TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreward by Roy Walton...........................................................................page 8

Preface by Jeff Pierce................................................................................page 9
Introduction...........................................................................................page 11
Cardwarp by Roy Walton........................................................................page 13
Postscript to Cardwarp by Roy Walton.....................................................page 19
Piccard's Cardwarp Tear by Tom Piccard.................................................page 21
Prepare for Warp by David Acer...............................................................page 23
Warp Get-Ready by Karl Fulves...............................................................page 26
Scripts for Cardwarp..............................................................................page 27

Topological Inverter by Peter Samelson..........................................page 28

NDE (Near Death Experience) by Steve Peterson............................page 30

President Warped by Ross Berteig.................................................page 32

SpaceWarp by Whit Haydn............................................................page 34

FrankenWarp by Frank Starsinic..................................................page 35

Jumping Jack Flash by Ken McCreedy..........................................page 38

The Ripper by by Sen ONill........................................................page 39

The Twilight Zone by D.W. Denman...............................................page 41

The Witch Hunt by Chastain Criswell............................................page 43

Crossing Zones by Dave Le Fvre & Jeff Pierce...............................page 46

Essay: Express Yourself by Bill Duncan..................................................page 48

Prelude by Larry Jennings......................................................................page 54
Warped and Restored by Vinny Marini....................................................page 59
One Card Cardwarp by Raj Madhok.......................................................page 64

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Scarred Warp by Tyler Wilson................................................................page 68
4th Warp by Karl Fulves.........................................................................page 77
Open Display by Jason Alford.................................................................page 85
Do as I Do Business Card Warp by Andrew Pinard...................................page 88
Warp 9 by Mike Powers...........................................................................page 94
Star Warp by Howie Schwarzman............................................................page 99
The Double-Jointed Card by Jeff Pierce.................................................page 107
Essay: Why is Cardwarp a miracle in some hands, and a puzzle in others? .......
............................................................................................................page 115
Warp II by Dean Tellefson......................................................................page 116
Warped and Single by Don England.......................................................page 123
Re-Warped by Brian Cook.....................................................................page 127
B'Warped by John B. Born....................................................................page 133
King of Warped by Martin Cox...............................................................page 140
Warp of the Worlds by Jordan Colter.....................................................page 144
Inside Out by Richard Osterlind............................................................page 148
Son of Hyper-Warp by Tom Frame........................................................page 154
Warpogami by Alain Nu.........................................................................page 167
Warped and Fryed by Charlie Frye.........................................................page 171
The Cardwarp Case by Curtis Kam........................................................page 176
The Encore by Jeff Pierce......................................................................page 179
Reference Material................................................................................page 182

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Cardwarp by Roy Walton

EFFECT
A playing card is folded in half lengthwise so that only the back design shows. This
card is then pushed through a cardboard folder. As it is pushed through, the playing
card visibly turns inside out, so that the face of the card now shows. The folder and
the playing card are opened out to show that all is fair. The effect is now repeated.
The third sequence is an effective climax which finishes the trick in the spectators
hands. The playing card is an ordinary one. The cardboard folder merely a piece of
cardboard, and may in fact be another playing card folded breadth wise. No extra
card or gimmicks are used, nor are there any difficult sleights involved, and it is easy
to construct a patter theme around the effect of traveling through a time tunnel etc.
NOTE
This effect uses a principle originated by Jeff Busby and described in his manuscript
Into the 4th Dimensionand Beyond.
METHOD AND PREPARATION
Take a card from an ordinary pack and fold it in half
lengthwise. (Fig. 1) This fold must be made accurately
and must be firm. Reverse the fold and crease the card
again. This will take all the stiffness out of the fold and
will make the working easier.

Now fold the card half-way across its breadth to the

center point. (Fig. 2)

You must tear the card along this fold. (Fig. 3) The tear
should be straight and even, but on no account use
scissors to cut the card. It is essential for the climax that
the card be torn. This preparation gives you two quarters
of the card which will act as flaps in either direction.

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What do you get when you take Jeff Busbys original idea of a card turning inside out
as its passed through the fist, and turn it on its head! A great routine reminiscent of
Jeff Busbys original idea.

Warped and Restored by Vinny Marini

Crease a card along its length and width SHARPLY. Use
your nails. Have the card signed by two spectators. Make
sure they sign the upper and lower portions as depicted
in (Fig. 1).
Take the card back and in the process of bringing the
card towards your body, make a tear along its width.

The tear should be half the width of the card. (Fig. 2 is an

exposed view)

Fold the card lengthwise and place it into your left

palm. The folded edge is on the right. (Fig. 3) shows the
orientation of the card from the performers view.
The tear should be against the left fingers. Make sure
half the card is protruding over your left fingertips so the
spectators can see it.
With your right hand, grasp the top edge of the card and
rotate the card towards your chest.

The lower left quadrant of the playing card should remain

in an automatic finger palm position, as shown in
(Fig. 4).
Rotate your left wrist towards the left so the spectators
can view the right side of the card. Grip the top edge of the
cards once again with your right hand. Slightly turn the
card towards the right while your left hand maneuvers
the finger palmed section.

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You need to load the half-card into the whole card. Do this as you bring your hands
together ready to make the tear. (Fig. 2) Once loaded, tear the whole card downward
to the border. (Fig. 3)

Now open the whole card, leaving the half-card still folded, and rotate it ninety
degrees counter-clockwise, still hiding the half-card behind. (Figs. 4 & 5)

Once done, pick up the signed card still on the table (thats if the waitress hasnt
cleared it away by now or your spectator has gone home or fallen asleep).
Place it behind tile upright whole card and clip it into the folded half-card.
(Figs. 6 & 7)

Fold down the whole card and hopefully you will have in your hand, a whole card
folded in half (back face out), and sticking out from the side, a portion of the signed
card. If not, then youll have to read through this bit again. Pinch the whole card
slightly and start to push through the signed card.
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Perform a Mexican Turnover with the cards by gripping both cards with your right
hand, ngers on the top, thumb on the bottom. As your right hand turns over, the
right thumb pulls the bottom card (Ace) back, and the right ngers push the top
card (Jack) forward, being careful not to expose the extra piece on the back of the
Jack. (Fig. 4) Flick the bottom face down card, now the jack, although it looks like
it is still the Ace. (Fig. 5) Without exposing the extra piece, rotate the bottom card
(the Jack that the spectator thinks is the Ace) to the left ninety degrees. (Fig. 6)

Fig. 4

Fig. 6

Fig. 5

Fold the top card short-ways around the lower card so that the lower card is folded
along its crease long-ways. (Fig. 7) Do this folding action as you simultaneously
rotate you right wrist forward. Make sure not to ash the faces of either card or the
extra piece during this process. The two cards are now in such a position that their
creases are facing away from you. (Fig. 8)

Fig. 7

Fig. 8

Place the cards in your palm-up left hand so that the Jack (thought by the spectator
to be the Ace) is protruding towards the crotch of your thumb. Perform the Through
the Fist Flourish as your thumb pushes the protruding card through the card
folded around it as your left hand turns the packet over end-for-end. The Ace of
Spades will appear to have turned inside out. (Figs. 9 & 10)

Fig. 9

Fig. 10

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Hold the bill in your right fingers, with the face up, (the slit is facing to the right
and back towards your body. Washingtons head is pointing to the right.) Your right
thumb is on top of the bill, covering the slit. Your fingers are under the bill and
covering the slit from below. (Fig. 3)
Show both sides of the bill keeping your fingers and thumb over the slit. (Fig. 4)

First lets go over the folding procedure. Well do it in steps so its easier to follow.
Step 1: Fold the bill in half by folding the front back over towards your body to the
rear side of the bill. This will cover the slit. Your right hand fingers continue to cover
the slit from below. If you show both sides of the folded bill you will see the green
side of the bill.
Step 2: Fold the bottom quarter of the top half of the bill
back forward. You will notice that this covers the green
top side of the bill and now shows the grey side on top.
(Fig. 5)
Step 3: Fold the left side of the bill back on itself. This
will cover the green side of the bill in the back. As always,
maintain your right fingers covering the slit. You now
have a bill folded in quarters with the grey side out.
(Fig. 6)
Step 4: Fold the top (thicker pack) eighth of the bill back
underneath below the other eighth of the bill.
You now are holding the bill, folded in eighths. Position
Check: The single eighth piece of the bill should be on top
of the packet.
Step 5: Turn this packet over from the front to the back placing the single eighth
of the bill on the bottom.
These are the five steps to fold the bill into eighths.
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Warpogami by Alain Nu

Originally published in MAGIC Magazine, reprinted with permission.

EFFECT
A solution to climax Waltons Cardwarp, McAllisters Greenwarp, or Schwarzmans
Star Warp utilizing an off-beat presentation in which the torn card halves visually
transform into an origami box that is given to the spectator.
Each time this effect is performed, two matching cards
will be used up. It is in your best interest to buy a oneway forcing deck of any court card from your local magic
dealer. Court cards are best to use because the box which
you will fold from them will display nicely the little faces
of the court gures. (Fig. 1)
For each one-way deck that you buy, you will be able
to perform this effect 25 times. I recommend that you
learn a Cardwarp routine that involves only the use of
one card and a dollar bill (ie: McAllisters Greenwarp
from Richards Almanac, or Schwarzmans Star Warp
from The Apocalypse) for the simple reason that at the
conclusion of this effect, you are only prepared to do
magic with one ripped card. As a two-card routine will
leave you with an extra card to attend to at the nish, a
card/bill presentation will leave you clean at the end.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOX
Lets say you are using a one-way deck of Jack of
Diamonds Bicycle Rider Back Cards. Take one and tear
it in half width-wise. The two halves will be folded in the
same way except one will be folded face up and the other
half will be folded face down. Begin by folding each of the
long sides of the half-card in 0.25 its width approximately
7/16 from the edge. (Fig. 2)

Fig. 1

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

Unfold the long sides as you only need the creases to help
guide you. Now make creases by folding both of the short
edges of the half-card 1/3 its length and about 13/16
from the edge. (Fig. 3) Once creased, unfold again.
You will now fold all four sides up by making a valleyfold where the sides meet. This valley fold is at a 45
degree angle to the other folds. (Fig. 4)

Fig. 4

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