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The descriptions below are purposely very detailed so you have an accurate transcription of what is seen by the spectator. Note that he can genuinely shuffle the deck as he wants (overhand, riffle, hindu, etc). No sleight or secret move from the magician. No marking system. No gaff or any hidden gimmick. Only use a regular deck.

EFFECT #1: While shuffling a deck of cards, you proclaim to have a sixth sense that enables you to feel things around you without the need for seeing, hearing or touching them; like detecting pulse beats from a close distance. To prove it, you invite a spectator to...

A pocket diary with random playing cards written against each date is tossed out to 8 participants in the audience, one after the other. 4 of those participants declare their dates of birth but either tell a complete lie or complete truth or half truth or half lie about their respective assigned playing cards. But the performer accurately divines their cards in spite of all the half truths or lies.

Now the other 4 participants are asked NOT to divulge either their dates of birth or their respective assigned playing cards. And yet, very impossibly, the performer accurately reveals all their...

WOW! - Learn a "trade secret"! Paul has fooled every magician he's shown this to. A shuffled deck is found separated into reds and blacks - the selection is found amongst the half of the opposite color. The final shuffle is performed very openly and the spectator pushes the cards together...yet the reds are still separated from the blacks. Four of the eight videos provide you with a powerful routine and a great lesson in magic. This is a magician-fooler - I guarantee it!

The RIVERBOAT STACK (aka Mark Twain stack; see for example New Card Tricks with the Mark Twain...

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  • ...The Named Vanish
  • WJ Notes on Another Premonition
  • WJ Play Along
  • WJ Double Deal Play Along
• Real Gone Aces Method 9 - Vol 20, No 2 - Feb 1980
  • Alternate Handling
  • WJ Notes on Real Gone Aces
• Choice of Oil or Water - Vol 20, No 5 - May 1980
  • WJ Notes on Choice of Oil or Water
  • Olive Oil on the Side
• Cards and Signature Transpo - Vol 20, No 7 - July 1980
  • Letter from Bob Nelson
  • WJ Notes on Cards and Signature Transpo
  • WJ Visual Card & Signature Transpo
• Muk Aluuk Monte - Vol 20, No 8 - Aug 1980
  • First Method (Gaffed)
  • Second Method (Impromptu)
  • WJ Notes on Muk Aluuk Monte
• Real Gone Aces...

(Two videos included which explain everything.)

MIRAGE - a brand new concept in card magic - and particularly in the realm of paradoxes - a magician-fooler!

Plus two other brilliant "workers" are included below. Here is what the spectators (and magicians) see...

Two paper-clipped, red-backed cards are laid on the table at the onset ... your magician buddies are watching closely. A card from a blue-backed deck is selected and signed by the spectator, then lost back into the deck. The two red-backed, paper-clipped cards are openly picked up and one card is taken into each hand. The hands...

NOW! Cluck like a chicken and take a peck at what's inside:

Influence-Enza - a Nick Trost effect takes a few hairpin turns with your audience driving under your influence. From a shuffled deck of cards, two spectators create three piles of face-down cards in front of little signs marked 1, 2 and 3. A third spectator removes a card sight unseen from the balance of the deck and seals it in an envelope safe from any sleighty hands. Free choice? Not quite. You have managed to influence the spectators...

What is S.E.M.P.E.R.? (Special Esp Memory Powers Enhanced Radically)

A special trick with a flexible method that offers wide-ranging presentational possibilities. It uses an ordinary deck of 52 poker cards and the trick will be deceptive even for many illusionists, but above all its impact on the audience is devastating.

Two spectators are asked to take a card and put them unseen in their pockets. The magician explains that, under these conditions, it is obviously extremely difficult to be able to identify the cards. Nevertheless, and in order to demonstrate to the public the uncommon...

Playing cards, or even an individual card, carry great magical imagery and symbolism. Over centuries there are numerous songs, stories, and myths about them. They've been used for declarations of love, threats of war, carriers of confessions, curses, and blessings. Here they are being used to deliver vibrational messages to you.

Get reactions and attention with little to no effort. With a deck of cards and this chart you'll be the life of the party.

The Mystical Cartomancy Chart is a simple and direct psychic cartomancy tic sheet that has proven to be a wonderful tool for mentalists...

Synchro is a mentalism effect that can be achieved (in person or on the phone, with audio connection only) with playing cards, or with ESP cards or with tickets: this latest version also allows you to develop the final revelation in cold-reading.

The secret used in this routine is a combination of unique methods, amalgamated for an amazing finish. It can be done remotely, with cards borrowed from the spectator, or with tickets written "on the spot"; the mentalist does not need to see the cards in any way. While using various methods, it is easy to memorize, as it is based on simple patterns. ...

There will be no one who is not aware of the Chronologue diary effect by the great Bob Cassidy. This is a propless version of the same effect.

There are 2 pure propless versions of Chronologue which are explained where no diary or datebook and no physical deck or playing cards are in play. The process is quick, direct, and purely propless between the performer and a participant. The whole process takes about 2 minutes approx.

Using an imaginary diary and an imaginary deck, the lucky card of a participant for her birthday is nailed by the performer accurately. There are also 2 almost propless versions...

A mind-shattering collection of close-up magic. You will encounter 50 fantastic effects. 27 are novel and original card miracles. 8 are with coins and the other 15 utilize such objects as sponge balls, keys, pens, ESP cards, bottles, matches, and more.

Many illustrations accompany the text and all effects detailed are within the reach of the average performer.

1st edition 1984, 101 pages; 1st digital edition 2011, PDF 119 pages.

Table of Contents

• Cards
  6. Intro
  7. Kidnapped
  8. Plotting His Course
  9. Profile
  11. Two Faced
  13. Beauty As Well As Brains
  17. And The Winner Is...
  19. Viewpoints
  20. A Vision...

Webb leads you along with a chuckle as he teaches you every trick, and explains how he creates his own brand of magic.

Of course, there are tricks and mental effects using cards and coins. But, there are loads of tricks with unusual props.

Things like seeds, hat pins, voodoo dolls, strings and pens and soda pop cans. Also tricks with balls, magnets, and invisible thread. (voodoo dolls??)

So step inside and learn a new way to perform magic.

1st edition 2000,...

CONTENTS:

• HAMMAN OUT-SEXED (Alex East): A 'sexy' version of the classic Hamman's 'Two-Card Trick' that uses, of course, only two cards.
• WOW (Tim Gan): The Ace of the same suit of a selected card turns over and then it changes place with the selection.
• WEIRD (Stephen Tucker): A great comedy mentalism effect where you predict how many fingers a spectator selects by revealing....plastic fingers in a box.
• TWISTED NERVE (Al Smith): An extended version of the classic Vernon's 'Twisting The Aces' where a lot of magic happens.
• THE BACK IS GONE (David Robertson): A unique entertaining way of revealing a selected...

The performer hands five ESP cards, each bearing a different symbol, to a spectator and requests that he remember one. The spectator is then asked to shuffle the cards. The magician takes the cards back and, after an apparently fair mixing procedure, correctly divines the selected symbol without even looking at the faces.

The method uses an old mathematical ploy but it is dressed up differently here.

This effect was featured in the May 2005 issue of Magic Magazine.

1st digital edition 2014, 2 pages.

[Note that this volume has actually only 9 effects.]

CONTENTS:

• FINGERED 2 (Simon Lovell): A unique revelation of a selected card with a transposition.
• IT'S ME! (Solyl Kundu): Three cards show a picture of a magic wand. All three cards change into mirrors. Finally, you have a card with a mirror, a card with a wand and the third card with your picture (or your business card)
• COIN IN BALLOON (Angelo Carbone): A coin is thrown towards a balloon and magically appears inside the balloon that can be examined.
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF? (Melvin LeHair): An easy "Find The Lady" routine with a Queen and four Aces.
• CHEEKY RING (Ali Cardabra): A nice routine in three phases...

down. The Unknown Mentalist has once again come up with a great concept that I'm sure we will see appearing in other routines and effects. This is a really neat, well thought out idea that is 100% worth adding to your arsenal of knowledge." - Marc Paul

"I have been playing around with the cards and I think the effect is really great.... I don't remember seeing anything quite like your effect." - Richard Osterlind

On both the props of Zodiak Gods, there is one typo (an i got printed instead of e). But the method and process do not change and remain the same. The ebook gives a method...

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1. Magic - Volume 21, Number 7 - March 2012 - 92 pages
1. Cover - Fielding...

Between 2009 and 2011 a very special column appeared in M-U-M, the in-house magazine for the Society of American Magicians. Conceived to be an introduction to sleight of hand aimed at beginners, the thirty-six lessons ended up being one of the most detailed courses in conjuring to date. The topics covered included all aspects of magic; cards and coins, balls, ropes and cups, stand up and close up, interspersed with real-world performance hints and tips from someone who has spent time in the trenches.

This e-book version contains all thirty six Basic Training columns, plus two extra lessons...

A very effective parlor or stage effect. Cards or tickets can be used, or ESP cards or even tickets were drawn on the spot by the spectator on which to carry out an effective act of reading in the final revealing phase.

The spectator receives 4 cards, and shuffles them several times, at his discretion, while the mentalist has his back turned: at the end, he will be able to describe the correct position of all the cards.

To simplify the final phase for the performer, we propose the use of an ingenious "homemade" gimmick, which allows you to operate calmly, without fear of forgetfulness...

Next follows many updates on a trick of Gregg's, Blinded By the Lack of Light, a blindfold trick with many new details possible with ESP cards or playing cards. Blindfolded, you pass your hand above a row of cards and from 5 or 6 inches above a card, you can tell what it is. Clairvoyance at its best. Cards are shuffled and cut before this demonstration.

The last, of the 3 main articles, is about the use of signatures in card...

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• #38 Kings And Queens
• #39 The Lost Ace
• #40 The Eyes Have It
• #41 Fingerprints
• #42 Face Up Or Face Down
• #43 Mathemagical
• #44 Color Telepathy
• #45 Purely Mental
• #46 An Unusual Vanish
• #47 The Triple Coincidence
• #48 The Mad Magician
• #49 The Allowance
• #50 The Stranger
• #51 The Reluctant Cards
• #52 World's Fastest Count
• #54 Just For Laughs
• #53 Super Stripper
• End Strippers
• Blank Stripper
• Making Your Own
• Alphabet Cards
• ESP Cards
• For The Card Men
• #55 Tap It Off
• #56 The Automatic Rise
• #57 The Paper Clip
• #58 The Flying Card
• #59 One Hand Location
• #60 The Bad Penny
• #61 Three...

False Deals. Allan Ackerman teaches the Second Deal, Bottom Deal and Center Deal, plus a number of variations and methods including effects with these moves. The Side Glide developed by Dai Vernon is a piece of beauty - minimal movement - maximum impact.

Allan Ackerman is one of the world's foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards. Allan is one of those humble down to earth guys with incredible chops. He executes the moves flawlessly and teaches them in a straight forward easy to grasp manner. On this incredible multi-volume series of DVDs, you will be treated to an instructional...

• Real time
• No electronics (they always fail when you least expect it)
• No assistants
• No impression devices
• No pre-show work
• No stooges (instant or otherwise)
• No quick peeks inside folded cards
• No memory work
• Instant access to the information
• All props used, innocent in appearance and common place.

Welcome to My Q & A.

1st...

This routine is ideal for a parlour presentation or could be adapted for close-up. The only equipment required is a normal deck of playing cards.

1st edition 2013, 14 pages.