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A quick-fingers count-up reveals that including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards Cool is a 64 page ebook overflowing with 20 individual card fragments and generous chunks of waffle to encourage them on.

A mixed-up shuffling of, ideas, doctrines, gentle dogmas and tender opinions to baffle and amuse. Regular sort of stuff, nothing off the wall or up the chimney, merely a smattering of street-worn cardboardian craziness. Nothing too involved or muscle tasking. Another soothing blend for Card Cardpersons.

• Introdecktion
• Dragoniaces
• Pokadditional Revisited
• Triple Header
• Jonah Poker ...

Moves and routines with a deck of cards.

1. Cards For All Time
2. Easier Cards For All Time
3. The Jog-Top Change
4. The Hofzinser Jog-Top (Visual) Change
5. Smiling Mule Power
6. Crab Sandwich
7. Colour Blind Triumph
8. Righting A Wrong Deck
9. A Bottom Deal
10. One Hand Fan Crimp
11. Turnover Pass No 1
12. I Do It This Way
13. The Musical Deck
14. Turnover Pass No 2
15. The Flash-Cut-Half-Pass
16. Zipper Prediction
17. The Gloving Touch
18. Cigarettes From “Know-Where”!
19. Coin Card Or .... Card Coin
20. Four Times Two Are Ate!
21. A Series Of False Cuts
22. Wilder Than Money
23. The For-Tune-Ate-Deck
24. Kicker Colour Change

1st edition 1995, 3rd...

In true Jerry Sadowitz fashion this book was originally titled "Card Shit". The reader is free to speculate why the title change.

Table of Contents

3. DEDICATION
4. CONTENTS
5. FOREWORD
6. THE LAST DEADFALL
7. THE PERSUADERS
9. COME AGAIN
11. PRONE TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY
12. JAFFA CAKES
14. SLIP JOG
15. COVER SHIFT
17. MONKEY FEATHERS
18. TRY
20. WHY NOT
22. THIS NEVER HAPPENED TO THE OTHER FELLA!
24. HARD MAN
26. MY NAME IS KERR
28. VENDETTA
30. SOMETHING'S UP!
32. THE FIVE OF DIAMONDS
34. THATCHER OUT!
35. CUT PALM
36. WISH YOU WERE HERE
37. ANOTHER ONE
40. WHAT ME WORRY?
42. C.N.D.
44. SPARROWS TEARS

1st edition June 1984; original 38 pages; PDF 45 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.

Excerpt from the introduction:

From the prologue by Billy McComb:

Including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards In Here is a 64 page ebook of card stuff. More than two dozen tricks, ideas, thoughts and whatnot to titillate the palate. Nothing complicated, no knucklebusters, no outlandish gimmicks, just simple down-home pasteboardian foolishness.

More than enough to put the anti-card brigade into a serious coma, but good fun for the rest of us.

Contents

• Accelerace
• Abacuts
• Spin Flash Pass
• CoCoCuts
• Card Courting
• Counting Thoughts
• Pick Your Pick
• CatoPresto
• Hocus Cato Presto
• Double Identify
• A Short Spell Of Aces
• Spell To Suit
• SuitAl Spell ...

Twenty-one card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive.

1st edition, 1994.

AUTO - SPLIT: A mysterious double card revelation, where a spectator manages to separate the colours of the cards with the exception of two selections. Interestingly, you never touch the cards!

THE SUABIAN TWIST: There have been several combinations of Dai Vernon's 'Twisting the Aces' and 'The Hofzinser Ace Problem' over the years. If the following version has any merit, it is the simple means by which the one at a time reversal is accomplished.

AURA BEST: This is a fairly puzzling routine based on...

Twenty-two card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive. This ebook in particular shows Peter's fondness of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and his ace problem.

1st edition, 2000.

PSYCHIC MATH: This is a card discovery that appears impossible for two reasons: first, it doesn't seem possible for you to know where the card is in the pack, and second, the card is found using the values of two random cards that were selected before the trick began. The only requirement is a full pack of fifty-two cards.

THE ANTI-GRAVITY SHUFFLE: A sort of mathematically induced multiple sandwich!

ANTI-GRAVITY + THOT: This is...

The Book of the Dead is often translated as the "Book of Emerging Forth Into the Light" which consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife ... so begins the Cards of the Dead - The Egyptian One-Card Reading.

You present the subject with a pack of cards, preferably one that looks special (there are a couple of options in the manuscript though any deck will do), the subject chooses ten random cards, you study these, pick up an impression (the kicker), note it down, and begin with the simple esoteric procedure...

This was Jerry's first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't read any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians.

The book opens with "Fetch", an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. Or what about "A Million to One" in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you...

This is a beautifully motivated opening effect for a card manipulation act. A deck of cards is introduced. The cards are taken out of the case. The cards and the case magically switch places several times. Besides the clever gimmick it is really a lesson in how to motivate the various effects in the performance. Wonder demonstrates how this effect of a deck of cards switching place with its case can be turned into a wonderfully motivated episode rather than an unmotivated series of effects. Wonder finds a good reason for every sequence that turns a simple trick into a story and thus beautiful...

Watch and learn the routine that won Carl the F.I.S.M. World Championship. Four signed cards completely vanish. Three of them reappear inside three different pockets. The fourth selection reappears in your sock! All four cards then vanish again, only to make their reappearance inside a sealed can of Slimfast, opened by the spectator.

The methods of how to get cards in your pockets, a card in your sock and how to load cards into a closed can holding some type of powder are easily applicable in many other situations.

The routine uses palming and sleeving, however Cloutier demonstrates how...

Zenneth is a successful and innovative magician in China and is sponsored by the US Playing Card Company. His specialty is close-up and particularly cards. In these notes he is explaining some of his variations and creations.

Life is Dangerous
This is a technically easier version of Jerry Sadowitz's Prone to Live Dangerously.

Thanks to Duffie
A variation on Peter's Illusion versus Reality.

69 By Play
A visual multiple transposition of two cards.

Strange Prediction
This is a small kicker finish to Roy Walton's Strange Prediction which makes it appear that the spectator has managed to find four of a kind in addition...

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.

A chosen card that not only penetrates right through a deck of cards and a card-case, but also right through a spectator's hand. A very strong effect that looks impossible.

The effect is startling because it appears to happen in the spectator's own hands. As always Ken provides precious ideas for an intriguing presentation.

• Easy to do
• No palming
• The card can be signed

1st edition 1986; 1st digital edition 2018, 4 pages.

Excerpt from the foreword:

This false count by Francis Carlyle is as Allan says "a work of art." It provides both a visual and audible illusion.

runtime: 3min 43s

A closing routine with dozens of effects and with a climax that floors audiences. Productions of court cards, four Aces, change of color of the backs of the cards, one selected card appears marked with a big X on its back and, at the end, all the other cards are the same! You won’t believe the amount of effects and it uses just regular cards!

The incredible card magic of Didier Dupré. Routines created by Didier himself and performed by Aldo Colombini. Didier made a huge impact in Europe with his card magic and in the US. He shares here ten terrific routines.

Contents:

• MINI-TURBULENCE: Three freely selected cards placed between the four Aces disappear and re-appear between the four face-up Queens.
• COME TOGETHER 2: Two packets: Four Queens and four Kings. One packet changes into four Ten of Spades, and the other changes into a Royal Flush.
• CANNIBAL CARDS: The classic theme, where selected cards (missionaries) are placed...

Effect:

This is not a card trick, it's a trick with cards.

The spectator freely selects, signs and returns the card from a shuffled deck. The illusionist explains that card tricks have become too complicated, and he wants to keep it simple and use just the selected card. The magician picks up the card case, still holding the deck, and shows the card case at all sides and completely empty.

The magician then places the deck square on the face of the card case. The front of the card case can be clearly seen as the cards are being placed. The card case with the deck on top is placed...

In this ebook you will learn 8 stunning, practical pieces of card magic, and a series of sleights so sneaky they'll immediately make it into your repertoire.

The Castle Sleights: A false cut, force, peek and displacement that all look the same. Can you tell them apart?

Dr Daly's Last Meal: An impromptu sandwich routine gets a shot in the arm from the good Doctor.

Dark Room: A there and back again colour changing deck routine for two. Just what colour was the deck again?

Polygraph: A thought of card leads the spectator to wonder whether they are lying or telling the truth. Like your...

A deck of cards is given to a spectator to shuffle, and she's asked to silently think of any number between 1 and 52. The performer then asks the spectator to freely select a card and remember it.

At no time during the effect does the performer know the spectator's number or the value of the chosen card. He briefly shuffles the deck, asks the spectator to hold out her hand, and places the face down deck on her palm. The spectator then deals cards, one by one face down, to her chosen number.

She then turns this card face up. It's her chosen card.

This effect is 100% impromptu. Any deck...

"Much more than a mere gambling expose, Catch 33 is almost an act in itself! Twenty-first Century magic needs more brains like yours." - Guy G.

3 cards. 2 of them lose. 1 wins.

"..simple! "... Or so your audience thinks.

Each time he plays the game with you, your spectator falls into subtle traps you've set. He receives an authentic lesson on the con game that is not a game at all. Using beautifully choreographed sequences, you continually manipulate your spectator into choosing the wrong card. He just can't help himself.

Perform this routine surrounded; at a restaurant, trade...