Magic

The most streamlined, concise version of this classic ever created. Only four phases, but each of the last three could stand alone as the finish. No longer a tepid guessing game, now you can present this gem as a true work of art, filled with stunning surprises. Distilled from over 40 years of trial and error. Foolproof.

1st edition 2021; PDF 2 pages, video 1 min 43 s.

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Kang-Ho Song
6. Facebook News
8. Kat Hudson - From the East Coast to the West End - cover article/interview
14. Reader's Letters
16. Leeds Magic Convention - How we arranged a one day magic convention in four weeks - Chris Stewart
18. Don't Squander Your Magic Earnings - Wolfgang Riebe
22. The Masterclass Classic
    22. Silk Away - Tony Griffith - Final Reflections (2009)
    24. Luck of All Men - A Magick from Brian Johnson
23. United Kingdom Escape Artists News & Awards 2021
26. speaking to the Right People...

These are the notes to Aldo Colombini's lecture from 1999.

• the K.I.S.S. Formula
• The Rule Of Three
• Hand Language
• Be Natural
• Use The Spectators' Brain
• Holmes Vs Moriarty
• Punch Meets His Match!
• Twice
• Point Of No Return
• Contact Colors
• Aces A Go-Go
• You Can Count On Them
• Coin Wrap
• Italian Emotional Bonding
• Telecard Across
• A Book Is Better
• Trifle
• Chinese Purse
• Deep Impact
• Stand Up

1st edition 1999, PDF 33 pages.

A vintage collection of fine card effects for magicians of every skill level. If you've ever wished you could entertain an audience after dinner, or during a lull at a party or club, you'll soon be able to, once you've learned these easy-to-master tricks. Some of the most eye-popping effects in all of card magic are those performed with a borrowed deck. Most of the tricks described in this ebook fall into this category.

Here's a partial list of what's included:

• The Fifteen Cards Trick
• An Easy Card Location
• A Mind Reading Effect
• Long Distance Mind Reading
• The Seven and Eight Trick ...

A special offer for the holiday setting of small groups and unknown audiences. A demonstration of enhanced empathic/telepathic awareness and influence ideal for casual events with an unknown audience. Very old techniques and methods are applied in a new way that can be entertaining but are also very impactful. There is a lot of material here beyond the effect description: presentation theory, psychology, volunteer selection, and more.

There are three different approaches for presenting this routine: Triple Influence, Prelude and Embrace. The latter two use advanced techniques of Aware&Cue,...

Circlet looks like trick videography but it is not. It is a quick, visual, impromptu miracle that you can do right before their eyes. You pull off your finger ring, toss it back towards your other hand and it visibly appears back on your finger. The ring can be checked before and after and is totally ungimmicked.

1st edition 2021, video 9 min 51 sec.

Show a few paper bills of your local currency and transform them with one flick into playing cards - a royal flush.

1st edition 2021, video 3 min 12 s.

Virtual Color Separation is an unusual and incredible effect of hands-off card magic, manageable even remotely, through a video chat, such as Zoom, Skype or Google Meet, but especially possible to perform by phone, with a spectator who has a common deck of 52 playing cards, that the magician will never have the opportunity to see but will still be able to control inexplicably, coming at the end to separate the red-suited cards from the black ones, without the spectator any wiser.

A lady chosen as a spectator, after having separated the red-suited cards from the black ones, will choose the...

Virtual Color Separation é un mio effetto inedito ed incredibile di Cartomagia Automatica “Hands-Off”, gestibile anche a distanza, tramite una video chat, quali ad esempio Zoom, Skype o Google Meet, ma soprattutto possibile da eseguire AL TELEFONO, con uno spettatore che disponga di un semplice mazzo di 52 carte da gioco, che il mago non avrà MAI modo di vedere ma sarà comunque in grado di controllare inspiegabilmente, giungendo al termine a separare le carte ROSSE dalle NERE, senza che il pubblico possa darsene spiegazione alcuna! Una spettatrice, dopo aver separato le carte a...

ダイ・バーノン著、「Malini and his magic」の日本語版です。

マックス・マリニについて：あのダイ・バーノンが師と仰いだマジシャンが二人います。一人はネイト・ライプチヒ、そしてもう一人がマックス・マリニです。

20世紀前半に活躍したマリニは、ミスディレクションの天才であり、王侯貴族に愛され、大いに成功したマジシャンとして知られています。

この本には、マリニの演目とトリックの説明、ミスディレクションの秘訣、そしてどのように仕事を得て、成功したか、その秘訣が事細かに記されています。 ...

It's a devilishly clever method with four different presentations. You'll likely think of several more. There's a You-Do-As-I-Do effect, a Card Climax, a Phone Miracle, and Scarne's Best Prediction. No sleights. Simple, sure, and direct. Can be worked surrounded by spectators and dead easy to perform. All you require is the instructions, as no gimmicks are used. Use anyone's cards.

If you think that the pandemic is limiting your performance opportunities, you'll especially like Scarne's Phone Miracle. All you need is a spectator with a smartphone or landline. And, unlike virtually every...

If you want a real mind-bender, also for magicians, this is the perfect effect for you. An extraordinary effect. A magician fooler. A climax of increasingly impossible effects. Here's what happens:

The magician shows a deck of cards and asks spectator 1 to cut a third of the deck and look at the card he cut to and then shuffle the packet. The magician looks away. Spectator 2 does the same with the rest of the deck: he cuts another third and looks at the card he is cutting and then shuffles his packet. Still, the magician looks away. Conditions are impossible. The magician is able to find...

With the popularity of poker, this routine is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser. It can play for 10 minutes without lagging. It can be serious or funny - it's up to you.

Effect: You explain that one of the best poker playing skills you can develop is reading the "tells" of other players. It's a skill you've mastered, and you can determine if other players are bluffing or not. To demonstrate this ability, you bring up five spectators. Next, you show five small envelopes; each one contains five cards representing a poker hand. Only one hand is a winner - a royal flush in spades.

A spectator mixes...

Tips on how to make money with magic and in particular kid shows. He addresses topics such as name, costume, publicity, booking, fee charged, tricks and props, etc. Includes a funny and at the same time revealing introduction by his wife.

1st edition 1972, PDF 7 pages.

This intro price will go up to $12 from December 20, 2021.

Multiple outs is one of the oldest, classic, and powerful tools in mentalism. Several classic effects and routines in the history of mentalism and magic are built around multiple outs. Some of the standard tools like a pocket index were born out of this very concept of multiple outs.

In this manuscript, we will explore the 'DOUBT' method for constructing multiple outs. This is a technique or strategy which makes multiple outs much easier and more effective for many situations. This technique uses double blank business cards and...

This is the third eBook in the series and a companion to Single Stone, and Pair fo Stones with completely different effects and additional sleights/moves plus special stratagems to take advantage of the unique qualities of "3-4 objects."

Learn how to use three objects like walnuts or candy to perform astounding and entertaining illusions of transportations, penetrations and transpositions and productions. There is a large focus on assembly effect

A blending of sway methods, innovative sleights, insightful stratagems and the elements of performance using 'found' objects in a true impromptu setting. (Many techniques...

One of the popular magicians' coins is a Chinese coin with a hole. Imagine you are pulling a real nail out of the hole. Chinese Nail is a super visual effect that will add to your coin performance.

1st edition 2021, video 4 min.

When I first saw Killer Card Case by JP Vallarino and Yuri Kaine I fell in love with the idea of a box with a window. I knew for sure that her potential was not 100% revealed, and therefore I took it upon myself to play with this idea. I present to you Miracle Box - a tool that will allow you to perform effects such as:

• Disappearance
• Appearance
• Teleportation
• Transposition
• Change
• MultiChange
• Switch

Anything that fits in the box can be produced, in particular:

• Bills/Coins
• M&M's/Skittles
• OMNI deck
• Condoms
• Markers/Pens
• Beetle/Skittlespidey
• Gums/Color Clips
• etc.

Visual...

1st edition 2021, video 1:43.

David Alexander and Richard Kyle would speak for hours on the phone exchanging their thoughts, their insights, and their discoveries regarding Erdnase. Richard Kyle would often write a letter to David afterward to memorialize their discussion. Eventually, Richard created...

Frances Marshall's Kid Stuff series is considered by many experts to be essential reading for anyone interested in performing magic for children. These ebooks contain full scripts, new routines, and advice for both show and business.

• kid Stuff
• The Puppet Rabbit Routine
• The Laurie Ireland Routine With The Egg And Bag Trick
• Comedy Wand, Handkerchief And Fan Routine
• The Foxwell Paper Race
• A Mental Trick For Kids
• Prelude To Any Rope Trick
• The Stomach Ache Tube
• Birthday Child Sequence
• Ideas For Kid Shows
• Spellbound
• Dressing The Doll
• Eddie Clever's Version Of The Sun And Moon
• Clown...

Imagine: The performer shuffles a deck of cards. He hands them to a spectator, who shuffles them once more. The magician turns away, and the spectator fans half the deck before him and selects any card from the fanned cards. He remembers the card and puts it back into the deck face-up - anywhere. He now makes a total mess of the cards: half of them face-up, the other half face-down. He shuffles the cards again, and again, and again - as often as he likes. Furthermore, he flips the deck so frequently that he has no idea which way his card is facing.

The performer, who could not have seen...

This intro price will go up to $30 from December 13, 2021.

An unusual and exotic zodiac toolbox where you can reveal almost anything and everything about the participant's zodiac details.

This is a physical product that will be shipped to you. In addition to this PDF, which can be downloaded instantly, you will receive 4 specially designed cards that are about half an inch bigger than poker size and can be comfortably carried in your pocket.

1. You can reveal the star sign of the participant
2. You can reveal the ruling planet of the participant
3. You can reveal the exact birthday of the...

Over the years, many versions of the famous card trick "Oil and Water" have been developed, performed, and even filmed. It's a popular effect amongst magicians. Magicians are very sure that oil and water can't mix. But have you ever asked yourself if water and oil can mix?

The spectator mixes black (oil) and red (water) cards by placing one from each on the table in one stack, one after the other, until all cards are exhausted. Then the performer separates the stack into four packets, shuffles each packet, splits each packet into two parts, recombines everything, and - water and oil are...

Here's what your audience sees: You take a stack of business cards and show them on both sides then hand one to a volunteer to draw a picture, write a word, print a number, or even write a question, there are no restrictions. The stack is turned blank side up and their card dropped drawing side down on top. It is then fairly cut to the center where it remains reversed in the middle at all times.

Even under these conditions you can get a full card peek, reveal the information and yet still show their card reversed in the center whenever you wish.

Finally, you run through the stack and...

This is Eddy Taytelbaum's version and handling of a flushtration-type count. That is, you show the same card multiple times but due to the handling, it appears you fairly show each card of the packet.

1st edition 2021, video 1 min 27 s

This is Peter Pellikaan's version and handling of a flushtration-type count. That is, you show the same card multiple times but due to the handling it appears you fairly show each card of the packet.

1st edition 2021, video 1 min 56 s

This third part of my card project (each volume is, in any case, totally independent of the others) includes 3 new original A.C.A.A.N. effects requiring no sleight of hands:

• Two Cuts Too Fast To ACAAN
• Cut & Create ACAAN
• Si Stebbins ACAAN.

It's a new series of hands-off self-working card magic effects, that will all happen in your viewer's hands. No particular skill is required, just the ability to instruct and pay attention to what the viewer is doing... In this third eBook you will find a colour Pdf that will allow you to perform amazing automatic "Any Card At Any Number" Effects. ...

Questa terza parte del mio ultimo progetto cartomagico (ogni volume é, in ogni caso, totalmente indipendente dagli altri) include 3 nuovi effetti A.C.A.A.N. originali che non richiedono alcuna manipolazione:

• Due Tagli Veloci all' ACAAN
• ACAAN Taglia e Crea
• Si Stebbins ACAAN.

Si tratta di una nuova serie di effetti di Cartomagia Automatica che avverranno nelle mani dello spettatore! Non è richiesta alcuna abilità particolare, solo la capacità di istruire e prestare attenzione a ciò che lo spettatore dovrà fare...

In questo terzo eBook troverete un Pdf a colori che vi permetterà...

First published in The Jinx in April 1941, Stewart James' Further Than That is still in professional magicians' repertoire 80 years later. Annemann published it in a special Stewart James issue of The Jinx and thought so highly of it that he featured it as the first effect on the front page.

How amazing can a self-working card trick be?

• If I only have time to perform one routine, I perform Further Than That.
• If I only have moments to impress a new client, I perform Further Than That.
• When I want to end my close-up set, I perform Further Than That.

It has been in the working repertoires of many great magicians,...

This was the showstopper of Laurie Ireland's school show. This illusion is big and flashy while still lightweight, easy to handle, packs flat, is self-contained, requires no special stage conditions, and only requires one assistant. This ebook explains everything you need to construct, perform, and present this fantastic illusion.

Effect: An assistant enters a cabinet just big enough to accommodate her. Panels open to show head and feet. The magician then pushes five metal rods clear through the center of the box and right thru the ribs of the victim. Two more rods are then shoved through...

video 2:22

An impromptu ACAAN with a borrowed deck.

The most interesting elements of this effect are:

• It can be done with a shuffled borrowed deck.
• You can do it completely impromptu.
• Any card can be chosen and any number can be named.

1st edition 2021, video 28:56

1st edition 2021, video 2:30.

The Four Mystery Presents: Influence is a follow-up effect from a previous release. It is a three-phase card-matching mentalism routine that demonstrates your ability to influence the cards of the participant.

• No sleights
• No secret markings
• No gimmicks
• Very little memory work
• The participant has freedom in the mixing process

This effect exploits the different uses of my newly developed method featured in my book The Four Mystery Presents: Remote Viewing. The method enables you to have the participant mix the cards, and yet, the mentalist is still able to determine and control the possible outcomes.

1st edition 2021,...

Baby Bingo is unlike traditional bingo where someone calls out letters, followed by numbers until someone yells BINGO! In Baby Bingo no letters are required and only one number is needed to get a bingo. A random participant thinks of any number from one to thirty. If they see their number on a card, that's a bingo and places it face-down. Cards that do not have their number, they put aside (in their pocket or purse). The performer looks away while they look through the cards.

The participant is directed to a prediction that coincides with how many bingo cards would have their lucky number....

Trickey is an ungimmicked keychain with a miracle built into it. Ungimmicked in any mechanical, electronic, or magnetic way. So it will last you for many years of performances without the need for any refills or consumables. The size is about 1.5 inches square. So it can be easily and comfortably carried in your pocket. But it is designed in an unusual manner so that it first starts a conversation and then ends with an impossible miracle. You can carry your car keys, house keys, or any other keys on this keychain. ...

The effects of mentalism on the phone have become, for me, in the last two years, almost an obsession! This effect is a creation of my friend Boyet Vargas, The Four Card Mystery; my version is none other than the "telephone" version, with only the audio connection, it is my modest contribution to the diffusion of Vargas excellent work! The goal is to conduct the entire routine without being able to "eye" the cards in any way; the "forcing" is necessary and must be masked with an appropriate introduction: I have invented two, which I consider effective, which I propose below.

VISUAL TELEPATHY (with ESP cards drawn by...