Magic & Conjuring: page 240

A compilation of three manuscripts Super Dupes, Odd Lifts, and Secret Subtractions.

• SUPER DUPES
  • I. Informal Formulations
  • Four Sleights
  • Forgatherers
  • Foreshortenings
  • Foursomes
  • Fortuities
  • Forethoughts
  • Fore-and-afts
  • II. Guiles and Deals
  • Part One: ALL HANDS ON DECK
  • Part Two: CHEATS' FEATS
  • Part Three: MIXED TRICKS
• ODD LIFTS
  • I. Pull-Up Lifts
  • II. Push Back Lifts
  • III. The Green Lift
  • IV. Undercover Lift
  • V. Artificial Double Lift
  • VI. Miscellaneous
• SECRET SUBTRACTION
  • I. Preliminaries
  • II. The Flourish Count Technique
  • III. Secret Subtraction
  • IV. Applications
  • Final Notes ...

Aus der Einleitung:

You show four Queens of heart with a red back. Suddenly the backs become blue and then all four backs change again into four completely different back designs.

You will need four Queens of Heart with four different back designs. One double backer (one back matching one of the Queen's back) and one blank face card where the back matches the other back of the double backer.

1st edition 2019, length 2min 50s

Eine vergnügliche magische Quizrunde.

Aus der Einleitung:

This is the classic twisting effect on steroids with multiple changes and a climax that hits you between the eyes. First you show four cards that have the same face and back designs, for example four kings of diamond with black backs. When you turn one king face up, they magically all are face up. Suddenly one of them turns upside down but it has a different colored back. Then two more different backs appear. Then all revert to the original backs. The climax is that all kings change to four different aces that have each a different back and each card is shown and tabled individually.

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The performer extends his arm and a paper streamer appears. This is gathered up, placed in a bowl. Water is added. Using chopsticks the water is stirred, and the paper streamer transforms into real noddles you can eat. A Chinese classic.

Everything is explained in a PDF and a video.

1st edition 2019, 4 pages, video length 2:12.

Effect: The book of love poems may be given for examination, opened at any page by a spectator, and whatever the number of the page is selected, spectator counts the words of this number and remembers same. Performer then picks up a paper and pencil, and predicts the word selected. This can be repeated with a different word.

Note: You will receive the force book (Anthology of Love Poems by S. Wynne Burne) as PDF. The easiest way to use it is to load it onto a phone, tablet or eReader and present it that way in electronic form to the spectators. Alternatively you can print and bind it at a...

This was considered by W. G Magnuson to be the perfect method for doing a question and answer act. No manila envelopes are used. The performer passes out slips of paper and pencils. He can do this or have an assistant pass the slips out.

Once the slips are passed out, each audience member writes a question on the paper and folds it up. The billets are collected by either the performer or an assistant to speed things up. The collected billets are brought forward and dumped on a table in full view. They are not switched; the actual billets are in full view. The mentalist picks up a closed billet...

A terrific triple prediction with a double climax using three spectators, three chairs, three big envelopes and a deck of cards.

One of the most astonishing mental effects which we have ever been privileged to offer you.

Unusual: Strange: Bizarre!

Three chairs are in a line on the stage. A committee of three spectators are asked to come forward. One of the spectators is handed three large envelopes. He is asked to mix the envelopes up and then to lay these down on any of the chairs, in any order he chooses. Three spectators are to sit on any of the chairs again just as they choose....

This bibliography collects about 2000 works that deal with tricks and illusions, and with the varied deceptions that are usually presented as part of a conjuring entertainment, including automata, chapeaugraphy, chemical and electrical tricks, escaping, fire handling, gamblers' tricks, hand-shadows, juggling, lightning sketches, optical illusions, pseudo-spiritualistic manifestations, second sight, thought reading, thought transference and ventriloquism. The list includes languages other than English in particular German and French books. Excluded are books on the so-called occult arts, but...

A short, to-the-point routine for the mental photography, or nudist, deck that does not require the use of a table. An ideal effect for opening a close-up performance. It requires little skill beyond a few straight cuts of the deck, which means you can focus on the presentation. Full patter is included. Albert Goshman included this effect among his wonders for good reason.

All you will get here is the routine, the patter. You will have to supply your own nudist deck.

1st edition 2019, 4 pages.

Von der Einleitung:

Short, to the point, effects created by Dale A. Hildebrandt and a few of his friends some years ago; put together here in one place for your enjoyment

P-Ainting: A painting comes to life on a special night; perfect for the bizarre performer who has access to theatrical settings and technology.

Transplanted: The mentalist is able to communicate with a flower/plant; Variation "Transkey" with keys

Teddy Tear (originally appeard in Half-Baked, the Journal of Ideas That Aren't Issue 11): Ripped and restored teddy bear; Variation "Doll Danger" (created with Adam White) doll & doll head presentation ...

Here you will learn simple but surprising looking folds. These are great as gifts, conversation starters, or even items you can sell. For each you will receive a template, a photo of the final result, and detailed video instructions of how to create it.

• Braid Link
• Chinese Letter Knot
• Cross and Arrow
• Double Braided
• Linking Stripes

1st edition 2019, length 17:42

Ein Handbuch der Knotenzauberei.

Aus dem Vorwort:

• Vorwort
• Kapitel 1: Eine Lektion im Knotenschlagen
  • Die 1. Lektion: Knoten oder kein Knoten
  • Die 2. Lektion: Der Schleifenknoten
  • Die 3. Lektion: Ein Knotenmärchen
• Kapitel 2: Verschwindende Knoten
  • 2.1....

A corner of a playing card is torn off. The magician pretends to grab the card at the missing corner. Despite the fact that he is not touching the card he can still lift and turn the card while holding on to this missing corner.

The effect goes back to Lubor Fiedler. However, Lubor's method is completely different and had the disadvantage that you couldn't show the back of the card. With Ralf's solution you can show both front and back while you are holding the card at the missing corner.

1st edition 2019, length 16:47

Routinen und Hinweise zum automatischen Becherspiel.

• 1 Bevor Sie beginnen...
  • 1.1 Informationen zu den Requisiten
  • 1.2 Hinweise zur Pflege der Requisiten
  • 1.3 Was Sie bei der Lagerung beachten sollten
  • 1.4 Was Sie sonst noch beachten sollten
• 2 Die Routine
  • 2.1 Was Sie benötigen
  • 2.2 Die Vorbereitung
  • 2.3 Phase I
  • 2.4 Phase II
  • 2.5 Phase III
  • 2.6 Phase IV
• 3 Tips und Anregungen
  • 3.1 Was Sie mit einem einzelnen Becher vorführen können
  • 3.2 Was Sie mit zwei Bechern vorführen können
  • 3.3 Was Sie mit drei Bechern vorführen können

Erstausgabe 1995, 31 Seiten; erste digitale...

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...

Aus dem Vorwort:

A training program and process to learn how to successfully palm cards.

Three palms taught including video instructions:

• Pivot Palm
• Erdnase Palm
• Swivel Fan Palm

1st edition 2019, PDF 53 pages, video length 2:20

This is a wonderfully visual effect. Take a coin throw it at a water bottle, can or other liquid container, and have the coin visibly penetrate the bottle and sink to the bottom.

1st edition 2019, length 17:27

A large coin is made to spin on its edge around the inside rim of a metal basin.

This effect was popular over a hundred years ago with all types of performers both for parties and at outdoor venues. The high keening sound made by the coin attracts a large crowd of onlookers who become fixated by the combination of sight and sound.

You will receive both a PDF and a video.

1st edition 2019, 4 pages + video length 23s.

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...

Kartentricks mit den Hofzinser-Zauberkarten.

Von der Einführung: