Magic & Conjuring: page 408

• Centrifugal Diary: Peter Duffie
• Have a Date: Aldo Colombini
• The Flexible Diary: Peter Duffie and Robin Robertson
• The Diary of Expectation: Peter Duffie
• Freedom Diary: Peter Duffie and Aldo Colombini
• Versatile Diary: Peter Duffie, Aldo Colombini and Robin Robertson
• Happy Birthday: Aldo Colombini
• Zodiac Month: Aldo Colombini

1st edition 2009; 22 pages.

Here’s a unique handling for the “Professor’s Nightmare” rope routine that you’ll use in your act.

WHAT THE AUDIENCE SEES:

The magician cuts a length of rope into three pieces of different lengths; small, medium and long. The three pieces are stretched until they appear to be all the same length. The three pieces of rope are then tied together. The knots vanish and apparently the rope is fully restored. Until now the effect is a standard one. But wait…here comes the incredible finale! One knot is magically thrown back onto the rope then jumps away leaving the rope completely...

Over 70 puzzles, brain teasers, stunts and magic tricks with matches (or toothpicks or even straws). You will be the talk of the party. Keep your audiences occupied for hours. You need just a box of matches and you can do miracles.

1st edition 2007; 30 pages.

An amazing 12 card revelation routine. This routine is almost an entire act - you reveal 12 selected cards in an explosion of magic and with a crescendo demonstration of sleight-of-hand. A real "reputation maker"! Use any deck of cards.

1st edition 2004; 18 pages.

Twenty-five incredible impromptu routines performed with just a regular deck of cards (and, of course, all different from Aldo's other ebooks).

Contributors: Howard Adams, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Ken de Courcy, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner, Dougie Gibbard, Paul Gordon, J. K. Hartman, Tom Hubbard, Marty Kane, Werner Miller, André Robert, Lin Searles, Tom Sellers, Floyd Shotts, Stephen Tucker.

1st edition 2008; 18 pages.

Coin magic is usually very difficult to perform, and requires sleight of hand and manipulation. In this ebook, you will find seven very strong coin routines requiring NO SLEIGHTS AT ALL and totally impromptu using ordinary coins. We predict you will never stop doing them. Although in the description Aldo use American coins, any coins from any country can be used and can be borrowed from the spectators.

1st edition 2008; 14 pages.

To my knowledge, this is the best collection of tricks and routines with two decks ever put together in a book or ebook. Twenty effects by the most renowned names in magic: Coincidences, change of color, transpositions, etc.

The contributors are: Alex Elmsley, Karl Fulves, Tony Bartolotta, Edmund Balducci, Ken Krenzel, Aldo Colombini, Roy Walton, J.K. Hartman, Roy Scott, Stanley Jaks, Nick Trost, Arthur Setterington, Francis Haxton, U.F. Grant, Gus Southall and Martin Gardner. A great book with lots of photographs.

• THE RED AND THE BLUE (Alex Elmsley)
• MENTAL MATES (Karl Fulves)
• SYNCHRONISM (Tony Bartolotta)
• THE ALL-FAIR COINCIDENCE (Edmund...

Here you have 25 completely new card routines not found in any of Aldo's other ebooks! Includes gems such as: Contact Colors, Punch Its Match and many more.

• Hofzinser 2000
• Oil, Water and Guts
• Wild, Wild Best
• Underground Spies
• Interchange
• Jump and Pass
• Imaginary Journey
• Punch His Match!
• Contact Colors
• Deep Impact
• Count On Them
• Birthday Card
• The Game's Afoot
• Y2K Deck
• The Erasers
• 4'Wave
• Cut It Out
• Holy Moly
• Falling Through
• Italian Poker
• Point Of No Return
• Red and Black Crash
• A Trio Band
• Fact or Fiction
• Collector Sandwich

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.

Twenty routines by Aldo Colombini, plus a bonus section of 10 routines by: Ken de Courcy, Didier Dupré, Karl Fulves, Paul Gordon, G. W. Hunter, Milton Kort, Max Maven, Werner Miller, Herb Rungay, Geoffrey Scalbert. Impromptu routines, four-ace revelations, predictions, oil and water and more. Illustrated with 33 photographs.

1st edition 2008; 32 pages.

Here is Aldo's latest effort on putting together smart comebacks, insults and one-liners. Besides insults and comebacks you will also find a section with various funny one-liners to use during your shows. Although Aldo wrote the lines with SHE or HE, the subject can be, of course, easily switched. Please be aware that some one-liners are crude and/or contain ‘blue’ material.

1st edition 2010; 19 pages.

A compilation of wonderful rope routines. A funny cut and restored rope routine for kids; a unique routine in which six loops are counted, three of these loops link together and the other three change into a giant loop with three knots (no gimmick); and Rope and silks combination.

There are also two rope routines by Ronald Dayton (a comedy effect and a rope through neck effect) and more. 84 illustrations. No gimmicks and all the routines except the first one use the same rope over and over again (no cutting).

1st edition 1996; 20 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Introduction
4. Tubulos
5. K-not...

This time Aldo is offering you very strong routines that require a little bit more sleight of hand than those he usually puts in print. Aldo has built his reputation on fairly easy material with simple and subtle moves. In this ebook he has kept the subtleties, but he is giving you more difficult routines which are geared toward pleasing not only the viewers, but yourself and your 'ego.'

Aldo uses the first five routines as an entire act.

1st edition 1996; 33 pages.

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
3. Heat
4. The Dirty Dozen
6. A Case of Stairs
8. The Seventh Floor
11. Meet Charley
12. Ace-mbly
14. It's...

90 amazing card tricks by some of the most recognized magicians (including three past FISM winners), with stringent conditions: no set-ups and no sleights. organized into the following sections:

• Selected Cards
• Aces and Gambling
• Mental Discoveries
• Spelling Effects
• Amazing Coincidences
• Lie Detectors

This is Aldo's second volume of impromptu card tricks. Once again the rules that he required were simple: That the tricks be based on subtle moves and principles only rather than difficult sleights. Most importantly, the tricks had to be totally impromptu with no set-ups. Eventually he did, however, allow a few easy moves such as a card control, a force or a simple sleight; moves that still are very easy to master and perform.

Tricks are organized into the following categories. The last one is a section on simple sleights and procedures:

• The Four Aces
• Amazing Coincidences
• Baffling Revelations ...

You do not require a table to perform these routines. From this material you can create two complete acts.

CLEAN CUT ROPE (Aldo Colombini): A different way to perform the standard cut and restored rope effect!

STRANGER IN PARADISE (Ed Marlo): A red-backed deck is placed in a glass. You remove cards one at a time until a spectator says ‘stop.’ At the stop, that card is the only one with a blue back!

DOGGIE DEXTERITY (Aldo Colombini): Comedy at its best with a balloon twisted into a poodle who finds a selected card!

CARD ON PLATE (Ken de Courcy): You spin a plate with one hand and have...

An amazing presentation in five phases of this classic poker demonstration! Using only ten cards you show an entertaining five-phase poker demonstration and, of course, you always win! It is suitable for both close-up and stage. Use any deck of cards (even jumbo cards).

Packet tricks performed with regular cards! Packet Tricks are always popular. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. Here you have ten packet tricks from the world's top 'packet trick' experts.

Contents:

• JAPANESE ACES (Shigeo Futagawa): A real fooler where you and the spectator mix the Aces three times (the last one face up and face down) but the Aces always separate!
• POOR MAN'S MONTE (Richard Vollmer): A fun-to-watch-fun-to-do Monte type routine using only four regular cards!
• AN AMBITIOUS CLASSIC (Larry Jennings): The A, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Clubs perform an ambitious routine...

Commercial card magic at its best. All practical effects which you will use.

• COLOR CHANGE AGAIN (John Yeager): A color changing deck routine involving two selected cards.
• MATCHED PICTURE CARDS (Nick Trost): The picture cards are shuffled and magically they match up in pairs.
• DOORSTEP ACES (Paul Gordon): The four Aces find three selected cards.
• REPROCESSED ELIMINATION (J.K. Hartman): A selected card appears in an unexpected way. Very strong effect.
• RANDOM THOT (Karl Fulves): An impossible selected card revelation that will fool you too!
• JACKS IN THE BOX (Aldo Colombini): Red and black cards alternate and then...

When Aldo published his book Double Decker (routines with two decks of cards) little did he know what he was getting into. He really enjoyed studying the routines and consequently he went into a frenzied quest for more. It is amazing how many he found! Here’s a new collection of routines using two (or three) decks of cards. Have fun studying the routines and, above all, performing them all for your audiences.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• COLORS CAN’T MIX (Karl Fulves)
• THOT CARD TO POCKET (Martin Gardner)
• CRISS-CROSS COINCIDENCE (Ian Adair)
• PACKED BAGS (Aldo Colombini)
• TURN BLUE (Ken Krenzel)
• DOUBLE CLOCK DECEPTION (John Yeager) ...

Ten amazing effects with cards that you can do over the phone. Several of the effects are so strong that you can even do them for live audiences.

Contents and contributors:

• PHONE ZONE (Peter Duffie)
• TELEMENTAL (Bob King)
• HOCUS POCUS (Eddie Joseph)
• LINEAR BLACKJACK (Karl Fulves)
• TWO CARDS (Stewart Judah)
• LIE DETECTOR (Al Thatcher)
• BREAKING POINT (Aldo Colombini)
• TAMAX (Dougie Gibbard)
• WIZARD (Peter Duffie)
• HALF AS GREAT (Max Maven)

1st edition 2009

Easy-to-do and commercial routines. The contents includes:

• ANIMAL CAPERS (Aldo Colombini)
• MAGILLOGICAL (Tom Daugherty)
• FLIPPING ACES (Aldo Colombini)
• MINI OIL & WATER (Aldo Colombini)
• 37-THREE (Karl Fulves)
• THE CUT KNOWS (Jean-Pierre Vallarino)
• CORNERED (Aldo Colombini)
• RED OR BLACK-WHICH? (Nick Trost)
• THE FLY CARDS (Aldo Colombini)
• REALLY FIT FOR KINGS (Gene Castillon)

[Note that in 1985 Tom Craven published a booklet with the same title which is completely unrelated to this material....

Ten super card routines.

• IMPULSE (Peter Duffie): A three-phase routine with a finale that will blow their heads off. A card changes place with another card with a hole!
• REMEMBER/FORGET (Mike Rogers): A quickie but so commercial where a card is revealed under a spectator’s finger.
• A BUNCH OF BLARNEY (Aldo Colombini): The classic plot of the Lie Detector revealing a selected card and the four Aces.
• COMPOSITION (Aldo Colombini): Incredible routine with a lot of surprises. A closing effect!
• WILD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Stand up magic at its best. The classic Wild Card Theme performed entirely in...

The success of Aldo's first two DVDS on packet tricks 'forced' him to produce another one. In these download video every trick is totally IMPROMPTU and performed with regular cards from any deck.

Contents:

• FU/FD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Four red face-down cards are placed on four face-up black cards and the eight cards mix together!
• SUBMARINE CARD (Aldo Colombini): A Jack moves gradually from top to bottom of a packet of cards. At the end the Jack disappears and the cards are seen to be Aces!
• WILD DELUXE (Aldo Colombini): Here's another version of the "Wild Card" theme that doesn't...

Only one routine but what an effect - and completely self working! This must be one of the strongest self-working effects there is. Based on the Eddie Joseph principle “Staggered” you have here a unique, fantastic routine in five phases, one stronger than the other where the cards match even though everything appears controlled by the spectator. The finale is a ‘staggering’ match of all the cards! You will have fun learning it and you will make a reputation out of this routine. Uses any deck of cards.

It is quite an achievement for Aldo to take a strong effect and make it even stronger by streamlining...