Magic & Conjuring: page 421

This is not a trick but a performance piece.

• A trick has the performance wrapped within the secret or the method of the trick.
• A performance piece has the secret or the method wrapped within the performance.

It is called Performer's ACAAN because

• This ACAAN looks way bigger in comparison to how conventional ACAANs are approached
• It allows to you get a minimum of seven people to participate / play from their seats and only one of them joins you on stage.
• It also allows you to move among the audience, get close to them, thus ensuring ample audience engagement and more elbow room...

This is Dr. Lynn's autobiography describing his travels in Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, India, and other countries. He was the earliest Western magician to perform in China and Japan. He had a long-lasting rivalry with J. N. Maskelyne appearing a week before Maskelyne in the Egyptian Hall in London in the spring of 1873.

In the "How It's Done" section he provides mock descriptions of some of his tricks.

• TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF DR. LYNN
• HOW IT'S DONE
  • The Mysterious Spirit-writing
  • The Blood-writing on the Arm
  • Time in a Fix
  • The Pomaceous Puzzle
  • The Ornithological Inexplicability
  • The...

Includes news stories and photos from Hardeen's life as an escape artist. Plus some handcuff secrets and a couple of tricks are explained.

• Theo. Weiss Hardeen
  • Chief Of Police Stirling Baffled
  • The Murderous Insane Strait-Jacket Challenge
  • Hardeen Appears Before A Mighty Audience Of Eighty Thousand People
  • King Oscar Of Sweden Sees Hardeen
  • Klaw And Erlanger Engage Hardeen
  • Hardeen Jumps Heavily Manacled Into The Ohio River From The 18th Street Bridge, A Distance Of Sixty Feet, Into Six Feet Of Water, And Releases Himself While Under Water
  • Lives Of Thousands Of People Jeopardized
  • Hardeen...

A small plastic tub with a tight push-on lid is shown, opened, and a collection of coins tipped from inside. The performer puts his initials on a self-adhesive round sticker, attaches it to one of the coins, and then repeats the process for the other side of the coin with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials.

The rest of the coins are returned to the tub and the lid is pushed back on. Taking the marked coin into his hand the performer strikes it against the bottom of the container, immediately showing that both his hands are empty.

The tub is handed to a spectator who prises off...

A location of a selected card under true test conditions. The deck is shuffled before and after the selection ... yet the card can be located. It's fooled many well-versed magicians, so laymen don't stand a chance. Read on. (There is a full performance video with a spectator attached below as well.)

Imagine:

The magician introduces a deck of cards - he spreads it face-up to show that all the cards are different. The spectator is invited to thoroughly examine and shuffle the deck.

The magician then explains (as he gives a demonstration) that they are to select a card by simply cutting...

EFFECT

One bullet. Six chambers. One Ace of Spades. Six positions among five red cards. You give the cards to the participant for examination. The participant secretly inserts the "bullet" into one of the six chambers and hands you back the "gun".

The cards lie on your wide-open hand, you don't even look at them. You look at the participant. He knows where the bullet is. As you deal the first card face up, you say: "clic". The card is red. Empty chamber.

You keep looking at your participant. How does he feel about the next one? You deal the next one face up. Red card, empty chamber....

All sleights - no gimmicks. A brilliant book of magic with billiard balls.

There's something to be said for manipulative magic, for there is nothing to hide once the routine is finished. The various moves, effects and routines can be interspersed with the regular multiplying billiard balls effect to create a blended act that leaves your audience breathless. And what performer worth his or her salt doesn't strive for that?

Partial contents:

• Hat and Ball Routine
• Stealing a Billiard Ball from the Pocket
• Billiard Ball Vanish and Recovery
• Vanishing a Ball into the Coat Pocket
• Ball Vanish...

The magician picks up a card box as if to demonstrate a card trick and discovers that it rattles. Opening it, he tips from within four 3-volt circular batteries. Taking one of the batteries into his fist, he squeezes it and on opening the hand it is seen to have changed to a more powerful AAA battery. Holding this battery at the fingertips, the performer passes his other hand across it and causes it to visibly change to a larger AA battery.

Finally, he clasps his two empty hands together and on parting them reveals that now a square 9-volt battery has magically appeared!

No gimmicks...

Ideas for radio magic, podcasts, and ZOOM shows

Radio has a following of thousands of listeners. It is a powerful promotional vehicle for magicians that the magic press have long neglected.

Combining the extensive research of Ian Fenn with the previously unpublished thoughts of Arthur Setterington, this ebook aims to help magicians make the most of this challenging medium.

It's not merely a book of tricks. It's intended to give you the information you need to create your own routines that will turn listeners into clients or live audiences.

Contents

• Introduction
• History of radio...

It's never been done before because it's never been possible until now and now you can predict the assisting spectator's actual beliefs. For the kicker, a second prediction nails any card of 52 the spectator names!

There have been no other predictions like these in the history of magic and mentalism. No sleights. No memorization. Instant reset. No refills. It can be a different card every time. Nothing added and nothing taken away.

Also included as part of the The Bammo I Don't Know Wallet Dossier 5.0, so get it there or get it here.

You will need a deck of cards, a Sharpie, and a Himber or Z-fold wallet.

1st edition...

An entertaining look at the annual enchanting Tenyo bonus program from 1996 to 2023.

The T-series of Tenyo magic tricks is world-famous. Less well-known is the "Plus 1" series, which is only available in Japan and only for points that can be collected with purchased T-series tricks. For almost 30 years, a new trick has been released every year in this Plus 1 series. Solano presents these 28 tricks here.

It is a wonderful collector's theme that contains many a trick-technical gem.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance Game
• 1998: Fortune Telling Card
• 1999: Dream Psychometry ...

Eine kurzweilige Betrachtung des von Tenyo jährlich neu aufgelegten zauberhaften Bonusprogramms der Jahre 1996 bis 2023.

Die T-Serie von Tenyo Zaubertricks ist weltbekannt. Weniger bekannt ist die "Plus 1" Serie die nur in Japan erhältlich ist und nur gegen Punkte die man mit gekauften T-Serien Tricks sammeln kann. Seit fast mehr als 30 Jahren kommt in dieser Plus-1 Serie jedes Jahr ein neuer Trick heraus. Solano stellt diese 28 Tricks hier vor.

Es ist ein wunderschönes Sammelthema das so manches tricktechnisches Gustostückerl beinhaltet.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance...

This effect has an innovative twist on the traditional Free Will plot, where the spectator makes all the choices. Yet, your prediction aligns perfectly with their selections, a feat achieved using only one prediction. This new approach utilizes a combination of psychological techniques and physical methods, all designed to maximize the chances of achieving the most deceptive and cleanest outcome possible. This effect serves as a fantastic opener, making it a suitable addition to your Everyday Carry (EDC), and best of all, it resets automatically. There are no complex flowcharts to memorize,...

Note: For those of you who own Rain Man and Rain Man Again, this uses a completely different method.

Imagine:

The magician and the spectator are seated together at a table. The magician introduces a deck of cards, which he hands to the spectator - they are asked to examine and shuffle it thoroughly. Once they're done shuffling, the magician takes back the deck and holds it. He says, "I want you to generate a random number between 1 and 52. Of course, I could have you name one, but then you may think I psychologically influenced you towards a particular number or that I relied on you to think of a popular...

20 practical illusions that you can build yourself.

Jim Sommers was a full-time professional magician who specialized in illusions. Throughout his career, he always used a few illusions in the show that he built himself. His philosophy in designing, building, and thinking about illusions is based on the presupposition that many magicians live in small apartments, drive small cars, and have to handle their props by themselves. The tricks in this ebook are designed to fit into the lifestyle of these magicians.

• About Jim Sommers
• The Money Tree
• Boy To Rabbit
• Flying Carpet Plus
• Tabouret ...

An effortless variation on the ACAAN plot where a thought-of card is found at the magician's predicted number.

The magician writes down a prediction on a business card before asking the spectator to make up a playing card:

• First, the magician divides the deck into two piles and the spectator decides which one will be the ''value'' pile and which one will be the ''suit'' pile.
• Then, the magician deals the top cards of each pile at the same time and keeps dealing the next cards until the spectator orders him to stop.
• Finally, the spectator uses the cards he stopped at and combines the...

Introducing Balloon Comedy & Magic: Your ultimate guide to hilarious balloon modelling for magicians.

Step into a world where laughter reigns supreme and magic comes alive with every twist and turn of a balloon. In this captivating ebook, magicians of all levels will discover the secrets to infusing their performances with uproarious comedy and mesmerizing magic using the versatile art of balloon modeling.

Inside Balloon Comedy & Magic, you'll find a treasure trove of side-splitting jokes, witty routines, and clever comedic techniques perfectly tailored for the magician's stage. Learn...

Two coins are tipped from a purse and are placed apart on the table. They are then covered by two playing cards. With no apparent moves the two coins are suddenly found together under one of the cards. Replacing them apart again, they are covered once more. Again the two coins magically jump together under one card. Finally, one coin is placed back into the purse and the other is covered by the two cards. Instantly it vanishes and is found inside the purse with the first coin.

This sleight-of-hand effect requires no gimmicks and must be worked on a close-up mat. You will only require some...

There are currently three e-books in the Four-midable Magic Series, each containing four top routines dedicated to a particular type of magic.

Three blank cards change into cards with credit card images on them and then change ultimately into banknotes.

1st edition 2024, video 3:17.

You show two cards, one of which has a big hole in the center. You put them together and suddenly the non-hole card has transformed into a stack of banknotes.

1st edition 2024, video 1:51.

Each issue of this series by Gregg Webb started out as three articles - hence the name. Usually, each issue was devoted to a topic such as cards, coins, or mental magic ideas. Usually, two articles were about specific tricks and the 3rd article was sometimes an article about theory or other more general topics.

There is even material about how to learn to be creative and not simply follow the crowd. The series contains some of Gregg's most original thinking in years. If you like "outside the box" thinking, try this. Some of the items are improvements and streamlined versions of Gregg's...

This is the publication where J. B. Rhine coined the term Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) and reported on the results of his experiments at Duke University using the Zener symbol cards (today known as ESP cards) designed by his colleague Karl Zener during the early 1930s. The results Rhine reported were remarkable and suggested that ESP existed.

However, other academic institutes could not replicate the results. There were many problems with the experimental design Dr. Rhine used. The remarkable results he achieved were likely a combination of sensory leakage and outright cheating. One of...

The trick that fooled the best cardmen in the world.

"'The Exception' totally fooled me. The method is diabolical. All the avenues to explanation are blocked. That's what an impossible location is supposed to do. And this trick does it." - Mike Powers

"'The Exception' is composed of several known and reliable methods arranged in a way that will make them unrecognizable to most students of card magic methodology. If you are looking for something quick and easy to add to your existing strolling set, this is probably not for you. However, if you're a fan of impossible locations that employ an ordinary...