Warp Factor

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 thank 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 through out, 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 youll 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.
sold.

Not to be

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 Im 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. Id rather read newsgroup discussions about David Blaine
(dont 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 [court 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. [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 itaround 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 together 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.
(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.)
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 .... whilethey 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! (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
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 sitting and thinking.
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 flipflopped, 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

The fourth contribution is from Brian Patterson.

Voted Best Kids Routine

I like this story.

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
Batmans 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. 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
(Kids usually do not get card tricks because the faces dont mean much to
them, so they dont get the changes happening. This one is good as it hits
them with an interesting story line they like, and they dont have to see the
difference between cards. Batman might be a blue backed card or black if you
can find one.)
Jon Hand interjecting a thought here: You could use a double-backed Red/Blue
card for the Batman character; the Red side would be the flashy playboy Bruce
Wayne, and the Blue side would be Batman. Talk about a visual change! Or,
you could use a blank face card and draw a big black bat on it with a Sharpie
marker, right in front of the audience; the red side is Bruce, the bat side
is Batman. If you drew the bat at one end of the blank side, the whole thing
would be visible when it turned inside out!
jonahand@hotmail.com
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)

Sixth comes from Robert Lane, a good one. Robert likes to emphasize hes the
magic man. Lets 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 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.
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
(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)
[Jon Hand
which the
10, J, K.
This idea

here again: the mirror image would be noticeable in a card in

number would be obviously printed in mirror image: 2 through 7, 9,
8 and A would not work, and the Q would probably be too subtle.
would require some expensive custom cards, however.]

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 thumb tacked
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 "overexposed"...
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.
(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
lets see what is possible.)
Hypnotic Card Warp by Robby Davis
My routine is based around a silly hypnotism. When they are hypnotized, they
can't tell the difference between the front and the back of the card. All the
folding are done under the context of saying that once I put them under they
won't be able to tell the difference. Then at the end, before the rip, I
bring them out of the "trance" and tell them that since they are no longer
hypnotized the only logical explanation for what they saw is that the card is
really half and half. -Rob

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.
Regs 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 cowboys 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 Ive
done the effect without anyone making the connection. I dont 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
weve already ruined this deck, let me show you one moreand 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. Havent 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 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 youre 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 outlike
normal. Watch their eyes bug out for an instant. Where you go after that Im
not sure, but youll be laughing so hard it wont 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 Waltons 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
them 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.
[Jon Hand adding commentary here again: Bruce Elliott's CLASSIC SECRETS OF
MAGIC shows a card move of Francis Carlyle's that works like a paddle move,
showing only one side of a card. With a blank back card, this sleight, and
your idea, you can print the card to match the folded card!]
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). [Split blank
and printed cards, cut split faces in half, and cross glue them. Lotta work,
but you get two gaffs from it for the effort.-- Jon Hand]
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 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
(Reg: 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 youre doing.
Ichazod
I've been doing Card Warp with one card for a couple of
routine I do is "Real Jokers" from "Magic & Meaning" by
Robert E. Neale. It starts as a one-card card warp, and
Paul Harris' "Ultimate Rip-Off" (A Torn & Restored Card
Scott Cram

years now. The basic

Eugene Burger &
then concludes with
effect).

(Reg: Thanks Scott, good combination there.

thing down).

Ive almost got the one card

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."
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 eyepopping 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, Torkovas Magic Includes Card Warp Completed. Order from
http://torkova.com/products.htm.

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 dont 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.
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