Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 62

"ACE really is A Cunning Effect and A Clever Enigma!" - Stephen Tucker

"A new classic of impromptu magic in my opinion. I'll use it until I can't hold playing cards anymore!" - Raphael Czaja

"A.C.E. is one of my favorite new impromptu card tricks. An absolutely brilliant way to handle cards." - Jeff Prace

"Wowwwwwww!... This is the best thing you have released so far in my opinion." - John Carey

Cause a signed card, which is fairly pushed into the center of a cased deck by the spectator, to appear in your pocket or virtually anywhere else!

A.C.E. (Anytime Card Extraction) is a totally impromptu utility system...

Here's another collection of packet tricks. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. The main feature is: TOTALLY IMPROMPTU EFFECTS AND NO SET-UPS!

Contents:

• COURTSHIP (Nick Trost): You show two separate packets of cards, four Queens and four Kings. Magically they assemble by colors and suits!
• NINE FOREVER (Aldo Colombini): A two-phase routine using just eight cards including a card revelation and a prediction!
• GORDON'S ACES (Paul Gordon): Eight cards are removed and you try to find a card of each suit. You do, but at the same time, you also find the four Aces!
• DECA...

Easy packet tricks performed with regular cards and with virtually no sleight-of-hand.

• MERELY THOUGHT-OF CARD MIRACLE (Paul Gordon): A card is mixed in a packet of eight cards, yet you reveal it.
• BUBBLE SORT (Werner Miller): Three face cards capture two selected cards.
• WEDLUCK (Peter Duffie): Cupid (a Jack) couples the Queens and the Kings.
• CHANGE IN MIND (Howard Adams): A great routine using cards torn in half and three coins.
• CHILD’S PLAY (Karl Fulves): Two selected cards appear together while two packets are dealt at the same time.
• COURTING (Aldo Colombini): Two strong climaxes using the face cards.
• TRIPLE HUMDINGER (Peter Duffie): Three...

Edward Marlo and Jon Racherbaumer study three similar effects:

• Everywhere and Nowhere
• The General Card
• The Universal Card

2nd edition 2002, 50 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Afterword
9. A Future Classic
16. Streamlined Classic
20. Comedy Classic
21. Quick Three-Way
24. In Lieu of the Hindoo Shuffle
27. Mini-Classic I
28. Mini-Classic II
29. A Sixy Effect
31. Early Marlo: Everywhere and Nowhere
33. No Deck: Everywhere and Nowhere
37. Spade Book: Everywhere and Nowhere
40. Marlo's Hofzinser
42. Additional Climax
43. Future Classic Double-Cross
45. Four Eightses Classic
48. 'Tis Rough On Hofzinser

This manuscript explores in detail the possibilities of the 'Double Count'. As the title implies, the possibilities seem unlimited. After reading this PDF you will surely come up with your own variations and takes on the effects presented. The Double Count in its basic form is to show five cards absolutely cleanly as six. One of the five cards is a double facer.

1st edition 1953, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 2002, 48 pages.

Table of Contents

8. The Card Goes Home (Norm Osborn)
13. Improved Double Count (Edward Marlo)
14. Effect One
18. Effect Two
20. Effect Three
22. Effect Four
22. Effect Five
26. Effect...

Ten amazing routines with a regular deck of cards.

• LONE RIDER (Aldo Colombini): A spectator selects a card from a deck. It is the only one with a different colored back.
• THE MAGNETIC ACES (Nick Trost): A spectator deals the cards and finds the four Aces.
• SPELL-KING (Aldo Colombini): A funny routine. You find the four Kings and then the four Aces.
• NOW SERVING (Karl Fulves): Missionaries and cannibals are involved. You find them all.
• PALATINO (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected. You show the four Aces. The Ace of the same suit turns out to be the selection.
• MAGIC ELIMINATION (Hideo Kato): A selected card is found...

14 amazing card routines using gimmicked cards.

• A Free Choice
• Bleached
• Blinder
• Brain Sell
• Clear Thought
• Ghost Flight
• Star-Struck
• Total Magic
• Printerface
• Point-Blank Assembly
• Stund!
• The Universal
• The Vanishing
• Thunderstruck

1st edition 2011; 26 pages.

15 amazing card routines using gimmicked cards and prepared decks.

• Blind Deal
• Blowing Away
• Chip-Chip Hooray!
• Deep Rising
• In Between
• Mixed Relations
• Turning Point
• Twice Blank
• Ulti-Mate-M
• Wild Mix
• Add-Acadabra
• Cornered
• Joker Dilemma
• The Rubber Illusion
• Cut It Out

1st edition 2011; 20 pages.

This ebook contains 16 routines based on gimmicked cards, jumbo cards, regular cards, special decks, etc. Some are almost self-working, some require a little bit of handling.

• Coded Card Prediction (Ken de Courcy)
• Ken's Klock (Ken de Courcy)
• Noah's Mix Up (Gene Castillon)
• Odd Man Out (Arthur Carter)
• Orbital (Trevor Lewis)
• Prediction Gone Wild (Cameron Francis)
• Shouting Jokers (Jozsef Kovacs)
• Sleeve Subway (Ken de Courcy)
• Stabtastic (R. Paul Wilson)
• Technicolor Cheeck (R. Paul Wilson)
• The Choice is Yours (Edwin Hooper and Ken de Courcy)
• The Magician (Sam Schwartz)
• The Whitechapel Solution (Ryan Matney)
• Twister (Sam Schwartz)
• Vanishing Oil and...

"All the items are varied and interesting and make a good collection of strong, practical card magic" – Peter Duffie

"BSBCS is very clever" – Richard Osterlind

"What the hell is an ebook?" – his mum

If you have read Mind Blasters you will have encountered one effect by John Holt. John became gutsy and released his own ebook with a collection of close-up card and mentalism effects. He also describes two moves, an excellent full deck overhand false shuffle and a double lift.

• False Overhand Shuffle
• Twirl Double Lift
• BSBCS: A spectator shuffles a deck, which can be borrowed, the performer turns...

A stunning new packet effect by Cameron Francis.

Effect:

A card is selected and lost in the deck, we'll say it's the Six of Diamonds. The magician introduces a packet of four cards. Each card has one hole punched through it. The cards are flipped face up and are seen to be the four Aces. "The Aces are going to tell us the suit and value of the card you selected. First they'll tell us the suit."

The magician gives the packet a twist. He spreads the cards and one of the Aces is now face down. The Ace of Diamonds. "This tells me that the card you picked was a Diamond!" The magician then...

This is a classic Colombini trick - very strong effect, very easy to do. It has served Aldo very well for the past decades and was often a feature item in his lectures and performances.

A three-effect routine with a “killer” ending. The deck is shuffled and cut. You place a card face up in the middle. A spectator FREELY selects a card. You shuffle the deck again and then you cut the deck into two. Dealing the cards at the same time from both piles, the spectator’s card appears at the same time as yours. You then turn over the top card of each packet to produce the four Aces and finally...

A closing routine with multiple climaxes. You produce the four Aces and place three of them in an envelope leaving out the Ace of Spades. Then you produce ten Spade cards in order. You then try to produce the Jack of Spades, Queen of Spades and King of Spades but the three Aces appear and the three face cards are found in the envelope. Then, all the Diamond cards appear in order, then the Club cards and the Heart cards. Amazing finale. Uses a regular deck of cards.

Sandwich tricks, long popular with cardmen, are nothing more than glorified locations. What makes them a little different is that the selections are found at specific places: between two other cards. Perhaps the best way to present these stunts is to perform a few in a rapidfire, successive way—each phase following the preceding one in a logical, progressive way. Also, each phase should be stronger than the preceding one. When such phases unfold in this manner, the overall impression will likely have more impact and be memorable.

And this is exactly what Racherbaumer has engineered in...

A great piece of entertainment. Almost an act in itself. Ten cards are freely selected. You reveal them one at a time with different methods and sleights (uses any deck of cards). The routine is performed entirely in your hands. No table required. With a Multiple Card Control that will blow your head off.

Bonus effect included: BAND-IT (a rubber band wrapped around the deck disappears and then reappears in the middle of the deck encircling the selected card.)

Even though the small packet card trick goes at least back to Hofzinser's times Jon argues that the modern small packet trick started in the 1940s when the Buckle Count was introduced by Dai Vernon and got into full swing when the Ghost Count (Elmsley Count) entered the stage.

Jon writes:

On the Clock Effect

The clock effect/principle is a variant of the automatic placement principle. It allows you to force a card. The procedure typically is that the spectator freely selects any full hour on the clock (1-12). Cards are then dealt into a clock pattern where one card takes the place of each hour. The card at the spectator's freely chosen hour is the force card, which for example could have been predicted beforehand.

The Clock Effect using playing cards originated at the turn of the century. Potter's Index subsequently listed thirty-eight (38) references—one of the earliest...

This DVD with exciting and outstanding card magic contains:

• MOUSE TRAP (Aldo Colombini): A funny trick involving the capture of a ‘mouse’ (Ace of Spades) who leaves a card (cheese) full of holes.
• UNIVERSALS (Roy Walton): A clever version of the standard plot, where a Joker takes the identity of three freely selected cards.
• THE SHOOTIST (Radagast): A versatile manipulation where a card is shot from the deck and caught in mid air with the hand.
• TELL ME WHEN TO STOP (Brian Berry): You reveal a selected card at the ‘stop’ of a spectator.
• UNBEATABLE (Aldo Colombini): A clever...

Ten more amazing routines with a regular deck of cards.

• VALUE/SUIT PREDICTION (Nick Trost): A spectator shuffles the deck, yet you reveal a selected card.
• FATE IN NUMBERS (Karl Fulves): A die and a deck of cards. A spectator picks two sides of the die and you deal two packets. The top cards reveal the numbers of the die.
• VANTAGE POINT (Rachel Colombini): A FREELY selected card is revealed with a comedy spelling (or, in a second routine, with an elimination process). Clever method.
• SUNRISE (Aldo Colombini): Two Kings are left on the table. The other two find two selections and they turn out to be the other...

This is a unique download DVD assembling an incredible collection of routines on gambling and poker demonstrations, using just a regular deck of cards and virtually no set-up.

• AMNESIA ACES (Karl Fulves): An amusing routine involving an absent-minded gambler where, at the end, he deals himself the four Aces apparently forgotten… somewhere else.
• CHEATING JACKS (Aldo Colombini): The four Jacks are dealt between you and a spectator and you always get the four Jacks and at the end you get the four Aces.
• STRATHJACK (Roy Walton): Three in-complete pairs for a Black Jack deal give just eleven. The spectator...

So you want more card tricks with a regular deck of cards? Here we go!

• ISOLATION (Aldo Colombini): The deck is cut into two. A card is selected from one half. A spectator finds it by picking two cards from the other half.
• 52-CARD MONTE (Karl Fulves): An entertaining, unique three-card Monte routine using the entire deck where at the end the deck changes color. Self working.
• UNBEATABLE (Aldo Colombini): You leave one card aside. Two indifferent cards placed face down in the deck, capture a Jack. Your card is turned and it is seen to be the other Jack. Then the two cards change into the other Jacks. ...

This is the fourth revised treatment that Marlo and Jon worked on during the last year of his life. Their objective back then was to publish a new old-book by expanding the original work to include ideas, finesses, and variations devised after 1962. More important, the revision was to be more organized and cohesive than the original.

The original K.M. MOVE booklet was typed on twenty-three pages. There were only eleven hand-traced, inked drawings [by Marlo]. The material faithfully duplicates Marlo's hand-written notes and was typed by Muriel Marlo. All in all, the finished product had an unpretentious,...

"A lovely card effect. Highly recommended!" - Andrew Loh

"Double Scam by Mike Daniels is one of the best purchases I have made in the past year. Extremely clever and the ingenious methodology makes it simple to perform and will probably fool most magicians. But will absolutely destroy laymen. Worth every penny and then some. Diabolic!" - Doug Canning

Double Scam is a two-phase ACAAN effect (Any Card At Any Number). A full deck of cards is freely shuffled by the spectator. Both spectator and mentalist choose a two-digit number. Each then secretly selects and remembers a card. The two cards are lost in...

Table of Contents

4. Tunnel Sandwich
7. Jedi Force
10. Flipover Cut
11. Snapover Flourish
12. Panacea
12. Martinez Display
14. Tell Tale Triumph
14. Zarrow Shuffle
16. Exit Line
20. Add On Finesse
21. Going Under Ground
22. Flesh Eaters
22. - One
24. - Two
25. - Three
27. Any Which Way You Can
31. Fourlorn
33. Double Trouble
34. Cannon Fire
35. Promenade
38. M. C. Switch
40. Spinner

1st edition 1984; original 32 pages; PDF 42 pages.