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Rub-a-Dub DigestJon Racherbaumer ABOUT RUB-A-DUB: The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies - the maids. The nonsense "Rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk," albeit of a more lascivious variety. The Rub-a-Dub Move's inauspicious beginning began in 1909 at a time when, relatively speaking, magicians had a limited number of utilitarian sleights and techniques at their disposal. Besides, the Rub-a-Dub Move happened in the blink of an eye and was only an offbeat way to make a card disappear. ... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | ||
Devious DeparturesJon Racherbaumer A deep dive into Elmsley's Point of Departure. The original effect is the following. A card is chosen and placed face down on the table. The two black aces are then removed from the pack and with the utmost fairness, the chosen card is placed between them, and this sandwich is handed to a spectator to hold. On the magician's command, the chosen card vanishes and is found in the performer's pocket.
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Black JackeryJon Racherbaumer Tricks that allude to the game of BlackJack.
1st edition 2023, PDF 30 pages. | $12 to wish list | ||
On the Tabled ReverseJon Racherbaumer A finessed examination of a unique technique. This manuscript is about a basic card technique that is sui generis, although it remains a limited application. Nevertheless, it is worth knowing because it's been cleverly used to perform one of the best short versions of "Triumph" extant. The basic move permits you to secretly reverse a card while the deck is tabled and simultaneously riffle shuffled. This manuscript also reveals the how, when and who worked on it. The first Tabled Reverse appeared in Marlo's Off the Top in 1945, credited to Russell Barnhart. Therein it was sparsely explained,... | $12 to wish list | ||
Back To The Future ClassicEdward Marlo & Jon Racherbaumer Edward Marlo and Jon Racherbaumer study three similar effects:
2nd edition 2002, 50 pages. Table of Contents
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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
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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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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 list | ||
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 list | ||
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:
1st edition 2009; 20 pages photo illustrated | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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.
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Pasteboard PermutationsJon Racherbaumer
1st edition 2013, 49 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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.
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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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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.
1st edition 2016, 31 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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.
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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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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?
1st edition 2017, 42 pages.... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
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, ...
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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.
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Hierophant 7Jon Racherbaumer
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