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The 'Holy Grail' of Card Locations: A Chance to Win $100Unnamed MagicianThis e-book is a challenge / puzzle PDF. You, the buyer, have the opportunity to win $100 USD. In the PDF you will find a performance video to an effect - a card location effect. If you manage to find the correct solution before any other buyer does, you will be rewarded $100 USD (via PayPal). Each buyer only gets one guess. All guesses are to be posted in the secret forum on Lybrary.com. (If you do not know how to access the secret forum see FAQ #16.) Even though you can only make one guess, you can read the guesses of others until the end of the competition to see if anyone else correctly... | $10 to wish list | |
Wild Card VariationsSam DalalThe Wild Card effect has been one of my favorite packet effects from as far back as I can remember and is indisputably one of the best card packet effects of all time. Unfortunately, in its original form, it does not meet my concept of good magic. It does not answer the basic audience dilemma - "Why does he do it ?" I know transformations (anything that changes) are part of a magic effect, but there ought to be some reason for it. If a performer changes blank paper to currency notes, that's logical, it's something everyone in the audience would like to do. If he changes a silk to an egg,... | $9 to wish list | |
Impromptu Card TricksMago MarkoIn this fantastic ebook, you'll find the truly impromptu tricks found in The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, together with dozens of notes not found in the original. These notes add new and interesting tricks and fresh ideas for presentation and even patter in some instances. But that's not all. We have added many illustrations that help clarify the description of certain tricks. Another thing we have done is adding, in some cases, the original advertisements that were used to sell these tricks when they were put on sale way back then. Truly impromptu means that you take a normal shuffled deck and immediately, with no preparation... | $20 to wish list | |
CardwitchedShaun YeeExcerpt from the foreword: This is my second book on visual card magic. Like my other book Cards in Action, this book contains completely original sleights, routines and my own handling of some well-known effects. You will find that most of the material is not too difficult to do, as in most of my card work, I usually employ sleights which are easy and angle-proof. Of course, practise is necessary in order to perform the feats smoothly, faultlessly, and convincingly. Good things never do seem to come easy. I have included many of my "gems", and I am, of course, justly proud of my creations and... | $15 to wish list | |
Cards in ActionShaun YeeExcerpt from the introduction: This is a book on card magic. It is not for the all-thumbs newcomer as the effects and routines contained herein require the ability to execute smoothly, various sneaky sleights such as the deceptive buckle-count, the convincing false-shuffle, the confusing multiple-cut, the quiet side-steal, the casual double-lift and so on. Though this book deals primarily with sleight-of-hand effects and routines, a really effective magical programme of card entertainment should be well-balanced with sleight-of-hand tricks and one or two non-sleight effects. By the latter,... | $15 to wish list | |
Double MiracleUnnamed MagicianPrice will increase to $20 end of April. An impromptu, gimmick-free, borrowed deck miracle. A location and divination of a selected card under test conditions. Read on. Imagine: The magician introduces a deck of cards. The spectator can thoroughly examine it, after which they can freely shuffle it for as long as they want in any way that they want. Once they're done shuffling, the magician invites them to look through the deck (faces towards themself, backs towards the magician) and select any two cards that they like. Let's suppose they select the two black A's. They turn these... | $20 $15 to wish list | |
Blackbeard's TreasureBiagio Fasano & Laura ChipsIt is an amazing automatic card magic effect that uses an ordinary deck of 54 cards (complete with the two jokers) and a pair of dice (which can also just be imagined by the spectators). It tells the story of a pirate, the map of his island, and the magic dice he used to find his legendary treasure, in a crescendo of suspense, until the unexpected final surprise. Completely self-working but with a surprising ending that will fool magicians too!
1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages. | $9.90 to wish list | |
Mathematical StacksBill HallahanBracelet sequences and algorithmic stacks. Mathematical Stacks contains a collection of various stacks made with 52 standard playing cards. Although some routines and presentations are mentioned, the book is not predominately about either routines or presentations. The very few presentations listed in this book are generally the bare minimum to demonstrate an effect. The book contains stacks with bracelet sequences and built-in routines. The book includes stacks with binary bracelet sequences, e.g. a red-black suit bracelet sequence, where six consecutive cards identify the cards. Some... | $59.98 to wish list | |
The Punch LettersRay GrismerInstructions, routines, tips, and ideas for a card punch. This is a series of letters to a fictitious E.N. Igami ('imagine' when read reversed) with information on how to use a card punch and what can be done with it, particularly from a conjurer's perspective. It is one of the few resources available on card punches. It also reproduces a few passages from older books that cover punch work. Several gambling demonstrations are detailed, including a Dai Vernon Bridge Deal as well as poker and blackjack routines. Other routines have more of a mental slant. Ray Grismer also explains his system for placement... | $25 to wish list | |
Colour ConfusionMark LeveridgeA 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 | |
Impromptu Lie DetectorMark LeveridgeThis 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) | |
Emergency PredictionRaphaël CzajaThe magician can't find the spectator's card but his prediction can. In short: The spectator cuts to a card, removes it from the deck and remembers it. Then, the magician shuffles the deck and divides it into two halves. The spectator shuffles both parts, loses his selection between them, and shuffles even more. At the end, the magician runs through the deck and removes a card, but it is not the spectator's. Fortunately, the magician has an "emergency out", a message on a piece of paper inside a red envelope, in full view from the start. The spectator reads it out loud: "If I was... | $5 to wish list | |
ACAAN: another approach to an age-old plotUnnamed MagicianNote: For those of you who own ACAAN: A Fresh Approach to an Age-Old Plot, this uses a totally different principle. Imagine: The magician introduces a special deck of 52 cards, where each card is seen to have a number 1 through 52 printed on it. The spectators (two of them) are asked to verify that all the numbers are indeed different, that there aren't any duplicate numbers. The magician hands one spectator this special deck (in a face-down position) and says, "I want you to select a number 1 through 52. But instead of just thinking of a number 1 through 52, I want you to randomly select one. Like that, even you don't know... | $20 to wish list | |
Behind the Back DivinationUnnamed MagicianImagine: The magician introduces a deck of cards. The spectator can thoroughly examine it, after which they can freely shuffle it for as long as they want in any way that they want. Once they're done shuffling, the magician invites them to spread through the deck face down and select any two cards that they like. They leave these face down on the table. The magician then instructs them to turn one of them face-up - let's suppose it is the JS. As for the other one, the magician tells the spectator not to look at this card yet - it will be a mystery for the end. The spectator is then... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
Fifteen Star Card EffectsLu BrentFifteen excellent pasteboard effects, all easy to perform, as they require little or no skill. The contents include "Unbelievable Coincidence" which in itself is worth more than the price of the entire book; "U-Find-Our-Cards," a chapter wherein spectators unknowingly discover their own selected cards in a puzzling fashion; and "Auto-Graphic Minds," which will never fail to bewilder the closest observer. Plus additional tricks of a professional caliber. Here is a collection of the very smartest magic, devised and used in his own act by Lu Brent, the top-notch Philadelphia professional... | $8 to wish list | |
ThirtyRay GrismerCards across The Thirty Card Trick is a magical classic that can be done on stage as well as close up. It is entertaining to all types of audiences. The classic method (Magicians' Tricks by Hatton and Plate) used sleight of hand and math chicanery. Zens used envelopes. Crandall used roughing fluid. You should find this method one of the best because instead of making the passing of three cards an arbitrary choice it offers a logical reason for using three. Also, there is very strong misdirection. Each step is clearly explained along with the reasoning. The moves are well covered by misdirection and by having unbalanced... | ★★★★★ $4.50 to wish list | |
3 Card ConMark LeveridgeThree 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) | |
ACAAN: a fresh approach to an age-old plotUnnamed MagicianImagine: The magician introduces a special deck of 52 cards, where each card is seen to have a number 1 through 52 printed on it. The spectators (two of them) are asked to verify that all the numbers are indeed different, that there aren't any duplicate numbers. The magician hands one spectator this special deck (in a face-down position) and says, "I want you to select a number 1 through 52. But instead of just thinking of a number 1 through 52, I want you to randomly select one. Like that, even you don't know what number you'd end up with, thereby eliminating any psychological influence.... | $20 to wish list | |
Your CardSteve PellegrinoAn amazing twist to the Red Hot Mama/Chicago Opener routine. A card is selected and placed back into the middle of the deck. The magician states the selected card will reveal itself to him. As he spreads through the deck, a card with a different colored back and a paperclip with a note attached to it is seen. The note reads "Your Card!" The card is turned over, revealing the selected card. The paper-clipped card is set aside, facing down. A second spectator selects another card and an attempt is made to repeat the effect. As the magician spreads through the cards, a second with an... | $9.95 to wish list | |
Move a Card: the 'Holy Grail' method for a classic plotUnnamed Magician
Note: The effect described below makes up less than half of the entire e-book. The rest of the e-book contains several other methods for the "Move a Card" plot. Imagine: The magician asks the spectator for their own deck of cards as he wishes to use a borrowed deck for the routine. He invites them to thoroughly shuffle the cards in any way of their choosing. The spectator does that. (The magician also promises never to touch the cards at any point in... | ★★★★★ $30 to wish list | |
Your Last CardSteve PellegrinoA lost Michael Skinner mystery, updated by Steve Pellegrino. Included is Michael Skinner's original handling and Steve Pellegrino's additions. Your Last Card is a triple revelation with two different predictions. You can reset it during performance and no sleight-of-hand is required. You ask a spectator to cut off a small packet of cards, less than half of the deck. You turn away as they do this, so you don't know how much they cut, even an approximate amount. They pocket their cards. You also cut off a small packet of cards for yourself. Before the presentation with the cards begins, you write a... | $4.95 to wish list | |
Vanishing at the Royal CourtBiagio FasanoAn incredible impromptu effect that uses all court cards in the deck to tell a story dense with mysteries. This is a packet trick that tells the magical solution to a mystery. An impromptu card effect that, borrowing all the pictures from the deck, uses those to tell the story of a mysterious disappearance at a prestigious dance party reserved for these four aristocratic families. The illusionist, after shuffling the twelve cards, gives them to cut and complete to a spectator who then, by rolling two dice (even if only imaginary ones) decides the precise moment when the mysterious vanishing... | $10.90 $5.90 to wish list | |
GlacesRay GrismerThis effect was invented by Herbert Milton and made popular by Karl Germain. The improved method needs no double-faced cards and can be done impromptu providing the right type of glass is available. This visual effect can be performed at any time in your act and it may be done silently, with talk, or to music. EFFECT: A shuffled deck of cards is placed in a stem goblet. Each time a handkerchief is flicked in front of the glass an ace appears. 1st edition 1981, PDF 2 pages. | $5 to wish list | |
Three Rapid SpellersIan BaxterTo all magicians, amateur and professional - here is a loaded question: Have you ever been bored silly watching a magician perform a spelling trick? This is contentious and very obviously axiomatic. Quoting from the Preface of his new manuscript, Australian card man Ian Baxter comments: "Unfortunately, spelling effects in card magic hold the onerous title of being the most laborious, boring presentations imaginable." This is the point at issue - boredom setting in, thanks to the tedium of endless counting and spelling, usually propped up with trivial patter. Such effects are simply... | $9 to wish list | |
Worker's ACAANKoo HuACAAN without Pain, Tear, Sweat or Fear
Worker's ACAAN is one ACAAN that will leave your audience speechless. Its method enables seamless execution which in turn delivers unparalleled mystery. Once you understand the method, it will be impossible to forget. This is the only ACAAN you'll depend upon the rest of your life.
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FoxiestRay GrismerFor many years, Ray has worked on the problem of developing an impromptu version of the Paul Fox Miracle Gimmick. After testing and discarding several earlier handlings, he has come up with a stunning version that is a reputation-building demonstration of mass mentalism. It can be done anytime, anywhere, totally impromptu, with a borrowed deck of cards which is first thoroughly shuffled by a spectator. The cards are handed out to several spectators - between five and twenty if you wish - and they are each asked to just think of a card. The cards are gathered and once again shuffled. You... | $10 to wish list | |
Burn DownKoo HuFind their card with an inferno on your palm. A card is selected, signed, and returned to the deck. And then ... you take a burning match and shove it into the deck, burning one card at a time going deeper and deeper and eventually the match extinguishes itself. You spread the cards and find that the match burnt through each and every card but it couldn't go beyond one particular card, their signed card.
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Take a CardJack McMillen & Judson BrownThis hard-to-find book of eleven clever card effects was ahead of its time and still plays well to today's audiences. While not self-working, magicians with ordinary card ability can do them all. The effects include:
Acclaimed by close-up masters including Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller, McMillen and Brown were known as the most skillful card performers on the Pacific coast. Those who knew... | $8 to wish list | |
Super PrintingPeter PellikaanYou start with four blank cards and show them from both sides to be blank. Suddenly backs appear, faces appear, and you finish with yet another change of the back designs.
You will need three jacks or three cards with identical faces but different backs. You will also need three blank cards, two of which have the same back, and one a different back. You will also need a piece of hard wax which Peter uses to prepare one card. 1st edition 2024, video 2:34. | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Scripted #40: Bigger and BetterLarry BrodahlA more magical version of the trick "Bigger" found in the Mark Wilson Course in Magic A paper bag gets inspected, and 3 cards are chosen and put on display on the volunteer's body. A different deck is shuffled and dropped into the paper bag, and the spectator shakes the bag to shuffle the cards. Reaching into the bag, and without looking, 2 of the matching cards are found. The third card – the bigger card - is found because it is a jumbo card. A little arts and crafts are required. 1st edition 2024, PDF 24 pages. | $12 to wish list | |
Clockwork MagicianBrick TilleyThree named playing cards are located aided by a wind-up toy. Self-working, foolproof, a real crowd pleaser. From the lecture notes of Jimmy Haviland, London's last street conjuror.
You will have to supply a wind-up toy yourself. It is ungimmicked. Anything that walks, hops, or drives a few inches will work. 1st edition 2024, PDF 4 pages + video. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Bammo Strange Attraction The SequelBob FarmerTime to open a can of whoop ass! The business card of the fortune teller Madame Magdelaine De La Grange has been torn in two. The spectator retains one piece. The other piece vanishes and appears stuck to the back of the spectator's selected card. The piece retained by the spectator matches the piece on the card perfectly. A bizarre effect without precedent. No palming. No angles. Resets automatically. You will need a Himber or Z-fold wallet. 1st edition 2024, PDF 12 pages. | $5 to wish list | |
Double ACAANBiagio Fasano & Davide Rubat RemondWith Double A.C.A.A.N. you will perform exactly the miracle the title promises: using a simple deck of 52 cards that is unmarked and not gimmicked in any way, you will find first one and then another card, both random, after generating a number in an equally unusual and random way. A special "pad" to be printed in A3+ size, made available as PDF, will be the ideal mat for performing the effect. The various boxes will be completed, first with the choice of a mystery card kept face down and then two uncovered cards, the union of whose suit and value attributes will form a new card absolutely... | $9.90 to wish list | |
StrangeeePeter PellikaanTwo cards are face-down on the table next to each other. When you turn over the first one it is blank on its face. When you turn over the second one a big hole appears in the center. When you turn them back face-down the big hole vanishes. It can hardly get any stranger.
1st edition 2024, video 2:03. | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Cards in CabaretKen de CourcyFrom the prologue by Billy McComb: The thing which annoys me about Ken de Courcy is that he has a tidy mind. This means he correlates everything in his nut so that it all has a place. This I don't have. So I suppose my annoyance is goaded by envy. Now if you were to ask me to give you a hundred commercial card tricks which were new to audiences, I'd swallow down the Six Card Repeat and the Brainwave Deck and die quietly. Not so our gallant Ken de C. He just sits down and puts a gaggle of highly commercial card tricks into book form ... and readably so, too. And, blast me thumb-tips, he invents... | $12 to wish list | |
Card MiraclesToni KoyniniToni Koynini brings to you some fine card magic with a new approach. This is an ebook of card magic in which no digital skill is required, for the effects literally work themselves, yet there is none of the usual tedious dealing and counting associated with such tricks. First, there is a complete card act of six splendidly routined miracles: CAN'T SEE (A complete Card Act): A pack of cards is shuffled and cut by a spectator, and the performer is genuinely blindfolded with bandages, dough or what you will. Then, using only the sensitivity of his fingertips, he quickly deals the cards, laying... | $12 to wish list | |
MINT 1973 - 1974 AnnotatedEdward Marlo & Wesley JamesThe Annotated M.I.N.T. series continues. Thanks to Ed Marlo and Wesley James, M.I.N.T III, IV, V, VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T. 1963 - 1972 are already available. After releasing M.I.N.T III through VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T 1963, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 68, then 1969-1972, the articles in this volume again depart. It includes the years 1973-1974 - comprised of fewer articles but longer and more in-depth. As Wesley progressed toward completing the full run of Marlo In New Tops material, plus his extensive annotations, observations, and Bonus material, he wanted to be fair to Marlo fans, and to his... | $60 to wish list | |
Bammo Strange AttractionBob FarmerIf you're looking for a unique and quirky effect, Bammo Strange Attraction will fill the bill. A fortune teller's business card vanishes and appears attached to the back of a selected card (regular cards or Tarot cards). The manuscript includes the fortune teller's business card so you can print it out and use it for this and other effects. An additional routine by David Britland adds something seldom seen in psychic effects: a sense of humor. The routine requires a Himber or Z-Fold wallet. 1st edition 2024, PDF 11 pages. | $5 to wish list |