Magic & Mentalism: page 421

A stunning color change of blank cards into printed cards.

You show four cards which are blank on both sides. Suddenly an ace of spades appears. When you spread the four cards all formerly blank cards are now aces. Turning over the fan shows four different backs. The blank cards have changed to non-blank front and back.

1st edition 2024, video 3:16.

An enhancement to Aronson's Shuffle Bored.

A streamlined version of the greatest self-working card trick of all time. More spectator involvement, more predictions, and a story that makes the prediction even more amazing. The prediction appears to happen in real-time, and it can be personalized for the spectator. Give it to the spectator to take home. This is a great marketing tool. Word-Doc files are included to make your prediction personalized with the spectator's name and date, along with your name and contract information. This is strong enough to close your close-up shows.

1st edition...

1500 One-liners for magicians.

Unlock the magic of laughter with Abraca-Laughter, the definitive collection of one-liner jokes crafted exclusively for magicians. Over the past three decades, Wolfgang Riebe has penned a treasure trove of short, punchy joke booklets across a multitude of magical themes. Now, he brings them all together in one indispensable volume, enriched with additional fresh and hilarious new material.

Inside this must-have ebook, you'll discover 1500 jokes in over 50 different categories, each packed with witty one-liners designed to elevate your act. Whether you're...

Essential reading for anyone interested in the psychic reading business.

Charles Garner has been a professional psychic reader for fifty years. He's also been a professional magician, horoscope pitchman, stage hypnotist, spook show entrepreneur, and seance medium. He relates some of his adventures in this ebook. Over the years, Charles has deliberately kept a low profile but is well known to his clients, who consult with him from all around the world. His client list is a who's who of the movie, theater, and sporting worlds.

In this ebook, Charles explains his "rules of work," the essential...

25 Drawing Duplication secrets from the masters.

"This is a fantastic resource for the working mentalist! José has done an amazing job of collating all of these classic methods into one comprehensive and convenient book. Some of these methods are extremely rare and difficult to find so this compilation really is a treasure chest of ideas waiting for you to open and delve inside!" - Marc Paul

Imagine learning one of the most mystifying feats of pure mind reading, an invaluable skill that's been closely guarded by the world's most legendary mentalists. What price would you place on such profound...

A spoof prediction routine with a surprising magical ending.

Here's a really fun, entertaining, and surprising card routine for magic or mentalism performances from a longtime pro, Scott F. Guinn.

After introducing a folded paper labeled "My Premonition," four different spectators each select a card. The chosen cards are left face up on the table. You reveal a series of amusing predictions on the paper that are . . . not so impressive. Everyone believes the whole thing is just a joke. But, then you spread the deck revealing all blue backs, before turning over the selections to reveal...

The Silent Bell is an impossible-looking playing card divination. It is totally sweatless, deckless, elegant, enigmatic and can also be made propless if you so wish. A physical deck of cards is not required to perform this effect. You can perform this anytime, anywhere to anyone. The impact of this routine is such that, surely, this will become your 'go to' deckless playing card divination effect.

An interesting principle called the Shadow Limitation principle is used here to achieve the desired impact.

You will be performing The Silent Bell just 10 minutes after reading this ebook....

A semi-automatic card magic effect in which the magician, using some cards from the deck, narrates an adventure characterized by thrill and mystery that will end with a disturbing final surprise.

This is a new effect where the magician, using a deck of cards, narrates the adventure of four bold young men (the protagonists, chosen at the “stop” by a spectator) who, on a dark and stormy night, meet three daredevil girls, who magically jumped into the center of the story by being the only cards turned face-up in the middle of the deck.

Gathered to face the night, they will find nothing...

Un effetto di cartomagia semi-automatica in cui il prestigiatore, servendosi di alcune carte del mazzo, narra un’avventura caratterizzata dal brivido e dal mistero che si concluderà con un’inquietante sorpresa finale!

Un nuovo effetto dove il prestigiatore, servendosi di un mazzo di carte, racconta l’avventura di quattro baldanzosi giovani (i protagonisti, scelti allo “stop” da uno spettatore) che, in una notte buia e tempestosa, incontrano tre ragazze temerarie, saltate magicamente al centro della storia essendo le uniche carte voltatesi di faccia in mezzo al mazzo.

Riunitasi...

These two TT vanishes are beginner vanishes, but they are oh-so different.

These are real foolers. Fit whatever you want in vanish one. It is a full gimmick vanish. Vanish two will hold just about anything as well. You will need a TT gimmick from your magic shop as described in the video. These are absolutely unmodified gimmicks. You probably already have one.

These two vanishes are angle-proof, close-up, easy to learn, and very deceptive. Perform these right in front of your spectator's eyes. No one, I mean no one sees the gimmick.

Vanish one is a deceptive play on the old beginner...

(Note: The The Bill bill gimmick is not manufactured. This manuscript provides detailed instructions to help you build the device for about $30 in about three hours.)

Effect: Using mysterious powers, the performer folds a dollar bill but unfolds a hundred. While musing on the legal status of the now larger bill, the performer is suddenly confronted by tiny police officers in a cop car! Well, not really, but there are flashing blue, red, and white police lights coming from somewhere. What happens after the police show up is your business, although I would recommend exercising good taste...

A person thinks of any card, mixes the deck any way they want, squares it up so that the holes are all the way through, cuts to any question card, answers the question and performs the action. In no more than 6 actions, the spectator themselves finds the playing card they thought of.

The deck works in such a way that the answers to the questions will lead the person to their thought-of card in 100% of the cases. This is hellishly cool.

And here's why it's cool:

• No memorization whatsoever, i.e. it's a completely self-working trick.
• No repeats of questions of the same kind.
• The playing...

Three cards are put face down on the table. Put three blank cards over the first card and the blank cards all change into the same card they were put on. Repeat this with the other two cards. The cards always magically change their faces. At the end, the faces change again and the entire deck is blank.

1st edition 2024, video 5:09.

Be more confident when using Equivoque.

This eBook provides you with a comprehensive understanding of Equivoque, enabling you to use it effectively and confidently in your routines. It is filled with a variety of graphics, illustrations, and examples to make the process of learning how to use " Equivoque" as easy and enjoyable as possible for you.

You will learn:

• What two things you must do when using Equivoque?
• One thing you should never do when performing Equivoque
• Master the fundamentals: Thoroughly understand the basic principles of Equivoque, including its structure and psychological...

Here's an incredibly direct book test that not only will amaze your audience, it will stun magicians, as well. There have been book tests with external paraphernalia and book tests with specially printed books... but never one so diabolically bold, clever, simple and direct as this.

The spectator simply opens a book, notes a word, and you can reveal it immediately or later. No involved mathematics. No stooge. None of the old thrusting of a card into the pages and all of that. No force, never the same word twice, and the book is an ordinary paperback that you can buy at any drug store. Or...

Translation of La Machine à Voler, a French classic revealing the legal circumvention of gambling laws to establish crooked gambling clubs and casinos. It also exposes cheating methods for baccarat.

This work is primarily interesting to the magician due to its exposure of cheating methods at baccarat including sleight-of-hand techniques. These are explained in detail including photos.

Excerpt from the preface:

Étude sur les escroqueries commises dans les cercles & les Casinos.

Extrait de la préface:

Walkabout mentalism is an extremely pleasant way to make a part- or full-time living. It gives you the opportunity to entertain people with mentalism, and anything else you wish to share with others. In this ebook, Richard Webster covers his unique way of doing walkabout and close-up mentalism. When he approaches a group, he offers them a lucky charm, a quick reading, a psychic experiment, a magic trick, or a joke. This ebook covers the Real Thing, 14 mentalism effects, five mnemonics and memory effects, jokes, and how to get started in readings. There's even a brief section on standup performing,...

This is a digital edition of the first edition of this book. It has wonderful photos. The later edition in three volumes published by Magic Inc. replaced the photos with line drawings. The book captures Buckingham's manipulation moves and routines for billiard balls, coins, and thimbles. It has practical advice from a successful pro and is perhaps the finest book on this subject ever published.

Here is the text from the inside flaps of the first edition:

"Scott's work reminds me of the magic I loved from late masters like Tommy Wonder or Fred Kaps and I sometimes found the scripts possibly superior to such masters." - Etienne Lorenceau

"I am also a big fan of your scripts." - Floyd Collins

Excerpt from the introduction:

Just print and perform.

In my 50+ years as a magic creator, author, and dealer, I have lived through more than a couple of operational changes. When I started my magician's service, freight and distribution were not a consideration, and our initial trade terms in this country were a minimum order of the then equivalent of 80 US cents, (Rs.25.00) post-free. We also sent a couple of parcels every day around the world, and our business grew over the years to a range of over 2000 items and over $1 million of sales (to the end customer) every year.

Things kept changing, with the freight galloping...

An impromptu mentalism effect involving a merely thought card, chosen from aces and figures, and in which, despite the possibility of the spectator lying, the real truth will always be revealed by the Magician.

Truth Bites is a mentalism effect but also a packet trick always ready when needed, where a spectator thinks of a card that could be one of the four aces or any figure in the deck (Jacks, Queens or Kings). She will also secretly choose a role to play: Knight, who will always tell the truth, or rogue who, on the contrary, will lie all the time.

The illusionist, after quickly "Zig...

Un effetto impromptu di Mentalismo che comporta una carta solamente PENSATA, scelta tra Assi e Figure, e in cui, nonostante la possibilità per lo spettatore di Mentire, la Verità in tutte le sue forme verrà sempre rivelata dal Mago!

”Truth Bites” è un effetto di Mentalismo ma anche un Packet Trick sempre pronto all’occorrenza, dove una spettatrice pensa ad una carta che potrà essere uno dei quattro Assi oppure una qualsiasi Figura del mazzo. Si sceglierà segretamente anche un ruolo da ricoprire: Cavaliere, che dirà sempre la Verità, oppure Furfante che, al contrario, mentirà...

You show four cards with blue dots and another four cards with red dots. Then you stick a blue dot over a red dot card and a red dot over a blue dot card. After 5 seconds the dot color of the remaining three cards in each packet has changed, too.

You continue to mix the cards but they always separate into packs of the same color, like oil and water separate. In the final sequence, you remove the two dots you stuck on in the first phase and the colors change again magically.

1st edition 2024, video 5:46.