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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,... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Definitive Slip CutJon Racherbaumer Slip Cuts play a vital role in "Cutting to the Aces," a presentation auspiciously introduced in Stars of Magic (1946). Dai Vernon's handling sparked lots of interest when it first appeared, providing strong incentive to master the Slip Cut. Cardini, who also knew a great trick when he saw one, strongly endorsed Vernon's presentation:
"To lovers of outstanding card magic I heartily recommend 'Cutting the Aces.' It is showy and mystifying, more so than you would think a card trick could possibly be."
Therefore, this treatise begins with explanations of three versions of Ace-Cutting. This may induce... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
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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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... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
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... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
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. | ★★★★★ $12 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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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...
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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,... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Centric DoublesJon Racherbaumer This is a detailed and thoroughly researched work on double lifts taken from the center of the deck, or so called center double lifts.
A double lift is one of the hardest moves to do well and at the same time one of the most practical and useful moves in magic. One strategy to make a double lift more deceptive is to take two cards from the center rather than from the top of the deck. The downside of this strategy is that the utility of the move is reduced. Nevertheless, for the expert card handler it is worthwhile to study these types of double lifts and acquire one or two versions for one's... | $15 to wish listPDF |
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 | ★★★★★ $10 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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Big Easy Card CunningJon Racherbaumer These are all self-working or very easy to perform effects.
One item that I would like to highlight is the Klutz Force, because it is on the same skill level as the popular Criss-Cross force, which is frequently used in self-working effects. With the Klutz Force you have an alternative that has a different feel and procedure.
- Simplex Physical & Mental
- Telephenomenal
- 21 And Then Some
- Guesstimation City
- Marked Calculation
- What Is the Question?
- Easy Prefiguration
- Klutzy Forces
- Hobson Chooses Again
- Punch-Line Division
- Simple Sync
- Is Your Pants On Fire?
- Made In the Shade
- No-Clue
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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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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... | $6 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 |
Arch TriumphsJon Racherbaumer Every card magician will know the Triumph effect:
The performer is recklessly and haphazardly mixing cards face up and face down. Then, without warning
or manipulation, this entire disorder is instantly corrected. All of the cards face the same way except for a selection.
The most famous routine is Dai Vernon's "Triumph" originally published in Stars of Magic. However, he probably was influenced by other similar effects that came before. One such routine is Sid Lorraine's "Slop Shuffle".
Jon Racherbaumer will take you through the history of this wonderfully visual effect and will explain and discuss the many... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Antics and Interludes: Contextual Card CozenageJon Racherbaumer Classic Racherbaumer. I had to use the dictionary twice just to make it past the title :-) If you don't learn any card magic you will certainly expand your vocabulary. But I am sure you will learn a good amount of very thoughtful pieces.
From the introduction:
Can we then agree that Card Antics consist of novel actions, cute bits, and amusing maneuvers? This is what happens when cards jump, rise, change, multiply, disappear, reappear, penetrate, spin, and so forth. Aren't Card Antics meant to provoke delight and bewilder?
To explore ways to convert, tweak, and redeem "pasteboard antics"... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
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 |
All Backs: a select compendiumJon Racherbaumer
The All Backs Motif is odd. For one thing, it casts a revealing light on we magician's claim (when it suits our
purpose) that we use ordinary cards. That is our decks, which we prefer to borrow, consist of cards that have
faces and backs on both sides. Therefore, if we show a deck that consists of all backs and faces we are admitting
that such anomalies exist and the cards being used are probably gimmicked in some way. Why do this?
A better question may be - What motivated someone to create such an effect using this kind of deck? That "someone" was Dai Vernon and my guess is that he wanted to... | $15 to wish listPDF |
A Promising PremiseJon Racherbaumer Unpacking Dai Vernon's Pact
When Vernon's trick appeared, its puzzling aspect centers on the fact that the spectator chooses one of three cards and the one chosen changes into his selection. In other words, the spectator is permitted to make two decisions. He selects any card. Then he selects one-of-three cards, which changes into his selection. It is essentially a quickie.
- Introduction
- 1, 2, 3 Dai Vernon
- RECOUNTING ON 1-2-3 Dai Vernon
- LASSO-DOE-TRE Edward Marlo
- THE PROMISE II Edward Marlo
- STICKY ACE, DEUCE OR THREE Dave Solomon
- STICKING TO THE PROMISE Jon Racherbaumer
- ISOLATED 3-2-1 Jon Racherbaumer
- 1-2-3 INFINITY Jon Racherbaumer
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A Hobsonian HandbookJon Racherbaumer Explorations, examples, and routines using equivoque.
Hobson's Choice: the choice of taking either what is offered or nothing else; the absence of choice. [after Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave only one choice, that of the horse nearest the stable door]
Equivoque or Magician's Choice in its myriad of forms is considered a First Principle by students of mentalism. What
fascinates me is the elusiveness of this subject because no one has yet written a definitive, synoptic, and detailed magnum opus on the subject. There have been good piecemeal accounts written here and there about and most magicians understand how it basically works in specific cases; however, trying to ferret out its... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
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
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