Magic & Conjuring: page 381

January 2014 - December 2014
1252 pages including 20 extra pages

1. Genii - Volume 77, Number 1 - January 2014 - 104 pages
1. Cover - The 13th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available - Face to Face - Matthew Field interviews Peter Samelson
    11. online video file available - John Calvert
    11. online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
    11. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. Parker Swain (1928-2013)
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available - On the Slant...

The Sympathetic Split is a fun yet powerful effect to present. Visually it captures the audience's attention throughout, and an explanation seems impossible in the audience's mind.

You show the audience a deck of cards that is literally cut in half. Next, you and the spectator count off the top ten cards, the Ace through Ten of Spades. Then, you ask the spectator to mix their ten cards while you do the same with your cards. You and the spectator choose one card from the ten Spade cards and place it in the deck. Next, you and the spectator pick a random card from the deck and mix that card...

Here's a fantastic method for predicting virtually anything. The gimmick is simple and all you need to make it is two common items you might already have. The gimmick enables you to create feature effects that play huge.

The Washing Line: 8 items are hanging on a line - 7 are clean, and one needs washing again. The audience freely eliminates them one at a time until one remains - it's the one that has a large 'stain' on the back. Includes full routine. So easy to do, yet so clever. No force, no stooges - just a brilliant 'slap-your-forehead' method.

Predict-a-Star: Several DVDs are shown....

An incredible coincidence plus an incredible prediction that looks completely impossible. You present two decks to a spectator. They have a free choice (no force). The spectator takes one deck, and you take the other. Both of you shuffle your deck. Then the decks are exchanged. Each one gives their deck a final cut. Then each one puts their deck into their pocket. Then cards are withdrawn from the top of the deck and put face up on the table until a match of the face appears. Once a match appears the magician presents a prediction that was on the table the whole time in which he predicted...

The mentalist shows some Alphabet flashcards to the participants. The cards are mixed and distributed. The participants are asked to form a word using the letters they have received, from which the mentalist will be able to divine all of them.

• Uses an ordinary object.
• Self-working.
• Not process heavy.
• If needed, the effect can be repeated with a different result.
• The effect can be adjusted to be able to perform to a smaller group.

Bonus Effect: The Missing Link

Each participant exchanges cards after they were mixed and distributed, and yet the mentalist is able to identify which...

Here is a new, mind-boggling effect, raised up from the depths of the Bammo cerebral cortex - an effect that will defy all attempts at revealing its secret because the interlaced deceptive mechanisms - to quote Winston Churchill - create, "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

It uses something we call here at the Bammo offices, the TCF Principle. A principle that others, notably Henry Christ, John Scarne, Martin Gardner, Nick Trost, and Terry Lagerould have toyed with but, until now, its true potential has not been achieved.

The spectator shuffles the deck (52 cards, all different). The magician, without looking at any...

12 card tricks based on the same principle.

Sneak is a collection of tricks based on an overlooked principle that allows you to find a selected card under impossible conditions. Thanks to the use of one readily available fake card, every trick in the book is technically effortless. This means most of them are self-working while a couple of them require the ability to hold a break or execute a double undercut. Also included for the sake of completeness are impromptu versions (except for New Deck Joker), based on a variation of a well-known card force.

1) GOOD LUCK: A spectator cuts the...

1st edition 2022, video 11:43

January 2013 – December 2013
1328 pages

1. Genii – Volume 76, Number 1 – January 2013 – 112 pages
1. Cover – Steve Cohen
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available – Peter McLanachan - Whatever Number Mentioned
    11. online video file available – International Magic Dealer Room - Woody Aragon, Angelo Carbone, and Bruno Copin
    11. online video file available – More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
12. On the Slant – Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available - On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Poll Dancing?
14. Now Performing
15. Memoirs...

Convert a card box into a peek device. You can carry all the cards (52+2) inside. You can also casually show the card box front and back. It is easy enough that even a 10-year-old can make it in under 10 minutes. Activation takes less than a second and deactivation is just as quick. Welcome...to...Eye Spy.

• Making time: under 10 minutes
• Repair time (if ever needed): under 10 seconds.
• Peek size: Almost 90% of the size of a playing card.

1st edition 2022; PDF 7 pages; video 15 min.

I love the mentalism effects on the phone, and I often use them in close-up and sometimes - appropriately modified - stage performances. I have collected more than 100, in the last 2 years and, slowly, I am proposing them with these publications. Some draw inspiration from real "pearls" of great artists, which I allowed myself to face, with extreme humility, developing them with a new setting, sometimes adding some interesting details. Others are a little older, even centuries, maybe even well known, but they are often "disruptive" as never before! Still, others are mine or, better said, by...

Amo gli effetti di mentalismo al telefono, e li utilizzo spesso in performances di close-up e, talvolta – opportunamente modificati – da palcoscenico. Ne ho collezionati più di 100, negli ultimi 2 anni e, piano piano, li sto proponendo con queste pubblicazioni. Alcuni traggono spunto da vere “perle” di grandi artisti, che mi sono permesso di affrontare, con estrema umiltà, sviluppandoli con una nuova ambientazione aggiungendo, talvolta, qualche interessante dettaglio. Altri sono un po’ più vecchi, anche di secoli, magari anche molto conosciuti, ma sono spesso “dirompenti”...

Being a record of his experience as a white slave; a soldier in the Union Army; a professional gambler; a patron of the turf; a variety theater and minstrel manager; and, finally, a convert to the Murphy Cause, and to the Gospel of Christ.

This book is an illustration of this paragraph by S.W. Erdnase:

Excerpt from the introduction by Kevin James:

J. Stewart Smith continues with his professionally-praised run of card magic routines, this one containing seven appealing card mysteries. Like his previous releases, all the work is accomplished without knuckle-busting sleight of hand. Only a few simple moves are necessary, easily within the grasp of the average magician. Smith strives to strip down his creations so every move is logical, from an audience's perspective. There is no confusion as to what happens. It looks like pure magic.

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

• A Transformation
• The Nostalgic Trio
• The Unseen Passage
• Two Faces Up
• Pure and...

Volume 1, No. 9: September 2022, 49 pgs.

The ninth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Close up Comfort in Harry's High Herb / Gareth
  • Bigger Deal / Scott Baird
  • Triumph's Return / Chiam Yu Sheng
  • Double Libido / Adam Socha
  • Which Hand is IT in? / Michael Boden
  • One Way, All The Way / Scott Baird
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge
  • Consider the Vanishing Bandana / Greg Boggs
  • Examining the Vanishing Bandana / Scott Baird
  • Take your foot off the gas / Jay Sankey

This intro price will go up to $12 from October 3, 2022.

X Deck is a cyclical stack. Given any card in the stack, you can almost instantly know the next card. It is based on a couple of simple algorithms. The stack looks quite random both value-wise as well as suit-wise. An equally easy variation X Deck 2 is also included. Easy to learn and simple to use, you should be able to get this down in a few minutes.

1st edition 2022, PDF 9 pages.

The performer shows the face of a 5-of-Diamonds playing card. A quick shake and the pips have changed their color from red to black. Another shake and it changes to the 5-of-Clubs.

Requires some arts and crafts to construct the gimmicked card.

1st edition 2022, video 37:11.

• About Discoveries
• From the President's Desk
• Featured Cover Photo
• Newsletter Name Contest
• Member Spotlight - Eric Gagne
• Welcome New Members
• A Retelling from the Past
• New Arrivals
• The Process of Collecting
• Solve the Mystery!
• Review - "Ionia: Magician Princess, Secrets Unlocked"
• Online Resources for Magic Collecting
• "Puzzling Props"
• 2022 Yankee Gathering Update
• Yankee Gathering Auction Changes
• Registration Raffle for YG 2022
• Upcoming Events
• Highs and Lows - Selected Auction Results
• Volunteer Request - Video Editing
• Classifieds

The editor is Patrick Lusch. The title has...

EFFECT: Any three people take ordinary watches the performer provides to a far corner of the room and set them to any hour and minute. They in turn each wrap their watch in a small opaque paper bag. These are placed anywhere and you can divine the exact hour and minute on each watch. No gimmicked watches or electronics are used. At the end, everything can be fully examined and nothing will be found amiss.

1st edition 2022, PDF 7 pages.

This is a wonderful account of a traveling showman's trials and tribulations in England and Scotland during the middle of the 19th century. Among other things, he was a conjurer. While this is not a book of tricks, one coin trick is explained as part of one story of his life. But much more interesting are the descriptions of various scams and the modus operandi of various ways to defraud the public by traveling hucksters the author encountered. The operation of the thimble rig is explained in detail. It is an account of how traveling showmen struggled essentially their entire life to make...

ABOUT RUB-A-DUB: The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies - the maids. The nonsense "Rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk," albeit of a more lascivious variety.

The Rub-a-Dub Move's inauspicious beginning began in 1909 at a time when, relatively speaking, magicians had a limited number of utilitarian sleights and techniques at their disposal. Besides, the Rub-a-Dub Move happened in the blink of an eye and was only an offbeat way to make a card disappear. ...

The number 9 is, for magicians and illusionists, a truly magical number: there are countless effects based on its multiple properties. In this e-book, I have collected some effects, more or less significant, with the aim of analyzing the various principles in general terms, in order to fully understand them and be able to apply them independently in new routines.

THOUSAND AND NO MORE THOUSAND: perhaps one of the best known "numeric" impromptu effects which, however, always obtains great success: we use it precisely to introduce comments on the magical properties of number 9.

THE UNIVERSE...

Il numero 9 è, per maghi ed illusionisti, in numero veramente magico: sono innumerevoli gli effetti basati sulle sue molteplici proprietà!

Ho raccolto, in questo e-book, alcuni effetti, più o meno significativi, con l’obiettivo di analizzare i vari principi in termini generali, in modo da comprenderli a fondo e poterli applicare autonomamente in nuove routines.

MILLE E NON PIU’ MILLE: forse uno degli effetti impromptu “numerici” più conosciuti che, però, ottiene sempre un grande successo: lo utilizziamo proprio per introdurre i commenti sulle magiche proprietà del numero...