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TNT is the ultimate card in envelope. A signed card appears in a sealed envelope that has been in full view all the time. So easy to execute, but completely baffling. Perfect for close-up, parlor and trade show magic. A real stunner that can be built in minutes. Detailed video explanation in English.

1st edition 2014, runtime 7 minutes

#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...

This effect has nothing to do with hammers or smashing things. It does have to do with the aces, however. The title came about because David was listening to Cannibal Corpse while He was playing around with this routine, and the song that was on was, "Hammer Smashed Face". That is enough about the weird title.

Here is the effect (and what an effect!):

The four aces (or four selections) are signed and placed aside. A fifth unknown card is selected and placed face down between two jokers, which are then placed into the card box. The aces are then shown once again, and are then cleanly shuffled...

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. ...

"Another super-commercial, high-impact collection from the fertile mind of Cameron Francis. This is the perfect finale to the extremely well thought-out 'Moment's Notice' series. Highly recommended." - D. Ulin, Los Angeles, CA

"Six devilishly cunning effects that you could possibly live without. Then again, you could live without sex, but you wouldn't want to... would you?" - Stephen Tucker, UK

"Cam's Moment's Notice series is a great read for anyone who digs their card magic and "Moment's Notice 8" is no exception!" - Liam Montier, UK

Contents:

• No Sweat Assembly -- A killer self-working Ace Assembly. ...

Seven great effects in one eBook, all based around James Ward's Wordsmith Deck - a pack of some fifty cards consisting of fifty different words.

Voyage and Return
Three spectators put their chosen word into an envelope, the envelopes are mixed by a fourth spectator. The first three spectators are then asked to choose an envelope - they all choose the envelope containing their word.

Rags to Riches
Random words are picked from a dictionary, a spectator, or number of spectators, pick a word each. Each of these words are then discovered and revealed by the magician.

Rebirth
A volunteer...

Become a real sleight of hand expert! PLUS 12 excellent tricks and a bonus effect!

Paul Lelekis has written an incredible ebook that every performer must have to make him or her the very best performer possible. This is not just a treatise of sleights - but included is the methodology needed for the more advanced sleights that every card performer needs to know and explained in detail with videos and the methods of performance. ALL FOR ONLY $10.00!

There are over 20 sleights explained in full as well as videos of Paul performing twelve of these sleights, in what situations they are used,...

This ebook is all about John Quine's startlingly good "keeper" concept. The Keeper is a Straddle Faro that shuffles the entire deck but retains the second from top card in situ. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg...

This ebook is a reprint of the "keeper" material from both The Card Magic of John Quine (which was mostly Tom's material) and BS timations. The rest of the ebook is made up of "keeper" material from Precursor, The Minotaur and a whole bunch of exciting new stuff! If you can do a Straddle Faro Shuffle, you can do The Keeper. To be frank, as Harry Lorayne pointed out, Mr. Quine's original handling...

The creator of these effects, Jozsef Kovacs, is a Hungarian magician who became interested in magic at the age of four. He was living in a small village but only when he moved to Budapest he was able to find a magic store and the possibility to find books and videos. He published a series of booklets and lecture notes and you can find most of his work here on Lybrary.com. He likes close-up magic but card magic is his real love.

CONTENTS:

• TWIN GIANTS: Two numbers freely selected by two spectators find two cards that you have predicted.
• MATHEMAGIC: Using four cards with math symbols you perform a very...

There is something incurably viral about this curious card problem. Does anyone know? What's so irresistible about displacing, displaying, counting, spreading, mixing, re-mixing, un-mixing red and black cards? What's the allure? What's the incentive? Yet, despite all cease-and-desist entreaties, methods keep popping up, including the ones in this compact manuscript.

The Ten Phase routine described in this ebook combines ideas and handlings by Hideo Kato, Dave Solomon, and Edward Marlo. You can figuratively use the Oil and Water patter theme, referring to red cards as "water" and black cards as "oil," but some...

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...

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...

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...

The Great Card Magic of Nick Trost continues.

CONTENTS:

• THE SEVENS: A spectator finds the four Sevens. Of course it can be done with any four-of-a-kind.
• LOVE HAS GREAT POWER: Four Kings and four Queens are paired by a couple of Cupids (Jacks).
• BABY HAMMER: A spectator takes four cards, he shuffles them and turns them over at random. At the end, only one card is reversed and you did predict it. Can be done with ESP cards. Two versions are explained.
• RED-FACED GEMINI I: A spectator selects two cards from half of the deck. He then drops these two cards in the other half at any point. He finds, for...

Stanley Collins was one of the finest card magic creators ever, and Collins's Card Conceits was his finest hour.

• The "T-Square" Colour Change
• The Comedy of Errors
• "Jumbo" Comedy of Errors
• All Fours
• A.J.A.X. 2
• A.J.A.X. 3
• Red and Blue
• Pictures and Pips
• A Card Comedy
• The Homing Aces
• Cards and Cords
• Card, Crayon and Cross-words

1st edition 1925, reprint 2007, 1st digital edition 2014, 50 pages.

A killer packet effect featuring a nifty four of a kind production/appearance with a totally unexpected color-change finale.

Requires only regular spare cards you've likely got lying around! Featuring two awesome bonus effects:

• NEAR-SIGHTED JACK SANDWHICH: A killer double sandwich routine using the two one-eyed jacks, but with a little difficulty. Eventually, the other two jacks make a surprise appearance.
• FINE FEATHERED FINKS: A no-palm "homing-card"-type routine where a selected card jumps between a packet of jacks and the deck.

1st edition 2014, 9 pages.

There is a lot of magic crammed into this routine. Everything from a prediction, the finding of two selected and signed cards, and the transposition of the card's backs.

Here is the effect:

Phase 1: A single red backed card is placed off to one side, but is kept in full view throughout the proceedings. The performer states that there is one red card and one red card only. The spectator then selects any card and signs it (there is no force whatsoever). The card is returned to the center of the deck. The top card is shown, but it is not the signed card. The red backed card is turned over...

Comprising Eye-Openers and More Eye-Openers plus R. W. Hull's Supreme Mental Discernment.

Paul Fleming wrote about More Eye-Openers:

An ebook of 56 late extra, new (and previously unpublished), unusual, unplanned but darned-good card tricks!

Paul Gordon doesn't (often) use fakes, extra cards, big set-ups and/or angley moves. And, he doesn't use second deals, bottom deals ...

• A Veritable Jaw-Dropper
• Four-Ace Puzzler
• Merely Thought-of Card Miracle
• Partial Faro Sandwich
• The Exploration
• The World's Most Incredible Card Trick
• Three Some
• Memory, Estimation & Magic
• Double - Quadruple Revelation
• All The Fours
• Ten To Royal Flush
• For The Boys # 2
• The Five 'n' Aces
• Betwixt and Between
• Sher-locked Holmes
• He's Behind...

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...

K is a powerful secret weapon in your deck! You will never loose a selected card again and with it you can perform easy, straightforward and baffling forces.

The spectator himself can do everything.

An idea from one of the most original Italian magic minds: Tony Binarelli.

In this ebook you will find the accurate explanation of how to prepare this very special "K" card and the required techniques to make the most of them.

Another creation from Tony Binarelli appreciated and praised by the best magicians of the world.

1st English edition 2006, 11 pages, 11 drawings.

Paul's highly thought of small print run hardcover book of 2012 now available as an ebook. 154 large pages, packed with information on the subject matter. Mainly focusing on playing cards but there are also chapters on ESP cards, number cards, alphabet cards, design decks etc.

Yes, some effects are fully described but the book is primarily a great reference source with discussion and recommendations of effects within the various categories of mentalism with cards.

Here are a few comments on the book...

"I'd be astonished if you didn't unearth some really terrific effects here that...

This is the first in a new series of videos by David Devlin. In this video, David teaches three of his best effects. These effects are not difficult to perform, but each one is a very hard-hitting effect. Here are the effects:

Boomerang: This will knock them on their butts. A deck with a blue back (which has been in use) has from it a card selected and signed. Two jokers with red backs are introduced and shown freely. The selected card is pushed into the center of the deck by the spectator. Without coming near the deck, the signed selection materializes between the jokers! Once again, the...

These are great routines if you need to silence a heckler. Lots of impact, good effects, experienced handling of cards and spectators. George knows how to lead you to the good ones, and they will sparkle up your routines. They are "different" and you do need variety in your card programs.

• The Next Card
• High Pair
• The Bottom Switch
• Sharp Perception
• The Three Card Monte Swindle
• The Blackjack Or Twenty-One Swindle
• The Ace Of Hearts Swindle
• The Seven And Eight Con
• The Joker
• A Crooked Poker Deal
• The Spectator Does It
• Test Your Memory
• Don't Overdo Them

1st edition 1980, 1st digital...