Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 28

Working Progress is a short ebook of six tricks that I use when working for real, live human beings. They're all practical tricks that work in pretty much any performing environment you could possibly find yourself.

Inside you'll find a cool transposition that you'll love to perform, a chop cup routine which includes TWO fabulous endings that get round the awkward "putting the lemons back into your pocket" reset moment, a great use for the Phil deck that you can use for parlour performances or to open a set at a house party, plus there's a routine for the card to wallet that doesn't foreshadow...

Effect:

The spectator selects a card from the performer’s deck and does not reveal it to the performer until requested to do so. The performer then shows a packet of four Jokers to the spectator, displaying the faces and backs of all four cards. He then asks the spectator to wave his selected card over the Jokers he is holding in his hand. When the performer turns the packet face up and displays the cards, they are no longer Jokers! Instead, all four cards are now identical to the spectator’s selected card!

But that’s not all! When the performer squares the four cards back together,...

A comedy card on seat routine with a twist.

This one is an absolute killer! Scott's Comedy Card on Seat routine uses a different method from the well-known Chuck Fayne or gaffed chair routines. The audience participant joins you up front and sits in an ordinary chair. Then, while you look away, he selects and signs a card, replaces it anywhere he wants in the deck and thoroughly shuffles the deck before returning it to you. After some fun, and very amusing byplay, the card vanishes, followed by a kick-in-the-head moment that NOBODY sees coming, before it is revealed that he is SITTING on...

A feature show-stopping mentalism routine

NOTE: While the description below describes the effect using a seven-digit phone number, it can also be done with ten or more digits to cover area codes and country codes if required. Scott explains this in the ebook, as well some other options.

You remove a deck of cards from its case. To preclude the possibility of any sleight-of-hand, you put it in a clear glass tumbler, holding it up for all to see, the face of the pack toward the audience. You begin moving cards, one at a time, from the back of the deck to the face, and seven audience members...

Five old chestnuts from the literature of card magic which were given the Baxter 'treatment', resulting in streamlined handlings and giving these venerable plots a breath of fresh air.

Underhanded Overhand is an extremely well finessed handling of the old ruse of appearing to have the entire deck shuffled with each half being shuffled independently.

The Cross Cut Force has been around since the 1920's and has remained virtually unchanged ever since. It is a simple move, but difficult to perform convincingly. Ian has taken another tack and by slightly changing the choreography of the move,...

"I have seen Paul performing many times now and I am amazed how he can captivate an audience with just one pack of ungimmicked playing cards. His act is full of comedy yet he cracks few jokes and above all he is a master of misdirection. I know no one else who sets off for top venues with his act in his pockets. As he says, "I wear my act". He takes a back up pack of cards and sometimes a couple of close up items and he is set for complete show." - Martin Breese

This e-book is the very first of a series of e-books to come, presenting my own versions of the classics of card magic. These simple, straight-forward plots will cover the gamut of card magic in this series of upcoming Classic Card Magic e-books.

Please keep up with this Classic Card Magic series and you will have a very strong base for your card magic performances, and a very nice array of magic effects...not just a "pick-a-card-find-a-card" type of theme.

I have brought some of the plots and patter, up to date...but in no way have I changed the bare essence of the effects or plots. Every...

Included is a video of a cool switch.

Keep up with this series of Classic Card Magic e-books so that you will have a solid base for card magic entertainment. There are thousands of card tricks out there...but there are only a handful classics of card magic. The classics are classics because they represent a solid foundation of entertainment and are timeless. Only the patter and modus operandi will change...but the premise is solid and will endure the ravages of time and technology.

These effects use only a regular deck of cards.

In this e-book you will find:

1) OPEN TRAVELERS - This...

The Gemini Motif is an apparently fair-looking, semiautomatic dealing procedure that forces two, three, or four cards, depending on its application.

• Introduction
• The Gemini Motif: Background of the Gemini Motif
• The Basic Automatic Placement Procedure
• Junking Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Blushing Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
• On Perfection Day (Henry Evans)
• Caster & Pollux (Allan Slaight)
• Multiple Gemini (Al Thatcher)
• Free Will Refutation (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Collected Bibliography

1st edition 2016, 31 pages.

More than 40 years ago Jon Racherbaumer wrote a book on the Universal Card plot introduced by Karl Fulves. This is an updated and expanded version.

• By Any Other Name – Karl Fulves
• Universal Card – Robert Parrish
• Universal Card – Francis Haxton
• Universal Ghost – Roy Walton
• Universal Mexican – Roy Walton
• Universal Joker – Horace Bennett
• Reflection – Edward Marlo
• Hypnotic Card – Edward Marlo
• Favorite Universal – Edward Marlo
• Universal Solutions – Edward Marlo
• Universal IV – Edward Marlo
• Tout’s Universal – Edward Marlo
• The Chameleon Card – Jon Racherbaumer
• Universal...

Ian delights in finding forgotten gems in classical card literature, which he then refines and updates for modern day audiences. In this manuscript, you will find a further five effects which have received Ian's careful study and are sure to delight both you and your spectators.

In Miraskill Detour Ian has taken the classic Miraskill and turned it into a totally impromptu and self working mystery, while in the process managing to streamline the procedure and still maintain the strong impact of the original routine.

MBJ Echo is a re-working of an old Henry Christ trick, simple both in effect...

Get ready for a firework of card magic starting where a card just vanishes, a pair of cards mysteriously rise, another shoots out of the deck as soon as named, and two others change locations. Jerry also presents his spin on prior work by by Trost, Krenzel, Corin, Dingle, Fulves, and others.

• I. Short Subjects 6
  • Easy Go 6
  • Bi-rise 9
  • Shootout 10
  • Changed Changeling 11
• II. Selected Subjects 13
  • Trap-ease 13
  • Go-llectors 15
• III. Subjects under Control 17
  • Twist on the Aces 17
  • A New Twist 19
  • Ace Backwards 22
  • An Impact on Impact 24
  • Poker Face-to-Face 26
• IV. Subject to Changes 28 ...

From the introduction:

PART I: MEANS

• Chapter I: Riffle Selection Controls
  • R. S. Switch
  • R. S. Key Glimpse
  • R. S. Jog Control
  • R. S. Glimpse
  • R. S. Bluff Controls
  • R. S. Throw Forces
• Chapter II: A-D Multiple Control
• Chapter III: Variety Pack
  • Push Up Force
  • Underturn
  • Underturn Force
  • The Catch Switch
  • Swing Slip Cut
  • Packet Palm
  • Turnover Glide
  • Friction Jog
  • Knuckle Jog
  • Plunger Top Shift
  • New Wave Change
  • Bluff Cull

• Chapter I: More With Four
  • A La Card
  • Four Downs
  • PersuACEive
  • Four For All
  • One Good Turn
  • About Face I
  • About Face II
  • A Common Mistake
  • Invisible Cut
  • Over and...

• CHAPTER ONE: MANUAL CONTROLS
  • Underforce
  • Transfer Glimpse
  • Relocations and Rediscoveries
  • 1) I. S. Switch
  • 2) R. S. Switch-Drop Switch Addition
  • 3) Spread Key Glimpse
  • Bottom Double Lift
  • Cull Add-in
  • Rollover
  • Two for the Seer Saw
  • Moving Indicator
  • Rotary Force
  • 1) "Spread" version
  • Locational Guidance
  • 2) "Squared" version
  • Thoughtamatic
• CHAPTER TWO: WILD AND WILY
  • Trick Pix
  • Wild Forces
  • Back to Backanal
  • Wile Card
  • Mirror Image
  • Lost Face
  • Twisterious
• CHAPTER THREE: DEAL-AND-CUT-TESSEN
  • Top Draw-er
  • Easy Reader
  • Rused Card Dealer
• CHAPTER FOUR: THINK-A-MA-GICKS
  • To Spell...

From the preface:

"I think your routine is very good. I may use it a couple times myself." - Brian T. Lees (a.k.a. Topper)

Effect:

You produce a deck of cards and hand it to a spectator. (You will not touch it or see it any more). The spectator shuffles the deck, selects a card, folds it and puts a rubber band or a paper clip tight around it. Despite these lab conditions, you try to guess their card! And believe it or not, you will always succeed. Their card can be given back as a souvenir. It does...

Distorted Siblings combines the best aspects of several tricks by John Bannon, Max Maven, and Aldo Colombini. The routine is this:

A packet of red-backed cards and a packet of blue-backed cards are placed face-down on the table. It is explained that each packet contains the four kings and that one in each packet is face-up as a prediction. Two spectators each name a king. The named kings are in fact the face up kings. The kings are turned face down and it is shown that each king is in their opposite packets.

Each king is then placed back into its own packet. All four blue cards are together as are the red cards,...

The spectator selects, remembers, and returns a card to the deck. Without any unnecessary handling the performer counts down to its value, then spells the suit. The selected card is turned over at the end of this counting/spelling sequence.

Based on a trick by Frederick Mosteller in 1943 that used two decks. This is a streamlined and more commercial one deck version.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

12 easy to do strong impact routines. From the introduction by Aldo Colombini:

• SCAMP (Spectator's Card At Magician's Predicted Number)
• Ad(d) a Double Cheese
• Ungaffed Odd Jokers
• Stick Out
• Die
• Mission: Impossible
• Straight Ahead
• Prediction: Impossible 2
• Extra Spelling Perception
• Love Prediction
• Easy Simple Prediction
• Royal Detector

1st edition 2014, 11 pages....

• Design For Wrist Watch Gimmic
• Preface
• The Arrangement
• Mechanics Of The Arrangement
• To Openly Arrange A Strange Deck
• The Peculiar Arrangement Of The Deck
• False Shuffles
• The “Perfect” False Shuffle
• Hugh Johnston False Shuffle
• False Cuts
• The Jordan False Cut
• The Lightning Card Counter
• Table Of Short Cuts
• Patter For Counting Cards
• The Human Scales
• The Strange Powers Of The Joker
• Patter Routine Number Two
• Another Presentation
• The Phantom Card Game
• Another Patter Routine For The Phantom Card Game
• Read My Mind
• Card Locations
• Positive Thought Control
• Clairvoyant Power ...

A card to mouth routine followed by a card to pockets sequence.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

Here Aldo performs and explains twelve effects from his Baroque Cards ebook. The twelve effects were selected by Rachel.

• Vivace: You deal the Kings into four packets and they assemble in one packet. On top of each pile the four Aces appear.
• Aria: An Ace-Assembly that's easy to perform, direct and to-the-point, with a magical and surprising climax.
• Sarabanda: The two black Kings find two selected cards from a deck cut into three piles by a spectator.
• Concerto: The four Jacks disappear and find three cards in the middle of the deck. One indicates the value of a selection, the second the suit and the...

This ebook explores the classic "Quick Three Way" plot. How can the faces of three playing cards be shown to be the same?

• Foreword
• Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• New Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Freeway Three-Way (John Bannon)
• Another Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Slide Three-Way (Phil Goldstein)
• Cervon’s Quick Three-Way
• Revised Quick D-Way (Derek Dingle)
• Tweaked Three-Way (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Okal's 3-Way (Bill Okal)
• Kay-Kay Tri-Way (Kevin Kelly)
• Flustrating Three-Way (Brother John Hamman)
• Rhumba Three-Way (Vallarino)
• Montesque Three-Way (Ed Marlo)
• Bonus: Least-Likely Find

1st edition 2017, 42 pages....