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3 Card ConMark Leveridge
Three pre-folded cards are tipped from a card box and displayed as being a QH and two blank cards. The three cards are folded to conceal their faces and arranged in a row on the table ready for the classic Find The Lady. Having mixed the positions of the three cards, the one that should be the QH is opened to reveal it is in fact one of the blanks. That’s surprise no. 1. Surprise no. 2 comes when the other two cards are unfolded to reveal they are both blanks as well! The QH has completely disappeared. Surprise no. 3 is revealed when the QH is found folded inside the card box that has been... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
A Simple Guide to CreativityMark LeveridgeA thoroughly understandable explanation about how to create new magic and the techniques for improving the magic that you already do. De-mystify the creative process and open up your mind to simple yet effective ways to improve your magic.
Over the years there have been a number of books which have sought to create some sort of ‘system’ to explain and to formalize the process of magical creation. The problem is that in seeking to explain and elucidate the process so much jargon and complex theorizing takes place that the average reader is left with little that is understandable to work... | $10 to wish listPDF |
Beating the OddsMark Leveridge
A deck of cards becomes a stable of 52 horses. The horses are shuffled by a spectator and the deck is placed down. The performer then writes down the name of one of the horses on a pad and places it sight unseen in view on the table. This is a prediction of a horse that he believes will win an imaginary race in a few moments time.
Spreading the deck, a spectator is invited to touch one at a time completely at random seven horses. These are removed and held in a pile. He then selects any number from one to seven. Using the chosen number, horses are eliminated in the pile one by one until... | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Best of BritishMark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw Right from its first issue, Magicseen Magazine has sought to showcase talent from the UK, talent that sometimes can be a little swamped by high profile personalities from other parts of the world. To put this right, Magicseen approached a list of the UK's top performers and creators and invited them to contribute to a book that is designed to show the world what they have to offer. Best Of British contains routines from over 20 creative British magicians, including Wayne Dobson, Peter Duffie, Geoffrey Durham, Paul Gordon, Simon Lovell, Shaun McCree, Marc Paul, Scott Penrose, Mark Shortland, Paul Stockman and many more. It's a fabulous collection... | $20 to wish listPDF |
British Close-Up Magic Symposium: All nine Symposium booksMark LeveridgeThis ebook contains over 100 routines, effects, ideas and essays from a wide range of top international close up performers, all of whom either lectured or performed at one of the nine Symposiums during its 16 year run.
The list of 69 contributors reads like a Who's Who of close up past and present. Here are the names to drool over....
Jon Allen, Michael Ammar, Paul Andrews, Mike Austin, John Bannon, Steve Bedwell, Stuart Bowie, Sean Carpenter, Janet Clare, Aldo Colombini, Alistair Cook, Rob Cox, Roger Crosthwaite, Roger Curzon, Lee Davis, Dusty, Nicholas Einhorn, Keith Fields, Kevin Gallagher, Dan Garrett, Paul Gordon, Roberto Giobbi, Brian Glover, Paul Hallas, Pit Hartling, Ken Hawes,... | ★★★★★ $49 to wish listPDF |
Casino CashMark Leveridge
A deck of cards is spread and freely displayed back and front. Four cards are selected at random by a spectator and then placed in a fan on the table. A snap of the fingers and when the fan is lifted, four coins are seen to have instantly appeared underneath.
As a lead in to a four coin matrix routine this is ideal as it creates an unexpected and sleight free intro. You just need a regular deck, which you need to prepare once (takes about 15 minutes), and four small coins (10ps or US quarters).
Remember – no palming or sleight of hand is required.
1st edition 2021; PDF 4 pages,... | $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Colour ConfusionMark Leveridge
A blue-backed deck is openly displayed and one card is selected from the face-down deck. Cutting the selection back into the pack and shuffling the deck, the performer offers to find the selection quickly and effectively.
Snapping his fingers over the deck, he turns the cards face down and spreads through the entire deck to reveal that every card back has changed from blue to red, except for just one card, and that turns out to be the selected card!
No sleight of hand is required, this is designed to instantly re-set in front of the spectators and everything takes place up in your hands,... | $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Comedy For The Well Groomed PerformerMark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw Magicseen is the funniest magic magazine around. It often features articles on comedy performers and provides comedy material in the form of verbal and visual gags for its readers to use in their acts. Over the last 10 years there was quite a lot of comedy material in the pages of Magicseen, and so the folks at Magicseen decided to collect together into one eook the big articles on comedy performers who were featured over the last decade. Inside this 100 page ebook you will find collected together the articles featured on top names such as John Archer, Paul Daniels, Paul Zenon, Mel Mellers, Graham P.... | ★★★★★ $9 to wish listPDF |
Commercial Sponge Ball RoutineMark Leveridge
This is the exact routine as used by Mark Leveridge in his commercial close-up work and also to open all his children's shows. No new concepts, no 'flashy' moves, just a thoroughly professional and entertaining routine that has proved its value over countless performances.
There are few more popular routines with lay people than the sponge balls, and Mark Leveridge's fast-paced sequence will provide you with a practical version that you will quickly learn and use.
1st edition 1984, PDF 11 pages. | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
Countdown PredictionMark Leveridge
A prediction Jumbo card is placed sight unseen in full view. A deck of cards is displayed and shuffled and a spectator freely selects a number of cards to use from the deck. These cards are eliminated one by one until only one remains. Despite the freedom of handling and choices, the selected card matches the Jumbo prediction. Very easy to do, suitable for a close-up show or a stand-up performance.
1st edition 2017, PDF 2 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF |
Creativity - The Secrets of InventionJohn Bannon & Mark Leveridge At the 5th British Close Up Magic Symposium, John Bannon and Mark Leveridge held an open discussion for nearly an hour on creativity in close up magic. The techniques revealed in the course of this discussion will enable you to set about creating and refining your magic, as it provides you with a clear framework and approach. The combination of interview and questions from the Symposium audience makes for a lively and often humorous session which not only provides you with many concrete suggestions to work on, but which also entertains. Some registrants considered this to be the highlight of... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listMP3 |
Credit TransferMark Leveridge
Two for the price of one here as with Credit Transfer you get a mental effect and a piece of magic together. A borrowed credit card is slipped into a small envelope. Two paperback books are shown and the pages are riffled of one of the books until a spectator calls 'stop'. The credit card in the envelope is dropped into the book to mark the place. The second book is now opened to reveal an envelope is already inside it, and the page it rests on turns out to match the page just selected in the first book. Then the credit card vanishes from the envelope in the first book and arrives inside the... | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Devil's IslandMark Leveridge
This lightweight mental effect is suitable for close up, parlor or even stage and is very simple to do. A map is shown which has six named locations marked on it. A spectator mentally selects one and records his choice on a small card which is concealed in an envelope. Cards bearing the names of the six locations are shuffled by a spectator and placed by him entirely at random into six envelopes which are then given out to audience members. Despite all this, a prediction shown at the start leads to the correct person holding the envelope which contains the spectator's chosen island location.
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ESP Match Up PlusMark Leveridge
Two sets of five ESP cards are freely displayed, one set with red backs, the other with blue. The red set is given to the spectator who shuffles them, the magician mixing the blue set. One at a time the performer places his cards face down onto the table and each time the spectator then places one of his cards at random next to the performer's. When the pairs of cards are turned face up, all five sets are seen to have been put down in matching pairs!
This is a streamlined version of my card matching routine which has extra subtleties and a cleaner handling than earlier versions.
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Forever Flapping PlusMark LeveridgeFirst there was In A Flap – a ground breaking book detailing six individual gimmicked envelopes with many routines using them. This was followed by the publication of Still Flapping – a further three individual fake envelopes with routines both for these plus extra ideas for the envelopes revealed in the first book. Then came Forever Flapping which combined both the above books and included some extra envelope magic in a Bonus Section.
Now there is Forever Flapping Plus, an ebook which provides a further eight envelope routines on top of those originally published in the previous edition.
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Four-midable Card MagicMark LeveridgeThe Four-midable Magic Series comprises of specialist ebooks, each of which supplies four effects of a specific type.
This first volume in the series teaches four card routines that require little or no sleight of hand, and are well structured to produce clear magical card effects. They are clearly described in easy-to-follow numbered sections, supplemented by a total of 39 colour photo illustrations.
- Introduction
- Royal Flush: the magician uses magic to produce a Royal Flush from a shuffled deck of cards.
- Big Deal: a spectator shuffles a deck and cards are dealt face up onto the table...
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Four-Midable Coin CreationsMark LeveridgeFour coin routines that do not require any gimmicks.
Cash Withdrawal - a spectator marks one of five coins with his initials and the chosen coin is dropped into an envelope and left in view. The other four coins are held in a spectator's closed fist. Instantly the envelope is torn up and the vanished signed coin is found in amongst the other four coins in the onlooker's closed hand.
Seeker Coin - a freely selected (and signed if you wish) card is shuffled back into the deck which is boxed. A coin, which is marked with a spectator's initials, vanishes and when the pack is removed from the... | $16 to wish listPDF |
Four-midable Magic Series Volumes 1-3Mark Leveridge
There are currently three e-books in the Four-midable Magic Series, each containing four top routines dedicated to a particular type of magic. | $35 to wish listPDF |
Four-midable Mental MysteriesMark Leveridge
Psychic Selection - a parlour routine in which a spectator cuts to a card that he has in his mind
A pack of cards is shuffled by a spectator, replaced in its box to prevent it from being tampered with, and then handed back to the spectator for safekeeping.
An important member of the audience is then invited on stage. This person could be a principal guest at a party, the function organiser, or a CEO/owner/director at a business event.
The performer explains that before the show he approached this spectator and invited him to decide on a card, any one of the 52. He asks the volunteer... | $16 to wish listPDF |
Going WalkaboutMark LeveridgeThe Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused ebooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key performance areas. The ebooks are written in an easy to understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.
The first volume in the series is entitled Going Walkabout, and it contains 28 pages of important and valuable information about how to make a success of working close up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement... | $14 to wish listPDF |
Going Walkabout Audio Book 1Mark LeveridgeLearn about mix and mingle magic the easy way.
This 55-minute audiobook is perfect for listening to in the car or while jogging or at the gym. It contains a reading of the contents of the hugely useful information ebook entitled Going Walkabout, in which I explain exactly how I go about performing at informal mix and mingle events and how to make a success of working close-up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement of seats, but no tables.
The 7 chapters included are as follows:
- Chapter 1 - Defining Going Walkabout
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Hanky JugglingMark Leveridge
This is a wonderful participation routine for children's entertainers using the simplest of props - a wand, a silk, and an unprepared bag. Two children come up to assist. A silk is made invisible and handed to one child, while the second helper examines and then holds onto a bag. The invisible silk is 'blown' up into the air, caught on the end of the magic wand, which is then used to flick it over to the child holding the bag. The silk is supposed to now be inside the bag, but the child holding the bag seems to be unable to find it inside. Realising that the silk must still be invisible, the... | $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Hide and SeekMark LeveridgeAmbitious Card in reverse.
One of the classic card effects in magic is The Ambitious Card, and many close-up workers use one variation or another of it. I was looking for an in-the-hands card routine that I could introduce into my strolling work, and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe you could do the Ambitious Card in reverse.
Hide and Seek is the routine that I came up with and which I have been using in my commercial work ever since. Here's the plot.
A spectator selects a card, let's say it is the 3C. The minute you see the card you express concern because you explain that this... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
ImaginationMark Leveridge
A spectator is handed an invisible deck and is asked to spread the cards and note that all the red cards are bunched together and all the black cards are assembled together. Splitting the deck so that he holds all the invisible red cards in one hand and all the blacks in the other, he hands over one half which is placed by a second spectator into the invisible cards box.
Now the cards are spread again and the spectator is asked to note that all the court cards are together, and all the spot cards are together. Splitting them into their two groups he is invited to hand either section over... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
ImpossibleMark Leveridge
A spectator freely names a card (e.g. 5D) which is cut into the centre of a blue deck. The performer cuts a card of his choice (e.g. AS) into the centre of a red deck. The spectator and performer are now going to attempt to make their chosen cards reverse themselves while the packs are still inside their boxes.
Having mimed the removal and turning over of cards, the performer fans the spectator's blue deck only to discover that there is one card face up, but it's the AS! The magician then fans his red backed deck - and to everyone's surprise, the only face-up card in that pack is the one... | $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Impromptu Lie DetectorMark Leveridge
This is a straightforward version of the classic Lie Detector routine that can be performed with any deck (even a borrowed one) and with no advance setup.
A deck is shuffled by a spectator to put the cards into a genuinely random order, and the performer then extracts one card which he leaves sight unseen in view on the table. The magician then asks a spectator three questions about the tabled card, and the helper is invited to make up his answers (since he doesn't know at this stage what the tabled card actually is). Whatever answers the participant gives, the performer spells the word... | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Inside JobMark Leveridge
A small envelope with a hole cut from its address side is examined. A deck of blank-faced cards is then freely displayed and one blank card is openly slid into the envelope which is left in view.
From a regular deck, a spectator touches the back of any card. Let's say it is the 6C. This card is waved over the envelope and when the previously blank card is slid out it is seen to have now printed itself to match the selected 6C.
1st edition 2023, video 8:38. | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Keeping ControlMark LeveridgeThe Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused eooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key magical areas. The eooks are written in an easy-to-understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.
Volume 5 sets out to discover whether there is one key element that contributes more than any other to making a performer a success. The conclusion is that CONTROL is a factor that if properly harnessed can exert a huge influence on the life of any performing magician.
With this in mind, I examine... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
Learning from ExperienceMark Leveridge
Learning From Experience is an ebook in which I look back over my 40 years of full-time professional experience and identify 20 key things about performing commercially for laypeople that I wish I had known when I started.
Organizing these into 20 key facts, I explain the lessons that I have learned in this rich period of experience about performance, marketing, fees, trick selection, dealing with spectators, and more, and set out clear advice and food for thought to help you to short track your way to making good decisions.
Here is a list of the contents
- Key Fact #1 - The Booker...
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Learning from Experience Audio BookMark Leveridge
The Professional Worker Series - Volume 6
Sit back and relax as I read the complete contents of this fascinating e-book to you. It's a great way to absorb and enjoy the contents whether you are at home, in the garden, driving the car or exercising in the gym.
In this Learning From Experience Audio Book I look back over my 40 years of full-time professional experience and identify 20 key things about performing commercially for lay people that I wish I had known when I started.
Organising these into 20 key facts, I explain the lessons that I have learned in this rich period of experience... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listMP3 |
Lecture CollectionMark LeveridgeThree of Mark's previously published lecture books in one convenient download:
- The Mark Leveridge Lecture Experience
- Solutions
- The Serial Thriller Lecture Book
The Mark Leveridge Lecture Experience
In this 82 page ebook there are some tremendous practical close up and mental items using cards, coins, rings, matches, envelopes and bank notes, with virtually no specialist equipment required. By using a subtle blend of good routining and some sleight of hand, many interesting and novel effects are created for you to use.
Some of Mark's best work is here - items such as 'It Pays To... | $22 to wish listPDF |
Magicseen (2005) Volume 1Mark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw All six issues of 2005 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Ali Cook & Pete Firman, Paul Zenon, Marc Paul, Andy Nyman, The Twins, and Luke Jermay. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Magicseen (2006) Volume 2Mark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw All six issues of 2006 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Paul Kieve, Paul Daniels, Dynamo, Anthony Owen, Shahid Malik, and Graham P. Jolley. | $15 to wish listPDF |
Magicseen (2007) Volume 3Mark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw All six issues of 2007 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Wayne Dobson, Luis de Matos, David Stone, Juliana Chen, Jay Sankey, and Matthew J. Dowden. | $15 to wish listPDF |
Magicseen (2008) Volume 4Mark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw All six issues of 2008 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Geoffrey Durham, Singh, Michael J. Fitch, Marvin Berglas, Shawn Farquhar, and Chris Cox. | $15 to wish listPDF |
Magicseen (2009) Volume 5Mark Leveridge & Graham Hey & Phil Shaw All six issues of 2009 for a reduced price. The cover personalities are Pete Firman, Keith Barry, R. Paul Wilson, David Copperfield, J C Sum & 'Magic Babe' Ning, and Guy Bavli. | $15 to wish listPDF |