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Is there a commercially available symbol deck that has many more symbols than a standard ESP deck?

The Mental Pictoria deck is probably the best, but not available that I can find. Once a Nelson Enterprises staple. 30 symbols.

Here’s one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/653597448/ ... lism-magic

Try to find the "Symbology" deck, by Sean Taylor, originally marketed in 2004.

It's a 52 card deck, with 13 different symbols, each repeated 4 times, each in 4 different colors -- so the colors are roughly parallel to "suits". Each of the 13 designs is easily associated with a number (from 1 to 13), by an easily remembered mnemonic. So, you can do pretty much any card trick, but with colored symbols. And -- get this -- the entire deck is marked (based on the Boris Wild system)!

The deck came with a 40 page book, describing a bunch of effects.

Mergel

Joe Lyons wrote:Here’s one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/653597448/ ... lism-magic

Here's a cheaper one:

https://shop.ronjo.com/haiens-house-of- ... d-m10.html

Bob Farmer wrote:Is there a commercially available symbol deck that has many more symbols than a standard ESP deck?

I could probably whip up some custom symbols faces for you in playing card format that you could print out.

This is great--thank you all.

I've found what I need and the trick will appear in Genii in a few months. It's a killer.

Max Maven has at least several.

printerstudio.com will print a complete custom deck of cards—you can upload images for both the face and back of every card—for about $20. Pretty good price for a single deck. The quality is not quite USPCC but it is close enough for most purposes, including sleight of hand. I've used them several times with good results.

The biggest limit is if you want to print a deck with, say, a bicycle back, they won't do it.

Pete, that's a great tip--thank you.

You already have a sample of a printerstudio.com deck, by the way. Remember the Dealer Test deck I sent you (from the Tarotdiction toolbox)? Printerstudio.com made that.

Yes, Pete--those were very nice cards. Thank you again.

If you draw at all, get double blank cards (spectators can see no marks on the backs) and use a Sharpie and go Apple, Boat, Cherries, etc., but when you show the deck you would call them Fruit, Ship, Berries...so they don't realize how simple the code is. I only went as far as Watch and just omitted X, Y, and Z. Pretty inexpensive way to go. Cheers.

Richard Osterlind's O.D.D.S. effect uses 26 word cards, list is alphabetical, but are stacked in a way that if you peek the card above one picked by spectator, it lets you know what the card chosen was.

It is written up in his Essays booklet also.