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Warp Factor

Table of Contents
Forward
Notes
Routines
Ideas
Resources
Epilogue

Forward
This project went a lot better than I hoped, thanks to the many people from the Web
Newsgroups alt.magic and alt.magic.secrets. Of course there are specific individuals one wishes
to thank personally.

I have to say the kick start came from Nelson Griswold in Nashville, who provided the
bulk of the Ideas section from his own late night Net surfing, and accumulated a large collection
and kindly handed it all over. I threatened to drop this project in his lap but he was wise and
would hear none of it. Thanks Nelson, I am sure everyone else thanks you too.

I also wish to thank those peerless individuals who contributed their actual routines with
patter, always an important inspiration in work of this kind. Acknowledgements are placed with
the routines.

Finally we all owe a debt to Roy Walton who provided us with the miracle called Card
Warp. It is a rare instance when you buy a new product, take it out of the package and follow the
instructions, and actually surprise yourself. I hope all of you felt the delight and wonder of this
simple but powerful effect the first time like I did. From the ideas to follow we can see what a
strong influence Roy has had. Thanks Roy!

Notes
The notes section is for jotting down extra thoughts contributed, and other things I wanted
to get off my chest, so feel free to skip over this section to the meat.

Please forgive any spelling errors throughout, I have done my best. As well I live in
Canada so there are some spellings you do not see in the US and I have taught my spell
checker.

Some of the information has been provided to me from people and I have taken it on faith
without spending a lot of time verifying it. So if you see something you know to be wildly wrong
please let me know, and forgive my laziness.

Roy Walton is credited with the creation of the effect named Card Warp. I have been told
the original idea for the work came from Jeff Busby. As usual people build on ideas and come up
with new things. I hope this manuscript triggers many more good ideas, I would be interested to
see what appears in Warp Factor 2.0 next year. Maybe you’ll have to buy the upgrade…

My comments appear throughout in parentheses for my own self serving gratification. I

think all editors want to do that. Remember everything is IMHO.

Have Fun!
Reg Coppicus, Warped Editor

Not for use in any commercial medium, printed or otherwise. Not to be sold.

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Routines

And now the good stuff.

Nelson Griswold pointed to the first routine by Ross Berteig. I never did get an answer
from Ross if he wished me to use this or not, but since it is posted publicly on the web site below I
took the liberty because it is just too good. I kept it intact for this reason. I hope no one is
politically offended but Jay Leno can get away with it, just treat it as political satire. As a
Canadian I’m staying out of the US political debate, but I must say we were just as tired of
hearing about the Bill/Monica thing as anyone else. I’d rather read newsgroup discussions about
David Blaine… (don’t go there). Across the pond you might have to pick different local politicians,
but then CNN is everywhere.

Voted Most Original

President Warped
By Ross Berteig
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu./~rberteig/magic/scripts/preswarp.htm
This is a very political presentation for Roy Walton's Card Warp.

If my politics offend you, too bad :-). Don't use this presentation. However, Card Warp
itself is well worth the effort to learn and perform, and other presentations are easy to shape
around the visible change in the card.
The fact is, President Clinton has flip-flopped on many issues. He usually answers a
straight question with a non-denial denial while stalling for time. In the 1996 campaign he ran
radio spots in San Francisco extolling his stand for Gay Rights, while simultaneously running
spots in small Christian conservative markets about his signing the Defense of Marriage Act.
These are documented facts.

Effect

A folded card turns visibly inside-out. This is a strong visual effect which may be
performed standing while almost surrounded as long as some care is taken at the beginning.
There is no reset time at the end, since you tear the gaff and give out the pieces, thus
finishing completely clean.
Preparation

You will need two cards from any size of deck. I like to use the cheap Jumbo cards found
at the Gamekeeper (or Dollar Store - Reg) and other such places. These are thin, lightly plastic
coated, and fold and tear easily. If you are rich (or being paid) you could use the Jumbo-size
Bicycles, but these are expensive and harder to fold and tear.
I use a face card (suitably prepared) and a contrasting colour, low numbered, spot card. I
carry a stack of these paired off and prepared in advance, and simply take them out in pairs to
perform.
Script

The interesting thing about President Clinton is the way he can't decide how to face an issue
when he gets out of bed in the morning. Let me show you what I mean.

[Remove pair of cards and show them around]

Since he can't be here tonight, let's ask this Jack of Spades to stand in for him. And, to do this
right, we need a bed. I suspect this two of hearts will do.

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[Fold "bed" the narrow way; i.e. bring the ends of the card together. People will gasp as you do
this: you just destroyed a card.]
Of course, this will be clearer if he fits in his bed, so let's fold him to suit.

[Fold "Clinton" lengthwise, bringing the long edges together. More gasps from those a little slower
to notice the brutal destruction of cards in progress...]
Now let's slide our President into bed, all the way to the foot, and turn the covers over on him.

[Slide "Clinton" into the "bed", fold against fold. Turn the bed and Clinton inside out (open from
bottom, toward your audience and here's the moment to keep things close to your body and
watch your angles) and fold the bed back around Clinton.]

Now, let's see, what is the issue of the day. I like the Filegate scandal but if you have a favourite,
let's hear about it...
Okay, let's talk FBI files. You all know the scoop. Someone at the White House hired an ex bar
bouncer and political operative named Craig Livingstone as Chief of Personal Security.
Livingstone seems to have used his office to collect FBI Files on at least 900 citizens, including
past staffers and current prominent Republicans.
The question is, Who Hired Craig?

Today, the president has never heard of Craig Livingstone, and no one around him can answer
the question.

[Tap the end of Clinton extending from the bed to push it through. The exposed end will be turned
inside out as it passes through the bed. Expect a strong reaction. Show the transformed card
around, both sides, slowly so everyone can see.]
But, just a short time ago, Craig was the talk of the 1992 campaign, and Clinton spoke highly of
him as someone who gets things done.

Maybe he's heard of him.

[Push the "Clinton" card back to turn it back the other way. Show it around again, slowly and
deliberately.]
Maybe he hasn't.

[Push the "Clinton" card to the centre, showing both ways at once. Show it around again, slowly
and deliberately.]

In fact sometimes even President Clinton can hold both positions at the same time!

[Fold the "Clinton" and bed end-to-end toget her to make a tear easier. Tear the packet down the
middle. Hold the pieces up for all to see Clinton facing both ways at once.]
As you can see, the President is beside himself.

[Hand the pieces to two separate spectators, still folded. Let them open them and wonder.]

Open them up, pass them around. Everything is as it appears!

And that's how they treat the truth in the Clinton Administration.

(Reg – Thanks Ross. This was the first time I saw an effective reason for tearing the two cards
together down the middle, a good addition to the basic effect.)

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The second routine is offered by a mystery agent “Enigma”, but he did say his initials are
CCC, if that helps, or wiskey238@aol.com.

Voted Best Story Line

Witch Hunt

Phase 1

Set up: You have a duplicate of the Q folded in quarters, or whichever card represents the witch,
in your right pocket, a lighter in your left ...

I got the idea from Eugene Burger. It is on the same story line as his Acquisition!

Story basically goes like this!

“When in old Salem you will hear stories of witches and witch hunts. I heard this story one day
and decided to make it visual....

“If there was a woman in Salem” (show the gimmicked card the Q or what ever you
choose to be the witch) ”that everyone” (show the deck & have them choose any one of the cards
from it) ”thought was a witch ... they would test her. They would go to her house and she would
scream “No I am not a witch!" (show the two cards around) “They took her anyway ... and put her
in this torture device!” (perform the set up moves) “it would go around the witch and it would turn
her inside out and outside in!” (do the push through) [add anything you want here ].... “but when it
was over they wouldn't just bring her out they would cut her in half with this device!” (now rip the
card in half .... show the pieces .... while they are looking reach in your right pocket and grab out
the duplicate card, unseen)

Phase 2

“When this occurred they would leave the body lying to let the evil spirits come out! They
had never actually found a real witch.... until now ...”(here you switch the torn card with the folded
card by way of just putting the torn card in the same hand as the folded and reach in your pocket
and grab the lighter from left pocket). ”They would burn the witch for a few hours” (run the lighter
on the edges and show the card has been restored!). “This time the witch was alive!” (Reg – you
can end here or carry on…)

Phase 3

In this phase you use J.C.Wagner's torn & restored card! If you do not know it you can go
to your local Magic shop and rent or buy "Commercial Magic " by J.C. Wagner.

“Well the whole town attacked her and ripped her to pieces! The head was held by a
trusted person in the community” (give the piece to a nearby spectator.... now reach into your
pocket and get the lighter and restore the rest) ”they knew that she would not die by fire so they
kept her head from her until they could find something to destroy her!

If she is ever reunited with her head she will live again!!”
Routine by,
Enigma
CCC

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The third contribution is one of two from Thomas Wayne in Alaska. I think Thomas has
too much time to sit around and come up with stuff, because it shows a lot of sittin’ and thinkin’.

From: twc@alaska.net

Voted Most Likely to be Used by Everybody. Thanks Thomas.

Physics Class

"What I'm going to show you is a little physics experiment involving

solids and surfaces. We'll be using playing cards because, as everyone knows, playing cards
have two sides... the inside, and the outside. Also important for our experiment, playing cards
are thin and therefore easy to fold. They can be folded inside out, or they can just as easily be
folded out-side in. And because they remain
thin, even when folded, they can be juxtaposed right up against each other - putting the outside of
the outside-in card tightly against the inside of the inside-out card. Or, they can be easily flip-
flopped, so that the outside of the inside-out card is now tightly against the inside of the outside-in
card.

"So far, nothing particularly remarkable. But what IS remarkable is that the molecular
relationship between outside-in and inside-out is so fragile, so tenuous, that the slightest nuclear
push, the slightest cosmic nudge can make outside-in become inside-out. Or inside-out become
outside-in. And what is MOST remarkable, is that if we are careful, and patient, we can catch the
cards in the very middle of this transformation and stop them, locking them in place and forever
freezing them in this condition - with half the cards permanently outside-in, and the other half
permanently inside-out..."

Card warp patter, original to me; used it for years with 100% success.

You're welcome.

Thomas Wayne

(… and thanks again Thomas.)

The fourth contribution is from Brian Patterson. I like this story.

Voted Best Kid’s Routine

Batman Unmasked

I perform for a lot of families, and this routine satisfies both parents and children. I won't
give you my exact patter as w/ this idea, I am sure you can come up with your own. I begin by
asking if anyone is familiar with the movie Batman. I talk about it for a while... and ask if anyone
remembers Batman’s real name. Usually they don’t, so I whisper to someone to say Bruce
Wayne.

I tell about how Bruce Wayne is a very well educated man, and over the years has
developed ways to effectively leave his home and arrive at the scene of a crime in just seconds.

One of his secrets is that he changes his clothes while driving his Batmobile
and shooting through the tunnel of his house. That’s right, "Bruce Wayne wastes
no time in fighting crime". When he comes out the other side and enters the
real world, he is now fully clothed in the bat costume and ready for battle.

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Sometimes though, if we catch Bruce at just the right second, we can have
physical proof that Bruce is Batman, by catching him with only half of his
costume on...and we can freeze this moment and always keep this evidence as a
souvenir of our time together.

Obviously the card that reverses itself is Batman, and the cover card is the tunnel. When
you catch him half clothed, that is when you tear it.

Hope this sparks another routine in your mind!

Brian Patterson
magic559@aol.com
(Reg – kids usually do not get card tricks because the faces don’t mean much to them, so they
don’t get the changes happening. This one is good as it hits them with an interesting story line
they like, and they don’t have to see the difference between cards. Batman might be a blue
backed card or black if you can find one.)

The fifth routine is a quickie supplied by Mike Baxter.

Voted Most Likely to be Used by David Blaine…

Card Warp - 'David Blaine style'

"Hey, man."

"Gonna show you somethin'." (Grabs onlooker *)

"Gonna wreck a few cards." (Bends outwards spot and queen)

"No, don't want it that way." (Bend inward to show backs)

"The pretty lady always shows her face." (Pushes through)

(Tears cards. Exits camera left)

* more effective if onlooker is Camilla Parker Bowles,

and patter is ---- to Queen, etc. :-)

From Mike Baxter

(left untouched - Reg)

Sixth comes from Robert Lane, a good one. Robert likes to emphasize he’s the magic man.
Let’s not have any nuclear nonsense!

Voted Best to Get Out of a Jam

Beat the Challenge

My patter, which is copyrighted, goes like this:

“Would you like to see the most challenging card trick I have ever performed? I had just
finished some card tricks like I showed you here tonight and this spectator reached into the deck
and pulled out a Queen of Spades and said "Let's see you make this card change." See
magicians don't really change cards, they "exchange" cards and this fellow knew that with only
one card to work with there was no way you could make a card change. In fact he was so sure of

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himself he reached in his pocket and pulled out a $5 bill and bet me $5 bucks I couldn't make just
that one card change. Anyone have a $5 bill I can borrow?

I didn't have a clue how I was going to get out of this one, but I asked him, "Can I use the
money in the trick?" And he said "sure."

So I folded the bill around the card this way....that way...slowly opened it up...And of
course, nothing magical had happened, I was just stalling hoping I would think of something! And
sure enough a thought did come to mind, so I folded the bill around the card and folded the card
in half so the outside was on the outside and the face was on the inside, and as I pushed the card
through the bill I transformed it to where the face was on the outside.”

Strong points....I set it up as the most challenging situation I faced as a magician, I make
them aware of how impossible it would be to change just one card, I can tell the story with
conviction because it is a situation that could have really happened to me, I use their money so
they know it isn't fixed (+ it frequently results in a tip for me), I explain the dead time of folding and
unfolding, and most of all when the magic does happen it is ME that is making it happen.

Robert Lane

A good potential story line here.

Voted Best Introduction

Spirit Contact

Start out by talking about how 19th century Spiritualists believed in a mysterious "4th
Dimension" which allowed you to do all kinds of weird stuff like putting knots in sealed loops of
tape or rope and walk through walls. (Actually there was a Leipzig professor of physics named
Zoellner, who did quite a lot of experiments along that line and got systematically bamboozled by
an American psychic named Slade.) Anyway, you say, this all takes a lot of advanced math to
understand, so you'll try to demonstrate it with simple means.

Start out by demonstrating that a 2-dimensional - in other words flat - object like an
irregular triangle can be turned into its own mirror image by simply flipping it over through the 3rd
dimension. Simply use a small cardboard triangle or - much more impressive - cut out the shape
of a glove. Left glove - flip - right glove, see? Would greatly simplify the making of gloves and
shoes, if we could do that in 3 dimensions. Well, 4 actually, as we need another spatial
dimension to flip the objects in...

Well, let's see if we can't... [This is, where you actually produce your deck or two cards
and start with the well-known Card Warp moves. Personally I prefer to fold both cards myself, not
only the gimmicked one, as a ham-handed spectator can quite ruin the trick.] Explain that all this
bending and flipping will hopefully have created a small pocket of 4-dimensional space, and
slowly push the card in with the face showing. Of course it won't come out as its own mirror
image (which the spectator halfway expects by now) but with the back to the outside. Very
carefully pull the card back, try again. And again, this time only to the middle. Same outcome, of
course.

Act surprised, even a bit alarmed. This is definitely not what you wanted to do... Never
happened before, Oh my... Obviously one twist too much, and now that bridge through the 4th
dimension is warped and turns things _inside out_ instead of simply producing their mirror
image. Weird, if you come to think of it. Just imagine all the ugly things that would happen if
someone accidentally put a finger through... Yuck. Let's better destroy that devilish device before
some poor fool gets hurt.... [And you very cautiously tear up the cards, which of course leaves
back only four unsuspicious pieces the spectators can inspect.] Applause, applause.

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Another apropos: While writing this rather lengthy treatise I realized that I've never seen
or even heard of a card effect that actually uses one or more mirror-image cards. (Would have to
be specially printed trick cards of course.)

Peter Klumbach

(Reg – the idea of mirror image cards arose in more than one submission. I think the
debate would rage over whether it would be noticeable or not. Obviously the index would be on
the “wrong” side but would you notice a face card? How about if the face card were split in half
across the middle, and rotate the top half and bottom half so the heads are touching? Best I can
think of…)

The final bit is another gem from Thomas Wayne. It was the result of some deep
philosophical discussions. I want to see this one working!

Voted Best of Show if You Can Get the Bugs Out

I suppose this could be

“What would happen if James Bond met Mata Hari?”

(More thoughts from Thomas Wayne)

It is important to select a suitable frame for your story. How about something involving
WWII cryptography, foreign spies and invisible ink? Maybe an allusion to the earliest prototypes
of the Enigma encoding devices?

Remember, the greatest painting in the world looks out of place thumbtacked to a wall.
You gotta have an appropriate frame to put it in... try this.

Open with "normal" full deck; top card has a standard back, blank face. 2nd card is King
of Spades (KS), 3rd card is Queen of Hearts (QH). Double lift to show KS, replace and pull off
blank card as KS (gotta hide the gimmick, too). Double lift to show QH, replace and pull KS as
QH.

Handling has to be different to not flash faces during folding.

Plot:
KS is some well known but rarely seen European spy; QH is his counterpart or contact
(Mata Hari?). Super-spy KS is master of disguise; can blend into any crowd; no one can give
good description; maybe he can cloud men's minds, a la "The Shadow". Maybe every
surveillance photo taken turns up "over-exposed"...

Our hero, super-spy KS, can blend in, or vanish at will; and when the enemy catches him
and "breaks" him during interrogation, they end up drawing a blank (pun intended), while all the
time he has really been masquerading as his partner/lover, the QH. Meanwhile, she (of course)
has been safely tucked away back at the home base, shaking martinis.

(Reg – good thoughts on what is possible when you match the basic effect with some
sleights and good card work. I will be waiting to see what gels for Thomas’ work over the next
little while. Everyone else limber up those fingers and let’s see what is possible.)

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Ideas

Following now are several scattered ideas, credited where I know who sent what. Some
ideas were repeated and are assembled together.

NOTE: A lot of these ideas were gleaned by Nelson Griswold from the archives of MAGIC!, the
now-defunct BBS for magicians, available on the web at http://www.questx.com/magic!/500.html.

When I have seen others do Card Warp, they already have prepared the torn card.
The way I do it is to hand both of the cards out to the spectators for examination and when I get
them back I start to fold one of the cards in half from top to bottom and ask the spectator to do the
same. Naturally they start to fold it the same way I am from top to bottom and I say “Oh, one of
them needs to be folded lengthwise and I then refold mine lengthwise and it is quite easy to make
the needed tear since it is already creased. This makes it more of an impromptu effect with any
two cards. This is also easy to do with business cards; Mike Close does his version with a playing
card and a borrowed business card.

Reg’s note: I like to do it with a business card too. In this version instead of pushing the
warped card through the business card, I hold it still and move the business card back and forth.
Doing it this way to me looks like I am “Zipping and “Unzipping” the card. The difference is
subtle. Sometime I even draw a zipper on the back of the business card. Then you can finish the
tear and hand out your business card, saying “Even my business card is magical.”

I usually do a couple of tricks with cards then drop down on ‘em with Card Warp and
watch their eyes bug out and their face turn blue—especially as I let THEM tear the “warped” card
in two. I saw a cowboy’s tongue hanging out one night. (I do hold on to the half under the card
cover while they tear the outer half off –then I hand them the package in my hand). (Reg – be
careful letting them handle the cards).

The Card Warp method is simple enough to concentrate on presentation. I sometimes

have prepared the gaff in plain view perhaps 15 minutes before I’ve done the effect without
anyone making the connection. I don’t know, I think it is one of the ten best tricks in magic, and
takes card tricks into the illusionary status. Too, the layman likes to destroy playing cards
because their parents told them not to do it as children. Tom Mullica taught me a torn and
restored with playing cards that knocks people out and also is simple methodology. I often follow
this with “since we’ve already ruined this deck, let me show you one more” and we start folding
for Card Warp. (Reg - smooth slide between tricks).

I use a business card and a dollar bill to do card warp. I borrow the card and fold it
length-wise first. I then ask to borrow a bill. This usually gets everyone looking around and at
each other (of course I am doing the same) because nobody wants to hand out the cash. At this
point, I just drop the card below the table (or just lower it) and tear it. The length-wise crease
keeps it from going over half way and keeping your fingers fairly close together will muffle the
sound a little. I usually mutter something about the money when I do the tear to help cover the
noise also. Haven’t been caught (at least that I know of) yet.
(Reg – good advice on misdirection. Note this method would let the audience select a
card freely too. I use a card with a dollar bill and call it “Money Laundering”).

To do Card Warp I prepare an entire deck with all face cards pre-split. The deck can be
pulled from the box and fanned allowing the subject to point to the face card of their choice... as
well as the second card (it should be a number card). By handling the cards together as you pull

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them from the deck (number card on top) you never reveal the split and yet give no hint that there
is anything preset about the deck. It looks completely fair. Of course you have to replace the
missing cards periodically. (Reg – be prepared).

If you want a good laugh when you’re catching a buzz with your magician friends do
Card Warp using as the torn card a double faced card, so when it slides through it changes value
and suit instead of going inside out like normal. Watch their eyes bug out for an instant. Where
you go after that I’m not sure, but you’ll be laughing so hard it won’t matter. (Reg – good
suggestion using gaffed cards, there must be a number of effects possible. How about a double
backed card, red and blue?)

In 1985 or there about Ben Harris of Australia came up with an idea based around
sawing (tearing) a lady (Queen) in half. I forget what its called . . . The Lady Divided, I think. An
excellent premise and one that could be used following Walton’s Card Warp if you can avoid
tearing the cards in half at the end and use the gimmicked card as the Lady in Harris’ routine.
Then tear ’em in half after the climax... give one half to the key spectator and you keep half...
premise being “...so neither of you will ever forget the experience,” or a memento of the event, or
some similar rationale. (Reg – another good combination of effects leading into one another).

I use patter to misdirect people and focus their attention on something else while I do
something sneaky. For instance I like to do Card Warp with the victim . . . er, audience member
selecting two cards freely and give me one of them. Then I show them folding the card, and as I
make my tear I talk over the sound, and focus them on “their” work by saying, “Oh, my card is not
straight.” They generally concentrate harder on their card and I complete my tear as I gab and get
in position to accept their card and go into warp mode.

By Reg. Yes I think of stuff too. Similar to the first of the ideas.

Just a thought, but what if the concept and handling were modified so that
rather than a normal card turning inside out as it slides through another card, a BLANK card picks
up the image of the card it's sliding through? In other words, it goes in blank and comes out
printed with the same face value as the card it's sliding through.

If you're handy with gaffed cards and a little sleight of hand, you could probably work it so
that when you're done you're left with the spectator holding a half-printed card and you with a half
card that's blank on both sides, and a regular card with half the face missing (blank).

On further thought this could be the climax of a routine in which you first
erase the front and back off a card.

You could call the effect "Face Off".

(Reg – this sounds like a good idea. Can anyone pull it off? See Thomas’ Spy Routine for
possible workings.)

A nice combination might be Ambitious card (with signature) into Card Warp.

I ask the spectator to take out one card and hand it to me. I say that I will bend the card
this way (bending it lengthwise). Then I begin to also bend it across the center saying that I want
you to take another card from the deck and bend it "this" way. At this point I have two creases in

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the card in my hand. I look at the spectator waiting for him to get another card out of the deck
and bend it. Everyone's eyes will also be on the spectator. During this moment I start tearing the
card. If anyone looks over at me it will look as if I am returning my card to the lengthwise fold.
Misdirection is the key.

I sometimes will do this Card Warp version after I have done the Ambitious
Card routine because at the end I already end up with two cards that are bent
across the center.

Tony Brent

(Thanks Tony, now I have to get an Ambitious Card manuscript and learn that one)

I am sure you are aware, but the late Bob McAllister did a card warp with one
card and a dollar bill (great for getting tips at restaurants).

Doug Young

From: mike <mnkyman@c-zone.net>

I recently learned Card Warp & came up with a routine where I use a Bee backed card &
a Bicycle card. I explain that cards have a built in safety mechanism to prevent different cards
from being used in magic tricks and that if you do use different cards, one will twist itself around
to expose the trick you’re doing.

Ichazod

I've been doing Card Warp with one card for a couple of years now. The basic routine I
do is "Real Jokers" from "Magic & Meaning" by Eugene Burger & Robert E. Neale. It starts as a
one-card card warp, and then concludes with Paul Harris' "Ultimate Rip-Off" (A Torn & Restored
Card effect).

Scott Cram

(Reg – Thanks Scott, good combination there. I’ve almost got the one card thing down).

Some general thoughts for stories…

“The Mona Lisa was painted on one side of a panel that has a
completely different painting on the other side.” (double face cards?)

“Did you know that the "holographic" image-shifting security feature of the new US currency was
developed from a characteristic that playing cards have had for centuries?”

“Are you familiar with the "blue screen" technology that is used in movie special effects?” (blue
backed cards?)

(Reg – good story ideas, food for thought).

According to Mike Close in "Workers No.1," the *effect* in Card Warp was created by Jeff
Busby and published in his "Into the Fourth Dimension" manuscript. Roy Walton created the
*trick* "Card Warp."

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And Mike's great CW routine "Dr. Strangetrick" -- with a dollar bill and face card -- is
found in "Workers No. 1," which should be on your list of sources for good, published CW
routines.

- Nelson Griswold

The effect in “Fourth Dimension” is essentially that of card warp, without the second
"covering" card. A card is folded face in. Upon passing through your hand, it turns face out.

Richard Osterlind has published a nice effect using a folded dollar bill that turns inside out
with a wave of the hand. Really similar to the Busby idea. Richard has an excellent video
available too, “Richard Osterlind's Challenge Magic”. The description reads:

"An eye-popping feature routine with paper money, perfect for the close-up worker, bar
magician, or table-hopper. A dollar bill VISIBLY turns inside out, even though it's locked shut with
a paper clip!"

- Thanks to Jim Short for the info.

Resources
Books and Videos, by no means a complete listing.

“Richard Osterlind's Challenge Magic” video

Bruce Cervon, Ultra Cervon

Jeff Busby, Into the Fourth Dimension…and Beyond

Eugene Burger, The Experience of Magic - Includes a complete routine for Card Warp, with
Jumbo cards too.

Mike Close, Workers No.1 - see “Dr. Strangetrick”

Darwin Ortiz, Strong Magic

Eugene Burger and Robert E. Neale, Magic & Meaning, contains “Real Jokers”

J.C. Wagner, Commercial Magic

Jay Sankey, 100% Sankey—Includes “Definitely Warped,” a card warp, but you only use ONE
card.. You take a card, fold it, and then proceed to turn it inside out.

Bob Torkova, Torkova’s Magic—Includes “Card Warp Completed.” Order from

http://torkova.com/products.htm.

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A new effect called “Ultimate Card Warp” allows some new effects through the use of gaffed
cards. You have to replace the cards periodically. About $15-$20 US.

Books available from your favorite dealer.

I highly recommend “H&R Magic Books”. Richard provides excellent personal service, you can
do it all by e-mail, service is fast, prices are very reasonable and shipping is low in my opinion.
As well they have a new 1999 catalogue which lists over 3000 new books. He also deals in used
merchandise, just ask. If they don’t have it, it does not exist. His website is at
http://www.magicbookshop.com
or email at
mailto://richard@magicbookshop.com

Epilogue

I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed collecting. Keep creating and do not
hesitate to mail me any new ideas or routines. I plan to update this booklet next Spring and will
release Warp Factor 2.0 before I move in summer 2000. In the meantime see you in Cyber
space.

Not for use in any commercial medium, printed or otherwise. Not to be sold.

Reg Coppicus
Nova Scotia, Canada
mailto://reg.lori.coppicus@ns.sympatico.ca

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