Magic & Mentalism: page 385

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Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2023; 60 pages

Cover: Léa Kyle

4. Welcome to Issue #108 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Léa Kyle - Changing Magic - cover article/interview by Phil Shaw
14. Masterclass
    14. Tour de Force - Michael O'Brien
    16. Spirit of the Pendulum - Brian Johnson
    18. Any Page Number Book Test - Ian Adair
20. Why Solving is Essential - Kev G
    21. 5 QR Codes (and links) for solving a Rubik's Cube
24. The Bochord Club - Ian Moran
27. Worker's Corner - Chris Congreave
30. Alarna Love - The Secret MagicianOculus 2 - [la=325 Fraser...

Life in Digits is a collection of number divination effects and word divination effects using a single card. The card supplied to you is used by a participant to select a random 7 or 8-digit number. And the performer starts divining the number instantly and very cleanly. Or the card is used by the participant to think of a country, color, state or star sign, etc, and again the performer cleanly and instantly divines the thought.

There are 2 cards supplied to you. One is about postcard size and another is poker size. Both can be comfortably carried in your pocket.

You can perform over...

Routines, visual gags and priceless advice from the top comedy pros.

If you want to create a comedy act, or are a comedy performer looking to supplement the fun that you already have, this ebook will provide you with all the inspiration, advice, effects, one-liners and visual gags that you need.

We have tapped into the knowledge and expertise of top comedy performers such as Scott and Muriel, Gaetan Bloom, John Archer, Alan Hudson, Nathan Kranzo, Andy Reay, Michael Finney and many more, all of whom have revealed what it takes to make your magic appealingly funny. ...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

Table of Contents

• Tricky Tidbits
• For The Green Chlorophyll Card
• Our Magician Of The Yearbook For 1954 - Del Ray
• The Royal Assembly
• Fourteen Effects With The Fourteen Of Clubs
• Mickey Mouse And His Magic Coats
• The Jackpot Cigarette Trick
• The Magnetic Ball
• Golf Ball To Silk
• The Human Volcano
• The Spectator Does A Card Trick
• Perfect Diminishing Pack Of Cigarettes
• Felix The Snake
• Torn Smoke
• The Ireland Handling For A Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck
• Bamboo Chinese Sticks
• Sockard
• What To Do With A Slick Ace
• Sez You Giant Card Trick
• The No Gimmick Slate Gimmick
• The Foolproof Necktie...

In this, the second all-cards issue, of Triplets, Gregg Webb describes some old and some new in the news section, including a review of a rather old book Gregg thinks has good patter ideas for poker-themed card tricks, and some others that are quite recent, and a few things that are yet to come out but will soon.

Next Gregg describes a novel vanish of a card for standup manipulators, and then a card trick based on Schrödinger's Cat theory (from quantum mechanics), and a very direct new incarnation of Real Gone Aces, called Real Gone Queens, which includes a way to do it as Real Gone Jokers. ...

A deep dive into Elmsley's Point of Departure.

The original effect is the following. A card is chosen and placed face down on the table. The two black aces are then removed from the pack and with the utmost fairness, the chosen card is placed between them, and this sandwich is handed to a spectator to hold. On the magician's command, the chosen card vanishes and is found in the performer's pocket.

Table of Contents

• Point of Departure / Alex Elmsley
• Card Vanish Supreme / Edward Marlo
• A-E-I-O-U / Sam Schwarz
• Last-Minute Departure / Jon Racherbaumer
• Escapade / Max Maven ...

If you enjoy simple to do magic that never requires a re-set and which you can do anytime, anywhere, you will love this two-stage routine using a 10p and a £2 coin. (Any two coins of different sizes can be used for this effect.)

Both coins are borrowed from spectators and placed into your fist. The 10p is openly removed, shown freely and genuinely placed away in your pocket. Instantly it jumps back to your hand to join the £2.

Then the £2 is removed, but instead of both coins reappearing in the hand, they both vanish and are produced from the pocket. Very clean handling, easy to do,...

Vanish a plastic drinking straw.

The vanish is accomplished with a pull. The details of the hookup and presentation are taught in the video.

1st edition 2023, video 10 min.

A bit of sleight-of-hand that is usually used for playing cards is used here to effect a very simple and bold peek for business cards.

Experience the power of Lightning Peek. With this incredible magic trick, you'll be able to astound your audience with your psychic abilities. Simply have a spectator draw or think of something on a business card, then place it in the middle of a stack of business cards. You'll be able to accurately reveal the secret thought while the spectator holds the business card stack.

• Lightning fast
• Full card peek
• No gimmicks or DIY arts and crafts
• Business cards...

Past Life Prediction is a very unusual effect. Whether you or your audiences believe in the concept of past life or not, you can either perform this as a serious effect or a fun routine. This is totally propless. This is interesting. This is fun. And this is very impressive. Your participant will be left with an unforgettable experience.

You meet an utter stranger and directly tell him about your intuition by giving a few concrete bits of information about his past life. And you will then go on to present him solid proof of that past life information which will totally convince him. He...

Clever tricks with standard gaffed cards such as double backers, blank faced, etc.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Elmsley Count
• The Jordan Count
• The Experimental Elmsley Count
• Instant Printing
• Supersonic Joker
• An Oddity!
• Turncoat
• ’simpossible
• Notes

1st edition 1978, 16 pages; PDF 20 pages.

This "Scrapbook" is a small, haphazard collection of some of my contributions to the Art of Magic, over the past 50 years. Since the late 1960's I have contributed hundreds of my ideas to over a dozen national and international magic magazines, run a magician's service producing over 2000 magic items, (some hundreds of which were my own creations and which sold over a million Dollars worth a year around the world at one time), and for which I wrote over 2000 "instruction sheets." Many of these instructions had "ideas" for the use of the props that enabled our customers to get the maximum mileage...

Excerpt from the introduction:

A potpourri of great Marlo tricks.

All kinds of magic good for close-up or parlor, comedy or drama, technique or presentation. Excerpt from the conclusion:

This is a wonderful participation routine for children's entertainers using the simplest of props - a wand, a silk, and an unprepared bag. Two children come up to assist. A silk is made invisible and handed to one child, while the second helper examines and then holds onto a bag. The invisible silk is 'blown' up into the air, caught on the end of the magic wand, which is then used to flick it over to the child holding the bag. The silk is supposed to now be inside the bag, but the child holding the bag seems to be unable to find it inside. Realising that the silk must still be invisible, the...

Ring effects are visual and beautiful. Introducing an ultra-visual illusion. The finger ring jumps from finger to finger as if it were alive. The effect that deceived hundreds of spectators and magicians will always be at your fingertips.

Supplies may need to be purchased to perform this effect but many magicians will have everything at home. There is no construction or arts and crafts necessary, it is as simple as putting the necessary items together.

1st edition 2023, video 5:56.

Volume 2, No. 3: March 2023, 48 pgs.

The 15th issue of The Hermit Magazine is a TAKEOVER issue by Bigblindmedia, and features magic and articles from their roster of impressive magical minds, including:

• EFFECTS
  • Cardnection / Cameron Francis: Both spectators select the same card. An excellent coincidence effect that uses a Simon Aronson move to great effect!
  • Blind Pebble Ace Fling / John Bannon: The legendary John Bannon contributes his take on Richard Sanders' Ace Thing, with a couple of clever moments of surprise.
  • KaDribble Change / Biz: A colour change done in the open, in the action of a dribble.
  • Magician's...

Intelligent and creative card magic of the highest caliber.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This is a casual, mysterious presentation, as you'll meet someone, engage in conversation, then suddenly pause, as if connecting on a mysterious, metaphysical level.

What happened is you met a traveling psychic named Miss Amber, and she gave you something, a "gift" to be delivered, an audio message, with the clear instruction to give this to someone you'll meet with in the near future, who you feel, on a metaphysical level, this "gift" is intended for.

You will get their contact info, which is valuable for working performers or readers, and you send them this "gift" reading, which...

Like a book test on a postcard.

Epitome is like a book test on a postcard. The theme here is "Greatest Books of All Time". The card supplied to you contains a list of some of the world's greatest books and other related content. The card supplied is about postcard size and can be comfortably carried in your pocket.

You can perform about 15 different effects using the card. And the effects use various combinations of different principles. You do not need any physical books to perform these effects. In fact, you do not need any other props except the card supplied. But this is not for rank...

These are the Pavel 1990 lecture notes.

Table of Contents

• Utility Pull
• The Enchanted Mirror
• Color Bet
• Quadsilx
• Silks From Silk
• Sucker Blendo
• The Yellow Rope
• Jumping Knots
• Silks & Rings
• Card Paper Tear
• New Silken Balls
• Sucker Ribbons
• The Universal Rope
• Krazy Knot

1st edition 1990, 26 pages; PDF 35 pages.

This work is primarily intended for those who are seeking to master the art of entertaining by magic, but who are quite ignorant of the rudiments of conjuring.

The first section, although dealing with conjuring books in general, is intended to indicate to the reader how to read this volume so that he may profit from the matter contained in the various sections.

Sections Two, Three, and Four give full instructions on the use of the appliances, appurtenances, and sleights of conjuring. Therein are described the elementary principles and appliances of the art of conjuring which must be...