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An uncanny demonstration of apparent thought-reading.

THREE SMASH HITS: You show a packet of cards (saying that it contains the four Queens) and leave it aside. You also show another packet of four cards and they are seen to be the four Queens. A spectator FREELY touches any card and this is revealed to be, say, the QC.

FIRST EFFECT: The QC is seen to be the only reversed card in the other packet.

SECOND EFFECT: This card has a red back, while the other three are blue-backed cards.

THIRD EFFECT: The three blue-backed cards are seen to have blank faces.

Easy to do. At the...

The routine is based on Frank Garcia's "Five-Card Stunner" but also on handlings by Ken de Courcy and Herb Rungay. It is perfect for stand-up performers (parlor or stage) with no table required. You show a black card (say the 9C) and four red cards. When the cards are fanned, there are only four and they are all red; the black card has vanished. You eliminate one red card and then you remove the missing black card from the pocket. Again the cards are shown and then fanned. There are three red cards; the black card vanishes for the second time. You eliminate another red card and remove the black...

Packet tricks performed with regular cards! Packet Tricks are always popular. Using only a few cards you can perform very strong, baffling, visual magic. Here you have ten packet tricks from the world's top 'packet trick' experts.

Contents:

• JAPANESE ACES (Shigeo Futagawa): A real fooler where you and the spectator mix the Aces three times (the last one face up and face down) but the Aces always separate!
• POOR MAN'S MONTE (Richard Vollmer): A fun-to-watch-fun-to-do Monte type routine using only four regular cards!
• AN AMBITIOUS CLASSIC (Larry Jennings): The A, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Clubs perform an ambitious routine...

In this vintage and somewhat wacky video, Randy Wakeman demonstrates and explains in great detail his work with "Small Packet Ambitious," "The Visitor," the Rainbow Deck, Tom Gagnon's Impromptu Haunted Deck, Gagnon's "LBD Aces," and much, much more.

Miscellaneous mayhem by Simon Lovell is also included. And yes, although this isn't exactly "Team America" . . . puppets are involved.

length 1 hour

Rachel Colombini's first DVD: Card magic, close-up, parlor and stage; tricks for everyone. Included is a special guest appearance by FANTASIO. Here are the routines:

• ZODIAC CODE (Rachel & Aldo Colombini): You show seven glasses covered with colored bags. One card and one glass are selected. The selected card is revealed in the selected glass. The other glasses are full of money.
• WILD CARD CASH (Rachel Colombini): Two Jokers shown front and back. A bill (money) appears between them.
• PERFECT PREDICTION (Rachel Colombini): A spectator deals cards and stops anywhere; you predicted that card....

Card routines for the working performer.

Contents:

• THE MAGICIAN (Sam Schwartz): A packet of double-backed cards is shown. The cards then each contain a letter that spells MAGICIAN (or any other message).
• DRAW A BLANK (Aldo Colombini): Perhaps my most famous trick. A card is freely selected and it is the only printed card in an otherwise blank deck. No rough and smooth. No difficult sleight of hand.
• HATS AND RABBIT (Rachel Colombini): You show a prediction. Five cards with rabbits and a hat are shown and shuffled by a spectator. The prediction shows the same order as the packet held by the spectator. ...

A historical, extremely rare video: the only video ever released of one of Chicago's most beloved bartender/magicians, the "Great Heba Haba Al."

"How wonderful that this footage has been preserved for the charm, the methods, and the trick selection of the man Jay Marshall described as "the grandfather of bar magic in Chicago" are there to be studied and learned from. Even when you know what he is doing, and if you know card magic you will, he will still amaze you with the ease and the confidence with which he does it. Remembering that he may have had three tricks going on at once will only...

All the routines involve the four Aces. Most of them are totally impromptu and all of them use regular cards.

CONTENTS

• PROGNOSTIC ACES (Francis Haxton): A freely selected Ace in a packet of four, is the only one with a different colored back.
• DOUBLE DISCOVERY (Nick Trost): A spectator cuts the deck at random and he finds the four Kings. Finally, he finds the four Aces. A great opener for any Ace routine. Easy to do.
• ALCHEMY ACES (Aldo Colombini): An easy four-Ace assembly with a surprising ending.
• SUDDEN IMPACT (Peter Duffie): The four Aces are lost in the deck and immediately found in a spectacular way. ...

Here is the second download DVD with routines using the four Aces as primary 'characters.' Ten card routines with Aces.

CONTENTS:

• TOPSY-TURVY ACE LOCATION (Nick Trost): In a face-up and face-down shuffled deck you find the Aces and then all the cards turn facing the same way.
• HOF-WICH (Cameron Francis): Two Jokers find the Ace of the same suit of the selected card and then the Ace changes into the selection.
• ACCENTUATED ACES (Paul Gordon): The Aces are eliminated one by one and the last changes into the selected card.
• ATLANTIS (Aldo Colombini): A card is placed on the table and a selected card is inserted among the four...

This is the set of 8 download DVDs at a special low bundle price. It is an encyclopedia of card moves, taught and demonstrated by one of the best card handlers alive - Allan Ackerman. On top of it Ackerman also teaches many wonderful card routines where he applies the moves just taught.

This is not a set of download DVDs you will sit down and watch from start to finish. It is a body of work you will refer to piece by piece. For example, you might be in the process to study an effect that uses a move unfamiliar to you. Then you will turn to this encyclopedia, find the move and learn it from...

Palming. Allan Ackerman takes you through a staggering list of palming techniques including Tenkai Palm, Gambler's Cop, Vernon Top Palm, Slydini Fan Steal, Marlo Bottom Palm, Side Steal to Palm, Bluff Control, and many more.

Allan Ackerman is one of the world's foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards. Allan is one of those humble down to earth guys with incredible chops. He executes the moves flawlessly and teaches them in a straight forward easy to grasp manner. On this incredible multi-volume series of DVDs, you will be treated to an instructional course encompassing...

False Deals. Allan Ackerman teaches the Second Deal, Bottom Deal and Center Deal, plus a number of variations and methods including effects with these moves. The Side Glide developed by Dai Vernon is a piece of beauty - minimal movement - maximum impact.

Allan Ackerman is one of the world's foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards. Allan is one of those humble down to earth guys with incredible chops. He executes the moves flawlessly and teaches them in a straight forward easy to grasp manner. On this incredible multi-volume series of DVDs, you will be treated to an instructional...

Controls. Breaks, peeks, glimpses, crimps, jogs, passes, shifts, twists, reversals, replacements, shuffle controls, hofzinser control, convincing control...all the good stuff you need to know to have full control of your deck of cards.

Sleights & Moves:

• Little Finger Break
• Spectator Peek
• After the Break
• The Marlo Break
• Klause Breakout Display
• Controlling to Top or Bottom
• Kick Count
• Maintain Break with Fan
• All-Around Square-Up Glimpse
• Book Break Glimpse
• Fan Glimpse
• Draun's Fan Glimpse
• Kick Count to Crimp
• Automatic Jog
• Keep Jog while Dribbling
• Fan Jog
• Overhand Shuffle Control ...

Sleights & Moves:

• The Thumb Fan
• Pressure Fans
• One-Handed Fans
• One-Handed Overhand Shuffle
• On-Handed Faro Shuffle
• Charlier (One-Handed) Cut
• Kosy Cut
• Charlier Cut with a Somersault
• Erdnase One-Handed Cut
• The Distinction Between a Change and a Switch
• Slap Change
• Color Change
• Hit Double Lift
• Push-Off Double Lift
• Outjog Subtlety
• Another Two-Card Push-Off
• Vernon Push-Off
• A Little Noise
• Spooky Altman Trap
• D'Amico Spread
• Spooky Bro. Altman
• Multiple Turnovers
• Pinky Count
• Square-Up Break
• Obtaining A Break
• Pop-Over Lift
• Marlo's Throw Double
• Schwarzman's Long Toss
• Double Double Toss
• Wipe Change ...

Sleights & Moves:

• G.W. Hunter False Shuffle
• Erdnase False Shuffle
• Strip-Out False Shuffle
• Up The Ladder
• Pull-Through with a Cut
• The Zarrow Shuffle
• The Shank Shuffle
• Slip Shod
• Vernon's Two-Shuffle Concept
• The Sideways Shank Shuffle
• Controlling the Top Stock
• Controlling the Bottom Stock
• Ireland's Red/Black Shuffle
• Downs' Red/Black Shuffle
• Double Undercut to Top
• Double Undercut to Bottom
• Top Block Transfer
• Bottom Block Transfer
• Tabled Fake Cut
• Stover Fake Cut
• Ose Fake Cut
• Triple Fake Cut
• Fake Double Swing Cut
• Fake Triple Swing Cut
• Tabled Slip Cut
• Off-The-Bottom Strip Fake Cut
• Klause Overhand False Shuffle ...

Sleights & Moves:

• In-The-Hands Faro Technique
• Cutting At 26
• Adjusting the Cut
• In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
• Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
• Re-Squaring the Packets
• In Case of a Miss
• Rock & Re-Weave
• The Faro Shuffle as a Real Shuffle
• Further Fine Faro Points
• The Fourth Finger Table
• Key Cards
• The Tabled Faro
• The Faro Check
• Stacking with the Faro Shuffle
• Combining Faro & Riffle
• The Ten-Card Poker Stack
• The Stay Stack
• Incomplete Faro Control
• Incomplete Faro with a Jog
• Automatic Placement Control
• Si Stebbins
• Any Card at Any Number
• Faro Mental Displacement
• Getting Packets the Same Size ...

Sleights & Moves:

• The Elmsley Count
• Counting Terminology
• The X-Y-Z Count
• Underground Elmsley Count
• The OPEC Count
• The Jordan Count
• 3-4-3 Count
• 3-5-4 Count
• 2-X-2 Count
• 2-4-4 Count
• The Olram Subtlety
• The OPOS Count
• The Gemini Count
• Rhythm Count (Jennings)
• Rhythm Count (Ackerman)
• Rhythm Count (Carpenter)
• The Jiminy Cricket Count
• The Flushtration Count
• The Rumba Count
• Elmsley Flushtration Count
• Ireland's False Count
• Carlyle's False Count
• Showing Four Aces as Five
• The Biddle Count
• The Veeser Concept
• Vanishing Cards via the Biddle
• Here's Hockley
• The Biddle as a Force
• Minch's Biddle Force
• Switch-Out...

Sleights & Moves:

• ATFUS
• Fine Points of ATFUS
• Fu-Fu Switch
• Vernon's ATFUS
• Hugard/Braue Addition
• Secret Subtraction
• Vernon Add-On
• 1-2-3-4 Switch
• Quick Three-Way
• D'Amico Multiple Spread
• The Drop Switch
• The Jennings' Add-On
• Vernon Shuffle Reverse
• Cervon's Cut Reverse
• Braue Reversal 1
• Braue Reversal 2
• Ackerman's Shuffle Reverse
• Propelled Lapping
• Pemper Deck Switch
• In-the-Pocket Switch
• Bert Allerton Move
• On the Up & Up
• The Ultra Move
• The Curry Change
• Tilt & Variations
• One-Handed Tilt
• Schwarzman's Tilt Subtlety
• The Classic Force
• The Hofzinser Force

• Variant's Variant
• The Devilish Miracle
• Easy-Off Pips
• Dunbury...

This is the second DVD featuring Rachel Colombini. It includes a special guest appearance by the one and only Patrick Page. This is great magic and easy to do.

Here are the routines:

• SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED (Rachel Colombini): A torn and restored card routine that will floor your audience.
• AGAINST ALL ODDS (Aldo Colombini): Five cards cut in two and two dice. The spectators select how to use the dice and the dice match up the cards.
• DIGITAL DIAMONDS (Karl Fulves): A routine that can be done over the phone!
• X-RAY DECK (Rachel Colombini): A freely selected card is the only card with a big X. The effect...

Performed and explained by Brian Barnes.

The explanation for the performance and method is in Al Koran's Legacy but as Brian Barnes has been performing this act for around 50 years he has taken bits of the routine out and has added some of his own subtle touches.

This is a brilliant act for any full time magical entertainer. It just requires the minimum of props including a blindfold, cards and a table. It can be worked absolutely surrounded and for audiences of virtually any size.

Brian Barnes not only performs the act in front of an audience of twelve but then explains how to perform it in detail....

Performed and explained by Graham Jolley in conversation with Martin Breese

This download DVD is the final work of Martin Breese’s long career in magic. So determined was he to see this produced that whilst ill he forced the hospital to send him home for the filming. He had a great passion for the work of Al Koran and great respect for Graham Jolley – ‘Britain’s most baffling mind reader’.

Martin had spent many years trying to bring these together and the passion and humor is evident as they talk about their hero. The two discuss the life of Al Koran and Graham Jolley demonstrates and...

Nick Trost was a master in creating amazing tricks and routines based on subtleties rather than difficult sleight-of-hand. Here you have a the first of a three volume set based on the card magic of Nick Trost. This is Aldo's tribute to a very creative magician.

All the tricks are performed with a regular deck of cards.

Contents:

• ACE STOP: Here is a quick, easy method of locating the four Aces in a magical manner.
• AMBITIOUS DEUCE SANDWICH: A selected card is buried in the deck only to jump to the top and land between the two red Deuces. This happens three times.
• TEN-IN-A-ROW DOUBLE COINCIDENCE: This...

All the routines are performed with a regular deck of cards!

CONTENTS:

• DOUBLE PINOCHLE WITH AN ELEVATOR FINISH: Four cards, two JD’s and two QS’s change into four Aces. Then the Aces travel up and down through the deck.
• FOUR-ACE VANISH AND RECOVERY: The four Aces are seen to vanish in a deck of cards and then they reappear face up in the middle of the deck.
• INTUITION: A spectator reverses a card in a deck and you reverse a card in another deck. When the decks are dealt the two cards appear at the same time, but not only that, they match.
• BOTTOMS, SECONDS AND CENTERS DEMONSTRATION:...

More great magic of Nick Trost. All the routines are performed with a regular deck of cards.

CONTENTS:

• FOUR-WAY MATCH-UP: You lay four cards on the table. The spectator separates the deck into four packets and at the face of each packet he finds the matching cards of the previous four.
• THREE MATCHED PAIRS: A spectator picks three pairs while you deal cards and they are the only matching pairs of the packet.
• SUITS OF SYMPATHY: A stunning routine. You place the hearts cards in a glass. The Diamonds cards are shuffled by a spectator and they match the Hearts cards. Stunning.
• REPEAT ROYAL MARRIAGES:...

All the routines are performed with a regular deck of cards.

CONTENTS:

• QUADRUPLE MATCH-UP: A spectator finds the mate of your prediction, say two Kings and he also finds the remaining two Kings.
• ROYAL MATES: You place the four Kings face down on the table. The spectator places the Queens on top and he pairs them all (Clubs with Clubs, Hearts with Hearts, etc).
• DOUBLE POWER POKER: A spectator freely picks five cards out of ten and you still win. Then, he picks the cards while he SEES them and you still win.
• AFFINITY CARDS: Two cards disappear from their original positions and reappear...

The Great Card Magic of Nick Trost continues! All the routines are performed with a regular deck of cards.

CONTENTS:

• THE OBSERVATION TEST: A very effective trick that makes a great opener. An observation test where the back of the entire deck changes color. [Note that Trost published another trick by the same title. See Cardman’s Packet.
• REVERSED COINCIDENCE WITH ONE DECK: You take one card and a spectator takes another card. The cards are placed reversed in two piles and they appear to be the mates.
• SPECTATOR FINDS THE ACES: A spectator touches two cards at random and on each side of these two cards the four Aces are found.
• ACES FROM NOWHERE: A spectator himself seems to...

The Great Card Magic of Nick Trost continues.

CONTENTS:

• SELECTED GEMINI: Mates to two selected cards are located by the spectators themselves.
• ROYAL ASSEMBLY: A section of a deck is cut by a spectator and dealt into four piles. The top card of each pile is a King and the bottom card is a Queen.
• DISCOVERY BY ELIMINATION: One card is selected in a very fair manner. A spectator cuts a portion of the deck and these cards are eliminated until one remains: It is the selected card.
• ROYAL REVEALMENT: You find a selected card and on the way, a Royal Flush in Spades.
• EIGHT-CARD SPELLER: A thought-of card...

The Great Card Magic of Nick Trost continues.

CONTENTS:

• THREE-WAY GEMINI: Mates to three selected cards are located by the spectators themselves. The routine is totally impromptu.
• THE SPECTATOR'S ROYAL MARRIAGES I: A spectator cuts to four cards. He then cuts the deck into four piles.. His four cards and the top card of each pile reveal four Royal Marriages (Queens and Kings).
• DOUBLE DUKE: A stunning poker demonstration from a deck shuffled by a spectator where at the end you reveal a straight flush.
• NO-CLUE ELIMINATOR: Two principles combine to reveal a selected card. Another great impromptu...

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...