Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 40

"The Filet Mignon of Ace Assemblies." - Ed Marlo

Olram Aces is a tribute to the genius of Edward Marlo which shows how Marlo's lifetime work steadily influenced Jon.

The presentation makes maximum use of the gaffs and the Aces in the non-leader packets disappear in different ways that are successively stronger. It has been audience-tested on laypersons and magicians.

In typical Racherbaumer style you also get a history on the Ace Assembly plot starting with The Discoverie of Witchcraft.

1st edition 2009; 10 pages.

Sandwich tricks, long popular with cardmen, are nothing more than glorified locations. What makes them a little different is that the selections are found at specific places: between two other cards. Perhaps the best way to present these stunts is to perform a few in a rapidfire, successive way—each phase following the preceding one in a logical, progressive way. Also, each phase should be stronger than the preceding one. When such phases unfold in this manner, the overall impression will likely have more impact and be memorable.

And this is exactly what Racherbaumer has engineered in...

A closing routine with multiple climaxes. You produce the four Aces and place three of them in an envelope leaving out the Ace of Spades. Then you produce ten Spade cards in order. You then try to produce the Jack of Spades, Queen of Spades and King of Spades but the three Aces appear and the three face cards are found in the envelope. Then, all the Diamond cards appear in order, then the Club cards and the Heart cards. Amazing finale. Uses a regular deck of cards.

This is a classic Colombini trick - very strong effect, very easy to do. It has served Aldo very well for the past decades and was often a feature item in his lectures and performances.

A three-effect routine with a “killer” ending. The deck is shuffled and cut. You place a card face up in the middle. A spectator FREELY selects a card. You shuffle the deck again and then you cut the deck into two. Dealing the cards at the same time from both piles, the spectator’s card appears at the same time as yours. You then turn over the top card of each packet to produce the four Aces and finally...

A stunning new packet effect by Cameron Francis.

Effect:

A card is selected and lost in the deck, we'll say it's the Six of Diamonds. The magician introduces a packet of four cards. Each card has one hole punched through it. The cards are flipped face up and are seen to be the four Aces. "The Aces are going to tell us the suit and value of the card you selected. First they'll tell us the suit."

The magician gives the packet a twist. He spreads the cards and one of the Aces is now face down. The Ace of Diamonds. "This tells me that the card you picked was a Diamond!" The magician then...

"All the items are varied and interesting and make a good collection of strong, practical card magic" – Peter Duffie

"BSBCS is very clever" – Richard Osterlind

"What the hell is an ebook?" – his mum

If you have read Mind Blasters you will have encountered one effect by John Holt. John became gutsy and released his own ebook with a collection of close-up card and mentalism effects. He also describes two moves, an excellent full deck overhand false shuffle and a double lift.

• False Overhand Shuffle
• Twirl Double Lift
• BSBCS: A spectator shuffles a deck, which can be borrowed, the performer turns...

A simple version of a two-phase triumph effect.

Two cards are freely selected and lost in the deck. The performer shuffles the cards face up in a face‐down deck. When the deck is flipped over, the performer confirms whether this card is any one of the spectators or not and the answer is “no”. The performer requests the first spectator to grab this unknown card and treat it as her “lucky card” and gives a light tap on the deck.

Magically, all the cards turn face up except for one card which is the second spectator’s selection which is face up in the middle of the deck. The performer...

A visual two-packet transposition card effect.

The performer introduces two packets of cards; the four Aces and Kings. The Ace‐packet is placed on the table and with a magical gesture, the Kings packet magically transforms into the Aces. The Kings are now on the table.

Your version is very visual. I like it! - Mike Powers

It's a lovely handling Andrew! - Harvey Rosenthal

Good Stuff! - Peter Duffie

What amazed me about this trick is that the visual change actually works! When you first read through it with cards in hand, you think, "Wait a minute... This can't be right..." But it's amazing...

Swords...Death...Lovers...Fortune...

Tarot cards are old, but that doesn't mean they're boring. Tarot cards add an air of mystery and emotion to any performer's arsenal. This ebook will show you a whole new frontier of possibilities with these arcane works of art. Spectral Chill is as much a concept as it is a trick. And the bonus trick, Tarot Below Zero is just one possibility to be found at the tip-of-the-sword in this re-conceived paradigm.

Tarot is all about creating links in the mind of the spectator and Spectral Chill is a system to help do exactly that.

This is a real performer's...

This ebook contains 16 routines based on gimmicked cards, jumbo cards, regular cards, special decks, etc. Some are almost self-working, some require a little bit of handling.

• Coded Card Prediction (Ken de Courcy)
• Ken's Klock (Ken de Courcy)
• Noah's Mix Up (Gene Castillon)
• Odd Man Out (Arthur Carter)
• Orbital (Trevor Lewis)
• Prediction Gone Wild (Cameron Francis)
• Shouting Jokers (Jozsef Kovacs)
• Sleeve Subway (Ken de Courcy)
• Stabtastic (R. Paul Wilson)
• Technicolor Cheeck (R. Paul Wilson)
• The Choice is Yours (Edwin Hooper and Ken de Courcy)
• The Magician (Sam Schwartz)
• The Whitechapel Solution (Ryan Matney)
• Twister (Sam Schwartz)
• Vanishing Oil and...

This treatise is a compilation of Marlo's methods for performing a card-to-wallet, incorporating his Exclusive Card in Wallet (1961) with methods published in Ibidem, [lc=4446 Hierophant, Card Finesse, Marlo's Magazine, and other previously unpublished but related methods. This material was discovered in a thick folder among Marlo's private effects.

The idea of causing a selection to disappear from the deck and then reappear elsewhere is almost as old as playing cards. Reinhard Müller has painstakingly researched the basic effect classified as "Card Found in Some Object," which was being performed (in some form)...

[Note: Despite all the rumors the cover does not show Jon in his younger years.]

This is an ebook about moves, card moves to be precise. If you are already familiar with the basics of card magic then you will find here a lot of advanced moves and concepts to significantly improve your magic. If you are an experienced veteran of card magic you will probably still find some moves you are unfamiliar with. It is also a great reference ebook to have in case you run one day into any of these moves. The moves are described in text and photos with references and sources in the usually meticulous Racherbaumer style.

• Adding To Vernon (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Altman Trap (Art...

The 'Real-Gone Aces' problem is a side branch of the classic four Ace trick. In the classic you place four aces on the table, then put three indifferent cards on each ace, and magically all aces end up in the same pile. In the 'Real-Gone Aces' plot which was originated by Marlo, after correspondence with Neal Elias, three aces vanish to join an isolated leader ace.

If this plot appeals to you then you will learn a good number of variations on it in this ebook. And I am sure, if you are the kind of guy or gal who enjoys reading such detail filled descriptions of finesses and fine points, then...

15 amazing card routines using gimmicked cards and prepared decks.

• Blind Deal
• Blowing Away
• Chip-Chip Hooray!
• Deep Rising
• In Between
• Mixed Relations
• Turning Point
• Twice Blank
• Ulti-Mate-M
• Wild Mix
• Add-Acadabra
• Cornered
• Joker Dilemma
• The Rubber Illusion
• Cut It Out

1st edition 2011; 20 pages.

14 amazing card routines using gimmicked cards.

• A Free Choice
• Bleached
• Blinder
• Brain Sell
• Clear Thought
• Ghost Flight
• Star-Struck
• Total Magic
• Printerface
• Point-Blank Assembly
• Stund!
• The Universal
• The Vanishing
• Thunderstruck

1st edition 2011; 26 pages.

These are Jon Racherbaumer's contributions to the New Pentagram Magazine from 1979.

• Surprising the Princess: ESP card effect with a surprise ending that will whack you down.
• Simplex Mental Reverse
• Magical Separate Colors
• King-Currence
• Still Another Lie Detector

articles first appeared 1979; 14 pages

Ten amazing routines with a regular deck of cards.

• LONE RIDER (Aldo Colombini): A spectator selects a card from a deck. It is the only one with a different colored back.
• THE MAGNETIC ACES (Nick Trost): A spectator deals the cards and finds the four Aces.
• SPELL-KING (Aldo Colombini): A funny routine. You find the four Kings and then the four Aces.
• NOW SERVING (Karl Fulves): Missionaries and cannibals are involved. You find them all.
• PALATINO (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected. You show the four Aces. The Ace of the same suit turns out to be the selection.
• MAGIC ELIMINATION (Hideo Kato): A selected card is found...

This manuscript explores in detail the possibilities of the 'Double Count'. As the title implies, the possibilities seem unlimited. After reading this PDF you will surely come up with your own variations and takes on the effects presented. The Double Count in its basic form is to show five cards absolutely cleanly as six. One of the five cards is a double facer.

1st edition 1953, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 2002, 48 pages.

Table of Contents

8. The Card Goes Home (Norm Osborn)
13. Improved Double Count (Edward Marlo)
14. Effect One
18. Effect Two
20. Effect Three
22. Effect Four
22. Effect Five
26. Effect...

This set consists of 52 gaffed cards with Bicycle backs. The cards are listed below and can also be seen in the image to the right. They come in a white tuck box that has a small window on one side.

• Ace of Spades with inverted black Bicycle back (2 cards)
• Ace of Clubs with inverted yellow Bicycle back (2 cards)
• Ace of Hearts with inverted red Bicycle back (2 cards)
• Ace of Diamonds with inverted blue Bicycle back (2 cards)
• King of Hearts - King of Spades horizontal split face, Ace of Clubs on the back (11 cards)
• King of Diamonds - King of Clubs horizontal split face, Ace of Clubs on...

Don't be misled by the title of this effect. It is not a new mathematical method. This is a purely sleight-of-hand effect. However, it uses the Fibonacci sequence as a presentational tool.

Effect:

The magician explains the idea of Fibonnacci's Numbers which are numbers in the following integer sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ... (every next number is a sum of two previous numbers). This sequence appears in many spheres such as: art, nature, science...

Performer introduces a deck of cards in random order. The card is freely selected by the spectator. Before the card is placed...

Racherbaumer thinks that the greatest sleight of the 20th-century is the Double Lift Turnover. If we consider the scores of different ways to lift, turn, toss, propel, flip, rotate, and spin two cards as one—not to mention ways of getting ready, gripping, insuring alignment, and unloading, then this is certainly a pretty valid move to pick as the most important sleight. At the minimum Racherbaumer has me convinced.

In this ebook Jon collects ways to finesse the move and also traces its historical development. I am pretty sure you are using probably several times a double lift turnover somewhere...

Several decades ago Bob Hummer invented a new principle which caused a short-lived stir among cardicians. The effect was called "The Mindreader's Dream". It sounds too good to be true: A spectator merely thinks of a card and performs a few, unseen dealing procedures with a deck of cards. The magician briefly scans the cards, consults a "dream book," and then names the mentally selected card.

Racherbaumer collects in this ebook several improvements and variations on this basic principle, including the original Hummer method. The contributors are an eclectic group of specialists including Justin Higham,...

Edward Marlo and Jon Racherbaumer study three similar effects:

• Everywhere and Nowhere
• The General Card
• The Universal Card

2nd edition 2002, 50 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Afterword
9. A Future Classic
16. Streamlined Classic
20. Comedy Classic
21. Quick Three-Way
24. In Lieu of the Hindoo Shuffle
27. Mini-Classic I
28. Mini-Classic II
29. A Sixy Effect
31. Early Marlo: Everywhere and Nowhere
33. No Deck: Everywhere and Nowhere
37. Spade Book: Everywhere and Nowhere
40. Marlo's Hofzinser
42. Additional Climax
43. Future Classic Double-Cross
45. Four Eightses Classic
48. 'Tis Rough On Hofzinser

You will receive four sets of 5 ESP cards (circle, cross, three wavy lines, square, star), a total of 20 cards. Two sets have a red Bicycle back and the other two sets have a blue Bicycle back. These cards were manufactured by USPCC on their standard air-cushion cardboard.

All cards are marked on the back in an easy-to-read way. A short glimpse is all you need to know which symbol it is. The Bicycle back design wonderfully camouflages the markings if you do not know where to look. These cards match regular Bicycle cards allowing combinations of effects with ESP symbols and standard card symbols. ...