Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 66

The very first issue of "Aether" featured an exploration of Gregg's "Ink Flight" effect. The concept is stunning: a spectator's signature travels across space to appear on a selected card. This all-new version enables you to accomplish this miracle with sleight of hand and simpler props (with credits to Ed Brown). Required are:

• A one-way forcing deck
• A set of double-blank cards
• A Sharpie

Hand-lettered text with illustrations by Gregg Webb.

1st edition 2021, PDF 5 pages.

After "Reformation", this is Guy Hollingworth's most brilliant creation. The aces visibly turn face up while at the fingertips. If you think Twisting the Aces is a strong effect, then Waving the Aces will blow your mind. And it is not at all difficult to perform for an intermediate level card magician.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 1998.

runtime: 18min 39s

Two card routines and a couple of tips and stories from the recollections of the author.

• Shifting Sands: a routine using a sand frame
• The "Three-Repeat Tenner"

1st edition 1939, 14 pages; PDF 11 pages.

There are so many versions of the Card in Wallet - yet none as unique as this one. A freely signed and selected card appears in a paper wallet that happens to be a sheet of paper openly folded into the shape of a wallet right in front of the spectator.

Forget leather wallets. Forget trick wallets. No duplicates, just plain powerful magic with a regular deck and a sheet of A4/US-letter paper that is folded into a wallet. The 'simplicity' of the wallet and the fact that the spectator checks everything themselves makes this effect mind-blowing.

Original concept by Hans Trixer and developed...

What if I told you that there was an amazing card trick hidden in plain sight ... printed on the box of your favourite deck of cards? Henry Christ's "Tally-Ho!" is a unique and fun spelling trick like no other. By spelling the words found on a Tally-Ho card box in an order determined by the spectator, you are able to produce the four Nines - matching the "No. 9" printed on the box.

In this ebook, I will be teaching Roy Walton's variation of "Tally-Ho!" (permission granted by Roy Walton), along with my presentation for the trick. I will then present to you methods to perform this simple and self-working...

A bill and a playing card are signed and make an amazing effect happen. You set the bill on fire and throw it on the cards laying on the table. In a burst of flames the bill travels inside the signed card.

• Easy to make gimmick
• Ends completely clean
• The bill is REALLY inside their card (spectator can remove the bill)
• A memorable moment with an amazing souvenir

length 17 minutes.

Learn how to entertain and Mystify with baffling card tricks!

This ebook will teach you to baffle your friends with card tricks that you can learn quickly and easily. You will be taken into the mysterious and secret world of Magicdom and everything you need to know is contained within these pages. You will start with the simplest of tricks and slowly work your way forward with the more complex routines that require you to learn some simple sleights and subterfuges. But don't worry because everything is carefully explained and clearly illustrated. If you learn just a few of the magic tricks...

From the editor's note and foreword:

This is mostly an ebook on card magic but it also has a few effects with coins, dollar bills and cigarettes. By far the best routine in the ebook is the "Ten Card Poker Deal". It is a hugely entertaining, dynamic routine in which ten cards culled from the deck are dealt into two poker hands in a multitude of ways, but somehow, the magician's hand always ends up winning. The effect is virtually self-working and Harry's routining turns it into a real reputation maker.

From the Foreword:

This was Harry's second book on card magic where he reveals several of his best routines.

From the introduction:

• Foreword
• Four Of A Kind
• Red and Black Fantasy ...

From the Foreword:

Four easy card routines that flow nicely together, plus a false shuffle and a false cut. The routines are:

• Card Control
• Expert versus Amateur
• A Lesson in Cheating
• A Gambling Story

11 pages

These are effects you can do with a jumbo deck of cards preferably on stage or in a parlor setting.

Many standard playing card 'moves' are possible with Jumbos, though, obviously, because of their size, the accent must be on subtlety rather than manipulation.

The performer should make the most of the many opportunities for comedy, inherent in the very use of cards of such an unusual size. The very fact of asking a spectator to 'shuffle' such a pack, is funny in itself ... and, where it suits the performer’s style, no opportunity should be lost, to allow the spectators to 'mix' the cards. ...

• The Two Handed Fan
• "Spot Fan"
• Automatic Closing Of The Fan
• Instantaneous Colour Change
• The Reverse Fan
• The Blank Fan
• Reverse Instantaneous Colour Change
• The Split Fan
• The Flash Fan
• The Diminishing Fan
• The Single Handed Fan
• The Giant Fan
• The "Weave"
• Spreading The Giant Fan
• Routining
• Eliminating The Weave
• "Crazy Fans"
• Care Of Cards

1st digital edition 2016, 19 pages.

All of these routines require gaffed cards of one or another kind: double backer, double facer, blank faces, blank backs, etc.

• Upsendown Cards
• The Faulty Follower
• Twice Predicted
• Flapjack
• Squelch
• The Final Spell
• Dizzy Nudist Pack Routine
• Chameleon Pack
• Red And Blue Transposition
• Colour Change Pack
• Blankety Blank Routine
• The Balsamo Card Trick
• The Spotter Cards
• The Triangle
• New Card Monte
• Card In Envelope Transposition
• A Book Test
• Slip Cut Force
• The Double Lift

PDF 30 pages

Previously titled Tricks with Jumbo Cards.

• Tricks With Jumbo Cards
  • Handling The Pack
  • Shuffling The Cards
  • Cutting The Pack
  • Forcing A Card
  • The Pre-Arranged Pack
• Tricks With An Unprepared Jumbo Pack
  • "Clipped" Card
  • Miracle Prediction
  • "Red Herring"
  • 20-Card Transposition
  • The Whispering Queen
  • The Trio

1st edition 1959, PDF 16 pages.

In this rare manuscript, the fertile mind of "Hen" Fetsch - with some editorial help from California publisher Lloyd E. Jones - reveals several of his favorite effects, betchas, tips and gags with miniature cards.

"Hen" also tips the way he prepares himself to be able to perform these effects at a moment's notice -- even with a borrowed deck. No difficult sleights are required. All moves and setup are well-explained and illustrated.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction
• Simplicity Force
• Stick with Me, Kid
• Last Chance, Brother
• Simplicity False Cut
• Direct Approach
• My Favorite Trick
• Stung Stab ...

This is a multi-stage multi-climax routine with a deck of cards. If you already know George Blake's Dream Poker, you will love this one.

There is a lot of magic here - very easy to do (it is almost automatic…). You repeatedly find a chosen card with seemingly impossible conditions, by logic, by spelling it out and by chance. Then you deal to the spectator a Royal Flush in Spades in a freely chosen position on the table. And finally the spectator finds his chosen card in the deck that he had shuffled, by spelling it himself!

From the foreword:

Hideo Kato was for many years a part of the brain trust of Tenyo, thinking up new and clever effects for its line of magic products. He is the creator of such well known effects like "The Wandering Hole" or "Mirror-Mate", thirteen unique inventions altogether. Kato has a particular love for the pasteboards and over the years he has developed hundreds of miracles with them. In this ebook he is sharing 13 effects with us, eleven are based on the method of estimation and two bonus tricks. Beside a little biographical sketch about Hideo Kato you will also find a short history of estimation. He also...

This ultra-rare manuscript from magic author-dealer Howard Albright, features a trio of effects that each use two different-colored decks. These are audience-tested effects that will leave the spectators talking, long after the performance.

RED AND BLUE EN RAPPORT - You exhibit a red-backed deck of cards and a blue-backed deck. A spectator is handed one of the decks and shuffles them. You do likewise with your deck. A suit is chosen. Both of you remove the 13 cards of the selected suit from your deck. Each 13-card packet is then placed in its own houlette or wine glass. One at a time, the...

• The Goofy Card
• The Persistent Card
• The Mind of Mephistopheles
• Intuition or What?
• Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
• Mental Power
• Surprise Speller
• The Educated Cards
• Albright’s Instantaneous Method For Determining the Number of Letters Required to Spell Any Card
• Triple-Stop Disclosure
• Lucky Number

PDF 25 pages

You reveal a freely thought card.

EFFECT: Spectator freely selects several cards from his own shuffled deck and thinks of one. Those are returned and mixed in the pack. By means of "tuned thought-waves" the performer discovers the very card spectator is thinking of and, either names it dramatically, or causes it to obey his command in a distinctly "unique" manner. A real mental mystery.

Remember:

• No advance preparation
• The card is really only thought
• Free choice without any force
• Cards can be borrowed
• Very subtle method…you will love it.

PDF 5 pages

Thurston explains fundamental sleights such as the Pass, Palm, Force, Change, Back-Palm and his system of expert card manipulation, which appeared for the first time in this book. It also describes a unique gimmick to make the Back-Palm almost effortless.

Thurston also lays claim to what we today call the Si Stebbins stack. He writes that it is his invention but he also thanks Si for his contributions and help.

1st edition, 1903, Henry J. Wehman; 83 pages.

1. CHAPTER I. A Few Incidents in the Life of Howard Thurston, Premier Card Manipulator of the World
10. CHAPTER II. Indispensable Sleights
19. CHAPTER...

This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.

1st edition 1970, original 128 pages; PDF 82 pages.

Table of Contents

7. Introduction
13. Cheating at cards
13. Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33. Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36. Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40. Holdouts: Kepplinger...