleight-of-hand.... [more...]