Many magicians I know are as interested in both tricks and puzzles and integrate the two.
While elaborate mathematical, logical, or chess puzzles or crosswords have little "performance value", there are many optical puzzles, geometric paradoxes, illusions, ambigrams, after-image generators, and the like, that make for an excellent lead to a magic effect, or for performance as an effect by itself, or as a memorable keepsake printed on the back of your calling card or publicity folder or even your admission tickets. They can also be used as memorable "give-aways" for your assisting spectators, or as "good-luck" mojos.
This manuscript is devoted to Illusions and Enigmas that magicians can put to some use, as a talking point leading to one of their effects, or by itself as an intriguing or interesting demonstration or to add a touch of mystery to their promotions.
- Items like Tile Deal, Adair's Crystal Clear Image, and Adair's Boomerangs are stand-alone close-up winners.
- Items like Ghost Coin are great as a lead in to a coin effect
- The Optical Illusions, Ambigrams and After Images will dress up your publicity material or find use as Good Luck mojos for your assisting spectator.
- Classics like Loyd's Vanishing Chinaman, or Deland Paradox redesigned are now easy to just print and use.
- A message that magically transforms when you take a "selfie" holding them can win a heart.
Most of the items presented are in a ready-to-use format, which you can just print and use. Some of the optical illusions could be printed on the back of your visiting card or publicity material.
I have covered a wide variety, including some of the best classics, some reborn oldies, and some new which continue to sell today through our magician's service in huge volumes, far greater than most magic effects. Ambigrams, Curry Paradoxes, After Images, Optical Illusions, Logical and Topological anomalies, - there is a wide variety for any magician to discover something that appeals to make this collection their money's worth.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Print and Present
- Straight lines bend
- Twisted Circles
- Lincoln's Top Hat
- Duck-Rabbit.
- Elephant-Bull Illusion
- Up and Down!
- Flip Heads
- Butterfly Boomerangs
- Monkey Puzzle
- Rotational Ambigrams
- Symbiotograms
- Mirror Ambigrams
- Figure Ground Ambigrams
- Creating After Images
- Deland Paradox redesigned
- Vanishing Chinaman
- Checkerboard paradoxes.
- Headless Dancer
- Tile Deal
- Adair's Crystal Clear Image
- Ghost Coin
- A simple addition
- Donkey puzzle
- Stretched Predictions
1st edition 2024, PDF 30 pages.
word count: 7238 which is equivalent to 28 standard pages of text
