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Stop digging through countless books looking for practical routines for your shows! Discover fourteen powerful routines designed to captivate any platform or parlor audience. Blending classic principles with clever innovations, this collection offers practical, audience-tested magic that is both visual and memorable. Whether you're a professional seeking new material or a student of magic eager to grow, these routines provide everything you need to turn simple tricks into unforgettable performances.

1. THREE CARDS TO POCKET
The magician shows three cards that vanish from his hand, one...

This is my control system, which allows you to cleanly push the card into the deck with no visible break, and still maintain control.

The system can control the card to four common positions: the top, the bottom, the second from the top, and the second from the bottom. It can be applied flexibly in many card routines, taking your sleight of hand to the next level. For the detailed controls, please watch the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 4:11

Ace Assembly routines have been with us for decades. Some originate from the best brains in magic, others too numerous to mention, are utterly forgettable - lengthy, complex routines overburdened with ham-fisted false counts, lugubrious palming techniques, endless Double Lifts and quaint presentation ideas.

If you are heartily sick of these approaches, here is a routine that will grab your attention.

Aces With Artistry is just what its title implies, an Ace Assembly that stands up there with the best of them. Visually captivating, AWA owes its pedigree to Ed Marlo and is based...

A new card magic effect, incredibly automatic and hands-off, in which the spectator himself, after choosing any card from the deck, will start an impressive "A.C.A.A.N."!

The title refers to a new Automatic Card Magic effect that is completely hands-off, where the magician, once he has introduced, shuffled, and quickly shown the deck, will have it cut and leave it entirely in the hands of a spectator, until the end of the experiment, without ever touching the cards again! It is an "Any Card At Any Number" effect type where, thanks to the introduction of a brand new stack, almost impossible...

Un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia, incredibilmente Automatico e Hands-Off, in cui sarà lo spettatore stesso, dopo aver scelto una carta qualsiasi dal mazzo,a dare inizio ad un impressionante "A.C.A.A.N."!

II titolo, traducibile in italiano con "Giocare a Carta al Numeri con il Re dei Preordinamenti Nascosti" indica un nuovo effetto di Cartomagia Automatica e completamente Hands-Off, dove il prestigiatore, una volta introdotto, mescolato e mostrato velocemente il mazzo, lo farà tagliare e lascerà del tutto nelle mani di uno spettatore fino al termine dell'esperimento, senza mai più toccare...

This series of Suit Ordering Systems is probably the world's first 'super store' for ordering suits. The main purpose of these various Suit Ordering Systems is to create a random sequence of suits while retaining a secret pattern visible only to the performer. The applicability of these SOS methods is for various stacks like memorized, algorithmic, mnemonic or any other type of stacked decks.

In this SOS Volume 5, a new innovative concept of Position Pair Suits is used to create a random suit sequence instead of the obvious red/black alternating sequence. Two different Suit Ordering Systems...

A legendary periodical now for the first time available in digital form. The digital edition is a Lybrary.com exclusive. If you see it offered anywhere else, you know it is a pirated edition, most likely far inferior in quality and completeness.

Magick started on July 17th, 1970, and ceased publication on November 12th, 1993. It spans 23 years, 496 issues in 19 volumes. More than 1400 effects from several hundred of the best minds in mentalism, on more than 2400 pages. The list of contributors is staggering. Below is just a small sampling from the several hundred contributors. You will find...

Each volume of Magick comes with its own volume index. This index is the compilation of all these indices into one combined index. But it is not just the index you are getting here. You will learn a lot about Bascom Jones through various articles by people who knew him. Included is also a bonus section with several routines that could have appeared in Magick.

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• Preface and Acknowledgments / Andrew Pinard
• Bascom Jones: 1924-1994 / Robert Bluemle
• Untitled / Max Maven
• Center Axis / Barrie Richardson
• Wordsmith & Warrior / Lee Earle
• Spinning...

Joe White gives you the making, handling and routine for "Astraloon," a beautiful floating balloon in which the balloon seemingly floats freely in the air. Tom Harris explains his Eggs and Balloon trick which he has shown on many occasions at shows and conventions in this country and his native England. George Johnstone gives his version of this trick. Tommy Windsor has a series of fine ideas with various kinds of balloons, used during his years of professional work. And Gen Grant permits us to include his dandy "Pin Cushion Balloon," which permits you to prepare your own. (Not the same trick...

Containing anecdotes, explanation of tricks and a sketch of the life of Alexander Herrmann.

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• To The Reader
• The Art Of Magic
• Healing By Words
• Hands
• Talismans
• Aeromancy
• Alectryomancy
• Aleuromancy
• Alomancy
• Anthropomancy
• Apantomancy
• Arithmomancy
• Astrology (Judicial)
• Axinomancy
• Belomancy
• Botamancy
• Capnomancy
• Cartomancy
• Catoptromancy
• Cephalomancy
• Ceromancy
• Chiromancy
• Cleromancy
• Cledonism
• Coscinomancy
• Dactylomancy
• Extispicium
• Gastromancy
• Geomancy
• Hydromancy
• Onomancy
• Oneirocritics
• Onychomancy
• Ornithomancy
• Pyromancy
• Psychomancy, Or Sciomancy
• Rhabdomancy ...

You feign a centre deal with basic moves. You openly cut the four Kings into the deck and deal them to the spectator. But the four cards you get are the four Aces. Easy and magical! You get a bonus tutorial of Imperial Bicycles.

1st edition 2025, video 10:05.

Snow Drift Deck: A find the Lady type of effect using a deck of 52 blank cards and a Queen.

Origami Card Discovery: A strip of folded paper displays a prediction of a card which a spectator will select. It's wrong! The image magically changes, and the prediction is 100% correct.

Simplicity Card to Wallet: No special wallets used, yet the same effect is accomplished using a very simple method.

Peek-A-Boo!: A joker card, which has a corner missing, is used to locate a chosen card within a shuffled deck.

Split Down the Middle: Ian's version of the classic 'Split Deck'. The deck has...

Here are 10 mental magic mysteries from the creative minds of Larsen and Wright, including a guest contribution from Dunninger, the world-famous mentalist and F. G. Thayer, owner of Thayer's Studio of Magic.

The contents include:

• The Photographic Slates
• Look Ma, No Flap!
• Three Slate Test
• Automatic Writing Test
• Slate of the Swami
• Ultra Book Test
• Television
• The Time Transmitter
• Mumbo Jumbo and the Evil Eye (Thayer)
• Spiritualistic Slate Writing (Dunninger)

An uncommon collection and one that belongs in every wonder worker's library. The "Television" effect...

Step into the private workshop of Jack Chanin - Philadelphia's "Man With the Magic Hands" - with From the Private Files of Chanin, a curated collection of some of his most ingenious, deceptive, and surprisingly simple magical miracles. This isn't just another magic book - it's a vault of forgotten treasures, meticulously transcribed from Chanin's original instruction sheets, many of which baffled even his fellow magicians. Inside, you'll find 27 astonishing effects with cards, silks, ropes, eggs, coins, and everyday objects - including his legendary "Rip-It" (torn-and-restored bill), the mind-bending...

This is a trick for quickly locating four selections.

During an overhand shuffle, four cards are freely chosen, with no control involved. The spectators clearly see the cards lost in four different positions. Yet in the end, the magician can still locate all four selections with precision. For the full routine and effect, see the video demonstration.

• No force
• No gimmick
• No memory work
• No peeking

Performance transcript:

• This is a trick for finding four selections.
• Shuffle.
• Have the spectator call stop at any point.
• Remember the stop at card.
• Continue.
• Call stop again anywhere. ...

"I found myself underlining so many passages - especially around how perception becomes reality, and how spectators' confidence in a false memory can actually strengthen the magic." - Gaia Elisa Rossi

This eBook, written in layman's terms does a deep dive into two of the most powerful psychological weapons available to magicians: Attention Misdirection and the creation of False Memories. These principles form the foundation of truly mysterious magical experiences that leave audiences genuinely astonished.

The success of a magician lies in a deep understanding of these two psychological...

Grids of Destiny is a set of killer routines especially suitable for close up and parlor situations. Of course, you can easily adapt them for stage also, if you want.

These G.O.D (short for Grids Of Destiny) effects are an example of how a simple method can be turned into absolutely stunning and impossible mind reading routines which can cause tremendous impact.

The "Grids" does not refer to a magic square or a forcing matrix. These are also not binary grids. And there is nothing Occult or Oracle based about them, unless you want to make them so, for your presentation. These are normal...

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