# The Royal Road to Card Magic ## Metadata * Author: [Jean Hugard](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B0074Q41LW * ISBN: 1406793914 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074Q41LW * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0074Q41LW) ## Highlights Never tell beforehand what you purpose to do. Forewarned, the audience conceivably may discover the method. Wait until the climax, when all the necessary secret preparations have been made, before announcing what you will do. 2. Do not repeat a trick, unless you can duplicate the effect by another means. 3. Never reveal the secret of a trick. Many good card tricks are so simple that to reveal the method is to lower yourself in the estimation of the audience, which has given you great credit for a skill which you then confess you do not possess! 4. Use misdirection to help you conceal the vital sleight or subtlety employed in a trick. Misdirection is simply the diversion of the audience's attention during the moments when a sleight or subtlety is made use of. Let us say, for instance, that you must make use of the sleight known as The Pass in the course of a trick. — location: [50](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0074Q41LW&location=50) ^ref-17860 --- Know what your patter will be for — location: [60](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0074Q41LW&location=60) ^ref-36708 ---