Jon Racherbaumer – Tickling Tekel (official PDF)

Description

From the Introduction:
The purpose of this compilation is to incentivize and “tickle” students to reexamine the Mene-Tekel deck and reconsider its possibilities. This has been done before and as recently as 2003 when Chris Wardle (via Paul Hallas) published a 27 page booklet titled Investigating the Mene-Tekel Deck (Magic’s Forgotten Trick Deck).

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We begin with Ed Marlo’s groundbreaking addition of what he called the Roughed Mene-Tekel. We end with ends with David Britland’s clever routines. In between there the other contributions are meant to provide further context and stimulation – enough to tickle anyone’s fancy. At least that’s the presumptive impulse that led to its creation.

• Marlo on the Roughed Mene-Tekel Deck
• R.R.B.M.T.
• Macho Matcho
• Think Universal
• Background Notes
• Who Christened and Sold the Mene-Tekel Deck?
• What Exactly is a Mene-Tekel Deck?
• Displaying, Shuffling, and Cutting the Deck
• A Curious Coincidence
• Multi-Effect Cards
• Tele-A-Tric Deck (Joe Berg)
• A New Look at the Mene Tekel Deck (Eugene Gloye)
• A New Stage Version of the Mind Reading Stunt
• Sympathetic Cards to Pocket
• Reverse Mene Tekel Deck

1st edition 2020, PDF 62 pages.
word count: 12337 which is equivalent to 49 standard pages of text