Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 9

Flourishes, Part 2

• Turning Over the Top Card IV
• Turning Over the Top Card V
• Turning Over the Top Card VI
• Springing the Cards
• The Cascade
• The Swivelleroo Cut
• The Flip-flap Cut
• One-handed Riffle Shuffle

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

[Note that to view the embedded video clips on iPad you will need the PDF-Expert app. And to view them on Android tablets use ezPDF. There could be other apps that work but these two have been tested.]

Theory

• Some Thoughts on Theoretical Subjects
• Presentation
• Construction
• Directing Attention
• Technique, Handling and Management
• Timing
• Outs for Disasters and Disturbances
• The Study of Card Conjuring

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

In 14 clearly organized lessons you will learn how to handle a deck of cards like a pro. And along the way you will acquire some amazing, yet simple card tricks, which will allow you to successfully perform a little card act for an audience.

• Lesson 1: Tools and Instruments
• Lesson 2: Getting Acquainted With Your Instrument
• Lesson 3: Your First Techniques: Basic Shuffles
• Lesson 4: Your First Card Trick: "The Mystery of the Triangle"
• Lesson 5: Ordinary Cuts
• Lesson 6: A Small Card Miracle: "The Cards Know"
• Lesson 7: More Auxiliary Sleights and Review
• Lesson 8: A Few Simple Flourishes ...

These are 8 hours of personal video instructions from Roberto Giobbi. This is almost like taking private lessons from Roberto. It is a one-to-one coaching from one of the world's premier card experts, who is considered by his peers to be one of today's finest and most influential teachers of magic.

"I was extremely impressed. Giobbi is an excellent teacher, he communicates his ideas clearly, and he's passionate about card magic - this is one of the best card magic DVD sets I've come across in recent memory. It contains a tremendous amount of solid material for beginning and even seasoned...

This is an ebook for the card specialist: beautiful routines and details, variations and tips on moves and technique.

Includes his Lecture Notes 1 and Lecture Notes 2.

1st edition 1982, original 100 pages; PDF 57 pages.

Table of Contents

3. FOREWORD

   ROGER CROSTHWAITE'S LECTURE NOTES 1

7. Introduction
8. Definition Of Terms
9. Abbreviation Of Terms
10. A Philosophy Of Magic
11. Magic Circle Prize-Winning Magic or The Patriotic Bishop Routine
20. Cards From Balloon
21. On The Hofzinser Change
22. The Rear Palm Side Steal
23. The Rear Palm Colour Change
24. The LTP Side Steal
25. The Delayed LTP Side Steal
26. Technical...

"I have just watched Roger's Real Gone Aces and thoroughly enjoyed what I saw. You caught me several times during the routine. Your handling is among the best I've seen..." - Peter Duffie

"The techniques used in Roger's Real Gone Aces are very direct and straightforward. I honestly believe that the cardman will have a stunning addition to his repertoire." - Bill Miesel

"Arcardia exemplifies Roger's special enthusiasm for sleights that are executed under cover of what is for him a natural handling of the deck. With an exasperating capacity for self-criticism, his pursuit of excellence in the execution...

Effect

Two cards are selected and lost in the deck. The first card magically travels under a napkin that's been on the table the entire time. This card is wrapped in the napkin and handed to a spectator for safe keeping. They can actually see the face of the card through the napkin so they know what card is in there and that the magician can't touch it. The magician then causes the card in the napkin to turn into the second selection.

Above is just one possible routine that can be done with this gimmick. It can really be used any time you wan to turn one card, or any number of cards, into...

The card in bottle has become somewhat of a trade mark trick for Ron in the last few years during his restaurant and bar work. Over the years he has come up with a variety of methods and he put them all together in this ebook. These methods will allow you to perform this great trick in just about any performing condition. Learn them all and when the time comes decide which method is best for your current performing condition. This will take a lot of the guess work out of it for those who would like to add this great trick to their close up performances.

1st edition 2006; 6 pages

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...

Queens Quartet is a 4 part routine that uses the Queens to find selected cards in different and novel ways.

The routine can be performed as three individual effects (the fourth effect doesn't work itself) or as a whole. In performing the routine as a whole, you will find that each effect has been created to lead automatically into the next one, producing an act that "flows" from start to finish.

You will need to be able to do the following techniques:

• Magicians Choice force
• Mock Pass
• Braue Add On Move
• Bro. John Hamman's Packet Switch

1st edition 2014, 9 pages.

What is Impossible?

Impossible is a tried and tested workable effect that will stun your audience! (Especially if one of them asks you 'that' IMPOSSIBLE question!) "Can we shuffle the cards? Can we just cut to and look at a card? Can YOU find that card?"

Ronald Wood presents Impossible. A card effect that shows your audience nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

1st edition 2014, 11 pages.

Cooking instructions:

Open a Larry Jennings packet. Sprinkle a little from a Roy Walton packet. Add a full pack mixture of 52 cards and a little audience participation.

Cook for an entertaining 3 to 4 minutes for a delicious, fun tasting yummy routine.

For an extra mouth watering enticement! Add two (YES! TWO!) little beautiful BONUS impromptu Yummies!

1st edition 2015, 9 pages.

Rovi is a Gold Star Medalist of the Inner Magic Circle and a Member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He is an expert with a pack of cards and his particular brand of card magic has an enormous impact on magicians and members of the public. In this exclusive interview he has been persuaded to release several of his remarkable effects.

Featured in this recording are some of the card secrets that have earned Rovi regular engagements on TV and at exclusive hotels and private houses. The secrets he reveals are not for magicians out to amaze each other with manual dexterity but for...

Walker's Card Mysteries is a book of highly useful and original card conjuring. The forty odd items deal with systems, sleights and subtleties, while each experiment is worked out in the most minute detail. Accurate illustrations enhance the value of the publication.

From the Preface:

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. The Giant Four Aces
7. The Card and the Orange
10. The Same To You
13. The Three Card Trick
14. The Master Diminishing Cards
19. Taking the Count

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Patter
5. Card-Colour Change
7. The Back-And-Front Palm
8. Vanish and Production of Five Cards
9. The Boomerang
9. Springing the Cards
9. The Miraculous Transit
12. The Four Aces
13. The Rising Cards
16. Cards Through the Handkerchief
17. The Painted Handkerchief
19. Spoofed!
20. "My Card"
22. The Cards Up The Sleeve
24. The Card on the Tape

1st edition 1931; 26 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Introduction

   Sleight of Hand with Cards

5. The Ordinary Palm
5. A Simple Pass
6. The Force
7. The Waterfall Shuffle
7. Mechanical Forces
7. The Knife Force
8. A Simple Single-Handed Force
9. The Bottom-Slip Force
10. The Double Handed Pass
11. The Single Handed Pass
11. The Turnover
12. The Cards from the Mouth
12. False Counting
13. The False Shuffle

    Tricks with Cards

14. Mind Over Matter
15. A Novel Card Discovery
17. Spelling by Magic

    The History of Magic (part 5)

19. Automatic Figures (continued)

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

"I've been playing with this today. It really is great and I'll be using it at this weeks weddings for sure! Rus has taken the "reversed card match" effect to another level with this. The added kickers of the odd backs followed by a deck of blank cards will fry laymen, and most magicians alike. The quality of the DVD by Magic Tao is first class. A live performance followed my a clear concise explanation. Rus is a clever thinking honest guy, an I can't wait to see what lease he releases for us in the future!!" - Matt Wainwright

Imagine telling a spectactor that, with their help, you...

"The is a stroller / workers dream!! I love the spectators choice of card appearing where the previously blank card was put in their own pocket!! All the displays and moves are justified, there is no counting cards just for the sake of counting cards etc. Rus has stripped back the effect, so it couldn't be any more simple and yet so strong at the same time!! Magic Tao have done another fantastic job on the production of the DVD too. Keep up the good work Rus, I wish you all the best with your other current releases." - Matt Wainwright

Trauma is a blank card effect with a crazy, twist...

"Dedicated to the Art of Cardistry" was the subtitle of this legendary cards only magazine from the late 50s. It is one of the most influential card magazines ever produced, with effects by Rusduck, Elmsley, Charles Hudson, Bill Miesel, Marlo, Kosky, Milt Kort, Ron Edwards, Max Katz, Tom Ransom, etc.

1st edition 1958-1959; 156 pages.

1. To a Memory
   • Strictly Straight
   • Rusduck Bridge
   • Forever Royal - And Yet Again
   • Rusduck "Stay-Stack" System
2. Zensational
   • Hocus Poker
   • Nudeck Speller
   • "Sneaky Pete" Repeat
   • An Oddity
   • S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T
   • Faro Favorites
   • Anyone for Bridge?
3. Rusduck Four-Way Deal
   • The...

A wonderful collection of original magic/mentalism effects and theory.

The Assumption Principle: A deceptive but simple and versatile principle that you'll surely be making your own tricks with.

Bluff ACAAN: To the spectator, it is a meaningful take on the ACAAN using a shuffled deck and free choice. They can handle the deck for the naming of the card and number. They can deal the cards.

The Passive Force: An idea for an elaborate forcing method which you may already use, but have never realized it or thought of it in this way.

The Build Up Principle: You'll totally transform your...

This trick starts out as a display of the power of chance. A card is selected by the roll of dice. The magician doesn't know what the card even is. He spreads the cards and picks four random cards face down. One of the four cards is picked randomly, and the magician declares that it will be the card the spectator picked. When its not the right card, the magician makes up for it by making the card first disappear from the deck entirely, and reappear in his shoe.

Note that you will need to purchase a gimmick for under $10. Ryan provides a link where you can buy this particular gimmick.

...

Dr. Brent Morris covers the faro shuffle in minute detail from a mathematical analysis, to the history, applications, tricks with the faro shuffle and variations of the faro. If you want to become an expert on the faro shuffle this is a must have. Any card expert will cherish these notes because they are authoritative and exhaustive.

All ACAAN fans rejoice. You will find in this ebook the first ever published solution to this effect with faros. The effect is as follows:

This very rare, and highly sought after, gambling book from 1915 is finally available. This book was the first to publish the fact that eight out-faro shuffles brings the deck back in its original order.

• Preface
• Stacking Or Running Up Cards
• Controlling Four Aces And Four Kings By Stacking And Bottom Dealing
• Stacking Cards With The Faro Riffle
• Combination Cold Deck And Faro Riffle
• False Cuts
• Marked Cards
• Controlling Cards In The Draw
• The Tip
• Telling Hole Cards In Stud Poker
• The Draw Out In Stud Poker
• Edge Work For The Draw Out In Stud
• The Spread
• Second Dealing
• Cold Decking ...