Stop digging through countless books looking for practical routines for your shows! Discover fourteen powerful routines designed to captivate any platform or parlor audience. Blending classic principles with clever innovations, this collection offers practical, audience-tested magic that is both visual and memorable. Whether you're a professional seeking new material or a student of magic eager to grow, these routines provide everything you need to turn simple tricks into unforgettable performances.
1. THREE CARDS TO POCKET
The magician shows three cards that vanish from his hand, one after the other, only to reappear in his previously shown empty pocket. The final dramatic moment occurs when a bouquet of flowers surprisingly appears where the last card was expected to be.
2. ACES AND KINGS
Four Kings placed by the magician into his pocket instantly reappear in his hand. At the same time, the four Aces that were held in the hand are found to have magically taken the place of the Kings inside the pocket. Then, both sets of cards change places for a second time.
3. THE KOLAR CARD TRICK
A chosen card buried in the center of the deck. A ribbon is attached to a different card which is cut to the center. When the ribbon is pulled, the chosen card appears mysteriously attached to the ribbon. A very versatile trick and effective variations are explained. Can be performed with jumbo cards.
4. A CHARMING COMBINATION
A spectator selects a card and places it face-down into a small box that the magician had proven to be empty. After the magician reveals the card's identity from a distance, the box is opened to show that the card has completely vanished. As simple as this seems, it's a very strong routine.
5. NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS
A red card and a black card are placed into a small paper bag, and one is visually moved to the magician's pocket. Despite the spectators being certain of each card's location, both cards are found to have impossibly switched places. This is an excellent opening routine for your show.
6. WORDO
A lost secret! Any book opened to any page and a word chosen. It's the one you predicted! Contains instructions for a very effective triple prediction routine.
7. THE REVERSIBLE VEST
The magician wears a two-colored reversible vest and has his wrists securely tied behind his back with rope. After stepping behind a screen for a moment, he emerges still completely bound, but his vest has magically been turned inside out, reversing its color. Includes an excellent patter presentation.
8. THE HANDKERCHIEF IN THE POCKET
The magician makes a colored handkerchief disappear and then searches for it in his empty pocket, where it fails to appear. Instead, the pocket produces a surprisingly long chain of colorful silks, with the originally vanished handkerchief found tied to the very end.
9. DR. ERVIN'S LITTLE DEMON
Using this little-known gimmick you show hands completely empty and a silk handkerchief mysteriosly materializes at the tips of your fingers. Very easy and deceptive.
10. THE TRAVELING CARDS
Three spectators freely select a card each by taking them out of a bag containing some cards. These chosen cards are mixed with the others and they vanish one by one and appear back inside the empty bag. Excellent audience participation number.
11. THE UBIQUITOUS CARDS
Three spectators mentally select cards from a packet held by the magician, while a fourth spectator holds a separate packet. The three thought-of cards instantly vanish from their packet and are found to have appeared in the fourth spectator's securely held packet. No sleights.
12. WHERE'S THE JACK?
A Monte effect using four jumbo cards, one of them being a Jack. These are clearly shown to the audience but nobody is able to find the Jack.
13. WHERE IS THE QUEEN?
Another Monte effect with Jumbo cards! The magician shuffles a black Queen among two red spot cards, asking the audience to follow the Queen across several mixing phases. Despite the audience's best efforts, the Queen is never where they expect it to be, making an impossible final appearance.
14. COLLECTIVE HALLUCINATION
Three jumbo cards peeked by three spectators. When asked, they all name the same card but when the three cards are shown, they are all different and none is the card the three spectators named! The magician shows a card he chose for himself and it's the card all three spectators named.
1st edition 2025, PDF
word count: 14086 which is equivalent to 56 standard pages of text
