Magic & Conjuring: page 179

A classic effect from the past, now revised with a new and improved method. Imagine showing your hand to be empty, front and back, then forming it into a finger gun and shooting at an object. Much to the surprise of the audience, they hear an actual bang!

Devin Knight's new Invisible Gun will allow you to do just that, and do it without the use of any caps, explosives or hidden shooting devices. A new method that is 100% safe and has never been used in this type of effect. No chemicals or thumb tips needed. No expensive gadgets to buy either. You can do this within minutes of reading the...

Book tests are a staple in the repertoires of mentalists and are very effective in a performance of mentalism (see David's Bookworm Act). However, for magicians the effect can be rather lack luster as nothing visual happens. There is very little or even no "magic" when it comes to a standard book test.

David Devlin's Contact is not a book test in the traditional sense. It is a book test designed for the magician. It is a book test of sorts with a séance themed presentation. It is through the book itself that the performer will make contact with the "spirits". The presentation is rather spooky; however...

A classic mathematical principle with two piles.

This is an old mathematical principle used in many card effects. Most of the effects were done with 52 cards. But the principle works with any number of cards (or business cards). This manual explains the principle in detail and generalizes the principle. It allows you to predict the last card that will be left after dealing two piles and eliminating the same pile every time. After reading this ebook, you will be able to use any number of cards. The original pile can be any size, the discarded pile can be chosen, and the final card can be...

Paul A. Lelekis provides workers with five very strong, full routines that can be used in any performer's repertoire. These routines are strong openers and powerful closers. This e-book begins with a Prologue called Consistency of Action. This section is a "how-to" guide for making your magic more professional - very important stuff. Patter and many photographs are included. There are NO difficult sleights used, allowing you to concentrate on the funny patter. Paul also included a video of The Retention of Vision Coin Pass.

1) ATAVISTIC MATRIX - This is a very visually pleasing assembly...

Ablest Change is a bold and fast card color change that immediately establishes you as a skilled magician. This is a one handed color change which is fun to practice and perform. Here you end up without any face-up card and this change offers two easy clean-ups.

"It's a BEAST! Nice work!" - Liam Montier

"Great, solid commercial stuff like you ALWAYS do, Cam." - Jack Carpenter

"It's really f***ing GOOOOD!" - Dave Forrest

Three amazing effects. One professional grade routine... This is The Triple.

If Triumph, The Collectors, and a color changing deck effect all got together and had a baby, it might just look something like The Triple. Cameron Francis delivers another knockout multi-phase card routine that's truly amazing to witness but devilishly simple to execute. No gimmicks. No difficult sleight of hand. Just a truckload of powerhouse magic. Perfect for the professional...

Vol. 10, No. 4, no date [September 2014]; 60 pages

Cover: Chris Dugdale

5. Welcome - editor's letter
6. Readers' Letters
9. In the Phonebox with: Danielle Clements - Mark Leveridge
11. In The News
12. Promote Yourself - Attention Seekers - Promoting Yourself Post Yellow Pages - Mark Leveridge
16. Perseus Arkomanis: Gifted & Greek! - interview
20. Masterclass
    • Tic Tac Shot - Ilysas Seisov
    • Capsule - Alex Erohin
20. A Free Gift For All Our Readers
22. Pros & Cons - It's All a Matter of Opinion - Mark Leveridge
    • To palm or not to palm, that is the question
25. Treva Etienne [movie star]: On Fire & On Set! - interview ...

Impossibly produce a card the spectator is thinking of from a cased deck, bound with a rubber band!

Your spectator shuffles the deck and hands it back to you. You make no moves. They think of a card from inside the deck. You make no moves. They are then immediately handed the deck to shuffle again. You make no moves. The deck is fairly cased and then bound with a rubber band. Within THREE SECONDS you produce one card from inside the deck yet the deck itself is still cased and bound. The spectator removes the band. The spectator removes the deck and is asked to locate the card they were thinking...

This clever mathematical principle allows you to find a thought item among any number of items, even though you do not know the initial order. You don't even need to know what they are. You see nothing. It is entirely hands off and improvised, and can even be done over the phone. It works with any number of flat objects (cards, index or business cards, coasters, etc.) or usual objects (key, coin, lighter, pen, etc.).

Two practical examples are provided, but it is so easy that you'll be able to improvise your own mentalism effects with borrowed objects or cards, or with your own business...

Magic, sleights, humor, opinion, history, presentation, theories, reviews, cartoons, advice, laughs, observations, ramblings, tricks, tricks, tricks, ...

Chapter 1

• Introduction
• No Other Card Quite Like It!
• Lead-In to Wallet
• The 30 Second Memorized Deck
• Backspin

Chapter 2

• Casino Style Zarrow Shuffle + Revised Poker Deal
• New Works on Marlo/Gardner/Webb Poker Routine
• New Ending for the 4 Bikers of the Apocalypse
• Doug MacGeorge - Magic Square as a Card Trick
• Backspin

Chapter 3

• The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy
• Changes in Philosophy
• Poor Man's Raven III...

Stop your pulse, Plant thoughts, Influence Choices and Demonstrate the most impossible coincidence.

Asystole - A one of a kind Impromptu pulse stopping effect where your palm can be face-up all the time with nothing covering it.

Note: If you have never seen or known any pulse stopping effect, then kindly get yourself acquainted with one, because it is only after that you will be able to use ASYSTOLE.

Bonus: Your heart beat gets synchronized with a song someone sings/plays or even with a mobile ringtone.

Time Frame 2.0 - Force any time without the help of any prop or preparation....

As a plot, Cards Across is fairly simple and direct. It's a transition effect where a number of cards - usually three - magically travel from one packet to another. There are methods that use gimmicked cards, others use purely sleight-of-hand.

This manuscript is an exploration of subtle methods based on Stewart James' "Pockethereal." Its selling point is that there are no switches or exchanges. The only sleight of hand is the false counts. This put it in a class by itself.

• INTRODUCTION
• POCKETHEREAL (Stewart James)
• POCKETHEREAL, MINUS POCKETS (Bert Fenn)
• POCKETHEREAL MINUS POCKETS (Edward Marlo)
• CLARIFIED PACKETHEREAL...

• Chapter 1:
  • Blinded Deluxe
  • Comedy Mental
  • New Experimental Grip for Webb's False Count with Coins
  • A Handling Variation of the L'Homme Masque Load
  • New Shamanism
• Chapter 2:
  • Leaf Rejuvination
  • Bubble-Pop Corn
  • Tierra Del Fuego Leather Strap Stretch: a real shaman's trick
  • Imaginary Friends
  • Clay Tablets and Beyond
• Chapter 3:
  • Variations on Chanin's Production
  • Chanin Production to get into 3-Fly
  • Next: A New Ending for 3-Fly
  • 3 At Once
  • On Shamanism
  • Original Spin
• Chapter 4:
  • Gellerbound
  • Shades of Geller
  • Some from the Fingertips
  • Postcards from the Edge (of Hell)
• Chapter...

A blue backed deck is shown. A card is removed, and placed aside. The deck is spread face down. It is seen that all of the cards have blue backs, except for one card which has a red back. Two cards are now very randomly chosen, and their values are added together. Let's assume that the total is "13" (the actual total is up to you!). The deck is turned face up (in every instance) and the cards are dealt one at a time until the 13th (or whatever value was chosen) card is dealt. Let's say that the 13th card is the Queen of Clubs. The deck is now spread face down. Each and every card has a blue...

This came about thanks to Larry Jennings' classic effect, "The Visitor". David has always loved that effect. It is impromptu, there is no setup, a borrowed deck can be used, and the effect is stunning. One day, David was playing with the routine, and began to think along the lines of, "Wouldn't it be cool if the selected card could be seen the entire time? What if the spectator could see their card sitting between the two face down cards right up until the very moment that it vanishes?" The answers, of course, are yes! Of course it would be cool. And with The Visitation these things are possible!

Here is...

Impromptu mental mysteries for the psychic entertainer. This is an updated version of the original.

From the introduction by B. W. McCarron:

The Wesley James Magic Castle Lecture

Not everyone will immediately recognize the name Wesley James. Those in the know will. For many years Mr. James has been an underground secret. During his many years as a professional he refused to lecture for magicians or publish the effects he used in his professional performances. Since Mr. James has retired from performing and has lectured for magicians. Stop Fooling Us! are the lecture notes from his first lecture series.

"One of the best sets of lecture notes I've seen in quite some time. Top notch stuff! and a good value." - Harvey Rosenthal ...

January 1974 - December 1974
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

548 pages

1. Genii - Volume 38, Number 1 - January 1974 (published in May) - 44 pages
1. Cover - The Gustafsons
3. In This Issue - contents
13. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
14. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
15. Riot Rope - Steve Duscheck
16. un-CAN-ny Coin Vanish
16. cartoon - Paul Butler
17. New Hope For Fish Fanciers - Fred Scott Donaldson
17. A Barehanded Spongeball Production - Michael F. Short
18. Card Revelations Revealed - Jack Barstow
20. It's Only My Opinion But - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
21. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charles...

January 1973 - December 1973
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

536 pages (4 page numbers are used twice and 4 pages numbers skipped around Number 11 and corrected in Number 12)

1. Genii - Volume 37, Number 1 - January 1973 - 48 pages
1. Cover - Gerald Kosky - A Special Issue
3. In This Issue - contents
18. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
19. Obituaries
    • Bruce Elliott
    • Peggy Gwynne Cole
    • Everette Lyda
19. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
20. Our Cover - Gerald Kosky - WWL (Jr)
21. Sholim Ali Kim - Gerald Kosky
22. Constant Zodiac - Gerald Kosky
22. It's Only My Opinion But - Clarke "The...

September 1971 - December 1972
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher & Editor

568 pages

No Issues from November 1971 through February 1972

1. Genii - Volume 36, Number 1 - September 1971 - 60 pages
1. Cover - Christmas Cover
3. In This Issue - contents
19. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
20. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
21. cartoon - Phil Bauer
22. The Ghost of Houdini - Eddie Joseph
24. Calling Card E.S.P. - Jim Munden
25. It's All The Same To Me - Ed Eckl
26. "Tom" Fitzgerald's Coffee Stick Trick
26. Coin In The Deck - Ira Smoloawitz
27. Magician's Wash - Greg Conner
28. Correction - July issue - Parlor Hofzinser article
29. Magicana...

September 1970 - August 1971
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

596 pages

1. Genii - Volume 35, Number 1 - September 1970 - 52 pages
1. Cover - The New Houdinys
3. In This Issue - contents
4. pictures of Sorcar
14. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
15. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
17. Scratch One Card - David Ginn
18. Calendars - 1776 to 2000
19. Contest Winner - Cypher Surprise - David Ray
20. Sucker Purse - Roy Johnson
22. The Silk Finding Rod - Glenn Gravatt
23. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charles Miller, editor
    23. A Taste Of Money - Gene Shelley
    30. Intermission - Charles Miller
25. Index to...

September 1969 - August 1970
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

548 pages (1 double page)

1. Genii - Volume 34, Number 1 - September 1969 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Tenko, Tenkai, Tenyo, Shimada & Kato
3. In This Issue - contents
10. To All American Magicians - Akira Yamada
11. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
12. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
15. Reverse Push-Off Count - Tenkai
16. Where Has It Gone? - Hideo Kato
17. Through Solid - Hideo Kato
18. Four Aces & Four Aces - Masatoshi Furota
20. Tokkuri And Rope - Yasunaga Matsuura
21. Card Lapping - Takeshi Nemoto
21. Thought Control - Takeshi Nemoto
22. Four Jacks - Takeshi...

September 1968 - August 1969
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher & Editor - Geraldine Larsen Baker, Advisory Editor

520 pages

1. Genii - Volume 33, Number 1 - September 1968 - 48 pages
1. Cover - Willard The Wizard
3. In This Issue - contents
11. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
12. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
13. Kofosilk - Pavel
14. Stapled Balloon - Fred Ball
14. Hip Drip Pip Envanishment - Hurston
15. Impaled Jumping Colors or Match-Box Color Trans-Po - Matt Sholouski
16. Willard The Wizard - Special Issue - Bev Bergeron, editor
    16. In Appreciation - Bev Bergeron
    16. Beans, Cones, and Lemon - Bev Bergeron
    18. An...

September 1967 - August 1968
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor - Geraldine Larsen Baker, Advisory Editor

576 pages

1. Genii - Volume 32, Number 1 - September 1967 - 48 pages
1. Cover - Slydini
3. In This Issue - contents
14. Our Cover - Slydini - by Blanca Lopez
15. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
16. Jacob's Escalator - Harry G. Franke
20. With Tricks You Own - Howard A. Adams
    • Wabbit Woutine
    • The Birthday Candle
21. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - William Reed Woodfield and Charles Miller, editors
    21. A Streamlined Version of Alexander Herrmann's Serpentine Handkerchief - Charles...