Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 12

Imago is the ultimate version of the classic "Princess Card Trick"!

The thought of card really disappears!

In Imago you will find the explanation to perform the basic "Princess card trick" and other four routines by Tony Binarelli.

Hypnotic Illusion: the performer states that, through hypnotic suggestions, it is possible to alter the memory and that he would like to prove it. He asks for two people to help him: the first one withstands the suggestions while the other one will be the witness of reality.

Super Brainwave: six cards are removed from the pack, the performer shows them...

Back in 1982, Tom Craven wrote a charming little booklet entitled The 16th Card Book. This ebook is a reproduction of this booklet and additionally a collection of contributions by a list of eclectic performers who contributed their routines on the same topic.

Tom Craven's original 16th Card Book - 1982

• What's In A Name
• Preface
• Top Ten (Craven)
• Suite Sixteen (Goldstein)
• Suite Sixteen Variant (Goldstein)
• A Perfect Mis-Match (Craven)
• Cut N' Count Double (Craven)
• My Card Is (Craven)
• Conjuring With Cards (Trost)
• Siamese Suite (Goldstein)
• Which Card's Company? (Craven)
• Three's Company...

More routines based on the 16th Card Principle.

• Understanding the 16th Card Principle
• The 16th Card Utility (Gordon)
• Impossible 16th Card Location (Gordon)
• Craving For Craven (Craven)
• The Very Best Poker Hand (Gordon)
• My Darned Nemesis (Gordon)
• Moracle Finesse (McBride)
• Startling Aces (Gordon)
• Okay, TC! (Gordon)
• Idea To Preset Two Equal Piles (Hucko)
• Oracle, Moracle, Miracle (Gordon)
• 16th Card Force (Gordon)
• The Third Card (Gordon)
• 24 to 27 (Gordon)
• Craving For Craven # 2 (Craven)
• Placement For Lucky Number Aces (Hucko)
• Staggering! (Rindfleisch)
• Top And Bottom and The Quine...

ALL ABOARD! B'wave by Max Maven has been one of David's favorite effects since its release in 1991. Since then, countless variations have been published...and here are some more! These routines have been designed to give what is essentially the same effect as B'wave, but eliminate the need for Equivoque or any other force. There are four effects that will knock 'em for a loop, plus two bonus chapters devoted to the "Wave" concept.

First up is Jacks in the Box. On the table sits a single card box. It is explained that the box contains the four jacks, and only the four jacks. However, there...

Six tricks with an easy to make deck of cards.

FACTS
An ACAAN-variation. The magician introduces two decks of cards: one has a blue back, the other red. The blue deck is shuffled and tabled. The red deck is numbered from 1 to 52 on the back of the cards. The spectator cuts to a random card in the shuffled red deck and selects another random card. The spectator turns any of the two red cards face up and the other one face down. By using the number on the back of the red-backed card, the spectator deals a pile from the blue-backed deck. The last dealt card matches the face-up, red-backed card. ...

#12 In Devin Knight's Psychic Sight Series

Here is a different approach to the classic Out Of This World effect. It does away with stacked decks and having to change the color of the indicator card in the middle of the deal. The participants can shuffle the deck before the effect begins.

Effect: The performer shows a deck of cards and four opaque envelopes. He invites two participants, a man and a woman, to test their psychic abilities. The performer points out that a woman is normally drawn to red cards, because of the hearts and diamonds. A man, on the other hand, seems to be drawn to...

"A beautifully realized moment of astonishment ... the new gimmick is very clever indeed!" - Paul Harris

"A stunning vanishing deck that takes an original idea by Paul Harris and sends it to the moon." - Richard Kaufman

The remarkable effect shifts "the moment" in Paul Harris' amazing Vanishing Deck allowing for a card to be selected and signed.

This selected card is shuffled back into the deck which is then held in full view.

Upon command, the entire deck visually vanishes (that's right - it just blinks out of being) leaving only the chosen card as a poignant applause cue.

Exit 51...

Paul Gordon is offering 24 really strong easy-to-do worker card tricks. All 24 are doable, entertaining and magical. This ebook contains the very best of Paul's easier material. But, don't mistake easy with dull. Far from it. This ebook contains some KILLERS!

• Introduction
• An Easy-to-Do Move You Need to Know
• Shocked Aces
• Carbon Footprints
• Hip Hop Card Cop
• Nice 'n' Easy Does It
• A Predictable Stroll #2
• What, Another Kick?
• Strike More Than A Match
• A Load of Old Blarney
• Al Leechian
• Impromptu Pokertell
• When I Was Twenty-One
• You Do As Each Other Do
• Hocus Pocus
• Easy Peasy
• The Eight...

A pack of cards is shuffled, and spread face-up on the table. The magician glances across the spread for merely a few seconds, the pack is turned face-down and he turns away. Whilst his back is turned, a spectator selects ANY card, remembers it and returns it to the pack but in a different location. Turning back, the magician glances once more across the spread and removes A SINGLE CARD. It is the selection. This classic plot, conceived over 80 years ago by Moe, magic's original underground man, has fooled magicians the world over. For the first time in print, you will discover a collection of...

This is a miracle trick from the fertile, inventive and, dare we say, dangerous mind of Stephen Tucker.

You have three red-backed cards: two cards marked THIS one card with the word THAT. All you have to do is keep your eye on THAT but most of the time you get THAT wrong and it is THIS and when you get THIS and THAT wrong suddenly the back of THIS turns blue!

At the end of the routine you deal the three cards down on to the table and a new card appears bearing the word OTHER. So you have to explain as you deal the cards that to do this trick properly you will need THIS, THAT and a bit...

Three card monte. Almost no skill. The given presentation guarantees lots of laughs.

Why the funniest?

Well, here is what happens: The routine starts with a funny joke about a three-card-monte player. The joke conjures up a crazy image in the minds of the audience that elicits huge laughter. The next laugh comes from the fact that the spectator who is invited to play the betting-game is asked to keep track of the odd card while it is clear that the odd card has grown in size and protrudes from the other cards. With the 1st round of the betting-game there comes a laugh when it is clear...

Automatic Aces
You shuffle a deck and then give it a spectator, who now carries out a series of random actions that result in him locating all four Aces.

Rideckulous
Your invisible helpers become visible and then find a chosen card along with all the other cards of the same colour!

Natterjacks
You remove the four Jacks. A Card is selected and returned to the deck. The deck is cut into two halves - one remains on the table. The four Jacks are placed face up on the table half and cut into the middle. One by one the Jacks leave the tabled half and appear face up in the half in your hands....

A very funny version of the collector's plot. 4 Labracadabrador cards find 3 chosen cards instantly.

A version of Roy Walton's collector's plot, which has been in my repertoire for 25 years now and has made a lot of audiences happy. As the hilarious text makes everyone laugh out loud, the thought crossed my mind to call it: "The Funniest Collectors in the World". However because of the awe-inspiring moment that is felt by everyone at the climax when the three chosen cards appear between the collector cards it is more appropriate to call it: Orgasm of Astonishment

So what is Orgasm of...

This manuscript is a compilation of methods in order to identify and track its history. In the process, it hopes to show how a given trick evolves, sometimes devolves, and ultimately reflects the periods of time this process has occurred.

The trick in this case is the "Red-Hot Mama" or "The Chicago Opener," a presentation that has been around for almost 60 years and has been a useful, dependable and enduring workhorse.

In its basic form it is an effect where a card is selected. Its back changes color and is set aside. A second card is selected, lost in the deck, and the initial selection...

• Last Card to Laugh (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Sounds of Silence?
• Face Value?
• Elevated Elevator (Edward Marlo, Frank Garcia)
• Shiner Notes (Files of Jon Racherbaumer)
• Remembrance of Things Passed (Jon Racherbaumer)
• About a Procedure for the Clock Trick (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Cardini Control (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Niggling Narrativity (Jon Racherbaumer)
• New-And-Clear Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Bare-Faced Boys With Decks In Hand (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Impromptu Casino Shuffle (Gene Castillon)
• Notes on Peek Decks
• Marlo's Spread Lift (Edward Marlo)
• Magic: On the Edge: Trick-Soup For Dummies? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Constructive Criticism ...

From the Preface:

Includes a more clarified explanation of Marlo's "Super Count" routine, and a lot more.

• Frank Shields: Bits And Pieces
• Super-Counting Caper
• Tabled Bottom Placement
• Gutting The Glut
• Everybody Is A Magician
• Re-Rereading
• Quick Note For The Cow-Pawed, Gibblefisted,
• Scram-Handed, Ballock-Handed,
• Keg-Handed And Cack-Handed Brethren
• Shades Of Ricky Jay
• The Credit Game
• Magic As Stamp Collecting?
• Marlo And The Second-Dealing Monkey
• Remembering Al Koran
• Guess What?
• Color Monte Notes

1st edition 2017, 70 pages.

• Introduction
• Charlie Miller's Material in Expert Card Technique
• A Glimpse through the Fourth-Wall Window
• Uncontrolled Prediction (Edward Marlo)
• Indecent Exposure?
• Numero Trois (Blair Bowling)
• Breathing Heavy (Blair Bowling)
• Hofzinser, Carried Away (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
• Putting a Placement in Its Place
• Wee Madness in Vegas
• Yakety-Yak (Don't Talk Back)
• Footnotes to a Book-In-Limbo
• Busby Follies Redux
• "F" Is For Fake

1st edition 1996, 35 pages.

This is a card act rather than a single trick. It is a full-deck effect, tells a story, has audience participation as spectators become the characters, is full of magic, and has an ending that no one will see coming that will fry the audience. It is called, The Tournament, and it will convince your audiences that you are the greatest card cheat of all-time. There is no false dealing, which means that the dealing portions of this routine are all self-working. The finale of the act is a mind-blower and brings everything to a logical conclusion.

Two methods are provided, one which utilizes the...

Every now and then a sequel is made that out does the original such as The Godfather part II, Superman II, The Empire Strikes Back, The Terminator II, The Dark Knight, and Aliens to name a few. Well, such is the case here with David Devlin's Packet Racket II. If you like packet tricks (David loves them) then you will love this eBook! All six of the tricks use standard packet sleights, and only one of them uses gaffed cards. (You can find the first volume here Packet Racket).

Triumphant Travelers: What do you get when you combine Open Travelers with Triumph? You get Triumphant Travels. This one is impromptu. ...

The oil and water effect is a classic of card magic, some love it, some hate it. If one has ever seen Rene Lavand do it slow motion with one hand you probably love it. But there is only one Rene Lavand. Some say the effect of red and black cards separating is rather weak, until Roy Walton added a kicker in 1969 where half the cards change to Queens. Dave Bendix tweaked Walton’s handling. Bob Stencil and Terry LaGerold devised a narrative that logically excused the surprise appearance of the Queens. Jon Racherbaumer and Jeff Busby independently expanded the kicker to not only change half the cards but...

A complete manual of card conjuring. This is not identical to the card sections in Hoffmann's other books such as Modern Magic etc. But this book has been released in sections under the titles Card Tricks With Apparatus and Card Tricks Without Apparatus since 1893. It appears Hoffmann was not too happy about breaking it up into parts.

• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
• CHAPTER II. SLEIGHT OF HAND PROCESSES, APPLICABLE TO CARD CONJURING
  • To Make the Pass
  • To Make the Pass with both Hands
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 1
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 2
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 3
  • To Force a Card
  • To Force a Person to Think...

If you like the Invisible Palm, you'll love this!

An Invisible Palm routine that is done with the cards face-up, and a series of kickers to finish it off. You will learn many techniques that can applied to the rest of your card magic.

1st edition 2017, length 34 min

From the Foreword: