Magic & Mentalism: page 441

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 ...

Compelling evidence of other-worldly existence as demonstrated with pasteboards.

I never believed in flying saucers ... that is, not until that fateful night in 2003. You may remember it. That's the night the power went out from the northeast to the midwest, and even left parts of Canada in the dark. Sunspots? Tree branches? Human error? You might think you know the cause, but I know. Because I was there when it all went down.

And so begins this extraordinary card miracle that'll have your spectators believing in UFOs and extra-terrestrials.

A borrowed deck is shuffled and a spectator...

The word 'stooge' evokes all sorts of emotions from magicians. Whenever we, as magicians, hear that a stooge is involved in an effect, often we're disappointed or angry. Many magicians have never even used a stooge as part of a routine. There are several reasons for this. Some magicians think that using stooges is dishonest, as if there are moral limits to trickery. Other magicians think that using stooges is too obvious, in the sense that an observing spectator will easily figure out that a stooge is involved.

In this PDF I would like to offer some ways of using a stooge that are not at...

Effect: The spectator shuffles and cuts a regular deck, then chooses four cards, placing them under the table. After he picks one card by its position (top card, second card, third card, or bottom card) and moves the cards by an imaginary roll of the dice, the magician - without seeing or touching the cards - reveals the chosen card's identity.

If you have a client or friend you want to impress, this is the effect, plus you give them a souvenir.

• Two Methods: one method, no setup, totally impromptu
• Two presentations: one presentation the spectator chooses the card with his name on it. ...

Early books on magic, such as Modern Magic and Illustrated Magic (1931) stressed mastering the pass as fundamentally necessary to every card handler. As time went on, easier sleights such as the double cut to the break replaced it, rendering it anachronistic. Times change. Recently, a friend was asked to comment on one of today's card experts. Her reply, "Too much shuffling." Modern audiences often don't know what happened, but they sense when it happened (He did something tricky) because of excessive cutting and shuffling. Attention spans are shorter now so effects must...

"The new peek you put out is wonderful! Isn't it amazing when choreography and context allow us to simplify the manner in which we can peek and reveal information! I'm excited to practice this and use it, soon!" - Christopher Parrish

Scintilla is a new idea that you will add to your toolkit of ungimmicked telepathic possibilities. An impromptu system that allows you to have a full peek without any strange or obvious moves.

• Only two pieces of paper are needed
• No preparation
• Direct and simple handling
• No tears, no folds

You can use Scintilla for drawing duplications, words, questions,...

A card and a number, generated by a spectator's imagination, find a perfect match in reality, in a deck of cards that was in plain sight, on the table, from the beginning.

An incredible mentalism effect with playing cards, in which the illusionist tells of an ancestral magical ritual in which all the cards participate, gathering at a sacred mountain ... There, in the grip of visions caused by alcohol and drug abuse, each will discover its assigned "place in life". A kind woman imagines their "return to their village," still tipsy and staggering enough that she easily succeeds in blocking...

Una Carta ed un Numero, generati dalla fantasia di una spettatrice, trovano perfetta corrispondenza nella realtà, in un mazzo di carte che fin dall'inizio era in bella vista sul tavolo!)

Un incredibile effetto di mentalismo con le carte, nel quale l'illusionista racconta di un ancestrale rituale magico a cui tutte le carte da gioco partecipano, riunendosi presso una montagna sacra ... Lì, in preda a visioni provocate dall'abuso di alcol e droghe, ognuna scoprirà il posto che "nella vita" le è stato assegnato. Una spettatrice immagina il loro "rientro al proprio villaggio", ancora brille...

You start out with four aces and eight other cards. The four aces are placed individually on the table with two other cards on top of each other. The aces magically gather in one pack and then immediately return to their individual packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:39.

Memes to quicken.

• Swoggled And Boggled / Charles McFarland
• Beyond Fabulous / John Bannon
• Cogent Triumph / Bill Goodwin & Larry Jennings
• The Spectator Works Harder To Triumph / Jon Racherbaumer & Peter Duffie
• Trait Secrets / John Bannon
• Strout Fellow / Allain Slaight & Cushing Strout & Stewart James
• One-Kai / Marc Serin
• Hull-Scam / R. W. Hull & Jon Racherbaumer
• The Elusive Jacks / Edward Marlo
• Last-Minute Departure / Jon Racherbaumer
• Post-Graduate 21-Card Trick / Edward Marlo
• Hefty Oil & Water / Larry Jennings
• Definitive...