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The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

Volume 1, No. 4: April 2022, 48 pgs.

The fourth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Casual Cassandra / Joshua Jay
  • Deep Flash Production / Giacomo Bertini
  • Palm Shuttle / Giacomo Bertini
  • Four Card Symphony / Scott Baird
  • Scott and Soda / Scott Baird
  • Triple Prediction / John Carey
• ARTICLES
  • Misdirection in Sports / Scott Baird
  • Sankey Says - Defying Expectations / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 5: May 2022, 52 pgs.

The fifth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Coins to Purse / Bill Citino
  • Ultimate Brainwave Deck / Kyle Leon
  • Three Coin Production / Giacomo Bertini
  • P.Q.I. / Patrik Kuffs
  • The Gambler, The Magician, and The Psychic / Scott Baird
  • Tossed Across / Mystic Slybaba
• ARTICLES
  • The Management of Added Information / Alvaro Berbel
  • Sankey Says - Sharing your Humour / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 6: June 2022, 50 pgs.

The sixth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • On Waving Tides / Scott Baird
  • Quantum Conundrum / Rick Holcombe
  • Three Coin Vanish and Reproduction / Giacomo Bertini
  • Two Coin Turnover / Dr. Michael Rubinstein
  • Two Coin Turnover Variation / Dr. Michael Rubinstein
  • The Turing Test / Ryan Pilling
  • Teleport: A card to envelope / John Carey
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge / Winning Submissions
  • Sankey Says - Forget believing in Yourself / Jay Sankey
• BONUS - Get a free issue of The Disclaimer magic magazine!
  • NFT / Curtis Kam
  • Invisible Visible Coins/ Luiz...

Volume 1, No. 7: July 2022, 47 pgs.

The seventh issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • CAANADA / Scott Baird
  • Changes in the Box / Luka Kratsashvili
  • Cryptic / Kyle Leon
  • Card Battle Royale / Fritz Alkemade
  • The Floating Bag (a.k.a. The Facebook Trick) / Patrik Kuffs
  • Another Nice Oil and Water / Rudy Tinoco
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge / Photo Submissions
  • Sankey Says - We must encourage each other / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 8: August 2022, 48 pgs.

The eighth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Lean Travellers / Scott Baird
  • All Four Two / Boyet Vargas
  • A Cartoon Magic Effect (ACME) / Kyle Leon
  • A Tune Ahead / Scott Baird
  • Poketus Subterfuge / Patrik Kuffs
  • When Two Minds Meet / John Carey
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge
  • Ten Expert Public Speaking Tips / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 9: September 2022, 49 pgs.

The ninth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Close up Comfort in Harry's High Herb / Gareth
  • Bigger Deal / Scott Baird
  • Triumph's Return / Chiam Yu Sheng
  • Double Libido / Adam Socha
  • Which Hand is IT in? / Michael Boden
  • One Way, All The Way / Scott Baird
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge
  • Consider the Vanishing Bandana / Greg Boggs
  • Examining the Vanishing Bandana / Scott Baird
  • Take your foot off the gas / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 10: October 2022, 48 pgs.

The tenth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Central Intelligence / Scott Baird
  • Iterant Intelligence / Scott Baird
  • Close-up Miracle Prediction / Kyle Leon
  • Thank you, Eddie / Rico Weeland
  • Zombie Apocalypse / Chiam Yu Sheng
  • Drawing a Blank / Patrik Kuffs
  • Thumbnail / Chris Mayhew
  • The One and Only / John Carey
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge puzzle
  • Casting Call
  • The Secret Psychology of Criticizing People / Jay Sankey

Volume 1, No. 11: November 2022, 44 pgs.

The eleventh issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Isolation / Kyle Leon
  • Card from Purse Frame / Scott Baird
  • AP Card to Pocket / Claudio Imperiale
  • Damatter / Alexandre Moreaux
  • Hop! Hop! / Luka Kratsashvili
• ARTICLES
  • #hermitmagicchallenge
  • The Only Sin / James Mollenkamp
  • Can you really make a difference in the world? / Jay Sankey
  • Hocus Pocus Practice Focus / Amy Kimlat

Volume 1, No. 12: December 2022, 50 pgs.

The twelfth issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Spot-On / Kyle Leon
  • Remote Viewing / Boyet Vargas
  • Free Cut, Spell, and Swinford / Rudy Tinoco
  • Elbow, Neck, and Foot / Scott Baird
  • Dual Snap Change / Chiam Yu Sheng
  • Objectivity / John Carey
  • They Change Colour / Scott Baird
• ARTICLES
  • The Drawing Challenge
  • #hermitmagicchallenge
  • How are you Limiting Yourself? / Jay Sankey

Volume 2, No. 1: January 2023, 46 pgs.

The 13th issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Tap-a-Stack / Scott Baird: Based on Paul Cummins' Tap a Lack, this routine uses no clocking and is easy to do.
  • Synergic / Michal Kociolek: The spectator finds your card, and vice versa. Based on Michael Vincent's routine, Kismet.
  • Playing with Cheese / Chiam Yu Sheng: An impromptu variation of Luke Dancy's Royale with Cheese.
  • Coin Thru Table / Glenn West: An impromptu handling for putting a normal, signed coin visually through a glass table.
  • Handkuffs / Patrik Kuffs: A handcuff escape method that can be done with...

Volume 2, No. 2: February 2023, 48 pgs.

The 14th issue of The Hermit Magazine features:

• EFFECTS
  • Slow Jazz Aces / Curtis Kam: A take on Jazz Fusion by Louis Falanga with a streamlined ending.
  • EZ Jazzembly / Patrik Kuffs: A Jazz Aces routine that is quick and to the point, and easy to do. It's four-king good.
  • Jazz / Jozsef Kovacs: Another Jazz Aces routine, this one with a kicker ending.
  • COINtortionist / Scott Baird: A one-handed, four-coin production based on the coin roll. This'll take some practice.
  • Wavelength / Kyle Leon: A unique Brainwave effect with a magician versus gambler premise.
  • Order in the Cortex /...

Volume 2, No. 3: March 2023, 48 pgs.

The 15th issue of The Hermit Magazine is a TAKEOVER issue by Bigblindmedia, and features magic and articles from their roster of impressive magical minds, including:

• EFFECTS
  • Cardnection / Cameron Francis: Both spectators select the same card. An excellent coincidence effect that uses a Simon Aronson move to great effect!
  • Blind Pebble Ace Fling / John Bannon: The legendary John Bannon contributes his take on Richard Sanders' Ace Thing, with a couple of clever moments of surprise.
  • KaDribble Change / Biz: A colour change done in the open, in the action of a dribble.
  • Magician's...

The latest issue of The Hermit Magazine is a unique blend of magic and creativity from a broad range of contributors.

EFFECTS

• CKR / Boyet Vargas: A simple and easy to do mental effect where a thought-of object is divined. Can be performed over the phone or on Zoom, as well as in person! A variation by Scott is provided as well.
• Ten-Star Prediction / Kyle Leon: Cleverness abounds once more as Kyle teaches a version of the Koran Miracle Prediction that allows you to display the prediction before the cards even come out of the box.
• Kings & Aces / Scott Baird: This is my variation of Jerry Sadowitz's routine from Cards On The Table. Aces...

EFFECTS

• Surprise Overture / Chiam Yu Sheng: Phil Goldstein's Overture is given a four-of-a-kind kicker ending.
• Tap Triple Wild Coin / Scott Baird: David Roth's Stand-up Wild Coin is combined with some bits of business with a pen, and at the end, the coins all change into a third denomination.
• Impromptu Speller / Kyle Leon: Kyle's handling of an impromptu spelling location. Kyle has added some nice touches to a simple spelling location, making the method harder to backtrack.
• Spelling to the Aces / Corey Harris: As the title says.
• Handy Speller / Andy Choy: A wonderful mnemonic method for determining...

EFFECTS

• Ryan Schlutz (author of False Anchors and Unanchored), presents RNG, his updated take on Card at Any Sum.
• A returning contributor to the magazine, Bill Citino shares his routine Making a Difference, a new variation of a Scott Robinson routine.
• A Nightmare in Red and Blue by Scott Baird, which is an improved handling of an old Don Nielson and Karl Fulves trick from Pallbearer's Review. I also teach my Flash Ribbon effect later in the issue.
• June is also Tomás Giammarco's first appearance in The Hermit, and he shares his routine Strange Concordance 23332, of which I am a huge fan! It's based...

After explaining his effect 3H in his ebook More Plots and Methods (2021, p.25), Michal Kociołek writes:

This ebook contains my solutions to his challenge. The routines range from impromptu to stacked, though the majority of the effects can be done with a borrowed deck of cards and no preparation. Those...

EFFECTS

The issue starts out with Joke Matrix by Scott Baird, a one-card and four-coin assembly effect based on the work of Shoot Ogawa.

Then, learn Michael Rubinstein's Purse Transpo Surprise, which is a copper/silver transposition routine using a purse with a big finish.

Kyle Leon then shares his take on a Bob Cassidy classic, called Name & Place. Learn Millard Longman's Acidus Novus peek and Jay Sankey's Paperclipped Switch in this routine as well.

Centrifugal Triumph by Jozsef Kovacs is a two-selection Triumph routine using the Centrifugal Lift by Kevin Fox.

Patrik Kuffs shares a short and sweet card reversal...

This is the only all magic issue of Science and Mechanics magazine. It includes a cross section of magic effects from illusions with building instructions, to various close-up effects and mentalism. The emphasis with this magazine was to encourage readers to build their own. It therefore has a distinct DIY feel. The magic consultants for this issue were William B. Gibson, Sidney H. Radner, Litzka Raymond, and Victor D. Dressner.

• COVER STORY: Famous Knife Box Illusion
• EXCLUSIVE FEATURE: Escapes—Special Form of Magic
• GENERAL FEATURES
  • About Magic
  • Magic Black-Art Table
  • Magical Appliances ...

A utility move that allows you to control a card to the top, to the second, or a few cards down from the top.

I have created this move back in 2010 to control a card to the top of the deck. Over the years I have refined it to this point, now I am confident enough to share it with the magic community. With this move, you can not only control a card to the top but also to the second position or a few cards down from the top. This move is easy to perform without any knuckle-busting exercises.

1st edition 2022, video 22:20.

ACAAN (Any card at any number) is regarded as the holy grail of card magic. Every magician out there has a version or two of his own. Couples CAAN is my addition to the plethora of work already existing on the subject. This trick is best done for a couple on any special occasion such as their anniversary or birthday. John chooses a card from the deck and Nancy thinks of a number. The chosen card is shuffled back into the deck and lost. The cards are dealt one by one. John’s chosen card is found at the number Nancy is thinking of. The magician congratulates the couple on being well connected. ...

This is an entertaining, commercial trick bearing a mystery card plot, with the spectator playing the magician and a color-changing finale that packs a wallop.

The spectator shuffles and selects a card from a blue deck under test conditions. This is the prediction. The magician shuffles the red deck, chooses a card, and signs it. The signed card miraculously matches the prediction. As a kicker finish, the magician causes the signature to jump from the red card to the blue card.

1st edition 2021, PDF 11 pages.