Lots of useful information. Special thanks for the The Courtesy Flush by Craig Stegall, for the new way of doing the trick. I always did it a way different from this one described in the magazine. Here is take (not realy mine but as I saw it earlier on TV) - instead of the Ace of Spades there appears a "magical" 5 of Spades on the top of the fourth stack of cards, so laymen think you have done a mistake. But you snap your fingers and countdown face down on the table 5 more cards from the stack the 5 of spades laid on, and the fifth card there is an Ace of Spades. Then you take the Ace of Spades and turn over whith it the four dealt cards (which are from 10 to King of spades) showing "Flush Royal" saying it's good we don't play poker. )) I think "my take" is rather more magical way of demonstrating the trick and yours one looks more professional, showing yourself more as a card shark if you understand what I'm talking about.
Thank you for this gift, Penguin!

Best gift I got this year!!! LOL. Seriously it’s a major issue!!!!
This issue is brilliant.

Great issue, as always. Love the fact that you get more than "just card tricks", and the card tricks you do get are well-above the typical things you see so often. This issue, however, should be a must-have even for us amateurs & beginners, simply for this issue's provided gimmick and feature effect; Josh Burch's extremely inventive, "O' Holey Night". I honestly have one on every gift I'm giving this year as you are openly invited to photocopy more gimmicks so that you'll be performing this little Christmas Miracle all day long! Nice work, Penguin gang!!

when i first subscribed and received a copy i would spend hours, even days reading and doing. the last two i finished in lest than an hour.