If you're just starting out with a memorized deck, his Memorized Deck Mastery article is the first thing you should read.
Directly underneath the selection of memorized deck items for sale is a collection of Dennis Loomis' memorized deck articles from the Smoke and Mirrors eZine. The Loomis Memorized Deck Page: Dennis Loomis' site is a great store, but for Memorized Deck users, this particular section is a gem.The tips and tricks in this section are of great help in memorized deck orientation. This is a more detailed look at memorized stacks, including some important terms you'll need to know. Simon's PDF, Memories Are Made Of This (this link will open in a new window), should be your first stop here. Simon Aronson's Memorized Deck Area: If you've decided that the memorized deck is for you, here is the next step.This essay makes sure you're starting off right by letting you know what you can and cannot expect. An Introduction to Full-Deck Stacks: This is Doug Dyment's essay on the differences and advantages of various full-deck stacks, including the memorized deck.Here's the most useful online tools I've found for a memorized deck toolbox. He’ll publish those he thinks are worthy of general interest on these pages, with credit to all contributors.Memorized decks have long been a favorite tool of mine (no surprise to regular Grey Matters readers), but even tools themselves can benefit from having their own toolboxes. If you have some original ideas that are specific to the Aronson stack and you want to share them, send them to Simon. Kruskal meets the Aronson Stack (Dennis Loomis) Thou ghts on the Triple Poker Routine (Dennis Loomis)
If you’re just learning the Aronson stack, how would you like a simple computer program to help you practice, to quiz you? Simon wants to share these latest tools and ideas, with all users and would-be practitioners of the Aronson stack. Some are Simon’s ideas, and some are those of his friends worldwide who use his stack. Simon recently published a 70+ page collection of this new material in his treatise "Unpacking the Aronson Stack," as a chapter in his newest book Try the Impossible (2001).Įven since Try the Impossible, new, strong effects and features with the Aronson stack are still being created. And much of this material leaves the stack intact, a boon to the walkaround magician. But Simon also unearthed and created a host of new features and effects lurking within his own stack - exciting, fast, visual magic that is almost "automatic" (if you have the Aronson stack handy). And Simon himself kept creating and exploring this area. Many top-notch magicians realized the exciting potential that this tool had opened up, and soon began creating their own exciting magic with memorized decks in general and with the Aronson stack in particular.
Both Card Ideas and A Stack to Remember are reprinted in full in Bound to Please. So, the following year, Simon published his booklet A Stack to Remember (1979), which set forth the Aronson stack, Simon’s complete set of mnemonics for learning it, and also the many built-in features unique to this arrangement (including three different poker demonstrations, a perfect bridge hand, poker routines, the Zens stack, and a spelling feature). When he published his treatise on the memorized deck in Card Ideas (1978), many magicians requested that he release his specific stack, so they could learn it.
Simon Aronson created his stack over 40 years ago, and used it privately for many years. Welcome to a special page, devoted to exploring new uses and features of the Aronson stack.