"Forcing is about give and take - you give and they take. If your audiences wanted to select cards, they wouldn't have to be forced. For these occasions, Lewis has created the one-stop force source." -Steve Beam
H&R Magic Books have revised Lewis Jones' classic book Encyclopedia of Impromptu Card Forces. The previous British edition was limited to just 300 copies and sold out quickly. This American edition makes this work available to wider audience at a most reasonable price. It contains over 500 forces, and these are illustrated with more than a hundred photographed illustrations.
The forces in this book don't make use of gimmicked cards of any kind. Many of them are well off the beaten track, and many have never appeared in print before.
Steve Bryant in reviewing the British printing, said "Lewis Jones's hardbound Encyclopedia of Impromptu Card Forces (subtitle: 500 Forces with a Borrowed Deck), weighing in at a whopping 294 oversized pages, is all its title and subtitle claim it to be. And to repeat that number, it's five hundred practical forces. For this second edition Lewis Jones has rewritten, reshuffled, and expanded his prior compilation of practical card forces into the following categories: Blind forces, Combination forces, Comedy forces, Count forces, Cut forces, Equivocation forces, Forcing formulas, The glide, The hold out, Locators, Multiple forces, Probability forces, Spelling forces, Stop forces, and Switches. The list includes old favorites as well as those that will be new to you. ... This is a grand resource..."
The chapters include:
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Blind forces
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Combination forces
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Comedy forces
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Count forces
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Cut forces
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Equivocation forces
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Forcing formulas
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Glide forces
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Hold-outs
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Locators
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Multiple forces
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Probability forces
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Spelling forces
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Stop forces
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Switches
Pages: 294 - Hardbound with Dustjacket
