
This is a doubly magical effect in which a spectator selects a card from the deck - twice - based on the number resulting from the roll of two imaginary dice.
It's an effect in which the magician shows the entire deck to the audience while removing the two Jokers, shuffes it, and has a spectator cut the deck and complete - over and over again, as many times as the spectator wishes. When satisfied, the magician will stack a small pile of face-down cards, setting aside the rest of the deck. The spectator will imagine rolling two six-sided dice and mentally read the total (from 2 to 12). He...

A collection of effects for anyone with a warped sense of humor that are not only eye-popping and startlingly visual, but also entertaining with offbeat and humorous presentations.
Poultry-geist
A packet of cards is shown front and back. A ghost is depicted on each card (the front of the ghost is on the front of each card and the back of the ghost is on the other side). A spectator is given one of the ghost cards and instructed to scare the others away by saying "Boo." One by one, the ghosts get scared and vanish from the cards. You state that the ghosts ran away because they are "chicken."...

This book contains a collection of effects utilizing one of my favorite gimmicks: double-sided tape.
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. Contains 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
"... strong magic... interesting plots... devious methods. What more could one ask for?" - Martin Lewis
"... will keep you glued to the pages." - Paul Hallas
YFW!
Four Jokers and an Ace are shown. The Ace is set aside. One by one the four Jokers turn face down. But wait... this trick doesn't use four Jokers and one Ace. It uses...

A complete guide to the crimp in card magic.
Tired of spectators catching your pinky break? The Bent Truth: A Complete Guide to the Crimp is your essential guide to mastering one of the most reliable tools in card magic.
Why the crimp is your new best friend:

A completely impromptu ACAAN routine in which a single card points in two directions.
The spectator freely selects two cards and they are returned to the deck and shuffled. The magician then has the spectator freely name another card, which is openly placed into the center of the deck. After being controlled to the middle, the value of the indicator card points left and right to reveal the spectator's two original selections.
Performance transcript:

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A complete file of Abacus is very hard to find. With the help of several collectors, we could put together a complete file. Among the distinguished contributors are people like Paul Hallas, Peter Duffie, Max Maven, Walt Lees, Aldo Colombini, Mark Leveridge, Stephen Tucker ... and of course Al E. Smith himself.
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The ability to access someone's secret information without tipping them off is a mentalist's dream. Doing it cleanly, right under their noses, feels like a superpower - and here you will find 3 tools to do that, the power is now in your hands.
PS. I personally recommend learning at least 2 different center tears so that if you do it twice at the same event or before the same people, it does not look rehearsed.

"Absolutely Amazing." - Roberto Giobbi
"Incredible thinking." - Teller
The most wonderful gaffed Tarot cards (or even playing cards) ever conceived. A gaffed deck of the 22 Major Arcana cards infused with multiple layers of deceptive mechanisms.
METHODS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE: with the Major Arcana for predictions, mindreading, magic squares, Out of This World, vanishes, teleportations, and more.
SPECTATOR CUTS TO A CARD. You immediately know the card and its position in the deck.
A SPECTATOR CUTS THE DECK INTO THREE PILES. You immediately know the bottom card of each...

A compilation of four of my gimmicked decks that I use constantly in both professional and casual performances.
Serendipity Deck: (From the No Briefcase Act) Any named card is predicted using the two Jokers from the deck. A dynamic and entertaining approach to predicting any freely named card.
Smile Deck: (From the Motivational Mentalism Act) The named card is the only one with a smiley face in an otherwise blank-backed deck. No roughing spray, no thin cards.
Telepathic Deck: Your participant merely thinks of any card, and you instantly know it. A forgotten classic reimagined through...

A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
Still more miniature stage illusions from the critically acclaimed "I Hate Card Tricks" series. Volume 3 features effects based on both classic and contemporary stage illusions.
This hard-to-find e-book is once again available for purchase. Contains instructions for constructing and performing 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
The Aztec Queen
This effect is based on the "Aztec Lady" illusion. A Queen is placed into a playing card cabinet. She can be clearly seen through windows in the front of...

A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
What's that you say? You still hate card tricks?! Here, in volume two, I present an all-new collection of miniature "stage illusion" recreations made popular in the original I Hate Card Tricks.
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains instructions for constructing and performing 11 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards. Foreword by Martin Lewis.
The Origami Queen
This effect was inspired by Jim Steinmeyer's "Origami" illusion. A signed Queen is placed...

The performer divines two chosen ESP symbols, cuts to their matching duplicates, and reveals that they were predicted in advance.
EFFECT: The performer introduces a 50-card ESP deck (two regular 25-card decks combined) and instructs the spectator to follow an elimination process. First, the spectator cuts the deck into two approximate halves and eliminates one. He deals the remaining cards into three piles and eliminates two. Then, he deals the remaining cards into two piles and eliminates one. Lastly, he deals the remaining cards into a single pile, reversing their order. From there, he...

An almost self-working card location effect with an ACAAN feel.
Fool your magician friends. A powerful routine that can be performed with a single deck.
The spectator selects a card, returns it to the center of the deck, and cuts the cards. The magician then has the spectator cut off another packet. Using that packet, cards are dealt one to the table and one to the bottom of the packet repeatedly until only a single card remains. That final card reveals the exact location of the selection. As a bonus, the spectator also discovers the other three cards matching the selection's value. ...

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This is my 250th release to the magic community. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each and every one of you for your extraordinary support and patronage over the past decade. It is only and only due to this overwhelming love that 250 releases were possible. I am eternally grateful to all of you in about 90 countries for your invaluable support where over 75% of the buyers are multiple repeat buyers...

Stop ignoring the back of your cards.
There is a secret hiding in plain sight on almost every deck of cards you own. It's been there for decades, but most of us overlook it because we're too busy practicing our passes and bottom deals. It's called the one-way back principle, and it is arguably the most undervalued tool in card magic.
Why should you care? Because the one-way back principle allows for genuine miracles that require zero sleight of hand. We're talking about effects where the spectator shuffles the deck themselves, yet you can still find their card instantly. It survives genuine...

You may be familiar with the technique to cast out 9s, which is used for some mathematical-based magic tricks (see, for example, Martin Gardner, Harry Lorayne, or Arthur Benjamin). Federico Ludueña shares his thoughts and extensions to this method, and in particular, he expands the method to casting out 10s, which is faster.
1st edition 2026, PDF 10 pages.

Découvrez Le Miracle de l’Ampoule, un ouvrage unique qui révèle l’un des plus beaux numéros de magie scénique : l’illusion de l’ampoule flottante.
Jean Pierre Persinet y partage l’histoire, la technique et les secrets d’un effet mythique transmis depuis 1931.
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The first complete English edition of a 1928 French exposure classic - translated, annotated, and fully illustrated.
In 1928, the celebrated Parisian conjurer Professor Dicksonn - born the Count of Saint-Genois, protégé of Cham, and one-time director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin - set down the working secrets of an entire era of mystification. Mes Trucs Dévoilés is his crusade against the supernatural: a witty, unsparing exposure of the magnetizers, "seers," telepaths, fakirs, and séance-mediums who preyed on a credulous public, written by a master who had spent a lifetime fooling...

We've all heard it said before... Kids don't like card tricks. Well, don't believe it! You just need the right kind of card trick to have children eating out of your hands. Here's a collection of a dozen card tricks that were developed to be performed for children. Rest assured, however, that adults will love them too!
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
"Wow, Bob! It sounds like we think alike. The art work is great and the plots are too." - David Kaye (aka "Silly Billy")
Dogs Playing...

A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains instructions for constructing and performing 11 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards. Foreword by Marty "Martini" Grams.
"Highly recommended ... pure genius ... 10 out of 10." - Marty "Martini" Grams
"...the effects look so astonishing." - Aldo Colombini
"Remarkably different and visual." - Kenton Knepper
The Divided Queen
This effect was inspired by Jim Steinmeyer's illusion, "Modern Art." Your assistant...

A pool-table card revelation.
A spectator freely selects and remembers a playing card. Every decision appears to remain firmly in their hands as the deck is divided and the procedure unfolds with complete fairness. The remaining cards are scattered face down across a pool table. The spectator is handed the cue ball. They decide the shot, the angle and the strength. The only condition is that the cue ball must strike at least two cushions before coming to rest.
When the ball finally stops, the card nearest to it is turned over. It is the very card they merely thought of.
The Cue Ball...

Two sandwich routines based on the same principle, each with a different handling and ending.
Completely self-working. No sleight of hand required. Performed with a regular deck. Fools magicians.
Miracle Count 15 & 47:
No complicated stack. The spectator freely cuts to a card and remembers it. The magician turns the 15th and 47th cards face up, then deals alternately into two tabled piles. The two face-up cards always remain in the same pile. In the end, they sandwich a single card—the spectator's selection. The other piles are then revealed to contain the four Kings.
15 & 47 Sandwich:...

An absolute hot favourite with Dai Vernon, Nate Leipzig, Faucett Ross, Al Koran, Jean Hugard, Cy Endfield and a host of others, Matching The Cards is right up at the top of the ladder for sheer popularity and always has been. This is not some careless overstatement: Matching The Cards is one of the most highly prized card mysteries - ever!
Lewis Ganson wrote a best-selling booklet devoted to just this one effect, Matching the Cards Teach-In. MTC has been making the rounds for years and you will most likely recognize it. The effect...

A spectator cuts a shuffled deck and, with the first three cards he places on the table, creates an ACAAN, which, immediately afterward, miraculously occurs again.
Double Realy to ACAAN is a new card magic trick in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator who, after cutting and completing it one or more times as desired, places the top three cards face down on the table. The magician explains that the last two cards will yield a random number: by adding their values together (and subtracting 13 if necessary, should the sum be greater than...

Uno spettatore taglia un mazzo mescolatoe, con le prime TRE CARTE che deposita, genera un A.C.A.A.N. che subito dopo viene miracolosamente ancora a ripetersi!
Doppia Staffetta all'ACAAN è Un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia dove il prestigiatore, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore che, dopo averlo tagliato e ricomposto, una o più volte a suo piacere, depone coperte sul tavolo le prime tre carte. Il mago spiega che le ultime due carte restituiranno un numero casuale: sommando i loro valori (ed eventualmente sottraendoci 13 se la somma dovesse essere...

You will find more than 50 ideas and effects, some old that have been released before, and some brand new that Jozsef has never shared before.
"A lovely collection of mostly close-up card magic that had me reaching for cards almost immediately!" - Paul Hallas
"József, you have the 'knack' to create direct effects with simple methods, which is, in my opinion, the essence of commercial magic." - Aldo Colombini

Are you tired of magic effects that fool people - but don't amaze them? Have you ever watched a spectator's face "break open in genuine, unguarded astonishment" and realized they weren't amazed by a trick, but by a fundamental violation of reality?
Most magicians treat the duplicate card like a last resort. A gimmick. Something you use when you don't have the chops for the "real" method. That's exactly backwards. The duplicate card doesn't ask your spectator to miss something happening in front of them - it asks them to fail to conceive of something entirely. Nobody watching card magic...

While these impressions and pieces of information about the world of conjuring were gathered before, during, and shortly after WWII, many are true today as they were almost a century ago.

On the Zombie floating ball effect.
Excerpt from the introduction:
There has been no more artistically magical effect produced over the last few years than Zombie, the one-man method of the floating ball.
As the beautiful silver sphere floats and gyrates, apparently of its own volition, the audience must surely wonder as to how gravity is so effectively defied. The magician is obviously master of the floating sphere, it is under his control, and yet no clue to the modus operandi is apparent if the effect is correctly performed. In the hands of a good showman, the trick has always created...

Inside this ebook, you will find an abundance of good effects designed for children's shows. Tricks and routines suitable for all age groups. A real mixture. There are no individual chapters and no indexed sections - just one effect after another. The accompanying illustrations should assist the reader in the making of the apparatus or the working of the effect.

Most mentalism books teach you methods. This one teaches you how to perform.
If you've spent years collecting techniques, learning routines, and chasing the latest release, yet still feel there's a gap between what you do and the reactions you want, The Art of Mentalism was written for you.
Drawing on years of professional performance and creating material used by mentalists around the world, Luke Jonas explores the elements that truly separate memorable performers from forgettable ones. Not billets. Not peeks. Not forces. The real secrets: presentation, confidence, attention control,...

In the cleanest of manners, three coins quickly and magically jump from one of the performer's hands to the other.
No gimmicks required, this just uses regular coins combined with some sleight of hand. Not a routine for the beginner, this magical-looking effect needs to be performed on a close-up pad.
video 8:37

This is a completely impromptu ACAAN. The spectator names any number and freely remembers a random card. In the end, the remembered card appears exactly at the named position.
However, I prefer to think of it as a card control system - a method for controlling a merely remembered card to any desired position with no setup whatsoever. Without question, this concept can take your card magic to the next level.
1st edition 2026, video 8:50

A card chosen "blindly" by the magician will inevitably be revealed by the spectator, inexplicably.
A brand-new card magic effect in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator who, after cutting and completing, one or more times as desired, returns it to the illusionist. The latter, without ever turning the deck face up, runs his fingers along the backs of the cards until he chooses a mysterious card, which he draws from the deck and places, face down, on the table.
Before choosing a card himself, the spectator is free to ask the magician...

Una carta scelta "alla cieca" dal mago verrà inevitabilmente rivelata dallo spettatore, suo malgrado!
Un effetto inedito di Cartomagia dove il prestigiatore, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore che, dopo averlo tagliato e ricomposto, una o più volte a suo piacere, lo riconsegna al mago.
Quest'ultimo, senza mai voltare il mazzo, ne scorre tra le mani i dorsi delle carte, sino a scegliere una carta misteriosa che estrae dal mazzo e depone, coperta, sul tavolo.
Lo spettatore, prima di scegliere anch'egli una carta, sarà libero di chiedere...

A convincing poker demonstration and more.
A routine of poker deals that can be performed without long practice or great skill, plus it can be done anywhere and with absolutely any pack!
The performer deals two-handed stud, five-handed stud, four and five-handed draw poker, and finally gives an exhibition of "cold deck" work.
The magician has absolute control of the cards at all times and yet no resort is made to bottom dealing, second dealing, shuffle stacking or other difficult methods. This routine is a boon to the performer who is requested, after he has performed a few card effects,...

The complete art of two-person mind reading. From casual signals to a full professional code system.
For more than a century, audiences have watched in amazement as two performers appeared to share a single mind. A borrowed object is identified from across the room. A thought-of card is revealed without hesitation. A blindfolded performer names information they seemingly could not know.
The Accomplice pulls back the curtain on one of mentalism's most powerful principles: hidden communication.
Inside these pages, Luke Jonas takes you beyond traditional Second Sight and introduces a modern...