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Stop Trick
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Stop Trick is a classic card routine where a selected card is found in deck at the point a spectator says "Stop" as the cards are being dealt face down on to the table by the magician or the spectator. Another variation is for the magician to say "stop" while the spectator is dealing. See also Any Card at Any Number.
Variations
- Say When! in Al Baker's Book One (1933) reprint in The Secret Ways of Al Baker (2003)
- The Psychic Stop! in Expert Card Technique (1940)
- "Stop Card" Mystery by Martin Sunshine in Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol. 5 (1948)
- A Perfect Stop Effect in The Card Magic of Le Paul (1949)
- The Stop Effect by Ed Marlo in Side Steal (book) (1957)
- The Notis Stop Trick in Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959)
- Stop When Ready by Karl Fulves in Packet Switches (Part One) (1972)
- Stop Me in The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel (1978)
- Double Stop by Martin Nash in Sleight Unseen (1979)
- The Stop Trick by Bruce Cervon in Ultra Cervon (1990)
- The Stop Trick by Martin Gardner in Card College, Vol. 4 (2000)