Self-Working or Sleightless

Werner Miller continues with his fourth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

The way that a magic trick works can be just as amazing as the trick itself. - Persi Diaconis, from CMI Annual Report 2006, p. 4.

1st edition 2010; 36 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Hands on Magic Squares
8. Columbus Square
11. Blind Landing
13. Matrix Force Plus
18. Persiste!
19. Dubai Dab
21. Cut of the Spade
22. Club Swinging
22. Diamond Couple
23. Call to the Colors
24. Red Stranger
25. Anagram
26. Diamond Puzzle
28. Hold the Line!
30. Diaspora
31. Computer...

Werner Miller continues with his fifth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

Mathematical magic has its own curious charms. It combines the beauty of the mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick. - Martin Gardner, from the preface of Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, 1956.

1st edition 2010; 36 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Can You See Your Card?
7. Answering to Their Names
8. Answering to Their Names – Plus
10. Calling a Spade a Spade
11. Calling a Spade a Spade – Plus
13. Ladies’ Choice
15. Starring...

Werner Miller continues with his sixth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

In the right circumstances mathematical tricks properly presented are more likely to be accepted as real magic than anything of a finger-flinging nature. - Karl Fulves, from the introduction of Gene Finnell's Card Magic, 1973.

1st edition 2010; 36 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Enough!
5. I Know
6. All You Need Is...
7. Reverse Faro Five
10. Affinities
11. Affinities - Plus
12. Double Proof
13. Double-Decker
15. Meeting One's Match
16. Numerable Clue ...

Werner Miller continues with his seventh volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

1st edition 2011; 31 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. Cardician’s Solitaire
4. I’m NOT Ogen
5. Alternately
6. Segregation I
7. Segregation II
8. Four Queens
10. Two Aces
10. Upwards
12. Free Cut Duo
13. Flip Coda
14. Similar Endings
16. Huit Cartes
17. Countdown
18. Flipdoodle I
19. Flipdoodle II
20. Escalera
21. Pasillo
23. Arrowbatics
25. OLRAM Arrows
27. Arrow Predictions

Werner Miller continues with his eighth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

1st edition 2011; 32 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. It Goes Like This
5. Segregation III
6. Segregation IV
7. One for YOU, one for ME
8. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
9. Poker Prophecies
12. Court-Die-ally
13. Symmetrical Surprise I
15. Symmetrical Surprise II
17. Hera's Method
18. Hera’s Method – XL
19. Any Other Card
20. Where Is It?
21. U/D Swapping
22. A Trick With 18 Cards
23. Two, Three, Four
25. Positions of Trost
27. Moment musical
28. The Hol(e)y Card ...

Werner Miller continues with his ninth and last volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

"Any trick requiring a sleight is not honest. You are telling a lie with your fingers. (...) A puzzle is more clever than a trick, because with a trick you cheat to get the result. With a semi-automatic effect – using a principle – one tends to feel a little more honest." - Stewart James (1908-1996)

1st edition 2011; 35 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. Logic
4. The Substitute
7. Puzzle Time
9. "1 – 9"
11. Middle of...

sub rosa – Latin for "in the strictest confidence"

Welcome to the launch of a new multi-volume series on original semi-automatic ("self-working") tricks, mainly with cards. Enjoy this compilation of easy-to-do, mathbased magic without any sleight of hand, created to amaze and to intrigue both the performer and the audience. Have fun!

• Eye Candy
• Peteresque
• Cherchez les Femmes
• The 13th Card
• Girl Guides
• Alternating Colors
• Who?
• in situ
• Family Affairs II
• Dressage
• Halves
• Calling for the Mate
• MATELOT
• From the Middle
• My Spouse
• Smileys
• apart – together
• assorti
• Clues I
• Clues...

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller. All of the effects make use of ESP cards. In some cases a non-ESP alternative is presented.

• Empty Net Goals
• Another ESP Twizzler
• 1, 2, 3!
• Triplet
• Rainbow
• mm-aa-tt-cc-hh
• Color Twins
• Color Clue
• 100 Percent
• Chased
• Old Maid
• Parallel ESPlus
• The Last Pair(s)
• Latin ESP Square
• Identidem
• Identidem Light
• Mirimodis
• Two-Way ESP
• Consonus
• Deciens

1st edition 2012, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• No Spot Card
• WYSIWYG II
• Do Not Disturb!
• Equivalent
• Who’s the Boss?
• Line Dancer
• moitié, moitié
• And Her Son
• Color Mate
• Six Hearts, Six Spades
• Private Eyes
• More Spousal Cooperation
• Spell the 4mula
• This Suit, That Value
• DC Speller
• Welcome to the Clubs
• A Crazy Idea
• Pseudo Princess
• In Between
• Any Other Sign

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• in medio
• ESP Roll
• Neighborly Help
• Lucky Star
• ESPecial Countdown
• ESP Sandwich
• Better Twice
• Sandwich Twins
• expressis verbis
• Elimination
• Multiplying
• A la Thatcher
• Terry-ficial
• Broad Hints
• All Good Things
• Quatrefoil
• Triple Do-As-I-Do
• Dutch Derivation
• La Pléiade
• Helping Hands

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Famigliola
• DC Speller II
• E4tless
• Progressive Assembly
• Puzzling Progression
• Quarter Final
• The Jinx Card
• en passant
• Sigma – amgiS
• What Became of the Queens?
• No Big Deal
• French Sandwich
• And the Color Is
• The 17-Card Trick
• Multilingual
• Pasillo II
• dESPatch I
• dESPatch II
• Five Matching Pairs
• Reverse Faro ESP

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Separated Bedrooms
• Royal Surprises
• Quest for the Truth
• Tracked Down
• Oops!
• Faroing
• Milk & Spell
• Royal Sandwiches
• Rotary Traffic
• Brute Force Square I
• Brute Force Square II
• Signed
• diES P
• Escalero II
• Pasillo III
• Equalizer Sandwich
• Odd – Even
• French Sandwich II
• Windmill
• Vis-à-vis

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Two Questions
• Under/Down Sandwich
• Tag Team
• Lie + Truth = ?
• 1 + 3 = 4
• Take Five
• A Nest of Predictions
• Viale
• As the Saying Goes
• Echo
• Arc de Triomphe
• Determined I
• Determined II
• Diligent
• Parallels
• Ambitious Symbols
• Tornado Spotting
• Pairs I
• Pairs II
• Dance of the Symbols

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Baby ACAAN
• en passant
• 6 5 2
• Hen Party
• Roll Call
• Double Foursome
• Teaser
• On the Left, on the Right
• … and in the Middle
• Three of a Color
• Milk Run
• Dyad I
• Dyad II
• Five Pairs
• 4 1 / 4 2
• 4 2 / 4 3
• Open ESPrediction
• Voilà!
• In File
• Another Choreography

1st edition 2014, 28 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Mathematics
• ESP Fibs
• Alea
• Either - Or
• 2 x 4
• Perfect
• Pyramidal
• What Do You Guess?
• Guess vs. Know vs. Trick
• ESP Roll 2
• Seven
• Singled Out
• Curious Queen
• Over And Over Again
• Counterparts
• Good Team Players
• 1 Year And 2 Days
• Joe's Diploma Piece
• Luck Squared
• x x x

1st edition 2015, 30 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller. Clever methods combined in interesting ways.

• Fold-Up Age Card(s)
• Winking Smileys
• Invisible Bonds
• Red + Blue = ?
• ESP Étude No. 1
• ESP Étude No. 2
• ESP Étude No. 3
• ESP Étude No. 4
• ESP Étude No. 5
• ESP Étude No. 6
• Be My Mirror Image!
• Ambidexter
• The Placebo Card
• Strange Business
• Leapfrog
• Even – Odd
• Le Signe de Jour
• At the Klondike River
• À Trois
• Ghost Rider II

1st edition 2015, 32 pages.

Learn how to exploit the ternary number system to your advantages. There is a new version of the old MUTUS DEDIT NOMEN COCIS or "The Pairs Repaired", as it was called in Prof. Hoffmann's Modern Magic. You will also find tricks with ESP cards and applications for the diminishing count...

• From Binary to Ternary
• Flexa-Nums
• Ups & Downs
• Ternary Cubes
• Royal Jungle Jam
• Atop
• I Knew It
• Every "Stop!" an Ace
• The "Anti-Card"
• Thai Hits
• 4tune
• Another Challenge
• À la Tantalizer
• A Matter of Logic
• ESP Simplicity I
• ESP Simplicity II
• ESP Simplicity III
• ESP Simplicity IV
• Surprise Match
• A String of Clusters

1st edition...

More tricks based on the binary and ternary number system. Miller also exploits figures that cannot physically exist, subtly reinforcing the apparent impossibility of his trick creations.

• Binary Dice
• Ternary Dice
• Day Off
• Unreal Realities
• More Impossible Figures
• Zodiac Puzzle 1
• Zodiac Puzzle 2
• Zodiac Puzzle 3
• Crazy Laces
• Ariadne
• ESPectulator
• Dicey ESP
• Twin Assistance
• Multiple U/D Choice
• Progressive U/D Deals
• Semi-Progressive U/D Deals
• Marching Lock-Step
• Follow the Star!
• Get Me Out!
• The (Not So) Easy Task

1st edition 2017, 35 pages.

Among other effects, Werner Miller explores the old age cards trick and stretches it into new and so far unexplored directions including versions where the spectator is allowed to lie.

• Leporello
• Ternary Number Compass
• Binary Number Compass
• Binary Card Compass
• Binary Card Cube
• Aside From Binary and Ternary
• Extensions
• OWLright
• Four Questions
• Seven Questions
• Four Ins, One Out
• Off-Form Psychic
• No Milk Today
• ESPiatnik
• Do You Play Cards?
• Lady First
• amBiguous
• Instant Sudoku
• Swindle Sudoku II
• 2ZZ

1st edition 2018, 44 pages.

The highlight in this collection of sleight-less magic, is the Point Reflections principle, which is a new mathematical principle Werner Miller has introduced to magic. So far nobody has made use of it, except Miller. This ebook will likely change that. This principle opens new doors for new ideas, a fertile ground for trick creators. Miller's point reflection routines come with beautiful print templates. You can go from printing to performing in literally seconds. You will also get some bonus ideas by Chris Wasshuber.

• 5 Symbols, 1 Question
• Trias
• Twinnie Clue I
• Twinnie Clue II
• Pairade
• ESPadrilles ...

Ever prolific and creative Werner Miller mixes ideas, themes, strategies, to explore the possibilities of sleight-less and math based magic effects. All of his methods are well described and very well illustrated. Fool yourself or fool your friends with these unique creations.

• Knavery
• Ele-mental
• Bunny Magic
• occhi-doki
• Flippant & Floppy
• xii
• Maxed Out
• Less Is More
• How Many Loops?
• WYSIWYG
• Daughters of Zeus
• Triolet
• Quintolet
• Triumphant Spelling
• pingxing I
• pingxing II
• pingxing III
• RF Coda 5
• RF Coda 7
• Ap-pair-ance

1st edition 2019, 25 pages.

A mix of tricks based on math with cards, ESP cards, and various other designs. Included are print ready templates for several of the tricks explained. For lovers of magic squares you will find interesting ideas of how to use magic squares as predictions and forcing tools.

• Isn’t it?
• Quintilla
• Quinterino
• Q Combo
• Quadrille Royale
• Topper Hopper
• Planetary Playground
• Sixteen Letters
• Fusion
• 15D²
• Diamond Prediction
• Magic Torsi I
• Magic Torsi II
• Magic Torsi III
• Triplets Galore
• Chased Up
• Swapping Places
• Mado
• Janela
• Ventana

1st edition 2020, 34 pages.

Werner Miller is in particular known for his ESP tricks, to which he has dedicated a lot of thought and effort over the years. For example, the late Aldo Colombini was a big fan of Werner's ESP tricks. This ebook is almost exclusively dedicated to ESP tricks.

• To Aldo
• Auto-Psi
• Drill Formation
• quini
• kif-kif 1
• kif-kif 2
• kif-kif 3
• Scorta
• 2 x 5, Australian Style
• Invocation
• V for Five
• Stripped Down
• The Nonconformist
• Milky Way I
• Milky Way II
• Nada
• Metamorphoses 1
• Metamorphoses 2
• Parade of the Parrots I
• Parade of the Parrots II

1st edition 2021, 29 pages.

Small packet tricks, ESP tricks, spelling tricks, magic squares, and more ...

• Déjà-vu
• 4 times 4 for 4
• Bingo!
• Trinity
• Converging Point
• Spellinary I
• Spellinary II
• Penta rhei
• Semana
• Where's Gandalf?
• Pick Me!
• Attracting Butterflies I
• Attracting Butterflies II
• Clairvoyance Test
• Ro-Ma Spiral 1
• Ro-Ma Spiral 2
• Tessera
• Instant 4x4 Magic Square
• Instant 5x5 Magic Square
• Instant 7x7 Magic Square

1st edition 2021, 33 pages.