Magic & Conjuring: page 354

Clever material for the magician and comedy entertainer. An assortment of funny bits and comedic trick patter.

• Introduction
• 'The Telly' (Or 'Goggle-Box Gags' )
• Club-Single For Comedian
• 'So Tired'! Mono. For Languid Comedian
• Those 'Headshrinkers'!
• Patter For Cigarette-Routine
• 'Grandson Of Davy Crockett'!
• Patter For Flower Productions And 'Botania', Etc.
• 'Odds And Boffs'
• 'Zany-Bits'
• Patter For 'Cut And Restored Rope'
• 'The Invisible Cigarette', And Vanishing Cigarette
• 'The Little Monsters'
• Philosophy
• Wives
• Marriage
• Did You Hear About The...
• 'Courting Capers'
• Patter For Vanishing...

A choice collection of smart close-up and pocket tricks of the type for which Dr. Ervin was famous. Originally sold as four separate booklets, these have now been combined into a single, greatly enlarged volume, edited by Ralph W. Read and fully illustrated.

Contains tricks with bills, coins, cigarettes, tobacco, matches, silks, needles, playing cards, ropes, mind reading, livestock, and more. Comedy, straight magic, even a few stunts that will play well as bar betchas. There's plenty of variety to capture and keep any audience's attention.

Our favorites include a very clever Thumb Tie that uses...

This clever mathematical principle allows you to find a thought item among any number of items, even though you do not know the initial order. You don't even need to know what they are. You see nothing. It is entirely hands off and improvised, and can even be done over the phone. It works with any number of flat objects (cards, index or business cards, coasters, etc.) or usual objects (key, coin, lighter, pen, etc.).

Two practical examples are provided, but it is so easy that you'll be able to improvise your own mentalism effects with borrowed objects or cards, or with your own business...

Jack Yates is renowned as a creative innovator as evidenced by his many contributions to magical literature. This work contains nine first-class routines with a mental flavour including Clue which is worth its weight in gold and the P&S System.

Contents

• Monty: Three spectators choose one card each and then exchange them so that no one has his original selection. Despite this you are able to tell each spectator the identity of the card he now holds.
• Spy Story: A spectator's selected card is revealed when the performer magically decodes a secret message.
• Choice: A spectator chooses one...

Jack Yates is renowned as a creative innovator as evidenced by his many contributions to magical literature. This work contains nine first-class routines with a mental flavour including Clue which is worth its weight in gold and the P&S System.

Contents

• Monty: Three spectators choose one card each and then exchange them so that no one has his original selection. Despite this you are able to tell each spectator the identity of the card he now holds.
• Spy Story: A spectator's selected card is revealed when the performer magically decodes a secret message.
• Choice: A spectator chooses one...

Cluster Bomb is a new card effect that hits spectators hard. Watch the demo below. The routine is fully explained in a 25 minute video presentation that you can download to your computer.

Note that only three blanks are used and nothing is added or palmed away. This is not self-working but only basic card skills are required. There are no assumptions of knowledge - everything is explained.

A simple gimmick is required and you will see Peter make one on the video in one minute.

Video Content:

• Performance
• Getting Started
• Introductory Phase
• Mid-phase
• End Phase
• Credits

1st...

Coalesce is a scripted 30 minute act of prediction, pseudo-hypnosis, mind reading (both by performer as well as the participant).

It only needs:

• A deck of cards, a marker and 2 extra jokers
• An envelope with 3 minutes of preparation (no arts and crafts)
• A close-up pad
• A table and 3 chairs

ATCC :: A hybrid of a card trick and the plot spectator as mind reader dressed in the clothes of...

Code Red, from a non-mentalism perspective, has several meanings, including being a code used in hospitals to alert staff to various emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information with zero misunderstanding so that errors can be avoided. Within hospitals, codes can be posted on placards throughout the hospital, or even on employee ID badges for ease of reference. Code Red in hospitals is certainly an established protocol. Within mentalism, however, I first introduced Code Red in my performance in 2014, so it is a new concept. As the technique’s originator, I define...

Où l'on trouve, parmi plusieurs Tours dont il n'est point parlé dans son Testament, diverses Récréations relatives aux Sciences and Beaux-Arts.

1793, 248 pages.

A mentalism routine with dice and coffee cups.

Three dice are rolled, and a number is freely and fairly created by the volunteer. No force of any kind. You then show a prediction that has been in full view the entire show, and that prediction is 100% correct.

1st edition 2023, PDF 5 pages.

3 Invisible Keys of Wonder is the first edition of Coffee Break Mental Magic, a weekly Paul Voodini PDF publication featuring stunning routines that utilize commonplace tools of mentalism, and sold for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The emphasis on the routines is powerful storylines and simple mechanics, meaning that all can enjoy them and use them, from beginners to seasoned professionals.

Normally the weekly Coffee Break Mental Magic release will feature a single routine, but to celebrate its launch, this first edition '3 Invisible Keys to Wonder' features three original routines,...

Paul Voodini presents Multi-Dimensional Out Of This World, the second in the weekly Coffee Break Mental Magic series. This is the Christmas & New Year 2013 edition, and as such it features something a little bit special. It is Paul Voodini's take on the classic Out Of This World card routine. However, as you can probably imagine, in the hands of Voodini Out Of This World is shaken up and is turned into a 3 phase routine featuring a volunteer being appointed as the group's psychic, a message being delivered from the spirits, and a display of personal intuition that contains within it a subconscious...

The third edition of Coffee Break Mental Magic is a Sherlock Holmes special to celebrate the launch on January 1st of the third series of BBC TV's wonderful Sherlock programme! This PDF features a self-working card routine (the only equipment you need is a normal deck of cards) that explores the eternal dance between the Great Detective and the King of Crime, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty! What is the unbreakable bond that links these two men? Why is it that they battle to destroy each other and yet neither can exist without the other? Holmes & Moriarty - the Yin & Yang of crime and...

This is the fourth release in the Coffee Break Mental Magic series and features two very special routines plus for the first time, a short story on a magical theme!

Paul Voodini presents the Story Teller's Oracle. This is a dice based reading system that is totally original and works in a way that has perhaps not been explored before. The system is pleasingly easy to master meaning memory work is kept to a minimum (no need for hidden cribs or sheets of numbers!), all of which allows the performer to concentrate on presentation, atmosphere, and engaging the sitter.

Paul is also delighted...

This is the fifth edition of the Coffee Break Mental Magic series and features a spooky routine based around the ghost stories of author M.R. James! When a collector of occult and esoteric books visits a small bookshop in the English village of Castleton, he could not have predicted that a demon would later be sent to kill him! However as a student of the occult, the book-loving collector is not as easy to kill as might be expected!

This is an enthralling story-telling routine that utilises a thumb tip bill switch or classic billet switch (or even a change bag). It is beyond the scope of...

Pet Readings 4 Mind-Readers outlines a fascinating and engaging personality profile reading system suitable both for beginners and more experienced cold readers. Devised by Cathy Shadows and expanded upon by Paul Voodini, this very special edition of Coffee Break Mental Magic describes in detail the actual reading method which is based around pet animals. Following these details, the manuscript goes on to demonstrate how the technique can be used to win over a table of guests at any kind of function in a matter of moments, to provide insightful and fascinating stand-alone readings, and to augment...

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.

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee! is a small collection of routines and effects from the published works of Dale A. Hildebrandt. From the eBook Triceratops comes "Baking Soda and Vinegar", an Oil and Water-themed effect; as well as "Devilish Plus"; which includes multiple ways to handle "Devilish" from the eBook Risk & Reward along with comments from Caleb Strange on how to get the most out of the method. Also along with Caleb Strange comes an interesting effect titled "Dogtagged" originally published in Cereal Is Good eBook; as well as being collected in The First Five eBook. "Dogtagged" is a perfect opener for the bizarrist or mentalist...

This must be the most "overlooked" coin magic book ever published. The material, by Eddie Joseph, is unusual and original. There are items for both close-up and stage work; sleights, flourishes and routines. In this illustrated volume you will discover thirty coin vanishes; twelve coin changes; forty-five new moves, tips and gimmicks; ten combination moves utilizing coins and matches and thirty-seven close-up tricks and routines. This material, available nowhere else, is a potential "goldmine" for the coin worker!

• Introduction
• PART ONE: Thirty New Ways of Vanishing a Coin
  • The Wrist Vanish ...

Based on an old concept that has been seriously rethought to create a simple and practical device; it allows for complete vanishing of coin gaffs and regular coins of any size up to jumbo 3" coins.

• Coins can be made to reappear after being vanished.
• No jacket, cummerbund or long-sleeved shirt is required.
• The Coin Ditcher is made using readily available, low-cost materials. It requires light metal cutting using a hacksaw or angle grinder. Once made it should last a lifetime.
• Includes 71 pages of easy-to-follow, step-by-step crystal clear photos and instructions on how to make and correctly...

This is an independent reinvention of Arthur Buckley's muscle pass by John Cornelius. John turned the move into a showpiece by itself.

runtime: 3min 20s

Two hands off and impromptu effects you'll do for the rest of your life at any moment notice, and every time you'll meet somebody because they are fun to perform, simple and practical.

"Man both routines are very very clever! I love them! Especially the heads and tails one!!! I definitely use them! Well done mate!" - Romanos, creator of GERTI/Silver swindle

This ebook is a combination of the simplest plots you can perform in Magic: HEADS or TAILS? and WHICH HAND? They can be done separately as well.

The routine:

Take your wallet and casually throw a $100 bill (or just $1...but...

Jose Castineiras is an accomplish young magician from Spain. In this download video you will get the full performance and explanation of two coin routines, Coin Glass and Coins Across, as well as his innovative use of the muscle pass.

"Jose is one of my favorite coinmen: the best muscle-pass I've ever seen, the best technique and execution transferred to many his personal routine...Great!" - Giacomo Bertini

1st edition 2016, length 26 min

A marked coin appears in an ungimmicked lollipop. This can also be done with a corner of a playing card, bills, and other small flat objects. You will also learn an impromptu version. The gimmick can be made in a few minutes.

1st edition 2020, video length 34 min.