Magic & Conjuring: page 235

Len was a creative and innovative magician who came up with a number of engaging routines for mentalists, kid shows, and family performers. Here you will find mostly stand up routines.

• Publisher's Foreword
• Some Thoughts On Invention- And An Idea For A Screen Table
• Crowned
• Belcher's Club Table
• Newspell
• Pig Deal
• Kurious Kerchief
• Ring In The Old
• Looking In
• A Century Of Sympathy
• Knock Knock
• Enclosed Thought
• Singular Silks
• The Jolly Miller
• Sponge Down
• The Feast Of Lanterns
• The Ring And The Ball
• Guess Who!
• Rich Little Poor Girl
• Zippo Bag
• Telstar
• Post Prediction
• Easoulette ...

An unusual magical murder game. All the necessary cards are enclosed in the PDF and you can immediately print them and perform the trick.

An unusual and exciting effect for your mental act or magic show. It has much audience participation. Each of three spectators, invited up, plays a part in the enactment of an 'Orrible Murder, one being the body, one the witness and one the murderer. Each "chooses a weapon" - printed on large cards. (But you could use real articles: rope, dagger, gun, poison bottle, hammer). Cards or weapons are hidden. While this is afoot you have your back turned or...

Un inusuale e magico gioco di caccia all'assassino per la scena e il close-up. Tutte le carte necessarie sono accluse e potrai stamparle immediatamente per eseguire il gioco!

Un effetto eccitante e inusuale per il tuo numero di mentalismo o il tuo show in generale, ricco di partecipazione da parte del pubblico. Ciascuno di tre spettatori prende parte ad una messa in scena di un "Terribile Omicidio". Ciascuno gioca un ruolo nella parte di un personaggio scegliendolo a caso tra quelli proposti senza sapere cosa impersonano gli altri. Uno spettatore sarà il cadavere, un altro il testimone...

87 Tricks, routines, ideas, developments and bits that will help you get the most out of the magic you now own. Lee Snyder is a "thinking magician" and you can easily apply the magical thoughts he has come up with.

• Lee-gerdemain
• Portable Hole Made Portable
• The Disappearing Cane
• Business Card Business
• A Rainbow Fantasy
• Training Your Balloon Dog
• The Memory Stick
• Yogurt of the Yogi
• The Weaving of the Rings
• Balancing the Budget
• Star Trick
• Instant Rabbit
• Pest Control
• Magic Greeting Card
• Balloon Transplant
• Balloon Bazooka
• Cold Cuts
• Handcuffs
• Tatooed
• Simple Manipulative Routine ...

Two strong card effects with a mentalism theme.

The Third Degree
The first spectator thinks of a card, the second spectator picks a card which is placed on the table under a glass, and then the third spectator selects a card which is removed from the deck and then visually changed into the card on the table, and the card under the glass becomes the first spectator's thought of card.

Fifth Element (thought of card to pocket)
The spectator is shown five cards and asked to think of any one of them. The five cards are placed one at a time into the spectators hand and he is challenged...

Mentoring at your fingertips. Inspirations, musings and creative insights.

Letters To A Young Mentalist is a compendium of epistolary wisdom, advice and musing born from the proficuous letter exchange between a seasoned professional and an eager receptive protégé.

In these pages, you will find thoughts on creativity, mentoring, writing, staging and much more. The contents are both practical and inspiring, encouraging a dialogue on what mentalism is and how we can make it more meaningful, artful and reverberating. Some of the insights are thought-provoking, while others are invaluable...

This is a mathematical based effect you do on the back of your business card that the spectator gets to keep and take home with them. Very easy to perform.

The effect was created by Raj Madhok and was originally published in Syzygy.

A spectator chooses three numbers, one related to the future, one related to the past and the third one related to the present. These are added up and match your prediction.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 1999.

runtime: 8min 28s

Before the show you mail or give a spectator an envelope for safe keeping. At the show the spectator opens the envelope to find another smaller envelope inside. In this smaller envelope are three little pieces of paper. On these pieces of paper the performer recorded three dreams a few days earlier. The performer's dreams match the front page of today's newspaper as well as two spectator's thoughts.

runtime: 24min 44s

Losing Control is a move that allows you to easily bring a selection to the top.

"So simple, yet so brilliant!" - Dave K.

How long have you been practicing a move like the classic pass? It's been over twenty years, and Lee is still working on his! One day he will master it, but until then, the Losing Control is his preferred way to control a card to the top.

This clever maneuver gives you the ability to have a card selected, plainly and cleanly placed back into the middle of the deck and yet have the card secretly remain on the top of the pack.

The Losing Control technique does...

"I haven't purchased magic for myself in years. Thunderbird was my first online purchase, and all I can say is WOW!" - Dan M.

Imagine if you had real magical powers. How would you make four aces appear at your fingertips? Picture bringing your hands together, in front of you, and an ace magically appears between them. Without hesitation, you take this newly-produced card, and effortlessly split it into two aces. The audience's gaze is riveted to your hands. Fearful of missing your next move, they don't even blink. The third ace materializes right out of thin air - at your fingertips....

"Much more than a mere gambling expose, Catch 33 is almost an act in itself! Twenty-first Century magic needs more brains like yours." - Guy G.

3 cards. 2 of them lose. 1 wins.

"..simple! "... Or so your audience thinks.

Each time he plays the game with you, your spectator falls into subtle traps you've set. He receives an authentic lesson on the con game that is not a game at all. Using beautifully choreographed sequences, you continually manipulate your spectator into choosing the wrong card. He just can't help himself.

Perform this routine surrounded; at a restaurant, trade...

An instructive warning to those who must play for stakes. Interesting amusement for those who do not.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book is nicely illustrated by Charles Remmers from photographs by the author. It contains a description of cheating at the popular Australian game of Two-Up which makes it unique.

• Foreword
• Spotlight On The Card-Sharp ...

This is the Gambler's Book Club reprint version. It has a price sticker on the cover. Stapled softcover booklet in very good condition. For the contents see the digital edition.

A small book that's big on entertainment. Clean, novel methods are used to produce effects that are clear and uncluttered. Taking as an example the first effect in the book, 'Spellbound Climax': you show a 2p coin and magically transform it into a 10p. After repeating this a couple of times you are surprised to find that the coin has changed into a button! Looking down, you discover that the coin is attached to your jacket where the button should be.

To paraphrase Gordon Bruce's introduction, these aren't just tricks but lessons in presentation.

With illustrations by Roy Johnson.

Contents:

The cry from TV, big Show Business, small Show Business, School Shows, is for something new, something different. Black Art is a new art to this generation. Dolinoff, Black Theatre of Prague, Ralph Adams, have all been featured on TV, but only these few have practiced this great Black Art. In this ebook you learn all about it, from a do-it-yourself standpoint. There are three complete acts fully described, what to do and how to do it, with details for a modern, portable presentation that can be done anywhere. A modern bar act, a noisy, fascinating spook act, and a children's routine the kids...

Includes the Human Slot Machine and other guaranteed laugh jackpots, a modern line of patter for the Miser's Dream, a complete routine with a single coin, and tricks with coins of all sizes. Photographically illustrated.

Paul Fleming wrote:

• Introduction
• Tying And Untying Knots In A Cord Without Letting Go Of The Ends
• The New And Improved Ink Handkerchief And Turnip Trick
• A Checker Mystery
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• Ice Cream Cone Production
• A Dollar Bill In Candle Effect
• Nelson's Candle Trick
• Bossie Cow
• The Shrinking Glass Of Milk
• Words And Music
• The Jack Yeager Thumb Tie Trick
• The N. E. Book Test
• Three Linked Discoveries
• Triple Climax To Cups & Balls
• The Stripper Combine
• Glendi's Mental Photography - The Dream Photograph
• Magic In Milk Containers
• Thimble Box
• Clock Dial Card Prediction

• About The Year Book............
• The Community Chest Card Trick Or The Red Feather Card
• Community Chest Routine And Patter For The Square Circle
• New Idea For The Paddle Trick
• Restless Cigarettes
• Rabbit Out Of Top Hat
• Stage Size Out To Lunch Trick
• The Golf Ball "Egg" Bag
• To Vanish The Last Ball
• A Switch For The Mentalist
• Nice Doggy!
• Paper
• Glorifying Your Magic
• A Flash Paper And Match Stunt
• Joseph Dongu's Do As I Do Trick
• Production Load
• My Favorite Rising Card
• The Never Ending Tie
• Do You Drink?
• Producing Two Flashes Of Flame
• Billiard Ball To Playing Card
• Cashing In On Close...

• About The Year Book . . .
• A Detective's Dream
• New Effect For The Color Changing Knife Routine
• Card Force For The Stage
• Knock Out Prediction
• Unsigned - Sealed - Delivered
• Thumb Fun
• Comedy Bit With The Wrist Chopper
• The Easy Comedy Golf Ball Routine
• Self Working Double Load Lota, With A Comedy Routine
• A Modern You Do As I Do Trick
• The Invisible Card Routine
• Rubber Ice Cream Cone Routine
• The Boomerang Card
• Jack Yeager's Portfolio Of Magic Tricks And Ideas
  • A Bar Gag
  • "Flash" Cigarette In Handkerchief
  • The Yeager Four Ace Trick
  • Card In Egg Routine De Luxe
  • Intimate Bottle Levitation ...

• The Homemade Magician
• Penny Dime Transposition
• On The Spot
• Out-Witted
• Loaded Spook
• Dark Thoughts
• Impromptu Twentieth Century Silks
  • Eggs From Handkerchief
  • Another Here, There And Everywhere
  • Tip For Anti Gravico
  • A House Of Cards
• Now What?
• Tuning Up
• By Chance Alone
• A Self Lighting Candle
• The Blue Quints
• Silks From Nowhere
• Three Golden Pyramids Of The Valley Of Oom
• Tom Fitzgerald's Passe Passe Bottles
• New Use For A Forcing Deck
• Rope Records And Ribbon
• Card Telepathy De Luxe
• The Flight Of Thought
• The Mystic Ringer
• A Portfolio Of Bar And Close Up Tricks
  • A "Long" Card...

• O'day's Fried Egg
• Mysterious Cigarette And Match Production
• A Spooky Spots Finish
• Second Portfolio Of Tricks
  • Ambitious Card Routine
  • 54 Card Trick
  • Your Card!
  • Dime, Penny And Bottle Cap
  • Obedient Cigarette
  • The Flying Match
  • Anti-Gravity Match
  • Pull Thru Matches
  • Flying Ink
  • Wine, Milk And Ink
  • Vanishing Lapel Flower
  • Pistol And Silk
  • The Amazing Ladies' Slipper
  • Chinese Pop Bottle
  • Crystal Flower Ladder
• A Sticky Idea
• E Z Magazine Test
• Classified
• Funny Cigar Gag
• Tricky Telepathy
• Flash Dollar Bill Change
• The Mike Zen’s Card Act
• A Pack Of Lies
• The Sands Of Time
• The Derelict ...

• Six More Hummers
  • The Four G Men
  • The Card On The Window Pane
  • Double Thought
  • A Rare Coin Stunt
  • A Possible Impossibility
  • Imagination
• Three Magical Beauties
  • Making A Production Out Of The Pyramid Puzzle
  • Chlorophyll Gag Card
  • The "Trey (Tray) Of Diamonds" Gag Card
• Match-A-Card
• Cavorting Cards
• Animal, Vegetable And Mineral
• Build It Yourself Nest Of Boxes
• The Cigarette Vending Machine
• The Extra Load
• Kirk's Comedy Spaghetti Winder Gag Prop
• A Paper Folding Routine
• Secrets Of Sharpshooting
• Ali's Eyeful
• Flower Floats
• Telephone Fooler
• Boxadime
• Idea For The Buddha Tubes ...

• The Famous Jimmy Trimble Rope Routine
• An Innovation With The Squared Circle
• Tricks With A Folding Card
• Mccallum's Rainbow Knife Routine
• Tip On Bottomless Glass
• Paper Tearing With A Color Change Tube
• Routine For The Ireland Multiplying Watches
• Follow Up On Hummer's Rare Coin Stunt
• Three Lighted Cigarettes
• Master Billiard Ball Routine
• Production Of Four Solid Billiard Balls
• Catchy Thimbles
• A Spectacular Check Book
• Comedy Card Rising Trick
• Two Math Ticklers
• Patter For Block-Kord
• Cat And Canary - Quickie Version
• A Japanese Bird
• The Skunk Wringer
• The Rabbit Trap Production ...

• Tricky Tidbits
• For The Green Chlorophyll Card
• Our Magician Of The Yearbook For 1954 - Del Ray
• The Royal Assembly
• Fourteen Effects With The Fourteen Of Clubs
• Mickey Mouse And His Magic Coats
• The Jackpot Cigarette Trick
• The Magnetic Ball
• Golf Ball To Silk
• The Human Volcano
• The Spectator Does A Card Trick
• Perfect Diminishing Pack Of Cigarettes
• Felix The Snake
• Torn Smoke
• The Ireland Handling For A Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck
• Bamboo Chinese Sticks
• Sockard
• What To Do With A Slick Ace
• Sez You Giant Card Trick
• The No Gimmick Slate Gimmick
• The Foolproof Necktie Trick
• The Ghost...