Magic & Conjuring: page 165

The third edition of Coffee Break Mental Magic is a Sherlock Holmes special to celebrate the launch on January 1st of the third series of BBC TV's wonderful Sherlock programme! This PDF features a self-working card routine (the only equipment you need is a normal deck of cards) that explores the eternal dance between the Great Detective and the King of Crime, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty! What is the unbreakable bond that links these two men? Why is it that they battle to destroy each other and yet neither can exist without the other? Holmes & Moriarty - the Yin & Yang of crime and...

This is the first in a new series of videos by David Devlin. In this video, David teaches three of his best effects. These effects are not difficult to perform, but each one is a very hard-hitting effect. Here are the effects:

Boomerang: This will knock them on their butts. A deck with a blue back (which has been in use) has from it a card selected and signed. Two jokers with red backs are introduced and shown freely. The selected card is pushed into the center of the deck by the spectator. Without coming near the deck, the signed selection materializes between the jokers! Once again, the...

Paul A. Lelekis is one of the most experienced table-hoppers on the planet. He has performed in many restaurants from Hot Dog Stands all the way up to 5-Star restaurants for over 25 years. He has often table-hopped in restaurants 6 or 7 days a week - for many years.

Paul has been asked to record an all-inclusive e-book of Table-Hopping and so decided to write this e-book, The Business of Table-Hopping. Included are a few photographs of Paul, explaining magic.

Table-Hopping is not only a very lucrative business, but you will be asked to perform for many other engagements and hundreds of...

This is a reproduction of Dumbfounders with Cards and More Dumbfounders with Cards two often overlooked booklets by Eddie Joseph on math based card effects. Some principles predate ideas rediscovered by Edward Marlo and Stewart James. (The ebook has been prepared by Paul Gordon.)

The writing of Joseph is somewhat terse and hard to read, but the effects and principles are great. This ebook includes some comments by Peter Duffie and Roger Crosthwaite.

• Dumbfounders with Cards
  • The Tobba Mystery
  • Who Knows The Card?
  • Incredulously True
  • Two Secret Thoughts
  • Memory Phenomenal
  • Over the Wire
  • The Mystic Queen
  • One-Eye Joe
  • The Expert Cuts
  • Can You See Your...

This is a wonderful collection of some of Charlie Miller's signature pieces with photos showing Charlie Miller performing the moves and routines.

From the introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito):

1st edition 1961, 1st digital edition 2014, 59 pages.

5. Introduction
7. About Charlie Miller
10. Mugs And Hats
15. The Jest Of The Joker
19. The Torn...

Mainly Close Up was Paul Hallas's first book published in 1979 and has been unavailable for around 30 years. Rather than just copy the book for an e-version it was re-typed and some corrections made and additional comments made from a 2013 perspective. Some of the original sketches have been left, others removed as not necessary and occasionally some photos added. Twenty seven ideas are described (though a couple will need patter updates) and it is perhaps Paul's most varied collection. As the title suggests, the book is mainly close up, and mostly cards, but also a couple of coin items, a stretching...

100 funny lines for the magician.

1st edition 2013, 10 pages.

Effective come backs to tame your hecklers.

1st edition 2013, 8 pages.

These are one-liners you can use in situations where you bring a spectator on stage to assist you.

1st edition 2013, 11 pages.

Vampires supposedly have no reflections in mirrors. This is folklore, but suppose you as a performer could really create this effect. What kind of reaction do you think your spectator's would have, if you had no reflection in a mirror? Would they be amazed or scared?

Devin Knight is finally revealing secret techniques that he developed. These secrets allow you to create the vampire effect, and in some cases do it almost impromptu.

Knight revealed these secrets to Al Mann in the mid-80s and at that time Mann wanted to release volume 2 of Invisible Men with these techniques revealed. Unfortunately,...

Paul Voodini presents Multi-Dimensional Out Of This World, the second in the weekly Coffee Break Mental Magic series. This is the Christmas & New Year 2013 edition, and as such it features something a little bit special. It is Paul Voodini's take on the classic Out Of This World card routine. However, as you can probably imagine, in the hands of Voodini Out Of This World is shaken up and is turned into a 3 phase routine featuring a volunteer being appointed as the group's psychic, a message being delivered from the spirits, and a display of personal intuition that contains within it a subconscious...

These are great routines if you need to silence a heckler. Lots of impact, good effects, experienced handling of cards and spectators. George knows how to lead you to the good ones, and they will sparkle up your routines. They are "different" and you do need variety in your card programs.

• The Next Card
• High Pair
• The Bottom Switch
• Sharp Perception
• The Three Card Monte Swindle
• The Blackjack Or Twenty-One Swindle
• The Ace Of Hearts Swindle
• The Seven And Eight Con
• The Joker
• A Crooked Poker Deal
• The Spectator Does It
• Test Your Memory
• Don't Overdo Them

1st edition 1980, 1st digital...

This manuscript explores hybrids of the Jonah Card Principle. Beyond that it hopes to draw attention to this fascinating motif and perhaps inspire further research and development.

• THE FOUR QUEENS (Bill Simon)
• MEN FROM THE BOYS (Colm Mulcahy - Bill Simon)
• ODD YET PREDICTABLE (Jon Racherbaumer)
• SPIN-OFFS of WINKLER'S COIN PUZZLE
• NO-JONAH POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
• (LOSING) END POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
• OUROBOROS (Jack Parker)
• DOUBLE PREDICTION JONAH POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
• STRONG CIDER (Edward Marlo - Jon Racherbaumer)
• THE JONAH IN THE HARRY'S POCKET (Jon Racherbaumer)
• EMPOWERING POKER A BIT MORE (Jon...

Marlo in the United Kingdom complements Marlo In New Tops and Marlo in Linking Ring. It includes his contributions to The Gen, Pabular and The Pentagram.

• Predicted Mental Spell
• Extended Mental Spell
• Sympathetic Coincidence
• Impromptu Stranger
• Follow My Leader
• Royal Transposition
• The Marlo Slip Cut
• Marlo's Slip Cut Force
• A Flexible Move
• The Roughed Stripper
• The Centre Card Transfer
• Spectator Cuts To Locate The Aces
• Dribble Coincidence
• Dribble Concept Continued

1st edition 2005, 79 pages.

The magician says he has a prediction written which he will get back to. A card is selected, noted and lost back into the pack. The magician says he will make the selection jump to the top of the deck. It is the wrong card. The magician shows his written prediction. It doesn't match the top card, but it is the selected card predicted ahead of time. The magician places the indifferent card into the spectator's hand. He waves his business card over the indifferent card. It visually morphs into the indifferent card. Spectator opens their hands. they are now holding their selected card.

• multiple...

Phase I - Bite off the pen nib and spit it back on. Immediately, open the refill compartment, let the spectator touch the nib.

Phase II - Make the refill rise out of the pen.

Bonus - A Russian Roulette with pens, where spectators select the pens to be smashed. The whole effect is totally under the performer's control.

The video will explain you how to gimmick a pen. No special pen is needed.

1st edition 2013, 12 minutes

A deck is borrowed from a spectator. The deck is shuffled by the spectator. They select a card and commit it to memory. Nothing is forced, no card is mentioned out loud.

A second spectator is thinking of any number between 1 and 52, the card is replaced and the deck is further mixed. Nothing is forced, no number is mentioned out loud.

Only after both spectators are satisfied with the random state of the deck are the freely chosen card and number named out loud (only if they want! This information can stay unknown to the performer the whole time.)

The performer does not touch the deck,...

Here is a mental effect that is useful for after-dinner shows.

EFFECT:

On the performer's table stand five bottled drinks. All contain different drinks, but they are all the same size. A spectator is invited to mentally choose one, then they are covered by him with five identical covers and, finally, mixed so no one can know the position of any particular drink. At this point, the performer turns his back and directs the spectator to move the bottles himself. Then one by one they are eliminated until only one remains.

He is asked to name the drink he chose, then lift the cover from...

• Introduzione
• Tripla Predizione
• Anello e Corda
• Una Busta Vuota
• Corda Tagliata In Tre Pezzi
• Doppia Penetrazione
• Quadraplex
• Colori Mentali
• In Giro Per Il Mondo
• Colori Senza Riposo
• Un Trucco Mentale
• Carta a Qualsiasi Numeri
• Uno, Due, Tre
• Equivalente
• Cidentaquin e Riciclo
• Sul Giornale
• Questo Seme, Quel Valore
• Carte Segnate
• Scelta ESP

Tra Cinema e Magia é un saggio dedicato ad un importante personaggio della cartomagia del XX Secolo, Cy Endfield, conosciuto al grande pubblico come regista di classici del cinema come "Zulu" con Michael Caine.

Endfield, appassionato di prestigiazione fin dall'adolescenza, fin dagli anni '40 frequenta importanti circoli magici ed associazioni magiche come la SAM e l'IBM. Stimato da illustri colleghi come Dai Vernon, Paul Curry a Alex Elmsley, il suo contributo cartomagico verra' fissato negli eccellenti libri di Lewis Ganson, Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic.

Nel saggio di Matteo...

Più che un dovere una necessità ! Si mai come oggi è stato indispensabile saper costruire i propri attrezzi da scena e con questo primo volume della serie "la bottega di Merlino" ora questo è possibile!

Nel consueto e dettagliato stile di Maximiliano Monteleone, in questo indispensabile lavoro troverai le istruzioni dettagliate, con misure e diagrammi in 3D per costruire scatole e attrezzi per il tuo numero.

Tra l'altro troverai nel volume:

• Square Circle a doppio carico
• Tubi per produzione
• Libro in fiamme
• La scatola inesauribile
• Il secchio delle meraviglie
• Il dado Fantastico ...

Questo raro manoscritto di UF Grant, contiene un sacco di materiale interessante . Nascoste nelle sue pagine sono alcune piccole gemme che non troverete da nessun'altra parte . Non ci sono lunghe descrizioni dei metodi , come spiega lo stesso di Grant . Si va direttamente al punto. Lo stile è tipico di Grant : diretto e senza fronzoli. Sarà una notevole aggiunta alla collezione di coloro che sono appassionati di Grant.

Dall'introduzione:

"Questa è una collezione di materiale tratto da un albo di appunti esclusivo… Materiale che normalmente sarebbe venduto separatamente a uno, due,...

Ein Gedanke. Ein Name. Eine Vorhersage auf einem beliebigen Smartphone … und eine bleibende Erinnerung

Eine Vorhersagemethode des digitalen Zeitalters mit ungeahnten Möglichkeiten. Inklusive Grafikdateien, Cue-Card, speziell generierten QR-Codes, Bonusmaterialien und Onlineressource zum sofortigen präsentieren.

Eine Zuschauerin am Tisch wählt eine Spielkarte. Mit einem beliebigen Smartphone lassen Sie einen die ganze Zeit auf dem Tisch befindlichen Code auf einem Alltagsgegenstand einlesen. Sie berühren nichts mehr! Auf des Zuschauers Telefon erscheint das Bild der Zuschauerkarte,...

[Note: This is the same as The MINOTAUR Volumes 1-8 except the DVDs which complete the MINOTAUR are not included here. You only get all the issues that were released in printed form.]