Magic & Mentalism: page 388

Imagine a technique that is totally impromptu, can be done surrounded with borrowed materials, and no evidence of trickery can be found. Imagine having someone print any piece of information on a borrowed slip of paper, which is then folded and torn to shreds. Yet you can instantly announce just what was written on it.

1st edition 1980, 18 pages; PDF 20 pages.

A useful little handbook full of ways to produce a silk - fifty of them in all. Easy ways to obtain a silk magically. Methods that can be blended into the silk effect you desire to do.

1st edition 1943, 8 pages; PDF 5 pages.

You can almost proplessly divine the exact date of birth of an utter stranger in under a minute. This routine works best in a one-on-one situation where the performer has met the participant for the very first time. And you can also, if you want, instantly repeat it for different people in the same group of audience. This impromptu routine is a lot of fun to do.

You do not need to have MPAC to learn and perform this one.

With this routine you prove to the participant that based on a few general characteristics related to her you are able to divine her exact birthday. This is the opposite...

An amazingly beautiful master coin act performed to music.

I am very happy to show and explain this routine. This is a new version of my original routine, Florentine Assembly. I think this version is definitely better than the original one. At the beginning of the routine, I added a new production of 4 coins, using new techniques I have created in the last years. Very importantly: you'll find a new method for the final climax of the Jumbo coin. And thanks to this amazing method, and with this new version, the routine becomes a "coin- act", which can be presented live in any situation!

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Easy to do mentalism effects.

Word-Up is a word prediction where a spectator selects any magazine from a selection, any two numbers are called out and the word on that page and line is remembered. The performer reads their mind and writes down the exact same word. Then he asks the spectator to flip through their magazine and remember any famous landmark they see ... the performer draws his in advance. He's correct again. It's so easy to do. You'll have to buy a few magazines to make this, but it's worth it. Perfect for stand-up.

Then there's Where's the Balloon? Perfect for close-up or...

There are many ring and rope routines in print and there are a whole host of ingenious moves which a performer can use. But if we are honest with ourselves, how many of these routines can really be said to be entertaining to a lay audience? Often the presentation is all but forgotten and so the routine becomes simply an exhibition of clever handling and little more.

I wanted to find a way of involving an audience in a ring and rope routine so that it would leave them entertained as well as fooled, and The Ring Competition is the answer I came up with. One of the great assets of this presentation...

Easy miracles using a new stack of cards.

This eBook collects a series of no less than seven tricks that are very simple to perform in front of one's audience, but all very impressive. All this is only possible thanks to a particular pre-arrangement of the pack of cards, derived from Si Stebbins but which, unlike it, will not be recognizable even to the majority of magicians, appearing on first examination to be entirely similar to a real shuffled deck. I have called this pre-order: VR Stack Pro and I will describe it extensively on the following pages.

Below you will find the effects...

Semplici Miracoli Usando un Nuovo Ordinamento del Mazzo

Questo eBook raccoglie una serie di ben 7 trucchi molto semplici da eseguire di fronte al proprio pubblico, ma tutti d grande effetto e resi possibili solamente da un particolare preordinamento del mazzo di carte, derivato dal Si Stebbins ma che, a differenza di esso, non risulterà riconoscibile nemmeno dalla maggioranza dei prestigiatori, apparendo ad un primo esame, del tutto simile ad un mazzo realmente mescolato. Ho chiamato questo preordinamento VR Stack Pro e verrà ampiamente descritto nelle prossime pagine.

Di seguito gli...

The latest issue of The Hermit Magazine is a unique blend of magic and creativity from a broad range of contributors.

EFFECTS

• CKR / Boyet Vargas: A simple and easy to do mental effect where a thought-of object is divined. Can be performed over the phone or on Zoom, as well as in person! A variation by Scott is provided as well.
• Ten-Star Prediction / Kyle Leon: Cleverness abounds once more as Kyle teaches a version of the Koran Miracle Prediction that allows you to display the prediction before the cards even come out of the box.
• Kings & Aces / Scott Baird: This is my variation of Jerry Sadowitz's routine from Cards On The Table. Aces...

An Easter magic trick.

A new design for an old geometric vanish. 11 bunnies change into 10 bunnies and an Easter egg by merely switching the order of two pieces of cardboard.

The PDF includes the design. Print on paper or cardboard and cut out the three pieces to perform this little miracle.

1st edition 2023, PDF 2 pages.

A classic routine explained in detail with almost 50 photographs.

Excerpt from the preface by John Ramsay:

The "ultimate" fishing stack!

Using an ungimmicked deck of cards you can have a participant select, think, deal down to or look at one or two cards in the deck. You instantly start to describe aspects of the cards until you reveal both.

I truly believe this to be the ultimate fishing deck ever devised using a normal deck. No markings, no rough and smooth, no short cards, no misprints. Use a 100% normal deck.

Comes with two routines to get you started and some tips on how to present fishing questions.

1st edition 2023, PDF 7 pages.

In this video I walk you slowly through the Loaded Salt Shaker Vanish and Reproduction. You can pour an entire shaker of salt in your hand, vanish it, and reproduce it. No TT or tips. This is accomplished with a cheap, easy-to-build homemade gimmick made from objects in almost every home on the planet. The build takes about 5 minutes.

The handling is key in making this work. The salt shaker is real, un-gimmicked and can be inspected. The funnel is real, un-gimmicked and inspectable. The salt cellar is also real and can be inspected. I use a few TT moves to throw off those in the know of...

Join me as I continue to share with you my personal collection of mentalism effects and routines from the past decade and a half or so.

In Volume Three you'll find a wide variety of routines, including effects with ESP cards, Tarot cards, and themes relating to fate, dreams, celebrity crushes, jellybeans (yep, jellybeans!) and a whole bunch more.

Plus, you'll get full access to a custom web app that lets you create your own forcing matrix along with an anagram generator, and a couple of other goodies including printouts of one of the props you'll need.

Continue with me on the journey...

This is my third Scrapbook composed in this month (March 2023). Even though when I mull over my commercial effects and magazine contributions from the decades gone by, the volume of material seems ample for a few more.

But everything I wrote or created is not worth recording or re-publishing in this collection. I found two big files chock-a-block full of the magazine articles I wrote for most of the magic magazines in the 1970's and 80's. About 2/3rds of these are not worth republishing, being my ideas on some dealer prop I purchased, or another magazine article. They would serve no purpose...

Darkey is an ungimmicked keychain with a miracle built into it. Ungimmicked in any mechanical, electronic or magnetic way. So it will last you for many years of performances without the need for any refills or consumables. The size is about 2 inches square. So it can be easily and comfortably carried in your pocket.

But it is designed in an unusual manner so that it first starts a conversation and then ends with a miracle. You can carry your car keys, house keys or any other keys on this keychain.

With this keychain in your pocket, you are always ready to perform a miracle to anyone...

A merge of ACCAN and Do As I Do.

ACAAN is one of the most loved card plots and Do As I Do is one of the most ignored. ACAAN meets a Monkey is a unique cross-over between both of them.

Here two cards get chosen, one by the performer and one by the participant. Both cards are then lost and the cards get shuffled. Both cards are later found by the participant at the number that the participant decides on.

Flow of Events:

• A pack of cards gets cut into 2 packets by the participant.
• The participant picks one packet and the performer picks the other one.
• Both of them show one card from...

A subtle system for card workers. Four card miracles.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the foreword:

You wrote this professionally produced audiobook. That's right. No author is mentioned in the recording. The audiobook is called: "M A G I C - A   T R A N S F O R M A T I V E   A R T"

The file you will download is 23.9 MB. I keep it on my phone so it's easy to immediately send to potential customers. The audiobook is 12 minutes long, and narrated by a female voice, we felt it sounded better that way, more pleasing to the ear.

So what's the point?

• To excite your customers with a gift
• To get customer contact info
• To show you're an expert in the field of magic by mentioning you...

A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.

• The Instant Silk
• The Ribbon Prediction
• A Rope Circle Routine
• Rainbow Balls
• The Black Die Prediction
• The Knot Off The Rope
• Newspaper Knotting II
• The Ribbon Transposition
• The Zebra Trick
• Encore The Silk In The Knot
• The Spotted Card
• Six Ideas For Cane Workers

1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.

A spectator freely names a card (e.g. 5D) which is cut into the centre of a blue deck. The performer cuts a card of his choice (e.g. AS) into the centre of a red deck. The spectator and performer are now going to attempt to make their chosen cards reverse themselves while the packs are still inside their boxes.

Having mimed the removal and turning over of cards, the performer fans the spectator's blue deck only to discover that there is one card face up, but it's the AS! The magician then fans his red backed deck - and to everyone's surprise, the only face-up card in that pack is the one...

Freakey is an ungimmicked keychain with a miracle built into it. Ungimmicked in any mechanical, electronic or magnetic way. So it will last you for many years of performances without the need for any refills or consumables. The size is about 2 inches square. So it can be easily and comfortably carried in your pocket.

But it is designed in an unusual manner. It is bound to be a conversation starter. You can carry your car keys, house keys or any other keys on this keychain.

With this keychain in your pocket, you are always ready to perform a miracle for anyone at any time and anywhere....

Learn how to make your own PK Pen with household items in a few minutes for about 3 dollars. It will be always ready in your pocket. No electronic, no wires, no threads.

1st edition 2023, video 7:24.