Magic & Mentalism: page 462

A borrowed deck. The spectator shuffles and cuts. An impossible outcome. And absolutely zero sleight of hand.

Imagine handing a normal, borrowed deck of cards to your spectator. They give it a genuine table riffle shuffle, cut the deck, and deal five random, face-down cards to themselves. You have had a single face-down prediction card sitting on the table from the very beginning.

• The Prediction Miracle: If they place the target card face up on the table as an "insignificant" card, there is no elimination process. They turn over your prediction card to find a perfect match: "You placed...

Absolutely a card technique you've never seen before.

This is an original card technique I developed that lets the spectator decide where two packets are interlaced, followed by a push-through handling to complete the cut. It can be used to cut to all four Aces or other target cards. Here are two routines using this technique:

Forklift Match: The spectator freely selects two cards. The magician splits the deck in two and lets the spectator decide where the two packets are interlaced. The magician then cuts the deck into three packets, with the top and bottom cards of the three packets...

A bewildering number of color changes. You first show four five-of-diamonds. They suddenly have large crosses drawn on their faces. The crosses also appear on the backs. Then they change to the four aces, and on top of that, each ace has a different back design.

1st edition 2026, video 2:59.

Two books that seem to know things they have no way of knowing.

From the creator of Tube and The Method Impossible series comes a brand new kind of book test, one that talks to the spectator and tells them what they are thinking!

Instead of using a book to select a word, these two book tests are active participants in a mysterious experience.

Hand someone a book. The book asks the spectator a few questions. Then it tells them their star sign — or the exact card they were thinking of. The questions have nothing to do with their birthdate or selected card. They are just silly questions...

The last volume in the series.

Table of Contents

• Et Cetera
  • By Way Of Introduction / Eric C. Lewis
  • Pyramid Power / Eric C. Lewis
  • Those Ridiculous Roman Numerals / Eric C. Lewis
  • Conventional Conjuring / De Vega
  • 50 Workshop Ideas / Thayer
  • Modern Levitations / U. F. Grant
  • Artagraphs / Joe Ovette
  • These Card Tricks / Will De Seive
  • Linking Ring Routine / L.L. Ireland
  • Master Mysteries of 1933 / H. Adrian Smith
  • An Amazing Rope Release
  • Original Escape Ideas / Charles Ruben
  • The Crystal Clear Coin Vanish / Blake Maxam
  • Gambler's Quartet / Jack Yates
  • The Lucky Key / Gerald Kosky
  • 20th...

Are you ready to stop collecting theoretical magic and start performing routines that actually build your reputation? Five Star Routines is a masterclass in high-impact parlor and stage magic, packed with battle-tested material designed for real-world performers. Created by a master with decades of stage experience, this collection strips away unnecessary complexity and delivers five complete, commercially proven routines that command attention, generate roaring applause, and leave your audiences absolutely spellbound.

Inside this book, you won't find table-bound pipe dreams; you get practical,...

One of the finest examples of pure sleight of hand ever created. Period. Learn this and have something unique.

1st edition 2026, video 2:09.

A system for psychic entertainers.

Out of print for years, this masterpiece of psychic entertainment was offered to professional mentalists as the author's improved system for providing a world-class individual fortune-telling reading using a deck of unprepared playing cards.

The system itself is explained, as honed and perfected by the author in thousands of performances, along with additional ideas and suggestions for expanding the reading to make it even more memorable and convincing for the client.

This type of reading makes an ideal sideline business to double or even triple your...

Stop practicing your passes and palms for a moment. What if you could perform a miracle where the spectator shuffles the deck, cuts the cards, and simply thinks of one - all while you never touch the deck?

Two variations. Perform the one that best suits your style.

The Unforceable Force is not just an effect; it is a masterclass in psychological manipulation and deceptive procedure. This effect allows you to perform a clean, "hands-off" revelation that leaves your audience convinced they had a completely free choice.

The Power of Psychology Over Sleight of Hand

This effect is designed...

A foolproof card routine for fooling your magician friends.

The magician has the spectator cut a packet into three piles, just as he does, and remembers the cards they cut to. The magician turns his cut-to card face up and exchanges it with the spectator's card, placing them at their freely chosen cut positions. The spectator then shuffles the cards. The magician splits the deck into two packets and deals from both simultaneously. When he stops at the face-up card, the corresponding card in the other packet is the spectator's selection. Not only that, the cards stop at exactly the positions...

You start with four blue double-backers. They turn into four red double-backers. And then they change into four of a kind, for example, the four eights, and each one has a different back.

1st edition 2026, video 1:53.

Table of Contents

• The Histed Paddles / Louis Histed
• Polypaddle
• Traffic Paddle
• Auto Paddle
• Maeder's Version
• Paddle Perfection
• Chinese Compass / Louis Histed
• The Golfer's Compass
• The Triple Compass
• The Toucan Compass / Toucan
• WhoZoo / Toucan
• Poly-Paks
• Poly-Pak 1
• Poly-Pak and Flint Paper
• Poly-Pak 2
• The Rainbow Deck
• Rainbow Cards 2
• Spectrum Pack & Chromix
• Poly-Pak Supreme
• The Eric Lewis Fanning Deck / Eric C. Lewis
• The Technicolor Lady
• Serendipity / Louis Histed
• The Gambler
• Tricks with Magicky Props / Louis Histed
• The Cain of Wu Long Fang / Louis Histed
• The Rising Block ...

A new handling of a classic plot.

A spectator freely selects a card. The magician claims he will cut to the other three cards of the same value. He cuts three cards and leaves each face up in the deck. At the end, they are revealed to be the wrong value. But when the deck is spread, the three face-up cards have impossibly changed into the other three mates of the spectator's selection.

Performance transcript:

• First, shuffle the deck.
• Have the spectator freely select a card.
• Let's say they select this card.
• Remember your card.
• As a magician,
• I'll try to cut to the other three...

Fugitive notes 1975 - 1995

Table of Contents

• Counting On Triumph
• Aces Becoming Courtly
• Popped Departure
• Cased-In Vision
• Marlo's Color-Changing Deck
• Crux Deluxe
• Fisting The Aces
• Three Roads To Dunbury
• Dunbury Lie Speller
• Eighteen-Card Version
• Guardian Angel
• Ghostly Autograph
• Jack-In-The-Box
• Parallexis
• Imaginary Card On Ceiling
• Well-Done Deal
• Psychic Poker
• Carribean Assembly
• Rule-Breaking Aces
• Challenging Triumph
• Lady Spell
• Stabbing Myth
• Biddled Thought
• Into This World
• Zippy Zig-Zag
• Post-Graduate Twenty-One Card Trick
• Blank-Wave II
• Dry-Dock Divination
• Thy Name Is...

Titanic Thompson is remembered as one of the greatest proposition bettors, hustlers, and gamblers who ever lived. But this book isn't about gambling. It's about the mindset that made him unbeatable.

Rather than retelling the life of Titanic Thompson, Lessons from the Proposition King extracts the timeless principles behind his success and applies them directly to the worlds of magic, mentalism, business, persuasion, and performance.

Every chapter explores one of Titanic's core ideas—from controlling conditions before the game begins, to creating compelling stories, understanding psychology,...

Don Tanner reveals a dozen of U. F. Grant's amazing magic effects, mental mysteries and illusions in this clever collection. The tricks are arranged into six categories, making it easy to select the perfect miracle for your next show.

Table of Contents

• Elasti-Scape (Cards)
• Easy-Do Card Miracle
• Shadow Coin
• Coin Stitched
• Slow-Motion Bill Switch
• Flight (Bills)
• A Cigarette Classic
• Continuous Cigarette Production
• Zella Number Pad Cards (Mentalism)
• $1000 Challenge Mind Reading Act
• The Farmer and the Witch (Illusion)
• Santa Claus Arrives (Illusion)

A special surprise gift worth $12 is included inside.

This book test is based on The Reverse Force. But you do not need to own that ebook to use this book test. This is not a physical book to carry around. It is a PDF which you can easily carry on your mobile phone, and you are ready to perform this anytime, anywhere, to anyone.

In this powerful book test, you don't just divine a single word but you can divine multiple words and an entire sentence also. You can even repeat the effect to the same participant, if required, with a completely different outcome.

The routine...

A card chosen at random along the path virtually manages to find the real way to meet its twin.

This is an original card magic effect 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, is ready to follow the magician's instructions. The latter asks him to turn over the first card and place next to it as many cards as its value. He will turn over the last one and repeat the process a second time, again based on the value of the card he turned over. At that point, when the last card...

Four blank cards suddenly show credit cards and then turn into paper money bills.

1st edition 2026, video 4:03.

Table of Contents

• CARDS
  • The Magician's Apprentice / Benedict Cowper
  • Double Control / Patrick Playfair
  • Visible Ace Popper / Piet Forton
  • Hole in the Deck / Carson
  • Chinese Coin Card Trick / Eric Lewis
  • Cards to Pocket / Patrick Page
  • Aces in Agony / Hubert Lambert
  • Introducing the Aces / Cas Boxley
  • Duo Coincidence / Anon
  • Infallible Force / Anon
  • Premonition in Reverse / Tony Griffiths
  • Ace Over / Anon
  • Dirty Deal / Bruce Cervon
  • The Bloodhound Card / Blake Maxam
  • The Amorphous Ace / Bro. John Hamman
  • Ace Over Again / Bruce Cervon
  • Kings Through Table / Bro. John Hamman
  • Face-up Face-Down...

A collection of practical pieces to carry in an ordinary wallet.

Gimmicked wallets are cool, but you don't need them. Carrying strange props is an option, but you don't need anything extra to create astonishing everyday mentalism. Welcome to Minimal EDC Act, a compendium of ideas that can transform your everyday ungimmicked wallet into a powerful mentalism tool.

This is the mentalism I have performed with my wallet since the very beginning.

You will learn 12 practical mentalism routines using only 5 ESP Cards, approaches to the "Thought-of Card in Wallet" plot, telepathic and precognitive...

A thought-of person revelation

"People don't remember people. They remember the emotions attached to them. Even when names fade, those emotions leave an echo."

A participant silently thinks of someone who genuinely mattered in their life. Not their favourite celebrity. Not a playing card. A real person.

Without asking a single question, you begin describing the relationship. You reveal whether the connection feels warm, difficult, or somewhere in between. You identify the period of their life the person belongs to. The audience watches as the participant quietly confirms each impression. ...

Imagine the scene. A candlelit room. Some people are dressed in black. Others are dressed in red. A spectator takes the twelve face cards from the deck and thoroughly shuffles them. You get a quick glimpse at the cards, taking a mental snapshot of the scene. The cards are then turned face down and laid out in a row. The candlelight fades. In the darkness, people begin to stir.

One by one, the spectator exchanges any card freely with an adjacent neighbor, repeating this again and again. Everything has changed.

And yet… somehow, your mental snapshot still tells the whole story. When...

The performer reveals the spectator's chosen card and its exact position in the deck - twice in a row.

Phase #1:

The spectator selects one card in a deck as follows:

Once the cards have been dealt into two piles, the spectator simultaneously cuts off a packet from each pile and swaps them; he may perform this cutting and swapping as many times as desired. (This alters both the order of the cards and the size of each pile.) He selects one pile and repeats the same procedure twice more.

The spectator, now left with a small packet, remembers the top card - let's assume the Jack of Diamonds...