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33 Tricks with the PATEO ForceKen de Courcy Which is one of the best forces in magic? Undoubtedly the PATEO force! PATEO stand for "POINT AT TWO, ELIMINATE ONE", because that's exactly what happens.
The PATEO force is very easy to do end can be used not only with cards but with a variety of objects. It is a very strong force because the spectator seems to have very free choice. In this wonderful manuscript, Ken De Courcy give us, 33 ways to use the PATEO force. You will find card magic, mental magic, close-up magic, club magic, party magic and, yes, stage magic too. A real treasure house of good effects. You can surely find at least... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
33 Trucchi con la Forzatura I.D.E.U.Ken de Courcy
E’ con grande piacere che presentiamo per la prima volta al pubblico dei prestigiatori Italiani questo bellissimo quanto ricco lavoro di Ken De Courcy. La Forzatura “I.D.E.U. ( In lingua originale PATEO) è una delle più versatili e apparentemente innocenti che siano state ideate. I.D.E.U. è un acronimo per “Indicane Due Eliminane Una”. Infatti un qualsiasi numero di carte (o oggetti) viene disposto sul tavolo in qualsiasi ordine e alternativamente lo spettatore e l’esecutore ne coprono due con le mani e una carta viene eliminata liberamente ogni volta. Eppure, questo processo... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
A Card ExitsKen de Courcy
This is Ken's take on R.M. Jamison's 'Yogi Tells' effect from The Phoenix. Someone thinks of one of four cards of the same value of different suits. After two brief shuffles, you spell "Y-O-G-I" three times discarding the card on the last letter, and the card that remains is the one the spectator chose. In Ken's version the spectator thought of card magically flys into the pocket of the performer.
1st edition 1984, 8 pages; PDF 9 pages. | $8 to wish listPDF |
A Card In SevenKen de Courcy Ken de Courcy's no gimmick version of Scalbert's "The Mystery of the Seventh Card".
The perfect telephone test to present under challenge conditions. No Feke's. No Gimmicks. Yet the medium at the other end of the phone unerringly names the thought of card.
Scalbert's "Mystery of the Seventh Card", sold many years ago, was a commercial principle applied to the transmission of a card to an assistant playing the role of a medium, waiting on the end of a telephone. The distinct novelty at the time was the fact that all communication with the medium was done by a spectator. The secret was an... | $7 to wish listPDF |
A Case For CardsKen de Courcy From the FOREWORD
In this short thesis I'm going to discuss a fairly well-known plot ... "The Card in the Card-case".
If you think about it, there's more 'logic' in this effect than in, for example, "The Card in Matchbox"; the card-case is already there because the cards were in it. Unless you smoke while performing, there is little reason for introducing a matchbox into the equation.
"The Card in Wallet" is a good, well-tried effect, but I submit the "Card in Card-case" is more
"impossible" because it's in view all the time. This last point, obviously, creates difficulties which I'll... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
AccusationJack Yates & Ken de Courcy  From the introduction:
"Accusation" is a court-room drama, not exactly legal, of course, but realistic enough to cause the accused to lie and the witnesses to commit perjury! If the trick does not have impact, it will be your own doing.
The Effect: From a list of criminals a spectator mentally selects a name and, from then on, 'becomes' this person. He also selects the crimes he will be accused of in the course of the examination. He also selects one, two or three witnesses who are put in the 'witness-box'. Despite the lack of clues, the performer reveals the criminal's name and his crimes.
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Accusation (used)Jack Yates & Ken de Courcy Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $8 to wish list |
After Dinner TechniqueKen de Courcy From the preface:
This book first appeared in 1953 in serial form in Goodliffe's ABRACADABRA. At the time it was the first treatise to be published on the subject and many people were kind enough to say it helped them overcome the difficulties always found in after-dinner shows.
All the information it contained was learned by experience as it was a field in which I specialised. And, although it was written nearly thirty years ago, almost nothing has changed; which is surprising when you consider the sweeping changes in other spheres of entertainment.
- Preface And Acknowledgement
- Foreword Be Natural
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After Dinner Technique (used)Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $10 to wish list |
At the Drop of a MatchKen de Courcy From the introduction:
It must be fifty years since Will Blyth wrote his two books on Matchstick Magic. Yet, with coins, matches are the commonest articles carried with which magic can be performed.
AT THE DROP OF A MATCH describes a number of impromptu tricks with matches that have served me over the years. Most have been gathered from books and other magicians; some are original and others have been given new slants.
Learn a few, give them a little practice and you will never be at a loss when a party is flagging, or someone suggests you "show them a trick.
Content
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Auto-FindKen de Courcy Based on a Bob Hummer and Karl Fulves principle. A spectator is handed seven playing-cards. He shuffles them, then places one of them aside face-down without looking at it. Now squares of cardboard are shown with cut-out windows. Spectator follows the magician's instructions and, at the end, looking through the cut-out windows in the cards, an index of a card appears. The chosen card is turned over and has been correctly revealed.
You will have to make up the squares of cardboard for this. The trick itself is self-working, the real work having been put into the evolution of the effect, but they are useful for... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF |
AutomentalismKen de Courcy A complete man and wife telepathy act.
A nicely worked out two-person act that eliminates long memorization preparation and training. The basic idea can be adapted and extended to fit your needs.
(Originally this booklet was sold with an 'apparatus'. The 'apparatus' was a set of cue cards or cue stickers which could be pasted onto cards. These are not included in this digital reproduction. However, the ebook does include images of all the cue cards and you can therefore make them yourself.)
A truly sensational mental telepathy act with ordinary playing cards and other objects handed... | $10 to wish listPDF |
Bingo DivinationMarc de Milo & Ken de Courcy  Card tricks suitable for stage presentation are rare. Bingo Divination can be performed successfully on a stage or in a cocktail-lounge. It is the logical, up to date version of the classic Nap Hand, without the necessary memory work or sleight-of-hand. Rehearse it carefully, paying attention to presentation, and you'll have a reputation-maker.
EFFECT: The magician introduces a pack of cards. The cards are genuinely shuffled and then dealt into two piles, one containing Clubs and Hearts, the other Spades and Diamonds. The Clubs-Hearts pile is again dealt into three face-down piles, one to... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Blue Spotitis and Other OdditiesKen de Courcy It is a children's game...it is a great magic trick...it is a mystifying series of magic tricks...it is SPOTITIS!
Do you remember the simple origami fold called "the salt cellar"? Well, Ken de Courcy in this manuscript teaches you how to use that simple fold for performing wonderful magic tricks.
Ken says:
"In the 1956 edition of Robert Harbin's "Paper Magic" (beautifully illustrated by Rolf Harris) you will find an easily-made paper model titled "The Salt Cellar...Magic Colour Changer".
It's a paper-fold that goes back many years; in fact, in 1948, Ernie Kob marketed an amusing use... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish listPDF |
Cabaret Card DivinationBilly McComb & Ken de Courcy  The Effect: The magician removes a pack of cards from its packet and hands it out for shuffling and cutting. He also gives a sealed envelope to another spectator for safe keeping. The shuffled deck is passed to someone else who is instructed to deal seven cards on to the hand of the person seated next to him. The performer reclaims the balance of the pack then asks the spectator to fan the seven cards he holds faces towards himself.
From the center of the floor, the magician says, "Sir, I think you are looking at a Queen of Spades. If I'm right, please remove it from the other cards and hold... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Cabaret Card Divination (used)Billy McComb & Ken de Courcy Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $10 to wish list |
Calling all CardsKen de Courcy A deck of cards is shuffled and put in trouser pockets, any card called for produced, then any non-playing card (birthday card, membership card, postcard, ...) called for, with gags and card castle finale.
This manuscript has not been available for a long time. This comedy and mysterious act, which has not been seen for a number of years, contains all the ingredients for hit entertainment today.
THE EFFECT
The performer comes on to a stage which bears only a table. He introduces a pack of cards and hands them out for shuffling, then has them cut into two halves and, after rapidly glancing... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listPDF |
Cards in CabaretKen de Courcy From the prologue by Billy McComb:
The thing which annoys me about Ken de Courcy is that he has a tidy mind. This means he correlates everything in his nut so that it all has a place. This I don't have. So I suppose my annoyance is goaded by envy.
Now if you were to ask me to give you a hundred commercial card tricks which were new to audiences, I'd swallow down the Six Card Repeat and the Brainwave Deck and die quietly.
Not so our gallant Ken de C. He just sits down and puts a gaggle of highly commercial card tricks into book form ... and readably so, too. And, blast me thumb-tips, he invents... | $12 to wish listPDF |
CardsinkKen de Courcy A chosen card that not only penetrates right through a deck of cards and a card-case, but also right through a spectator's hand. A very strong effect that looks impossible.
The effect is startling because it appears to happen in the spectator's own hands. As always Ken provides precious ideas for an intriguing presentation.
- Easy to do
- No palming
- The card can be signed
1st edition 1986; 1st digital edition 2018, 4 pages. | $6 to wish listPDF |
Conto Alla RovesciaKen de Courcy Si tratta di un effetto impromptu, molto semplice da eseguire e dal grande effetto! Cos'altro volere di più?
CONTO ALLA ROVESCIA di Ken De Courcy è un gioco che può esser presentato in diversi modi, alcuni spiegati nel dettaglio in questo piccolo manoscritto.
L'effetto base è il seguente: uno spettatore mischia il proprio mazzo di carte (si proprio il suo mazzo che viene mischiato veramente!) quindi conta dieci carte facendo un conto alla rovescia. Se il valore della carta corrisponde al numero contato, la carta viene messa sul tavolo a faccia in alto. Se nessun valore delle carte... | $3 to wish listPDF |
Count DownKen de Courcy Very easy to do, impromptu and with a big effect! What else would you ask? Count Down by Ken de Courcy is a card trick that you can present in several ways, all well explained in this little manuscript.
The basic effect is the following: A spectator shuffles his own pack (Yes! It can be his own pack of cards and he really shuffles it...), then counts ten cards in a reverse order. If a number of spots on a card happens to match the number he is counting aloud at the time, the card is thrown out face-up. If none match during the count, a card is dealt face down in front of the magician.
This... | ★★★★★ $3 to wish listPDF |
Creditable ConjuringKen de Courcy Magic with credit cards.
Credit cards are easier to handle than playing cards because they're smaller and they're also a lot more valuable. In short, a borrowed credit card is an ideal thing with which to conjure. This ebook will give you a few ideas to include in your program.
- Foreword
- Gimmicks
- Crossed Credits
- Credit Card In Wallet
- Credit By Chance
- Card To Cash
- Credit Shower
- Through Credit
- Unlocked Credit
1st edition 1982, 12 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 15 pages. | $7 to wish listPDF |
Creditable Conjuring (used)Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in good condition; slight crease on cover and first three pages. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $7 to wish list |
Danson's Diary TrickKen de Courcy
Danson's Diary Trick was first published in the New Pentagram Vol 2. It was an effect many magicians liked and subsequently several variations were published. Ken de Courcy compiles here several variations from Roy Johnson, from MUM magazine, including his own ideas, tips, and suggestions.
1st edition 1983, 20 pages; PDF 23 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF |
Deceiver's DiscourseKen de Courcy These were Ken de Courcy's USA lecture tour notes. It includes great material which puts entertainment first and foremost.
- The Haired Card - a comedy surprise with four outsize cards from a pack.
- Balloon Prediction - three balloons, the audience nominate the colors, these magically burst one at a time ... then you show that you knew the order the spectator chose and made a prediction to that effect!
- The Economy Card in Balloon - a simplicity version of the great classic effect.
- Explosive Rope Cut - cut and restore a rope with a bang. Unusual and good!
- Seeing is Disbelieving - spectators...
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Delayed Action Eleven Cards RoutineKen de Courcy A multi effect comedy card routine with audience participation and an unexpected climax. Cards mysteriously increase and decrease of number in magician's hands defying the laws of mathematics in a crescendo of surprises.
EFFECT
The magician fans a pack of cards to a spectator asking him to choose one and place it in his inside jacket pocket. The performer tries to read the mind of the spectator and to guess the chosen card but he fails. In desperation he slings the pack high in the air. With hardly a break, he removes some more cards from his pocket and goes straight into another trick... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Dream Poker with a KickerHerb Rungay & Ken de Courcy  This is a multi-stage multi-climax routine with a deck of cards. If you already know George Blake's Dream Poker, you will love this one.
There is a lot of magic here - very easy to do (it is almost automatic…). You repeatedly find a chosen card with seemingly impossible conditions, by logic, by spelling it out and by chance. Then you deal to the spectator a Royal Flush in Spades in a freely chosen position on the table. And finally the spectator finds his chosen card in the deck that he had shuffled, by spelling it himself!
From the foreword:
Frank Lane, in his book, "Help Yourself", published in 1931, wrote:... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Dubbelkross and SimulkrossKen de Courcy A gradual transposition of three silver coins and three golden coins with an unexpected climax. Two routines.
Many methods have been devised for the classical effect wherein three coins pass invisibly through space to join three more. "Dubbelkross" and "Simulkross" are two further variations on the same theme; but, not only are the methods altered, the effects are, too. In fact, "Dubbelkross" represents the first attempt (as far as I know) at giving this transposition a definite climax. "Simulkross" does not pretend to give a startling climax, but is interesting because coins pass simultaneously... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Easy Everywhere and NowhereKen de Courcy "Everywhere and Nowhere" is a classic plot which, due to the difficulties in performance, is rarely seen. The original version calls for exceptional aptitude in card-changes which are not the easiest sleights to do well.
Here is a new method utilizing a well-known fake pack that surely you already have, used in an undetectable way. This routine brings "Everywhere and Nowhere" within the range of everybody. Give it that and you'll have a trick that will amaze and entertain both laymen and magicians.
EFFECT:
A card is selected from a pack, then returned and the deck is cut a number of times... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Even StephenKen de Courcy An "even bet" gambling routine in ten stages with no preparation and no sleight of hand.
A gambling routine which is completely different to anything that has gone before, because it doesn't deal with the usual card games such as Poker, Blackjack, Bridge and so on. Even Stephen is a routine, you don't play for money, instead play for matches ... and yet you win. Even with poor luck, you "scoop the pool". It's all so easy to do, the main skill being in presentation. 'The last Bet' is the only one needing a little handling and even that shouldn't place a great strain on your ability. Altogether... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listPDF |
Even Stephen (used)Ken de Courcy Booklet, stapled, in good condition. Published by Supreme Magic. Describing an "even bet" gambling routine. | $8 to wish list |
Five Card StunnerKen de Courcy A very easy to do routine in which a black card repeatedly flies from hand to pocket leaving spectators amazed again and again, despite the performer trying to simplify things. All can be examined.
Imagine deliberately counting five cards....four of which are red with only one black. Each and every card is called and shown - without a single false move four cards are tossed to the table and the black card is seen to have vanished. It is reproduced from the pocket. Now Imagine that you can do it again and again each time eliminating one red card to make it easier for the public to follow the... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
ForeshadowedJack Yates & Ken de Courcy  Foreshadowed is an impromptu triple prediction that would play well for a few people or a full theater. As a bonus Yates describe another incredible prediction that can be done over the phone.
Jack Yates really needs no introduction; his name usually comes up wherever subtle magic is discussed. He tends to produce devious principles, then simplifies them down so anyone can use them. Foreshadowed is an interesting twist (literally!) on the well-known three objects prediction (a la Mental Epic). What makes this version different is that the predictions are written on blank pieces of cardboard... | $10 to wish listPDF |
Fortunato in AmoreKen de Courcy Un'altra grande routine da Ken De Courcy , piena di mistero, umorismo e partecipazione del pubblico . Questo gioco di carte è adatto per essere eseguito in close-up, sul palco, in un locale o ovunque preferiate. Il colpo di scena finale, completamente inaspettato (seppur logico), sorprenderá enormemente il pubblico e non mancherá di regalarvi un lungo applauso.
EFFETTO: Una signora del pubblico viene invitata come assistente e le viene chiesto di scegliere una delle quattro buste presentate apertamente su un tavolo. Le rimanenti tre vengono lasciate in piena vista. Viene consegnato all’assistente... | $5 to wish listPDF |
Four Ace IntrosKen de Courcy From the introduction:
The Four Ace Trick is deservedly popular. There are many versions, from the semi-automatic to the almost impossible finger-flinging variety, so it's within the scope of every performer. It starts, necessarily, with the abstraction of the four Aces. One can simply run through the pack, locate them and toss them out. Or, if you want considerably more impact, you can produce them magically. That's what this is all about ... producing the Aces in an interesting way as a lead-in to whatever Four Ace Trick you normally do. Here, you'll find both easy and more complicated... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
Genial ImprobabilitiesKen de Courcy From the Foreword:
A word about the tricks themselves. As far as I personally am aware, every item is original in some way, either in effect or method.
- Introduction ...
- Foreword ...
- CHAPTER ONE: MAGIC WITH CARDS
- Reggie the Rattlesnake
- Ri-Ki-Ki Poker
- Silken Card Discovery
- The Travelling Phoenix
- The Snake Charmer
- CHAPTER TWO: MAGIC WITH THE MIND
- Eve v Adam
- "Hail, O Swami"
- Tangled Thoughts
- The Devil's Key
- CHAPTER THREE: MAGIC WITH ANYTHING
- No Knot
- The Sympathetic Note Trick
- The Jeweller's Dream
- Which Witch?
- The Chinese Picture
- The Fiddled Furniture
- The Ju-Ju...
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Giant Size Clever AceKen de Courcy & Peter Pit & Edwin Hooper & Ian Adair & Ravelle and Andree  Four prize winning routines on the "find the ace" theme, performed with extra giant cards that you can print yourself.
IN PERFORMANCE
The performer shows three extra giant cards. The audience are asked to follow the movements of the Ace of Diamonds, The Ace is mixed up with the two other extra giant cards shown - the Two and Three of Clubs. The audience never are able to discover the whereabouts of the elusive Ace. The Ace transposes continuously in an incredible manner even while it is in the hands of a spectator or while it is marked by a clip. The spectator himself takes the ace in... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
Hammanesque: Hot Ice 2Ken de Courcy In one of the New York Magic Symposium volumes there is a trick by Brother John Hamman entitled "The Lie-Detector Card Case". In it, he describes a truly brilliant-in-its-simplicity method for discovering a merely-thought-of card. Here is an alternative ending to it which, for me, makes it easier for larger audiences to see.
EFFECT
A spectator shuffles a pack of cards, then merely thinks of a card as the performer counts some over before his eyes.
The cards are shuffled, then the performer shows the cards at the top and bottom of the pack; the selected card is not among them. Next, he introduces two paper... | $4 to wish listPDF |
Hot Ice 1Ken de Courcy
A series of novel and above all entertaining card tricks, all requiring a minimum of skill, the simplest of apparatus and all designed for the maximum entertainment and audience appeal.
No. 1. "A Double-Dose": Predestined and Black and Red Computation II.
Two effects, both using the same subtle principle, credited to Nick Trost.
PREDESTINED is for platform performances. You can use a Jumbo pack of cards and four cardboard plates. You will make this up in a few minutes and have a good program item. The working is simplicity itself but, being more interested in the presentation possibilities... | $8 to wish listPDF |
Hot Ice 3: The Kosky CutKen de Courcy
Here Ken de Courcy took a clever cut effect by Gerald Kosky, changed it, and altered it to make it completely self-contained and also impromptu. Whilst doing this, Ken hit on another use and here you are getting two for the price of one.
EFFECT:
A borrowed pack is shuffled by the owner, then the magician extracts two cards from it, hands the cards to the spectator and asks him to place them into a convenient pocket. The deck is placed on the table and the spectator is requested to cut off about two-thirds and lay it face-up alongside the remainder. He now cuts the larger packet roughly... | $8 to wish listPDF |
It's Knot ImpossibleKen de Courcy Get the most from a classic trick. All you need is a single piece of rope (that can be borrowed) and you are always ready to entertain your audience. It packs so small but it plays so big. You can perform it close up or for a big audience.
"The Impossible Knot", originally called "G.W.Hunter's Puzzle Knot", was well-known to magicians fifty years ago but appears to have dropped out of use. This is a shame because it is easy to do, not well-known and, due to the method, almost impossible for a spectator to work out even when he is apparently shown how it is done. In short, it's a useful thing... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF |
