Magic & Mentalism: page 167

It's a pleasance to introduce the fourth issue of volume three of TGM that is full of informative and mattering to reading - literally. Particularly look through the MagiXposed section where you will find the excellent effects which you can easily make and use. However, there are a lot more, go on reading ...

• Let's have a chat: Solyl talks frankly whatever he has in mind.
• Magic as entertainment: by Harold Taylor is an installment from his book of the same title.
• Past Glory of India: featuring Uma Das Gupta - jounalist/magicianne of bygone days.
• Indian Occultism - the Rope Trick and other...

The new issue is packed with workable stuff. This time, you'll find also something for the stage magician! Here the contents:

ESPACOLOGY 2 - My take on a routine by David Berglas. This one is intended for stage/plattform use and can be made to play really big. Multiple predictions lead to a knockout climax incorporating the name of the company you are working for.

GIANT CARD TO SILK - This is truly the most visual and baffling transformation of a giant card into a silk. It looks like trick photography and you end clean. I describe some tips for the table-hopping magician as well.

TAMARIZ MEMO DECK...

"I must congratulate you on producing the most readable 'Reader' deck I have ever seen." - Billy McComb

"A bold yet deceptive marking system that reveals the cards as fast as you can glance at them. An absolute boon to the professional performer." - Larry Becker

"Your marking idea is brilliant. It is quite the cleverest idea that I have seen in a marked deck for magicians." - Jeff Busby

"It is the first marked deck I have seen that is practical for the performing magician, your deck indeed makes miracles with cards so very easy congratulations." - Marvin Roy

Ted Lesley of Germany devised the Working Performer's...

CONTENTS:

• COMMERCIAL PREDICTION (Arthur Carter): You predict a single card which is removed from an apparently ordinary deck.
• I WANT (Geny Dellan): Four freely selected cards turn out to be the four Aces.
• CENTURY FORCE (Arthur Carter): A very unique way to force a number using discs.
• CARD IN WALLET (John Yeager): A comedy (and magical) way to reveal a selected card inside your wallet.
• MY FUNNY VALENTINE (Tom Ogden): Perfect for Valentine's Day (or any other day!). The spectator shuffles the cards and at the end all the Hearts are face up among the other cards face down.
• ANOTHER JACK...

CONTENTS:

• VACATION (Max Maven): Two Jokers capture the four Kings one by one. A very strong impromptu routine.
• SPEEDY SPONGES (Arthur Carter): A very easy and clever routine with sponge balls in three phases.
• NEWSPAPER MIRACLE (Arthur Carter): A full page of a magazine or newspaper is torn into sixteen and a piece selected by a spectator. You predicted the contents of the piece.
• FLAGGING ATTENTION (Max Maven): A trick with countries and flags. A unique prediction with a principle that you will use for other routines.
• WRONG GUESS (George Blake): An impromptu revelation of a selected card...

The creator of these effects, Jozsef Kovacs, is a Hungarian magician who became interested in magic at the age of four. He was living in a small village but only when he moved to Budapest he was able to find a magic store and the possibility to find books and videos. He published a series of booklets and lecture notes and you can find most of his work here on Lybrary.com. He likes close-up magic but card magic is his real love.

CONTENTS:

• TWIN GIANTS: Two numbers freely selected by two spectators find two cards that you have predicted.
• MATHEMAGIC: Using four cards with math symbols you perform a very...

There is something incurably viral about this curious card problem. Does anyone know? What's so irresistible about displacing, displaying, counting, spreading, mixing, re-mixing, un-mixing red and black cards? What's the allure? What's the incentive? Yet, despite all cease-and-desist entreaties, methods keep popping up, including the ones in this compact manuscript.

The Ten Phase routine described in this ebook combines ideas and handlings by Hideo Kato, Dave Solomon, and Edward Marlo. You can figuratively use the Oil and Water patter theme, referring to red cards as "water" and black cards as "oil," but some...

Contains 38 amazing effects:

1. Introduction
2. Dropping a Match on Edge
3. Coin Cross
4. Coin Triangle
5. One of them is not a Dime
6. Dime for Every Quarter
7. Heads & Tails
8. Bill & Bottle
9. Match Triangle
10. Picking Up Straws
11. Ten Dimes in Shot Glass
12. Bill Between Two Beer Bottles
13. Circumference vs. Height
14. Olive in Ashtray
15. Heckler Shot
16. Stepping through a Business Card
17. William Tell Match
18. The Dry Dime
19. Squeeze Play
20. Topsy-Turvy Coins
21. Centrifugal Force Coin & Glass
22. Heads & Tails on the Line
23. Coin Star
24. Matching Birthdays
25. Dropping a Matchbox on End
26. Ten-Cent Shot
27. Two Shots,...

Contains 20 amazing effects:

1. Starcle (Harlan)
2. Indian Bean Mystery
3. Swallowing a Balloon
4. Reflex (Harris)
5. Swiss Movement (Harris)
6. Gray Elephant in Denmark
7. 11 Carrots
8. Ring on Stick (Maxwell)
9. Ashes through Hand
10. Chink-A-Chink
11. Matrix
12. Out of this World (Lorayne)
13. Ghost Spoon/Floating Dinner Roll
14. Copper/Silver Transposition
15. Miser's Miracle (Andrus)
16. Cut & Restored Rope (Skinner)
17. Wild Coin (Roth)
18. Starcle (Harlan)
19. The Blank Card
20. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card

Contains 23 amazing effects:

1. An Olive in the Hand
2. Olive & Shaker Routine
3. Party on the P-A-T-E-O (Maxwell)
4. Towel Chicken
5. Card in Shoe
6. Simple Coins Across (Maxwell)
7. Toony Angel (Maxwell)
8. Pencil through Quarter
9. Bill in Lemon
10. Card in Ice Cube
11. Nickel on Forehead
12. Levitating Salt Shaker
13. Floating Cup
14. Ring in Dinner Roll/One-Handed Knot
15. Stolen Cards (Green)
16. Laser D'Lite
17. Gift of Grab (Maxwell)
18. Whisky/Shoe Production (Green)
19. Producing Items from a Deck (Green)
20. Cigarette Through Quarter (Dingle)
21. Paper Strip (Marotta)
22. The 14 of Spades Trick
23. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card ...

Contains 19 Amazing Effects:

1. Dice Stacking
2. Trained Seal
3. Floating Glass
4. Scotch & Soda
5. Coin in Bottle
6. Super Memory
7. Biting a Coin
8. Ambitious Card/Card Under Drink
9. Fly Away Jack
10. Thought-of Card (Maxwell)
11. Acrobatic Aces
12. Cutting the Aces
13. Do As I Do
14. Jumping Rubber Band
15. Three-and-a-Half of Clubs Trick
16. Signed Card to Coffee Cup (Fayne)
17. Peripatetic Coins (Jennings)
18. Pretzel Logic (Givan)
19. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card

ALL ABOARD! B'wave by Max Maven has been one of David's favorite effects since its release in 1991. Since then, countless variations have been published...and here are some more! These routines have been designed to give what is essentially the same effect as B'wave, but eliminate the need for Equivoque or any other force. There are four effects that will knock 'em for a loop, plus two bonus chapters devoted to the "Wave" concept.

First up is Jacks in the Box. On the table sits a single card box. It is explained that the box contains the four jacks, and only the four jacks. However, there...

More routines based on the 16th Card Principle.

• Understanding the 16th Card Principle
• The 16th Card Utility (Gordon)
• Impossible 16th Card Location (Gordon)
• Craving For Craven (Craven)
• The Very Best Poker Hand (Gordon)
• My Darned Nemesis (Gordon)
• Moracle Finesse (McBride)
• Startling Aces (Gordon)
• Okay, TC! (Gordon)
• Idea To Preset Two Equal Piles (Hucko)
• Oracle, Moracle, Miracle (Gordon)
• 16th Card Force (Gordon)
• The Third Card (Gordon)
• 24 to 27 (Gordon)
• Craving For Craven # 2 (Craven)
• Placement For Lucky Number Aces (Hucko)
• Staggering! (Rindfleisch)
• Top And Bottom and The Quine...

Peter Arcane and David Lesault have made divination with dice easy.

The origin of knucklebones is closely connected with that of dice. Dice are a traditional tool for fortune telling. Used for casting lots, dice are an indication of fate. They are used for games of chance and provide an opportunity for Lady Luck to shine on the fortunate.

All you need supply is your own die or dice and you're good to go.

If you can count to six then Knucklebones is your perfect partner in crime.

You'll also find included the relationship between the Tarot and the die.

A simple yet powerful divination...

Peter Arcane first shared Quick Jumps Lazy in his 2004 Twisted Mind lecture notes.

Having refined the routine over the last 10 years he now shares with the fraternity his thinking behind the basic effect and more - isograms, panagrams and much much more...

The alphabet will never quite be remembered in the same way ever again!

1st edition 2004, 1st digital edition 2014, 17 pages.

CONTENTS:

• HAMMAN OUT-SEXED (Alex East): A 'sexy' version of the classic Hamman's 'Two-Card Trick' that uses, of course, only two cards.
• WOW (Tim Gan): The Ace of the same suit of a selected card turns over and then it changes place with the selection.
• WEIRD (Stephen Tucker): A great comedy mentalism effect where you predict how many fingers a spectator selects by revealing....plastic fingers in a box.
• TWISTED NERVE (Al Smith): An extended version of the classic Vernon's 'Twisting The Aces' where a lot of magic happens.
• THE BACK IS GONE (David Robertson): A unique entertaining way of revealing a selected...

CONTENTS:

• FANTACEY (I. Land): A unique Ace-assembly where the Aces disappear from each packet and reappear face up in the middle of the deck.
• GANDWICH (Tim Can): A selection placed between two Black Jacks disappears and reappears between the two red Jacks.
• QUICK SILVER COPPER (Eoin Taylor): A copper-silver transposition that can be used in many other routines.
• FACE-TO-FACE (David Britland): A clever routine that produces the revelation of two selected cards.
• EXCALIBUR (Stephen Tucker): A great routine with new twists using the standard set of color changing knives.
• A 4TH FOR DINNER (David Britland): A different version of the...

Bibliotheque - of books; a library or depository of wisdom...

Bibliotheque - direct, classic mind-reading wrapped in a silky dust jacket of cold reading and personality profiling...

Bibliotheque - a three stage routine for stage or parlour where the hits just keep getting bigger and bigger!

Pick a book, any book!

The performer is joined by a volunteer in front of the audience. She fairly chooses a book from those on display, and from there she and the audience are taken on a journey of discovery. The performer supplies a stunning character profile, a quick reading, and then plucks...

Long out of print - now for the first time in eFormat. Over the last 11 years Peter Arcane's Zodiac KeyWords has become a bit a cult classic. Initially limited to 50 copies its long been sought after. Well now it's been released in electronic format for the enjoyment of those that perform miracles and missed out the first time round.

Zodiac KeyWords picks up where Ray Grismer's What's my sign? drops off.

What do you do once you know their sign?

Within the pages you'll find a technique that will allow you to take those next steps and present yourself as someone who has more than an understanding...

KAPOW! picks up where Peter Arcane's POW! left off.

It offers 250 inspirational quotes, proverbs and sayings which cover 25 traits of the Minor Arcana and more - Peter also covers the most popular topics of Cold Reading.

Used with care, and sprinkled lightly through your readings KAPOW! will make you a true Superhero.

What's been said so far about KAPOW!...

What you get here is not an updated version of POW! No! Much better! This is a perfectly made follow up. - Rudolf Künzli

I was amazed at the new insights I gained from KAPOW. This is essential reading for anyone who uses Tarot...

Con grande piacere annunciamo un momento storico per la Prestigiazione Italiana: La pubblicazione dei volumi dell'Enciclopedia dell'Illusionismo di Salvatore Cimò in formato digitale.

L'enciclopedia dell'Illusionismo composta di molti volumi vide la sua luce in Italiano con i primi 7 volumi intitolati:

• Micromagia
• Divinazioni mentali
• Prestigiazione con le corde
• Prestigiazione con anelli e monete
• Prestigiazione con ditali e sigarette
• Prestigiazione con palline e uova
• Cartomagia

Contains 17 Amazing Effects:

1. Appearing and Vanishing Cigarette
2. Cellophane Connection (Okawa)
3. Star Warp (Howie Schwartzman/Harry Lorayne)
4. Spectral Silk (J.C. Wagner)
5. Raccoonteur
6. Cut and Restored Rope
7. Burnt and Restored Napkin
8. Sponge Rabbits
9. Card on Forehead
10. Broken and Rstorted Toothpick
11. Signed Coin in Sugar Packet
12. Close-Up Illusion (Larry Jennings)
13. Swizzlestick
14. Ultimate Pickpocket (Michael Maxwell)
15. Coins to Cup (David Roth)
16. Heading North (David Regal)
17. Snap Crackle Pop (Tom Ladshaw)

runtime 1h 40min

Michael Maxwell's Incredible Magic at the Bar is a six-volume series designed to teach you how to easily master and perform some of the greatest and easiest magic tricks. Each set in the series covers a different and unique type of magic, such as Bar Magic, Card Magic, Coin Magic, Rope Magic, Silk Magic, Impromptu Magic, Mental Magic, Money Magic and many more.

Incredible Magic at the Bar, Volume 1 teaches you effects that are easy to perform on either side of the bar, but especially suitable for bartenders who wish to raise their image to a new level. Return customers are guaranteed; they will...

Back in 1982, Tom Craven wrote a charming little booklet entitled The 16th Card Book. This ebook is a reproduction of this booklet and additionally a collection of contributions by a list of eclectic performers who contributed their routines on the same topic.

Tom Craven's original 16th Card Book - 1982

• What's In A Name
• Preface
• Top Ten (Craven)
• Suite Sixteen (Goldstein)
• Suite Sixteen Variant (Goldstein)
• A Perfect Mis-Match (Craven)
• Cut N' Count Double (Craven)
• My Card Is (Craven)
• Conjuring With Cards (Trost)
• Siamese Suite (Goldstein)
• Which Card's Company? (Craven)
• Three's Company...