Magic & Mentalism: page 298

Many performers are called upon, at one time or another, to host a show. Now you can prepare yourself in advance, to deliver a dynamic and exciting performance. Whether it's for a talent show, a two-hour evening show, or a variety telethon in front of a TV audience, being the Master of Ceremonies can be a fun and rewarding experience - if you know what you're doing.

The authors, who have performed as emcees for magic shows, beauty pageants, fairs, outdoor festivals, in hotels, and on theatre stages for hundreds of performances, reveal all their tips and secrets in this easy-to-understand...

You place a prediction in view. A spectator names any number between 1 and 50. You show a deck of cards and (without cutting or any moves) you count to that number. That card matches the prediction! Easy to do. No rough and smooth. [Note: These are merely the instructions that came with the prepared deck. You will not receive any cards. But it is easy to make up your own from a couple of duplicate cards.]

1st edition 1998; PDF 1 page.

An unusual magical murder game. All the necessary cards are enclosed in the PDF and you can immediately print them and perform the trick.

An unusual and exciting effect for your mental act or magic show. It has much audience participation. Each of three spectators, invited up, plays a part in the enactment of an 'Orrible Murder, one being the body, one the witness and one the murderer. Each "chooses a weapon" - printed on large cards. (But you could use real articles: rope, dagger, gun, poison bottle, hammer). Cards or weapons are hidden. While this is afoot you have your back turned or...

Ralf teaches four of his famous 'impossible' card designs. Everything is explained in his meticulous way. For each one you will get PDF cutting templates.

• Linking Cards
• Half Circle
• Slider
• Vortex

A compendium of Iain Dunford's reading systems.

"Thank you Iain, for dragging readings into the 21st century." - Richard Webster

Tessarula - using old school ADMIT ONE style tickets that are very cheap. Or if that's not your thing, just scraps of paper or blank cards. Tessarula can also replace the tarot.

palm/tree readings - a unique take on palm reading that isn't based on palm reading whatsoever, with thoughts from Dr. Bill Cushman.

AEIOU - tell people about themselves using their names. Or use it to add depth and structure to drawings people make and far more.

thought-paths - similar to AEIOU but numbers...

What are you chasing? When you look at your show, are you leaving an indelible impression on your audience or just impressing them? Finally after years of waiting, Anthem Flint releases his personal routines that accomplish both.

Anthem is known for his Empowertainment and ability to remind audiences of their own inner power. This ebook will show you how to achieve this for your audiences and leave them smiling. But there is more than just motivational magic ... inside you'll find the inner secrets of ...

The Second Sight Act: how to develop, practice, and perform this act with a partner....

Routinen und Hinweise zum automatischen Becherspiel.

• 1 Bevor Sie beginnen...
  • 1.1 Informationen zu den Requisiten
  • 1.2 Hinweise zur Pflege der Requisiten
  • 1.3 Was Sie bei der Lagerung beachten sollten
  • 1.4 Was Sie sonst noch beachten sollten
• 2 Die Routine
  • 2.1 Was Sie benötigen
  • 2.2 Die Vorbereitung
  • 2.3 Phase I
  • 2.4 Phase II
  • 2.5 Phase III
  • 2.6 Phase IV
• 3 Tips und Anregungen
  • 3.1 Was Sie mit einem einzelnen Becher vorführen können
  • 3.2 Was Sie mit zwei Bechern vorführen können
  • 3.3 Was Sie mit drei Bechern vorführen können

Erstausgabe 1995, 31 Seiten; erste digitale...

This house organ ran from May 1919 until February 1940. Each issue had 8 pages and was mostly filled with ads for items Hutchinson retailed. However most issues also included a trick contribution or effect (see below for the list of contents). The most interesting contribution is Graham Adams' Card Work, a series of his favorite effects, moves and in particular his take and fondness of Erdnase.

• Volume 1
  • The Evolution of the Flags / Wilford Hutchinson
  • The "C.H." Sympathetic Blocks / Cecil Heygate
  • The Mysterious Glass Frames (stage illusion) / B. Wayre
  • The "Flu" Trick / Jas. H. Smith (The Naval...

Make money at magic shows, fairs, carnivals, or simply entertain your audience with the Pitchman's Svengali Routine. Now you, too, can add extra income at your shows by demonstrating and selling Svengali Decks, using this carefully constructed routine. Built along the time-honored comedy sales pitch, as used by medicine men and carny hucksters, this routine includes full patter and presentation so not only is the audience entertained, but the spectators are also primed to buy.

In this revised and updated version, you also get wholesale sources and other valuable information to help ensure...

Almost every close-up magician and with near certainty every magician that uses cards in their performances includes assemblies. Some are good, some fall short of what we desire, but few have considered which of the wide variety of assemblies are the greatest. Such an assessment must, perforce, be subjective to some degree. Drawing from broad and extensive experience performing for real-world lay audiences, objective criteria can be applied and Wesley James, based on more than fifty years of first-hand performance experience, has done so. In this monograph he has distilled the subject to the...

This little pamphlet is deceptively packed with information that can help you to increase your status as a children's entertainer, and increase your income. It helps to fill a gap in a branch of entertainment sadly neglected. Bill Lainsbury is a Games Master, and has been for many years. Because of this second string to his bow he has been able to work through summer and winter commanding good fees for a little outlay. In this manuscript he passes on hints and advice to enable you to start up yourself as a Games Master. Details of performance, age groups, kind of games to play, etc. are all...

This PDF is called Shared Secrets because several well-known performers in the past, U.F. Grant, Syd Bergson, Al Mann and I, all released the same ideas independently. This proves that great minds often think alike. In this release you get three effects:

ULTIMATE NUMBER FORCE - you get one of the most amazing number forces ever devised. No complicated math or contrived moves. This is one of the simplest ways devised to force a 3-digit number and will amaze you when you see the subtle secret. This is worth the price of the PDF by itself. Foolproof.

EASY WAY TO KNOW SOMEONE'S THOUGHTS - this was a favorite of Al Mann...

• Fore-Word to Second Edition
• The Chocolate Box Mystery
• Flash Paper Ideas
• A "Live" Rabbit
• Fishing for Money
• The Suffragette Problem
• The Levitation of a Piece of Paper
• The Transformation Tumbler
• The Lightning Ink and Water Change
• The "Eureka" Slate
• An Egg, Handkerchief, & Milk Combination

1st edition 1913, 2nd edition 1920, 36 pages; PDF 23 pages.

Here are eight new routines for the Dr. Q Slates that will thoroughly baffle any audience, who will believe that you enlist spirit assistance, as there is no other likely explanation.

The Dr. Q Slates are acclaimed by professional mentalists as the most amazing and baffling spirit slate writing mystery ever devised. An apparent miracle of the psychic world. Now you can present even more mind-blowing mental and psychic demonstrations with these incredible slates.

Here in this collection are new sensational routines - new prediction tricks - new possibilities and greater utilization with...

A corner of a playing card is torn off. The magician pretends to grab the card at the missing corner. Despite the fact that he is not touching the card he can still lift and turn the card while holding on to this missing corner.

The effect goes back to Lubor Fiedler. However, Lubor's method is completely different and had the disadvantage that you couldn't show the back of the card. With Ralf's solution you can show both front and back while you are holding the card at the missing corner.

1st edition 2019, length 16:47

Seven fascinating and beautiful sculptures you can create from playing cards. "4 Way Card Henge" is out of this world - an incredible 3D sculpture made from a single playing card. All of these sculptures look impossible to make without gluing, but there are no secret cuts and and no glue is used. You merely cut and fold the card(s) the way Ralf teaches you in detail in the video. For the models that need more than a simple cut you will also receive PDF cutting templates.

• 4 Way Card Henge
• Card Fan
• Checker Card
• Circle
• Inside Out Card
• Knot Link
• Looped

1st edition 2019, length 46:52

From the Foreword by Ed Marlo:

An "even bet" gambling routine in ten stages with no preparation and no sleight of hand.

A gambling routine which is completely different to anything that has gone before, because it doesn't deal with the usual card games such as Poker, Blackjack, Bridge and so on. Even Stephen is a routine, you don't play for money, instead play for matches ... and yet you win. Even with poor luck, you "scoop the pool". It's all so easy to do, the main skill being in presentation. 'The last Bet' is the only one needing a little handling and even that shouldn't place a great strain on your ability. Altogether...

Ein Handbuch der Knotenzauberei.

Aus dem Vorwort:

• Vorwort
• Kapitel 1: Eine Lektion im Knotenschlagen
  • Die 1. Lektion: Knoten oder kein Knoten
  • Die 2. Lektion: Der Schleifenknoten
  • Die 3. Lektion: Ein Knotenmärchen
• Kapitel 2: Verschwindende Knoten
  • 2.1....

• Same Show Over and Over
• Blog/Journal
• Productive Rehearsal
• Referrals Out of Shelf Life
• That's Old
• Projection
• Never End Articles

1st edition 2019, 10 pages.

Everything you need to know to start with palm reading - tips, tricks, and techniques. Additionally Paul teaches how to combine palm readings with close-up magic and mentalism to give added resonance and meaning to your routines.

Introduced by Luke Jermay (and with a cameo from magician Wayne Fox), this is a professionally produced video, packed full with information, routines, and real-life performances.

When working at wedding receptions, corporate events, and dinner parties, why is it that Paul Voodini always has crowds of spectators around him? Why is it that long after the "regular" magicians...

Volume 2 continues where A Lifetime in Magic Volume 1 left off with detailed explanations for over 20 Devin Knight masterpieces. (Note that this is a compilation of items that were released earlier. All of them are available individually on Lybrary.com. See links throughout the product description.)

It starts with three stunning effects that appear to be as near to real mindreading as you can get - Almost Real Mindreading Feats. Devin explains little known principles which will enable you to reveal repeatedly which hand a spectator is merely thinking of, to remove the card a spectator simply looked at in a fan, and to name a mentally chosen card...

A selection of some of the best creations by Devin Knight. (Please note that all effects have been released earlier as standalone products and are available individually on Lybrary.com. See product links throughout the product description.)

Improved Tri-Epic Deluxe - this is a clever three or even four way newspaper prediction effect reminiscent of David Copperfield's Graffiti Wall, but more portable and totally suitable for a one man act.

Psychic Money Sense - designed for an intimate close up show, this experiment apparently shows that a spectator has an excellent psychic sense as he achieves an impossible outcome using three...

Imagine a triple threat of mentalism that builds to an ultimate end. Fortunae is the perfect lottery prediction. You can buy everything you need to make this work for under $85 on Amazon.

6 audience members are asked to stand and create a random number. The number is shown to have been predicted all along as a scroll revealing this number is lowered from the ceiling. Hit number 1. Next a volunteer calls the number and its the venues phone number! Hit number 2. Now for the insane part. The numbers used by the audience to randomly create the 10 digit prediction are found in a sealed gift box...