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Lazing: Lazy Man's Card TrickJon Racherbaumer This compilation, like my others, my goal is to discover the "bits and pieces" and in this particular case, to partially answer how and why The Lazy Man's Card Trick came into being?
- A Few Words Before You Begin
- Introduction
- An Inauspicious Beginning
- Origin Story: The Seed
- The Row of Ten Cards (S. W. Erdnase)
- About the Supposed Operative Principle
- Ziska's Incomprehensible Card Effect
- Incomprehensible Divination (Hilliard)
- Who Was Ziska?
- A Morphing Begins
- That Number Down (Doc Miller)
- The Traveling Card (Jack Miller)
- A Lazy Man Does a Card Trick (Al Koran)
- Lazy Man's Card Trick (Harry Lorayne)
- The Plot Resurfaces...
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Speeding BulletsJon Racherbaumer A survey of the seven-card assembly.
This ebook is a survey of the Seven-Card Assembly, a subcategory of Ace Assembly. Its name due to the number (7) of principal cards used, which makes it different from other Ace Assemblies. Standard versions use sixteen cards - four Aces and twelve X-cards - and when the preliminary layout is made, the Aces are dealt into a T-formation and three X-cards are placed onto each Ace. In a Seven-Card Assembly three X-cards are added
onto only three of the Aces. The Leader Ace lies alone. This reduces the duration it takes to set the stage. Then the four Aces... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Grand HotelJon Racherbaumer An exploration of the Hotel Trick, aka "A Night on the Town". A trick with a good plot is half the battle. This one has an interesting plot that can be styled and modified to fit your needs. Sleight-less and sleight-of-hand versions are being taught.
Jon was introduced to this trick by Persi Diaconis in the 1970s. In this ebook he has traced it back to its roots, and forward to modern variations and spin-offs.
The core effect:
Two Queens and four Kings are shown. The Queens are tabled face down next to each other. Two Kings are added onto each Queen to form two three-card packets. After... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
BlufferyJon Racherbaumer Jon explores the bluff pass and its spin-offs.
- INTRODUCTION
- THE EXEMPLAR THE BLUFF PASS
- THE "BLUFF" PASS AND PALM
- SPIN-OFFS
- TOMMY TUCKER'S BLUFF PASS
- FAKE OR BLUFF PASS.
- LE PAUL'S PASS
- TRACKING ATTENTION
- THE BLUFF FORCE / Andrew Galloway
- BLUFF BOTTOM PLACEMENT / Edward Marlo
- NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED / Edward Marlo
- BLUFF-BLUFF PASS / Roger Klause
- THE MARLO-THOMPSON BLUFF PASS
- THE BLUFF CUT / Edward Marlo
- BLUFF CENTER DEAL
- BLUFF SHIFT / Bob Vesser
- VERBAL BLUFFING
- PUT / R. Paul Wilson
- BLUFF ACE ASSEMBLY / Edward Marlo
- TWO-TIMING BLUFF ACE ASSEMBLY / Edward Marlo
- BLUFFERY TRICKS
- BLUFF SANDWICH / Edward Marlo
- REPEAT...
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Facsimile 1Jon Racherbaumer
- A Decade Later
- Publisher's Notes
- Round-Trip Travellers
- Student's Exchange
- Marlo Card-To-Pocket Items In Print
- Detached Collectors
- Table Side Manners
- Future Trap
- Olram Cunningly Catches A Card
- The 1003-1006 Aces
- An Apparitional Bit Of Nonsense
- On The Spread Cull
1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1994, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 52 pages. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Facsimile 2Jon Racherbaumer
- Introduction
- Marlo's Routine For Abbott's Chinese Coins
- Cursory Commentary On Close-Up Fantasies Books 1 & 2 By Paul Harris (1980)
- Bombshell Twins
- LSDM Aces
- LSDR Aces
- Patter For The "Ropes Of India"
- Clipper Passage
- Deuce Sandwich Ideas
- Better Than Best Lie Speller
- Simplex Lie Speller
- Complex Simplex Lie Speller
- Whose Oil And Water?
- Million Dollar Card Secrets By Frank Garcia
1st edition 1994, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 55 pages. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Facsimile 3Jon Racherbaumer This issue of Facsimile includes the complete contents of the first two (and only) issues of Jon Racherbaumer's periodical Marlophile. Jon has reformatted Marlophile, and added some additional routines.
- Publisher's Note
- I
- Introduction
- Marlo's Personal Annotation
- Marlo's Variation Of The Zarrow Shuffle
- MARLO In IBIDEM (1956-1969)
- II
- Introduction
- Marlo's Personal Annotation
- The Easy Way: A Bottom Deal For The Millions
- Two Memory Bits
- Mental lie
- Slop Shuffle Or Triumph?
- Whispering Snitch
1st edition 1995, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 50 pages. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Cull-MinationJon Racherbaumer Culling (cards) is not a particularly fashionable technique. During the past forty years, card magicians started to pay closer attention to various ideas and techniques, especially those having broad application. In this treatise three types of culls will be examined:
- Desired cards are secretly culled during the logical and natural course of an effect.
- Free selections are controlled (culled) to desired positions during a visible procedure that looks fair and
above board.
- A cull done during another fair procedure that results in separating the four suits in Ace to King order.
Contents:
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All That JazzJon Racherbaumer Jazz Aces was inauspiciously introduced to the magic world in 1971 when Peter Kane published Another Card Session. It was a fortuitous event because it appeared about the same time the Elmsley Count was gaining favor with magicians from coast to coast. Like weeds in an open field, packet tricks were also popping up everywhere. Furthermore, Kane's routine clarified the transposition aspects of basic Ace Assemblies. Using only 8 principal "players" (cards), his action procedure was simple and direct. Best of all, the final transposition was squeaky clean. As a result it did not take long for Jazz... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Mirroring Maximizing MiraskillJon Racherbaumer
"One of the greatest card tricks ever invented." - George Anderson
"It fooled the hell out of me!" - Ted Annemann
"Without any possible doubt, Stewart James' 'Miraskill' is one of the greatest self-working card effects to have appeared in print. Apart from its own value, it is the ideal prelude to 'Out of this World'." - Peter Warlock
Miraskill came into being in 1935 when Stewart James self-marketed it. According to him, only one copy was sold. But it leaked out and Dr. Jacob Daley demonstrated it to Ted Annemann, who eventually published it in the Jinx, which was the starting point for much thought and commentary by other clever minds.
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Mulling Over Mexican JoeJon Racherbaumer
'Mexican Joe' refers to a specially crimped card or deck, one that is crimped at diagonal corners in opposite directions.
The first person to publish anything on this crimp was Victor Farelli when he published Farelli's Card Magic. Several years passed before another mention is made. This time it was explained in Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic. Racherbaumer collects a number of routines and ideas with this crimp. In so doing he weaves his way through some interesting nooks and crannies of card magic history.
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Origins
- The Double Crimp
- Mexican Joe's Crimp: Dai Vernon
- Applying The Work
- Marlo Dead...
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TwixtJon Racherbaumer Reviving "Between the Palms" one of Alex Elmsley's most offbeat plots. This is sort of a "locked room" mystery with playing cards.
It is an offbeat plot because the implicit aspects of effect, particularly its climax, are not immediately understood or appreciated. Yet the effect still has an emotional impact. Compared to other card tricks being done in 1952 it was very different. (Perhaps its closest cousins may be Fred Braue's "The Prechosen Chosen Card" from The Gen (February 1962) or Brother John Hamman's "Signed Card.")
Effect: The performer removes a card from the deck and, without showing its face, places it between... | $15 to wish listPDF |
Monte-MazementsJon Racherbaumer Offbeat alternatives of the Three-Card Motif
This compilation makes a distinction between the well-known Three-Card Monte wagering game, and motifs using three principal cards in different ways. All of the motifs challenge a spectator's ability to follow the actions to keep track of certain principal cards as they are physically moved around.
In some of the motifs, the principal cards are moved by the spectator while the performer's back is turned. Then, sight unseen, the performer is able to ascertain the location of a card previously designated as the "money card."
In other motifs... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Dunbury DelusionsJon Racherbaumer
"It is one of the very best tricks which can be done for close-up work." - Hugard and Braue from Show Stoppers With Cards
From the Foreword:
The Dunbury Delusion has an illustrious pedigree that has been up, down, and all around the magic scene for at least 100 years. Charlie Miller's method that was published in Expert Card Technique in 1940, more or less branded his name on it, but seven year earlier Victor Farelli published a modified version ("The Partagas Sell") in Farelli's Card Magic. He did not claim paternity but credited a Spanish magician named Partagas who apparently taught him the trick in 1908.
Basic Plot:
A selection "lost" in a deck is successfully found by using three... | ★★★★★ $16 to wish listPDF |
At the TableJon Racherbaumer Beautiful close up magic by Jon Racherbaumer, John Cornelius, Roger Klause, Ed Marlo, Jim Hunter, Steve Draun, Eddie Adams, Lee Fried, Chuck Smith, Phil Goldstein, Tom Mullica, and Simon Aronson. Here is magic that is unique and that you will not see in other books. The ebook is divided into chapters on Coins, Cards, Linking Pins, Mental Magic, and Diversions. You will find such unusual items as Marlo's complete presentation of the Color Vision box, Racherbaumer's close up Miser's Dream, Marlo work on Linking Pins, Cornelius' Coins thru Table, Mullica's version of Jarrow's Cig thru Hanky, and more. The section on card magic (mostly Marlo... | ★★★★★ $18 to wish listPDF |
Picnic PocusJon Racherbaumer This manuscript is about one trick that incorporates a seminal sorting procedure now given the name Belcho's Disbursive Deal. Over the years the trick eventually morphed into an organized compilation that shares the same identifiable title: "Poker Player's Picnic."
It begins with Vernon Lux, an enterprising amateur who founded the International Society of Junior Magician in 1931 and began a magazine called The Dragon in 1932. Therein Oscar Weigle had a column called "Themes and Schemes" where he explained a trick called "The Million to One Trick." (Later it was changed to
"Belchou's Aces.") It's unclear... | ★★★★★ $18 to wish listPDF |
The Ascanio SpreadJon Racherbaumer The Ascanio Spread is a beautiful false display move, generally used to display 4 cards and hide a fifth one.
From the Introduction:
The Ascanio Spread immigrated to this country from Amsterdam. Del Cartier, Herb Zarrow, Mike Rogers, and Pete Biro were instrumental in bringing this technique to America. In fact, Del Cartier is a close personal friend of Ascanio and was the go-between in obtaining the original Ascanio manuscript for Mike Rogers, who in turn passed it on to me.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- To Begin
- Racherbaumer Variation
- Some Comments On The Mechanics Of The...
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Elevation OvationsJon Racherbaumer Although Marlo is generally credited with the Elevator plot, analysis of the action steps taken in the Four Burglars,
Jacob's Ladder, and Marlo's Penetration exhibit procedural similarities and could be presented as "elevating tricks" if accompanying patter expressed the "elevator" analogy. As far as the "elevator" trope is concerned, we can credit Bill Simon for naming rights.
- Part One: The Burglazing Beginning
- Introduction
- Gibson Puts Perps On Parade
- Rising Crime / Daryl Martinez
- Rising Robbers / Jon Racherbaumer
- Four Burglas / Jerry Mentzer
- Mystery Of The Penthouse / Nick Trost
- Burglar Trick / Nick...
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Sticks and Stones: a leaflet for the left handJon Racherbaumer Racherbaumer, a man of words - sometimes strong words, sometimes exotic words, sometimes provocative words, sometimes strange words - but always thoughtful and worth reading, wrote a two year column in The Greater Son of the Bat Jr. journal (S.O.B.jr.). All 24 installments of this column are collected here. You will find a lot of Marlo-vian talk, good tricks and interesting articles.
I was not a magician in the late 70s, so I cannot say how it was back then in the 'good old times', but reading Sticks and Stones allowed me to imagine how - I am sure - it must have been.
- EFFECTS ALPHABETICALLY
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Finessed ControlsJon Racherbaumer Controlling a card to the top or to the bottom is the most fundamental technique in card magic. Every card magician should have at least one good method to do that. Consequently many authors use the phrase "control card to the top/bottom with your preferred method" and leave the rest to the reader assuming that everyone already has his or her preferred method. While you might have your favorite method, the search for better ones never stops.
In this ebook Jon Racherbaumer describers several - as he calls them 'finessed' methods - to control a card to the top or to the bottom. You should find... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listPDF |
Marlo Without TearsJon Racherbaumer From the Foreword:
MARLO WITHOUT TEARS began as a flip notion five years ago. My original plan was to prepare a salmagundi of previously published material by Marlo that was easy to do; to select methods which stressed subtlety and psychological cunning and required no difficult sleights. There is a neat irony here because such material is not associated with Marlo. The prevailing assumption about Marlovian magic focusses on its difficulties, complexities, and textual protraction. The look of his books are intimidating: pages of explanation, dense detail, allusions to other notes (published... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listPDF |
Timely TrickeryJon Racherbaumer While we all intuitively understand what time is, even a child can tell you what time it is, it is a hard concept to fully understand from a scientific point of view. It is hard to define, and wrap your head around. That is part of the intrigue of making it the topic of a magic effect. Particularly for an interested and sophisticated audience it can be a very effective plot line. Jon Racherbaumer explores how magicians have made use of it over the decades, and he has unearthed some remarkable gems.
- Preface
- Foreword
- An Unusual Plot Emerges
- The Charmed Watch
- Charles Wicks
- Precursors
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The Legendary Kabbala (1971-1981)Jon Racherbaumer The meaning of Kabbala, translated from Hebrew, means something received and handed down. This definition resonates. Knowledge of magic, after all, is handed down from generation to generation, from magician to magician, and from teacher to disciple. Prior to xerography and personal computers, most magical knowledge was transmitted in this primitive, semi-private, and intimate means. Word-of-mouth reigned supreme and to a certain extent still does.
The magic scene in the Seventies was a blooming, buzzing place, atwitter with contentiousness and creativity. Close-up magic, particularly with... | $49.50 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
The Legendary Kabbala (1971-1981) (used)Jon RacherbaumerHardcover with dust jacket. Like new condition. For details on the content see the digital edition. | $150 to wish list |
