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Werner Miller continues with his sixth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

In the right circumstances mathematical tricks properly presented are more likely to be accepted as real magic than anything of a finger-flinging nature. - Karl Fulves, from the introduction of Gene Finnell's Card Magic, 1973.

1st edition 2010; 36 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Enough!
5. I Know
6. All You Need Is...
7. Reverse Faro Five
10. Affinities
11. Affinities - Plus
12. Double Proof
13. Double-Decker
15. Meeting One's Match
16. Numerable Clue ...

Werner Miller continues with his seventh volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

1st edition 2011; 31 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. Cardician’s Solitaire
4. I’m NOT Ogen
5. Alternately
6. Segregation I
7. Segregation II
8. Four Queens
10. Two Aces
10. Upwards
12. Free Cut Duo
13. Flip Coda
14. Similar Endings
16. Huit Cartes
17. Countdown
18. Flipdoodle I
19. Flipdoodle II
20. Escalera
21. Pasillo
23. Arrowbatics
25. OLRAM Arrows
27. Arrow Predictions

Werner Miller continues with his eighth volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

1st edition 2011; 32 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. It Goes Like This
5. Segregation III
6. Segregation IV
7. One for YOU, one for ME
8. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
9. Poker Prophecies
12. Court-Die-ally
13. Symmetrical Surprise I
15. Symmetrical Surprise II
17. Hera's Method
18. Hera’s Method – XL
19. Any Other Card
20. Where Is It?
21. U/D Swapping
22. A Trick With 18 Cards
23. Two, Three, Four
25. Positions of Trost
27. Moment musical
28. The Hol(e)y Card ...

Werner Miller continues with his ninth and last volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Many of them are card tricks.

"Any trick requiring a sleight is not honest. You are telling a lie with your fingers. (...) A puzzle is more clever than a trick, because with a trick you cheat to get the result. With a semi-automatic effect – using a principle – one tends to feel a little more honest." - Stewart James (1908-1996)

1st edition 2011; 35 pages. Illustrated.

Table of Contents

3. Logic
4. The Substitute
7. Puzzle Time
9. "1 – 9"
11. Middle...

sub rosa – Latin for "in the strictest confidence"

Welcome to the launch of a new multi-volume series on original semi-automatic ("self-working") tricks, mainly with cards. Enjoy this compilation of easy-to-do, mathbased magic without any sleight of hand, created to amaze and to intrigue both the performer and the audience. Have fun!

• Eye Candy
• Peteresque
• Cherchez les Femmes
• The 13th Card
• Girl Guides
• Alternating Colors
• Who?
• in situ
• Family Affairs II
• Dressage
• Halves
• Calling for the Mate
• MATELOT
• From the Middle
• My Spouse
• Smileys
• apart – together
• assorti
• Clues I
• Clues...

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller. All of the effects make use of ESP cards. In some cases a non-ESP alternative is presented.

• Empty Net Goals
• Another ESP Twizzler
• 1, 2, 3!
• Triplet
• Rainbow
• mm-aa-tt-cc-hh
• Color Twins
• Color Clue
• 100 Percent
• Chased
• Old Maid
• Parallel ESPlus
• The Last Pair(s)
• Latin ESP Square
• Identidem
• Identidem Light
• Mirimodis
• Two-Way ESP
• Consonus
• Deciens

1st edition 2012, 28 pages.

SELF WORKING - SELF CONTAINED - INSTANT RESET - WORKS EVERY TIME

(This is Dave's treatment of Cameron Francis' effect 18: A Powerhouse Prediction Effect.)

EFFECT: You display a deck of cards and begin by telling your spectator two pieces of information:

1. One of the cards in the deck has had its back altered.
2. The deck is in a completely random order but for three cards which you have specifically positioned for the experiment.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• No Spot Card
• WYSIWYG II
• Do Not Disturb!
• Equivalent
• Who’s the Boss?
• Line Dancer
• moitié, moitié
• And Her Son
• Color Mate
• Six Hearts, Six Spades
• Private Eyes
• More Spousal Cooperation
• Spell the 4mula
• This Suit, That Value
• DC Speller
• Welcome to the Clubs
• A Crazy Idea
• Pseudo Princess
• In Between
• Any Other Sign

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• in medio
• ESP Roll
• Neighborly Help
• Lucky Star
• ESPecial Countdown
• ESP Sandwich
• Better Twice
• Sandwich Twins
• expressis verbis
• Elimination
• Multiplying
• A la Thatcher
• Terry-ficial
• Broad Hints
• All Good Things
• Quatrefoil
• Triple Do-As-I-Do
• Dutch Derivation
• La Pléiade
• Helping Hands

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Famigliola
• DC Speller II
• E4tless
• Progressive Assembly
• Puzzling Progression
• Quarter Final
• The Jinx Card
• en passant
• Sigma – amgiS
• What Became of the Queens?
• No Big Deal
• French Sandwich
• And the Color Is
• The 17-Card Trick
• Multilingual
• Pasillo II
• dESPatch I
• dESPatch II
• Five Matching Pairs
• Reverse Faro ESP

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Separated Bedrooms
• Royal Surprises
• Quest for the Truth
• Tracked Down
• Oops!
• Faroing
• Milk & Spell
• Royal Sandwiches
• Rotary Traffic
• Brute Force Square I
• Brute Force Square II
• Signed
• diES P
• Escalero II
• Pasillo III
• Equalizer Sandwich
• Odd – Even
• French Sandwich II
• Windmill
• Vis-à-vis

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Two Questions
• Under/Down Sandwich
• Tag Team
• Lie + Truth = ?
• 1 + 3 = 4
• Take Five
• A Nest of Predictions
• Viale
• As the Saying Goes
• Echo
• Arc de Triomphe
• Determined I
• Determined II
• Diligent
• Parallels
• Ambitious Symbols
• Tornado Spotting
• Pairs I
• Pairs II
• Dance of the Symbols

Here you will learn several stunning sleight-less card routines which are based on a principle that while not new, already Alex Elmsley and others before him have explored it, is brought to new prominence by Nick Conticello. Using this idea he has created stunning card routines that require no sleight of hand. Nevertheless, the occasional false cut or false shuffle can greatly enhance these pieces. Nick teaches an effective false cut, the Widdershins Cut.

• The 23rd Card
• The 28th Card
• The Shadow Divination
• The Widdershins Cut
• The Three Predictions

1st edition 2014, 16 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Baby ACAAN
• en passant
• 6 5 2
• Hen Party
• Roll Call
• Double Foursome
• Teaser
• On the Left, on the Right
• … and in the Middle
• Three of a Color
• Milk Run
• Dyad I
• Dyad II
• Five Pairs
• 4 1 / 4 2
• 4 2 / 4 3
• Open ESPrediction
• Voilà!
• In File
• Another Choreography

1st edition 2014, 28 pages.

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Mathematics
• ESP Fibs
• Alea
• Either - Or
• 2 x 4
• Perfect
• Pyramidal
• What Do You Guess?
• Guess vs. Know vs. Trick
• ESP Roll 2
• Seven
• Singled Out
• Curious Queen
• Over And Over Again
• Counterparts
• Good Team Players
• 1 Year And 2 Days
• Joe's Diploma Piece
• Luck Squared
• x x x

1st edition 2015, 30 pages.

From the introduction:

More new math-based and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller. Clever methods combined in interesting ways.

• Fold-Up Age Card(s)
• Winking Smileys
• Invisible Bonds
• Red + Blue = ?
• ESP Étude No. 1
• ESP Étude No. 2
• ESP Étude No. 3
• ESP Étude No. 4
• ESP Étude No. 5
• ESP Étude No. 6
• Be My Mirror Image!
• Ambidexter
• The Placebo Card
• Strange Business
• Leapfrog
• Even – Odd
• Le Signe de Jour
• At the Klondike River
• À Trois
• Ghost Rider II

1st edition 2015, 32 pages.

Learn how to exploit the ternary number system to your advantages. There is a new version of the old MUTUS DEDIT NOMEN COCIS or "The Pairs Repaired", as it was called in Prof. Hoffmann's Modern Magic. You will also find tricks with ESP cards and applications for the diminishing count...

• From Binary to Ternary
• Flexa-Nums
• Ups & Downs
• Ternary Cubes
• Royal Jungle Jam
• Atop
• I Knew It
• Every "Stop!" an Ace
• The "Anti-Card"
• Thai Hits
• 4tune
• Another Challenge
• À la Tantalizer
• A Matter of Logic
• ESP Simplicity I
• ESP Simplicity II
• ESP Simplicity III
• ESP Simplicity IV
• Surprise Match
• A String of Clusters

1st edition...

Author and collector Doug Edwards said:

"I know a good trick when I see one, and KNOW-ALL NEALE is a good trick! It's impromptu and direct. And I like A COUNT, A BILL as well. The divination of the three digits comes as a complete surprise. Two real winners."

Tarbell Course contributor Nick Conticello returns with a new selection of close-up magic designed to be performed for small groups of friends or acquaintances.

1. Know-All Neale: 3 coin divination with fourth coin kicker

2. A Count, A Bill: Based on "It's the Principle " (Bob Longe, Sept. 2001 Linking Ring) with bill used...

After seeing several effects from this ebook, author and collector Doug Edwards said:

"The stuff you do with a shuffled deck and one or two key cards borders on the miraculous!"

2. TALONS OF THE HAWK: Two volunteers each think of a card from a group of ten. The packets are lost in the deck by the volunteers themselves. The performer...

A Further Collection of Impromptu, Sleightless, Mathematical Tricks

Nick Conticello is proud to present the third and final installment of the Potpourri series. Herewith is another collection of impromptu, sleightless, mathematical effects with cards. Each book has a theme, and this one is no exception. The entire ebook is devoted to what Nick calls the Australian Shuffle. (You may refer to it as the Down/Under Deal.)

The present work is concerned with three placement concepts. George Sands devised one in the mid-Twentieth Century. Nick published the second in Tarbell 7, and he is releasing...

Based on a classic principle, the 4 routines explained in this ebook can become reputation makers for you. Right from a rank beginner to an experienced professional, any performer can adapt these routines to his/her stature and pull off these seemingly impossible card mentalism miracles.

There is no sleight of hand and all the routines are totally hands off. The principle is completely self-working and almost impromptu. Only ordinary decks of playing cards are used - no gaffs or gimmicks are needed. The bonus is an esp routine performed with an ordinary esp deck.

No preshow. No stooges....

More tricks based on the binary and ternary number system. Miller also exploits figures that cannot physically exist, subtly reinforcing the apparent impossibility of his trick creations.

• Binary Dice
• Ternary Dice
• Day Off
• Unreal Realities
• More Impossible Figures
• Zodiac Puzzle 1
• Zodiac Puzzle 2
• Zodiac Puzzle 3
• Crazy Laces
• Ariadne
• ESPectulator
• Dicey ESP
• Twin Assistance
• Multiple U/D Choice
• Progressive U/D Deals
• Semi-Progressive U/D Deals
• Marching Lock-Step
• Follow the Star!
• Get Me Out!
• The (Not So) Easy Task

1st edition 2017, 35 pages.

Novel Concepts with Key Cards. No sleight-of-hand is needed for any of these effects. Ideal for both magicians and mentalists.

Imagine taking a borrowed, shuffled, incomplete deck, mixing it a bit yourself, and offering it to a volunteer for a cut. The volunteer then cuts each half separately, chooses a card from one half, and buries it in the pack himself. Yet despite these difficult conditions, you are able to locate the selected card with absolute certainty. That is the premise of this ebook.

The Straddle Key concept is a breakthrough in key card theory. I have tested this material...