The author's unique brand of Card Magic that artfully blends subtleties, stacks, gaffs, mental skills, sleights and new principles to create effects that are direct, entertaining, baffling and easy to perform. Contents include Point Spread, you repeatedly predict the point spread in a simple card game; Fate, the ultimate birthday card routine; This Side Up, a spectators signed card becomes the opposite side on an Instruction Card; Everybodys Lazy, a triple climax, no-touch routine; Moves and Removes, the classic 3-by-3 elimination game; The Aronson Stripout, a straightforward procedure that will delight technicians and cardmen; Suit Yourself, a two-deck miracle; Two Possibilities, Simon's solution to the classic Open Prediction plot. Plus much more. Lots of comments, tips, ideas, lead-ins, routines and sequences, presented in Simon's readable, teachable and enjoyable style. John Bannon says, "There are two hallmarks of Simon's tricks. First, they are totally fooling. Second, they are intrinsically interesting..." Hardbound. 308 pages.