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Abacus Volume 4 (September 1995 - August 1996)
Al E. Smith
Number 1 (September 1995)
- Will You Love me Tomorrow
- Riffs
- Thirds Away / Peter Duffie
- For A Few Wallets More
- The Return Of Imogen
- The Duffrid Quadco / Alan Francis
- Soon Forgotten
- Glory To The Victor / Walt Lees
- The Double Deal Turnover / R. Paul Wilson
- Taurean Misfit II / R. Paul Wilson
- Here And There
Number 2 (October 1995)
- Riffs
- Ektopos / Bob Driebeek
- The View From Stephen Tucker: Imogination
- Magic And The Internet / Geoffrey Green
- US Review / Duane Henry
- Bill's Secret Number 2 / Jack Jansen
- Who's Doing what? / Tony Griffith
- Compulsive
- Here And There
- A Fair...
Abacus Volume 3 (September 1994 - August 1995)
Al E. Smith
Number 1 (September 1994)
- SiFoFoFa (2)
- Riffs: That's Sawn it!
- Twisters Under The Skin / Walt Lees
- That Puzzles Me
- Doc Eason
- Restaurant Reservations
- Totat / Peter Duffie
- Blackpool Blockbuster / Stephen Tucker, Brian Glover
- Bristol Ditties
- Downtown Stories
- Glidram / Abe Akers
- Pincers
- Liquid Ice
- Tricks That Work Dept
- Expulsion or Excommunication
- Still Turning / Paul Hallas
- Forces For Courses
- Block Spread Force
Number 2 (October 1994)
- Ballots
- Riffs: Nor Borrower Be
- Touriste Trade
- Tranquil Trap / Peter Duffie
- Wishing On A Strat
- The Impossible Dream
- Wass Not Was ...
Abacus Volume 2 (September 1993 - August 1994)
Al E. Smith
Number 1 (September 1993)
- Box Tops
- The Longest Day
- That's Torn It! / Alan Francis
- Only The Mediocre / Paul Daniels
- Clubman's Diary
- Slings and Arrows
- Snippets / Melvin Lehaire
- Angel's Footsteps / Rod Ethtie
- Sloppit / Ed Ward
- Direct Chink-A-Chink / Damian Surr
- On Tap
- Flattery Gets You Nowhere / Walt Lees
- Cards On Tour
- Who Said That
- Duffie's Deal / Peter Duffie
Number 2 (October 1993)
- Into the Mystic
- Riffs
- Daley Papers
- Mac's Stacks / Mac MacDonald
- Partial Hofzinser / Roger Curzon
- Forward To Yesterday / Ellisdons
- You Can't Win Dept
- Pocket The Deck / Ed Ward ...
Abacus Volume 1 (September 1992 - August 1993)
Al E. Smith
Number 1 (September 1992)
- Tread Thou In My Footsteps...
- Join the Club
- Siftas
- A Case for Dealing
- DDC Selection
- Spread Force
- Play It Again Sam / Stephen Tucker
- Final Cut
- Thinking it Over
- Current Matters
Number 2 (October 1992)
- Still Treading
- Riffs
- Insider Dealing
- Downtown Stories
- Current Matters
- Triple Cross Cut / John Wright
- Push Off Undercut / Al Smith
- Swing False Cut / Al Smith
- Yawn
- Two Keys to Baldpate / Stephen Tucker
- Vernon
- Paradox
- The Lady Prefers
- Viewpoint
- Club Night
Number 3 (November 1992)
- Walking in the Sand
- Riffs
- Acorns and Tall Oaks ...
Torn Secrets
Abhinav Bothra
The ability to access someone's secret information without tipping them off is a mentalist's dream. Doing it cleanly, right under their noses, feels like a superpower - and here you will find 3 tools to do that, the power is now in your hands.
PS. I personally recommend learning at least 2 different center tears so that if you do it twice at the same event or before the same people, it does not look rehearsed.
Tarot Ex Machina
Bob Farmer
"Absolutely Amazing." - Roberto Giobbi
"Incredible thinking." - Teller
The most wonderful gaffed Tarot cards (or even playing cards) ever conceived. A gaffed deck of the 22 Major Arcana cards infused with multiple layers of deceptive mechanisms.
METHODS NEVER BEFORE POSSIBLE: with the Major Arcana for predictions, mindreading, magic squares, Out of This World, vanishes, teleportations, and more.
SPECTATOR CUTS TO A CARD. You immediately know the card and its position in the deck.
A SPECTATOR CUTS THE DECK INTO THREE PILES. You immediately know the bottom card of each...
Secret Decks
Pablo Amirá
A compilation of four of my gimmicked decks that I use constantly in both professional and casual performances.
Serendipity Deck: (From the No Briefcase Act) Any named card is predicted using the two Jokers from the deck. A dynamic and entertaining approach to predicting any freely named card.
Smile Deck: (From the Motivational Mentalism Act) The named card is the only one with a smiley face in an otherwise blank-backed deck. No roughing spray, no thin cards.
Telepathic Deck: Your participant merely thinks of any card, and you instantly know it. A forgotten classic reimagined through...
I Hate Card Tricks 3
B. Robert Pulver
A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
Still more miniature stage illusions from the critically acclaimed "I Hate Card Tricks" series. Volume 3 features effects based on both classic and contemporary stage illusions.
This hard-to-find e-book is once again available for purchase. Contains instructions for constructing and performing 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
The Aztec Queen
This effect is based on the "Aztec Lady" illusion. A Queen is placed into a playing card cabinet. She can be clearly seen through windows in the front of...
I Hate Card Tricks 2
B. Robert Pulver
A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
What's that you say? You still hate card tricks?! Here, in volume two, I present an all-new collection of miniature "stage illusion" recreations made popular in the original I Hate Card Tricks.
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains instructions for constructing and performing 11 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards. Foreword by Martin Lewis.
The Origami Queen
This effect was inspired by Jim Steinmeyer's "Origami" illusion. A signed Queen is placed...
ESP Double Deck Test
Raphaël Czaja
The performer divines two chosen ESP symbols, cuts to their matching duplicates, and reveals that they were predicted in advance.
EFFECT: The performer introduces a 50-card ESP deck (two regular 25-card decks combined) and instructs the spectator to follow an elimination process. First, the spectator cuts the deck into two approximate halves and eliminates one. He deals the remaining cards into three piles and eliminates two. Then, he deals the remaining cards into two piles and eliminates one. Lastly, he deals the remaining cards into a single pile, reversing their order. From there, he...
Exclusion Instructions
Miku W.
An almost self-working card location effect with an ACAAN feel.
Fool your magician friends. A powerful routine that can be performed with a single deck.
The spectator selects a card, returns it to the center of the deck, and cuts the cards. The magician then has the spectator cut off another packet. Using that packet, cards are dealt one to the table and one to the bottom of the packet repeatedly until only a single card remains. That final card reveals the exact location of the selection. As a bonus, the spectator also discovers the other three cards matching the selection's value. ...
No Force No Gimmicks Bank Night
Unknown Mentalist
Very special bumper surprise gifts worth $54 are included free inside. This is only for the next 7 days up to July 22nd, 2026.
This is my 250th release to the magic community. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each and every one of you for your extraordinary support and patronage over the past decade. It is only and only due to this overwhelming love that 250 releases were possible. I am eternally grateful to all of you in about 90 countries for your invaluable support where over 75% of the buyers are multiple repeat buyers and over 75% of my products have been top hotlist sellers....
The One Way Back
Dustin Marks
Stop ignoring the back of your cards.
There is a secret hiding in plain sight on almost every deck of cards you own. It's been there for decades, but most of us overlook it because we're too busy practicing our passes and bottom deals. It's called the one-way back principle, and it is arguably the most undervalued tool in card magic.
Why should you care? Because the one-way back principle allows for genuine miracles that require zero sleight of hand. We're talking about effects where the spectator shuffles the deck themselves, yet you can still find their card instantly. It survives genuine...
Expanding the Missing Digit
Federico Ludueña
You may be familiar with the technique to cast out 9s, which is used for some mathematical-based magic tricks (see, for example, Martin Gardner, Harry Lorayne, or Arthur Benjamin). Federico Ludueña shares his thoughts and extensions to this method, and in particular, he expands the method to casting out 10s, which is faster.
1st edition 2026, PDF 10 pages.
Le Miracle de l'Ampoule
Jean Pierre Persinet
Découvrez Le Miracle de l’Ampoule, un ouvrage unique qui révèle l’un des plus beaux numéros de magie scénique : l’illusion de l’ampoule flottante.
Jean Pierre Persinet y partage l’histoire, la technique et les secrets d’un effet mythique transmis depuis 1931.
Ce guide premium inclut :
- la construction de l’ampoule truquée,
- la mise en place du fil invisible,
- les mouvements essentiels (montée, cerceau, whirl-about, step-over),
- des schémas techniques réalisés avec assistance IA,
- des conseils professionnels, sécurité & entretien,
- une préface, une conclusion...
Mes Trucs Dévoilés - My Tricks Revealed
Professor Dicksonn
The first complete English edition of a 1928 French exposure classic - translated, annotated, and fully illustrated.
In 1928, the celebrated Parisian conjurer Professor Dicksonn - born the Count of Saint-Genois, protégé of Cham, and one-time director of the Théâtre Robert-Houdin - set down the working secrets of an entire era of mystification. Mes Trucs Dévoilés is his crusade against the supernatural: a witty, unsparing exposure of the magnetizers, "seers," telepaths, fakirs, and séance-mediums who preyed on a credulous public, written by a master who had spent a lifetime fooling...
Kards for Kids
B. Robert Pulver
We've all heard it said before... Kids don't like card tricks. Well, don't believe it! You just need the right kind of card trick to have children eating out of your hands. Here's a collection of a dozen card tricks that were developed to be performed for children. Rest assured, however, that adults will love them too!
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains 12 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards.
"Wow, Bob! It sounds like we think alike. The art work is great and the plots are too." - David Kaye (aka "Silly Billy")
Dogs Playing...
I Hate Card Tricks 1
B. Robert Pulver
A collection of miniature stage illusions using playing cards.
This hard-to-find ebook is once again available for purchase. It contains instructions for constructing and performing 11 illusions, plus a tutorial on printing custom cards. Foreword by Marty "Martini" Grams.
"Highly recommended ... pure genius ... 10 out of 10." - Marty "Martini" Grams
"...the effects look so astonishing." - Aldo Colombini
"Remarkably different and visual." - Kenton Knepper
The Divided Queen
This effect was inspired by Jim Steinmeyer's illusion, "Modern Art." Your assistant...
Cue Ball Prediction
Luke Jonas
A pool-table card revelation.
A spectator freely selects and remembers a playing card. Every decision appears to remain firmly in their hands as the deck is divided and the procedure unfolds with complete fairness. The remaining cards are scattered face down across a pool table. The spectator is handed the cue ball. They decide the shot, the angle and the strength. The only condition is that the cue ball must strike at least two cushions before coming to rest.
When the ball finally stops, the card nearest to it is turned over. It is the very card they merely thought of.
The Cue Ball...
15 and 47 Sandwich
Miku W.
Two sandwich routines based on the same principle, each with a different handling and ending.
Completely self-working. No sleight of hand required. Performed with a regular deck. Fools magicians.
Miracle Count 15 & 47:
No complicated stack. The spectator freely cuts to a card and remembers it. The magician turns the 15th and 47th cards face up, then deals alternately into two tabled piles. The two face-up cards always remain in the same pile. In the end, they sandwich a single card—the spectator's selection. The other piles are then revealed to contain the four Kings.
15 & 47 Sandwich:...
Matching the Cards with Ease
Ian Baxter
An absolute hot favourite with Dai Vernon, Nate Leipzig, Faucett Ross, Al Koran, Jean Hugard, Cy Endfield and a host of others, Matching The Cards is right up at the top of the ladder for sheer popularity and always has been. This is not some careless overstatement: Matching The Cards is one of the most highly prized card mysteries - ever!
Lewis Ganson wrote a best-selling booklet devoted to just this one effect, Matching the Cards Teach-In. MTC has been making the rounds for years and you will most likely recognize it. The effect...
Double Relay to ACAAN
Biagio Fasano & Roberto Tota
A spectator cuts a shuffled deck and, with the first three cards he places on the table, creates an ACAAN, which, immediately afterward, miraculously occurs again.
Double Realy to ACAAN is a new card magic trick in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator who, after cutting and completing it one or more times as desired, places the top three cards face down on the table. The magician explains that the last two cards will yield a random number: by adding their values together (and subtracting 13 if necessary, should the sum be greater than...
Doppia Staffetta all' ACAAN
Biagio Fasano & Roberto Tota
Uno spettatore taglia un mazzo mescolatoe, con le prime TRE CARTE che deposita, genera un A.C.A.A.N. che subito dopo viene miracolosamente ancora a ripetersi!
Doppia Staffetta all'ACAAN è Un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia dove il prestigiatore, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore che, dopo averlo tagliato e ricomposto, una o più volte a suo piacere, depone coperte sul tavolo le prime tre carte. Il mago spiega che le ultime due carte restituiranno un numero casuale: sommando i loro valori (ed eventualmente sottraendoci 13 se la somma dovesse essere...
Jozsi's Book
Jozsef Kovacs
You will find more than 50 ideas and effects, some old that have been released before, and some brand new that Jozsef has never shared before.
"A lovely collection of mostly close-up card magic that had me reaching for cards almost immediately!" - Paul Hallas
"József, you have the 'knack' to create direct effects with simple methods, which is, in my opinion, the essence of commercial magic." - Aldo Colombini
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- PERFECT
- BES-TEST
- ESP BUNDLE
- FIVE CARD BRAINWAVE
- MATCHING PAIRS
- ESJ (ELMSLEY–SIVA–JORDAN) PREDICTION
- CENTRIFUGAL TRIUMPH ...