Magic & Mentalism: page 111

A B'Wave effect with a new twist!

You remove two packets of cards – one red back and one blue back - from your wallet. The red backed packet is placed at the center of the mat and the blue backed packet is placed into your left hand. You explain that you are going to play a game similar to poker. You point out the four-card packet on the table saying,

"I have four cards here and among them lie three Aces of different suits. I've added an indifferent card that might come in useful in a few moment. In my hand I have five cards. Four are Aces and the fifth is a duplicate of the missing...

An effortless Open Prediction effect!

You bring a red backed prediction out of your pocket along with a blue backed deck of cards.

"Have you ever been in a situation in which you regretted not following your first intuition? Intuition is a very intriguing concept for scientists and psychologists. It provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. Today, we're going to re-enact one of those experiments and hopefully this may lead to a successful ending."

You deal the cards face down one by one on the table as you ask the spectator to tell you to stop when she 'feels' it...

Young magician John Gelasi is back with an entirely new and exciting collection if magic, all involving the use of business cards.

Business card magic is often one of the most important genres of magic a magician can have under his belt. Instead of simply handing out your card, why not do some magic with your card, and then give it away? This enables you to give away an amazing and memorable souvenir, while at the same time cunningly handing out your business card.

All of the effects in this ebook are strong, visual, and relatively easy to do.

Routines included:

• Slider: A visual...

"Half Bull, Half Magic"

THE MINOTAUR offers great effects from an eclectic list of contributors including household names such as Michael Ammar, David Williamson, Troy Hooser, Phil Goldstein, Gene Anderson, Steve Cohen, Tom Craven, Aldo Colombini, Daryl, Didier Dupre, Eddie Fechter, Doc Eason, Dan Garrett, Chris Kenner, Gary Kurtz, Ken Krenzel, Eric Mead, David Neighbors, Johnny Ace Palmer, Gary Plants, Joe Rindfleisch, Rocco, Hiro Sakai, and many more. Of course, there are a lot of Dan Harlan effects, too. And each effect has been carefully...

No 4 of volume 8 was never published. Many years later, Dan Harlan released a DVD under the title The MINOTAUR Final Issue. This DVD set is not part of this ebook, but it is included in the 8 volume Minotaur bundle as well as available separately.

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Above Board, Paul Burdick
  • Okay Coin Production, Larry Davidson
  • Soul Mates, Floyd Beatlebaum
  • Hook-Up, Bob Knigge
  • Mintal Photography, Bram Charles
• No 2
  • Fusion Aces, David Neighbors
  • Crayon Eater, Dan Harlan
  • Cup O' Joel, Joel Givens
  • Depositive, Phil Goldstein
  • Bachelor's Thread, Rajneesh...

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Matchmaker, Marc Paul and Anthony Owen
  • Ozone Paper Tear, Zelek Shadline
  • Skin Graft, Anthony Davis
  • Out of This House, Anthony Owen
  • So That's How It's Done, Zelek Shadline
  • Striking Art, Angelo Carbone
  • M.A.R.L.O., Jon Allen
• No 2
  • Final Nightmare, Jon Allen
  • Can't Ketchup, Scott Wells
  • Birds & Bees & Bikes, Mike Maxwell
  • Quarter Back Sneak, Dan Macinnis
  • Get The Point, Jon Allen
• No 3
  • Gum Together, Aaron Fisher
  • Bizarre Transposition, Marv Leventhal
  • On Again Off Again, Dan Harlan
  • Write Of Way, Phil Goldstein
  • In The Pink, Richard Paddon
• No 4

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Fortunate Break, Curtis Kam
  • Lite Switch, Aldo Colombini
  • Vaudou, Dupre Didier
  • Penned In, Gene Anderson & Dan Harlan
  • French Revolution, Jean-Pierre Vallarino
• No 2
  • Rising Dough, Dan Harlan
  • Time Is Money, Michael Ammar
  • Jealous Jack, David Oestreicher
  • Slim to None, Joe Rindfleisch
  • Super Duper, Joel Givens
• No 3
  • Colorful Rip-off Triumph, David Neighbors
  • Deviled Egg, Dan Harlan
  • Stretching Your Money, Yuji Wada
  • Lethal Prediction, Gary Ouellet
  • Loop De Loop, Harvey Rosenthal
• No 4
  • Burnt to the Core, Dan Harlan
  • Sugarless, Joel Givens ...

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Bent Outta Shape, David Neighbors
  • And Then There Was One, Daryl
  • Weight Your Turn, Troy Hooser
  • Hatzoo, Norman Beck
  • Think of a Coin?, Evert Chapman
• No 2
  • Rainbow Writing, Anthony Lindan
  • Karate Kracker, Giovanni
  • The Brainwave Connection, Dan Garrett
  • French Liberation, Jean-Pierre Vallarino
  • Sludge and Ice, Dan Harlan
• No 3
  • Touch of Brass, Troy Hooser
  • Drawl, Phil Goldstein
  • Cut Me Two Times, John Swomley
  • Destination Unknown, Dan Harlan
  • PUN, Michael Powers
• No 4
  • Rules of the Game, Phil Goldstein
  • Dust to Dust, Joe Rindfleisch
  • Natural Selection,...

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Financial Attraction, Dan Harlan
  • Reverse Inflation, Gazzo Macee
  • Prints Re: Gent, Phil Goldstein
  • Bangle Tangle, Harvey Rosenthal
  • Stick It in Your Ear, Mac King
• No 2
  • No Way Out, Gary Plants
  • Suck It Up, Bob Rees
  • Speck-ulation, Anthony Lindan
  • Pivotal Pinch, Eric Wolf
  • Joint Venture, Dan Harlan
• No 3
  • Invisible Slit, Hiro Sakai
  • Twice as Crazy, David Neighbors
  • Squeezed Away, Troy Hooser
  • Stutter Count, Dan Harlan
  • Match Cutie Gizmo, Michael Weber
• No 4
  • Fluctuations in Value, Gary Kurtz
  • Hokey Pokey, John Swomley
  • Montexpose, Phil Goldstein
  • Give...

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Forget to Remember, Anthony Lindan
  • Twisted Down, Eddie Fechter
  • Twisted Up, Ray Mertz
  • Turning Point, Gordon Jeppesen
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Balloon, Dan Harlan
• No 2
  • Fast Four-mation, Homer Liwag
  • Off the Menu, Phil Goldstein
  • The Famous Popcorn Trick, Mark Sicher
  • Auto Suspension, Dan Harlan
  • Optical Advantage, Steve Cohen
  • Aces of Diamond Bar, David Neighbors
• No 3
  • Marionette Sound Count, Ken Krenzel
  • Here Comes the Bridle Hitch, David Drake
  • A Gentlemen's Game, Gazzo Macee
  • No Ink-ling, Michael De Marco
  • The Elusive Penny, Keith Walker
  • Emcee Hammer,...

Table of Contents

• No 1
  • Brain Probe, David Williamson
  • Chink-A-Change, Mark Fitzgerald
  • Explosive Impact, Rocco
  • Spread 'Em, Dan Harlan
  • Swivel Monte False Cut, Dan Garrett
• No 2
  • Slice With a Twist, Mark Tams
  • Pun-Ultimate Bunnies, Dave Dillon
  • Three Magic Scarves, Johnny Ace Palmer
  • Put a Lid On It, Jim Kleefeld
  • Sticky Foot, Dave Chuirazzi
• No 3
  • Premeditation, Dan Garrett
  • Flash Cards, Anthony Lindan
  • Table Squeeze, David Neighbors
  • Under Covers, Dan Harlan
  • Cube in Air, Dan Smalley
• No 4
  • Ultimate Illogical Cut, Troy Hooser
  • Cracked Thoughts, Jerry Lynch
  • Blunk, Phil Goldstein ...

This PDF not just includes the four issues of volume 1, but also the sneak preview issue.

Table of Contents

• Sneak Preview
  • Traveling Cash, Dan Harlan
  • Pendulum False Cut, Troy Hooser
• No 1
  • R.P.M., Dave Dillon & Marv Leventhal
  • Heads or Tails?, Tom Craven
  • Starcle, Dan Harlan
  • Slider Aces, John Quine
  • Coins from Napkin, Steve Cohen
  • Two Card Location, Chris Kenner
• No 2
  • A Perfect Match, Mark Sicher
  • Count-er Point, Troy Hooser
  • Copper Silver Transmutation, Troy Hooser
  • Back Two-gether, Mark Fitzgerald
  • Spectator Cuts the Kings, David Williamson
• No 3
  • End Over...

You will get all the indexes that have been issued for THE MINOTAUR:

• Volumes 1-8 (this is the most recent one including the 'Final DVD' issue)
• Volumes 1-6
• Volumes 1-3

1st edition 1994 - 2011; 39 pages.

Funny stuff for magicians, MCs and other entertainers. For a pro just one new gag or bit of comedy that fits into his program is worth a lot of money. Even though Aldo demonstrates these gags not in front of a life audience, it is so much better to see a video and get a sense of how they have to be delivered, rather than just reading about them. Here you have a sampling of some great gags:

• FLIP-LINES
• BANTERS
• AD-LIBS
• COMEDY SIGHT BITS
• EMCEE BLOCKBUSTERS

Performed by Cameron Francis himself. Stacks can allow you to perform miracles under the fairest and cleanest conditions imaginable. Stuff you just can’t do impromptu. Stuff that will seriously blow your spectator's minds. This download DVD contains three such effects. Each trick requires a full deck set up and each one is self-working. Just add presentation and stir vigorously. The three effects use completely normal decks which, after the trick is over, can be shuffled up and used to produce all sorts of impromptu miracles. All of them make very good openers. Give at least one of these effects...

Dave Campbell is another of Scotland's creative cardmen. He's perhaps best known as the creator of the popular 'Fred' card effect which was copied all over the world.

Here, in Duplicity Dave Campbell presents an entertaining card effect in which the performer re-enacts one of Houdini's famous feats - walking through a wall. A signed card represents Houdini and a jumbo card represents the wall. Although you have told the spectators in advance what is going to happen the signed card manages to disappear from among four blank cards and then reappear under the tabled jumbo card.

Perhaps the...

A killer, self contained packet effect that makes a great closer!

Effect:

“Right now I'd like to show you one of my favorite tricks. I love it because It's got a really big finish.”

The magician displays a packet of blue backed Jokers and one Ace of Hearts. One by one, three of the Jokers print the mates of the Ace of Spades.

“Now, I can understand how the Jokers turn into Aces. But the thing I don't understand is where these backs came from!”

The magician turns the Aces over to reveal four different back designs.

“Now, you might think that this is the big finish...

"Get out of here, don't release it. Make up some story, only I may have this!" - Branden Wolf (Bison, Room with a View - After seeing the workings)

"From the very first second I learned and understood what Legion was and was capable of, my mind hasn't thinking of some absolutely mind blowing magic and mind reading that this can achieve. This is truly versatile and beyond practical. I don't believe anyone is going to be disappointed with Legion, it's devious and wicked." - Lloyd Barnes (Method, Barrell Change)

"Legion took the fear out of forces for me. My close up has improved dramatically...

Impromptu card magic performed with a regular deck of cards.

Contents:

• KNOCK THEM DEAD (Paul Gordon): A freely selected card is revealed as the only face-up card in a packet.
• NAME YOUR CARD (Roy Baker): After a card is selected you cut the deck into several packets. The spectator picks one and from that one card is chosen: The selection.
• IN THE CODE (Karl Fulves): A card selected by a process of elimination, ends up face up in the middle of the deck.
• THE MYSTERY OF THE PENTHOUSE (Nick Trost): The four Jacks placed in four different spots in the deck, assemble to the top.
• ELMER'S WEDDING (Peter Duffie): You show the Kings and...

Ten easy routines with rings and ropes. All the effects are performed with regular props (3 to 5 inch diameter rings, ropes and silks). They are suitable for close-up, walk-around, stage, etc. You may tie several effects together to create a unique routine.

CONTENTS:

• RING AND ROPE MOVE (George Hills): A rope and a ring. The ends and the middle are always in view but the ring penetrates the rope.
• HINDU RING MYSTERY (Eddie Joseph): The perfect follow-up for the previous trick. The ring penetrates the rope and becomes free.
• THE CHEEKY ROPE AND RING TRICK (Aldo Colombini): A ring is threaded on the...

Re-Thinks is a new series of eBooks from TC Tahoe.

This routine has served TC very well for years. It was a major part of both his restaurant work and his Close-up show at the Magic Castle, for which he was nominated Close-up Magician of the Year.

"Perfect example of Jazz Magic." - Daryl

"Fantastic routine, so much magic with just one knife!" - Michael Ammar

The routine is fun, fast and entertaining...

1st edition 2011; 10 pages.

The first issue is a potpourri of topics and contributors.

• The Care of White Doves - caring for and using of doves by David J O’Conner from Down Under
• Past Glory of India - a short write-up and pictures of Gogia Pasha (known to some as the "Gilly Gilly" magician from India)
• A Short History of the I.B.M. by Past International President of I.B.M. Jack White
• Your Best Test Audience - finding your best and toughest "practice" audience by Grandpa Chet
• a clever magic-themed Crossword Puzzle by Balasubramian Chandran aka Balu The Magician
• Control Coins – an excellent coin prediction by...

I rarely get to work on my own creations these days. 911 Summing is one of those rare occasions. It is an effect and method I have created more than 20 years ago. Both the effect and the method are to the best of my knowledge completely new and have never been published before.

This is a math effect I have had a lot of fun with. It can even be performed as puzzle challenge rather than a magic effect. I have performed this for people twice as smart as myself - engineers, scientists, researchers, professors - you name it. Not once has anybody figured out how it is done, even though, the principle...

An early publication filled with routines from the creative mind of Stephen Tucker.

1st edition 1984; 56 pages

Table of Contents

4. Intro
5. Shaken And Stirred
8. Double Vision
12. Sounds Too Good To Be True
15. Space Oddities
18. Halve Your Oil Bill
19. Generation Gaps
22. They're Back
23. Unburied Treasure
25. Laundering
27. Black Power
30. Throwaway
31. Silent Running
33. Within Your Reach!
35. Poles Apart
38. The Born Leader
40. Overnight
42. Between The Lines
44. Splash!
46. On And On And On And On And On...
48. Sledgehammer
51. Top Secret
53. Queen Of Controversy
55. Girl Talk