Magic & Mentalism

This is without a doubt the most powerful effect in my repertoire. The reactions it consistently generates from audiences are nothing short of astounding, and what makes it even more remarkable is it's easy to do. The psychological principles throughout this effect are truly fascinating - from the way it plays with expectations to how it builds and releases tension. Each of these psychological elements has been carefully crafted to create maximum impact, and these same principles can be effectively applied to enhance numerous other effects in your performances.

Effect: In this compelling...

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A well-known principle in the 'relevant circles' but used in a mentalism routine for the first time. This is a nice and quick effect to always have with you. This can easily fit into any close-up or parlor set. You can also adapt this to stage if you want.

Personally, I carry this on my phone and am ready to perform this anytime, anywhere to anyone at a moment's notice. Of course, you can choose to do the same or you can print or write on both sides of a card (the size of the card is your choice - it can be poker size, index card,...

A numerology experiment involving two predictions with only two packets of cards.

The magician introduces a set of playing cards for a numerology experiment. They all have a different value/number. Some have a red back and some have a blue back. The spectator deals the cards in two piles and puts any pile onto the other one. He does that as much as he wants. For the first phase, the magician needs to evaluate the level of synchronicity between him and the spectator. He removes a set of double blank cards from an envelope (on the table from the start). On one side of each card, he wrote the...

You show four cards from the back. They all have blue backs. When you shake them, one turns up face. It is the king of diamonds. When you show the cards again, they now all have red backs. Another shake and another king turns face up. But now they all have green backs. You then display all four kings from the face. The climax is that all four kings link into one ribbon.

1st edition 2024, video 6:12.

Here's the latest ebook Undercover from Graham Hey, one of the UK's top comedy writers who has also performed around the world on cruise ships with his comedy magic and mentalism act. This ebook contains over 70 pages of easy, cool visual gags - many brand-new ones, and lots of bonus ones from previous releases. But it's not just visual gags, there are brand new tricks - and he's also included a few golden oldies from his back catalogue as an extra festive treat.

There's JUST ONE MORE THING a very simple but effective card trick where a freely selected (criminal) card is replaced anywhere...

My Favorite Card Magic explains tricks with straight-forward plots, classic methods and direct handlings. Gerald prefers uncomplicated tricks and routines which can be performed under the most demanding conditions. The tricks do require practice and skillful handling. But you'll not find "knuckle busting" sleights or complex procedures.

Gerald divides the PDF into two sections. Part One is for "in-the-hands" tricks. These routines work well for strolling situations or any time you have no tabletop available. At times, it becomes awkward or not possible for the spectators to take or sign...

"This is one of the most important card magic manuscripts published in the last 25 years. The 'principle' is truly a lost gem and I'm shocked that it's completely out of use today. As the decades passed, it appears magicians forgot about it. Do not pass this up. If you are a serious student of card magic, this principle is something you should know about. Study this manuscript, learn the principle, and, most importantly, learn the history surrounding it.

I've been studying card magic for over 20 years and I never heard of this principle until the Unnamed Magician brought it to my attention....

The contents of this series, for the most part, emphasize the history of effects and ideas. There are effects and methods in some of them, though.

• Proem
• A Double Take on "Double Trouble"
• Double Trouble, Marlo Miracle No. 2 / Edward Marlo
• Lalapaloopa / Deane Moore
• Never Touch the Pack! / Gerald L. Kaufman
• The Loop and I
• Joseph K. Schmidt's Letter to Marlo
• Treble Trouble / Roy Walton
• Redouble Trouble / Jon Racherbaumer
• Andrus False Slop Shuffle

1st edition 2014, PDF 25 pages.

This is a large collection of small experiments and magic tricks to educate and entertain.

Excerpt from the Preface:

Discover the timeless secrets of stage magic with The Doc Nixon Manuscript, a captivating ebook that brings to life the brilliance of magic as it was performed a century ago. Originally published in 1920, this treasure trove of stage magic and illusions reveals an array of mesmerizing tricks that blend creativity with theatrical flair. From awe-inspiring productions and vanishes of doves, ducks, and even fishbowls, to the dazzling penetrations and color transformations of silks, this manuscript captures the essence of classic stage performance. Perfect for magicians looking to enrich their...

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The previous versions of this routine, Future Test 2019 to Future Test 2024 were very well received. This routine can also be performed in almost all performing situations - one-on-one, close-up, parlor, street, virtual show, or even on a video call.

Future Test is a 'packs small plays big' kind of effect. Actually, it packs very small in your wallet and plays very big to a full room or in a virtual show or even over a video call. This effect is done on the back of your business card which you can later leave with the participant as...

A true masterpiece of precision and impossibility: Mr. Diseau ACAAN. If you're looking for an effect that combines the charm of Card at Any Number with a fully interactive experience for your audience, this routine is perfect for you.

Imagine this: a spectator freely cuts a deck and selects two cards, leaving them face down on the table without looking. Next, they choose a card from several packets, memorize it, and reassemble the deck. Only then are the initial two cards revealed, their values added together, and the resulting number used to count down in the deck. The card found at that...

Take your audience on a surprising magical journey with Sandwich Reverse. Imagine starting with a classic in card magic: the two Jokers capture a card chosen by the spectator in a simple and straightforward effect. But just when the audience thinks they know what's going to happen, you completely flip their expectations. In the end, it's the chosen cards that capture the Joker, leaving everyone speechless.

This routine combines the beauty of simplicity with an unexpected twist that will delight both beginners and experienced card magicians. Easy to learn, highly impactful, and incredibly...

A twisting the aces type of effect. You show four cards from the back and state that they are the four aces. The aces, one by one, magically turn around showing their faces. Then they all change to the ace of clubs. And then they change their backs.

1st edition 2024, video 4:47.

The Think Ace effect is a hybrid, reduced to a packet trick. It was inspired by an effect described to Marlo by Bill Simon in 1955.

• Introduction
• Beginnings
  • Touch Turn
  • Named Reverse
  • Think Ace
  • Gaffed Think Ace
• Tributaries
  • Swindle Think Ace
  • Technicolor Think Ace
  • Four-Card Technicolor Thought Number One
  • Four-Card Think Ace Number Two
  • More Four-Card Technicolor Thoughts
  • Cased-In Technicolor Thought
  • Tabled Think Ace
  • Spread Think Ace
  • Contingency Aces
  • Bold B'wave
• Unanswered Letters

1st edition 1993, PDF 35 pages.

Here's another psychic miracle from the professional mentalist who brought you Forecast and other top-flight miracles. Perfected Sealed Message Reading is an entirely new method and routine for reading sealed cards and envelopes.

As you know, the Q&A act is the highlight of the psychic entertainer's act. It involves audience participation, mystery and suspense. Plus, the spectators get a huge thrill out of hearing the mentalist's answers to actual thoughts on the mind of fellow audience members.

This presentation will baffle the best in the business, as each card and envelope is returned, as...

Many magicians I know are as interested in both tricks and puzzles and integrate the two.

While elaborate mathematical, logical, or chess puzzles or crosswords have little "performance value", there are many optical puzzles, geometric paradoxes, illusions, ambigrams, after-image generators, and the like, that make for an excellent lead to a magic effect, or for performance as an effect by itself, or as a memorable keepsake printed on the back of your calling card or publicity folder or even your admission tickets. They can also be used as memorable "give-aways" for your assisting spectators,...

This is part two in the "Modus Operandi" series. It continues with chapter 5.

• Chapter Five. Card Magic For The Platform
  • The "Perfect" Torn And Rising Card
  • Tickets, Please
  • "Stop"
  • The Imaginary Aces
  • The Jumbo Card Guillotine
• Chapter Six. The "Lewis" Utility Lift Tray
  • How To Build The "Lewis" Lift Tray
  • Methods Of Concealing The Lift
  • The "Slam-Thru" Glass Of Milk Penetration
  • Another "Magic" Welding
  • "Vanibowl"
  • "He Go - He Come Back"
• Chapter Seven. Conjuring With Cubes
  • The Escaping Cube
  • The Tantalising Tubes
  • British - Always On Top
  • The Repeating Die Through Hat

With added chapters on easy magic you can do, with and without playing cards.

In this book, the secrets of ancient miracles and of modern magic have been thoroughly explained. No phase of the mystic art has been neglected. The reader is initiated into the secrets of antiquity. He is told of the methods of mediaeval wizards; and the secrets of modern wonders are disclosed to him. He is led behind the scenes to study the magic of the stage; true facts of Oriental mystery are brought before him. The secrets of the Hindu fakirs are revealed in detail, based upon the testimony of trained investigators...

Are you looking for a fun effect to perform that leaves the spectator in awe? This is an effect for you. You are in complete control all the time, yet it appears the spectator makes all the choices. You relax and focus on your presentation rather than worrying about the method. This approach incorporates multiple outs into a card trick without relying on suspicious props or your pockets as an out. This method provides multiple options to easily handle different outcomes based on what your spectator chooses.

• Easy to do
• No sleight of hand
• No card indexes
• No using your pockets as an out ...

Three novel tricks with a regular E.S.P. deck.

ESPREDICT TWICE
Two cards are selected in a packet (the five E.S.P. symbols); one by using a freely chosen number and one through elimination. The two symbols have been successfully predicted.

ESPECIAL DOUBLE DIVINATION
After they cut the deck, two spectators are given a packet of cards each from which they memorize any card. They lose their card into the deck and concentrate on their symbol. Each thought-of symbol can be removed from the deck and placed in front of the appropriate spectator.

FIVE ESPERFECT CHOICES
The spectator is given...

Four Kings, after being dealt to four different spots on the table, gather under a single packet, transform into the four Aces, and finally return to their original positions.

1st edition 2024, PDF 11 pages, 52 photos.

A sandwich effect with a twist. The performer has three spectators each chooses a card and loses it in different parts of the deck. Then, the performer takes two Jokers, stating that they will find the selected cards. However, the final twist is that one spectator's card will end up sandwiched between the other two spectators' cards.

1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages, 42 photos.

An incredible new "Any Card At Any Number" effect that magically comes to fruition, despite the fact that the card and a set of numbers are chosen by a spectator, in a carousel of cards turned face to face and back to back.

An A.C.A.A.N. that develops into a dance of cards, realizing itself on the edge of the impossible.

Twisting the AC...AAN is a new card magic effect themed "Any Card At Any Number," in which the magician, shown and quickly shuffled a deck of cards, holding the deck face-up in his right hand, begins to drop the cards into the palm of his left hand, performing a dribble...

Un incredibile nuovo effetto di Carta al Numero che magicamente si realizza, nonostante la Carta e una serie di Numeri vengano scelti da uno spettatore, in una giostra di carte rivoltate faccia contro faccia e dorso contro dorso!

Un A.C.A.A.N. che si sviluppa in una Danza di Carte, realizzandosi al limite dell'Impossibile!

Twisting the AC...AAN è un nuovo effetto cartomagico a tema "Any Card At Any Number", in cui il prestigiatore, mostrato e mescolato velocemente un mazzo di carte, tenendo il mazzo a facce in alto nella destra, inizia a far cadere le carte sul palmo della sinistra,...

Yes, this looks impossible. You show four cards. Turn over one and the rest also magically turns over. That is just the warming-up effect. The real stunner is when you turn over the cards and suddenly three of them have big circles cut from their center and the fourth has changed color.

1st edition 2024, video 4:45.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

Excerpt from the opening remarks:

Excerpt from the Foreword:

• Modus Operandi
• Foreword
• Chapter One: The "Lewis"...

Another brilliant mental effect from the mind of Ed Stoddard. This time, Stoddard presents a book test, using any book, that you can perform anywhere. A spectator chooses a word and you name it instantly.

Utilizes an ingenious, natural method that can't be beat. Plus a healthy dose of Stoddard's brand of subtlety and refinements that make it so easy to use. Imagine the shock and awe when you present this at the home of a friend or family member, using their own book.

(To be upfront about it, while the original dealer ad stated that you can use a borrowed book, and do it impromptu, you...

Why create and print your cardbox? Several reasons:

1. To keep your decks organized
2. Easy to read cribs
3. Reveals
4. It's fun, at least to me

If you are like me, you have many decks set up for different effects and I needed a way to keep them organized. This is the best method. I simply code the decks and print it on the side or bottom of the cardbox. With step-by-step directions and photos, creating your custom cardboxes is easy. A customizable PSD file (Adobe Photoshop) and SVG file (Scalable Vector Graphics) are included with this download.

Note: You need to have a basic knowledge...

Do not be fooled by the low intro price. This is an absolute killer. Hands Off Book Test or in other words, HOBOT is very much like a ROBOT, fully automatic, very efficient, highly effective, self-working, and self-sufficient. Once you hand over the book to the participant, you do not touch it again during the entire routine. You do not just reveal a single word (although you can do that too) but you reveal about 10 to 15 words - one from each line from top to bottom of the page in the correct order as the participant is silently reading the page to himself. It appears as if you are plucking...

This video includes a variation of the Bert Allerton trick Eye Popper, a transposition of two cards. This trick appeared in his book The Close Up Magician.

Two Don Alan card tricks using jumbo cards: Big Deal and A Comedy card trick.

A Paul Rosini card trick taken from House of Cards, two selected cards are found after the magician has failed to find them. This trick features a variation of the Paul Le Paul Top Change. Several variations are suggested.

A comparison of Malini's handling as compared to the handling in the book: The Magic of Matt Schulien, Schulien called it 'Put It Back In The Deck'. There are two comedy card tricks from Schulien: Catch The Light, and The Professional...

You show two cards from both sides. One is the Queen of Hearts and the other is the Jack of Spades. The Queen of Hearts has a big square hole cut from its center. You briefly put these two cards together, separate them again, and suddenly the Jack of Spades has a round hole cut from its center and the Queen of Hearts is restored without a hole. The hole moved from the Queen to the Jack and changed from a square hole to a round hole.

1st edition 2024, video 2:33.

It is a selection of the card magic of Roy Johnson, in which sleights are kept to a minimum and difficult ones are eliminated. In other words, with clean handling and basic skills the effects are possible to all ... hence the title. There is variety in both effects and methods and although the majority are close-up the stand-up performer has not been forgotten.

• Cased
• Marloesque
• Coloured Triumph
• Jack Sandwich
• "Poker Dan"
• Miracle Divination
• Janet

1st edition 1979, PDF 24 pages.

If you can perform the easy block-transfer shuffle by Dai Vernon you will be able to perform Daryl Martinez's/Easton's commercial routine with only a little practice. The routine is structured to produce maximum impact with minimum effort and it creates a lasting impression on lay audiences.

EFFECT: Two selections are made from a shuffled deck, then are returned and lost. The deck is given a topsy-turvy shuffle so that face-up cards are mixed into face-down cards. This mixture is shown to be erratic and random. When the cards are eventually ribbon-spread, all the cards are face-down except two, which...

Here's a mental miracle that psychic entertainers will put to good use right away. A bonus is that at the finish, the spectator is left with your calling card as a souvenir.

EFFECT: The performer writes a prediction on a piece of paper and hands it to a spectator for safekeeping. Next, names are said aloud by members of the audience and are penciled in on several of the performer's (or a corporate sponsor's) business cards. These are then turned face down on the table, so that none of the names are visible. Any spectator is allowed to mix and select a card (a free choice) and may even change...

For those of you who own several of my products, you've probably realized by now that card locations are my area of expertise. And so we're back with another location that I think is a total fooler. The best part is that it can be performed with any regular deck. Very few magicians have been able to work this one out when I showed it to them - so I am confident that with this you will be fooling all your magician friends (even the knowledgeable ones).

The main takeaway of the ebook, however, is not the aforementioned effect but rather the shuffling principle that I will be teaching you....

A few tricks and variations of effects from House of Cards, Rosini's Magical Gems, and The Card Magic of Paul Le Paul.

Many of the techniques I teach in this video were used by both Le Paul and Rosini. One of the tricks I feature in this video is a trick referred to in Rosini's Magical Gems as Double Reverse. That immediately caught my eye because the very same trick appears in the John Scarne book Scarne on Card Tricks, a book I am very familiar with. So it is fascinating to me how all these threads of card magic can be followed.

1st edition 2024, video 36:18...

Creative thought for magicians.

While this ebook does have a trick section at the end, the majority of the content is dedicated to mental processes, habits, and exercises that will help you become a better and more creative magician. This is a part of being a magician that is rarely talked about, but it is more important than the latest and newest trick offering.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

Two different versions of an effect, incredibly impromptu and practically self-working, which stages a play at an imaginary poker game with strange rules that always make the spectator the overwhelming favorite, but where, in the end, the magician will win against all odds, closing the game in a true Triumph of the four Aces.

A truly amazing card magic effect that will leave both you, when you try it the first few times, incredulous (it still happens even to me who came up with it, I guarantee) and your audience, as soon as you manage to propose it to them.

You will learn two versions,...

Due versioni differenti di un effetto, incredibilmente Impromptu e praticamente Self Working, che mette in scena una Partita ad un Poker immaginario dalle strane regole che rendono sempre lo spettatore come il grandissimo favorito, ma dove, al termine, incredibilmente il Mago vincerà contro ogni probabilità, chiudendo la partita i n un vero e proprio Trionfo dei 4 Assi!

Un effetto davvero STUPEFACENTE di Cartomagia che lascerà increduli tanto voi, quando lo proverete le prime volte (accade tuttora persino a me che l’ho ideato, ve lo garantisco!), quanto il vostro pubblico, non appena...