Magic & Mentalism: page 455

Cards, coins and other effects.

The Magic of Trevor Dawson; cards, coins, and other effects is a compilation of a lifetime's work studying the art of conjuring with many original ideas for sleights and moves, and a collection of magic tricks with cards, coins, and other objects. The book is compiled and edited by Roger Woods with some assistance from Brian Lead.

Content:

• Introduction and acknowledgements
• Biography of Trevor Dawson 1934-2017
• Preliminaries and Foreword
  • Practice
  • Presentation
• Card Magic
• Card Sleights and Moves
  • Shuffles
  • Cuts
  • Controls
  • Forces
  • Breaks
  • Double...

The Al Baker Diminishing Cards are grandious. But for many years, magicians have performed it, as Al Baker described it 40 years ago. They grab 5 times into the tophat...

Here, Peki shows a more elegant and mysterious way to perform them.

1st edition 2026, video 2:58.

The spectator selects four cards. The magician then performs a face-up/face-down Slop Shuffle, thoroughly mixing the deck. Despite the chaotic condition, the deck instantly rights itself - returning to face-down - except for the four selections, which remain face-up at four different positions in the deck.

1st edition 2026, video 7:32.

Although transpositions involving cards are commonplace, not too many are genuine eye-poppers. This one fits that description to a tee, a totally baffling flight of a card from one place to another, in the usual tight-knit setting of close-up magic at the table.

Four aces are removed from a deck with spectator being offered the choice of reds or blacks, the chosen aces being slipped into an envelope and dropped to the table. The two remaining aces, black for example, are lost in the deck which is then placed aside. On command, the red ace chosen by spectator instantly vanishes from the...

Effect: The spectator names their favorite ace. The magician hands them the remaining three aces, which the spectator freely inserts into different parts of the deck. The deck is spread face down across the table, and the magician instantly removes the three inserted aces by pulling them out with his fingers.

The spectator then deals cards face down from the deck, stopping at any point. The card they stop on is turned face up - it's not an ace, but an indicator card. Using the value of that card, the spectator counts down to a new position in the deck, where they discover the named...

A Surprise Gift worth $18 is included inside.

Hey, don't get too excited. You don't have to undress either yourself or others, I promise. Here NuDe Readings stands for Numeric Deck Readings.

Here are the details. These are some extraordinary and highly unconventional but killer card routines which automatically deliver powerful and high impact readings without you requiring any skill in the readings field at all, whatsoever. All these effects generate what I call "Self Working Readings" But, of course, if you do have reading skills, then that would be a bonus.

All you need to perform...

• Preface
• Introductory . . . Speech
• The Billiard Balls At Finger Tips
• The Dyeing Handkerchiefs
• The Sliding Die Box
• The Torn And Restored Paper
• The Flying And Knotted Handkerchiefs
• The Aerial Treasury, . . Or Shower Of Coins
• The Drum That Cannot Be Beaten
• The Chinese Rice Bowls
• The Egg, Glass, And Tumbler Trick
• The Flag Trick

1st edition 1906, 18 pages; PDF 15 pages.

An unusual and inexplicable version of "ACAAN" using a borrowed deck shuffled by any spectator.

Impromptu "Any random Card At Any Number" Mystery is an ACAAN themed effect that can always be performed impromptu, also if you borrow a deck of cards (perhaps even an incomplete one) and let any spectator shuffles it freely! The magician asks the spectator to rise a small pack of cards, count them in secret, and remember that number. Before losing those cards into the rest of the deck, he asks the spectator to shuffle them and then choose one. He puts everything back into the deck, which he...

Una insolita ed inspiegabile versione di Carta al Numero con un mazzo preso a prestito e mescolato dallo spettatore!

Il Mistero dell' Impromptu "Any random Card At Any Number" è un effetto di Carta al Numero che è SEMPRE IMPROVVISABILE, persino prendendo un mazzo di carte in prestito (magari pure incompleto) e dandolo da mescolare liberamente ad uno o più spettatori!

Il prestigiatore chiede di alzare un mazzettino di carte e contarle in segreto, ricordandosene il numero. Prima di disperdere quelle carte tra il resto del mazzo, gli chiede di mescolarle tra loro e ne fa scegliere una....

After they cut the deck, two spectators are given a packet of cards each from which they memorize any card. They lose their card into the deck and concentrate on their symbol. Each thought-of symbol can be removed from the deck and placed in front of the appropriate spectator.

Easy to do. You only need a regular deck of 25 ESP cards.

1st edition 2024, PDF 3 pages.

This is the first English translation of the German Mein Training und Meine Tricks by Harry Houdini. The German first edition was published around 1919.

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Foreword
• Tricks with Handcuffs
• Opening Sealed Handcuffs
• The Master Key
• Mistakes Made by Some Handcuff Artists
• A Trick Handcuff
• Some Facts About American Handcuffs
• Lock Pickers
• Instructions for Opening Ordinary Locks with Lock Picks
• Skeleton...

This book contains 40 amazing tricks, tips and suggestions for the use of magicians' wax.

If you're like most magicians, you have a jar, can or dispenser of magicians' wax in your magic drawer ... but what do you do with it? Why not use it to revitalize your act with the tricks contained in this book.

Features effects with Cards, Coins, Silks, Ropes, Cigarettes, and Mental Effects.

And of course, the book includes that perennial favorite, the Card on Ceiling. One neighborhood bar we went into recently had the ceiling virtually covered with playing cards, as one local magician was prone...

Practical routines and presentations for the modern magician.

You are about to discover a collection of magic that deliberately walks the line between the cleverly practical and the absurdly comedic. The routines within these pages - from the "404 Spirit Not Found" slate gag to the self-working sock teleportation - appear here not just for their surprising effects, but for their personality. Magic, at its best, isn't about fooling an audience into thinking you possess supernatural powers; it's about creating a shared moment of wonder mixed with laughter, where even the magician seems to be...

This is an experiment to see whether the performer can identify a spectator's fingerprints. A spectator selects 5 cards from a deck, the faces of which are shown to be a random selection. The cards are dealt face down onto the table and the performer turns his back.

The helper now mixes the tabled cards by moving them around on the surface and then turns any one face up and presses his fingertips onto the card face. The card is then turned face down again and the cards mixed on the table again.

Turning back, the performer picks up the cards one at a time and amazingly manages to identify...

Two jokers and two kings change places multiple times. You end with just four kings.

1st edition 2026, video 2:35.

The spectator freely selects a card and it is returned to the deck. The cards are shuffled together. The magician says he will need three chances to locate the selection. He cuts to a 3, deals three cards, and reveals a 7. Then he deals seven cards and reveals a J. Finally, he deals eleven cards and arrives at the spectator's card.

Three cards used to find one card? Not exactly. Those three cards didn't just locate the selection - they also revealed the other three cards of the same value.

1st edition 2026, video 6:49.

While the demo video covers most of it, here are a few important details it doesn't clearly point out.

• The choice of card, number, and their combination is completely free.
• The deck stays in full view the entire time. It is never hidden or taken out of sight.
• Everything is examinable.

Honest Note: There's a hidden move that takes place as the performer asks for the card and number. It's seamlessly built into the flow of conversation and presentation, making it completely unnoticeable. From the audience's point of view, the effect hasn't even started yet, moreover the deck stays in...

When the spectator controls everything... and you control the impossible.

The Effect

Imagine a routine where every decision belongs to your spectator - how to cut, where to stop, and even the exact order the cards are gathered. Yet in the end, the deck is perfectly separated into reds and blacks.

And just when they think they've witnessed the impossible, you reveal your kicker: a written prediction proving you knew the outcome all along - including the fact that their chosen Queen of Hearts would be the only red card in the black half of the deck.

Why Magicians Love It

• Mathematical...

Okay, first up let me explain the title of this ebook. It is not about my 18th birthday. Not at all. I've passed that little milestone ages ago. Like a couple of hundred years ago. On a more serious note, this is my 18th release related to birthday divinations and zodiac divinations. Yes, already 17 releases done and this is the 18th one. So My 18th Birthday is actually my 18th birthday divination method.

The core method is the Dual Quantum Principle, an advanced and revolutionary principle and will be a game changer when combined with the standard binary method. As far as I know, this...

A quest to discover one's true purpose, traveling through time and space, undertaken with a simple deck of cards, in which each person's destiny will be revealed through four truly special cards.

A Series of Fortunate Events is an exciting quadruple coincidence magic trick in which the magician, using a simple deck of cards, helps the spectator with an important task that combines philosophy and mysticism: the journey through time and space in search of life's most meaningful goals.

After showing and shuffling the cards, he has a spectator cut the deck, and that is where his search begins,...

Una ricerca dei propri obiettivi primari, attraversando il TEMPO e lo SPAZIO, svolta per mezzo di un semplice mazzo,in cui il DESTINO di ognuno si compirà in quattro carte davvero SPECIALI!

"A Series of Fortunate Events" (Una Serie di Eventi Fortunati) è un emozionante nuovo effetto di Quadrupla Magica Coincidenza dove il Prestigiatore, per mezzo di un semplice mazzo di carte, aiuterà lo spettatore in un importante compito che unisce filosofia e misticismo: la ricerca, attraverso il tempo e lo spazio, degli obiettivi più importanti che caratterizzano la vita!

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All of Lubor Fiedler's released tricks, plus his story of life, plus more.

Lubor Fiedler was the most creative magic trick inventor of all time. There is no comparison. He introduced so many new principles, concepts, and ideas into magic that it took me 20 years to create this record of his achievements. Many will be familiar with his astounding Tenyo releases, but that is merely the tip of the iceberg of his creations. It is hard to overstate his achievements. Lubor's...

This is the complete set of four Lubor Fiedler notebooks, almost 1000 pages. Lubor started them in 1976, 1981, 1987, and 2010, respectively.

One of my goals with this publication was to preserve Lubor Fiedler's notebooks in their original form, because I am certain they will be studied for generations to come. No single person should interpret Lubor's thoughts. Everybody should be able to draw their own conclusions and find and take what is most useful to them. That is why every page has been reproduced as a facsimile, except for blank pages, even though few will be able to read Lubor's notebooks...

This is a compilation of various videos about Lubor Fiedler and his tricks. Many of them are in German, such as interviews and profiles from TV and an early lecture video. Two videos do not feature Lubor, but present tricks invented by Lubor.

• ORF: Am Schauplatz die Zauberfamilie: profile and interview of Lubor Fiedler (26th October 2000)
• Electrostatic flight demo
• Electrostatic flight preparation
• Fiedlerisierte Gegenstände: early lecture video (late 1970s)
• Finger flash & Spooky Glasses
• Floating Ball 1
• Floating Ball 2
• Free Schoolbook demo by Mark Setteducati
• Inside Lubor Fiedler's...