Magic & Conjuring: page 18

J.C. Wagner's "Super Closer" is one of the most impressive routines you can do with a deck of cards. Ricky Jay knew this and only was told the workings after Wagner held out for one of Jay's inner secrets.

The deck is shuffled and cut and then divided into four packets. The magician and the spectator shuffle the four packets.

Effect #1: The top cards of each packet are turned over to reveal the four Aces.

Effect #2: The spectator buries the four Aces in the deck. The magician spells each Ace to find all four and, as he does so, four packets are created.

Effect #3: The four Kings are spelled...

Crymp is an origami wallet (no gluing or sewing) that you can fold in a matter of a few minutes. With some practice, one can do it in under a minute. The unique feature of the wallet is that it has a closure. A specially designed plastic piece, roughly the size of a credit card, is inserted in such a way that it locks in place so that it cannot fall out or be pulled out during normal usage. It allows a rubber band to be semi-permanently linked to the wallet. This makes opening and closing the wallet very easy because the rubber band can't be lost. One can let go of it and it remains attached...

The crime: The Home Secretary Sir James Watson was found shot in the head inside his study which was locked from the inside. There was no apparent way in or out for the murderer to have been able to get into the room to commit the crime, nor a way to escape unnoticed. Further, the housekeeper Mrs. Simmons did not hear any shot which she certainly would have. What is going on here? How was the crime committed and by who?

It will be the task of Superintendent Sinclair from Scotland Yard and his amateur sleuth friend Sylvester Collins, a barrister, to unravel the mystery.

The inside cover...

Enthaltend die besten Kartenkunststücke neuerer und älterer Zeit oder die Kunst, kleinere und größere Gesellschaften durch leicht erlernbare Kunstgriffe in der angenehmsten Weise zu unterhalten, zusammengestellt für Dilettanten und Vorgeschrittenere und durch eigene vieljährige Erfahrung bereichert.

Ein tolles Werk über Kartenzauberei das einen größeren Bekanntheitsgrad verdient als es derzeit hat. Es deckt einen großen Bogen der Kartenzauberkunst ab. Das Buch beginnt damit die Vorzüge der Kartenkunst für gesellschaftlich Unterhaltung aufzuzeigen. Rudolf Marian erklärt im Ersten...

Insights from within delves into the transformative power of self-reflection and inner wisdom.

In a world filled with distractions, this eBook invites you to explore the depths of your own consciousness and uncover profound truths of the Art of Magic. It is both thought-provoking and a path to self-discovery that can help you to cultivate clarity, resilience, and authentic growth.

Let's embark on a soul-stirring journey that will awaken your innermost insights and unlock your true potential.

In this sixth i.e., the last volume of Reflections I talk about :

• Once a Magician, Always...

An exceedingly clever location of two cards using the Free Cut Principle by the inventor of this beautiful principle.

Effect: The performer hands a deck of cards to one of two spectators with the request that he shuffle it, and then divide it equally with a second spectator. While this is being done, the performer turns his back.

Now each spectator is instructed to select a card from his respective half. Next they each exchange a number of cards so that the performer doesn't know how many cards each man holds, or which cards were selected (and he doesn't). Now the performer tells them...

Who among us has not heard of, seen, or performed The Princess Card Trick? For the record, it was conceived by Henry Hardin and was first made available way back in 1903. Mahatma magazine carried advertising for it and in the decades that followed, countless 'improvements' ended up in print.

It seems that not too many of these ideas were ever celebrated by the magical fraternity, and no wonder - with crazy fakes and gimmicks being introduced that almost drowned its popularity.

Fortunately, the original idea has remained unchanged which is why today, it is still regarded as a classic of card...

Are you ready to astonish and captivate your audience like never before? Look no further, as we present to you the most awe-inspiring and mind-boggling act you can perform: The Great Eyeless Vision Act! Imagine a performance that defies the very laws of perception, where your eyes are blindfolded, yet you effortlessly identify and describe any object offered by the audience.

The grand finale of this extraordinary act involves duplicating the signature of an unknown spectator - a feat that seems utterly impossible. Unlock the closely guarded techniques to pull off this mind-bending climax...

A quick routine for the Chain Game, Endless Chain, Loopy Loops, etc. that entertains your audience, and gives them a feel for the con game without taking too long. They are even given a consolation prize, which is immediately taken back, and they are left with "something to think on".

This ebook gives you every line, joke, piece of timing, setup and nuance of the routine. The ebook also takes you through an overview of some of the steps of script writing and routine design used to create the script.

NOTE: Part of this routine relies on wordplay that may not work outside of the English...

Until a few years ago it was possible to propose an interesting effect, using a euro banknote (any), which the spectator took out of his wallet. The serial number consisted of a letter, which identified the country, and a series of numbers; the essential feature was that each country had its own control code; by removing a number it was possible, through a procedure that we will see later, to identify it.

Then new banknotes were printed, with a new type of serial number (before it had a letter, which indicated the country; now it has two letters, the first identifies the country, the second...

Vol. 19, No. 4, September 2023; 60 pages
Cover: Carisa Hendrix

4. Welcome to Issue #110 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Pete Firman - Tricktok - Interview by Phil Shaw
14. Enigma - Interview with Christian Grace
18. Masterclass
    18. Ultimate Payoff - Andrew Normansell
    19. Cut-Up Cards - Ian Adair
22. Cubeography - Kev G
24. The Bochord Club - Iain Moran
    • Ultra Cervon - Bruce Cervon & Stephen Minch
26. The Satisfaction of Creativity - Matthew J. Downen
30. Carisa Hendrix - Lucid Dreaming - cover article by Andi Gladwin
36. A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic - book by Tom Adams and Jasmine Floyd

Imagine:

A prediction deck is removed from its box by the magician. The magician spreads out the faces of the cards towards two spectators as he tells them "I've isolated one card in this deck as my prediction. I won't tell you what it is just yet. I am going to try to signal it to your subconscious for now. Look carefully." After this, he places this deck face down in front of the two spectators and tells them he will return to the prediction at the end. The magician also promises never to touch that deck again.

Now the first spectator is given another deck and the second spectator...

The biography of a great artist and creative of the Italian and international magical world.

Fifteen years after his death, the artist, magician and writer Roberto Bombassei, through a work of research and study, pays tribute to his mentor by publishing for the first time his biography: his beginnings, his path, his studies, his thoughts, his creations.

Foreword by Tony Binarelli. English translation and additional notes by Biagio Fasano.

• Foreword By Tony Binarelli
• A Few Words From The Author
• The Birth
• The Meeting With Fred Kaps
• Parapsychology: A Bit Of Truth And A Lot Of Scams
• Parapsychology...

Based on actual crimes and mysteries investigated at Scotland Yard.

This is a fun read if you like short problems of deduction and observation. While most of them are not locked room problems, there are two of them in this collection, #34 and #88. One of them states that on an express train, a girl was found dead in a third-class compartment. Her head was badly injured. A violent blow had caused her death. The train had not stopped during the journey and the girl had occupied the compartment alone all the way.

Magicians will be able to solve some of the mysteries more easily because they...

Some lesser-known math-based tricks.

I always liked numbers. Numbers yes, math maybe not. What I have attempted to accomplish with this small book is to document some of the more unusual effects I have found and presented that rely on some mathematical principle, sometimes an obscure principle, as its underlying method. Generally, such methods offer the performer a relatively simple and often almost foolproof self-working guarantee of success.

Ah, but only success in the method. Anyone with any experience soon realizes that it isn’t the method so much as the presentation that truly makes...

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This is an updated best of selection of TC's re-Think series. Effects included:

• Razor Blade (Swallowing)
• Colour Changing Knife
• Salt Pour
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (un-gimmicked version)
• Chair Test
• Out to Lunch, with a bonus OTL routine.

"This fantastic little eBook contains TC's thoughts on some classic premises in magic ... Lots to read, study, and learn. Bargain of the week." - Mark Elsdon

"Fantastic routine, so much magic with just one knife!" - Michael Ammar

"Finally a razor blade routine that makes sense !!!" - Paul Romhany

"I have always been a fan of TC's thinking. TC knows how to entertain and shares...

A simple and direct memory demonstration.

The professional-looking chart (meant to be on your phone but could be printed out) is handed to the subject in order to help test your memory ability with numbers. You mention that attempting to memorize the 51 seven-digit numbers, enhances your ability to ask questions, find insights, solve problems, critically think, and inspire creativity.

You hand them your phone with the chart, or a copy of the chart, and the subject chooses a section, say No. 45, and you begin calling out the 7-digit number in that section. Feel free to repeat the test...

Four double-blank cards are displayed. One is placed in view to one side while the other three are arranged in a column on the table. Four keys are shown, there being one each of red, blue, green and silver. A spectator selects one of the keys (let's say the green one) and it is dropped on top of the blank card just placed to one side. The other three keys are slipped into envelopes which are mixed by a spectator before being placed down next to the blank cards in the order they were mixed into.

The performer makes a magical gesture over the cards and on turning them over they are seen...

This book is the trick section of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men. Goldston felt that the trick section was the part that magicians would be most interested in and thus made it available as a separate book.

• Introduction
• The Newest Chinese Bat
• The Thought Reader
• Performing Matches
• The Best Penetrating Coin
• A Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
• A Mysterious Match
• Swallowing A Solid Wand
• Which Cigarette?
• The Vanished Egg
• The Expanding Egg
• The Newest Card Changing Box
• The G. W. Hunter Pull
• Cigarettes...

• Safety Cut
• Passee Egg Vanish
• Arizona Quickie Mental Routine
• Tie And Untie
• Dove Production And Vanish
• Doll Production And Levitation And Vanish
• Patter Presentation And Set Up For Mr. & Mrs. Green
• Musical Telepathy With Add-A-Number
• Comedy Finish For Slydini Paper Tear
• Rate Of Exchange Routine For Coin Capers
• Patter Presentation For The Milk Pitcher
• Brainwave Number
• Idea For Mr. Skunk Trick
• Ultra Citation
• Penny And Nickel Transposition
• Color Divination
• Three Lights On A Match
• Hubert, The Undernourished Rabbit
• Modern Club Act With Patter
  • Only A Roomer
  • The Scotchman's Pocketbook ...

Brainz is a fantastic compilation of the 24 tricks from the 2019 Kaymar Magic Advent, all gathered in one collection and now illustrated with over 50 brand-new photos to make learning the routines a breeze. You will find anything from self-working to more challenging routines with playing cards, and even some non-card tricks.

You will learn…

Highest Bidder - A backfire ending for the classic Biddle Trick that nobody will see coming.

Steele Yourself - One of the easiest four-of-a-kind productions from a shuffled deck you can imagine.

Linda's Sign - A 'Stunnin' zodiac revelation...

"Red Nist is a formidable cartomagic strategist. In his routines, every move is justified. And the magical principles involved are baffling. Who's going to find them?" - Jean-Pierre Hornecker

The spectator takes the deck, chooses a card and loses it himself in the pack. He shuffles the deck to lose the card. Up to this point, you haven't touched the cards. You then take the deck and distribute the entire pack into two piles. Without any manipulation, the cards can be turned over immediately: all the reds have been separated from the blacks, except for one - the spectator's card!

With...