Boudreau, Leo: Spirited Pasteboards
©1987 Leo Boudreau, Rustic Press, Arlington, VA
Softcover, comb-bound, 233 pages
Spirited
              Pasteboards
Image courtesy e-Bay seller *Go-n-go-n-gone*

Comments: "Mental Gems with Ordinary Cards." Illustrated. From the introduction (by Max Maven): "As with the author's previous book, Psimatrika, the work in this text is primarily based upon stacking arrangements which generate information via binary codes. The principle is by no means new, but in its seventy-year history as a conjuring method, it has remained little-known and woefully under-explored. Mr. Boudreau clearly wishes to remedy that with a vengeance."

Contents (updated Aug 2018 with 2nd half of contents, from book ToC):

1 Mountain Valley Stack
7 Calling Cards
12 - All Decked Out
16 - A Hi-Tech Princess
19 Ultrasense
26 - Stellar Connections
32 - Back Track
39 White Noise
45 Bracelet Redux
49 - A Sense of Vlaue
59 - Second Impression
61 - Sudden Impact
64 - Extempore
67 - Suiting Up
69 - Karmatrix
71 - Heady Stuff
77 - Take Three
79 Estimation & Noise
85 - The Multicard Locator
93 Any Card At Any Number
99 - The Calibrated Deck
101 The Cutting Edge
110 - No Facial Stack
111 - A Threesome
112 - Cutting The Suits
114 - Cutting The Values
116 - Quick Counts
121 The Unseen
124 - A Corollary
125 Matchmaking
129 - Twin Decks
131 - A Baker's Dozen
134 - Strange Relations
137 - The Rhine Test
141 Psychic Gambol
147 - 52 Scatter
152 - The Black Castle
159 - Easy Poker
163 A Force Of Sorts
168 - Count Down
174 - Assorted Cards
183 Stop Action
187 - Significant Bits
196 - Core Memory
199 Coluria '87
205 - Anything Goes
210 - Numerology, Etc
213 Two Person Telepathy
214 - The Silent Partner
217 - Talking Heads
221 Melange



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