Magic & Mentalism: page 439

"Rhine's mystery is a wonderful twist on a classic method as an ESP opener. An excellent addition for your Zener routine." - Mauricio Jaramillo

Let's explore the power of simplicity in a sophisticated manner with Rhine's Mystery:

• 5 symbols
• One free decision
• One correct prediction - always
• and you can even repeat the mystery twice or even three times

This piece is a masterclass in a basic and misunderstood method that you can upgrade to new possibilities. Nothing to worry or overthink. No need for expensive props, everything that you need, you can create with things that you...

The two black aces visually change places with the two red aces and then instantly change into two Blackjacks.

• Great Opener: A lot of visual magic happens in 30 seconds
• Simplicity: Only four cards are used; easy to do; no table is needed; packs very small
• Impact: Surprise ending
• Practicality: 2-second reset; perfect for table hopping
• Spectator Engagement: The spectator just watches, no picking a card, no remembering anything; just visual magic
• One Simple Move: The Flustration Count

1st edition 2025, PDF 11 pages.

You will need to have Logsquare to be able to use Logsquare 2. So please buy this only if you already have Logsquare.

With this routine, you will not only seem like an unbelievable mind reader but also like an impossible math wizard. And you need almost zero math skills.

While the performer is not looking, a participant secretly chooses any 3 mental logs. The performer is not only able to divine or mind read accurately the total of 4 different numbers which the participant has secretly added on his phone calculator, but also is able to create a magic square for the 4-digit...

If you have purchased an old edition here on Lybrary.com, you will receive this new edition for half price.

The 13th anniversary edition of my Tarot Effects book for magical entertainers has been overhauled and expanded to 36 routines. All the original routines have been reviewed, edited, and tweaked. New, unpublished routines are included, and Tarot Chairs and Deeper are included as a bonus.

"In the Play of Shadows: The Tarot Effect, is a goldmine!" - Richard Webster

• Foreword
• Introduction
• A Little Tarot ESP
• The Gemini Project
• Games of Chance
• Queen for a Day
• Oh What a Night
• For the Price...

An amazing automatic effect about magical coincidences, where two spectators are amazed by their mutual sympathy and romantic affinity.

This is an intriguing and utterly self-working card magic effect, where a stunning coincidence unfolds despite the wide range of free choices made by two spectators.

The magician invites two participants to assist with the experiment - ideally a couple, or at least two people who share a strong affinity. After introducing a deck of cards, the performer gives it a shuffle and allows both participants to cut and complete the cut. To test the strength of...

Un incredibile Effetto AUTOMATICO di Coincidenze Magiche, dove due spettatori sperimentano con stupore la loro reciproca Simpatia e Affinità di Coppia!

Questo è un effetto incredibilmente Self-Working di Magia con le Carte, molto intrigante e totalmente inspiegabile per il pubblico, nel quale si verifica una sorprendente coincidenza, nonostante una serie molto ampia di scelte che verranno prese da una coppia di spettatori!

Il mago necessita infatti per l’esperimento dell’aiuto di un paio di spettatori, possibilmente una coppia o comunque due persone tra le quali vi sia una forte...

Minor math-based tricks and procedural surprises.

1st edition 2025, PDF 20 pages.

This is really from start to finish an odd magic card trick. In A Very Odd Trick, two Jokers—one black and white, the other colorful—become the centerpiece of an impossible prediction. Here’s what your audience will see:

The magician makes two secret predictions and places them face down. A deck of cards is freely shown. It is ribbon spread on the table so the audience can clearly see that it is no other than a normal deck of shuffled cards. A spectator freely names an odd number, and the card at that number is put on the table (it is really a free choice. Absolutely no force. The...

Want a sock finish for your favorite ambitious card routine? Here it is. The object card is always handled by two indifferent cards. A perfect effect to add "medical" themed patter to your routine.

[Cover photo credit: Louis Sahuc]

1st edition 2025, video 40s.

December 1932 and The Sphinx magazine carries a full-page advert for Dai Vernon's manuscript Five Close-Up Problems. Without a doubt, Follow The Leader engenders the most attention out of the five, with card men quickly adding this one to their repertoire. Not surprisingly, Doctor Jacob Daley latches on to this timely classic, eventually releasing his own handling in Bruce Elliott's magazine The Phoenix in 1951.

And now, decades on, Ian Baxter releases his new manuscript Another Three Daley Deceits - following on from Three Daley Deceits published in April 2024. This one includes Baxter's handling of Daley's Delight - Jacob Daley's version of Follow The Leader....

"I checked out the Open Prediction 2025 and just wanted to say that's really cool. It's the exact type of card effects I like. It's just a genius method, so strong and direct, I love it. The fact it's so approachable for any skill level is great too." - Matt Overd

One of my favorite plots in card mentalism is the "Open Prediction". Many different scripts and presentations are possible with this classic from Paul Curry.

In this new method, we follow these practical conditions:

• Shuffled deck (even an incomplete one)
• A card is named as the "Open Prediction"
• Cards are dealt face down in your open hand...

Ever thought about getting into readings but didn't know how to get started? This is a great way to get your feet wet - NuMatrix Cards is low pressure and has a surprise ending.

The Effect: The mentalist shows nine large cards, each with a different grid of 16 numbers, and allows the participant to choose the one that appeals to her at that moment.

Setting the other eight grid cards aside, the mentalist writes something on the back of the extra Lo Shu card and places it aside for later. Handing the dry-erase marker to the spectator, he asks her to circle a number on the grid. He then...

Cristian has performed his original Hot Rod routine thousands of times in a strolling magic environment, amazing spectators with this unique blend of visual and mental magic. He now shares his time-tested routine with the magic community. He also includes two other variations as well as other practical tips. The last variation is a very strong mentalism routine, suitable for close-up or stand-up, and which can even be incorporated in a hypnosis or pseudo-hypnosis show.

• Introduction
• Magic, Mental Magic, or Mentalism
• Props
• VARIATIONS
  • My Standard Hot Rod Routine
  • Single Prediction Hot...

Effect: A written prediction that the spectator has their finger on changes places with the card the spectator saw in the deck. A vanish, transposition, and a prediction all in less than 60 seconds.

Imagine this: Your spectator places their finger on a card they believe contains a written prediction. They then select a card from the deck. When the dust settles, the card they selected has vanished from the deck, and the very card under their finger, the one they thought was the prediction, is revealed to be their selected card. Meanwhile, the prediction card appears in the deck, proving...

"When everyone zigs, zag." - Marty Neumeier

99% of all the ACAANS out there either look or feel, or both, the same. This is an attempt to stand out in that 1%.

Here is what happens:

A deck of cards is handed to someone in the crowd. They point to a stranger - who freely names any card. That person points to someone else - who names any number from 1 to 52.

You take back the deck and spread it out. Every card has a big, bold number on its back - from 1 to 52 in perfect order. You count to the named number. The card is revealed to be the exact card they named.

Mind-blowing?...

This series of Suit Ordering Systems is probably the world's first 'super store' for ordering suits. The main purpose of these various Suit Ordering Systems is to create a random sequence of suits while retaining a secret pattern visible only to the performer. The applicability of these SOS methods is for various stacks like memorized, algorithmic, mnemonic, or any other type of stacked decks.

So far, SOS Vol 3 was only a part of Karma Deck Pro. Now this is being released separately.

These ideas will be interesting and useful for card magic enthusiasts only.

You may want...

Di Nick Trost. Descritte da Aldo Colombini. Compliato da George Marchese.

In questo volumetto sono state raccolte due splendide routines cartomagiche della favolosa mente creativa di Nick Trost.

SINFONIA DEGLI ASSI

Una splendida routine con i 4 Assi in diverse fasi che lascerà i vostri spettatori perplessi e meravigliati! Aldo la descrive con dovizia di particolari per il beneficio di tutti i Cardician.

Dall'Introduzione:

"I quattro assi hanno sempre affascinato i più grandi artisti del "close up". Il numero di routines pubblicate sta a dimostrare quanta fantasia venga messa...

Come gli appassionati del settore sapranno, Aldo amava tantissimo il tema "acqua e olio" con le carte. Era uno dei suoi effetti preferiti al punto che sesso ne introduceva qualche nuova versione nei suoi libri. Questo è i primo libro di Aldo sull'argomento in cui ha speigato con dovizia di particolari 5 bellissime e dotte versioni di questo magico effetto.

Dall'introduzione:

"As always i like a lot your minimalistic approach to mystery. ESPWave will always stay in my wallet." - Simone Ravenda

A fabulous and practical piece that you can carry in your professional and casual set.

• No gimmicks
• Instant reset
• Beautiful opener

A DIY packet that you can construct with simple blank cards. 5 ESP symbols, the participant chooses one in a direct and clear procedure and a double revelation using the classic aesthetic of Max Maven's B'wave.

If you want a fun piece to add to your repertoire, ESPWave is for you!

1st edition 2025, video 13:25...

An impossible prediction.

Your spectator uses their own phone to fill a 3x3 grid with numbers 1-9 in completely random positions. They calculate the mathematical total themselves using their own choices, their own device, their own numbers. (Note: The input method is handwriting. To give you an idea, this is the app the spectator will use to manually fill out the 3x3 grid.)

Yet you've already predicted their exact result.

No apps to download. No gimmicked props. Pure mathematical impossibility.

Why this destroys audiences:

• Their phone, their choices - eliminates every possible...

I have already published multiple three pile location effects, such as Three Pile Location: On Steroids, Three Pile Location: On Cocaine and Three Pile Location: On Meth. In this ebook, I am publishing another three-pile location effect, except this one is, in my opinion, the strongest one. I think it's more fooling than the aforementioned three. Hence why I decided to call it The Ultimate Three Pile Location.

However, for full disclosure (and without exposing the method), I will say that you will likely be unable to perform this. So if you buy this PDF, you will be doing so just to learn the method (not to perform the effect). That's not to say you can't ever perform the effect....

A magical journey undertaken by a spectator based on her choices inevitably leads to the result predicted by the magician.

A spectator raises a deck of cards previously shuffled, shuffles it in turn and chooses a card from which to begin a journey that will inevitably end at a card that was prophesied from the beginning and which, lost in the deck, will be magically found by the magician at the very number assigned to it by that same path taken together.

This is a new Card Magic effect in which, after showing and quickly shuffling a standard deck of poker cards, the magician asks a spectator...

Un magico percorso intrapreso da una spettatrice in base alle sue scelte, conduce inevitabilmente al risultato predetto dal mago.

Una spettatrice alza un mazzo di carte precedentemente mescolato, lo mescola a sua volta e sceglie una carta da cui iniziare un cammino che inevitabilmente si concluderà ad una carta che era stato profetizzata fin dall'inizio e che, dispersa, verrà ritrovata magicamente dal mago proprio al Numero assegnatole da quello stesso commino insieme intrapreso!

Questo è un nuovo effetto in cui Il mago, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato velocemente un comune mazzo di...

Here are ten original effects from this respected pair of magical authors that are certain to delight children and entertain adults. The effects work well, too, to increase your holiday show dates by catering to children's parties, should you wish to specialize in this area to pick up more shows.

Here's a quick look at the effects included in the book:

• The Rambling Road. A spectacular, non-apparatus, non-sleight of hand effect.
• Little Jimmy and the Soap. A new effect involving a novel device of general utility.
• Little Jimmy and the Stocking. Decidedly enjoyable, yet off of the beaten...