Magic & Conjuring: page 238

This is a scan of the instructions for Bob Haskell's novel card trick. This trick was featured regularly in old Owen catalogs. If you have a deck of blank-face cards; you can easily make this trick, after reading the instructions.

An effect with the twang of the old west, the Dalton Boys is a clever combination of several magical principles blended together into a mystifying and highly entertaining presentation. The patter in rhyme supplied has an interesting plot, which builds to a logical climax.

EFFECT: Four picture cards (Jacks) representing the infamous Dalton Boys, are each placed...

Three Spectator as Mind Reader effects

"What a terrific ebook! Ingenious solutions to an under-explored plot. Very clever stuff." - John Bannon

"Read Me is the sweetest little ebook I've read this year. Three clever, fooling 'Spectator As Mindreader' effects! If you don't want to perform AT LEAST one of these tricks, then you don't love card magic as much as you think you do." - Mark Elsdon

"Absolutely brilliant thinking! Prepare to drop some jaws!" - Roddy McGhie

"Three absolute show stoppers with a borrowed, shuffled deck. This isn't just material you will want - it's material that you can't afford...

Highlight Magic contains top flight routines for close-up, parlor, and stage. While not every effect requires some knowledge of sleights, some require mid-level skill. Nelson Hahne did the pen and ink illustrations, and as usual, his work is top notch, too.

Contents

• Foreword.
• From the Publisher. Introductory comments from John Snyder, Jr., magic dealer and past president of the IBM.
• THE SPIRIT OF THE COBRA. Three cards selected and returned to deck are tossed into a lidless box. Patter about a Cobra and a card peeps over the edge of the box and rises. Other cards are seen to be surprisingly...

A simple effective design duplication. Simple in execution (no memory work) and simple and topical for your audience to follow.

"I would recommend TC's EmotiCon to anyone!" - Paul Daniels

1st edition 2016, 20 pages.

Two ebooks on instant magic square effects for one low price.

In this sequel to his 2011 ebook Mostly Perfect, Michael Daniels presents a new 'Instant Magic Square' method that makes the effect even easier to perform.

Effect

Performer instantly creates a 4x4 Magic Square for any total freely chosen by the spectator. The total can be obtained from the magic square in at least 36 different ways.

• Completely impromptu. No set-up, gimmicks, or cribs.
• New, improved method - minimal memory and the simplest of calculations.
• Suitable for close-up or stage performances.
• Produces elegant magic squares.
• Can be immediately repeated for different totals.
• Includes a...

The principle facilitates in determining the position and identity of the matching of cards in two decks, which have been randomized by the cutting of each deck. The principle works in conjunction with a memorized stack. A presentation is given where you don't have to commit a stack to memory.

The Gerats Principle enables you to perform the following effect:

Two decks are on the table. After two spectators have each cut one of the decks to their heart's content, the magician is able, without handling the cards, to tell whether there will be a matching of cards (ie: 2♥/2♥)) at a certain...

The Creative Tables is a 30 day training workbook, which will make you start thinking about your magic in a new way by generating new ideas.

Do you want to be more creative with your magic? The way to push your magic to the next level is not by buying the latest effect, but by becoming an idea machine. Anybody can buy an effect and perform it like everybody else. But to make the effect really your own, you have to give it something more. This is exactly what this ebook will help you accomplish. The Creative Tables is a 30 day training workbook, which will make you start thinking about your...

The ultimate in a torn and restored newspaper because here the torn pieces really vanish. Audience gets the restored sheet!

Karrell Fox is a real pro, veteran of years of shows of all kinds - nobody can match him in experience. When he develops a trick, its good.

Effect: Magician displays a double page from a full size daily newspaper. This is then folded and torn several times until the packet of torn newspaper is about four inches square. The magician then shakes the packet of torn pieces into a completely restored double page and the torn pieces have vanished. The restored sheet is...

Four Oriental Mysteries using water in ways that will set you apart from other magicians.

• The Water Act (Bundar Boat Fountain, Hindu street trick from Bombay, 1907; see video below)
• Spouting Water Bowl
• Water Bowls
• Chinese Water Cups (see below for a demo)

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

This is China's version of the Three Shell Game or the Three Card Monte Game. It is played with three sticks held between the fingers of one hand. One stick has a little string tied to it. The task for the spectator is to identify the stick with the string. As you can imagine this is a crooked game and the performer decides when he lets you win. This game was brought by Ching Ling Foo to America in 1899.

In addition to the PDF, you will be able to download 6 videos that demonstrate several ways to perform this con game as well as videos that show you the modus operandi.

1st edition...

You don’t have to be a real hypnotist to do this effect! Any magician or mentalist can apparently hypnotize anyone 100% of the time, even hardened skeptics. The famous stage magician, John Calvert, used this effect regularly in his big touring magic show.

I touched upon this effect briefly in my Annotated Secret Professional Pseudo-Hypnotic Methods; however, I did not go into the amount of detail contained within this release. This is the most detailed information about this effect ever released. This secret was released by Del-Ardo, Joseph Ovette and Nelson Enterprises. I have taken the best information from all these releases and made them...

Imagine being able to control coincidence. Where the time and location of two events determines the outcome of the events. This script and full instructions explains how.

Imagine being able to control coincidence. Where the time and location of two events determines the outcome of the events. Now you can!

The magician removes a BLUE backed card from his pocket as he talks about coincidence, and how coincidence is decided by two factors: physical proximity and time. He has someone sit on the card. He then removes a RED backed deck from his pocket, and spreads the cards out front and back...

In ten seconds, you will be able to guess any information thought among two possibilities. It can be any effect where there are two outcomes.

• Improvised
• Very versatile principle
• Can be used in existing routines where you need to know for instance if a thought card is RED or BLACK, if a spectator likes something or not, etc.

• The nice thing about this principle, is that it is 100% impromptu, and even improvised.
• 100% Hands off
• No stooges
• No gimmick or electronics
• Works with many objects that can be borrowed (pen, knife/spoon/fork, lighter, eraser, card box, pack of cigarettes,...

Tele-Thought is conceded to be the greatest of all pseudo psychic and mental tests. Present Tele-Thought as a prediction - a prophecy - as a genuine experiment in mental telepathy, or both!

Here is a brilliantly conceived psychic effect, impregnated with showmanship and a superb presentation to baffle and astound the keenest of minds.

Read most carefully the following superb effect: With a few well chosen remarks about mental telepathy and the ability of a 'chosen few' to pierce the wall of the future, the mentalist asks any spectator to select any page from any group of newspapers. The...

If it's laughter you want, then this is the ebook for you.

Short one-line jokes covering a broad variety of topics and ideal for many different occasions. If you are simply searching for a few funny jokes to add to your show, or spice up an old routine, you are bound to find some new material within this treasure trove of modern one-liners.

Short one-line jokes for every occasion:

• 40 is the new 30? Try telling that to a speed camera!
• Do not touch, must be the scariest thing to read in Braille!
• Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
• I have a fear of German sausages!...

"This is well written and well explained. It opens the door to tangible miracles that the common magician knows little about." - Ron Levy

You have seen people such as David Blaine and Criss Angel do these feats on television. You may have even seen people on America’s Got Talent gross out the judges so bad, that some couldn’t even watch. You may have even seen Devin Knight do these feats at festivals and...

8 excuses to hand out business cards

Accurate - Based on Andrew Gerrad's Accuracy, it's different but impromptu. 3 objects are hidden one in each hand and one in a card box. And the performer deduces the location of each of those objects.

Brief But Accurate - Accurate made short but still effective

B4 Esperience - This is how Esperience used to look like before what it is now.

Dismantle - Spectator reads the thoughts of another spectator.

Haptic - A fun little piece that deals with unconscious cognition and utilizes your sense of touch

Pinned up Memory - Spectator stumbles...

Have you ever wanted to learn Tea Leaf Readings? Now you can! In just over an hour you will learn how to give basic past present future tea leaf readings. With this easy to use system you will be able to read any symbol using your intuition.

Imagine holding a person spellbound by what you read in their leaves. Add to this, your natural intuition (and yes, you do have it), you'll be shocking, amazing and helping folks for fun or for profit.

In the video we cover how to set up a reading and go over 5 cups with five basic problems that people want to know about. Love, money, health, travel...

The only ebook of it's kind! A great collection of comedy blackouts for magicians and others, to add variety and spice to shows. A "Blackout" is a quick bit of stage business, usually verbal, that ends in a snappy punch line on which (if possible) the lights go out.

These are all audience tested, guaranteed laughs. Valuable for use between other acts on any kind of show. Adds comedy, bulk and novelty to any programs, provides necessary time for the next act to get ready, etc. For school work or adults.

• INTRODUCTION
• Wants to get on show (two men)
• Never ending rope stunt (one man)
• Dressing...

This is an important improvement of the classic Kruskal principle. Think about this: The spectator can shuffle the deck and you still know exactly where the count will end!

This ebook contains a new principle on Kruskal-counting and illustrates the principle with two effects. The first effect A Bumblebee’s Flight will lead the spectator’s dealing sequence invariably to a known/predicted card, even after a shuffle by the spectator. A version for cards taken out of a sealed box and shuffled twice by spectators is also provided. Performance and explanation videos by Tomas Blomberg are linked...

From the Preface:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One
  • All Shook Up
  • 18-31-35 Farrow
  • 18-35 Farrow
  • Face Up Stacks
  • Turn Me Over!
  • Sandwich Surprise
  • Ultravellers
  • Emanon
  • EMANON VANISH A/K/A...

From the introduction by Robert Parrish:

• Introduction
• Foreword
• Part One: New And Improved Sleights
  • Cover-Up Shuffle
  • Perfect False Riffle Shuffle
  • Quadruple Undercut
  • Reverse Double Undercut
  • The Marlo Slip Cuts
  • Slip Cut Routine ...

From the introduction by Robert Parrish: