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Mark Leveridge

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(Bexley Hill, Kent, England: 25th February 1956 - )

Mark has been a full time professional magician since 1981 and since that time has brought his particular brand of comedy magic to a huge number of events both large and small. Much of the magic that Mark uses in his performances he has invented himself, and in fact Mark is well known in the magic world for his range of exclusive products which he sells to entertainers worldwide via his mail order company Mark Leveridge Magic.

Mark is a member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star, which is the furthest you can go in that organization, and he has also won a number of magic competitions, the most notable being the Zina Bennett Close Up Magic Trophy which is awarded by the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

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Face Value by Mark Leveridge

A spectator selects at random a card from an invisible pack - let's imagine the spectator says it is the 5H. This invisible card is apparently placed onto the spectator's hand.

Next a blank faced deck is freely displayed and shuffled before one card is selected. This blank faced card to placed momentarily onto the invisible card, and then when it is turned over, the blank face is now printed with the 5H card face.

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Diary of a Nobody by Mark Leveridge

There are many versions of Danson's 'Diary Trick' and I like to think that my version has much to recommend it. A spectator is handed a diary and on looking through it will soon see that every date has a playing card written next to it. The spectator looks up her own birthday date and remembers the card written against it.

A blue deck of cards is shown and there is seen to be one red backed card in it. This is the card that is in the diary next to the magician's birthday date. This odd backed card is left in the deck which is shuffled. Using the spectator's birthday date, cards are dealt...

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Touchy by Mark Leveridge

This is an experiment to see whether the performer can identify a spectator's fingerprints. A spectator selects 5 cards from a deck, the faces of which are shown to be a random selection. The cards are dealt face down onto the table and the performer turns his back.

The helper now mixes the tabled cards by moving them around on the surface and then turns any one face up and presses his fingertips onto the card face. The card is then turned face down again and the cards mixed on the table again.

Turning back, the performer picks up the cards one at a time and amazingly manages to identify...

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Simplex ACAAN by Mark Leveridge

A deck is freely displayed and shuffled, and a spectator then selects any card (no force). The helper then cuts a block of cards from the deck, and the cards are counted to determine a random number.

Reassembling the pack, the selected card is slipped into the deck at a position decided by the spectator, and the cards are then cut a couple of times to lose the card's position.

The performer then shakes the deck a little as he explains that the selected card and the randomly chosen number will come together. Handing the deck over to the helper, she counts down to the chosen number and...

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Seeker Coin by Mark Leveridge

A card is genuinely freely selected (and can be signed if required) and is shuffled into the deck, which is placed back into the box. A half dollar, which is marked with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials, is taken into the performer's hand from where it instantly vanishes.

With empty hands, the deck is slid from the box and is cut to reveal the marked coin resting on the back of one particular card in the centre of the pack. This card is turned over to reveal that it is the selection.

1st edition 2026, video 15:36.

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Psychic Spectators by Mark Leveridge

A number of spectators appear to demonstrate some psychic ability when they create magical moments that reveal colours randomly assigned to them, and which, in theory, they should not be able to know had been allocated to them.

Simple to do, this is a nice laid-back mental/magic routine designed for parlour performance and which requires just a few simple props that you will probably already have or which you can easily acquire or make.

1st edition 2026, video 17:17.

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Invisible Reverse Encore by Mark Leveridge

A genuinely freely selected card (which can be signed if desired) is shuffled back into a deck. The performer then mimes the removal of that card invisibly and hands it to the spectator to hold for a moment. The cards are then spread face up to show that the chosen card is no longer in the pack.

Squaring the deck, the spectator is invited to push the invisible card he holds face up into the now face down pack. Immediately, the cards are ribbon spread face down again across the table to reveal the selection face up in the centre! Just a regular deck required, straightforward handling,...

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Cup and Ball by Mark Leveridge

This is a wonderfully simple plot that creates a really puzzling effect. A regular, ungimmicked coffee cup is shown and a large sponge ball is tipped out from inside. The cup is clearly shown to be otherwise empty and both of the performer's hands also have genuinely nothing in them.

The ball is placed into a pocket, both hands again being shown to be empty. The inside of the coffee cup is displayed and then inverted mouth down onto the magician's hand. A snap of the fingers and when the cup is tipped backwards, the ball is found impossibly to be back underneath.

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Connections by Mark Leveridge

Two sets of 7 cards are shown. One pile has pictures of the logos of 7 of the most common social media platforms. The other set has the names of these platforms written in words on the cards.

Two spectators who do not know each other are invited to see whether they can connect via the same social media platform. The pile of cards with names on them are shuffled and spread face down. Spectator 1 can touch the back of any one of the cards – it is a genuinely free choice. The selection is placed aside unseen but in view.

The pile of logo cards is shuffled and spectator 2 names any number...

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The Card Whisperer by Mark Leveridge

A deck is shuffled and placed squared face down on the table. A spectator is invited to cut off a block of cards from the pack and to look at and remember the face card of the cut-away section.

The helper is now asked to cut his block of cards to lose the selection in the centre of the pile, and then he is requested to slip his pile somewhere into the middle of the cards still on the table, squaring the pack at the finish.

The magician has had no opportunity to catch even a glimpse of the chosen card, and in fact, the deck itself is put away in the box to preclude that possibility. Despite...

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Table Hoppers Coin in Bottle by Mark Leveridge

A small plastic tub with a tight push-on lid is shown, opened, and a collection of coins tipped from inside. The performer puts his initials on a self-adhesive round sticker, attaches it to one of the coins, and then repeats the process for the other side of the coin with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials.

The rest of the coins are returned to the tub and the lid is pushed back on. Taking the marked coin into his hand the performer strikes it against the bottom of the container, immediately showing that both his hands are empty.

The tub is handed to a spectator who prises off...

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Battery Pack by Mark Leveridge

The magician picks up a card box as if to demonstrate a card trick and discovers that it rattles. Opening it, he tips from within four 3-volt circular batteries. Taking one of the batteries into his fist, he squeezes it and on opening the hand it is seen to have changed to a more powerful AAA battery. Holding this battery at the fingertips, the performer passes his other hand across it and causes it to visibly change to a larger AA battery.

Finally, he clasps his two empty hands together and on parting them reveals that now a square 9-volt battery has magically appeared!

No gimmicks...

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Magnetic Coins by Mark Leveridge

Two coins are tipped from a purse and are placed apart on the table. They are then covered by two playing cards. With no apparent moves the two coins are suddenly found together under one of the cards. Replacing them apart again, they are covered once more. Again the two coins magically jump together under one card. Finally, one coin is placed back into the purse and the other is covered by the two cards. Instantly it vanishes and is found inside the purse with the first coin.

This sleight-of-hand effect requires no gimmicks and must be worked on a close-up mat. You will only require some...

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Four-midable Magic Series Volumes 1-3 by Mark Leveridge

There are currently three e-books in the Four-midable Magic Series, each containing four top routines dedicated to a particular type of magic.

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Parade of the Kings Revisited by Mark Leveridge

This is a revised version of the classic Parade Of The Kings packet trick from the 1970s.

Four blue-backed cards are counted face down and the performer explains that these are the four Kings. Two spectators between them decide on one of the Kings. Immediately the magician spreads the cards to reveal the chosen King has now magically turned face up.

But there is a further surprise when the back of this King is shown to have also now changed to red.

Then there is a final kicker when the other three face-down Kings are turned face up to reveal they are in fact three blank-faced cards...

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Credit Transfer by Mark Leveridge

Two for the price of one here as with Credit Transfer you get a mental effect and a piece of magic together. A borrowed credit card is slipped into a small envelope. Two paperback books are shown and the pages are riffled of one of the books until a spectator calls 'stop'. The credit card in the envelope is dropped into the book to mark the place. The second book is now opened to reveal an envelope is already inside it, and the page it rests on turns out to match the page just selected in the first book. Then the credit card vanishes from the envelope in the first book and arrives inside the...

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Colour Confusion by Mark Leveridge

A blue-backed deck is openly displayed and one card is selected from the face-down deck. Cutting the selection back into the pack and shuffling the deck, the performer offers to find the selection quickly and effectively.

Snapping his fingers over the deck, he turns the cards face down and spreads through the entire deck to reveal that every card back has changed from blue to red, except for just one card, and that turns out to be the selected card!

No sleight of hand is required, this is designed to instantly re-set in front of the spectators and everything takes place up in your hands,...

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Impromptu Lie Detector by Mark Leveridge

This is a straightforward version of the classic Lie Detector routine that can be performed with any deck (even a borrowed one) and with no advance setup.

A deck is shuffled by a spectator to put the cards into a genuinely random order, and the performer then extracts one card which he leaves sight unseen in view on the table. The magician then asks a spectator three questions about the tabled card, and the helper is invited to make up his answers (since he doesn't know at this stage what the tabled card actually is). Whatever answers the participant gives, the performer spells the word...

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ESP Match Up Plus by Mark Leveridge

Two sets of five ESP cards are freely displayed, one set with red backs, the other with blue. The red set is given to the spectator who shuffles them, the magician mixing the blue set. One at a time the performer places his cards face down onto the table and each time the spectator then places one of his cards at random next to the performer's. When the pairs of cards are turned face up, all five sets are seen to have been put down in matching pairs!

This is a streamlined version of my card matching routine which has extra subtleties and a cleaner handling than earlier versions.

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3 Card Con by Mark Leveridge

Three pre-folded cards are tipped from a card box and displayed as being a QH and two blank cards. The three cards are folded to conceal their faces and arranged in a row on the table ready for the classic Find The Lady. Having mixed the positions of the three cards, the one that should be the QH is opened to reveal it is in fact one of the blanks. That’s surprise no. 1. Surprise no. 2 comes when the other two cards are unfolded to reveal they are both blanks as well! The QH has completely disappeared. Surprise no. 3 is revealed when the QH is found folded inside the card box that has been...

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Four-Midable Coin Creations by Mark Leveridge

Four coin routines that do not require any gimmicks.

Cash Withdrawal - a spectator marks one of five coins with his initials and the chosen coin is dropped into an envelope and left in view. The other four coins are held in a spectator's closed fist. Instantly the envelope is torn up and the vanished signed coin is found in amongst the other four coins in the onlooker's closed hand.

Seeker Coin - a freely selected (and signed if you wish) card is shuffled back into the deck which is boxed. A coin, which is marked with a spectator's initials, vanishes and when the pack is removed from the...

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Hide and Seek by Mark Leveridge

Ambitious Card in reverse.

One of the classic card effects in magic is The Ambitious Card, and many close-up workers use one variation or another of it. I was looking for an in-the-hands card routine that I could introduce into my strolling work, and it suddenly occurred to me that maybe you could do the Ambitious Card in reverse.

Hide and Seek is the routine that I came up with and which I have been using in my commercial work ever since. Here's the plot.

A spectator selects a card, let's say it is the 3C. The minute you see the card you express concern because you explain that this...

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Countdown Prediction by Mark Leveridge

A prediction Jumbo card is placed sight unseen in full view. A deck of cards is displayed and shuffled and a spectator freely selects a number of cards to use from the deck. These cards are eliminated one by one until only one remains. Despite the freedom of handling and choices, the selected card matches the Jumbo prediction. Very easy to do, suitable for a close-up show or a stand-up performance.

1st edition 2017, PDF 2 pages.

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Six Appeal by Mark Leveridge

An envelope is shown and a single card removed from inside, but not shown. The envelope is otherwise empty. This card is a prediction and is replaced into the envelope and left in view. Six Jumbo cards are freely and openly displayed and various spectators are asked to choose any of the cards to eliminate until just one is left.

Despite the fact that there is genuinely no force or selection control, the prediction card exactly matches the randomly arrived at selection.

This direct effect is ideal for a close-up or parlor show.

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