Magic & Conjuring: page 15

This time Aldo is offering you very strong routines that require a little bit more sleight of hand than those he usually puts in print. Aldo has built his reputation on fairly easy material with simple and subtle moves. In this ebook he has kept the subtleties, but he is giving you more difficult routines which are geared toward pleasing not only the viewers, but yourself and your 'ego.'

Aldo uses the first five routines as an entire act.

1st edition 1996; 33 pages.

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
3. Heat
4. The Dirty Dozen
6. A Case of Stairs
8. The Seventh Floor
11. Meet Charley
12. Ace-mbly
14. It's...

90 amazing card tricks by some of the most recognized magicians (including three past FISM winners), with stringent conditions: no set-ups and no sleights. organized into the following sections:

• Selected Cards
• Aces and Gambling
• Mental Discoveries
• Spelling Effects
• Amazing Coincidences
• Lie Detectors

This is Aldo's second volume of impromptu card tricks. Once again the rules that he required were simple: That the tricks be based on subtle moves and principles only rather than difficult sleights. Most importantly, the tricks had to be totally impromptu with no set-ups. Eventually he did, however, allow a few easy moves such as a card control, a force or a simple sleight; moves that still are very easy to master and perform.

Tricks are organized into the following categories. The last one is a section on simple sleights and procedures:

• The Four Aces
• Amazing Coincidences
• Baffling Revelations ...

You do not require a table to perform these routines. From this material you can create two complete acts.

CLEAN CUT ROPE (Aldo Colombini): A different way to perform the standard cut and restored rope effect!

STRANGER IN PARADISE (Ed Marlo): A red-backed deck is placed in a glass. You remove cards one at a time until a spectator says ‘stop.’ At the stop, that card is the only one with a blue back!

DOGGIE DEXTERITY (Aldo Colombini): Comedy at its best with a balloon twisted into a poodle who finds a selected card!

CARD ON PLATE (Ken de Courcy): You spin a plate with one hand and have...

An amazing presentation in five phases of this classic poker demonstration! Using only ten cards you show an entertaining five-phase poker demonstration and, of course, you always win! It is suitable for both close-up and stage. Use any deck of cards (even jumbo cards).

Packet tricks performed with regular cards! Packet Tricks are always popular. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. Here you have ten packet tricks from the world's top 'packet trick' experts.

Contents:

• JAPANESE ACES (Shigeo Futagawa): A real fooler where you and the spectator mix the Aces three times (the last one face up and face down) but the Aces always separate!
• POOR MAN'S MONTE (Richard Vollmer): A fun-to-watch-fun-to-do Monte type routine using only four regular cards!
• AN AMBITIOUS CLASSIC (Larry Jennings): The A, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Clubs perform an ambitious routine...

Commercial card magic at its best. All practical effects which you will use.

• COLOR CHANGE AGAIN (John Yeager): A color changing deck routine involving two selected cards.
• MATCHED PICTURE CARDS (Nick Trost): The picture cards are shuffled and magically they match up in pairs.
• DOORSTEP ACES (Paul Gordon): The four Aces find three selected cards.
• REPROCESSED ELIMINATION (J.K. Hartman): A selected card appears in an unexpected way. Very strong effect.
• RANDOM THOT (Karl Fulves): An impossible selected card revelation that will fool you too!
• JACKS IN THE BOX (Aldo Colombini): Red and black cards alternate and then...

When Aldo published his book Double Decker (routines with two decks of cards) little did he know what he was getting into. He really enjoyed studying the routines and consequently he went into a frenzied quest for more. It is amazing how many he found! Here’s a new collection of routines using two (or three) decks of cards. Have fun studying the routines and, above all, performing them all for your audiences.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• COLORS CAN’T MIX (Karl Fulves)
• THOT CARD TO POCKET (Martin Gardner)
• CRISS-CROSS COINCIDENCE (Ian Adair)
• PACKED BAGS (Aldo Colombini)
• TURN BLUE (Ken Krenzel)
• DOUBLE CLOCK DECEPTION (John Yeager) ...

Ten amazing effects with cards that you can do over the phone. Several of the effects are so strong that you can even do them for live audiences.

Contents and contributors:

• PHONE ZONE (Peter Duffie)
• TELEMENTAL (Bob King)
• HOCUS POCUS (Eddie Joseph)
• LINEAR BLACKJACK (Karl Fulves)
• TWO CARDS (Stewart Judah)
• LIE DETECTOR (Al Thatcher)
• BREAKING POINT (Aldo Colombini)
• TAMAX (Dougie Gibbard)
• WIZARD (Peter Duffie)
• HALF AS GREAT (Max Maven)

1st edition 2009

Easy-to-do and commercial routines. The contents includes:

• ANIMAL CAPERS (Aldo Colombini)
• MAGILLOGICAL (Tom Daugherty)
• FLIPPING ACES (Aldo Colombini)
• MINI OIL & WATER (Aldo Colombini)
• 37-THREE (Karl Fulves)
• THE CUT KNOWS (Jean-Pierre Vallarino)
• CORNERED (Aldo Colombini)
• RED OR BLACK-WHICH? (Nick Trost)
• THE FLY CARDS (Aldo Colombini)
• REALLY FIT FOR KINGS (Gene Castillon)

[Note that in 1985 Tom Craven published a booklet with the same title which is completely unrelated to this material....

Ten super card routines.

• IMPULSE (Peter Duffie): A three-phase routine with a finale that will blow their heads off. A card changes place with another card with a hole!
• REMEMBER/FORGET (Mike Rogers): A quickie but so commercial where a card is revealed under a spectator’s finger.
• A BUNCH OF BLARNEY (Aldo Colombini): The classic plot of the Lie Detector revealing a selected card and the four Aces.
• COMPOSITION (Aldo Colombini): Incredible routine with a lot of surprises. A closing effect!
• WILD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Stand up magic at its best. The classic Wild Card Theme performed entirely in...

The success of Aldo's first two DVDS on packet tricks 'forced' him to produce another one. In these download video every trick is totally IMPROMPTU and performed with regular cards from any deck.

Contents:

• FU/FD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Four red face-down cards are placed on four face-up black cards and the eight cards mix together!
• SUBMARINE CARD (Aldo Colombini): A Jack moves gradually from top to bottom of a packet of cards. At the end the Jack disappears and the cards are seen to be Aces!
• WILD DELUXE (Aldo Colombini): Here's another version of the "Wild Card" theme that doesn't...

Only one routine but what an effect - and completely self working! This must be one of the strongest self-working effects there is. Based on the Eddie Joseph principle “Staggered” you have here a unique, fantastic routine in five phases, one stronger than the other where the cards match even though everything appears controlled by the spectator. The finale is a ‘staggering’ match of all the cards! You will have fun learning it and you will make a reputation out of this routine. Uses any deck of cards.

It is quite an achievement for Aldo to take a strong effect and make it even stronger by streamlining...

This download DVD contains an amazing collection of routines for close-up and walk-around using just a regular deck of cards and with minimal sleight of hand (some of them are self-working).

Contents:

• ACES-ANDWICH (Aldo Colombini): The Aces find three selected cards!
• SIMPLE AND FAST (Aldo Colombini): The spectator cuts the deck and finds the four Kings!
• THREE-SIDED CARD DISCOVERY (Ken de Courcy): After showing that a card has three sides (!) you reveal a selection!
• CARD-IOSITIES (Reinhard Müller): Four cards are freely selected and they are seen to be the only different colored cards in four...

Ten amazing card routines totally impromptu and using just a regular deck of cards.

• TWO FOR ONE (Aldo Colombini): A stunning prediction and yet so easy to do!
• OUT OF THIS SMALL WORLD (Tom Daugherty): An impromptu version of the famous trick with just twenty-six cards but several climaxes!
• IMPULSE (Herb Runge): Two cards find the two mates on the impulses of the spectator!
• TAURUS (Aldo Colombini): Two Kings find a freely selected card where it was not supposed to be! Very strong effect.
• THE QUICK CHANGE SISTERS (Ryan Matney): Actually two routines using just the four Queens and a...

Ten new packet tricks with regular cards and totally impromptu.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• THE FIRST HOTEL MYSTERY (Nick Trost): Two Queens are placed side by side and four Kings are added to each Queen to form two three-card packets. At the end, the Queens and the Kings are found in separate piles.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT (Norman Houghton): Four cards are placed face down and four face-up cards are placed on top. The cards magically alternate: Face up and face down.
• DAZZLER MARK ONE MILLION (Paul Gordon): Some cards are shuffled face up and face down and six cards are remembered by the spectators. These cards...

New incredible packet tricks, easy to do and with a strong impact. Special guest appearance by Cameron Francis.

• CATO DEAL (Aldo Colombini): Cards are mixed face down and face up and at the end the selected card is the only reversed card in the middle of the packet!
• A BRAINSTORM IN GLASGOW (Peter Duffie): Two Jacks reveal a freely selected card. This is stunning!
• THANKS TO GOODLIFFE (Paul Gordon): Two cards are revealed at the end of an elimination process!
• WRONG AGAIN (Roy Walton): A unique 'Follow The Leader' routine with four packets!
• FAMILY REUNION (Aldo Colombini): A stunning routine using the twelve face cards! ...

Ten amazing routines using coins, dice, books, business cards, balls, paper clips…and no cards! Special guest appearance by Cameron Francis (who performs his two routines).

• A HAND AND THREE COINS (Aldo Colombini): The two in the hand one in the pocket classic theme performed with three different coins and with a logical climax!
• TEA FOR TWO (Ken Brooke): Two cups, a coin box and several coins. After some comedy by-play, the coins magically move from under one cup to the other!
• LINKLIP (Ken de Courcy): A small clip mysteriously links to a bigger one in your hand. Clean, clever method!
• CONSECUTIVELY...

An incredible collection of packet tricks!

• PREDICTION GONE WILD (Cameron Francis): A great trick. A card is selected. You show four blank cards with different names of cards on them. All of a sudden all the cards have the name of the selection. At the end the selection vanishes from the deck and appears in the packet.
• BOXING ACES (Aldo Colombini): An Ace-assembly that will have their jaws dropping. Four Aces vanish from packets of cards and reappear inside the card case.
• GHOST FLIGHT (Peter Duffie): Eight double blank cards and four Queens are used. The Queens trapped between two blank cards vanish and reappear...

Here's another collection of packet tricks. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. The main feature is: TOTALLY IMPROMPTU EFFECTS AND NO SET-UPS!

Contents:

• COURTSHIP (Nick Trost): You show two separate packets of cards, four Queens and four Kings. Magically they assemble by colors and suits!
• NINE FOREVER (Aldo Colombini): A two-phase routine using just eight cards including a card revelation and a prediction!
• GORDON'S ACES (Paul Gordon): Eight cards are removed and you try to find a card of each suit. You do, but at the same time, you also find the four Aces!
• DECA...

After Aldo's success with his first DVD on rope, Roped In, by popular demand here’s another DVD with ten new rope routines. All of them use regular rope (no gimmicks, no magnets, etc).

• CUTTING A ROPE IN THREE (Marconick): A piece of rope is cut into three pieces and it is immediately restored. Clever method.
• RING FROM ROPE (Allan Lambie): You tie a ring in the middle of a rope. You pull on the ring and it becomes free but it leaves the knot on the rope.
• THE COMPUTERISED ROPES (Ronald Dayton): The routine is a rope presentation of the famous three and a half gag with cards. The effect...

Aldo's favorite 10 rope routines.

• Rope Puzzle: Two different sized ropes become equal and then visibly change into one rope.
• Missing Link: Two different colored ropes are linked and they unlink in the hand of a spectator.
• Silk Sensation: You tie a silk around a rope and then it jumps free in the air!
• Knotty Knot: A knot slides back and forth along a white rope and then changes color to red. The red knot slides along the rope and then, when untied, it is seen that it is part of the rope.
• Rope In: A novel handling for the Professor’s Nightmare routine. Three different size ropes become...

Easy packet tricks performed with regular cards and with virtually no sleight-of-hand.

• MERELY THOUGHT-OF CARD MIRACLE (Paul Gordon): A card is mixed in a packet of eight cards, yet you reveal it.
• BUBBLE SORT (Werner Miller): Three face cards capture two selected cards.
• WEDLUCK (Peter Duffie): Cupid (a Jack) couples the Queens and the Kings.
• CHANGE IN MIND (Howard Adams): A great routine using cards torn in half and three coins.
• CHILD’S PLAY (Karl Fulves): Two selected cards appear together while two packets are dealt at the same time.
• COURTING (Aldo Colombini): Two strong climaxes using the face cards.
• TRIPLE HUMDINGER (Peter Duffie): Three...

Magic for stand-up and walk-around performers with effects that do not require a table. Fifteen routines with cards, coins, rubber bands, sponge balls, rope, finger rings, bills, jumbo cards and even a carpenter’s ruler!

[Note that these routines are also taught in the ebook: Standing Room Only.

Including:

• CHINESE PURSE: A Chinese coin appears on a rope between two knots.
• INTERCHANGE: A stunning in-the-hand four-card transposition.
• IMAGINARY JOURNEY: Four Kings assemble in one packet revealing, at the same time, two selected cards.
• RING UP: A borrowed ring is knotted onto a rope. Magically, the ring becomes free, leaving the knot on the rope.
• RING THRU:...