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ESP Match Up PlusMark 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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ESP in ColorRaphaël CzajaFind two thought-of E.S.P. cards without even looking at the deck.
A deck of 25 colored E.S.P. cards (a.k.a. Zener cards) is introduced. It contains five different symbols in five different colors. In other words, every card is unique. The magician shuffles the deck and tables it.
After he turns his back, two spectators remove a card from the deck. They create their own card — combining the symbol on one card and the color on the other card — and hide their selections face down under the cardbox.
The magician faces the spectators again and asks them to visualize their thought-of... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
ESP Card Magic Vol. 15: Howard Adams Part 5Aldo ColombiniAll these routines are self-working with no sleight-of-hand whatsoever.
CONTENTS:
- QUINCIDENTA: A spectator freely selects a design. Two other persons select a design each. The designs match. A deal leads to two more designs and they all match.
- FACEY ESP: A freely selected symbol finds its matching sign. All is done in the hands of a spectator.
- REPEATOTEST: You find three designs a person is concentrating on. Then you reverse two cards which prove to be duplicates of two more designs he has selected.
- THIRTEAM ESP: Great routine and a new principle. Cards are shuffled and dealt in pairs...
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ESPerienceAbhinav BothraA three phased easy to do routine that gives your spectator an experience of what it feels to be a mentalist.
Phase 1: 5 business cards are shown, each having the ESP symbols and are laid face down towards them. The performer introduces another set of 5, with a little thought points to one of them and asks them to point a card in their pile which they think matches the performer's card. They do so, and it matches.
Phase 2: The performer draws one of the symbols on a business card and the spectator correctly guess which one has been drawn.
Phase 3: The spectator is asked if he remembers... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
ESPerience RebornAbhinav BothraA three phased routine that allows you to share the experience of what it feels to be a mentalist.
PHASE I – UNCONSCIOUS COGNITION
5 Cards with ESP symbols are laid face down in a row towards the participant. The performer introduces another set of 5, lays them face up in a row towards himself. With a little thought the performer points to a card from his row and the participant to point a card from their row and it matches.
PHASE II – THOUGHT IDENTIFICATION
The performer draws one of the symbols on a card and the spectator correctly guesses which one has been drawn.
PHASE III... | ★★★★★ $9.95 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
ESP for Close-Up and Cabaret PerformancesPaul A. LelekisPaul A. Lelekis presents 8 real-world ESP effects for Close-Up and Cabaret performance. ESP is always a favorite with spectators. With these offerings, you can perform an entire amazing show, out of your pockets!
1) Fantasy Jacks is one of Paul's favorite effects to perform…and it's easy to do. The four Jacks are placed into the empty card case. Two selections are made and lost in the deck. The performer asks the spectator to choose any three of the Jacks…when the deck is spread, the three Jacks are seen "sandwiching" the two selections! But that's not all! When the card box is opened... | $12 to wish listPDF |
ESP SignsJens O. JahnYou get professionally designed ESP symbols:
- Circle
- Cross
- Wave
- Square
- Star (in two sizes)
One star version is geometrically the same size as the other symbols. Due to its shape it looks a bit smaller than the other symbols. The second star design is 20% larger to better match the overal appearance of the other symbols.
The files are vector files (SVG format). This means you can blow them up as much as you want without loosing resolution - great for jumbo or giant cards. Each symbol is available in 10 color background combinations. They are:
- black on white background
- blue on...
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Cards in ActionShaun YeeExcerpt from the introduction:
This is a book on card magic. It is not for the all-thumbs newcomer as the effects and routines contained herein require the ability to execute smoothly, various sneaky sleights such as the deceptive buckle-count, the convincing false-shuffle, the confusing multiple-cut, the quiet side-steal, the casual double-lift and so on.
Though this book deals primarily with sleight-of-hand effects and routines, a really effective magical programme of card entertainment should be well-balanced with sleight-of-hand tricks and one or two non-sleight effects. By the latter,... | $15 to wish listPDF |
Cards InsightPeter DuffieTwenty-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... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
David's ESP RoutineDavid DevlinDavid Devlin, the guy who brought you Coincidence & Fate, gives you a three-phase routine with an E.S.P. deck. And best of all, the entire routine is self-working!
Phase 1: The deck is shown to consist of five different symbols repeated five times. The cards are then mixed and the squared deck is placed face-down in front of a spectator. The mentalist turns his back to the spectator, and tells her to cut the deck wherever she wishes, and to complete the cut. Once that is done she is to take the top card of the deck (the card she freely cut to, no force!), look at it and then hold it behind her back so that... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
The Magic of ESPStanton CarlisleHere are 25 tricks with ESP cards. Some are impromptu (marked below with a single star), some require a bit of preparation (marked below with two stars), and a few require more involved preparation such as gimmicked cards (marked below with three stars).
Most are suitable for jumbo ESP cards as well as regular poker or bridge sized cards. And most use only a single deck of ESP cards.
1st edition 1978; original 29 pages; PDF 32 pages.
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Preface
- Foreword
- Guessing Gordon*
- Psycho-Symbol*
- A Five Star Miracle**
- The Magical Match-Maker**
- Mental Simplicity***
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Mentalism with CardsPaul HallasPaul's highly thought of small print run hardcover book of 2012 now available as an ebook. 154 large pages, packed with information on the subject matter. Mainly focusing on playing cards but there are also chapters on ESP cards, number cards, alphabet cards, design decks etc.
Yes, some effects are fully described but the book is primarily a great reference source with discussion and recommendations of effects within the various categories of mentalism with cards.
Here are a few comments on the book...
"I'd be astonished if you didn't unearth some really terrific effects here that... | ★★★★★ $38 to wish listPDF |
Gems with Jumbo CardsHarry StanleyPreviously 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. | ★★★★★ $7 to wish listPDF |
Samuel Cox Hooker and his Rising CardsChris WasshuberDr. Samuel Cox Hooker's Rising Cards have been an unexplainable fascination for nearly a century. Hooker first showed his effect in 1914, and in 1993 and 2007 John Gaughan gave abbreviated performances. Nobody who has seen the Hooker Rising Cards performed has ever been able to explain how such effects can be accomplished. This includes the most notable and most knowledgeable magicians from past and present. How can, from a borrowed and shuffled deck, any card called for rise in the fairest possible manner on a well lit stage only a few feet from the spectators?
This work is not just about... | ★★★★★ $39 to wish listPDF |
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.
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Magic with Giant CardsFred CastleFred was a specialist in performing close-up, parlor and stage card tricks using jumbo cards and even giant cards. He teaches you how to do an Elmsley count, a Jordan count, a Hamman count and an Ascanio count using jumbo/giant cards. You will learn to do a number of wonderful effects, such as 'Oil and Queens', 'The Holiday Adventure', 'The James Bond Trick' and others.
Once you mastered these techniques, you can take many small packet tricks and perform them with jumbo or giant cards. I did myself the famous 'Twisting the Aces' with jumbo cards, and I developed a method to do the 'mirror... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
SEIS: Bizarre Mentalism with Marked CardsMystic AlexandreNO sleight of hand - NO complicated tactics!
In this PDF Alexandre shares techniques and six bizarre mentalism effects with marked cards (plus a strong bonus routine), audience tested material he's been performing for many years such as ...
PAGANINI - The violin virtuoso fuels rumors of a pact with the Devil by demonstrating his amazing relationship with velocity using a deck of cards.
STALKER - A female participant chooses her actions, and a card, but in the end she can't avoid the "stalker's" confrontation.
SPIRITUAL TRACE - With an old deck of cards used for fortune telling, a... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
Expert Manipulation of Playing CardsLewis GansonLewis Ganson, mostly known as author of magic books, was also himself an expert stage card manipulator. This ebook is a complete course in the art of manipulating playing cards, from back palms, to catching cards, card fans, flourishes, gimmicks and holders, and how to put it all together into a routine.
Paul Fleming wrote:
This recent work on card manipulation is divided into four sections which deal with (1) the back-palming of cards, (2) card fans, (3) card flourishes, and (4) suggestions for routines. Since we have no special knowledge of card fanning or card flourishes - and, because they lack... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Phenomenal ESP PerceptionBob Tripp & Robert A. Nelson A masterful presentation of Extra Sensory Perception wherein five different spectators prove their psychic ability.
EFFECT: Five different Jumbo ESP symbol cards are exhibited, and one card each is sealed in a large manila envelope. The envelopes are mixed, so the whereabouts of any given symbol is unknown. Any five spectators volunteer, and name the envelope which they think contains a certain specified symbol card. Spectator's names are each written on an envelope, and their selection is recorded beside their name on a large white board or easel-mounted display card.
Each envelope, as... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
Remote Couples ESPerimentBiagio FasanoThis is a new mentalism effect, that can be performed also at distance (i.e. with Zoom, Skype or Google Meet), in which the illusionist will always be able to guess the ESP symbol shown on a pair of cards kept covered by the spectator's hands, following a series of random shuffles and flipping of the cards.
Key Points:
- Completely "hands-off"
- Easy and ideal to perform in any situation, including a phone call or a video chat (Zoom, Google Meet, etc.)
- The performer does not need to see the cards until the end of the experiment
- The cards are not marked in any way, the spectator can even...
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Variations on an ESP ThemeRussell J. HallExcerpt from the introduction:
Being made up of five symbols repeated five times, the standard ESP pack is ideally suited to coincidence-type effects. For some time I've used a number of effects based on a coincidence or 'linked minds' theme which involved the selection of two or three symbols, apparently at random, which later turned out to be identical. It occurred to me recently, however, that there was scope for extending the principle to include all five cards of any particular symbol.
- Symbol synchronicity
- The Rhine reaction
- Zenner mate
- ESP topper
- ESP round-up
- Down-under divination
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David's ESP TrickDavid Devlin(not to be confused with David’s E.S.P. Routine)
In effect, the performer lays out five cards, each of which has an ESP symbol on in. All of the cards are different and unprepared. Attention is now drawn to a small coin envelope, which, as the performer explains, contains a duplicate of one of the cards on the table. This is the prediction, and is kept in full view throughout the entire proceedings. A spectator now uses his mind to determine which four of the five cards are eliminated. The spectator makes real and honest decisions throughout the elimination process. The envelope is now opened, and it is found... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listPDF |
A Wicked Pack of CardsPhilemon Vanderbeck"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyant had a bad cold, nonetheless was known to be the wisest woman in Europe with a wicked pack of cards." - T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"
I've been working on an act designed specifically for comedy clubs based on the premise of "a wicked pack of cards." I have a 'volunteer' select a card, and I then proceed to give the worst possible interpretation of it.
The deck I'm using is "Morgan's Tarot," an unusual 86-card deck that bears little relationship with a normal Tarot deck. I found its simple black and white drawings and irreverent card titles to be apropos... | ★★★★★ $6.66 to wish listPDF |
Mind Your Own Business ... CardsGerard ZittaBefore re-designing your business cards, check this out. It will save you hours and money for trials and errors, in looking for a practical and simple way to make business cards useful for your mentalism effects. Clever business cards can become a very powerful secret weapon you will always carry with you. They can also replace expensive props or effects, and allow you to create your own and personalized routines. Not to mention that your business cards are a wonderful marketing tool, as well.
The "system" described in this e-book, will allow you to improvise many mental effects, that use... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |