The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Second Thoughts

Author/Editor: Rioboo, Ramon

w/ dustjacket

2019 English edition of 2010 Spanish book

Foreword (Vicente Canuto)
Introduction
Chatting with Manolo Digital

FOR STARTERS
The Good-Old Crimp
My Spelling System
The Gene Finnell Free-Cut Principle
The Injog Cut Control
My Bottom Palm

VISUAL AND MENTAL RUSES
What Ruses Are About
The Optical Cutting Deception
Strategy for Ascertaining One Card of Three
Dribble and Packet Replacements
My Packet-Turnover Shuffle
A Dribble Variation
My System for Showing Blue and Red Backs
Cut, Shuffle and Restore
Counting to Alter and Restore Order
Shuffle, Cut and Restore
Count, Shuffle and Restore

IMPROMPTU AND SELF-WORKING TRICKS
Reflecting on Our Magic
An Adjusted Prediction
Klondike Poker
Impossible Dribble
Shy or Showoff
Nuclear Weapons
The Twenty-first and Whatever
Signed Card from Packet to Packet
The Whispering Card
Heart and Fortune
Saint Rita and the Zodiac
Cards That Manifest Themselves
Fair Value
21st Century 21 Card Trick
More Piles and Total Freedom
Free Cut, Spell and Reinhard

TRICKS WITH STACKS AND SETUPS
Magician, Method and Effect
Introduction to the Tricks
The Prophecy of the Absent Magician
Controlling Chaos
Mysterious Divination
Same Number for Three
Grand Telepathy for Five
Double Allerton
Divination through Another’s Touch
A Magic Card and a Magic Number
Divine and Locate
The Bad-Luck Card
A Taste for the Ladies

NEW SLEIGHTS AND NEW SYSTEMS
Magic and Knowledge
The Underground Stop
The Rioboo Lapping Technique
Back-Color Transposition
Impossible Prediction (One in Fifty-two)
The Black-Hole Principle
I Always Miss, So I Never Miss
Mr. Galasso and the Black Hole
Touch and Telepathy
The Principle of Inverted Compensation
The Roulette Deck
Swindle Deal for Three
   A Dissertation about This System

TRICKS WITH PREPARATION, EXTRA CARDS OR SLEIGHT-OF-HAND
Difficult, Improbable and Impossible
The Stapled Card, without Jokers
Two Cards and Two Envelopes
Black Widows
Red and Blue Widows
Prophecy, Value and Suit
A Quick Trip

TRICKS WITH SPECIAL CARDS
Seen, Noticed, Suspected
Double Magic Trip
Out of Touch
Premonition and Divination
Guaranteed Premonition