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His remarkable writing ability is clearly seen in the various books he authored, either under his real name, under pseudonyms, or for larger corporations without any author specified....

Born in Pest, Hungary. Stage name of Ehrich Weiss (born Erik Weisz). Of Hungarian-Jewish parents, his father being a rabbi. Brought to USA later that spring when the family name was henceforward spelled Weiss and his first name was re-spelled Ehrich.

At age 9 saw his first magician (Dr Lynn). Moved to New York City in 1888 when taught his first sleight-of-hand tricks by friends Jake Hyman and Joe Rinn. Inspired to become a professional by reading Robert-Houdin's Memoirs in 1890 and then in 1891, at Hyman's suggestion, adopted 'Houdini' as stage name.

Without doubt, the most famous magician in history. To escape a life of poverty reinvented himself...

Performs adult magic for children and childrens' magic for adults. He is also known as Professor Bungle and occasionally tries to keep Mr Punch in order in his traditional Punch and Judy show, but usually ends up having a cup of tea in the booth while the wooden acting goes on above his head.

Steve has lots of experience in writing and directing for children's theatre and many people have actually paid real money to see the panto's (that's British Pantomime) and shows he has written.

Also advised on the magical bits in the premiere production in Wales of the musical "The Witches...

Inspired as child seeing a magician. Learned from Erdnase and Fischer's Illustrated Magic. Jazz pianist until c1963 when traded piano lessons for card magic with Dai Vernon. Thence school teacher and semi-pro magician and lecturer. Foremost inventor of finger-ring and rope tricks since late 1960s. Aka "The Idaho Flash". Wrote many booklets, including The Punch Letters (1988, 23pp). Tricks in Talisman, Arcane, Epoptica, Genii, and Linking Ring. Video (1992). Father of Vicki Grismer.

A collection of ten astonishing tricks, all done with a regular deck and basic card magic knowledge. Everything is nicely photo illustrated.

Hi-Jack! - A goofy prediction turns into a deadly one-two punch of visual changes.

Peach! - Check out this brand new take on the classic 'Princess Card Trick', that ends with you revealing the actual thought of card, and then changing all the others to Aces.

Chip-Shot! - A reworked multi-phase Daley's Last Transposition routine, routined as a 'follow the leader' and wrapped up in a gambling presentation, featuring a top-secret handling for the...

Ken de Courcy's no gimmick version of Scalbert's "The Mystery of the Seventh Card".

The perfect telephone test to present under challenge conditions. No Feke's. No Gimmicks. Yet the medium at the other end of the phone unerringly names the thought of card.

Scalbert's "Mystery of the Seventh Card", sold many years ago, was a commercial principle applied to the transmission of a card to an assistant playing the role of a medium, waiting on the end of a telephone. The distinct novelty at the time was the fact that all communication with the medium was done by a spectator. The secret was an...

Section Two: Various Other Items

These are effects and/or plot-lines that don't flow from one to another, but instead are various effects and/or plot-lines that pack a punch all by themselves.

This starts with "BLOT", a routine where you get credit for knowing a person's 4 digit PIN number, even though you only reveal one of the numbers. This is included as a thank-you bonus for people who buy "A Nite Of Dumb Poker". In the right hands, you will be creating a...

A Thought Well Stolen combines two of magic's great card effects - Any Card At Any Number, and Paul Curry's Out Of This World - into a wicked hybrid; morphing them into a mind-blowing frenzy. Can you even imagine what this resultant offspring would look like?

As in Any Card At Any Number, the performer reveals the identity of a freely though-of card - and its position in a deck - without asking a single question. Seriously, this is solid and gripping mentalism; there is no force, the card is a free mental selection and no questions are asked. Having read his spectator's mind, discerning his card and its position in the deck, the performer...

First class magic from Ian Adair. In this ebook there is something for everyone. A lot of children magic, general magic, mental magic, card magic and close-up magic, all in the classic Adair's style. All the tricks described in the ebook are easy to do.

Here is a list of the tricks explained in the ebook:

• PERSONALITY PIPE
• BANG-BANG SILK
• SUCKER SILK CHANGE
• SILKEN SPACE SORCERY
• LINK-UP
• MICKMORENCY THE MOUSE
• NOT-A-SAUSAGE!
• INKED!
• FREE CHOICE BOOK TEST
• TWO USING THE CLASSIC SAND FRAME
• RATTLE BELLS
• BAFFLING BOOK-TEST
• A PASSING DOUBLE
• HINGE-OVER PRODUCTION TUBE
• 3 FROM IAN ADAIR ...

An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."

From the introduction:

• Al Baker’s Billet Reading Extraordinary
• The Billet Test
• The Living And Dead Trick
• Al Baker’s Two Person Slate Test
• Pack That Cuts Itself
• Mindreading Card Trick

20 pages

Nick Trost was a master in creating amazing tricks and routines based on subtleties rather than difficult sleight-of-hand. Here you have a the first of a three volume set based on the card magic of Nick Trost. This is Aldo's tribute to a very creative magician.

All the tricks are performed with a regular deck of cards.

Contents:

• ACE STOP: Here is a quick, easy method of locating the four Aces in a magical manner.
• AMBITIOUS DEUCE SANDWICH: A selected card is buried in the deck only to jump to the top and land between the two red Deuces. This happens three times.
• TEN-IN-A-ROW DOUBLE COINCIDENCE: This...

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  • ... Production
  • Poka-Cola
  • Dissa-Pointer
  • The "Holy-Head" Match
  • Knifty-Knot
  • "Outa-Shape" Penetration
  • "Musical Money" Bit
  • Karrell's -Komical - Kurrency - Kollection
• Chapter Three: With A Deck
  • Once In A Knife-Time
  • Foldup Chance
  • Peek-A-Brain
  • F.V.M.T.
  • F.V.C.C.
  • Prose And Con
  • Duazidu
  • Plural Card Thru Hank
  • A "Dis-Arming" Color Change
  • The Di-Minish Finish
  • Kornagraphic Kards
  • Guaranteed Future
• Chapter Four: "Mental-Mazia"
  • Thot-Dot
  • A K.F. Idea On An O.M. Switch
  • Mentalism In Disguise
  • A "Seer" At Roebucks
  • An "Epic" Force
  • Foxes Foney Fickle Finger
  • "Friday" Mentalism
  • Doodle-Ography ...

• ... effects released as single-effects between 2000 and 2005. This ebook takes a close look at deception with playing cards with the use of gaffs and gimmicks. Including Irreversible, Memento, 212215, Cut, Rip, E18HT2WO, The Devils Touch and Breach.

• Blood
  Blood teaches a unique and tested playing card marking system. The ebook teaches you how to apply the markings to your own deck within minutes and how to master the translation and deceptions possible with the deck. The Blood system teaches markings for the following decks: Bicycle Rider and League Back, Tally-Ho Fan and Circle Back, David...

The primary reason this book is interesting for magicians is that Richardson describes several encounters with gambling. They are detailed and well-described. In particular, he describes a Three Card Monte performance. For those who would like to perform this con game authentically, this is a very good resource. (All gambling sections are highlighted in yellow and bracketed in double-square brackets so that they can be easily found.)

Excerpt from the Prefatory:

These are all self-working or very easy to perform effects.

One item that I would like to highlight is the Klutz Force, because it is on the same skill level as the popular Criss-Cross force, which is frequently used in self-working effects. With the Klutz Force you have an alternative that has a different feel and procedure.

• Simplex Physical & Mental
• Telephenomenal
• 21 And Then Some
• Guesstimation City
• Marked Calculation
• What Is the Question?
• Easy Prefiguration
• Klutzy Forces
• Hobson Chooses Again
• Punch-Line Division
• Simple Sync
• Is Your Pants On Fire?
• Made In the Shade
• No-Clue ...

Blistr is a new card punch with two important differences to more traditional card punches. First, it is built like a pair of small pliers and therefore very easy to use. The pliers are a flexure design 3D printed from durable plastic. (Starting design was created by BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research which I modified to fit my needs.) Second, this punch creates a bigger smoother blister than needle-based punches. The tip is not sharp and therefore does not punch through the playing card. For many, this will be easier to feel than a fine needle prick. The blister is a half-dome about 1 mm in diameter. The...

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  • ... Pinch
  • Front Pinch
  • Der Transfer
  • Das Leerzeigen der Schalen
  • Backpinch
  • Der Escobar-Griff
  • Escobar Exquisit
  • Das Stehlen unter dem Glas
  • Das direkte Stehlen
  • Das "Zwei-Erbsen-Konzept"
  • Zur Routine
  • Scheinbares Stehlen
  • Die Finte mit dem Glas
  • Abschlusseffekte
  • Skarabäus
• KARTENZAUBEREI
  • 10 Card Poker Scam
  • Tipps zum Poker Deal
  • Karte ist Zigarette
  • Auto Spell Deck
  • Barocke Transposition
  • Eine glasklare Sache
  • Soap Bubble Card
  • Boxed Transposition
  • Petal Count Display
  • Petal Assembly
  • Das Tamariz Häschen
  • Karten durch die Zeitung
• MENTALMAGIE
  • Blindfold Card Act
  • Zur Geschichte ...

Featuring mostly unpublished material and other rarities from some of America's Finest Creators. 49 contributors - 80 routines and moves.

JON ARMSTRONG
My Opening Act:
Deciding to show off your ESP skill and having only a deck of cards and a rubber band, you hand your deck out to be shuffled to a nice man named Ted. After he is finished shuffling, you ask Ted to place the rubber band around the cards to make them tamper-proof. You ask Ted if he will stop you on a card as you riffle them past his eyes. To prove to Ted that all is on the up and up, you offer to stare at his girlfriend Mary...

This is a card punch 3D printed from durable plastic. A card punch is used to mark cards imperceptible to people who are unfamiliar with it. If you do not know how to use it this item is not for you. You will be better served to first read more about it and what can be done with it, for example in The Punch Letters. There will be no instructions supplied with the item.

The primary innovation in this model, besides that it is 3D printed, is a screw-needle combination which makes adjusting the depth of the punch a breeze. Simply turn the screw a bit more in or out to set the needle tip deeper or higher. If...

CARDSHARK is an exciting new monthly card magic digital magazine, edited and compiled by Kyle MacNeill. This is the first issue, and it is being sold for a special low introductory price of just $0.99!

This issue contains 5 tricks from Cameron Francis, John Holt and Kyle MacNeill.

Contents

1. Dessert first by Kyle MacNeill – A super–visual card trick with a nice ‘ending of the trick first’ hook. Walk around workers should like this one. (New trick).
2. Super Quick ATFUS Hof by Kyle MacNeill – A streamlined take on Hofzinser Ace Problem. Easy to do and packs a punch. (New trick).
3. Fight by John Holt –...

• ... storyline about your time at an evening art class, a small packet of cards are shown to be stick men. They turn into stick ladies. Eventually, you are taking a photographic course and the routine ends with a comical ending.
• DOUBLE DIAMONDS: This piece of magic is another way to reveal a selected card using a sheet of paper, but with a funny and surprising ending.
• TABLE HOPPERS CLOCK: A regular in George´s table hopping repertoire. Based on the clock principle, you are using in this routine a miniature deck of cards and a clock dial to produce a stunning prediction.
• TEA AND TART FOR TWO:...

This ebook teaches 16 card tricks. Some of the tricks need special accessories but you can easily print them on your home computer.

Angle on Angle on Angle on
With the help of two cards, the magician predicts which card will be randomly chosen by the spectator and predicts the sum of the value of the helper cards and the chosen card and the named number.

Clown
A clown card jumps three times through three blank faced cards and after this the performer explains the trick: the blank faced cards are really three coiled springs (the blank face cards change into three coiled springs).

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Here you have 25 completely new card routines not found in any of Aldo's other ebooks! Includes gems such as: Contact Colors, Punch Its Match and many more.

• Hofzinser 2000
• Oil, Water and Guts
• Wild, Wild Best
• Underground Spies
• Interchange
• Jump and Pass
• Imaginary Journey
• Punch His Match!
• Contact Colors
• Deep Impact
• Count On Them
• Birthday Card
• The Game's Afoot
• Y2K Deck
• The Erasers
• 4'Wave
• Cut It Out
• Holy Moly
• Falling Through
• Italian Poker
• Point Of No Return
• Red and Black Crash
• A Trio Band
• Fact or Fiction
• Collector Sandwich

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.