{"id":8942,"date":"2021-06-14T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8942"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:05:00","slug":"card-college-playing-cards-brick-12-decks","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/product\/card-college-playing-cards-brick-12-decks\/","title":{"rendered":"Card College Playing Cards &#8211; Brick (12 decks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More Information&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limited First Edition of 10&#8217;000 blue and red decks.<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful back color Burgundy Red and Royal Blue.<\/li>\n<li>Printed by USPCC on their Casino Premium Stock, the best currently available.<\/li>\n<li>Cut top-down, i.e. you can faro them as taught in Chapter 35 \u201cThe Faro Shuffle\u201d in\u00a0<em>Card College Volume 3<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Out-of-the-box quality.<\/li>\n<li>Special design on Ace of Spades with the <em>Card College<\/em> logo.<\/li>\n<li>Two Extra Jokers with portrait of Roberto Giobbi. The \u201cGuarantee Joker\u201d has a humorous text, which you can use for several tricks (e.g. \u201cGuaranteed!\u201d or \u201cThe Fine Print\u201d, both from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/product\/confidences-english\/\"><em>Confidences<\/em><\/a>, or \u201cCard Call\u201d from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/product\/stand-up-card-magic-card-magic-for-parlor-and-stage\/\"><em>Stand-up Card Magic).<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The nine surfaces on the card case have the following characteristics:\n<ul>\n<li>Each side has a motivational and poetic quote (one by Hofzinser, the other by Socrates). Also on the side, two pieces of information are given, one on each side. Side 1: the vintage year when the cards were printed (&#8220;2019&#8221;). Side 2: what edition it is (\u201c1st\u201d). No other deck we know of has gone to that degree of sophistication!<\/li>\n<li>From the two side-tabs, one carries the years the\u00a0<em>Card College<\/em>\u00a0books originally appeared in German (1992, 1994 &amp; 2003), the other tab shows Roberto Giobbi&#8217;s birthday (1st May 1959), so from now on you can send the author birthday greetings and gifts&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The flap has a short but informative text on Roberto Giobbi, the\u00a0<em>Card College<\/em>\u00a0books and TCC as the publishers of the Chinese version of the books and cards.<\/li>\n<li>The bottom of the case has the <em>Card College<\/em> logo and that of TCC, the copyright note, AND hidden in the open, so to speak, the formula for the Haymow Shuffle, which is at the basis of several excellent card tricks, with \u201cDai Vernon\u2019s Poker Demonstration\u201d being top-of-the-list (you\u2019ll find it in Ganson\u2019s<em>Dai Vernon Book of Magic<\/em>, or on Roberto Giobbi&#8217;s DVD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/product\/roberto-giobbis-dai-vernon-seminar\/\"><em>Dai Vernon Seminar<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>both in the video and in the enclosed PDF). Or see Roberto Giobbi&#8217;s column \u201cThe Genii Session\u201d in\u00a0<em>Genii<\/em>\u00a0of August 2007 called \u201cThe Horowitz Poker Deal\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The face of the case reflects the dustcover design of the American edition of<em> Card College<\/em> and pays tribute to Stephen Minch and his Hermetic Press, recently acquired by Acar Altinsel and his Penguin Magic.<\/li>\n<li>The back of the case is a nod in the direction of Barbara Giobbi\u2019s drawings in the books, which were done before today\u2019s sophisticated drawing softwares were available: the beautifully minimalistic back design of the cards reflects the hatched backs of the cards in the book\u2019s illustrations.<\/li>\n<li>The top of the case reads \u201cR. Giobbi\u2019s Card College Playing Cards\u201d. With this you can perform the trick \u201cTally-Ho\u201d as described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/product\/confidences-english\/\"><em>Confidences<\/em><\/a>: simply place a Joker instead of a \u201cSix\u201d at the 3rd position from the face, and then substitute \u201cA. Dougherty\u201d (10 cards) with \u201cR.Giobbi\u2019s\u201d\u00a0<em>including <\/em>the full stop and the apostrophe in the count (totals 10), Tally-Ho\u201d (7 cards) with \u201cCollege\u201d (also 7), \u201cPlaying\u201d and \u201cCards\u201d are the same. When you turn up the Joker, spell \u201cJoker\u201d, and you get to the last Ace. It\u2019s an old Henry Christ plot, with a super-touch by Richard Vollmer, and Roberto Giobbi&#8217;s presentational and handling details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bonus 1: The cards have a very subtly one-way design, which n-o-b-o-d-y will see at first sight, but once you know it, you will immediately and clearly see it, even in a hand- or table-spread.<\/li>\n<li>Bonus 2 &amp; 3: Two double-backers (blue\/blue, and red\/blue).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the story around the <em>Card College Playing Cards<\/em> in <em>The Magic Advent Calendar<\/em> (22) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/magic-advent-calendar-december-22\/\">CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Roberto Giobbi wrote <i>Card College<\/i>, a work considered worldwide as the standard text on sleight-of-hand card magic. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">TCC is the publisher of <i>Card College Playing Cards<\/i> and the producer of quality magic literature and props. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Together, they have created this regulation deck to fulfill the highest standards for card players and magicians.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One Brick contains 12 decks (6 blue, 6 red). If you would like a different\u00a0mix, please specify in the comment field of the order form.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>To read a detailed review by EndersGame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/EndersGame-Review-edited.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7694,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[43],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8942","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-specials","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertogiobbi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}