Magic & Conjuring: page 167

Al Koran's Headline Countdown is a classic effect in mentalism. First, a spectator holds an envelope containing a prediction. Next, the spectator chooses a number between one and sixteen. Then, the mentalist tears a sheet of newspaper into sixteen pieces.

The pieces are counted down to the number the spectator thought of previously.

The spectator reads the headline on that chosen piece of paper. The prediction in the sealed envelope matches the headline the spectator chose!

This routine has always been spectacular, but some mentalists have stayed away because it involved some calculations...

This is the fifth edition of the Coffee Break Mental Magic series and features a spooky routine based around the ghost stories of author M.R. James! When a collector of occult and esoteric books visits a small bookshop in the English village of Castleton, he could not have predicted that a demon would later be sent to kill him! However as a student of the occult, the book-loving collector is not as easy to kill as might be expected!

This is an enthralling story-telling routine that utilises a thumb tip bill switch or classic billet switch (or even a change bag). It is beyond the scope of...

From Rum and Coke to chocolate milk, the magician looks over his audience, reads their minds, and pours their favorite drink from an empty flask one by one. This famous illusion was made famous by Robert Houdin, and has been modernized for the 21st century!

Two routines are taught. There is a magic tea kettle like effect and a think a drink. This has been a huge closer in Scott Xavier's corporate mentalism set for years. It is also a huge bar magic routine as well as an ideal hospitality magic routine.

You can produce a variety of drinks both alcoholic and not. From Milk, chocolate milk, strawberry...

Uno dei più bei manoscritti di Grant sul mentalismo con possibilità straordinarie non limitate certo alle esibizioni radio-televisive ma adatto a tutti i tipi di spettacolo.

Stropicciatevi bene gli occhi perché quello che state per leggere sono gli effetti spiegati in questo manoscritto.

Questo testo rivela come presentare e realizzare un numero straordinario, che apparirà davvero miracoloso a qualunque pubblico profano o all’esame di una commissione. Si tratta di un effetto che farà discutere e susciterà interesse e mistero più di ogni altro. Il numero consiste nell’apparente...

Die neue NAM 14 ist fertig und steht zum Download bereit. Die erste offizielle Ausgabe des Jahres 2014 ist wieder vollgepackt mit kommerziellen Ideen und Routinen, die man so auf dem gesamten magischen Markt nicht findet.

AUTOSPELL DECK - die Killer-Routine von Devin Knight, bei der eine frei gewählte Karte unter unmöglichen Bedingungen vom Zuschauer selbst aus dem Spiel herausbuchstabiert wird. Der Trick ist ein absoluter Fooler und keiner, dem ich ihn gezeigt habe, hatte auch nur einen Ansatzpunkt einer Lösung! Das Schöne dabei ist, dass das Kunststück als Selbstgänger zu bezeichnen...

This is probably the best routine ever created for the Okito Box. In the hands of the legendary Ken Brooke, this routine was a masterpiece. You will study the Master Move, the best way to secretly turn over the box. Once mastered, you will be introduced to a four-phase entertaining routine with simple props.

The effect, briefly is: A coin is in the box which is placed on top of a cardbox. The coin penetrates the cardbox. The effect is repeated. Then the coin disappears and reappears inside the box. Finally, the coin penetrates the hand of the performer! If wanted, everything can be examined. Detailed...

A very easy, commercial and entertaining color changing knife routine in several phases. With ideas by Ken Brooke, Ascanio and Juan Tamariz. For close-up and walk around. A white knife (or any color) changes to black. You simply say that you are using TWO knives so you produce a white one. The two knives change places a few times and at the end everything can be examined (obviously you have to bring your own knives)!

Koran's Medallion has amazed people for decades, but many magicians and mentalists have avoided presenting the routine because of the straightforward method. In this manuscript, Steve Pellegrino tackles those issues so you can be confident presenting the routine and maximize your audience reaction if it's currently part of your repertoire.

The effect is impressive - three random audience members call out a single number from 0 - 9, creating a random three-digit number. Next, you remove a ring box from your pocket and show that it contains an engraved medallion. Engraved on the back of the...

There is a lot of magic crammed into this routine. Everything from a prediction, the finding of two selected and signed cards, and the transposition of the card's backs.

Here is the effect:

Phase 1: A single red backed card is placed off to one side, but is kept in full view throughout the proceedings. The performer states that there is one red card and one red card only. The spectator then selects any card and signs it (there is no force whatsoever). The card is returned to the center of the deck. The top card is shown, but it is not the signed card. The red backed card is turned over...

Comprising Eye-Openers and More Eye-Openers plus R. W. Hull's Supreme Mental Discernment.

Paul Fleming wrote about More Eye-Openers:

ABSTRACTOR - My take on the "Extractor" gimmick which is completely different. The deck can be fanned, spread and quite freely shown. The spectator himself can insert his card into the case. The case is shut and rubber bands are placed all around the case (!). You can show the case from all sides - all looks perfect. You put the deck in your pocket and immediately have the selected card at your disposal! Easy to construct in less than half an hour with only one deck used.

TAMARIZ MEMO DECK - Here I start with a five part "course" on the memorization of this brilliant stack. It's fun to read,...

It is impossible nowadays to be a magician or mentalist and not perform an effect with a phone, smartphone, ipad , laptop, etc. The following mentalism effects look mostly hands off and impromptu.

No special applications or sleight of hands are required.

• OPEN SESAME Get any equipment unlocked without touching it! Easy to do, fun to perform, 100% hands off and impromptu. Works with any locked telephone, pad, PC, Smartphone, keylock etc.
• STUCK A method to force any number with a borrowed iPhone (and maybe other phones).
• CALC'ACAAN An "untoxic" ACAAN that uses any telephone or calculator...

BOXED - A signed bill ends up in the interior of a lighter, which has been inside a cigarette packet. This one has fooled everyone on my last lecture tour. Perfect for table-hopping, instant reset and easy to do. [Note: This routine was intended to be published as a separate eBook for a much higher price than this issue of Scrapbook. However, for completeness sake I decided to add it here.

TOTALLY STONED - A mental routine based on a Max Maven idea. I changed the routine, method and added an additional climax to it. Very powerful and easy to do.

ENTHYMEMATA - Thoughts, tips and hints.

1st edition 2014, 6 pages....

Out of This World & Back is Steve Pellegrino's parlor and stage adaptation for the classic Out of This World routine. This newly revised and expanded manuscript includes two handlings of the same principle. The first handling is with jumbo cards. Steve released this in the previous manuscript Red & Black Separation. This expanded manuscript now includes his current handling using poker cards that are equally visible from the stage. Through the use of clever staging, you'll be able to present Out of This World on stage with your favorite deck of poker cards.

Whether using jumbo cards or a poker deck, the...

A spectator freely selects a card (no force) the card is pushed into the center of the deck. The magician gives the deck one cut and immediately spells to the card. A No Memory Self-Working Miracle.

Effect: The performer shows a deck of cards to be well mixed and hands the deck to a participant to cut as many times as he likes. The performer tells the participant to stop cutting whenever he wants and that the top card of the deck will be his selected card. The performer asks the participant to look at the top card of the deck while he looks away. The participant is then instructed to take...

Effect: The performer displays a 12-month wall calendar. Each of the 366 days (Leap Year has been accounted for) has a single playing card assigned to it. No two days in each month has the same card assigned to it. So, for example, a month with 31 days in it contains 31 different cards. It is also pointed out that no one card appears more than once on any particular date. So the card that is assigned to the 15th of January is not found on the 15th of any other month.

A spectator is asked to call out any date that comes to mind. Suppose the date in June 5th. Now, another spectator is asked...

These are detailed explanations of sleights and subtleties with cards used in many tricks and routines. They come with tips, history, applications, etc.

CONTENTS:

• U-CUT FORCE (J. K. Hartman)
• TOP CONTROL (Aldo Colombini)
• RED AND BLACK SHUFFLE (L.L. Ireland)
• AN EASY PASS (Patrick Page)
• THE KOSKY SWITCH (Gerald Kosky)
• R.S. BLUFF CONTROL (J. K. Hartman)
• THE TILT ILLUSION (Vernon - Marlo)
• STRIP-OUT ADDITION (Dai Vernon)
• BOTTOM PLACEMENT (Joe Ovette-Frank Kelly)
• ROTARY FORCE (J. K. Hartman)
• SELECT SWITCH (J.K. Hartman)
• GOLDIN FORCE (Horace Goldin).

AL KORAN FINESSE - An additional idea for the well-known Al Koran 5-star forcing deck which enables you to perform a baffling version of the "Oscar" card trick.

THROUGH THE LOUPE - The fastest loading technique for a ring in a sealed envelope. This one has fooled more than one magician!

CLIPPED OUT - A concept for a headline prediction or a live prediction. Some subtle thinking behind this one.

MAGIC VS. MUSIC - A thought provoking article on practise, performance and more. Music is compared to magic and this will get you started thinking different about our art.

ENTHYMEMATA - Various...

An ebook of 56 late extra, new (and previously unpublished), unusual, unplanned but darned-good card tricks!

Paul Gordon doesn't (often) use fakes, extra cards, big set-ups and/or angley moves. And, he doesn't use second deals, bottom deals ...

• A Veritable Jaw-Dropper
• Four-Ace Puzzler
• Merely Thought-of Card Miracle
• Partial Faro Sandwich
• The Exploration
• The World's Most Incredible Card Trick
• Three Some
• Memory, Estimation & Magic
• Double - Quadruple Revelation
• All The Fours
• Ten To Royal Flush
• For The Boys # 2
• The Five 'n' Aces
• Betwixt and Between
• Sher-locked Holmes
• He's Behind...

Excellent coverage of an important magic subject. Any magician can add vital interest and sparkle to his program by including a headline prediction, or prediction on the outcome of some event. Tells you just how to do it, in ways that cannot fail. No great expense involved in any of the methods sometimes none at all.

Check the contents:

• Introduction and pointers
• Goose that Laid a Golden Egg
• In a Block of Ice
• In a Block of Cement
• In a Loaf of Bread
• The Eddie Clever Method
• Floating Prediction
• Prediction Chest
• Two Way Predictions
• Buddha Check Prediction
• Two Way Box
• Card Box Predictions ...

Add a little POW! to your readings.

Typically readings can be intense, or at least you can be dealing with intense emotional situations. It can be difficult to guide the person you are reading for as they can be too closely involved. They literally cannot see the wood for the trees!!

By sparingly and wisely adding the information found in POW! to your reading process, you can softly 'nudge' their thinking and encourage the sitter to look at situations in their life in a completely different light.

What you'll find in POW! are Quotes, Proverbs and more which have been carefully selected,...

Ring in walnut is an old trick, but here its a new version where a borrowed finger ring disappears and appears in a freely chosen walnut with a twist.

1st edition 2014, 15 pages, photo illustrated.

Ecco un fantastico libro. Soprattutto un libro pratico e utile. Ti servirà senza dubbio. Se vuoi inserire nel tuo repertorio giochi che siano di grande effetto e al contempo di semplice esecuzione, allora questo libro è per te !

Non fartelo sfuggire : tra le sue pagine trovi materiale veramente eccellente . lavori in scena ? Oppure esegui Close-up ? oppure Cartomagia o Mentalismo o ancora Grandi illusioni ? Ebbene in questo libro trovi di sicuro qualcosa che fa per te.

Sappiamo come è difficile trovare giochi pratici che funzionino davvero e non siamo solo carta stampata che poi rimane...

Questa lezione inizia con una parte teorica che confronta l’arte dell’illusione con varie scienze e il loro inizio legate ad essa. Prosegue poi analizzando i vantaggi di esercitare la propria mente con l’illusionismo e infine dedica la sua parte più corposa a degli esperimenti mentalistico-matematici. Ecco i trucchi contenuti nella lezione:

1. Un pezzo di carta rossa quadrato di circa 30 centimetri di lato viene fatto esaminare e quindi accartocciato. Questo viene dato da tenere ad uno spettatore. L'artista chiede ora a diversi membri del pubblico di scrivere un numero qualsiasi di tre...