Magic & Conjuring: page 309

A complete comedy prediction routine with a surprise finish.

A spectator is shown various words written on sheets of paper. These are folded and dropped into a bag, placed behind he spectator's back and any paper is selected - the future predicted word. On stage the magician has a large book with the word 'PREDICTION' on the cover that has been in full view all the time. Before the spectator unfolds and reveals the chosen word, the magician pages through the large format book revealing various comedy predictions. Eventually the spectator reveals the word and the entire book drops open in...

Make two cigarettes from one.

Magically and visually the filter of a cigarette splits into two. Tear the cigarette at the location of the new second filter and you now have two smaller cigarettes each with a filter. Hand one half out to share your cigarette.

1st edition 2019, length 19 min.

Ralf Rudolph takes on the challenge to let a lighted match float. He explains in detail how to make the gimmick, and how to perform the effect. You need to perform this under somewhat dimmed lighting conditions with some distance to your audience. It is best performed off-beat when nobody expects you to perform a magic trick. For example, it has become dark and you want to light a candle. Take a box of matches, light a match, and suddenly the match floats for 2-3 seconds. Then you light the candle with it.

1st edition 2019, length 15 min.

So crazy this may sound, Ralf has come up with a method to do the classic unlinking of two linked rubber bands which does not use sleight-of-hand - no moves. Watch the demo video.

1st edition 2019, length 11 min.

Some have argued that George Kaplan's Fine Art of Magic is the best magic book ever published. Juan Tamariz, who wrote a foreword to this second edition, says: "Hardly a performance where I do not include an effect from this book. It's the only book that contains only good and excellent tricks."

This magic treatise has stood the test of time. It has become a standard magic reference work. The First Edition is one of the most sought after magic books and is now available in its Second Edition, which incorporates additions and corrections from Kaplan's own notes, as well as adds more than 25% new and...

Vintage gold. This was Hugard's first manuscript released to the profession; originally hand-typed and sold only through him. These entertaining card effects require no apparatus and no prepared cards, making them ready to present wherever you may be: at a party, backstage, or after dinner. While the title says 10, you actually get a full dozen card miracles, moves and subtleties presented with a standard deck. Fit for the program of the most fastidious performer, yet easily within the reach of the amateur. While the author claims that no complicated moves are involved, we should note that these...

This is an impressive prediction. It has fried the minds of lay people and fooled almost every magician or mentalist, I have shown this to. Many magician's say they can't fool their wives. I guarantee this is one effect she will be totally baffled by. This effect is so amazing, that you will fool yourself each time you do it wondering how such a thing is possible. Yet the effect is completely self-working with no skill or sleights.

EFFECT: Using a borrowed deck (if desired) the mentalist instructs a spectator to deal a poker hand consisting of a straight hand in a horizontal row. For example;...

Aus dem Vorwort von Alfini:

• Vorwort
• Der Alte An Die Jungen
• Wie ich die Wassertüte vorführe
• Mein hundertfach erprobtes Tucherscheinen
• Rauchen...

From the introduction:

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. ...

It's hard to believe, but we've unearthed six more psychic entertainment treasures from the Nelson Enterprises catalog. Volume 4 contains five hard-to-find Nelson Enterprises manuscripts and presentations for mentalists and magicians, plus a free bonus effect from William Wallace Lee.

Mentalists, psychic entertainers, magicians, collectors and magic historians will be pleased to discover the following manuscripts, books and effects from the Nelson Enterprises catalog, now updated and edited for a new generation of performers:

The Thunderbolt Deck - Nelson's answer for what could be the...

The Q&A act is one that many believe is the best in mental entertainment. The excellent method described here is one that many paid over $100 to obtain . . . and thought it was a bargain at that price.

Performer passes out small cards on which spectators write their questions and sign their name. Cards are collected, placed in small envelopes and sealed. On returning to stage, the first envelope is placed to performer's forehead and answered. This envelope is then opened for verification and immediately returned to the spectator who wrote it. This continues with as many messages read as you...

Presented are two versions of the effect, "Twisting the Night Away," by Gregg Webb as first published in the ebook, The Book That Doesn’t Exist. The two versions presented here each have their own subtleties and strengths.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook Soapbox Derby. This Super Session is an improved and updated version. Bob Cassidy loved the effect and came up with the name for it. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

From the foreword by Jeffery Atkins:

• Publisher's Note
• Foreword
• INTRODUCTION THE ETHICS OF EXPOSURE
• CHAPTER I CARD MAGIC
• CHAPTER II CARD MAGIC (continued)
• CHAPTER III BILLIARD BALL MAGIC
• CHAPTER IV BILLIARD BALL MAGIC (continued)
• CHAPTER V FLOWER MAGIC
• CHAPTER VI OPENING ILLUSIONS
• CHAPTER VII MECHANICAL MAGIC
• CHAPTER VIII FAMOUS ILLUSIONS REVEALED
• CHAPTER IX MORE...

Explorations, examples, and routines using equivoque.

Hobson's Choice: the choice of taking either what is offered or nothing else; the absence of choice. [after Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave only one choice, that of the horse nearest the stable door]

Ein Konzept zum Ringflight.

Ringflights gibt es viele, aber nur wenige, die so bestechend einfach und zuverlässig sind. Natürlich habe ich mir ein paar Bedingungen überlegt, die erfüllt sein sollten, wenn ich mir schon die Mühe mache, einen „neuen“ Ringflight zu ersinnen:

1. Keine Ringzieher.
2. Keine Daumenspitze.
3. Das Etui sollte die ganze Zeit über auf dem Tisch liegen können.
4. Die Routine muss im Stand-up Bereich vorführbar sein.
5. Möglichst wenig Reset.
6. Die Technik sollte ohne Taschenarbeit auskommen.
7. Keine Präparationen unter der Kleidung, keine Züge oder Magnete.
8. Ein...

Aus der Einleitung:

• Kapitel 1: Die Präparation
• Kapitel 2: Forcierspiele
  • Die verrückte Zehn
• Kapitel 3: Geistino-Effekte
  • Brain-Wave-Deck
  • Geistino-Perfekt
  • Vorherbestimmt oder vorausgesagt? ...

La routine vincente - premio FISM. Di Aldo Colombini con 54 foto di Lewis Ganson.

Per la prima volta la routine di Aldo Colombini che gli valse il secondo posto nella categoria "Close-up" nel concorso mondiale FISM di Vienna del 1976 viene descritta in Italiano. Il bello è che la descrizione di questa routine è dello stesso Aldo Colombini. Il testo è stato semplificato dallo stesso Aldo per renderlo immediato e scorrevole. Inoltre le ben 54 chiare foto di Lewis Ganson, rendono veramente semplice la comprensione e la fruibilità del testo e il suo studio per la susseguente pratica.

Questa...

A false cut that uses the action of burning a card as misdirection. Particularly useful for cheating at BlackJack.

Chuck Smith was recorded doing this cut. (A letter from Chuck Smith to Brick Tilley is reproduced in the PDF.) He used it to beat players during the years of WWII. The sequence of actions is the following. You first openly cut the cards and complete the cut. Then you take the top card, turn it face up and place it as the bottom card. During the action of burning the top card you undo the cut. The demo video will prove how honest and fair this looks.

You will receive a PDF...

Australian card and close-up identity Ian Baxter steps forward with yet another assortment, "...three gems which he has dusted off and streamlined for your enjoyment in the pages that follow." So says David Jones in his enthusiastic introduction.

Jones continues: "As with his Five Kinks series, or his previous offering Three To Consider, Ian has once again provided us with three very entertaining card mysteries, all of which are high audience impact, but require minimal sleights."

Scarne's Certified Thought, Mark Of The Whistler, and Random Paradox all attest to Baxter's revisions.

1st edition 2019, 13 pages....

This is the DeVice peek. DeVice is an original idea of Orko Guha that he has been working on since 2018. It allows one to reveal anything about your spectator with using just a billet and a pen. This is a completely new peek that is quite easy to perform. This peek has been field tested on both stage and in parlor mentalism performances.

1st edition 2019, 30 pages.

Do you have a hypnotic act or a sincere interest in hypnotism? You can make a good living with a career in the hypnosis field. This ebook shows you how.

Schools of hypnotism, as well as numerous correspondence courses and books, are turning out large numbers of newly-minted hypnotists every year. Most of these men and women are completely at a loss as to how to apply their talent, or attempt to break into fields in which legal or ethical restrictions conflict with their limited educational and other qualifications. Don't waste years of time and energy in dead-end activities and experimentation....

Here is what happens:

The performer shows his participant(s) a pack of blank index cards that have writing on one side (the other side is blank.) A different word, number and design are written on each card. The participant genuinely mixes them thoroughly and then selects one of the cards from the pack. They can remember everything on the card or just one item, it is totally a free choice. With little to no pumping you can tell them what they are thinking, duplicate a drawing, guess a pin number. Not only that, you can do this for up to 3 people at a time.

Over 60 pages of instructions,...

Advancing Mother is a 'progressive' advancement in the revelation of the famous effect, Mother Of All Book Tests (MOABT) by Ted Karmilovich. If you already own a copy of MOABT then Advancing Mother is for you. If you don't, then hopefully this will inspire you to get one for yourself.

Tommy Burnett's thinking will take you down a short but winding road towards the goal of revealing a thought of word. By using Tommy's well thought out system you no longer need to secretly discover the first letter of the word. You can get an immediate hit without asking anything and in most cases get hit after...