Magic & Mentalism: page 443

Introducing The Ultimate Forcing Method - a groundbreaking method for card magic that combines a floating key card with the unique properties of shuffling face-up and face-down cards. It's a "hands-off miracle" where the magician never touches the cards.

Here's why you will want to add this to your act:

• Spectator Involvement: The spectator does everything. They shuffle face-up into face-down cards, cut the deck multiple times, and ultimately remove the forced cards themselves. This creates an illusory sense of complete randomness, making it seem impossible for you to have any knowledge...

Probably for the first time ever, the value of the special bonuses included here is 3 times the value of the main ebook itself. All the previous 4 ebooks in the Brain Knewmerology Series are included here free. So enjoy it while it lasts.

In Propless Brain Knewmerology, the basic Brain Knewmerology principle is extended to a movie theme. Another deceptive principle is also blended in, which makes the overall experience for the participant more memorable.

The assumption is that the performer and the participant are on both ends of a voice call and have come around to discussing movies,...

An award-winning comedy magic act that pokes fun at the snake oil salesman or carnival huckster of old.

A magical medicine show script that is different. Standard props are used to hilarious effect. Printed script with stage direction prompts gives complete illustrated patter, tricks, staging, presentation, costume and makeup.

This laugh-tested routine won the coveted Werner Comedy Trophy at the TAOM Convention. The accent is on magical fun in this clever act. If you want to portray a specific character, the author provides costuming and makeup instructions for that of a famous film star...

In this book, for the first time, Borodin reveals parts of his performing repertoire that he has used very successfully as a mental magician, a bizarrist, and a storyteller. The secrets here have been carefully guarded. They are the ones Borodin did not want to reveal until the time was right.

The 24 routines from the original German work are contained here, as well as an additional 12 new routines that were prepared especially for the English edition. Final Curtain is a chamber of mental treasures that will be difficult to put down, once you have started to read it.

Borodin has been...

In the early days of the Phoenix, issue number 12 to be exact, Lu Brent had an intriguing idea in an Ace effect titled "Together Again." In the effect, he was able to show each and every Ace being replaced into the deck, except for a chosen packet that contained, of course, the chosen Ace. At the finish, the four Aces were in the chosen pile. It used duplicate Aces. Marlo eliminated the need for duplicate aces.

• Together Again / Lu Brent
• Hindu Aces / Arthur Buckley
• Methods of Apparently Losing the Aces
• Sudden Aces
• Convincing Aces

1st edition 2025, PDF...

A card conceit based on a scientific principle never before used with a complete deck of 52 cards.

That statement above was true in 1921 when Adamathica was first released in a very limited run of 100 copies. Bertram Adams expanded the 27-card trick to a pack of 52 cards. The mathematics are based on Gergonne's Pile Problem.

EFFECT: The spectator is asked to make a free mental selection of any card in a deck of 52. This selection is made purely mentally without reference to any deck, hence it is not forced in any way. The same spectator or another, if there be more than one,...

The mentalist shows cards representing five drinking establishments and their signature drink, such as Martini or Old Fashioned. The cards are placed face up on a table on stage. The mentalist now invites three random spectators to join him on stage and explains they will play the parts of folks embarking on an imaginary pub crawl.

Because nobody knows how wild this night is going to get, each participant will select a fake ID under which they'll do their drinking. Three cards are shown, each bearing a different humorous name, and mixed face down and given to the participants. The mentalist...

4 Brand New Effects. I have not published these effects anywhere.

• Structured Procedure and Setup: Each effect is meticulously detailed with specific setups and methods. Most setups are minimal.
• Audience Management & Psychological Play: The magician's actions, patter, and even the "illogical" elements are designed to manage spectator perception and prevent suspicion.
• Apparent Fairness: Despite the deception, the goal is often to make the trick appear as if "magic was real," minimizing suspicious movements.
• Building Impossibility: Effects are structured to eliminate perceived solutions,...

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Geofencing is a location-based technology that creates a virtual boundary around a real-world geographic area. When a mobile device enters or exits this virtual perimeter, it can trigger automated actions.

Psychic Geofencing is a seemingly similar "psychic tech" which uses 2 minds only and no gadgets. Here the performer tries to fix fences or boundaries to the participant's thoughts while his mind roams around countries and cities of the world. The target is to ensure that the participant's mind is influenced to think of only...

During his lifetime in magic, Ian Adair has written and published more than 270 books, covering all branches of magic. His Encyclopaedia of Children's Magic was a bestseller, as were many of his more recent books on children's entertainment. Ian not only originates each effect and routine, but constructs models, and even makes a point of performing them in front of children of all ages.

Here is another big collection of super effects designed for the kids' show. Quite a number have been exclusive to Ian - now these are yours to practice and slot into your shows.

• Dedication
• Acknowledgements ...

This hard-to-find booklet reveals the methods of psychic mediums and their phony séances.

Originally published in the 1930s, this new, updated edition contains a wealth of added information. Audiences enjoy seeing the psychic entertainer perform effects based on historically accurate settings. If you perform or lecture, you may wish to reveal a few inside secrets of fraudulent mediums by picking and choosing from among the ones detailed by the author. If you do this, your audiences will hang onto your every word.

No matter if you're a psychic yourself, offering services to the general...

The third and final installment of our Jimmy Havilland tribute, from his long-out-of-print lecture notes. A simple, easy-to-execute sequence using four coins and an ungimmicked purse. It resets automatically, has no angle problems or complicated sleights. It actually works itself. Jimmy was known in London as "The Last of the Street Conjurors" and for good reason. We supply this to you as a free download to celebrate our 100th submission on Lybrary.com. Thank you for your patronage.

Cover art by James Humble.

1st edition 2025, video 40s.

A complete act with special effects, tricks, laughs, and surprises.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Ventriloquism, conjuring, shadowgraphy, mimicry, comedy, reciting.

• PART I. VENTRILOQUISM
  • CHAPTER I. The Practical Ventriloquist
    • No New Thing
    • Practice makes Perfect
    • There is Hope for All
    • A Useful Accomplishment
    • How to Begin
  • CHAPTER II. Breathing and Use of Figures
    • Methods of Breathing
    • Vocalisation
    • How to speak without moving the Lips
    • Ventriloquial Figures
    • Estimate of Outlay
    • A Few Practical Hints
  • CHAPTER III. Voice Illusions
    • Near and Distant Voices
    • The Drone
    • The Basis of the "Near" Ventriloquial Voices
    • Different Kinds of "Distant" Voices
    • Voices from Above
    • Voices...

26 installments from Racherbaumer's journal, which are directly or tangentially related to magic, magicians, and the amorphous body called the "magic community".

1. Clarifying "Fusion" Confusion; Modality Dalliance, Tilt Tizzy
2. An Open Letter to Rudy Coby
3. On the Steven's Control; Out of Sorts
4. Don Alan Transcript
5. Copycats; A Footnote Regarding Roger Klause; Secret of the Palmettos; Meeting a Master Mechanic; Setting the Record Straight
6. Deconstructing Harry
8. Diss and Data; A Railing of Idiots
9. Face-Up Triumph Poker Deal; Card Puzzle
11. Copycats
12. In the Interest of Credits; Flustration...

We have all heard of double-facers. They seem odd and dangerous. This eBook provides an in-depth analysis of double-facers (DF) and how they can enhance the success and deception of your routines.

This eBook is a comprehensive guide explaining DF principles, how to safely handle DFs, strategies, and 7 specific magical effects. This is the secret weapon that hides in plain sight. Double-facers are not known to the public. Discover how double-facers combine with double-backers to create miracles.

7 Effects:

• A Monte Effect
• A Mysterious Open Prediction
• A Great Indicator Card
• A Wild...

At last, an ebook dealing with superb routines for the kids' show - using a prop all children's entertainers have - The Changing Bag.

Ian Adair has brought together a complete collection of his tried and tested routines using all sorts of Changing Bags, including Flat Change Bags, Net Changing Bags, Swivel Handle bags, One Handed Changing Bags, plus special models which have been devised solely for certain tricks and routines.

Audience participation type effects - complete routines - original ideas - colourful magic. All designed for the children's entertainer.

• What they say about the...

The Spectator thinks of a card. Only he knows its identity. Cards are mixed together face-up and face-down. Now - in rapid succession - there are three shocking climaxes:

• Instantly, all of the cards turn face-up - with the exception of the thought card. It is the only card still face-down!
• Suddenly, the thought card vanishes and turns into the Hand O' Doom.
• The Spectator reaches into his pocket and finds among some other cards he placed there previously - the missing thought card.

FEATURES

• Entirely mechanical and self-working: requires no skill, no memorization, no sleights. ...

This will seem like an absolute miracle to your audience.

Effect - From a list of over 100 celebrities, 3 participants choose a celebrity each secretly in their minds. Nothing is written down. The first participant chooses some gifts for her chosen celebrity.

And you are able to reveal the celebrity in her mind. The 2nd and 3rd participants also choose gifts for their respective celebrities – but only secretly and silently in their minds. And yet you reveal their respective celebrities.

In a different scenario, some of the participants can either lie to you or tell the truth about...

• Perform the classic card illusion at any moment
• The thread is hidden in the card, not in your body. Have complete freedom of movement with no risk of breaking the thread
• Affix the anchor without having to look at the card

Note that some of the links provided in the PDF are outdated.

1st edition 2010, PDF 17 pages.

• Realiza esta ilusión clásica en cualquier momento!
• El hilo invisible está escondido en la carta, no en tu cuerpo. Tendrás completa libertad de movimiento sin ningún riesgo de reventar el filamento.
• Transfiere el anclaje sin tener que mirar la carta

Adventures, thrills, mysteries, dreams, numerology, astrology, fortune telling by cards, magic you can do.

This is a book Howard Thurston put out to promote himself. It has a lot of photos showing Thurston and his family, memorializing important events and experiences in his career. It also teaches some simple magic tricks. Arthur B. Chase writes in the introduction:

We have all heard of double backers. They seem odd and not very useful. This eBook offers a comprehensive perspective on the power of double backers (DB), and how they can elevate the impact and deception of your routines.

• This secret weapon hides in plain sight
• Double backers are generally not known by the public
• Simplify complex effects using a double backer
• Double lifts are more deceptive and look more natural
• Hands off Forces – The magician never touches the deck! And you can force more than one card
• Seamless Transitions: Utilize the DB to create the illusion that a spectator's...

"Fantastic force, the combination of methods is very fooling." - Kevin Aust

"The best card force I have ever seen." - Alexander Javier

"Beyond perfect, not just perfect." - Tony Bianco

There are many card forces out there. Too many, actually. But, in my opinion, none of them are 'perfect' from an effect standpoint. Some come close - however, I have yet to see one that fully gets there.

From an effect standpoint, what ingredients must a force have in order for it to be considered 'perfect'? I think these 6 ingredients are the answer:

• The magician must never touch the cards...