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Zarrow Shuffle

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  • False Shuffle
  • Sleight of Hand

Description

The Zarrow Shuffle is a great false shuffle that preserves the order of the whole deck. There are several versions of the Zarrow Shuffle. This one begins with a slip cut.

The Zarrow Shuffle is arguably one of the greatest false shuffles ever devised. It cleverly simulates an ordinary tabled riffle shuffle while maintaining the complete order of the deck. This is an advanced technique and will take a good deal of practice to learn well, but it has a lot of applications and can be used in many card tricks.

Difficulty

It will take a good amount of practice to be able to do this shuffle well. There is a big difference between an average Zarrow shuffle and a great Zarrow shuffle.

Pre-Requisites

Tabled Riffle Shuffle

Sources

Invented by magician Herb Zarrow and first published in The New Phoenix No. 346, July 1957, page 210, as Full Deck Control.

Deck Used

Erdnase Smithback