The Acme of Control

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The Acme of Control is a card trick in which the magician shows two cards, inserts them into the deck, allows the spectator to shuffle the deck, takes the deck back, and is then able to produce the two cards in any way he pleases, such as from his pocket.

## Method

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Assuming that the magician wishes to produce the cards from his pocket at the end, he starts with the five of diamonds and the four of hearts in his pocket before presenting the trick. He then removes the five of hearts and the four of diamonds that are in the deck, and shows them together to the audience. These cards are re-inserted into the deck, which is then shuffled by the spectator. At the end, the magician produces the similar pair of cards that have been in his pocket all along, apparently the same cards which were shuffled into the deck.

## Sources

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* Erdnase, S. W. The Expert At The Card Table. ISBN 0-486-28597-9

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Magic and illusion

General|

* Assistants
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* Conventions
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Genres|

* Bizarre
* Card (techniques)
* Cardistry (history)
* Children's
* Close-up magic
* Coin
* Escapology
* Gospel
* Mathemagic
* Mental
* Platform
* Séance
* Stage
* Street

Tricks and
techniques|

* Levitation
* Equivocation
* Misdirection
* Sleight of hand
* Pepper's ghost

Guidebooks|

* The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)
* Modern Magic (1876)
* The Expert at the Card Table (1902)
* Tarbell Course (1928–)
* Thirteen Steps to Mentalism (1961)
* Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic (1975)
* Conjuring (1992)

Periodicals|

* Abracadabra
* Genii
* Hugard's Magic Monthly
* The Jinx
* The Linking Ring
* Magic
* Magigram
* Mahatma
* Smoke & Mirrors
* The Sphinx

Lists|

* Conjuring terms
* Films about magicians
* Magicians
* Museums
* Publications
* Timeline
* Tricks

Related|

* Indian magicians
* Midnight ghost show

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Playing cards

Standard
52-card deck|

| Playing card suits (French)|

* Spades
* Hearts
* Diamonds
* Clubs

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Ranks|

* Ace
* Ace of spades
* Ace of hearts
* King
* Queen
* Queen of spades
* Jack
* Curse of Scotland
* Beer card

Specific decks|

* Ambraser Hofjagdspiel
* Archaeology awareness
* Charruan
* Flemish Hunting Deck
* Hamas most wanted
* Hofämterspiel
* Jerry's Nugget
* Most-wanted Iraqi
* Politicards
* Stuttgart pack
* Transformation

Other packs
and decks|

* As-Nas
* Chinese
* Four-colour pack
* Ganjifa
* ganjapa
* Karuta
* hanafuda
* Hyakunin Isshu
* kabufuda
* uta-garuta
* Kvitlech
* Polish
* Portuguese-suited
* Russian
* Tarot pack
* Tujeon
* Zi pai

Cards|

* Banner
* Blank
* Court card
* knight
* Ober
* Unter
* Pip card
* deuce
* Weli
* Joker
* Nicknames
* Stripped deck
* Talon
* Unicode

Other suits|

| German|

* Leaves

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Swiss|

* Shields
* Roses

German and Swiss|

* Acorns
* Bells

Latin (Italian/Spanish/Portuguese)|

* Cups
* Coins
* Batons
* Swords
* Japanese
* Guru (circular whirls)

Chinese (Money)|

* Cash
* Strings of Cash
* Myriads of Strings
* Tens of Myriads

Manufacturers
and brands|

| Manufacturers|

* ASS Altenburger
* Cartamundi
* Copag
* Dal Negro
* Fournier
* France Cartes
* F.X. Schmid
* Gemaco
* J.O. Öberg & Son
* Modiano
* Nintendo
* Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag
* Oishi Tengudo
* Piatnik
* Ravensburger
* Trefl
* U.S. Games Systems
* United States Playing Card Company

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Brands|

* Bicycle
* Grimaud

Defunct|

* Aspioti-ELKA
* Bielefelder Spielkarten
* C.L. Wüst
* Charles Goodall
* Dondorf
* Lewis Cohen
* Waddingtons

Notable people|

* Lee Asher
* Hubert Auer
* Bryan Berg
* David Blaine
* Derren Brown
* Lewis Cohen
* Dan and Dave
* Thierry Depaulis
* S. W. Erdnase
* Lennart Green
* Richard Harding
* Johann Kaspar Hechtel
* Ricky Jay
* Sekiryo Kaneda
* René Lavand
* Ed Marlo
* Master of the Playing Cards
* John McLeod
* Anton Moser
* Samuel J. Murray
* David Parlett
* Ferdinand Piatnik
* Richard Valentine Pitchford
* Franco Pratesi
* Johann Georg Rauch
* Juan Tamariz
* Howard Thurston
* Charles Troedel
* Dai Vernon
* Fusajiro Yamauchi

Groups and
organisations|

| Skat|

* British Skat Association
* German Skat Association
* International Skat Court
* International Skat Players Association

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* 52 Plus Joker
* Cary Collection of Playing Cards
* Fournier Museum of Playing Cards
* German Doppelkopf Association
* German Playing Card Museum
* International Playing-Card Society
* The Playing-Card
* Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer
* Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture
* Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards

Card manipulation
and cardistry|

| Tricks|

* The Acme of Control
* Ambitious Card
* Blackstone's Card Trick Without Cards
* The Circus Card Trick
* The Four Burglars
* Out of This World
* Rising Card
* Spelling Bee
* Twenty-One Card Trick

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* Bottom dealing
* Card marking
* Card sharp
* Card throwing
* Cards in the hat
* Cardistry-Con
* Cutting
* Double lift
* The Expert at the Card Table
* Herrmann pass
* History of cardistry
* House of cards
* One-way deck
* Palms and grips
* gambler's
* magician's
* mechanic's
* Tenkai
* The Phantom of the Card Table
* Second dealing
* Shuffling
* faro
* Gilbreath
* Zarrow
* Si Stebbins stack
* Spoke card
* Three-card monte
* Trick decks

Art and media|

| Paintings|

* The Acrobats
* The Bezique Game
* The Card Players
* The Card Players II
* Card Players in a Rich Interior
* The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds
* Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room
* The Cardsharps
* Dogs Playing Poker
* Still Life with a Poem
* Violin and Playing Cards on a Table

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Film and television|

* Card Sharks
* Playing Cards (1896)
* Play Your Cards Right

Video games|

* Balatro

Literature|

* Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865)

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