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DreamworkJon Racherbaumer Several decades ago Bob Hummer invented a new principle which caused a short-lived stir among cardicians. The effect was called "The Mindreader's Dream". It sounds too good to be true: A spectator merely thinks of a card and performs a few, unseen dealing procedures with a deck of cards. The magician briefly scans the cards, consults a "dream book," and then names the mentally selected card.
Racherbaumer collects in this ebook several improvements and variations on this basic principle, including the original Hummer method. The contributors are an eclectic group of specialists including Justin Higham,... | 2011 / 2 / 1 | $5
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Lipstick TracesJon Racherbaumer Racherbaumer thinks that the greatest sleight of the 20th-century is the Double Lift Turnover. If we consider the scores of different ways to lift, turn, toss, propel, flip, rotate, and spin two cards as one—not to mention ways of getting ready, gripping, insuring alignment, and unloading, then this is certainly a pretty valid move to pick as the most important sleight. At the minimum Racherbaumer has me convinced.
In this ebook Jon collects ways to finesse the move and also traces its historical development. I am pretty sure you are using probably several times a double lift turnover somewhere... | 2011 / 2 / 1 | $5
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The Too Perfect TheoryJon Racherbaumer Can a magic trick be too perfect? Too impossible? Well, opinions differ. Some of the most prominent minds in magic disagree. Reading these essays will help you form your own personal opinion on this fundamental question. The theorists are:
[Note that this collection of essays is also part of the Ask Roberto Giobbi ebook.
1st edition 2008; 61 pages.... | 2011 / 2 / 8 | $5
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Thirty Years Ago: Contributions to the New PentagramJon Racherbaumer These are Jon Racherbaumer's contributions to the New Pentagram Magazine from 1979.
- Surprising the Princess: ESP card effect with a surprise ending that will whack you down.
- Simplex Mental Reverse
- Magical Separate Colors
- King-Currence
- Still Another Lie Detector
articles first appeared 1979; 14 pages | 2011 / 2 / 8 | $5
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Real-Gone AcesJon Racherbaumer The 'Real-Gone Aces' problem is a side branch of the classic four Ace trick. In the classic you place four aces on the table, then put three indifferent cards on each ace, and magically all aces end up in the same pile. In the 'Real-Gone Aces' plot which was originated by Marlo, after correspondence with Neal Elias, three aces vanish to join an isolated leader ace.
If this plot appeals to you then you will learn a good number of variations on it in this ebook. And I am sure, if you are the kind of guy or gal who enjoys reading such detail filled descriptions of finesses and fine points, then... | 2011 / 2 / 13 | $5
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Olram AcesJon Racherbaumer
"The Filet Mignon of Ace Assemblies." - Ed Marlo
Olram Aces is a tribute to the genius of Edward Marlo which shows how Marlo's lifetime work steadily influenced Jon.
The presentation makes maximum use of the gaffs and the Aces in the non-leader packets disappear in different ways that are successively stronger. It has been audience-tested on lay persons and magicians.
In typical Racherbaumer style you also get a history on the Ace Assembly plot starting with The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
1st edition 2009; 10 pages. | 2011 / 2 / 27 | $5
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Ladies on the LooseJon Racherbaumer This routine was inspired by a magician’s challenge that it was unfeasible and unadvisable to perform several Ace Assemblies in a row for lay audiences. In fact, he argued that most Four-Ace Assemblies are neither entertaining nor interesting to layman because they are essentially magician’s exercises. This synergism is an exercise based on an opposite view; however, a key lies in presentation. The performer ostensibly is relating a bit of history regarding how a card trick was performed in the 16th century. In the course of the explanation, he acts as a proxy for skeptical spectators who... | 2011 / 3 / 5 | $5
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Hofzinser's Lost Ace-ProblemJon Racherbaumer Karl Fulves published in Pallbearers Review an unsolved card problem wherein an Ace having the same suit of a previously selected card changes into that selection. The puzzling aspect of this problem was this: The four Aces are shown, mixed, and tabled face down. Nobody knows the order or disposition of the Aces, not even the spectator.
Jon describes eight solutions each with its own trade-offs, strengths and weaknesses.
Jon concludes his manuscript with:
The Hofzinser Lost Ace Problem is a good example of a card problem that intrigues magicians because it lends itself to "creative noodling" and... | 2011 / 3 / 5 | $5
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Gene Castillon's Redoubling the Double CutJon Racherbaumer Gene Castillon presented this lecture at a meeting of Ring #27 IBM in the early 70’s, calling it "The Double Undercut Routine". This routine was designed to feature only one sleight or move—the Double Undercut. To prove the versatility and usefulness of this one move, Gene incorporated into one routine a series of different effects all accomplished by this one move. As you will discover, there are magic appearances, a simple sandwich prediction, several Ace tricks, a poker deal, and a simple triumph trick.
When recently asked to lecture again, Gene pulled out his old lecture notes and was surprised... | 2011 / 3 / 27 | $5
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Holistic HammanJon Racherbaumer Brother John Hamman's effects are conducive to creating strong, synergistic routines. That is, many of his individual effects, including its discrete parts, can be combined to form powerful presentations. The following nine-phase is a good example.
Holistic Hamman was originally part of an unpublished book titled Real-World Cardstuff: Synergistic Schemes.
Requisites: A regular deck of cards.
1st edition 2000, 2nd edition 2013, 15 pages. | 2013 / 12 / 10 | $6
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The Universal CardJon Racherbaumer This ebook explores variations on the Universal Card theme, is part of the Yod series. Universal Card is a classic card plot in which a single card (like the joker) transforms to one at a time to match each of the selected cards. Originally posed by Karl Fulves in his Pallbearers Review, where he used the term "Universal Card", a name that caught on.
- The Hypnotic Card
- Marlo's Favorite Universal
- Universal Solutions
- Universal IV
- Tout's Universal
- The Chameleon Card
- Universal Combine
- Hypno-Versal Way
- Cervon's Universals
- More Universals
- Not Quite Ambiguous Universal
- Full-Circle Universal
- Open-Faced...
| 2016 / 1 / 17 | $6
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AvatarRobert Walker & Jon Racherbaumer  Robert Walker was a unicycling, high-school student. Looking five years younger than he was, he was a dyed-in-the-wool card guy tutored in Marlovian ways. He was also a precocious writer-creator, obsessed with false counts and packet tricks. He spent many hours "twisting the night away," taking voluminous notes, and developing new methods and approaches. His first mini-treatise dissected a marketed packet trick by Larry West ("Wild, Wild West") which he passed onto Jon Racherbaumer to publish. It became the second installment of the loose-leaf Avatar, printed on pink paper and unadorned by illustrations... | 2020 / 11 / 28 | $6
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Criss-Crossings: Unleashing the X-ForceJon Racherbaumer This is an interesting study of the X-Force and variations thereof only the way Jon Racherbaumer can do it. The X-Force is the simplest force that every magician has learned to do at one point in their life. Jon dissects the X-Force or Criss-Cross Force and then puts it back together in different and new ways. This is fodder for those that want to go into the fine and nuanced details of performing this force.
- Introduction
- Drilling Down
- A Little History of the X-Force
- Layered-Cross-Cut Force
- First Method
- Second Method – Layered Double-Cross
- Two Cuts Are Better Than One
- Three Free...
| 2015 / 6 / 2 | $8
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Cutting Deeper: an exploration of coercive cuttingJon Racherbaumer This manuscript is ancestrally related to Criss-Crossings: Unleashing the X-Force insofar as it also deals with cutting cards. In this case, it deals with "cuts" and "turnovers."
This type of combinatorial maneuver began with Henry Christ's forcing technique that he developed in the early 1920s. He originally developed six variations but he only published the fifth one in Ted Annemann's book, Sh-h-h It's a Secret, calling it "The 203rd Force." It subsequently has been referred to as the Christ Force and it spawned many versions and applications.
Because of the cut-?turnover-?and-?replacement mechanics, the Christ Force is often confused with Ed Balducci's... | 2015 / 11 / 6 | $8
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Playing CanastaJon Racherbaumer The presentations in this manuscript are homage to the nonmanipulative, off-the-cuff approach taken by Chan Canasta.
The material is stuff Jon has published elsewhere, mostly piecemeal. The thrust of the ebook, though, is how these effects are PRESENTED in a CANASTA WAY. This then is its organizing principle. It is basically designed to demonstrate Canasta's approach. The material is easy and commercial.
- INTRODUCTION
- KISS MET
- OPTICUNNING CUTTING
- SOMATIQUE
- TACITRIX
- VOCALYSIS
- THE JOKER EATS YOUR MIND
- UNTOUCHABLY YOURS
1st edition 2016, 25 pages. | 2016 / 6 / 27 | $8
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Robert Walker's Hyper TwistJon Racherbaumer Effect: Four blue-back cards are shown. One at a time each card - the Ace, Two, Three, and Four of Diamonds - turn face up. Their backs then change to red and then one at a time the backs change back to blue. Finally, the cards change to four Fours of Diamonds.
1st edition 1975 in Paul Diamond Presents Magical Masterpieces #2, updated 2018, PDF 15 pages. | 2018 / 3 / 3 | $8
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Back To The Future ClassicEdward Marlo & Jon Racherbaumer  Edward Marlo and Jon Racherbaumer study three similar effects:
- Everywhere and Nowhere
- The General Card
- The Universal Card
2nd edition 2002, 50 pages.
Table of Contents
- Afterword
- A Future Classic
- Streamlined Classic
- Comedy Classic
- Quick Three-Way
- In Lieu of the Hindoo Shuffle
- Mini-Classic I
- Mini-Classic II
- A Sixy Effect
- Early Marlo: Everywhere and Nowhere
- No Deck: Everywhere and Nowhere
- Spade Book: Everywhere and Nowhere
- Marlo's Hofzinser
- Additional Climax
- Future Classic Double-Cross
- Four Eightses Classic
- 'Tis Rough On Hofzinser
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Unlimited 3.0Norm Osborn & Edward Marlo & Jon Racherbaumer  This manuscript explores in detail the possibilities of the 'Double Count'. As the title implies, the possibilities seem unlimited. After reading this PDF you will surely come up with your own variations and takes on the effects presented. The Double Count in its basic form is to show five cards absolutely cleanly as six. One of the five cards is a double facer.
1st edition 1953, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 2002, 48 pages.
Table of Contents
- The Card Goes Home (Norm Osborn)
- Improved Double Count (Edward Marlo)
- Effect One
- Effect Two
- Effect Three
- Effect Four
- Effect Five
- Effect...
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Synergistic SandwichesJon Racherbaumer Sandwich tricks, long popular with cardmen, are nothing more than glorified locations. What makes them a little different is that the selections are found at specific places: between two other cards. Perhaps the best way to present these stunts is to perform a few in a rapidfire, successive way—each phase following the preceding one in a logical, progressive way. Also, each phase should be stronger than the preceding
one. When such phases unfold in this manner, the overall impression will likely have more impact and be memorable.
And this is exactly what Racherbaumer has engineered in... | 2011 / 2 / 27 | $10
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Good TurnsJon Racherbaumer Even though the small packet card trick goes at least back to Hofzinser's times Jon argues that the modern small packet trick started in the 1940s when the Buckle Count was introduced by Dai Vernon and got into full swing when the Ghost Count (Elmsley Count) entered the stage.
Jon writes:
When the Elmsley Count became more widely known, the genie was out of the bottle. Vernon’s “Twisting The Aces” provided momentum. Marlo’s groundbreaking work on “Think Ace” and “Touch Turn” was privately circulating and then was eventually published in The Linking Ring. By the time Larry West and Verne Chesbro published Tricks You Can... | 2011 / 3 / 13 | $10
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ClockworkJon Racherbaumer On the Clock Effect
The clock effect/principle is a variant of the automatic placement principle. It allows you to force a card. The procedure typically is that the spectator freely selects any full hour on the clock (1-12). Cards are then dealt into a clock pattern where one card takes the place of each hour. The card at the spectator's freely chosen hour is the force card, which for example could have been predicted beforehand.
The Clock Effect using playing cards originated at the turn of the century. Potter's Index subsequently listed thirty-eight (38) references—one of the earliest... | 2011 / 3 / 13 | $10
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Compleat K.M. MoveJon Racherbaumer This is the fourth revised treatment that Marlo and Jon worked on during the last year of his life. Their objective back then was to publish a new old-book by expanding the original work to include ideas, finesses, and variations devised after 1962. More important, the revision was to be more organized
and cohesive than the original.
The original K.M. MOVE booklet was typed on twenty-three pages. There were only eleven hand-traced, inked drawings [by Marlo]. The material faithfully duplicates Marlo's hand-written notes and was typed by Muriel Marlo. All in all, the finished product had an unpretentious,... | 2011 / 3 / 27 | $10
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Burn: Surviving Riffle ForcesEdward Marlo & Jon Racherbaumer & Steve Reynolds  The five techniques explained in this treatise are directly or tangentially inspired by Ed Marlo’s An Updated Force (1987).
Techniques taught are:
- An Updated Force (Ed Marlo)
- Piffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Balm-Applied Riffle Force (Steve Reynolds)
- Drop-Block Riffle Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Slip-Less Clip Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
1st edition 2009; 20 pages photo illustrated | 2011 / 12 / 28 | $10
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Winning WinnowingJon Racherbaumer Ways To End Up With the Only Thing You Want
From the introduction:
This paper is an introductory effort yearning to be a disquisition. Please forgive its discursive style. So far, this recondite subject has resisted an in-depth, organized treatment. The subject at hand is an exploration of reduction and the process of indirectly seeking information. Or, to use the jargon term, it is about elimination and fishing as applied to card magic—more specifically to the Think of a Card effect.
- Two Ways to Convincingly Disclose One of Two Possibilities
- A Card That Lies, A Deck That Tells...
| 2013 / 4 / 5 | $10
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Pasteboard PermutationsJon Racherbaumer
- A WHIM-WHAM WARM-UP: Warmed Over Rhetoric
- KINDS OF PERMUTATIONS
- FIRST PERMUTATION: HUMMA-HUMMA-HUMMER
- SECOND PERMUTATION
- PERMUTATION THREE: VALUE-SUIT, SUIT-VALUE (Jon Racherbaumer)
- PERMUTATION FOUR: WHY IS THIS ODD CARD SO QUEER? (Jon Racherbaumer)
- PEMUTATION FIVE: THE LAST GAME (David Britland)
- PERMUTATION SIX: BILE AND BLOOD (Jon Racherbaumer)
- PERMUTATION SEVEN: PURIST CARD PUZZLE (Edward Marlo)
- PERMUTATION EIGHT: MR. FOGG TRACKED DOWN (Steve Reynolds)
1st edition 2013, 49 pages. | 2013 / 12 / 15 | $10
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Oiled and Watered: A Mystery in Ten MovementsJon Racherbaumer There is something incurably viral about this curious card problem. Does anyone know? What's so irresistible about displacing, displaying, counting, spreading, mixing, re-mixing, un-mixing red and black cards? What's the allure? What's the incentive? Yet, despite all cease-and-desist entreaties,
methods keep popping up, including the ones in this compact manuscript.
The Ten Phase routine described in this ebook combines ideas and handlings by Hideo Kato, Dave Solomon, and Edward Marlo. You can figuratively use the Oil and Water patter theme, referring to red cards as "water" and black cards as "oil," but some... | 2014 / 2 / 12 | $10
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PocketherealJon Racherbaumer As a plot, Cards Across is fairly simple and direct. It's a transition effect where a number of cards - usually three - magically travel from one packet to another. There are methods that use gimmicked cards, others use purely sleight-of-hand.
This manuscript is an exploration of subtle methods based on Stewart James' "Pockethereal." Its selling point is that there are no switches or exchanges. The only sleight of hand is the false counts. This put it in a class by itself.
- INTRODUCTION
- POCKETHEREAL (Stewart James)
- POCKETHEREAL, MINUS POCKETS (Bert Fenn)
- POCKETHEREAL MINUS POCKETS (Edward Marlo)
- CLARIFIED PACKETHEREAL...
| 2014 / 8 / 22 | $10
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Marlo: Low-Down and CozyJon Racherbaumer This ebook features six presentations by Edward Marlo, one of the most prolific producers of card magic ever known. My criteria for selecting these six presentations was to pick effects that stressed subtlety and psychological cunning and required little or no difficult sleight-of-hand. The irony here is that such tricks are seldom associated with Marlo, even though he devised scores of easy, semi-automatic tricks during his career. But don't despair. The ones in this ebook run a gamut.
Cozy Card to Case is a subtle version of an ancient trick dating back to Walter Gibson's Popular Card Tricks. Most versions are based on miscalling a... | 2015 / 6 / 13 | $10
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The Gemini MotifJon Racherbaumer The Gemini Motif is an apparently fair-looking, semiautomatic dealing procedure that forces two, three, or four
cards, depending on its application.
- Introduction
- The Gemini Motif: Background of the Gemini Motif
- The Basic Automatic Placement Procedure
- Junking Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Blushing Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
- On Perfection Day (Henry Evans)
- Caster & Pollux (Allan Slaight)
- Multiple Gemini (Al Thatcher)
- Free Will Refutation (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Collected Bibliography
1st edition 2016, 31 pages. | 2016 / 6 / 5 | $10
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The Universal Card ExpandedJon Racherbaumer More than 40 years ago Jon Racherbaumer wrote a book on the Universal Card plot introduced by Karl Fulves. This is an updated and expanded version.
- By Any Other Name – Karl Fulves
- Universal Card – Robert Parrish
- Universal Card – Francis Haxton
- Universal Ghost – Roy Walton
- Universal Mexican – Roy Walton
- Universal Joker – Horace Bennett
- Reflection – Edward Marlo
- Hypnotic Card – Edward Marlo
- Favorite Universal – Edward Marlo
- Universal Solutions – Edward Marlo
- Universal IV – Edward Marlo
- Tout’s Universal – Edward Marlo
- The Chameleon Card – Jon Racherbaumer
- Universal...
| 2016 / 8 / 9 | $10
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Super-CutsJon Racherbaumer The methods explained in this manuscript involve cutting a deck to ostensibly change its order. They are semi-automatic because minimal dexterity is required. Otherwise they are subtle in seductive ways and all of
them are completely or partially false.
The false cut triggering this manuscript is Jay Ose's False Cut that was auspiciously introduced to magicians by Harry Lorayne. This false cut eventually made its way into the repertoires of card specialists, but early on it was primarily meant to be easily and quickly performed after false shuffling. It was to the point, expressing a pleasing, sixbeat... | 2017 / 2 / 14 | $10
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13 Ways to Three-WayJon Racherbaumer This ebook explores the classic "Quick Three Way" plot. How can the faces of three playing cards be shown to be the same?
- Foreword
- Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- New Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Freeway Three-Way (John Bannon)
- Another Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Slide Three-Way (Phil Goldstein)
- Cervon’s Quick Three-Way
- Revised Quick D-Way (Derek Dingle)
- Tweaked Three-Way (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Okal's 3-Way (Bill Okal)
- Kay-Kay Tri-Way (Kevin Kelly)
- Flustrating Three-Way (Brother John Hamman)
- Rhumba Three-Way (Vallarino)
- Montesque Three-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Bonus: Least-Likely Find
1st edition 2017, 42 pages.... | 2017 / 3 / 4 | $10
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Five Easy PiecesJon Racherbaumer The five easy "pieces" in this manuscript are relatively easy to do. The important aspect, however, is how they are combined. The tricks are not the tricky part. They can be broken down into basic, understandable action steps. Or, to put it another way, tricks are to magic books as recipes are to cook books. One should not then equate plans, schemes, or sets of instructions with hale and hearty presentations. This is the reason the extended presentation in this manuscript surpasses mere exposition. Besides explaining the action steps of five otherwise grab-bag tricks, it reveals how they have... | 2017 / 4 / 23 | $10
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Debits, Credits, and other LeftoversJon Racherbaumer Polishing and old principle of mooted origin ...
Jon Racherbaumer explores an old but fascinating self-working trick which can be performed with any set of counters, be they cards, sticks, stones, coins, matches, business cards, bottle caps, gummi bears, ...
- Prelude
- Introduction
- My Introduction To The Version With Playing Cards
- The Quickie Card Trick
- Beginnings
- A Novel Card Trick (Howard L. Grant)
- Toothpick Magic (U. F. Grant)
- Counting Trick (Rufus Steele)
- A Matter Of Debit And Credit (John Northern Hilliard)
- Spin-Offs
- Balancing Debit And Credit (Ian Baxter)
- The Trick That Fooled Einstein (Harry Franke)
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Piano RolesJon Racherbaumer Jon loves to collect, compare, and organize tricks into themes and plots. This is his latest work on the piano trick.
WHAT IS THE PIANO TRICK?
A spectator places his hands palm down on the table in the same way a pianist places his hands on a keyboard. Then pairs of cards are placed between the spectator's fingers to set the stage. These pairs are then fairly removed to form two equal piles. An extra or "odd" card is added to one of the piles. Then, without any further movements or fanfare, the "odd" card inexplicably travels to the other pile.
- Introduction
- At The Beginning
- Thoughts...
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Hierophant 7Jon Racherbaumer
- Introduction
- Contributors
- The Hamman Twist (Brother John Hamman)
- Krenzel's Tunnel Change (Ken Krenzel)
- Dingle's Tunnel Change (Derek Dingle)
- No Force Vanish & Recovery (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Off-Sho Ot (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Jump-Jump Aces (Edward Marlo)
- The 999 Miracle (Edward Marlo)
- Pineapple Twist (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
- Sober Slop Poker (Edward Marlo)
- Breakless Curry Change (Edward Marlo)
- The Four Ace ... Er ... Queen Trick (Edward Marlo)
- Flash Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Fair On All Points (Edward Marlo)
- The Missing Hour (Edward Marlo)
- The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
- A Quickie (Edward Marlo)
- Exhibitionism (Edward Marlo)
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Fingerprint DossierJon Racherbaumer From the Preface:
I must confess that my initial reaction to the Fingerprint Trick was tepid. There was no tension or conflict and it came off as being a glorified location trick. But one aspect interested me. It violated one of magic's cardinal rules - namely, never tell an audience what you are going to do before you do it. And, worse, in this case the performer divulges how he plans do it. Every presentation explains how the trick ostensibly works: The selection is found by detecting the thumbprint left on it. This is a plausible explanation, but as the trick unfolds, this
casual explanation... | 2019 / 3 / 31 | $10
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Shades of WowJon Racherbaumer Elucidations of a classic card trick: The Biddle Trick
The basic plot is fairly straightforward: A card is selected and in the process of determining its identity it is winnowed down to five possibilities. Then, in a surprising act of differentiation, the selection disappears from this five–card packet and reappears elsewhere. In most cases, the selection ends up face up in the middle of a spread deck. This trick has been variously named but ultimately it was christened "The Biddle Trick", named after Elmer Biddle who published the trick in Genii magazine in 1947. It marks the first appearance of the well-known... | 2019 / 8 / 7 | $10
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Further MoreJon Racherbaumer This manuscript is an exploration of the origin and evolution of one of the most dependable, commercial, and semiautomatic card tricks extant. Even its name is unusual and memorable - "Further Than That"
- INTRODUCTION
- FURTHER THAN THAT / Stewart James
- FURTHER THAN FURTHER THAN THAT / Harry Lorayne
- FURTHER THAN THAT / J. W. Sarles
- A LITTLE FURTHER / Darwin Ortiz
- THREE-DIMENSIONAL FURTHER THAN THAT / Cushing Strout
- STROUT FELLOW / Allan Slaight
- A Poker Demonstration
- A POYGRAPHICAL POLLOOZA / Jon Racherbaumer
- TAKING IT TOO FAR?
- MUCH FURTHER THAN THAT / Al Thatcher
- TAKING FURTHER THAN THAT TOO FAR / Jon Racherbaumer
- THIS...
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Trix FixesJon Racherbaumer
- LEITMOTIFS
- Copycat Cards
- Rashomonian Universal Card
- Counting a Conclave
- LOCUS POCUS
- Mine Finds Yours
- A Narrow Margin
- Bubkus Divination
- No-Frills Invisible Toss
- PUZZLETS
- Changling Sandwich
- Another Challenge
- Easy O. Henry
- Recliner Mind Reader
- Either-Oracle
1st edition 2020, PDF 39 pages. | 2020 / 11 / 1 | $10
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Psi-VJon Racherbaumer A retrospective look at Dai Vernon's Five-Card Mental Force.
- Introduction
- The Prototypal Version From Early Vernon
- A Woolgather's Aside
- My Skirmish with the Five-Card Mental Force
- 30 Years Passed
- Five Card Mental Farce / David Acer
- Max on Five-Card Mental Force / Max Maven
- Outtings
- Rescuing the Five-Card Mental Force / Allan Slaight
- The Ultra Effect / Paul Rylander
- Dai-Cipher / Phil Goldstein
- I Have It / Edward Marlo
- Psyboards / Tom Frame
- Indisputably Predictable / Jon Racherbaumer
- Post Mortem
1st edition 2020, PDF 32 pages. | 2020 / 12 / 12 | $10
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Cunning AttractionsJon Racherbaumer A different take on the usage of the mini-plunger or tiny plunger. When Danny Orleans showed the item to Jon it sparked his creativity. Read about the outcome here.
- About the Mini-Plunger
- How to Make a "Breather"
- Stuck Up
- Suck-Up Sleuth
- Malini Lite
- Pokerratum
- A Plunger Went A'Courting
- Aces Take a Plunge
- In-Depth
- Bonus: Ham-Fisted Find
1st edition 2013, 41 pages. | 2015 / 7 / 7 | $12
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Processean PrincessJon Racherbaumer Henry Hardin's plot has been around for 107 years and his initial three methods are explained in The Art of Magic (1909). Card tricks of this kind were atypical when Hardin devised his trick. During his time, spectators physically picked cards. They seldom, if ever, mentally selected them. Because only five cards are used in "The Princess Card Trick," Hardin strengthened the challenge by finding the mental selection by tactile means while the five "possibilities" were in his pocket.
This is how the his trick appeared to audiences: Five cards are shown to a spectator who is asked to think of one of them.... | 2018 / 3 / 25 | $12
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Daley BredJon Racherbaumer A study of Daley's Aces its history and spin-offs.
This treatise is a compilation of methods for performing a simple transposition of pairs of cards - namely the red and
black Aces. The basic plot has a checkered history and, despite being associated with Dr. Jacob Daley, there are lots of tangled connective tissue and ancestral than meets the eye.
Besides these aspects, you will discover that this treatise is a rich mixture of memes. That is, there are lots of bits and pieces to play with and, if you are the kind of student that likes to study the history of a trick and then work through... | 2018 / 4 / 16 | $12
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