Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

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Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 18th, 2012, 11:11 am

All:
I'm working out a routine and need to show 3 different cards as being identical to the bottom card of the packet.

Marlo's classic Quick 3-Way sequence would work here, but I don't care for the V/C/A alignment move. Also, I'd like to avoid Flustration, Rhumba, etc. because I feel those work best as convincers.

I've found Gordon Bruce's Duplicount and RP Wilson's Tres Ariba count which can accomplish this (albeit with some adjustment of the card positions).

I was wondering if someone could point me towards some other published alternatives please.

Many thanks!

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Joe Pecore » August 18th, 2012, 11:23 am

How about Boris Wild's KISS Count or a diminishing lift sequence (Aaron Fisher has one in the Paper Engine or the one performed by Denis Behr at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAmqw1SZJw)
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 18th, 2012, 11:54 am

Thanks, Joe: going through my file of Apocalypse as we speak. :)

Anyone have a copy of the pamphlet that contains the Winkler Switch by Gerd Winkler for sale? I'd like to purchase it to study the switch.

Alternatively, does anyone have any contact information for Mr. Winkler please? (The only thing I've been able to find of Mr. Winkler's is a rather disturbing card trick in Concertos for Pasteboard).

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 19th, 2012, 12:24 am

Is your audience very close or do you have enough room to use parlor type card handling?
Also, are the cards going anywhere* as you display them?
(if you have three cards ... realistic expectations are that you simply fan them and turn over the fan)
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 19th, 2012, 3:01 am

Bill: Did not receive the PM--sent you a message.

Philippe: Thanks--will check it out.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 19th, 2012, 3:27 am

Jonathan Townsend wrote:Is your audience very close or do you have enough room to use parlor type card handling?
Also, are the cards going anywhere* as you display them?
(if you have three cards ... realistic expectations are that you simply fan them and turn over the fan)


It's close up in a monte/wild card type routine. Table will be present.

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Postby Max Maven » August 19th, 2012, 3:30 am

"Slide Three-Way" in Majorminor (1983) or in Racherbaumer's Counthesaurus (2004).

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 19th, 2012, 2:23 pm

Thank you, Mr. Maven--I'll check it out!

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 19th, 2012, 11:44 pm

I've published versions in CardMagic and other places, and Jim Swain has a very good version in one of the issues Richard's Almanac.
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Denis Behr » August 20th, 2012, 5:31 am

The items Richard mentions can be found rather easily in this list with various All-Alike-Display sequences: http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?cat=706

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 20th, 2012, 8:25 am

Wow! Thank you so much, Denis and Richard! Time to get busy... :)

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Postby Richard Kaufman » August 20th, 2012, 10:46 am

I also have half a dozen completely different handlings that will be in the Jennings books.
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 20th, 2012, 11:27 am

Cool!

(I've begun checking out the references, and it's always seems that the rhythm and the penultimate card is what separates out the practical from the pretenders.)

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 20th, 2012, 12:06 pm

One of the Jennings handlings, unpublished but was supposed to have been in a second Jennings issue of Genii when it was still under the Larsens, is VERY good. Not easy, but very good.
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Max Maven » August 21st, 2012, 6:13 am

Richard, you've reminded me of an amusing anecdote I hadn't thought of in years.

One night at the Magic Castle, I ran into Larry Jennings, and he said, "I've come up with a thing based on Marlo's 'Quick Three-Way' that I think looks pretty good." He proceeded to do the "Slide Three-Way" (four-card handling), exactly as I had written it up for the book Majorminor. I knew it was an independent invention, because the booklet had been published less than a week before! He was rather crestfallen, but clearly that was not the only effort he'd put into exploring the overall idea.

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Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2012, 10:41 am

That's funny, Max. "Crestfallen" is the perfect word to describe Larry's reaction he discovered he'd reinvented something.
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 21st, 2012, 12:14 pm

How many cards do you actually have in hand (ie any extras) and if you have more than the amount you say are any of them dupes? Even just a top change done between the display and tabling of a card can get the job done. With an extra in hand you can drop the last card and then pick it up for a clean display from the table.

Yeah I know that's really basic stuff.

Kostya Kamlat (sp sorry) had an impressive turnover sequence in his work on the spread cull.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 23rd, 2012, 10:50 pm

JT:

3 Cards in the hand. Show them all individually as the same card. (G. Bruce's Duplicount is a lot like serial top changes)

Was the Kimlat move on one of his DVD?

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby AnthonyBrahams » August 24th, 2012, 2:05 pm

Slydini's handling, using push-offs, is very neat and easier to perform than other methods.
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Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 24th, 2012, 2:37 pm

AnthonyBrahams wrote:Slydini's handling, using push-offs, is very neat and easier to perform than other methods.


He showed me something along those lines in Tannnen's. I was not sure that approach was in print or open for discussion. Pushoffs and holding the card(s) face out to the audience for display.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 24th, 2012, 3:12 pm

Even if it isn't in print, we SHOULD explain it here so everyone can benefit from it.
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Jonathan Townsend » August 24th, 2012, 3:25 pm

Okay, here's what I recall:
The key is that you are going to push a card to the side with your thumb and then pick it up to show its face, then replace it on top of the packet before displacing it to the bottom of the packet.
You shold be a step back from your audience as the displays are faceOut rather than turnovers - but turnovers could work too.
The packet starts face down in your left hand. The show card starts on top, two others underneath.
Push the top card off to the side with your thumb.
Then pick up the top card from that position.
Show its face.
Replace on top of the packet.
Push off two cards as one and "put that on the bottom".
Push off two cards and then pick them up as one apparently the same way as you did the first card.
Show the face card of the double to the audience.
Replace it (them) on top of the packet.
Push off the top card and "put that on the bottom".
Push off the top card and display to the audience.
There are moments when it might startle wise-acres to snap a single card during the sequence.
Hope this helps,
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Postby Richard Kaufman » August 24th, 2012, 3:35 pm

John, thanks very much for explaining that. It's about as natural as one could hope for!
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby David Ben » August 24th, 2012, 3:51 pm

Herb Zarrow had a lovely handling that dealt with this which he called "The Worraz Move" (Zarrow: A Lifetime of Magic, page 326). There, I wrote "Except for a technique devised by Eddy Taytelbaum, Herb found most techniques for showing a small number of cards as one wanting. It motivated him, however, to develop the following sleight." I then describe Herb's handling. I do not recall, unfortunately, the Taytelbaum handling. Herb's, however, is very good.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 24th, 2012, 5:50 pm

Jon: That's terrific--thanks so much! I like the sequence a lot--and want to kick myself, as it's closely related to a sequence I've performed a zillion times: "A 'Brown' Version of the Three Card Trick"--Effect No. 2 (The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown, pg 52). It's also related to "Thin Ambitions" (Daryl's Ambitious Card Omnibus, pg 24). I'm suspect there are other antecedents.

David: thank you for the Zarrow reference--off to the bookshelf I go! (Perhaps the Taytelbaum handling Mr. Zarrow liked was the Taytelbaum reference Denis cited? ("Flustered" Apocalypse, pg 778?)

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby r paul wilson » August 24th, 2012, 6:03 pm

I published the "Tres Ariba" count in 1996 in the original "Gypsy Monte" routine.

I noted that it was so simple and direct that it had surely been done before.

Jon just described the same handling and I'm delighted to finally know the originator.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Edwin Corrie » August 24th, 2012, 7:43 pm

erdnasephile wrote:Anyone have a copy of the pamphlet that contains the Winkler Switch by Gerd Winkler for sale? I'd like to purchase it to study the switch.


It's in his book "Top Twenties" published by Zauberzentrale Mnchen (1989). They don't seem to have it any more on their website, but it can be found secondhand. Only available in German though.

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Postby Denis Behr » August 25th, 2012, 6:05 am

erdnasephile wrote:Anyone have a copy of the pamphlet that contains the Winkler Switch by Gerd Winkler for sale? I'd like to purchase it to study the switch.

Did you get the reference from here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAmqw1SZJw
I don't think it's published elsewhere than in the German pamphlet "German Card Top Twenties".

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby erdnasephile » August 26th, 2012, 10:17 pm

Thanks for the information Edwin and Denis--I'll keep looking.

Counthesaurus arrived in the mail: Max's solution has a nice uniformity of action, and a rather pleasing rentention of vision-type aspect to it. It does require some neatness of handling, but I like it very much.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Bob Farmer » September 25th, 2022, 10:45 am

As I was doing some research on "Color Monte," the effect that evolved from Bill Elliott's "3 Card Monkey Business" (Ibidem #16, March, 1959, pp.330-332) which in turn evolved from Ed Marlo's "Quick 3-Way" (Ibidem #15, December, 1958, pp. 310-311), I came across my version from hundreds of years ago (1977). It goes like this and looks very casual:

1. The three-card packet runs from the top down, face down:
Joker
Blank
Blank

2. Spread the cards slightly and flip over the top card, a Joker. Flip it face down and Second Deal a card, a blank, to the table face down.

3. Flip over the top card, Joker, then flip it face down and Bottom Deal a card, a blank, to the table face down.

4. Flip over the last card, Joker, then flip it face down and use it to scoop up the two cards on the table.

5. Use a Flushtration or Rumba count to show all cards as Jokers.

The Second Deal and the Bottom Deal are most deceptive if the left hand moves away to the left, leaving the dealt card in the right hand. For the Second Deal, use a two-card push off as in the Elmsley Count.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Richard Kaufman » September 25th, 2022, 11:01 am

Max Maven has a nice version called "Slide Three Way."
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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Brad Henderson » September 25th, 2022, 11:42 am

For color monte. Instead of the alignment move follower by an unnatural turnover, just do a double turnover from the top and bottom of the pack. It’s not hard. Partially push over the top card with the left thumb. Buckle and push over bottom card with left fingers. The two can be brought to near alignment at this point. Grab the seemingly top card by its edge(s) with the right fingers and turn/flip it over onto the pack.

Just avoid tension in the hands as you buckle and set up.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby kkelly » September 25th, 2022, 12:23 pm

jon racherbaumer put out a manuscript on the quick three way.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby El Mystico » September 26th, 2022, 12:43 pm

L&L released a DVD of Vernon lecturing at the Castle on April 1st 1977. In it he shows his version of Hamman's Pinochle Trick. There is a count in that which, with a minor modification, would work.
Also check Norman Houghton's Trinity in Apocalypse Vol. 3 No. 9.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Bob Farmer » September 26th, 2022, 2:51 pm

I always pay attention when Norm Houghton's name is mentioned.

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Randy DiMarco » September 26th, 2022, 4:04 pm

The Slydini method above is essentially the method Bob White used in his Magic Cards routine He used his Flash Double for the displays which look very natural in that context. Look in "It's a Matter of Style" p.6

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Re: Alternatives for Marlo's Quick 3-Way sequence

Postby Martin Perry » October 9th, 2022, 9:55 am

The Norman Houghton handling “Trinity” mentioned by El Mystico is very nice. I’ve been using it for Everywhere and Nowhere. It was also republished in his book Wit and Wizardry.


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