Magic & Conjuring: page 218

It is a long time since Simon Aronson rocked the magic world with "Shuffle-Bored". Variations by Harry Lorayne "Equaliser", Aldo Colombini "Pre-Deck-Ability", Ali Bongo, John Bannon "Wait Until Dark" followed.

At first glance, Carbon Footprints may seem the same as some the above-mentioned concepts. It isn't! And, to make sure - Paul checked with Simon Aronson himself. He agreed.

With contributions by Joe Rindfleisch and Jon Racherbaumer.

1st edition 2008, 38 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Introduction
6. The Basic Concept (Gordon)
11. A Very Royal Flush (Gordon)
13. Impromptu Startler (Gordon)
14. Impromptu Startler II (Gordon)
15. Impromptu Startler With Selection...

This ebook explores three mathematical principles of card magic.

The Gordon Principle which was inspired by the Eddie Joseph/Ed Marlo Automatic Placement.

STuDFuTS is an idea, inspired by Henry Christ's thinking.

The Free-Cut Principle is an idea by Gene Finnell.

• Foreword (Peter Duffie)
• Introduction
• The Gordon Principle
  • Master Effect
  • Manila Cards
  • Creepie Jeepers
  • Trade Secrets (Peter Duffie)
  • GP Going Bizarre (Peter Duffie)
• STuDFuTS
  • Master Idea and Routine
  • A Favoured Routine
  • STuDFuTS Set-up
  • Another Favourite STuDFuTS
• More Effects
  • Psychic Math (Peter Duffie)
  • Range Rover (Peter Duffie)

• Preface - Paul Gordon
• About the Author by Martin Breese
• Introduction - Paul Gordon
• Edward George Brown - a biography by Paul Gordon
• Obituary by Francis White
• Heartfelt Tributes
• - John Carney
• - Roger Crosthwaite
• - Members of The Magic Circle
• Trevor H. Hall & The Card Magic of Edward G. Brown
• Willane's Methods for Miracles
• Ibidem - P. Howard Lyons
• The 'Lost' Magic of E.G. Brown
• - Divination of Two Mentally Selected Cards
• - The Three Billet Test
• - A Cigarette Change
• - The Penetrating Tumbler
• - Handkerchief and Glass to Hat
• - A Nap Hand
• With Thanks to Edward George Brown
• - The Brown Detective - Peter Duffie
• - Thin...

• A WHIM-WHAM WARM-UP: Warmed Over Rhetoric
• KINDS OF PERMUTATIONS
• FIRST PERMUTATION: HUMMA-HUMMA-HUMMER
• SECOND PERMUTATION
• PERMUTATION THREE: VALUE-SUIT, SUIT-VALUE (Jon Racherbaumer)
• PERMUTATION FOUR: WHY IS THIS ODD CARD SO QUEER? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• PEMUTATION FIVE: THE LAST GAME (David Britland)
• PERMUTATION SIX: BILE AND BLOOD (Jon Racherbaumer)
• PERMUTATION SEVEN: PURIST CARD PUZZLE (Edward Marlo)
• PERMUTATION EIGHT: MR. FOGG TRACKED DOWN (Steve Reynolds)

1st edition 2013, 49 pages.

This is a wonderfully visual climax to any ambitious card routine. The gimmick is easy to make and easy to hide. Watch the demo video below.

Version 2 includes everything from the original version plus new ways to change the card and deck into the signed selection, new single routine and new transposition routine.

• Introduzione
• Tripla Predizione
• Anello e Corda
• Una Busta Vuota
• Corda Tagliata In Tre Pezzi
• Doppia Penetrazione
• Quadraplex
• Colori Mentali
• In Giro Per Il Mondo
• Colori Senza Riposo
• Un Trucco Mentale
• Carta a Qualsiasi Numeri
• Uno, Due, Tre
• Equivalente
• Cidentaquin e Riciclo
• Sul Giornale
• Questo Seme, Quel Valore
• Carte Segnate
• Scelta ESP

A deck is borrowed from a spectator. The deck is shuffled by the spectator. They select a card and commit it to memory. Nothing is forced, no card is mentioned out loud.

A second spectator is thinking of any number between 1 and 52, the card is replaced and the deck is further mixed. Nothing is forced, no number is mentioned out loud.

Only after both spectators are satisfied with the random state of the deck are the freely chosen card and number named out loud (only if they want! This information can stay unknown to the performer the whole time.)

The performer does not touch the deck,...

Marlo in the United Kingdom complements Marlo In New Tops and Marlo in Linking Ring. It includes his contributions to The Gen, Pabular and The Pentagram.

• Predicted Mental Spell
• Extended Mental Spell
• Sympathetic Coincidence
• Impromptu Stranger
• Follow My Leader
• Royal Transposition
• The Marlo Slip Cut
• Marlo's Slip Cut Force
• A Flexible Move
• The Roughed Stripper
• The Centre Card Transfer
• Spectator Cuts To Locate The Aces
• Dribble Coincidence
• Dribble Concept Continued

1st edition 2005, 79 pages.

Mainly Close Up was Paul Hallas's first book published in 1979 and has been unavailable for around 30 years. Rather than just copy the book for an e-version it was re-typed and some corrections made and additional comments made from a 2013 perspective. Some of the original sketches have been left, others removed as not necessary and occasionally some photos added. Twenty seven ideas are described (though a couple will need patter updates) and it is perhaps Paul's most varied collection. As the title suggests, the book is mainly close up, and mostly cards, but also a couple of coin items, a stretching...

By popular demand. Give us more rope tricks, people are crying! Here they are!

• CUT N' SHAKE ROPE (Karrell Fox): This is a NEW, different and VERY QUICK, cut and restored rope effect.
• TUBULOS (Aldo Colombini): The magician cuts a rope into two lengths and ties the two ropes together in a knot. He places the knot into a tube and, after some by-play, the knot disappears and the rope is shown fully restored. Ideal for kids shows.
• COLOR CHANGING KNOTS (Rink): Two pieces of rope, one red and one white. You tie a knot on each rope and the knots change places: The white is on the red rope and vice versa the...

This is the last download DVD of the series! 20 DVDs, 200 tricks and routines with ESP cards. A unique, complete collection. This is the twentieth in the series of DVDs dedicated to effects using ESP cards. A tribute to Howard Adams, Werner Miller and Nick Trost that are certainly the most prolific creators with regards to ESP cards.

CONTENTS:

• ESP CHOICE (Aldo Colombini): An ESP symbol selected among five, is the only one having a different colored back.
• STRANGERS (Howard Adams): Three persons, after each has selected a card, find duplicates of their designs using a number they freely decided upon.
• PREDICNIC...

Ecco un fantastico libro. Soprattutto un libro pratico e utile. Ti servirà senza dubbio. Se vuoi inserire nel tuo repertorio giochi che siano di grande effetto e al contempo di semplice esecuzione, allora questo libro è per te !

Non fartelo sfuggire : tra le sue pagine trovi materiale veramente eccellente . lavori in scena ? Oppure esegui Close-up ? oppure Cartomagia o Mentalismo o ancora Grandi illusioni ? Ebbene in questo libro trovi di sicuro qualcosa che fa per te.

Sappiamo come è difficile trovare giochi pratici che funzionino davvero e non siamo solo carta stampata che poi rimane...

These are detailed explanations of sleights and subtleties with cards used in many tricks and routines. They come with tips, history, applications, etc.

CONTENTS:

• U-CUT FORCE (J. K. Hartman)
• TOP CONTROL (Aldo Colombini)
• RED AND BLACK SHUFFLE (L.L. Ireland)
• AN EASY PASS (Patrick Page)
• THE KOSKY SWITCH (Gerald Kosky)
• R.S. BLUFF CONTROL (J. K. Hartman)
• THE TILT ILLUSION (Vernon - Marlo)
• STRIP-OUT ADDITION (Dai Vernon)
• BOTTOM PLACEMENT (Joe Ovette-Frank Kelly)
• ROTARY FORCE (J. K. Hartman)
• SELECT SWITCH (J.K. Hartman)
• GOLDIN FORCE (Horace Goldin).

Effect: The performer displays a 12-month wall calendar. Each of the 366 days (Leap Year has been accounted for) has a single playing card assigned to it. No two days in each month has the same card assigned to it. So, for example, a month with 31 days in it contains 31 different cards. It is also pointed out that no one card appears more than once on any particular date. So the card that is assigned to the 15th of January is not found on the 15th of any other month.

A spectator is asked to call out any date that comes to mind. Suppose the date in June 5th. Now, another spectator is asked...

Comprising Eye-Openers and More Eye-Openers plus R. W. Hull's Supreme Mental Discernment.

Paul Fleming wrote about More Eye-Openers:

There is a lot of magic crammed into this routine. Everything from a prediction, the finding of two selected and signed cards, and the transposition of the card's backs.

Here is the effect:

Phase 1: A single red backed card is placed off to one side, but is kept in full view throughout the proceedings. The performer states that there is one red card and one red card only. The spectator then selects any card and signs it (there is no force whatsoever). The card is returned to the center of the deck. The top card is shown, but it is not the signed card. The red backed card is turned over...

A very easy, commercial and entertaining color changing knife routine in several phases. With ideas by Ken Brooke, Ascanio and Juan Tamariz. For close-up and walk around. A white knife (or any color) changes to black. You simply say that you are using TWO knives so you produce a white one. The two knives change places a few times and at the end everything can be examined (obviously you have to bring your own knives)!

This is probably the best routine ever created for the Okito Box. In the hands of the legendary Ken Brooke, this routine was a masterpiece. You will study the Master Move, the best way to secretly turn over the box. Once mastered, you will be introduced to a four-phase entertaining routine with simple props.

The effect, briefly is: A coin is in the box which is placed on top of a cardbox. The coin penetrates the cardbox. The effect is repeated. Then the coin disappears and reappears inside the box. Finally, the coin penetrates the hand of the performer! If wanted, everything can be examined. Detailed...

Uno dei più bei manoscritti di Grant sul mentalismo con possibilità straordinarie non limitate certo alle esibizioni radio-televisive ma adatto a tutti i tipi di spettacolo.

Stropicciatevi bene gli occhi perché quello che state per leggere sono gli effetti spiegati in questo manoscritto.

Questo testo rivela come presentare e realizzare un numero straordinario, che apparirà davvero miracoloso a qualunque pubblico profano o all’esame di una commissione. Si tratta di un effetto che farà discutere e susciterà interesse e mistero più di ogni altro. Il numero consiste nell’apparente...

Stanley Collins was one of the finest card magic creators ever, and Collins's Card Conceits was his finest hour.

• The "T-Square" Colour Change
• The Comedy of Errors
• "Jumbo" Comedy of Errors
• All Fours
• A.J.A.X. 2
• A.J.A.X. 3
• Red and Blue
• Pictures and Pips
• A Card Comedy
• The Homing Aces
• Cards and Cords
• Card, Crayon and Cross-words

1st edition 1925, reprint 2007, 1st digital edition 2014, 50 pages.

It's a sort of Cups and Balls routine, yet it is done with only one cup which is actually a glass. It's a Two In The Hand And One In The Pocket routine, using the glass instead of the hand. The glass has a paper cover yet things happen without cover and under cover. It is one of those brilliantly unusual effects that you will use most of the time. A glass covered with a piece of paper and three sponge balls are shown. One after the other the balls disappear and reappear under the glass. If you like, one appears BETWEEN the glass and the cover. Two balls are placed under the glass and one in...

The Great Card Magic of Nick Trost continues.

CONTENTS:

• THE SEVENS: A spectator finds the four Sevens. Of course it can be done with any four-of-a-kind.
• LOVE HAS GREAT POWER: Four Kings and four Queens are paired by a couple of Cupids (Jacks).
• BABY HAMMER: A spectator takes four cards, he shuffles them and turns them over at random. At the end, only one card is reversed and you did predict it. Can be done with ESP cards. Two versions are explained.
• RED-FACED GEMINI I: A spectator selects two cards from half of the deck. He then drops these two cards in the other half at any point. He finds, for...

CONTENTS:

• FANTACEY (I. Land): A unique Ace-assembly where the Aces disappear from each packet and reappear face up in the middle of the deck.
• GANDWICH (Tim Can): A selection placed between two Black Jacks disappears and reappears between the two red Jacks.
• QUICK SILVER COPPER (Eoin Taylor): A copper-silver transposition that can be used in many other routines.
• FACE-TO-FACE (David Britland): A clever routine that produces the revelation of two selected cards.
• EXCALIBUR (Stephen Tucker): A great routine with new twists using the standard set of color changing knives.
• A 4TH FOR DINNER (David Britland): A different version of the...

CONTENTS:

• HAMMAN OUT-SEXED (Alex East): A 'sexy' version of the classic Hamman's 'Two-Card Trick' that uses, of course, only two cards.
• WOW (Tim Gan): The Ace of the same suit of a selected card turns over and then it changes place with the selection.
• WEIRD (Stephen Tucker): A great comedy mentalism effect where you predict how many fingers a spectator selects by revealing....plastic fingers in a box.
• TWISTED NERVE (Al Smith): An extended version of the classic Vernon's 'Twisting The Aces' where a lot of magic happens.
• THE BACK IS GONE (David Robertson): A unique entertaining way of revealing a selected...