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Revision as of 08:34, 20 January 2015

Screwed Deck is a trick published by Paul Harris in which the magician two halves of a deck are "screwed" together like a pool cue.

The trick was originally developed by Ron Bauer[1], as part of a cable television project he was hired to produce for Harris. The Screwed Deck was debuted at The Magic Castle in 1982, during a preview of the show for several people in the industry.[2] In the middle of the show, Harris had a short card act. The original idea was that, like a pool player, he would start by bringing out the two halves of the deck in a case, opening them, screwing them together, and then doing the act. When he was finished, he would unscrew the halves, put them in their case, and close the lid.

Leo Behnke, whom Bauer had brought on as Line Producer, devised the manufacturing technique, and his description was included in the first publication of the trick in Harris' A Close-Up Kinda Guy (1983).

A similar idea by Harris was Unhinged published in Close-up Seductions (1984) in which the screw was replaced by a hinge on the card case allowing you to "fold" the deck in two. It was self-contained and got rid of the need for a deck switch.

In the early 1990s, a marketed version of 'Screwed Deck' came out using the principles of Unhinged but added kicker that the deck came out of the deck in a weird state (half up and half down). It starts out with the deck in two halves and are then screwed together. The deck does not screw all the way in (one half is face up and the other is face down). The deck of cards are slid out of the case and with one more twist and the deck becomes normal.

Next, "Improvised Screwed Deck" was published in the January 1993 issue of Magic Magazine in which the deck could be improvised quickly (without the case). A deck is twisted so that one end is face up with the other face down and then restored. Sort of a full deck Card Warp. A revised version of this "Improvised Screwed Deck" was published in Art of Astonishment Vol 3 page 66 (1996).

Paul's latest version called "Truly Screwed" was released on DVD #7 in the True Astonishment series.

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070314020448/http://www.palmermagic.com/
  2. Genii, Vol. 46 No. 7, July 1982, p. 448
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