Magic & Conjuring: page 317

Bankteller is a powerful money prediction effect that involves several people: You hand a volunteer a prediction envelope. You show an empty stack of envelopes, you ask several people to put one coin each in that empty envelope, whilst you look away. You let the volunteer seal the envelope. After you noticed that a few of the contributors have cheated, you ask the volunteer to open the envelope and you predicted the exact amount collected; No swami writing!

Then you ask her to take any three coins and slip them in envelopes and mix them up. You will know where each coin is.

As a final thought...

I have studied a linking pin routine myself many years ago. It wasn't this Slydini routine, but the effect is very strong because safety-pins are familiar to everyone. And if you can do something magical with a common object then you have a miracle at your hands. Now you can learn a routine which the master of misdirection devised himself.

Dennis writes:

"A cool and animated levitation of a card or dollar bill... EASY TO MAKE!"

However, it was also a genuine stepping stone in the thought processes that would eventually lead to Enlightenment: The Ultimate Floating Card - which is way superior. So, controversial...

Bert Pratt was a bookworm, somebody who worked his way through libraries and book stores to find the odd appearance of magic in non-magic books. He wrote a series of articles which were published in the Midget Magician, a journal that saw a print run of only 50. It is therefore safe to assume you have never read these articles.

It includes excerpts from books and magazines now practically unobtainable. Bert Pratt, writing as Ptinos, delved deeply into the old book marts of London, into libraries, into magazine files, to find magic and magical references. The resulting reading is charming,...

Everything you need to know: vanishes, appearances, changes, multiplying, producing, explanation of various props to glamorize your cigarette work, etc. Carefully explained with pictures so that even the beginner can easily understand and do these tricks. A great little handbook of cigarette work, with tricks you will use.

1st edition 1957, 20 pages; digital edition 2012, 27 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Cigarette Vanisher (Pull)
7. The Professional Vanish
8. The Squeeze Vanish
9. Thumb Tip Vanish
10. Ireland Simplex Cigarette Production Act
13. Cigarettes-Cigars-Pipe
17. The Invisible Cigarette
19. Cigarette...

Original Aces material, including the Fair Deal Aces, a new approach with no fake cards, Paging the Aces (the moves of which magicians won't follow), Four by Twelve Aces, a card trick in the Vernon tradition. This ebook is for card men who enjoy clever technical sleight of hand.

1st edition 1950, 2nd edition 1974, 12 pages; digital edition 2012, 12 pages.

A comedy routine based on your buttons and their crazy antics - although they never leave your suit! Also routines and follow-ups for the famous Professor Cheer Comedy Rope Trick, and other hilarity by one of your favorite funny men.

• "EXCUSE IT PLEASE, I SEEM TO HAVE A RAVELING"
• COMPACT VERSION OF "COMEDY ROPE"
• KICKER FINISHES FOR THE COMEDY ROPE
• "WHAT'S YOUR LINE?"
• ROPE HOLD OUT
• "YOUR BUTTONS ARE LOOSE"

1st digital edition 2013, 13 pages.

This ebook contains little tidbits and ideas that you can place right into your act. Some are clever, some are cute and some will make you (and your audiences) laugh out loud!

• Memento
• Three
• Borrowing Money By Remote Control
• Moola Monte
• Silk Extraction
• A Card Stabbing Souvenir
• In Miniature
• Odds And Ends
• Escape
• Impromptu Bullet Catching

1st edition 1959; 1st digital edition 2013, 15 pages.

An authoritative ebook on collecting for collectors. Written by one of the world's foremost collectors. Covers the whole subject of the care and arrangement of the magical library, data on the books themselves, bookplates with pages of examples, plus the Mulholland article on same. Other bits by well known collectors. Highly recommended to all who are building up their magic libraries, no matter how small at present. Preface by John Mulholland.

1st edition 1952 (self); 2nd edition 1958 (Ireland Magic); 1st digital edition, 44 pages.

ABhyaas Change is a fast and stunning card color change that happens in a split second and a small shake. Often confused to be done using gimmicks, it is 100% IMPROMPTU and requires 100% SLEIGHT OF HAND. Taught here are four different ways of performing this color change and three clean-up options.

[Note: It was brought to my attention that ABhyaas Change looks similar to Cody Nottingham's SOLE Change taught in his release Changes. Later, I found out that both changes are different in terms of grip, secret move, end position etc. It's mere co-incidence that they look similar.

1st edition 2014, runtime 7 minutes.

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Four exquisite moves.

• Ambience Control + a two card transposition version
• Layer Change
• Topsy Force
• Turvy Control

1st edition 2015

A compilation of the very best methods of producing lighted cigarettes. Covers all the various sleights and moves for this production. 36 illustrations. The last chapter takes up the pipe production, which is always a popular finish with cigarette manipulators.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Unfortunately, some of our magical effects have something of a "who cares?" stigma: pick a card, lose the card, find the card . . . and our audience is thinking, who cares? Couples gives spectators a "stake" on the effect, creating audience involvement and interest.

You're performing walk-around at a party and a couple, sitting at a small table, catches your attention. They ask to see some magic. You introduce yourself and they introduce themselves as Jim and Mary. They laugh and enjoy your magic, and are thrilled when you say, "I'm going to do something really special for you. This is a...

1 download 2 deceptive card moves 3 routines 4 the real world workers.

THE MOVES // by AJ: Topsy is a single card force utilizing no breaks whatsoever and Turvy is a single / multiple card control to the bottom. They both are easy and fun to learn. You'll be doing these in no time.

THE ROUTINES // by Abhinav:

SATELLITE SIGNAL: 3 spectators stop at three random cards (no forces) and send their thoughts to the performer (all at once) the performer receives the thoughts and finds the cards and figures out which card belongs to which of the 3 spectators.

Mr. MIRACLE: A selection gets...

• Prelude To A Lecture
• Rope 'N' Silk
• Dicemania
• Boomerang Cards
• The Joker And The Wallet
• The Spelling Game
• The Radical Red Spot
• Trio Surprise
• Computer Card

1st edition 1976, 17 pages; PDF 30 pages.

Two eye-popping 2 card transpositions using Ablest Change.

• Transposition #1 is for you to pump up your social media.
• Transposition #2 is simply an everyday miracle.

1st edition 2020, length 5:30

Écrit en français par Jean Fare. Publié en souvenir de la Convention de Paris de 1973 de la Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques. Ce livre contient des astuces de gros plan brillantes de la plupart des meilleurs magiciens de gros plan des cent dernières années.

• introduction
• La Carte Et L’etui A Cigarettes / Bert Allerton
• Une Transposition Surprenante / Bro. John Hamman
• Sans Deussus Dessous... En Couleurs / Bruce Cervon
• Faites Comme Moi? / Milton Kort
• Le Verre A Travers La Table / Albert Goshman
• Forçage Automatique / Al Leech
• Deux Cartes A Travers Un Magasine / Dai Vernon
• A La Pointe D’un Couteau / Edward Marlo

Forget for a moment what you know about classic theory, and discover a different way to look at misdirection, particularly in the world of video clips and zoom meetings. Bertini demonstrates how this applies to coin magic, but the concept remains valid for any type of close-up magic.

1st edition 2020, video 3 min 50 sec.

Tips on how to make money with magic and in particular kid shows. He addresses topics such as name, costume, publicity, booking, fee charged, tricks and props, etc. Includes a funny and at the same time revealing introduction by his wife.

1st edition 1972, PDF 7 pages.

A useful little handbook full of ways to produce a silk - fifty of them in all. Easy ways to obtain a silk magically. Methods that can be blended into the silk effect you desire to do.

1st edition 1943, 8 pages; PDF 5 pages.

A visual penetration of coin through can.

The performer finishes his / her can of drink and shakes every last drop out. A coin is then shown and placed in the palm of the other hand. The base of the can is impacted on the coin several times and then penetrates the base of the can. The spectators can hear the coin pass through the metal. The coin is inside the can and the spectator can take the coin out and keep both items if they wish.

This is a great little idea combining a common gimmick with a clever move to accomplish a coin penetrating a can - a visual and audible effect.

1st edition...

A spectator is asked to freely cut a shuffled deck of playing cards and hide the cut-off portion in his pocket, while the magician is standing far from the table with his head turned away.

The spectator puts the remaining cards back into the case and hands it to the magician. Without even looking at it, the magician weighs the card case in his hands. He is immediately able to tell the spectator the exact number of cards that are in the spectator’s pocket.

• Can even be done blindfolded
• The case is not gimmicked
• No force of any kind
• No stooges
• No questions
• No fishing
• No calculating...

This video is in Vietnamese. Instructions are translated to English by an interpreter.

The selected card is lost in the deck. The magician takes a pencil and stabs through the center of the deck. Every single card is destroyed, but one card remains unharmed, that's the selected card.

• The deck can be examined
• No force

1st edition 2016, length 12min

If it's laughter you want, then this is the ebook for you.

Short one-line jokes covering a broad variety of topics and ideal for many different occasions. If you are simply searching for a few funny jokes to add to your show, or spice up an old routine, you are bound to find some new material within this treasure trove of modern one-liners.

Short one-line jokes for every occasion:

• 40 is the new 30? Try telling that to a speed camera!
• Do not touch, must be the scariest thing to read in Braille!
• Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
• I have a fear of German sausages!...