Magic & Conjuring: page 190

Written by Craig Browning for the sake of educating those curious about the art of mentalism as it pertains to the world of theatrical magic.

1st edition 2011, 46 pages.

Finger games:

• The 4 fingers game: Another method for "Equifinque" (Phil SMIFF)
• Finger burn: Ask a spectator to show you any finger and put it over a candlelight or an invisible lighter. Your same finger will carry a blister.
• Voodoo finger: A variation to give away your business card.

• Hold on to your card: An impossible IN SPECTATOR's HANDS transposition.
• Magic mushrooms: A short-term-memory test where you show the same card to different spectators, and they forget it after showing them some psychedelic images!

  The two following sections describe an effect that looks...

Checkout Chi is the first new effect from Ben Harris in ages. And, it's been worth the wait.

Checkout Chi will drop the jaws of your audiences when YOU PAY for the restaurant bill, bar tab, groceries, gasoline, movie tickets, or what have you--WITH YOUR MIND. No cash, no credit cards, just your mind!

And, it's genuine: The vendor gets paid. A receipt is issued. All is above board.

Seriously, this is the kind of impromptu magic that makes reputations. The moment arising from a real-world situation (having to pay the bill), and the solution (paying the bill with magic), proving your mastery...

A must for all card men. Handy reference ebook for all card sleights. The best possible way to learn card magic, explained in good, clear terms by an expert. Sleights are modern, broken down to their simplest factors, useful and practical. The ideal ebook for the beginner in card work. You can't tackle advanced card work until you have the basics. This ebook will help you. Illustrated. Highly recommended.

• Controls
• The Crimp
• Passes
• The Palm
• The Replacement
• Changes
• Forcing
• False Counts
• False Shuffles
• Cuts
• Reverses
• Additions
• The Color Change
• From The Center
• The Multiple Shift ...

Everything you need to know about using rabbits in your act - lots of tips on care and maintenance, along with plenty of tricks and anecdotes. Plenty of pictures of bunnies and magicians. Interesting reading.

• How The Rabbit Got Into Magic
• Pets 'N Prestidigitation
• The Top Hat - Square Circle - Ten Rabbit Production
• Cherchez La Rabbit
• Back Stage Rabbit Vanish
• The Bunny Bit
• How To Do The Most Popular Trick In The World
• Irving's Bunny Cotton-Tail
• Bunny In A Basket
• Twin Chests, A Routine For Twin Rabbits
• A Unique Live Stock Production
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• The Artist Draws A...

Would you like to have in your repertoire some more killer mentalism effects that you can perform anytime, any place and without any props?

Well, good news! Mark Elsdon's new Conversation As Mentalism Volume 2 contains more of the tried and tested material that made the original volume so popular. (No 'suggestion' techniques are used in these effects. They all actually work all the time.)

The participant's experience of what occurs during these casual performance pieces is this: during the course of an interesting conversation, things take an odd turn and something strange and completely...

A really clean and impeccable ACAAN.

What the audience sees and hears:

The Performer brings out a deck of cards and points to a person asking him to think of any card but not the Ace (as its common for people to go for it) and another person to think of a number between 1 and 48. He then proceeds to pull out the Aces meanwhile handing out small packets of cards to 4 different audience members and asks them to shuffle the cards thoroughly. While they are busy shuffling, the two audience members are asked to name their thought of card and the number for the first time.

Once the shuffling...

A collection of three great close-up card pieces.

Change for Three Jokers: A novel "Wild Card" effect where three Jokers change into the mates of a selection one-by-one, concluding with the production of the selection itself.

R.B. Mix: A simplisitc but effective "Oil and Water" routine with just 4 cards, but lots of magical moments.

Waver: Nick Trost's classic "Eight Card Brainwave" taken to a new level.

1st edition 2011, 10 pages.

If you create, design, manufacture or retail products for the magic market you will find a lifetime of experience in this ebook.

The full product can be found here: Winning Products

37 pages

This is a list of references to all things Faro Shuffle.

1st edition 2014, 19 pages.

Learn 5 new impossible folded playing cards or banknotes without hidden cuts or glue or anything like that. This time Ralf is a bit more sneaky. On some of his designs he first cuts, then folds, and then cuts again, making the card appear even more impossible.

• Slalom
• Outlet
• Quarters
• Linking Triangles
• Tri-Clops

1st edition 2015, length 27 min

Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2015; 68 pages

Cover: Mel Mellers

5. Welcome - Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. Mel Mellers: The Best is Yet to Come - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
12. Letters
13. Next Issue
16. Exercising Control - A Key Component for a Successful Show - Mark Leveridge
20. On The Psychiatrist's Couch with ... Oliver Tabor - interview by Dr. William Phipps-Clarke
21. News
22. The Fantastic 4 In China - Shawn Farquhar, David Stone, Henry Evans and Sylvester the Jester
28. Masterclass
    • Togetherness - Mark Leveridge
    • S.W.I. Interchange - John Carey
32. John Carey: Fully Booked! - interview ...

Phase 1: After a series of fair shuffles, a deck is spread and committed to memory by the performer. A spectator removes one card from the deck and places it in a different part of the spread. The performer correctly identifies both the selected card and the position it was moved from. This can be repeated several times.

Phase 2: The spectator chooses any suit, and without looking, the performer is able to call out the correct order of cards from the shuffled suit as the deck dealt out.

Phase 3: With the deck remaining in the spectators hands, they name any number and the performer is...

Hello, magician friends around the world...The new issue of TGM is ready! Welcome back to the pages of TGM - volume Four, issue Three. Read the contents of this 'labor of the love' below and you are sure to run for it. This issue is a staggering collection of articles, magic effects (I hate the word 'trick' - magicians do 'magic' whereas 'tricks' are done by the 'tricksters'), photo quiz, jokes, cartoons, news and views and more.

CONTENTS:

• Solyl Says is simply tittle-tattles. However, here Ken de Courcy talks on Close-up magic
• Past Glory of India - Roy the Mystic recounted by Saileshwar Mukherjee. ...

A 77-page overview and discussion of the perennially popular Magic Square and some of its family. Variations, tricks and applications aplenty. Simple, practical and workable stuff. No complex formulas required. Nothing beyond low doses of basic arithmetic.

• Squaretro
• Squareone
• Altra Square
• Altratoo
• Instant
• Alternative Instant
• Altra-La-La-La-Lee
• Patterns
• Place That Number
• Duplexing
• Fromto
• Howtosquare
• Howsquare
• Squaretooit
• Colour Me Square
• Squarefect
• Squarecast
• Origeightor
• Origeightors Creed
• Origeightor Plus
• Crossing Outlines
• Four-ther-more
• Graphive
• Graphorward
• Sevensquared ...

An incredible Card To Impossible Location system.

"A KILLER idea!" - Dave Forrest

"Another very commercial winner from the fertile mind of Cameron Francis. This one hits, and hits hard. It's expertly explained and taught, as are all of Mr. Francis' releases. A serious fooler, and highly recommended - - - period." - Daniel Ulin

"One of the best uses of this principle I have seen. Very clever!" - Peter Duffie

A card is selected. The spectator makes a random doodle on the card. The doodle is filled in to create a picture, say of a fish. The card then vanishes and reappears... wherever you want it to!...

As the title says, this is an overview of the subject, impromptu and otherwise. For the really sincere mentalism worker, a carefully worked out ebook on the subject. Several spectators are asked to choose numbers at random, which are then added together in a totally random manner. Yet in spite of the fact that the mentalist could have no idea what numbers would be chosen, and couldn't control what order they would be added up in, when his prediction is shown, it is seen that he was somehow able to predict the exact total!

From the early methods of accomplishing this miracle, to the most recent...

INTRODUCTION: Everyone has a mom. And everyone knows just how hard moms work to give their children the love and attention they need to grow into successful adults. Is it possible to forget your mom? Not unless maybe you have Alzheimer's. Or, unless you are the spectator in this effect. This is an application of an underutilized (and somewhat lost) principle that will cause a spectator to forget his own mom!

EFFECT: Using a hypnosis premise, you tell the spectator a very simple story that involves his mother. Despite the fact you ask him to say the word "mom", he will be unable to do so....

Defy gravity! Learn the secret to levitate money, matches, cards, knives, canes, balls and even yourself.

You will learn:

• The Floating Dollar Bill (with Thread Reel)
• The Floating Dollar Bill (featuring the "Burr Secret") The Levitating Dollar Bill
• The Floating Match (Invented by Ben Harris. For more details see Cosmosis.)
• Swiss Movement (Paul Harris' Animated Pocket Knife)
• The Floating Card
• The Dancing Cane
• The Floating Ball (for stage)
• The Balducci Levitation (Floating yourself!)

Tarbell Course contributor Nick Conticello is proud to release the first installment of a book he calls "a five-part meditation on one of the most powerful principles in card magic, the sunken key card."

Sunken Treasury Parts One and Two consists of fourteen effects based on essentially new concepts, material that is unlike anything you have seen before (unless you have seen Nick perform!)

Highlights include:

THE SLEIGHT-OF-MIND ROUTINE: A routine of three effects involving selected cards and a pair of Deuces.

MENTAL POLYGRAPH: A spectator thinks of a card and loses it in the pack herself. She...

Una rutina impresionante y un talento sin igual. Con este efecto, Antonio abre nuevas puertas en la magia de cerca. ¡Vaya idea! ¡Qué gran presentación!

"A lo largo de mi vida, he visto algunas de las mejores rutinas de cubiletes como las de Dai Vernon, Michael Ammar, John Thompson, Johnny Paul, y muchos otros con rutinas y pases brillantes. La increible rutina de Antonio me dejó atónito. Para hacer la rutina no necesitas unos cubiletes caros ni mucho menos. Antonio lo ha simplificado todo ¡y de qué manera!" - Joe Stevens

"Una rutina asombrosa, de una originalidad única: una...

Más de 50 efectos con la Romero Box.

Plus de 50 effets avec la Romero Box.

A stunning routine of unparalleled talent! The cups and balls with clear glasses - transparent cups. Antonio breaks new ground in close up magic with this effect. What an idea and what entertainment.

"Antonio breaks new ground in close-up magic. What a fabulous idea." - Arturo de Ascanio

"In my lifetime, I've seen some of the greatest "CUPS N BALL" routines performed by Dai Vernon, Mike Ammar, John Thompson, Charlie Miller, Johnny Paul and the many others with brilliant routines and moves & sleights. Antonio's routine is smashing and completely blew me away! You don't need an expensive set of cups for the cups and balls routine!...