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A twisting routine that ends with a climax where all four cards have different backs, when before they all had the same backs.

1st edition 2025, video 2:32

A visual two-phase oil and water routine. Show four red cards and four black cards. Interleave them black-red-black-red ... exchange the top two cards and you can show the cards have unmixed into four black cards and four red cards. Mix them again, and they will again separate.

1st edition 2025, video 2:14

Imagine borrowing a ring and causing it to rise all the way and stand by itself in your hand. Now imagine doing it without using any threads, magnets, elastics, rubber-bands and electronics. With Surp'Rise you can achieve this. You literally "Breath Life Into the Ring".

Here is What happens:

Borrow a ring and place it in your hand. Tell that you are going to breath life into it. Now blow on it and cause it to rise all the way until it stands.

Consider this:

• No threads, magnets, rubbers, elastics or electronics
• Everything is under your complete control.
• Everything is examinable. ...

This video is in Vietnamese. Instructions are translated to English by an interpreter.

The selected card is lost in the deck. The magician takes a pencil and stabs through the center of the deck. Every single card is destroyed, but one card remains unharmed, that's the selected card.

• The deck can be examined
• No force

1st edition 2016, length 12min

A sweet revelation of a selected card. The Magician offers a beverage to the spectator. The spectator selects a card and the magician explains to him that he found out that cold beverages are much better if you add some sugar to them. The reaction of the sugar causes the sugar to form the shape of the selected card at the inside bottom of the glass.

An alternative presentational angle could be that you have caused some of that massive amount of sugar already in the soft drink to fall out at the bottom and form an image of the selected card.

No matter how you want to spin the story, this...

Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

runtime: 2min 1s

This is an idea by Steve Freeman to switch out one card that is sandwiched between two other cards.

runtime: 1min 32s

ENVELOPE noun: A flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.

SWITCH noun: The act of changing to or adopting one thing in place of another.

TRANSPARENCY noun: The characteristic of being easy to see through.

SWITCHER-VOPE noun: A combination of all three elements.

If you do a search online for billet switching apparatus, you will come across a variety of devices the majority of which seem to be boxes of different shapes and sizes ranging from cardboard to perspex and antiqued oak. Some of these boxes are ingenious, some extremely expensive and...

Invisibly switch a folded playing card (bill, cash, sugar pack, ...) against another right in front of their eyes.

Destined to be in your EDC (everyday carry). A real crowd-pleaser. A perfect close-up and table-hopping effect. A very fast, angle-proof, and up-close transformation with spectator involvement. Not a thumb-tip. This effect uses a homemade gimmick that most homes would have. The gimmick takes about five minutes to make. Both playing cards can be inspected.

You can also change bills, billets, cash a check, change sugar to sweeten low, etc.

Absolutely incredible misdirection...

The spectator removes one card from a full face-up deck and places it into an envelope. This happens while the mentalist turns his back so that he can't see which card the spectator chooses. The remaining deck is gathered and turned face-down by the spectator. The envelope is closed and shown from both sides to demonstrate that nothing can be seen through the envelope. Then the envelope is placed by the spectator inside another envelope.

The mentalist then reads the spectators mind to reveal the card that is inside the envelope. Larry has come up with a nice presentation. He doesn't simply...

A small plastic tub with a tight push-on lid is shown, opened, and a collection of coins tipped from inside. The performer puts his initials on a self-adhesive round sticker, attaches it to one of the coins, and then repeats the process for the other side of the coin with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials.

The rest of the coins are returned to the tub and the lid is pushed back on. Taking the marked coin into his hand the performer strikes it against the bottom of the container, immediately showing that both his hands are empty.

The tub is handed to a spectator who prises off...

This is a nicely flowing no frills tabled false cut.

runtime: 1min 2s

To do the tabled faro perfectly - a 26/26 weave - is very hard to achieve consistently. However, often you only need to faro a portion of the deck and not the entire deck. A partial tabled faro is relatively easy to learn.

runtime: 4min 54s

A move developed by Ed Marlo where you steal the top card while squaring up a deck that is resting on the table. This can also be used as a color change if the deck is face up on the table. And Allan also let's you in on Eddies 'Nickle Color Change' where a nickle is placed on the face up deck. Nevertheless the card changes instantly leaving the nickle on the deck. This one is guaranteed to fool magicians.

runtime: 2min 6s

A slip cut allows you to cut the card second from top to the top. Here Allan teaches a triple slip cut for the table.

runtime: 1min 13s

This is another very visual card change onto the table.

runtime: 55s

Ralf teaches how to make seven impossible looking cards. He came up with a better way to teach these folds by using colored templates. You can download all templates from your digital shelf.

• Braid Card Variation
• Circled Triangle
• Double Locked
• Locking Squares
• The Square
• Tower Braid
• Triangles Thru

1st edition 2020, video 26 min

Show any design you want on the card by simply lightly burning it with a lighter. When you pick a card and burn it, it will usually leave black streaks on the cards, but with Tattoos on Cards, black streaks will transform into any design of your choice: an image of a chosen card, a heart or your signature, a short message, ...

[Note that the explanation is purely visual (no sound) and a few lines of text inserted in the video.]

1st edition 2018, length 11 min 46 s

video 2:22

This is Eddy Taytelbaum's version and handling of a flushtration-type count. That is, you show the same card multiple times but due to the handling, it appears you fairly show each card of the packet.

1st edition 2021, video 1 min 27 s

Have three cards selected (they can be signed), return them individually into the deck, shuffle, and miraculously the four kings turn face up, and between the kings the three selected and signed cards are found.

This effect is possible due to a simple gimmick you can quickly make at home. (No gimmick is included with this download.) There are many more ways to use this gimmick. Peter explains a variety of effects and ways to use it.

1st edition 2022, video 28:21.

You show two packets of four cards each. One has red dots on the faces and red backs. The other one has blue dots on the faces and blue backs. You repeatedly interleave them but they always separate.

1st edition 2024, video 6:25.

The spectator picks a card and signs it. Magician splits the deck in two piles. Then he puts the card in one pile and it magically appears in the other.

• completely impromptu
• works with a borrowed deck
• no sticky stuff
• no magnets
• no threads
• works even with a card from a different deck
• any deck, a sharpie and your hands

1st edition 2020, length 6:43.

You show four blank cards and one ten of clubs, five cards in total. They all have red backs. Suddenly the ten of clubs has a blue back. Then you fan the remaining four cards and all the blank faces have changed to a royal flush, an ace, king, queen, and jack. The ten completing the royal flush. As a final climax all cards are turned face down and they all have different colored backs.

1st edition 2021, video 2 min 36 s.