Three Shell Game in Balls, Eggs, Dice & Cups

This was originally distributed with a couple of gaming shells from India. This ebook does not include any such shells, just the instructions.

Gaming shells are used as a kind of die substitute. Due to their shape, they can land one of two ways. Typically several such shells are cast and then all the ones landing in the same orientation are counted. Several tricks using these shells are explained.

• The Sure One in Four
• The Silent Call
• Mystic Twenty
• The Coin and the Shell
• Hypnotising a Matchbox
• Burning Water
• The Strange Live Spirit
• Disproving a Theory
• Psycho Crime Detection
• Transmutation ...

Do you perform the Three Shell game/con? Have you thought about doing the Three Shell game? If so, this is a must, decades-held, secret underground move for you. This ruse adds an auditory convincer to the otherwise purely visual con. Easily executed; stunningly entertaining and deceptive. This is a move you will use.

Here are the reactions of well-known Shell Game workers with whom it was recently shared.

"Very Clever." - Pop Haydn

"An amazing idea I love it." - Terry Ward

"Brilliant!" - Michael Stehle

1st edition 2022, PDF 1 page, video 3:02.

Encyclopedia of the 3 shell game, completely exposed, revised and enlarged, including the latest routines, profusely illustrated, and comprehensively described.

• Forward
• Forward, Junior
• The Author Speaks
• Chapter 1 Point On Shells
• Chapter 2 The Correct Pea
• Chapter 3 How To Make A Pea
• Chapter 4 The Size Of The Pea
• Chapter 5 Working Surface
• Chapter 6 The 3 Shell Game
• Chapter 7 Fundamentals
• Chapter 8 Red, White & Blue
• Chapter 9 You Hold It
• Chapter 10 Over The Top
• Chapter 11 Double Pea
• Chapter 12 Back Hand Trick
• Chapter 13 Variation
• Chapter 14 Which One, Bub?
• Chapter 15 Open Hand...

A pair of long-forgotten touches for the three-shell game including a mechanical walnut shell that steals and delivers the pea without sleight of hand. Also, a working surface that collapses at will in case the operator needs to make a quick escape.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

This is one of the best explanations of the Three Shell Game or Thimble Rig including 24 moves and 3 full routines. Jack Lamonte has drawn 86 clear illustrations to make studying the moves and routines a lot easier.

Excerpt from the introduction:

[Note: You will also be able to download a facsimile version of this manuscript.]

1st edition 1959, 30 pages; 1st digital edition 2013, 49 pages....

The Three Shell Game can still be seen today performed on the streets to fleece the innocent from their hard-earned cash. It also makes a great performance piece in an intimate close-up setting.

This is the most detailed description of this con game I have seen so far. It describes numerous moves and routines as well as the history and details of the shells and peas. Tom Osborne knew the real moves, psychology, and ruses of the street artists who challenged everybody to "follow the little pea." This is the real work of scam artists. To appreciate it, you have to pay close attention to the...