Magic & Conjuring: page 216

Re-Thinks is a new series of eBooks from TC Tahoe.

This routine has served TC very well for years. It was a major part of both his restaurant work and his Close-up show at the Magic Castle, for which he was nominated Close-up Magician of the Year.

"Perfect example of Jazz Magic." - Daryl

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

The routine is fun, fast and entertaining...

1st edition 2011; 10 pages.

Ten easy routines with rings and ropes. All the effects are performed with regular props (3 to 5 inch diameter rings, ropes and silks). They are suitable for close-up, walk-around, stage, etc. You may tie several effects together to create a unique routine.

CONTENTS:

• RING AND ROPE MOVE (George Hills): A rope and a ring. The ends and the middle are always in view but the ring penetrates the rope.
• HINDU RING MYSTERY (Eddie Joseph): The perfect follow-up for the previous trick. The ring penetrates the rope and becomes free.
• THE CHEEKY ROPE AND RING TRICK (Aldo Colombini): A ring is threaded on the...

Impromptu card magic performed with a regular deck of cards.

Contents:

• KNOCK THEM DEAD (Paul Gordon): A freely selected card is revealed as the only face-up card in a packet.
• NAME YOUR CARD (Roy Baker): After a card is selected you cut the deck into several packets. The spectator picks one and from that one card is chosen: The selection.
• IN THE CODE (Karl Fulves): A card selected by a process of elimination, ends up face up in the middle of the deck.
• THE MYSTERY OF THE PENTHOUSE (Nick Trost): The four Jacks placed in four different spots in the deck, assemble to the top.
• ELMER'S WEDDING (Peter Duffie): You show the Kings and...

Performed by Cameron Francis himself. Stacks can allow you to perform miracles under the fairest and cleanest conditions imaginable. Stuff you just can’t do impromptu. Stuff that will seriously blow your spectator's minds. This download DVD contains three such effects. Each trick requires a full deck set up and each one is self-working. Just add presentation and stir vigorously. The three effects use completely normal decks which, after the trick is over, can be shuffled up and used to produce all sorts of impromptu miracles. All of them make very good openers. Give at least one of these effects...

Funny stuff for magicians, MCs and other entertainers. For a pro just one new gag or bit of comedy that fits into his program is worth a lot of money. Even though Aldo demonstrates these gags not in front of a life audience, it is so much better to see a video and get a sense of how they have to be delivered, rather than just reading about them. Here you have a sampling of some great gags:

• FLIP-LINES
• BANTERS
• AD-LIBS
• COMEDY SIGHT BITS
• EMCEE BLOCKBUSTERS

Young magician John Gelasi is back with an entirely new and exciting collection if magic, all involving the use of business cards.

Business card magic is often one of the most important genres of magic a magician can have under his belt. Instead of simply handing out your card, why not do some magic with your card, and then give it away? This enables you to give away an amazing and memorable souvenir, while at the same time cunningly handing out your business card.

All of the effects in this ebook are strong, visual, and relatively easy to do.

Routines included:

• Slider: A visual...

Aldo Colombini's favorite plot is Oil and Water. He has collected literally hundreds of variations over decades of performing magic. He has selected the best and most unique representatives of his collection here in his Oil and Water series of download DVDs.

Ten powerful routines on the classic theme. All performed with regular cards.

Contents:

• FOURTEEN-CARD OIL & WATER (Nick Trost): An easy routine basically self working.
• ITALIAN DRESSING (Aldo Colombini): I am biased but this is my favorite oil and water routine. Four phases.
• OIL & QUEENS (Roy Walton): The routine became a classic and still...

Aldo Colombini's favorite plot is Oil and Water. He has collected literally hundreds of variations over decades of performing magic. He has selected the best and most unique representatives of his collection here in his Oil and Water series of download DVDs.

Ten more powerful routines on the classic theme.

Contents:

• DIMINISHING OIL & WATER (Aldo Colombini): Four red cards and four black cards are mixed and then separate. You repeat with six cards, then four and then two (?). At the end, the whole deck separates into black and red.
• TRI IT (Karl Fulves): A fast oil & water routine with six cards. ...

Una recopilación llevada a cabo por Aldo Colombini, que reune 25 buenos efectos para hacer de forma impromtu y con una baraja normal.

"Una vez más, he reunido trucos y rutinas totalmente IMPROMTU y con una baraja normal. Estoy encantado de la respuesta que han tenido todos mis libros anteriores sobre el tema y seguiré reuniendo efectos hasta... que mis dedos sangren de tanto escribir (los dos índices), o mis amigos se cansen de enviarme trucos para publicar. Pero tranquilos, porque tengo unos amigos muy generosos y seguirán apoyándome continuamente en mi búsqueda. Así que, uníos...

"ingenious ... innovative ... Probably the best thing about Michael Daniels' Speed Dating eBook is the completeness. If you've thought about learning this feat, you can learn everything you need to know from this book." - Grey Matters: Blog (Scott Cram)

Speed Dating is a refinement to Day for Any Date calculation that Michael Daniels has developed over the last thirty years, and which incorporates some new shortcuts to the mnemonic methods previously published by Bernard Zufall, Harry Lorayne, Will Dexter, and Tony Corinda. It does take quite a bit of initial training but, when mastered, it is very quick...

Nick Trost was a master at creating amazing tricks and routines based on subtleties rather than difficult sleight of hand.

Most of these tricks are impromptu and they all use a regular deck of cards.

CONTENTS:

• SIGNIFICATOR CARDS: A freely selected card is lost in the deck and revealed by four cards picked by a spectator.
• THE RESTLESS COURT CARDS: The twelve court cards are used. You place them in three packets and then switch their positions. They follow each other in their respective piles.
• AN EQUALIZER REVEALMENT: Two cards are freely selected and replaced. The deck is shuffled face up and...

This is a reputation maker routine. It uses a regular deck of cards and it is totally impromptu. You show the four Kings and four black cards. The Kings are placed one by one among the black cards. They disappear and reappear in one packet. Then the Kings are paired up with the four black cards. The Kings disappear and you are left with eight black cards. Finally, you produce the Kings one by one using different stunning methods. Over a dozen effects!

The amazing card magic of Richard Vollmer. Richard Vollmer, from France, is very well known to produce card magic based above all on subtleties rather than difficult sleight of hand. In this collection, Richard gives us ten of his best routines. Study them and you will have incredible magic in your repertoire. All the effects are performed with a regular deck of cards and most of them are totally impromptu.

CONTENTS:

• DOUBLE CHAMELEON: You show four blue-backed jokers. A card is selected from a red-backed deck (say the KC). The jokers all become four red-backed KS's and then go back to...

One effect from every volume of THE MINOTAUR performed and explained by Dan Harlan.

• Coins From Napkin by Steve Cohen: Three coins are produced from a napkin. Great for leading into a coin routine like three fly, or for bar and restaurant work.
• Brain Probe by David Williamson: A spectator shuffles the deck of cards. Three cards are matched to the cards selected by the spectator at random. These three cards are prefect matches.
• A Gentleman's Game by Gazzo: A funny card cheat plot utilizing the dishonest magician's game of High Card with a kicker surprise ending for the mark.
• Spek-Ulation by Anthony...

Inspired by a recent internet challenge, Ben Harris has "Le Pauled" the regular baggie! This creates a clever and practical alternative to the traditional Card In Wallet plot.

With Sweet Spot, a card, a coin, a borrowed ring or a credit card is made to vanish only to appear seconds later IN THE MIDDLE of the contents of a sealed baggie.

This can be filled with sand, candies, stamps, money, oregano, or whatever you want. The presentation angles are up to you. We give you a few to start with like the "Magic Sands of the Sahara," "Mr Blonds Revenge," "The Stamp Collector," "My Favorite Coin...

New packet tricks with regular cards.

Contents:

• MEXICAN MONTE (Nick Trost): An amusing routine involving two jokers and an Ace, with many changes and a terrific climax where the back of the Ace changes color and a big 'X' appears on the back of the Ace.
• JAZZY QUEENS AND KINGS (Richard Vollmer): A fantastic packet trick with the four Kings and the four Queens where they change places and at the end the four Aces appear. Great stuff.
• POLE POSITION (Werner Miller): A card is selected and a spectator loses it in the packet and shuffles the cards. The selection is found by using the name of a random card.
• UNWONTED...

A Nick Trost routine performed by Aldo Colombini. A beautiful, unique routine. A spectator shuffles the deck. Several cards are dealt face up on the table. The performer says that he will attempt to match the face-up cards color for color by dealing face-down cards onto each. He then turns over the pairs and every pair matches – color for color. A spectator tries to match some cards but he fails to match more than just a few. Finally, you correctly name the color of all the cards in the packet before you turn them over. Just a regular deck of cards is used!

This is the fifth in a series of download DVDs dedicated to tricks and routines using ESP cards. This volume 5 features routines by a range of famous authors.

Contents:

• SYMBOLICLUE (Werner Miller): A spectator picks a card. The other cards are dealt in four packets and assembled randomly. When you turn over the cards in pairs only four cards match (say four Squares), the fifth symbol is the selected one (Square).
• WHITEWASH (Peter Duffie & Robin Robertson): Four cards with numbers shuffled by a spectator are used to find four symbols (say all Square), that match your prediction. At the end all the other cards are blank. This...

This is the sixth in a series of download DVDs dedicated to tricks and routines using ESP cards. This volume 6 features routines by a range of famous authors.

Contents:

• QUINTUPLICATE COINCIDENCE (Arthur Carter): The deck is shuffled and dealt into five packets. Five cards are placed as predictions. Five spectators shuffle each packet and pick a card each: They match the prediction.
• MENTAL TEKEL (Max Maven): A spectator freely picks a card from a red-backed deck. Your blue-backed card matches the selection.
• A CUT ABOVE (Marcello Truzzi): A 'paper sleeve' containing a piece of paper with...

This is the seventh in a series of download DVDs dedicated to tricks and routines using ESP cards. This volume 7 features routines by Nick Trost.

Contents:

• FACE-TO-FACE COINCIDENCE: You place three cards on the table and these are inserted into the deck by spectators. They find the same symbols.
• ESP SWINDLE: A spectator shuffles the deck at random, yet he’s able to pair all the cards (two Circles, two Squares, etc. all the way through).
• THREE ODD COUPLES: The cards are dealt on the table in pairs and a spectator picks three pairs by placing three coins on them (free choice). These are the only...

Continuamos ofreciendo en español, la fantástica saga de rutinas cartomágicas de Aldo Colombini.

Nuevas rutinas, totalmente impromptu, usando un mazo normal de cartas y muy fáciles de hacer... pero a la vez, como siempre, muy mágicas e impactantes.

Me doy cuenta de que si te las arreglas para organizar tu "tiempo" acabaras teniendo un MONTÓN de tiempo. Y es en este montón tiempo que no se sabe se tiene, en el que se pueden hacer muchísimas cosas que de otro modo no se harían porque se piensa que se tiene suficiente tiempo para hacer aquellas cosas que requieren tiempo.

Ahora,...

The craziest game of cards ever played.

Effect:

The magician pulls out a small packet of cards and relates a story about the strangest game of Texas Hold 'Em ever played, involving a transposition, an appearance of a Royal Flush and color changing backs. Only basic sleight of hand required. Instant Reset.

1st edition 2011; 8 pages, photo illustrated.

Karl Fulves' legendary magazine Epilogue was limited to 24 issues, from 1967 to 1975, during those years some of the finest close-up magic of the period was explained in its pages. From the magazines, with permission by Karl, Aldo has selected ten packet trick routines.

CONTENTS:

• DEVIL'S ELEVATOR (Bruce Cervon & Dai Vernon): One of the finest routine for this classic theme. One of my all-time favorites (and soon to be one of yours).
• TRANSPOSE & FOLLOW (Gerald Kosky): Two effects combined in a beautiful routine using the Aces and the Kings.
• ALA ELMSLEY (Larry Jennings): The Larry's version of the famous "Four-card trick" by Alex Elmsley. ...

The five techniques explained in this treatise are directly or tangentially inspired by Ed Marlo’s An Updated Force (1987).

Techniques taught are:

• An Updated Force (Ed Marlo)
• Piffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Balm-Applied Riffle Force (Steve Reynolds)
• Drop-Block Riffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Slip-Less Clip Force (Jon Racherbaumer)

1st edition 2009; 20 pages photo illustrated