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The Novena EnigmaKen de CourcyAnother great trick by Ken. You can do it anytime, anyplace with any deck. You can perform it even if the deck is incomplete. It is a perfect impromptu trick. It has all the elements of a great trick: an entertaining patter, comedy and a surprising finish. THE EFFECT A pack is shuffled and a card is selected by a spectator, shown to a few other people, then returned. The magician shows the face card of the pack and asks whether it is the chosen card. This is denied. The performer tries to right the things. He drops the pack face down on the table but the top card is face up. But once... | $4 to wish list | |
The Nikola Card SystemLouis NikolaThe Nikola Card System is more advanced than either the Si Stebbins or "Eight Kings" card systems. Even upon close examination pre-arrangement seems impossible with this system.
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The Neyhart HouletteArthur P. NeyhartThis ebook is a reproduction of the original instruction booklet that came with the Neyhart houlette. It describes operation and care as well as several performance ideas and ways to use the houlette. The Neyhart houlette appeared in the 1930s and made a big splash at the 1935 IBM convention. It is an ingenious device that allows you to let any card named rise out of a 52 card deck - no stooges, threads or electronics. It is also further described in Samuel Cox Hooker and his Rising Cards and The Big Book of Rising Cards. Other rising card methods can be learned from Knowing the Rising Cards. 1st edition 1930s; 7 pages.... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
The Next Best Trick of the YearTom PhoenixDo a color change, while the card is on fire! This is a really nice color change, with the added touch of changing a burning card into a different burning card. Included is a method to make the first card travel from the deck, into the box. The change will take some practice, as it uses some un-orthodox moves, but is well within the skill of the average card handler. 1st edition 2016, length 10 minutes. | $8 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
The More the MerrierTom RichardsonThe More the Merrier covers four different routines for the advanced card worker.
3x More Ambitious
Catch Me If You Can | $12 to wish list | |
The Missing LinkStephen TuckerThree playing cards (or business cards) are shown and then, with herculean strength, you tear out their centers - in order, you explain, to magically link them together. Once they have been linked, they are then torn apart (to break the chain), then the "hoops" are restored and handed out for immediate examination. You can make gimmicks in less than five seconds! Now also supplied with a 100% impromptu handling. 1st edition 2005; 4 pages. | $12 to wish list | |
The Miser's MiracleJerry AndrusEFFECT: The performer shuffles a deck of cards and fans them out, explaining that he will use the two cards wherever the spectator says, "Stop." At the spectators indication the performer stops and removes the two cards at that point. Both hands and both cards are shown on both sides and without further manipulation the two cards are placed together face to face, and a silver dollar is seen to slowly emerge from between them. After rolling up his sleeves and again showing his hands empty, the performer picks up the deck from the table and shuffles it again. The cards are fanned out, and again... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
The MIQa BoxTom PhoenixTwo Deck Switches for the workers. This is the evolution of the MIQa Box 3.0, including the previous two versions. This box allows you to easily switch one deck for another, under the guise of starting to put the deck away or putting the box off to the side. It's a very natural movement, without the discrepancies of other devices. There are two versions included. Both of them work very well, so you choose which one you like better. [Don't forget to download the PDF that goes along with this video from your digital shelf.] 1st edition 2016, length 36 min. | $20 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
The Memorized and not so Memorized DecksChristopher BolterThe Boston Stack: Chris' signature stacked deck and routine that requires almost no memorization and is diabolically simple. The Duchess: this memorized deck is so easy to remember you'll want to perform it every chance you get! Plus, it's fun. The Seesaw Collection: one final option in Chris' memorized deck booklet. This stack, also requires almost no memorization and uses a back and forth procedure that you can't get wrong! [Please note that these stacks are not full deck stacks. You are stacking about half the deck. Technically they are algorithmic stacks. This means you will have to do some simple math to derive the next card.] 1st edition 2013, 21 pages... | ★★★★★ $28 to wish list | |
The Master PalmRussell T. BarnhartDuring his Princeton years, Russell worked in a nightclub doing close-up magic, and he has frequently entertained in that medium in his busy New York life since. He knows the value of a card trick that "entertains" and this is what he focuses on in Master Palm. Careful, concise thinking written up in clear language helps you to learn the 17 sleights and 15 tricks more easily. 1st edition 1975; PDF 58 pages, photo illustrated. Table of Contents
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The Man Who Knows ErdnaseWesley JamesWesley James' 7 DVD set, "The Man Who Knows Erdnase", on the enigmatic book The Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase has been met with controversy. Discussions about Erdnase generally do lead to heated debates, be it the discussions about his identity as well as discussions about the techniques taught in the book and their applicability, history and execution. Wesley James is undoubtedly an informed card expert with decades of experience who had the guts to put his thinking, believes and information on the table. He made a sincere attempt at trying to make Erdnase more accessible. It is Erdnase through the lens of Wesley James... | $30 to wish list | |
The Making of Playing CardsLeo BehnkeLeo Behnke worked for many years for Paulson, a playing card manufacturer. He describes in this ebook the history of playing card production up to the process that is used for todays cards. He also describes in detail the 9 editions of the Magic Castle cards and how one can identify them. Beyond the interesting historical and technical descriptions Leo is offering, this information can also be quite helpful in creating a script or interesting line of presentation for a trick or routine. The contents of this ebook was presented at a Magic Collectors meeting in Las Vegas, April 8 2005. ... | ★★★★★ $3 to wish list | |
The Magician's Dream: a practical solution for any card at any numberTommaso GuglielmiThe Magician's Dream is a collection of two practical ACAAN's effects: Random ACAAN, ACAAN on Demand. With Random ACAAN, you are able to perform ACAAN effect completly self-working: You can perform it without you touching the deck ever (before, during and after the effect). It works with any unprepared deck. ACAAN on Demand is a full impromptu one to one ACAAN. This method is pefect when someone, in a informal situation, asks you to perform a magic trick. The method is very pratical and in 95% of the cases it works without you touching the deck from start to end. Bonus effects: ... | ★★★★★ $13 to wish list | |
The Magician at the Bridge TableA. H. StaffordIf you want to do more than just poker deals, consider adding this fascinating routine of bridge table magic to your act. This title has been long out of print, and now it's back and better than ever for a new generation of audiences and performers. After a game of bridge, your audience is already in a card mood. That's the perfect time to introduce this compelling routine where one miracle flows seamlessly into the next. From the introduction by Howard P. Albright From the audience viewpoint, an entertaining series of skillful demonstrations; but from the magician's angle, an ingenious application of... | $8 to wish list | |
The Magic of TylerDaniel SkahenThis is a colleciton of the best of Daniel Tyler's inspirations over the past five years. The first section covers effects and routines, the second section moves. You will find new ideas and variations of old classics. Overall solid commercial material. 1st edition, 2005; 125 pages. THE EFFECTS Counterfeit Card The best method I have ever seen or come up with for a countdown routine. P4 – Peppermint Patty Power Puncher A cross between Torn & Restored and Healed & Sealed ... with Peppermint Patties! Dirty Laundry The cleanest and easiest card-to-sock routine. Lincoln’s Trick One of the... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
The Magic of Michael SkinnerPaul A. LelekisNine effects from the repertoire of Michael Skinner. Forward by John Carney is very informative. (John was one of Michael Skinner's dearest friends.) Michael gave John his "Notebook of Magic" before he passed. The introduction provides a "deep insight" into the career, life, friends, and "thinking" of this very special man. Michael Skinner is considered to be the greatest magician of all time. His sleights, subtleties, nuances, misdirection, patter, trick selection, and pace were impeccable...and the size of his repertoire was profound. Skinner could perform over 600 different effects at his prime - and... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
The Lucky DeckDarwin OrtizEffect: You display a heirloom deck from your grandfather that due to its frequent use has lost all faces - you display a blank deck. You place the Queen of Hearts (a blank card) on the table and the Joker (another blank card) in your breast pocket. Magically these cards turn into the real cards. On top of this entire deck has changed from a blank deck to a regular deck. You will need to be able to do: a reverse fan, hindu shuffle, double lift. runtime: 10min 17s | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
The LoveZaw Shinn & Hninn Aye LwinPerformer shows the red back of a playing card. One can see a heart and an arrow is drawn on the back. Suddenly the arrow slowly flies towards the heart until it penetrates it. In the final climax the color of the red card changes to blue. Making the gimmicked card requires arts and crafts.
Special thanks to Patricio Teran for helping to release this effect. 1st edition 2022, video 36:59. | $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
The Loudmouth 1Zac EcksteinA new series in Magic and Mentalism, here comes the Loudmouth. A short and direct ebook series striving to give you not only quality and tested material, but thoughtful pondering's on issues and subjects involving the magic world.
CODE-BLACK 52-RED LEFT ON 3 (Trick)
THE ZIMMERMAN EFFECT (Trick) | $15 to wish list | |
The Long and the Short of itMark LewisMoves, routines, and stories around the Svengali deck. "Okay, I'm impressed!!! Your book on The Long and the Short of It is wonderful. I'm still working on a few of the moves that I never dreamed were possible with a Svengali Deck. Excellent Routine!!! You've definitely put in the time and have the expertise with this trick to be called a Master. You get 2 big thumbs way up for your book." - Doug Howe | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
The Loh of AttractionAndrew LohA collection of Andrew's all time favorite routines. Three card effects which have been in Andrew's repertoire for years. They entertain any audience.
The Sandwich Keepers
Metamorphosis | $10 to wish list | |
The Living EndJ. G. Thompson Jr.Over 200 different impromptu take-a-card trick endings. From the introduction by John Braun: He has definitely struck "pay dirt" in this book, which he has whimsically titled THE LIVING END. In simpler terms, this is an encyclopedic collection of endings for one of the most popular branches of Magic - the "take a card, look at a card, remember a card, think of a card, any card," opening. Having completed this stage, the performer KNOWS either the identity of the card or its whereabouts in the pack, and sometimes he knows both. And, as John Northern Hilliard put it back in 1908 in DOWNS' ... | $6 to wish list | |
The Little SecretsFrank BonvilleA great book on the tricks of the trade of professional gamblers, how they cheat and get an advantage in the game. From the introduction: It has been my fortune, or misfortune, whichever you wish to term it, to have traveled a good deal and to have observed not a little. I have engaged in more than one business; it pleased my fancy, and can say, with a pardonable pride, that I have met with some degree of success. During the past few years of my life I have studied human nature in all its phases, from its lowest forms in the gutter, in the slums, in the gilded dens of vice, in the gambling... | $9 to wish list | |
The Little Green LecturePit HartlingPit Hartling's Little Green Lecture describes five of Pit's favorite card effects. Each is clearly and completely described and illustrated. One trick, Chaos is a virtually self-working trick involving two freely selected cards that completely stumped the experts at the FFFF gathering. The effect is extremely funny and the method is so clever that there is nothing you need to hide. You say exactly what you do, actually you describe the method in your patter but nobody will believe you, because actions and words create a hilariously conflicting situation that will have your audience laughing. ... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list |