Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 93

"A nice variety of card material here. I'll be using a few of these routines for sure!" - Paul Hallas

"You have the 'knack' to create direct effects with simple methods, which is, in my opinion, the essence of commercial magic." - Aldo Colombini

"In this ebook, Jozsef combines some original thinking with neat construction. I really enjoyed this collection of card magic. I think you will, too." - Peter Duffie

"If you enjoy the eleven excellent routines that you will encounter in CARDOPIA, which I know you will, be sure to check out József's other ebooks, lecture notes and manuscripts... they are all great and I highly...

Table of Contents

4. Tunnel Sandwich
7. Jedi Force
10. Flipover Cut
11. Snapover Flourish
12. Panacea
12. Martinez Display
14. Tell Tale Triumph
14. Zarrow Shuffle
16. Exit Line
20. Add On Finesse
21. Going Under Ground
22. Flesh Eaters
22. - One
24. - Two
25. - Three
27. Any Which Way You Can
31. Fourlorn
33. Double Trouble
34. Cannon Fire
35. Promenade
38. M. C. Switch
40. Spinner

1st edition 1984; original 32 pages; PDF 42 pages.

This is a routine Allan Ackerman developed in the early 1970s where he tried to achieve the cards across effect with as little motion as possible. He also added a visual card vanish. Later Paul Harris took this routine and turned it into his famous Sleeper routine.

A spectator picks a card. A second spectator cuts off a small portion of the deck, counts the cards, and puts the counted cards in a safe place. The performer then attempts to magically add as many cards to the second spectator's pack as the value of the card the first spectator chose.

You and the participant are on both ends of a voice call. Using an imaginary deck of playing cards, the participant 'churns her thoughts' multiple times and finally sends across a few cards from her mind to your mind. You 'receive' those cards perfectly and reveal them to her in a stunning manner. This, in essence, is the effect.

You can perform this over a video call or virtual show apart from face to face performances. And this works in any language. Two versions of the routine are explained.

PSYCHIC VERSION which is totally propless (except for a piece of paper used by the participant...

Ten routines with cards and coins.

CONTENTS:

• A BOOK IS BETTER (Aldo Colombini): A selected card vanishes from the deck and reappears in a book at a page randomly selected by a spectator. Easy to do. No palming.
• SHADES OF SILVER (Cameron Francis): An easy ‘shadow’ (assembly) coin routine using only four coins and your hands, with a backfire ending.
• COIN WRAP (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected and replaced. You try to produce the selected card but you fail. Then, you decide to do a coin trick. You perform a couple of very strong transpositions with a copper and a silver coin. At...

Cards and Strangers contains six effects that will make your audience sit up, take notice, and want more.

These effects aren't just magical. They are entertaining! And isn't that what we get paid for?

Every effect in this ebook has been set on rules! They must be entertaining, have not too many sleights (but NOT self working) and can be performed in the hands. All too often there isn't space on the table to perform or sometimes no table. As American magician Paul Lelekis states in the Forward.

"The number of tricks out there that can be performed completely in the hands can "fit on the head of...

This is the latest in a long line of excellent ebooks of Peter Duffie. It features many photos for a much clearer description of the sixteen routines. Beside his excellent ideas I just love his play with words in his trick titles. For example "Cannibalector" or "Witch Way?"

1st edition, 2001.

BLACK SHEEP: Two spectators each select cards from a packet, then you select one, but you leave your selection face up as proof of your actions. You spread the packet and remove your card along with the two cards on ether side. These prove to be the other two selections. As an afterthought, you point...

A quick-fingers count-up reveals that including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards Cool is a 64 page ebook overflowing with 20 individual card fragments and generous chunks of waffle to encourage them on.

A mixed-up shuffling of, ideas, doctrines, gentle dogmas and tender opinions to baffle and amuse. Regular sort of stuff, nothing off the wall or up the chimney, merely a smattering of street-worn cardboardian craziness. Nothing too involved or muscle tasking. Another soothing blend for Card Cardpersons.

• Introdecktion
• Dragoniaces
• Pokadditional Revisited
• Triple Header
• Jonah Poker ...

Moves and routines with a deck of cards.

1. Cards For All Time
2. Easier Cards For All Time
3. The Jog-Top Change
4. The Hofzinser Jog-Top (Visual) Change
5. Smiling Mule Power
6. Crab Sandwich
7. Colour Blind Triumph
8. Righting A Wrong Deck
9. A Bottom Deal
10. One Hand Fan Crimp
11. Turnover Pass No 1
12. I Do It This Way
13. The Musical Deck
14. Turnover Pass No 2
15. The Flash-Cut-Half-Pass
16. Zipper Prediction
17. The Gloving Touch
18. Cigarettes From “Know-Where”!
19. Coin Card Or .... Card Coin
20. Four Times Two Are Ate!
21. A Series Of False Cuts
22. Wilder Than Money
23. The For-Tune-Ate-Deck
24. Kicker Colour Change

1st edition 1995, 3rd...

In true Jerry Sadowitz fashion this book was originally titled "Card Shit". The reader is free to speculate why the title change.

Table of Contents

3. DEDICATION
4. CONTENTS
5. FOREWORD
6. THE LAST DEADFALL
7. THE PERSUADERS
9. COME AGAIN
11. PRONE TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY
12. JAFFA CAKES
14. SLIP JOG
15. COVER SHIFT
17. MONKEY FEATHERS
18. TRY
20. WHY NOT
22. THIS NEVER HAPPENED TO THE OTHER FELLA!
24. HARD MAN
26. MY NAME IS KERR
28. VENDETTA
30. SOMETHING'S UP!
32. THE FIVE OF DIAMONDS
34. THATCHER OUT!
35. CUT PALM
36. WISH YOU WERE HERE
37. ANOTHER ONE
40. WHAT ME WORRY?
42. C.N.D.
44. SPARROWS TEARS

1st edition June 1984; original 38 pages; PDF 45 pages....

Twenty routines by Aldo Colombini, plus a bonus section of 10 routines by: Ken de Courcy, Didier Dupré, Karl Fulves, Paul Gordon, G. W. Hunter, Milton Kort, Max Maven, Werner Miller, Herb Rungay, Geoffrey Scalbert. Impromptu routines, four-ace revelations, predictions, oil and water and more. Illustrated with 33 photographs.

1st edition 2008; 32 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

From the prologue by Billy McComb:

Including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards In Here is a 64 page ebook of card stuff. More than two dozen tricks, ideas, thoughts and whatnot to titillate the palate. Nothing complicated, no knucklebusters, no outlandish gimmicks, just simple down-home pasteboardian foolishness.

More than enough to put the anti-card brigade into a serious coma, but good fun for the rest of us.

Contents

• Accelerace
• Abacuts
• Spin Flash Pass
• CoCoCuts
• Card Courting
• Counting Thoughts
• Pick Your Pick
• CatoPresto
• Hocus Cato Presto
• Double Identify
• A Short Spell Of Aces
• Spell To Suit
• SuitAl Spell ...

Twenty-one card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive.

1st edition, 1994.

AUTO - SPLIT: A mysterious double card revelation, where a spectator manages to separate the colours of the cards with the exception of two selections. Interestingly, you never touch the cards!

THE SUABIAN TWIST: There have been several combinations of Dai Vernon's 'Twisting the Aces' and 'The Hofzinser Ace Problem' over the years. If the following version has any merit, it is the simple means by which the one at a time reversal is accomplished.

AURA BEST: This is a fairly puzzling routine based on...

Twenty-two card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive. This ebook in particular shows Peter's fondness of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and his ace problem.

1st edition, 2000.

PSYCHIC MATH: This is a card discovery that appears impossible for two reasons: first, it doesn't seem possible for you to know where the card is in the pack, and second, the card is found using the values of two random cards that were selected before the trick began. The only requirement is a full pack of fifty-two cards.

THE ANTI-GRAVITY SHUFFLE: A sort of mathematically induced multiple sandwich!

ANTI-GRAVITY + THOT: This is...

The Book of the Dead is often translated as the "Book of Emerging Forth Into the Light" which consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife ... so begins the Cards of the Dead - The Egyptian One-Card Reading.

You present the subject with a pack of cards, preferably one that looks special (there are a couple of options in the manuscript though any deck will do), the subject chooses ten random cards, you study these, pick up an impression (the kicker), note it down, and begin with the simple esoteric procedure...

This was Jerry's first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't read any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians.

The book opens with "Fetch", an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. Or what about "A Million to One" in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you...

This is a beautifully motivated opening effect for a card manipulation act. A deck of cards is introduced. The cards are taken out of the case. The cards and the case magically switch places several times. Besides the clever gimmick it is really a lesson in how to motivate the various effects in the performance. Wonder demonstrates how this effect of a deck of cards switching place with its case can be turned into a wonderfully motivated episode rather than an unmotivated series of effects. Wonder finds a good reason for every sequence that turns a simple trick into a story and thus beautiful...

Watch and learn the routine that won Carl the F.I.S.M. World Championship. Four signed cards completely vanish. Three of them reappear inside three different pockets. The fourth selection reappears in your sock! All four cards then vanish again, only to make their reappearance inside a sealed can of Slimfast, opened by the spectator.

The methods of how to get cards in your pockets, a card in your sock and how to load cards into a closed can holding some type of powder are easily applicable in many other situations.

The routine uses palming and sleeving, however Cloutier demonstrates how...

Zenneth is a successful and innovative magician in China and is sponsored by the US Playing Card Company. His specialty is close-up and particularly cards. In these notes he is explaining some of his variations and creations.

Life is Dangerous
This is a technically easier version of Jerry Sadowitz's Prone to Live Dangerously.

Thanks to Duffie
A variation on Peter's Illusion versus Reality.

69 By Play
A visual multiple transposition of two cards.

Strange Prediction
This is a small kicker finish to Roy Walton's Strange Prediction which makes it appear that the spectator has managed to find four of a kind in addition...

Here you have 25 completely new card routines not found in any of Aldo's other ebooks! Includes gems such as: Contact Colors, Punch Its Match and many more.

• Hofzinser 2000
• Oil, Water and Guts
• Wild, Wild Best
• Underground Spies
• Interchange
• Jump and Pass
• Imaginary Journey
• Punch His Match!
• Contact Colors
• Deep Impact
• Count On Them
• Birthday Card
• The Game's Afoot
• Y2K Deck
• The Erasers
• 4'Wave
• Cut It Out
• Holy Moly
• Falling Through
• Italian Poker
• Point Of No Return
• Red and Black Crash
• A Trio Band
• Fact or Fiction
• Collector Sandwich

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.

A chosen card that not only penetrates right through a deck of cards and a card-case, but also right through a spectator's hand. A very strong effect that looks impossible.

The effect is startling because it appears to happen in the spectator's own hands. As always Ken provides precious ideas for an intriguing presentation.

• Easy to do
• No palming
• The card can be signed

1st edition 1986; 1st digital edition 2018, 4 pages.

Excerpt from the foreword: