Three novel tricks with a regular E.S.P. deck.
ESPREDICT TWICE
Two cards are selected in a packet (the five E.S.P. symbols); one by using a freely chosen number and one through elimination. The two symbols have been successfully predicted.
ESPECIAL DOUBLE DIVINATION
After they cut the deck, two spectators are given a packet of cards each from which they memorize any card. They lose their card into the deck and concentrate on their symbol. Each thought-of symbol can be removed from the deck and placed in front of the appropriate spectator.
FIVE ESPERFECT CHOICES
The spectator is given...
A three-phase in-hand routine that lets your audience experience what it feels like to be a mentalist with a jaw-dropping kicker they never see coming.
PHASE I - GUT FEELING
You show five cards, each bearing a different ESP symbol. After mixing them face down, you ask the participant to point to one of the symbols. Astonishingly, they choose exactly the symbol you named. (You hand all five cards to the participant.)
PHASE II - MIND READER
You secretly draw one of the ESP symbols on a card and the participant reads your mind and accurately guesses which one you drew. (The card with...
This book documents Sinclair's test of his second wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, psychic abilities. She had an interest in the occult. She attempted to duplicate 290 pictures that her brother drew. Sinclair claimed Mary successfully duplicated 65, with 155 "partial successes" and 70 failures. However, critics pointed out that the experiments were not sufficiently controlled allowing for example sensory leakage. One such critic, Martin Gardner, wrote:
"As Mental Radio stands, it is a highly unsatisfactory account of conditions surrounding the clairvoyancy tests. Throughout his entire life, Sinclair has been...
This ebook includes a nice introduction to Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and a range of tricks from quick effects to longer routines. Note that many of the effects described require some double-face ESP cards.
This is the publication where J. B. Rhine coined the term Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) and reported on the results of his experiments at Duke University using the Zener symbol cards (today known as ESP cards) designed by his colleague Karl Zener during the early 1930s. The results Rhine reported were remarkable and suggested that ESP existed.
However, other academic institutes could not replicate the results. There were many problems with the experimental design Dr. Rhine used. The remarkable results he achieved were likely a combination of sensory leakage and outright cheating. One of...
This is the greatest series of ESP card tricks ever published. It features tricks from Nick Trost, Werner Miller, Howard Adams, Max Maven, and many other of the great trick creators. They are all easy to perform, and sometimes routined, and streamlined by Aldo himself to make them even better.
Find two thought-of E.S.P. cards without even looking at the deck.
A deck of 25 colored E.S.P. cards (a.k.a. Zener cards) is introduced. It contains five different symbols in five different colors. In other words, every card is unique. The magician shuffles the deck and tables it.
After he turns his back, two spectators remove a card from the deck. They create their own card — combining the symbol on one card and the color on the other card — and hide their selections face down under the cardbox.
The magician faces the spectators again and asks them to visualize their thought-of...
Two sets of five ESP cards are freely displayed, one set with red backs, the other with blue. The red set is given to the spectator who shuffles them, the magician mixing the blue set. One at a time the performer places his cards face down onto the table and each time the spectator then places one of his cards at random next to the performer's. When the pairs of cards are turned face up, all five sets are seen to have been put down in matching pairs!
This is a streamlined version of my card matching routine which has extra subtleties and a cleaner handling than earlier versions.
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A collaborative effort between the author and Ken Kline, an expert on extrasensory perception.
Excerpt from the preface:
A bachelor in his early fifties, Ken Kline was an armchair mentalist who loved the theory and occasional practice of his art. By profession, a theatrical photographer and was later involved in hotel management, all his spare hours were spent in research into the varied occult sciences. Over the years he kept a set of detailed notebooks and, at his bequest, they were left to me. I felt it was important that his ideas and enthusiasm be shared with others. Having this in...
Excerpt from the introduction:
Being made up of five symbols repeated five times, the standard ESP pack is ideally suited to coincidence-type effects. For some time I've used a number of effects based on a coincidence or 'linked minds' theme which involved the selection of two or three symbols, apparently at random, which later turned out to be identical. It occurred to me recently, however, that there was scope for extending the principle to include all five cards of any particular symbol.
Take your ESP card effects to a new dimension. This is a complete, multi-phase telempathy routine, that progresses from a simple match card effect to a magazine test, then a book test, then a more profound reveal of complex and detailed information - above and beyond expectations and traditional telepathy routines.
There is a bonus ESP card effect that will leave the audience speechless.
The 'explosion' is the belief in mind-to-mind communication.
This uses 'Once Removed' techniques and requires an ESP deck and book test familiarity.
1st edition 2021, PDF 52 pages.
Here is the effect: a spectator has a packet of 5 cards. For argument's sake, let's assume the five cards used are simply numbered 1-5 (the actual make up of the cards is up to your imagination). The spectator goes through a procedure in which cards are turned face up, face down, left as they are, the packet is cut, some-times the spectator decides whether the cards are turned over or not, sometimes the performer decides. But in the end, no matter who made the decisions, or which decisions were made, only the center card is face up and it is the 4. Not only that, but no matter what decisions...
A three phased routine that allows you to share the experience of what it feels to be a mentalist.
PHASE I – UNCONSCIOUS COGNITION
5 Cards with ESP symbols are laid face down in a row towards the participant. The performer introduces another set of 5, lays them face up in a row towards himself. With a little thought the performer points to a card from his row and the participant to point a card from their row and it matches.
PHASE II – THOUGHT IDENTIFICATION
The performer draws one of the symbols on a card and the spectator correctly guesses which one has been drawn.
PHASE III...
Here's a complete four-phase routine using a deck of ESP cards.
Do you know the true facts about the ESP deck? J. G. Thompson, Jr. has thoroughly analyzed the deck and come up with some most amazing discoveries which he has blended into the first completely routined demonstration with a standard deck of Rhine E. S. P. cards.
Now you can prove your mastery over extra sensory perception (ESP) and demonstrate to your audience that you are a mentalist by using an ESP testing deck - a scientifically approved accessory. You go through a series of experiments such as Rhine has only hoped to...
Cash in on interest in ESP and mind power with this 15 minute lecture and 30 minute demonstration that you can give.
The author has presented this lecture many times with great success. It is both educational and entertaining and will be enjoyed by most any audience from teens to active seniors. At the conclusion of the lecture, a demonstration of ESP (or is it?) follows. Audience participation is encouraged. Any magician or mentalist can perform the lecture. It can be read straight from a printed copy, performed from memory, or better yet, given as a PowerPoint presentation.
Use this...
Not one, but a complete series of thought-provoking mental routines with ESP cards.
These sensational effects give you, the psychic entertainer, the ability to add punch to your program. One effect alone is worth a ten-dollar bill. Sufficient routines and material are included for a complete act of Extra Sensory Perception tests. Full patter presentations for many of the effects are given, too.
New to this edition are camera-ready master images of the ESP symbol cards, allowing you to print your own, all the way up to jumbo size for stage presentations. And, we didn't stop there. Each...
Here is a straight forward effect which is enabled by a clever gimmick. You ask somebody to think of any one of the five ESP symbols. Then you look deep into their eyes, read their mind, and commit by writing what you read in their mind on a little notebook. Then you ask them to reveal their thoughts. You will be able to show that you wrote down the same symbol.
In Sean Waters release solely devoted to ESP demonstrations with Zener symbol cards, you will acquire the ability to ascertain the right time and place for predictions to come true, along with intuiting when people intend to do you harm. You will learn numerous techniques for duplicating the enhanced abilities of "psychics". The secret of how to implant the thought of a single Zener shape in your participant's mind is detailed as well. With the help of a Zener pack, you will aid your onlookers exploration of determinism, the weight of foreknowledge and a litany of impossible seeming demonstrations....
"Top Routine. Bravo!" - Roland Henning, Zaubertheater Lübeck, and owner of weeklymagicfailure.blogspot.deEFFECT
The mentalist hands out a prediction for things to come. Then a spectator mixes five envelopes, each envelope containing one of the five ESP cards. he places them next to each other on the table. He has full control over the order.
Five more envelopes with ESP cards are shuffled and placed on the table, each on top of one of the other envelopes. The spectator has a free choice, where to place the envelops and he can change the order again if he wants to. At the end there...
A masterful presentation of Extra Sensory Perception wherein five different spectators prove their psychic ability.
EFFECT: Five different Jumbo ESP symbol cards are exhibited, and one card each is sealed in a large manila envelope. The envelopes are mixed, so the whereabouts of any given symbol is unknown. Any five spectators volunteer, and name the envelope which they think contains a certain specified symbol card. Spectator's names are each written on an envelope, and their selection is recorded beside their name on a large white board or easel-mounted display card.
Each envelope, as...
A three phased easy to do routine that gives your spectator an experience of what it feels to be a mentalist.
Phase 1: 5 business cards are shown, each having the ESP symbols and are laid face down towards them. The performer introduces another set of 5, with a little thought points to one of them and asks them to point a card in their pile which they think matches the performer's card. They do so, and it matches.
Phase 2: The performer draws one of the symbols on a business card and the spectator correctly guess which one has been drawn.
Phase 3: The spectator is asked if he remembers...
ZenerPhobia is a compilation and collection of ten effects that can be done with a Zener deck or as it is more commonly known the ESP deck.
Included in the book:
An introduction to the symbols and a brief description of the Piatnik and Royal Magic ESP decks and their little known secrets.
Mix-a-Mastosis
A spectator uses her inane ESP powers to predict whether five unseen cards will match another five unseen cards.
Janus Syndrome
Five Zener cards are openly put into five envelopes and mixed by a spectator. The magician predicts what symbol will be chosen, and another spectator chooses...
The performer hands five ESP cards, each bearing a different symbol, to a spectator and requests that he remember one. The spectator is then asked to shuffle the cards. The magician takes the cards back and, after an apparently fair mixing procedure, correctly divines the selected symbol without even looking at the faces.
The method uses an old mathematical ploy but it is dressed up differently here.
This effect was featured in the May 2005 issue of Magic Magazine.
1st digital edition 2014, 2 pages.
This is the last download DVD of the series! 20 DVDs, 200 tricks and routines with ESP cards. A unique, complete collection. This is the twentieth in the series of DVDs dedicated to effects using ESP cards. A tribute to Howard Adams, Werner Miller and Nick Trost that are certainly the most prolific creators with regards to ESP cards.
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Werner Miller is certainly one of the most prolific creators with regards to ESP cards. All these routines are self-working with no sleight-of-hand whatsoever.
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Five ESP cards are laid out on the table. Point to one and push it aside. Point to another and push it aside. Discard two more until just one is left. Do you think I could have predicted that card in advance?
A duplicate set of ESP cards has been on view throughout. They are all face down except one. It's your card. Not only that, but it has a completely different colored back from the rest!
Consumer Control is simple, easy and direct. No counts, moves or sleight of hand. A baffling demonstration of psychological persuasion.
[Note: This ebook does not come with the specially prepared cards. One set of ESP cards is regular. The other set is prepared with rough and smooth but in a very special way. If you have a roughing spray or stick you will be able to make your own cards. You will need ESP cards with two different backs. You will also need two double backers that match the two different backs and two envelopes.]
1st edition 2001, 1st digital edition 2013, 9 pages....
Werner Miller is certainly one of the most prolific creators with regards to ESP cards. All these routines are self-working with no sleight-of-hand whatsoever.
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Paul A. Lelekis presents 8 real-world ESP effects for Close-Up and Cabaret performance. ESP is always a favorite with spectators. With these offerings, you can perform an entire amazing show, out of your pockets!
1) Fantasy Jacks is one of Paul's favorite effects to perform…and it's easy to do. The four Jacks are placed into the empty card case. Two selections are made and lost in the deck. The performer asks the spectator to choose any three of the Jacks…when the deck is spread, the three Jacks are seen "sandwiching" the two selections! But that's not all! When the card box is opened...
Several famous performers have contributed to create a high standard product with strong effects and routines.
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Several famous performers have contributed to create a high standard product with strong effects and routines.
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All these routines are self-working with no sleight-of-hand whatsoever.
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