Magic & Mentalism: page 355
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1957 Card Annual
Laurie Ireland
Table of Contents
- Super Do As I Do
- A Double Change
- Kings On The Loose
- Preface To Out Of This World
- Billy Wiggins' Card Trick
- Cards Of Sympathy
- Five Card Super Vanish
- Turnabout
- Nest Egg
- The Spectator's Force
- Kidnapped
- Marlo's Hofzinser
- The Buckle Break
- Marlo Bottom Count
- Mystical Location
- A Nervy Card Trick
- Hockley's Prediction
1st edition 1958, 36 pages; PDF 34 pages.
How To Control Fair Dice
KC Card Co
Here's the highly sought-after inside scoop on manipulating fair dice to come up with a desired point total. The same confidential information as sold by crooked gambling supply houses in the early to mid-1900s. Advertised as the most complete work of its kind ever published, it contains the real work for magicians, gambling lecturers, casino training, and law enforcement. Each shot is fully described and, where necessary, line drawings help explain the moves.
The combined effort of several players, this volume was originally sold for the equivalent of $50.00 in order to keep it out of...
Three Favourites
Ian Baxter
Stewart Judah was one of the twentieth century's most celebrated card experts, contributing to that classic text Greater Magic as one of the famed 'Card Stars Of The U.S.A.' and winning accolades from experts everywhere. Author John Northern Hilliard wrote "I would rather see him do a card trick than go to a convention." Such was his reputation.
In this new manuscript, author Ian Baxter shares his version of a Judah favourite, Not Your Card? - with the level of astonishment fully intact, but offering an approach that is far better suited to the close-up table.
Moving The Aces is Baxter's latest handling for that classic...
Pocket Personality Test
Unknown Mentalist
Pocket Personality Test is a physical product that will be shipped to you and comes with PDF instructions that can be downloaded immediately from your digital shelf. What you get: Along with the instructions PDF, you also get a specially designed and beautifully produced sturdy plastic wallet card which is approximately poker size. With reasonable care, this card should last you a lifetime.
A simple premise, a believable presentation, and an honest execution can be made to combine to create a miracle. The actual method used hardly matters when you can achieve what seems like a miracle....
ProjectS
Alexander Shulyatsky
This is a system that you can use with different card values, for example AS and 8D. Instant disappearance and appearance of suits on the card, but it can also be a change of color of suits or transformation. Easy to do, easy to perform. No reset. The tutorial demonstrates two methods of how you can make this gimmick.
1st edition 2021, video 32:28
The Art of Modern Conjuring Magic and Illusions
Henri Garenne
From the introduction:
I have written this work not as an exposure of the art of Conjuring and Magic, but simply to act as a guide for amateurs and young beginners; therefore I shall enumerate many tricks and illusions that my young friends can perform at home amongst their numerous friends. In addition to this, I shall also enumerate those tricks and illusions which demand a larger amount of room, and also require specially constructed apparatus; such tricks the amateur would do well not to attempt, as they are only suitable for performance on a stage. I shall give a description of most...
Action Palm: Revolutionary Card Technique No. 2
Edward Marlo
Palming cards while the cards are in action of being shuffled.
Table of Contents
- The Action Palms
- The Shuffle Palm
- Delayed Action Palm
- The Count Cop
- Count Cop For A Number Of Cards
- Count Cop For Small Packets
- Count Cop And Transfer
- Count Cop Exchange
- Count Cop For Left Hand
- Action Palm - One Hand
- The Clip Steal
- Turn Down Palm
- Misdirection Palm
- The Cull Palm
- Cull Palm Replacement
- Pressure Fan Palm
- One Hand Palm As Action Palm
- Take Techniques For Action Palm
- Square Up Drop Palm
- Drop Cut Palm
- Double Action Palms
- The Table Edge Palm
- Pivot Bottom Steal
- Brush Palm
- Bits...
Faro Miracle
Joseph B.
This effect is a masterpiece of mathematical engineering with a sophisticated and devilish method. If you are a fan of the Faro shuffle you will not regret having acquired this gem. This effect is an exception because it requires skill and sleight of hand compared to tricks published by joseph B. in the past. Despite this, if you are familiar with the Faro shuffle this is the effect for you.
Effect: The magician places a prediction card on the table indicating his lucky number. The spectator thinks of a number from one to ten, cuts the deck in two, and takes a number of cards equal to the...
The Four Card Mystery Presents: Remote Viewing
Boyet Vargas
The Four Card Mystery Presents: Remote Viewing is a two-phase four-card mentalism routine. It enables you to see the locations of four cards through your participant even after the cards are mixed.
- No force involved
- No secret markings
- No gimmicks
- You don’t need to see how the cards are mixed
- The participant has freedom on the mixing process
- The effect can also be performed via video call
This effect uses a newly developed method that enables you to have the participant mix the cards and yet, the mentalist is still able to determine and control the possible outcomes.
"4CS deal...
Aether #10: Slydini Touches
Gregg Webb
Gregg Webb presents ideas based on Slydini's use of Classic Palm and dropping coins to the cupped hand instead of lapping. Here, you will learn subtleties:
- How to vanish a coin by dumping it from your palm to your other hand.
- Tips for retaining and releasing coins from Classic Palm when standing or sitting.
1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages.
Contactless Automatic Card At Number: Ebook #1
Biagio Fasano
The first part of a new card project including 3 new A.C.A.A.N. effects requiring no sleight of hands: C.O.C.A.I.N. ACAAN, Touchless C.A.D.N. ACAAN and X-MEN ACAAN. A new series of self-working card magic effects that will happen in your viewer's hands. No particular skill is required, just the ability to instruct and pay attention to what the viewer is doing...
In this first eBook you will find a PDF that will allow you to perform amazing simple and self-working "Any Card At Any Number" Effects.
These are the simple rules that all my effects obey in this project:
- The deck in use...
Contactless Automatic Card At Number: Ebook #1 (Italian)
Biagio Fasano
Costituisce la prima parte di un mio nuovo progetto con lei carte e che include 3 nuovi effetti A.C.A.A.N. (Carta al Numero) che non richiedono alcuna tecnica di manipolazione: C.O.C.A.I.N. ACAAN, Touchless C.A.D.N. ACAAN e X-MEN ACAAN. Una nuova serie di effetti cartomagici automatici che avverranno nelle mani dello spettatore! Non è richiesta alcuna abilità particolare, solo la capacità di istruire e prestare attenzione a ciò che lo spettatore sta facendo…
In questo primo eBook troverete un Pdf che vi permetterà di eseguire stupefacenti effetti "Any Card At Any Number" semplici...
Remote Close Up 6
Renzo Grosso
Numbers have tremendous power. They rule life and the universe. There is no living being, molecule, event, evolution that cannot be described with an algorithm, a mathematical formula. Numbers, everywhere. From the speed of light to the circumference of the earth, to the inhabitants of the world, to the ATM pin. And then your lucky number, the number of destiny, bad luck, infinity ...
In my methodical (and obstinate) search for effects to be proposed on the phone, numbers are the absolute protagonist. Except for a few small tricks, they are all a consequence of one or more mathematical...
Hofzinser Ghost Card
Brick Tilley
A modern version of this classic gaffed card. Detailed are the two methods: splitting cards and printing them yourself to achieve this mysterious effect. Included is a self-printed example. This card has a matte finish that is enhanced by the candlelight used to effect the transformation. This is a remarkable illusion that takes no skill and differs greatly from Hofzinser's original construction. As seen in the video, the image seems to melt from one card value to another. Simple in construction.
1st edition 2021, PDF + gimmicked card
Kryptic Force
Unknown Mentalist
The Kryptic Force is an easy yet powerful force but very little known in the field of magic or mentalism. As with any force, here too the applications of the force are limited only by your imagination. A few interesting routines and effects are shared here. But you can surely come up with many of your own routines using this beautiful force.
The actual process to force is very fast and direct. Maybe, depending on your presentation, it may take all of fifteen seconds to perform the force. Or you can stretch it for as long as you want. This is not a psychological force. The Kryptic Force...
The Conjuror's Repository
Giuseppe Pinetti & Philip Breslaw & Gustavus Katterfelto
The Conjurer's Repository or the Whole Art and Mystery of Magic Displayed by the following celebrated characters; Pinetti, Katterfelto, Barrett, Breslaw, Silbley, Lane &c
This is a compilation of tricks lifted from other conjuring books. William Bradford writes in his review in Genii:
It contains general magic, mostly of the close-up variety, a lot of mathematical mental magic, a lot of chemical effects, one trick called "How to show the Hen and Egg Bag, and out of an empty Bag to bring above an hundred eggs, and afterwards a live Hen", and even some pages on calculating probabilities...
Mistress of Pentertain
Ken de Courcy
Fiddling with figures.
More along the lines of Pentertain and Son of Pentertain. The fact that there is so much material here is due to the efforts of Geoffrey Lamb, Ralph Erlewine, Dr. Bernard Juby, R. C. Buff, Peter Rees and, in particular, Leslie May who sent in pages of figure oddities.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- The Power of the Pentagram
- The Seven Dwarfs
- The Charlie Chronicles
- A Sanguinary Rise
- In the Good Old Days
- Tricky Crosswords
- Discount Coffee
- The Alternative Prediction
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Three-Way Prediction
- F.T. Publicity ...
Son of Pentertain
Ken de Courcy
The sequel to Pentertain. As before, these oddities can be shown wherever you have pencil and paper. For larger audiences a chalkboard, whiteboard or flip-chart is better; you can even do them in sand on a sea-shore.
- Introduction
- A Timely Legend
- No Time For Work
- The Cure For Insomnia
- Sheik A Leg
- Sheik Another Leg
- Cross Check
1st edition 1975, 17 pages; PDF 22 pages.
Pentertain
Ken de Courcy
Fifteen minutes impromptu entertainment with pen and paper.
From the introduction:
Here is a short, entertaining act that can be worked impromptu anywhere you have a pen, paper and audience. For larger shows it can be done with chalk and blackboard. I have even done it on an Overhead Projector during a break in a Training Course.
- Introduction
- PENTERTAIN
- THE REQUIREMENTS
- THE PREPARATION
- THE FORMAT
- Only Heaven (and Einstein) Knows!
- Everything is Relative
- A Not-so-Proper Charlie
- The Chinese Check
- The Forgotten Phone Number
- A Question of Degree
- A Last Word
1st edition...
Scripted #35: Picto Transpo
Larry Brodahl
The trick PictoTranspo by Gene Anderson is a wonderful reframing of a Roy Johnson trick. In the trick, two large pictures - one drawn by the volunteer - swap places, even though the pictures are marked on the back with the volunteer's and magician's names.
A logical and funny script is included that covers why the trick is being done, and even allows you to pick any volunteer.
Note: This trick is not fully explained. You must own the trick to be able to perform it.
1st edition 2021, 17 pages.
Aether #9: Sponge Balls to Box
Gregg Webb
Gregg Webb presents ideas using sponge balls and a folding box based on Slydini's "Paper Balls to Hat." The trick uses sponge balls and a folding cardboard box. Here, you will learn:
- How to vanish several sponge balls one at a time
- Cause the sponge balls to reappear from a small cardboard box
1st edition 2021, PDF 2 pages with illustrations by Gregg Webb.
Pocket Numerology
Unknown Mentalist
Pocket Numerology is a physical product that will be shipped to you and comes with PDF instructions that can be downloaded immediately from your digital shelf.
What you get: Along with the instructions PDF, you also get a set of 4 specially designed and beautifully produced plastic wallet cards which are about the size of a regular credit card. With reasonable care, these cards should last you a lifetime, if not more.
With absolutely zero knowledge of numerology, you can perform an entire act of apparent numerology with Pocket Numerology in your pocket. With Pocket Numerology, you can...

