Corrections & Crediting Updates

As is always the case with publishing ventures, and despite the fact that several knowledgeable magicians pored over the manuscript before it went to print, errors and omissions somehow crept into the text for “Random Acts of Magic.”

This web-page has been created as a service to buyers of the book to help iron out any discrepancies, AND to provide more accurate information where necessary. All changes below will be made in future editions of the book.

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SPLITTANT ACES (Page 36): In the Comments section, I mention using the Splittant technique to split a 6 of Clubs into two 3-And-A-Half of clubs, but of course, you should begin with a 7 of Clubs... Me bad at math…

COLOUR INVERSION (Page 41): While Richard Kaufman is credited as having created the Inversion plot (CardMagic, Kaufman, 1979), I recently came across an earlier effect in which a deck of cards reverses itself around a selection by Bruce Cervon, called “Half Reverse Cut - Kellie Displacement,” in Epilogue, Issue Six, July, 1969.

OVER EASY (Page 17): Ignore the SITUATION CHECK on page 19 – for some reason, it says that the selected card should be at the bottom of the left-hand packet, when in fact at that point it is the lowermost face-down card of the right-hand packet (a face-up card is beneath it).

CHANGES (Page 21): While MARC DESOUZA is credited for having created the “Shapeshifter” change, I neglected to mention that DeSouza’s move is only a slight variation of OSCAR MUNOZ’S “Pirouette Change.”

THE MADDEN FORCE (Page 51): JON RACHERBAUMER informs me that he created and published this very force in one of his many excellent periodicals more than 11 years ago.

COUNT ON IT (Page 57): The approach employed here to steal out one card from the nine-card packet and center it in the deck apparently belongs to RON BAUER.