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A really clean and impeccable ACAAN.

What the audience sees and hears:

The Performer brings out a deck of cards and points to a person asking him to think of any card but not the Ace (as its common for people to go for it) and another person to think of a number between 1 and 48. He then proceeds to pull out the Aces meanwhile handing out small packets of cards to 4 different audience members and asks them to shuffle the cards thoroughly. While they are busy shuffling, the two audience members are asked to name their thought of card and the number for the first time.

Once the shuffling...

Four excuses to hand out business cards as well as reasons to carry a bi-fold wallet.

Aware: A participant draws/writes a free thought on a card and without ever coming in direct contact (that's what the audience thinks) you know exactly what has been drawn/written.

B4C: Confabulation made compact.

ConFab: Squeezed B4C, so that it becomes easy.

Drawing D: An impromptu Drawing Duplication.

FAQs:

Q: What is Bi-fold Mentalism?
A: It's a term I came up with for mentalism that can be performed with a Bi-fold Wallet.

Q: What is a Bi-fold Wallet?
A: Google 'Bi-fold wallet' and...

Things that nobody ever taught about hypnosis.

There are a lot of popular sources on stage/street hypnosis and all of them teach you what you need to know to be a successful hypnotist but miss out/under explore certain WHATs and WHYs like –

• What is the difference between conscious and sub-conscious mind?
• Why do hypnotists often change their pace of speech?
• Why is it difficult to hypnotise children?
• Why should we dress well when Hypnosis is all verbal?
• What effect does fractionation have on our mind?
• and many more..

One of the simplest methods to perform the holy grail of card magic - Any Card At Any Number (ACAAN) with a regular pack of playing cards without any sleights.

This is what happens: You introduce 3 cards with 3 simple questions:

• Q1. Name a number
• Q2. Name a suit
• Q3. Name a value

Features:

• no forces
• no pre-show
• no dual reality ...

Stealing someone's information without them knowing is a tool with limitless potential and being able to do it really cleanly and fairly right under the nose of your audience is a super power in itself. Nucleus gives you the ability to do just that.

Inspired from Millard Longman's Acidus Novus, Nucleus is a center tear that is simple to learn, easy to master and looks dead clean.

Features of Nucleus:

• Nucleus always opens to the correct side and in the correct orientation.
• It has a built in feature that tells you whether the paper is right side up or up side down, which is really helpful...

Love it or hate it but most of the numerous versions of ACAAN out there end up in the same ball park -- look what I can do or I manipulated your choices without your knowledge or simply as a coincidence. The Empirical ACAAN drifts from all of that, here is an ACAAN that makes people connect to each other. An ACAAN that is not about you but about the audience with virtually no sleight involved.

What’s great is that 70% of the times you'll have a hands-off / clean ACAAN and for the rest 30% you have to do something logical which is covered by the presentation to make it look like a hands-off...

For decades magicians are on a quest to perform Any Card At Any Number from a borrowed and shuffled deck; which isn't always possible so they often settle for Card At Any Number.

The problem is that Card At Any Number when presented as a one-time feat can be mistaken as a co-incidence or the skill of the performer which takes away the feeling of it being pure magic. Caantastic counters just that by creating a mother of all co-incidences moment for the audience. Card At Any Number not just once or twice but thrice and when it happens the third time it dilutes any skepticism and evokes the...

Stratagem is a 3 phase modular routine using a regular pack of playing cards. It is easy enough for a month old beginner and at the same time delivers an impact of an expert. Each phase of Stratagem stands on its own and at the same time builds upon the previous one.

Phase I (CAAN on Steroids) :: A crossbreed of 'Do As I Do' and 'Card At Any Number'. CAAN not just once but twice - once in the hands of the performer and the other time in the hands of the participant with zero sleights involved. Each time all the decisions are made by the participant.

Phase II (Remote Viewing) :: With your...

A virtually self-working ACAAN with plenty of audience involvement.

We all know whenever the audience tries to reverse engineer or recreate a trick and fail at it; they conclude with a common statement - He must have done something sneaky.

The Fortuitous ACAAN works to counter just that. It brings wonder out of the hands of the performer at the same time ensures that the control always rests with him. Here is how it goes:

A deck gets shuffled by 4 people while 3 other people decide on the Number, Value and Suit. The shuffled deck gets collected and the cards get dealt face-up and the...

21st century playing card prediction that doesn't use playing cards, but you will need a cell phone.

The performer caught without props picks up a piece of paper and writes his prediction. The prediction is given to an audience member to keep secure. The performer explains that he is prepared for moments like these. He further explains - A few weeks ago I shuffled up a deck of cards, once done I dropped them one by one a table and asked a friend to film it. Let me show you...

He then plays a video and demonstrates how the video can be paused and played. Next, the video gets played once...

An ACAAN for stage and parlor performers.

In short: The performer asks 3 participants to name a suit, a number and a value. Next invites one of the participants to deal down the cards. And like it should be, the named card lies at the named number.

Here are the details:

1. The performer asks an audience member (1st participant) to name a suit. The participant does so.

2. Next, the performer moves towards the 2nd participant to name a number (value) between 1 and 10 he unboxes the deck. But then he suddenly remembers that he needs to give out a notepad and pen to record the choices...

An effortless CAAN that the audience performs for themselves.

Features:

• You never touch the deck of cards.
• Can be done Close-up, Parlour or on Stage

Honest Note: While you don't touch...

3 gimmickless in-hand card tricks.

AMBIENCE // A multi utility card move that can be used both as a control to the top or as a reversal at the bottom.

DYAD // An in-hand Card At Any Number.

DYAD 2.0 // An in-hand two card transposition ending with a surreal ending.

DYAD 3.0 // An unusual card trick based on the idea of an in-hand triumph with a colour changing deck finale.

Honest Note :: Each of the 3 clips in the demo video was shot in one single take to let you see how it'll look in real time.

1st edition 2020, length 20 min

We all have had situations where we perform something on a video that people asks us to replicate in real life. Pocket Predictions contains two easy-to-perform predictions that can be done via a video call or in person.

CONFABULISH : A boiled down version of the classic Confabulation plot. It is simple enough to support a video call with poor network yet strong to garner the same response as the full fledged one. Here you introduce an envelope and show that it has a piece of paper inside and place it aside in full view. You proceed to ask the audience a few random pieces of information (or...

Child's Play consists of a double prediction called 'Piece of Cake' and a tool called 'High Five', both for your online and offline performances.

PIECE OF CAKE

An envelope containing a prediction is introduced. 7 cards bearing 7 different numbers are introduced as well. You tell them behind each of those cards there is something written but that’s for later use. Next the cards are placed in two different rows of 4 & 3 cards in each. A participant eliminates one of the rows and you turn over the cards to show the text behind, you had predicted which row they would eliminate. Next they...

A 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...

Learn six different marking systems for a Bicycle Rider Back design. There are both reader back and coder back marking systems shared here. Each marking system is unique and is suited for varying performing scenarios.

This is a compilation of all three volumes of Pigment and Pixel for the price of two individual ones.

[Reader Backs are marking systems where the value and suit are explicitly written on the back of the card (often hidden within the design). Coder Backs are marking systems where the back patterns/design is used to tell the value and suit of the card.]

There are no tricks with a marked deck taught in this ebook.

1st edition 2022, originally titled "Pigment & Pixel 1, 2, 3", PDF 35 pages....

A merge of ACCAN and Do As I Do.

ACAAN is one of the most loved card plots and Do As I Do is one of the most ignored. ACAAN meets a Monkey is a unique cross-over between both of them.

Here two cards get chosen, one by the performer and one by the participant. Both cards are then lost and the cards get shuffled. Both cards are later found by the participant at the number that the participant decides on.

Flow of Events:

• A pack of cards gets cut into 2 packets by the participant.
• The participant picks one packet and the performer picks the other one.
• Both of them show one card from...

Poly-graph; where the precision of a Lie Detector meets the artistry of Drawing Duplication.

Poly-graph is an unconventional yet logical fusion of two realms of mentalism - The Lie Detector and Drawing Duplication. Both plots unfold in tandem, with the Lie Detector concluding prior to the Drawing Duplication.

Start your act with the entire audience and end with drawing duplication with one, two, or more people.

Casually put, it is an everyday worker's material, a 100% surefire with no funny or tricky questions. With just an hour's preparation, it provides a solid 8-10 minutes of...

8 excuses to hand out business cards

Accurate - Based on Andrew Gerrad's Accuracy, it's different but impromptu. 3 objects are hidden one in each hand and one in a card box. And the performer deduces the location of each of those objects.

Brief But Accurate - Accurate made short but still effective

B4 Esperience - This is how Esperience used to look like before what it is now.

Dismantle - Spectator reads the thoughts of another spectator.

Haptic - A fun little piece that deals with unconscious cognition and utilizes your sense of touch

Pinned up Memory - Spectator stumbles...

• To stay economical at those unpaid charity gigs we all do
• To be less dependent on the facilities offered at small venues everyone at some point of time performs at
• To tackle the unfortunate lost-luggage situations that can happen anytime
• To have a compact yet expandable show for unexpected impromptu gigs

Crisis is a 20-30 minutes of semi-scripted and field tested set of mentalism (predictions and mindreading) with nothing except a 3x3 inch post-it pad and a marker and 3 minutes of preparation (no arts...

Coalesce is a scripted 30 minute act of prediction, pseudo-hypnosis, mind reading (both by performer as well as the participant).

It only needs:

• A deck of cards, a marker and 2 extra jokers
• An envelope with 3 minutes of preparation (no arts and crafts)
• A close-up pad
• A table and 3 chairs

ATCC :: A hybrid of a card trick and the plot spectator as mind reader dressed in the clothes of...

An effortless ACAAN that the audience performs for themselves.

Features:

• Completely self-working
• Can be done Close-up, Parlour or On-Stage
• Uses a regular pack of cards
• No memorisation, mathematics or improvisation

Participant 1 deals down one of the halves and stops anywhere he/she desires, the card gets turned over. To make things random, the participant again deals down to the value of the turned over card. Now that...

An Any Card At Any Number perfect for your virtual shows or for the real world ones. Here is what happens:

A card gets named. You do a quick check for their card in the deck. Ensuring it's presence you hand the deck to the participant. The participant decides on a number (range forced) and deals down to that number, finds a card and deals the value of that card, and then finds their named card.

Features:

• 100% free choice of the card, except three which you have to steer the spectator away from should they choose it.
• 100% free choice of the number, but in some cases the number has to...