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This is volume 2 in a three part series: Volume 1, Volume 3.

This is a licensed reproduction of the famous Magicassette series created by Martin Breese - now owned by Lybrary.com.

This is volume 3 in a three part series: Volume 1, Volume 2.

This is a licensed reproduction of the famous Magicassette series created by Martin Breese - now owned by Lybrary.com.

Eye candy at its best.

Magicians always do card tricks. Why not do something more than just a card trick that will blow everyone's mind? For example, take any two playing cards from the deck, and fold them into 2 little supports. Take the ordinary card box and place it on top of them. This may not seem impressive yet...until you remove one of the structures leaving an impossible image in your spectators mind!

Or perhaps take a pencil and place it onto an ordinary pop can, and on the end of the pencil place the card box leaving a totally impossible image that just can't be explained. All...

Cameron Francis presents five 100% completely impromptu card effects. This is commercial, easy card magic. No set-ups and no extra props. All you need is a deck, two hands, an interested spectator and you are set to amaze! Here's what you'll find beyond the cover:

Elevation: Four phases of sandwich/elevator/twisting/transpo madness that will make you look like a sleight of hand god. But it's all oh, so easy to do! (See the demo video below.)

Spin Cycle: Twisting the Aces meets Hofzinser with a powerful in-the-spectator's-hands ending!

Emergency! A super convincing in the hands Triumph...

This is Alan Rorrison's solution to the Hofzinser Ace Problem.

A spectator freely chooses any card and signs it. The card is put face down between the two Jokers and these three cards (Jokers and spectator selection) are tabled. Then the spectator or another spectator selects four random cards from the face down spread. Magically the four chosen cards are the four aces. The ace with the same color as the spectator's card vanishes and reappears between the Jokers. The signed spectator selection is now found among the three remaining aces.

Alan has engineered his method to not require any difficult...

This is a beautiful ring-card linking effect.

Spectator freely chooses a card which he signs. Performer hole punches the signed card and magically attaches and then magically removes a ring. The hole punched card can be handed out for inspection.

• Easy and cheap to make
• Extremely simple to do
• Resets instantly
• Use a free selection or thought of card
• The linked item is borrowed
• Everything is examinable
• You end completely clean

Including "s.p.A.C.E.d" - featured in the May 2009 edition of Magic Magazine.

Bottoms up!
Effect: A joker is shown to the audience and placed face up on top of the deck. The cards are then spread and two cards are selected and signed. The selected cards are lost into the centre of the deck. The Joker is displayed on top of the deck and with a wave turns into the first signed card. With a flick, the first signed card turns into the second signed card! Then once placed into the spectator hand, the selection turns back into a joker. For your finale, you place the joker face up on top of the...

"Moment's Notice contained a superb collection of impromptu card effects. In this second volume, Cameron has done it again ... in fact, this second volume might even be better than the first, if that is at all possible!" - Peter Duffie

"This is the kind of material I like, not the difficult to do and with the EFFECT in mind!" - Aldo Colombini

"Cameron's material from the Moment's Notice series makes me want to go for a swim in Antarctica. It's that freakin hot!" - Donny Orbit

"I didn't want Moment's Notice 1 to end. This one picks up perfectly where the last left of. Filled with brilliantly commercial impromptu effect...

This publication is in my opinion among the best books on cards ever written, but it is rarely mentioned or recommended. I am not sure why this is. Perhaps one reason is that Jack Merlin himself has not left a large footprint in the magic literature besides this one publication. He has a published trick in Expert Card Technique and if you read Card College 1 you will have learned the Jack Merlin's Riffle Shuffle. Farelli mentions in his Farell's Card Magic: "I agree with Mr. Jack Merlin that the custom of continually practicing in front of a glass is the cause of the unfortunate habit many magicians have of blinking at the precise moment of performing...

Six more impromptu miracles from Cameron Francis that are guaranteed to amaze. All impromptu. Use any deck. No set ups.

• Sympathy – The four Queens twist and collect in the cleanest manner possible. This routine was a huge hit on Cameron's recent lecture tour.
• Wilder – A highly visual two phase Wild Card routine.
• Indie – Three incorrect predictions turn into three mates.
• Toasted – A clean and extremely direct double sandwich routine.
• Heat – A small packet, four phased Oil and Water routine with a very novel presentation.
• Uppers – An elevator effect with a stunning finale. ...

Barry could say this has taken 25 years in the making. And it would be true! In the latter part of the 1980’s, Barry created Deceptive Diary, and in 1990, he marketed this effect. It was the first diary trick to use only one diary…having a selection of over 40 cards! Before that, the diary trick either used two or four (sometimes six) diaries, forcing anything from two up to eight cards. But the major dilemma with Deceptive Diary was that it required mental gymnastics to work out the value of the card for any given date.

To offset this Barry created Easy Diary. But every now and again, he would...

Stephen Tucker is the magician who prefers a clever gimmick over a difficult sleight. That is not to say that he isn't capable to execute some of the most difficult sleights - and you will get a taste of those in this ebook, too. But the real strength here are Stephen's clever gimmicks and uses for common items and the fun and amazing routines he constructs with them.

• 13 card miracles
• 9 bonus effects (originally published in the Talon)
• 27 futuristic coin routines

1st edition 1983, original 73 pages, PDF 109 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
5. Introduction

   PARAGON - card effects...

"Cameron has done it again! His Moment's Notice series just goes from strength to strength. All six routines in this latest (fourth) installment are carefully structured and each one packs a punch." - Peter Duffie

"With all of the material in the Moment's Notice series I can launch a full on magic assault that is guaranteed to obliterate the senses. Thanks for keeping me prepared to maim at a moment's notice." - Donny Orbit

Six more totally amazing, totally impromptu, easy-to-do card effects from the mind of Cameron Francis!

• Ace Thang - A completely impromptu variation of Richard Sanders' amazing...

Ever thought that all other Oil & Water routines were a bit boring? Did you think they lacked some visual elements? Here’s Holy Blood Holy Water! A super visual multi-phased Oil & Water routine. Just imagine seeing the card mixed and then separate in front of your eyes.

This is the most visual Oil and Water routine to date, and, best of all, it’s easy to do! Virtually sleight free. There’s no reset and no need for a table, it can be done in THEIR hands, which probably makes this the most workable and commercial Oil & Water to date as well.

This manuscript details Daniel’s version...

"Fans of Cameron Francis's work will not be at all disappointed, nor will anyone else for that matter!" - Chris Piercy

"As usual, a great collection of impromptu and pretty easy card routines that you WILL use." - Raphael Czaja

Six more totally impromptu, totally easy, off-beat card effects.

Zombieland -- Wild Card meets Zombies! Yummy!

Scammed Across -- A super easy but completely amazing card across effect.

Hof-Wich -- A practically self-working sandwich transpo based on the Hofsinzer Ace Problem.

Instinct -- Two cards are selected. One appears between the two black Kings. The...

"Five terrific routines and a great full deck false cut plus video demos of them all... what more could you want?" - Stephen Tucker

"Providence is my new favorite sandwich trick!" - Raphael Czaja

"Cameron's best Ebook yet!" - Kyle MacNeill

"I have most of Cameron's e-books and this is one of my favorites!" - Jeff Prace

"Another great set if of effects from a very creative mind." - Rus Andrews

"(A) great a set of notes... Thumbs up!" - Ollie Mealing

Cameron's best ebook yet! Five effects and one in-the-hands false cut. Jaw dropping card magic that's big on impact and easy on the knuckles. Fun plots and novel...

This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.

1st edition 1970, original 128 pages; PDF 82 pages.

Table of Contents

7. Introduction
13. Cheating at cards
13. Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33. Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36. Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40. Holdouts: Kepplinger...

The cleanest method of passing three freely selected cards from one packet to another, with a borrowed pack and without preparation and a convincing mental effect. Including bibliographical and historical notes on the thirty card trick and a treatise on false counting.

"... a fairly brilliant effect, executed with borrowed cards, will prove ten times more convincing to a modern audience than the most elaborate and astounding feat imaginable, performed with a pack belonging to the conjurer himself..." - Farelli's Card Magic (Chapter VIII.)

"... The conditions under which I constantly perform, impromptu, and...

Pit Hartling's Little Green Lecture describes five of Pit's favorite card effects. Each is clearly and completely described and illustrated. One trick, Chaos is a virtually self-working trick involving two freely selected cards that completely stumped the experts at the FFFF gathering. The effect is extremely funny and the method is so clever that there is nothing you need to hide. You say exactly what you do, actually you describe the method in your patter but nobody will believe you, because actions and words create a hilariously conflicting situation that will have your audience laughing. ...

12 card tricks that are not in his books.

During Anthony Brahams' early child and youth years in magic he was never happy with the card magic available for newcomers. Then, in his twenties, he bought an Al Leech book and at last felt he was performing 'good' magic. All the more so when all the more he read, avidly buying each new Al Leech book when published and adding to his repertoire such notably outstanding effects as "The Hot Card Trick," "Double Deuce" and "Ace Location" among many.

After buying all of Leech's books Anthony discovered more of Leech's material was scattered throughout other magic...

"Great tricks!" - Peter Duffie

"Really strong magic... Again!" - Raphael Czaja

"AWESOME stuff as usual. 'Half-Version' forced me to get up and grab a deck!" - Dave Forrest

The 6th installment of the smash hit ebook series is finally here! Six new, commercial, completely impromptu card miracles. New plots. Fun twists on old plots. Cool methods. This is card magic you will use.

• DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN – A stunning double sandwich effect.
• OVERCOUNT – Paul Harris' Overkill meets Paul Cummin's Counting On It for one stunning effect.
• FACES IN THE CROWD – An impromptu packet effect with a novel presentation.
• HALF-VERSION...

Get ready for five high octane, visual business card effects! From the introduction:

Effects:

Another Merger -- A two signatures and...

"Paul Lelekis teaches seven card tricks in his "My Favorites" ebook. At only ten dollars, it may be the best bargain around!" - Wayne Kawamoto

Long-time professional magician, Paul A. Lelekis, has finally released his pet, "go-to" routines that he has used in actual performance hundreds...even thousands of times over the years in many shows and table-hopping in restaurants for decades!

All of these routines are true "real-world workers" that will smack your spectators' right between the eyes. The day before Paul finished writing this e-book, he performed at a large corporate function...

Seven more off-beat, totally impromptu card effects from the mind of Cameron Francis. Includes both written instructions and video instructions.

CONTENTS:

THE TRUTH IS IN THE MIDDLE: A "mystery card" effect where a card reversed in the middle of the deck before the trick started turns out to be the selection.

WELL TRAVELED: A "Travelers" variation that is pretty darn easy to do.

TRI THE SANDWICH: A Triumph routine and sandwich routine all rolled into one tasty treat.

OUT OF SIGHT, INSIDE THE BOX: A magical variation of Dai Vernon's "Out of Sight, Out of Mind".

FAUX SHOW: A five phased...