Magic & Mentalism: page 440

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• Borges, Me, and a Wishful Well: about presentational plots
• Boys of Autumn: about Larry Jennings, Derek Dingle, and Martin Nash

1st edition 2022, PDF 20 pages.

This count has one of the highest hide-to-show ratios of any false count. You are using four different cards, yet you can show each one three times in a row to credibly demonstrate you have a packet of three identical cards. Doing this four times with four different cards looks incredible on its own. Nevertheless, you would use this as part of a larger routine.

1st edition 2025, video 1:43.

A participant's finger count when combined with a bit of Si Stebbins principle gives out a cool propless method to divine the sun sign in a clean, elegant, effective and most importantly, quick manner. There is no long drawn process here.

The presentation here is not the typical astrology based one but goes on the lines of brain functions, human mind and general psychology. The sun sign reveal comes most unexpectedly as a surprising finale.

This method is completely different from that in Propless Polaris or Propless Signtist or [lp=921867 Mind Spark 1: Propless...

A number, generated by the sum of the values of 5 randomly selected cards, will magically reveal the exact card predicted by the magician from the beginning!

The title refers to a semi-automatic card effect, in which the magician shuffles the deck and gives it to a spectator to cut and complete. He then hands him a pair of dice (he can also just ask him to imagine them) and, before throwing them, places a card face down on the table, announcing that it is his Pre-Vision of what will happen shortly. Once they verified the score obtained from the two dice, he stacks that exact number of cards...

Un Numero, generato dalla somma dei valori di 5 carte scelte dal caso, farà si che venga magicamente trovata esattamente la Carta prevista, sin dall’inizio, dal mago.

II titolo, traducibile in italiano con “Pre-visione di una Carta ad un Numero”, indica un effetto SEMI-AUTOMATICO con le carte, nel quale il mago mescola il mazzo e lo dà a tagliare ad uno spettatore. Gli consegna poi una coppia di dadi (può anche solo chiedere di immaginarli) e, prima che li lanci, depone sul tavolo una carta di dorso che annuncia essere la sua Pre-Visione di quello che accadrà tra poco. Verificato...

The story of Chung Ling Soo marvellous Chinese conjurer.

Chung Ling Soo was the stage name of William Ellsworth Robinson, a supremely accomplished and gifted conjurer and show business man. This is his story of life. With a foreword by his son, Hector Robinson. It includes reproductions of many photos and posters.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Discovery
• Kellar's Brain
• Herrmann's Double
• The Herrmann Years
• The Transformation
• Chung Ling Soo
• On Top ... Down Under
• The Reign Of Soo
• The Final Curtain
• The Show Is On!
• Overture-Curtain!
• Appendix

1st edition...

• Foreword
• Doctor Jekyll And Ms. Hyde
• Invisodex
• Aces - Chicago Style
• Watch Your Aces
• Watch Your Aces II
• Switchblade Aces
• Ring In Nest Of Boxes
  • Ring In Nest Of Boxes - Plot
  • Disposition Of Props And Method
• Card In Wallet - Props
  • Disposition Of Props
• The Big Little Signed Card In The Wallet Scam
• Becker And Cyprian
• Bank Deposit Slip Prediction
• Match Box
• Addenda

1st edition 1983, 31 pages; PDF 34 pages.

Forcing a card is one of the strongest moves you can do. When the spectator handles the cards and the magician seemingly never touches the cards, you have a miracle waiting to happen. The reveal can be as extravagant as you want. All of these forces require no sleight of hand and are not well known. They can be done with the spectator's deck.

1st edition 2025, PDF 12 pages.

This is a high-impact routine which is custom-developed to be performed by a mentalist / mind reader for a special occasion like a wedding anniversary. It can also be easily adapted for other occasions like birthdays, corporate anniversaries, annual days etc. The effect is quite visual and takes about 3 to 4 minutes to perform, but of course this can be extended based on your presentation and patter.

Anniversary Mystique is more suitable for a mentalist/mind reader persona. It has no sleights, is easy and self-working, and allows you to leave a couple of visual and memorable souvenirs. ...

A rubber band is stretched across your open palm. You insert a pen under the rubber band and slowly start to stretch the rubber band further away from the palm. Everything looks fair and as it should be. Suddenly, the rubber band has melted through the pen without any apparent motion.

The rubber band and pen can be handed out for inspection. They are completely ungimmicked.

1st edition 2025, video 4 min.

A series of cards, taken from four piles decided at the "Stop," are progressively eliminated, until only one pair remains to decide both a card and a number. Not only will that card be found in the deck at the number, but all the cards stacked under that pair will result magically divided by color!

Shocking Coloured Card at Number is a semi-automatic effect with cards, in which the magician shuffles the deck, then deals the cards into four separate piles, alternating between a spectator's "STOPS" and his own. Having collected the piles, he will gradually eliminate their cards until he...

Una serie di carte, prese da quattro mazzetti decisi allo "Stop", vengono progressivamente eliminate, finché ne rimangono soltanto un paio a decidere sia una Carta che un Numero. Non solo si troverà nel mazzo quella carta al numero, ma solamente le carte incolonnate sotto quella coppia risulteranno magicamente divise per colore!

Shocking Coloured Card At Number, traducibile in italiano con "Carta al Numero dai Colori sgargianti", è un effetto SEMI-AUTOMATICO con le carte, nel quale il mago mescola il mazzo, poi distribuisce le carte in quattro distinti mazzetti, alternando gli "STOP"...

While you turn over a small packet of cards, you palm the bottom card. Here, Peter uses this move in a small packet routine to have Aces and tens change their packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:59.

Storytelling with Tarot and other things.

13 new storytelling Tarot routines.

As a bonus, a Past Life routine directly out of one of TC's Psychic Parties. As well as Poppett, a bit of fun with Voodoo. TC also shares personal stories of how magic can sometimes transcend entertainment.

"In the Play of Light is full of easy-to-perform effects, mainly using Tarot cards. They're all accompanied with enchanting stories designed to move people and raise their spirits. They're a joy to perform and will make you, and your audiences, believe in real magic." - Richard Webster

"TC...

Scripts, frameworks and AI tools for every event host.

Are you a working magician or mentalist looking to expand into paid MC work? The Modern MC is a 35-page, practical guide written specifically for performers like you - people who are already confident onstage but need help writing professional-level MC scripts for corporate, government, and association events.

Over the past 30 years, I've worked as an MC at events around the world - USA, Hong Kong, South Africa, New Zealand, and every major city in Australia. I've MC'd major conferences, government forums, and association meetings,...

In the early '70's Jon Racherbaumer received 8 mm color footage of Chuck Smith executing a five-card poker hand switch. This was featured in the short film Lookout, Cleveland, now on YouTube. An excerpt is shown below. A letter from Smith is included here describing how he used it during WWII while in the military. This unique technique has been kept hidden until now. It is not easy, as many things are happening at once. This takes skill and nerve. The price is designed to keep it out of the hands of the curious. While we don't condone cheating, it is time this was recorded for posterity. ...

All you ever need to know about this fascinating subject. A great introduction to this mysterious ability, also known as "Hellstromism" or muscle reading.

Once you know how, objects can be hidden out of your sight. Yet you find them without the use of assistants or confederates. One famous TV mentalist uses "muscle reading" to find his performance payment, which has been hidden somewhere in the audience. (Reportedly, it was once found in a ladies' brassiere!)

While there are other famous works on this subject (among them Robert A. Nelson's seminal Hellstromism and Dariel...

New semi-automatic tricks for the mathematically minded performer.

Werner Miller has started a new series of ebooks that continues where his 20-volume strong Sub Rosa series ended.

• Hat-Trick
• Seguimi!
• Wanna Bet?
• Poor Consolation
• Three Diamonds
• Between Two Queens
• Resiste Reloaded
• Without the King
• Se-pair-ration
• Ex-pair-tise I
• Ex-pair-tise II
• Logical, Isn't It?
• Rochade I
• Rochade II
• Values First
• Isola
• Double Effect
• terni
• Josephus ESP
• Triangulation 2
• Triangulation 3
• ambo, ambo
• I D I
• Freestyle Age Cards

1st edition 2025, PDF 35 pages.

After the spectator's selection is lost in the cards (it really is), the spectator imagines (as if in a dream) his card in various scenarios (e.g., as a mirage in the desert, as a reflection in a mirror, on top of Mount Everest, etc.).

Neither the selection nor the scenarios could be known to the magician using his five senses. And the magician could not know where in the cards the selection might reside.

Using his sixth sense, the magician reads the spectator's mind and identifies each scenario the spectator has thought of.

But the chosen card's identity and its location are still...

A stunning color change. Four cards showing several pips, what Peter calls 'compressed cards', change into the four aces.

1st edition 2025, video 3:03.

A card, generated by pure chance, together with the precise will of a spectator, after the magician, using a special shuffle method to progressively eliminate pairs, has excluded every other card from the deck, it will be magically found.

This is a semi-automatic card effect, in which a spectator cuts the deck, shuffled by the magician, and begins to turn the cards over one by one, stopping when he wants. From that point on, the first two cards can indicate the value and suit (or vice versa, at his discretion) of a completely random card. Taking the deck back, and showing that it is neither...

Una Carta, generata dalla più assoluta casualità,unitamente alla precisa volontà di uno spettatore, dopo che il mago, con uno speciale miscuglio ad eliminazione progressiva di coppie, avrà escluso ogni altra carta del mazzo, verrà magicamente ritrovata!

Perfect Match, traducibile in italiano con "Accoppiata Perfetta", è un effetto SEMI-AUTOMATICO con le carte, nel quale uno spettatore taglia il mazzo, mescolato dal mago, e inizia a voltare una ad una le carte, fermandosi quando vuole. Da quel punto, le prime due carte potranno indicare valore e seme (o viceversa, a sua libera scelta)...

Most magicians and mentalists are aware of the mental logs trick. Although built on a great principle, it has mostly been a mathematical novelty where the utmost you can display is your math wizardry.

Invisible Mental Logs now takes this math novelty into the realm of impossible miracle phenomenon where you can perform this as a masterful mind reading stunner. This can now be a big important part of your main set or can even be performed as a powerful closer.

A punch-packed 5-phase routine and a killer bonus routine are explained. However you can choose to perform any one, two or three...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Exordium
• Chapter One: Magical Mixture
  • THE ERIC LEWIS PAPER AND HAT ROUTINE
  • A VANISH
  • SEBASTIAN
  • A PRODUCTION
  • A CIGARETTE CONCATENATION ...