Magic & Conjuring: page 73

Squeeze is a wonderful effect created by Tommy Wonder. A regular deck of cards is 'squeezed' into a miniture case. It is an incredibly visual effect and was published in the first volume of the Books Of Wonder on page 149.

The biggest problem with this effect is to prepare and build the props. In order to remove the time consuming design work Troels Holm has created the necessary drawings. These sheets make it easy for you to produce all the special items needed for this trick. However, keep in mind that even with these PDFs there is still a significant amount of work left to build all props and prepare...

In 1950 mathematician and magician William Fitch Cheney Jr. published a two-person card trick. Some consider it the best mathematical card trick ever devised. The basic effect is as follows.

Obviously the identity of the...

Hier Werner Miller nimmt das 4x4 Quadrat in Angriff. (Im E-Z Square 1 geht es um das 5x5 Quadrat.). Sie werden eine neue Methode für das 4x4 Quadrat lernen bei dem Zuschauer zwei oder drei Zahlen vorgeben kann.

Die wertvollste Routine in diesem Heft ist die Bonusroutine. Eine neuartige Vorführung die Ihre Aufgabe erleichtert und es Ihnen erlaubt die Summe des Quadrates vorauszusagen. Der Effekt ist wie folgt:

Legen Sie ein Stoffmassband, wie es Schneider zum Vermessen verwenden, und eine Vorhersage auf den Tisch. Geben Sie die Vorhersage einem Zuschauer. Sie werden diese Vorhersage nie wieder berühren....

Here Werner Miller attacks the 4x4 square. (E-Z Square 1 deals with the 5x5 square.). You will learn a new and easy method to construct a 4x4 magic square starting with two or four given numbers.

The real gem in this manuscript is the bonus routine. It is a unique presentation which makes your work simpler and allows you to predict the sum of the square. The effect is as follows:

Take out a soft measuring tape of the kind tailors use (which has centimeters or inches marked on both sides), and a prediction. Give the prediction to a spectator for safekeeping. You will never touch it again. Have two...

Vierundzwanzig halbautomatische Zaubertricks mit Karten vom Österreichischen 'Martin Gardner'. Wenn es darum geht die Mathematik und die Zauberkunst zu verbinden dann ist Werner Miller einer der bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten Spezialisten.

Erstausgabe 2006; 41 Seiten

Sechsundzwanzig halbautomatische Tricks. Alle basieren auf klugen mathematischen Methoden. Die meisten verwenden Spielkarten.

Erstausgabe 2007; 40 Seiten

Bevorzugen Sie Kartentricks, die (fast) von selbst gehen, damit Sie sich voll auf die Präsentation konzentrieren können? Wollen Sie Ihr Publikum als Rechengenie beeindrucken, ohne Ihre kleinen grauen Zellen dabei ernsthaft zu fordern? In diesem E-Book finden Sie ca. 90 neue Effekte, Routinen und Methoden für Kartenfreaks, Mentalisten und Rechenkünstler, alles ausschließlich halbautomatische Tricks ("Selbstgänger") ohne Fingerfertigkeit und ohne "Gehirnakrobatik".

Erstausgabe 2002; 105 Seiten

Right Now is the name of Nefesch's new manuscript, and includes three mentalism effects, that you can do any time anywhere to convince people that you can really read their minds. These are effects you can peform anytime someone asks you: "READ MY MIND RIGHT NOW."

These are the effects included:

HOT (stands for Heads or Tails)
This is a three steps routine, in which you ask your spectator for a coin (any coin) you ask them to flip it in the air and to cath it in their hands, without letting you see it. You ask them to take a look at the coin, to find out if it is face or tails up, you...

This is Andrew's handling of Roy Walton’s “The Collectors” plot. If you are familiar with his original plot, here, the magic moment takes place in the card case and it has served Andrew well over the years. He developed this handling while he was playing a number of “The Collectors” effects during the afternoon in the year of 2006.

Effect: The performer places three Kings in the card case. The performer then proceeds to have two spectators to freely choose two cards from the deck. The two selections are signed and lost in the deck. The performer waves his hand over the card case...

Spectator Cuts the Aces with a truly different twist. It's very easy to do and highly entertaining...The four kings magically assemble to a single pile only to transform into four separate spectator selections!

"This is an excellent trick! One of your best yet!" - Peter Duffie

"I like 'Divide & Conjure' very much because it is easy and direct to the point; these are the effects that I favor. Keep up the good work!" - Aldo Colombini

"Andrew has another clever e-trick that is very, very good and easy to do." - Cameron Francis

"This has an excellent presentation, making it a wonderfully entertaining card routine." - Peter Duffie

"Lord of the Rings effect was very sound, the moves routined into each other perfectly. The presentation for that effect was truly a wonderful idea! You took what would be just another card trick and made it a real joy to present." - Shannon Clark

"Martin has taken an age old principle and finessed it into a modern and slick effect. Perfect to carry in your wallet." - Ben Harris

You can turn this into a prediction effect and you'll be able to predict their freely thought of card. You can always carry it with you.

Keypoints to remember:

• very easy to perform
• 100% accurate every time
• no sleight...

This is an ebook of card effects for the magician who's looking for strong impromptu card magic. It contains twenty-five new routines with just a regular deck of cards and as mentioned before, strictly impromptu.

Contributors: John Bragoli, Stephen Clark, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Ken de Courcy, Paul Gordon, Tom Hubbard, Joe Hustler, Stewart James, Kinos, Paul Marcus, Max Maven, Peter Rees, Joe Riding, John Yeager.

1st edition 2008; 18 pages

35 new routines totally impromptu, with no set-ups or difficult sleight of hand used, and all the routines require just a regular deck of cards and all of them are very easy to do.

Contributors: Jack Avis, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Peter Duffie, Karl Fulves, Mike Gancia, Paul Gordon, Marty Kane, Ryan Matney, Werner Miller, Reinhard Müller, Robin Robertson, Roy Walton.

1st edition 2007; 24 pages

The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times.

• Anti Gravity Glasses: A feature of Ganson's act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by Unique Studios for many years and now you can easily make this up at home and use it.
• Fred Kaps Coins and Glass Routine: This is the exact routine used by Fred Kaps throughout his career. One of the finest routines with coins ever!
• Peter Warlock's Take a Bow:...

A continuation of the original volume, The Collected OORT, The Supplemental OORT continues its exploration of the subject of cold reading through 19 more essays by such authors as; Craig Browning, R. Lee Davis, Ian Fabian, Alain Gesbert, Brother Shadow, William Thomas, Philemon Vanderbeck, A. E. Waite, Larry White and Jon Why.

Contents include:

• METHODOLOGIES
  • Victoria’s Secret
  • The French Method
  • The Path of Roodmas
  • Maternal Bibliomancy
  • Modern Arcana
  • Over The Rainbow
  • The Prolix Spirit Revisited
  • A Wicked Pack of Cards
  • Or Would You Rather Be A Pig?
• TECHNIQUES
  • Tricks of the Trade
  • Oneiromancy
  • Lines of Thought ...

You ask the spectator to name any card that they like. No force is involved and it truly is a completely free choice. You then hand them your phone which has the Google search engine on the screen ready for the magic to happen. you ask them to type "what is my card?" or something similar into Google and hit the "Google search" button.

Now watch as their face drops. Google has not only told them what card they freely thought off but it has also brought up a full page full of search results linked to the card. They can even go into the images section and be greeted with pages of image results...

"The easiest and most portable book test to date!" - Erik Jansson

You show the spectator an ebook on your phone and run through how it works (scrolling etc,) for them... You let them see that every single page is different before you have a page randomly selected. You hold the phone face...

"Moment's Notice contained a superb collection of impromptu card effects. In this second volume, Cameron has done it again ... in fact, this second volume might even be better than the first, if that is at all possible!" - Peter Duffie

"This is the kind of material I like, not the difficult to do and with the EFFECT in mind!" - Aldo Colombini

"Cameron's material from the Moment's Notice series makes me want to go for a swim in Antarctica. It's that freakin hot!" - Donny Orbit

"I didn't want Moment's Notice 1 to end. This one picks up perfectly where the last left of. Filled with brilliantly commercial impromptu effect...

It is a collection of 7 strong card effects by David Britland. You will find various effect themes from oil and water to sandwich, and from elevator to a whole lot of twisting.

1st edition 1983, original 20 pages; PDF 25 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Disco
8. High Rise
11. O + W
15. Nautilace
16. - All Around Twist
17. - With 4
17. - The Interlock Twist
17. - The Double Twist
19. Jackrobats
23. Sandswitch

Master of the Game is an amazing poker prediction which can be performed totally impromptu, with a spectator shuffled deck and with essentially no sleight-of-hand unless you consider crimping a card sleight-of-hand.

Imagine the following. A spectator shuffles an ordinary deck, perhaps his own. The performer tells of a strange dream in which he and the spectator played a simple game of cards. Furthermore, the performer has set down the details of the dream on a slip of paper which is sealed inside and envelope. The envelope is placed on the table where it remains for the rest of the routine. ...

Effect:
Two red Jacks are placed on the table. A card is freely selected and signed before it is lost in the deck. One of the Jacks is placed on top of the deck and the other on the bottom of the deck. The magician waves his hand over the deck, magically, the first Jack vanishes and upon flipping over the deck, the second Jack seems to have vanished, too. The deck is spread and a face-down card is trapped in between the Jacks and this proves to be the spectator's selection.

1st edition 2010; 5 pages.

Jack Delvin is on the cover.

• Magic Circle President Jack Delvin talks to James Ward
• The International Magic Convention Reported
• Robert Bombassel's Son of a Gun
• Stephen Jones's Ace in the Hole
• Werner Miller's Angelina Knows

January 2010; 32 pages.

Dynamo is on the cover.

• Dynamo in conversation
• Michael Lyth's Mirror Trick
• Chris Wardle's Long-distance Card trick
• John Helvin's Dead Man's Hand
• J-Day at The Magic Circle
• Roy Walton's Ghostly Poker

December 2009; 32 pages.