Magic & Mentalism: page 457

Astonishing card tricks using the rough and smooth principle.

The R&S (Rough and Smooth) principle is one of the best subterfuges of card magic, with trick decks like the Brainwave Deck by Dai Vernon (originally described in October 1938 - Issue 49 of Annemann's Jinx) being one of the classic trick decks of all times, and several dozens of other decks and packet tricks based on this principle.

Basically, cards roughed with roughing treatment cling together in pairs, to show as a single card when fanned with slight pressure, and separate when fanned lightly.

One can...

Transform your card magic from mechanical to memorable.

Most card magic books teach you the moves. But moves alone don't make magic. What separates a forgettable trick from a standing ovation is the story you tell while doing it. Card Tricks with Patter delivers ten powerful, audience-tested effects alongside something most books ignore entirely: the actual words to say.

Inside these pages, you'll find classics like "The Partagas Sell," "Five Card Plunger," and Dai Vernon's "Matching the Cards," plus original creations like "Three Wrongs Make a Right." Every trick is built on solid, manageable...

How would you like to perform a Matrix assembly without any sleight of hand and using some ungimmicked coins and two borrowed credit cards as covers? Well, Magnetic Attraction allows you to do just that.

Four small coins (US Quarters or any other small coins can be used) are placed out in a square, and when two borrowed credit cards are lowered over them, they start to instantly jump until all four are collected under one card. Very easy to do, you'll marvel at the simplicity of the method!

1st edition 2017, PDF 4 pages.

The spectator shuffles the deck. The spectator rolls the dice. The spectator chooses which die to use. The spectator deals the cards. And you never touch a thing. Then comes the impossible. The card they set aside as an "offering" is revealed to match the sum of the dice - a perfect 7. And when they turn over the four packets they dealt themselves? The Four Aces. It looks like the dice predicted everything.

Why you'll love performing this:

• Spectator does all the work. They shuffle, they cut, they roll, they deal. You appear to be a bystander.
• No equivoque. No force. The spectator can...

A card selected and then lost in a shuffled deck will inexplicably be found by the magician, following a precise path traced by the cards themselves.

The Path Leading to the Choice is a unique card magic trick in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator to cut and complete. At that point, he divides the deck in two and asks the spectator to choose one of the two halves, shuffling it as he pleases, while he does the same with his own half of the deck. The spectator then chooses any card from his half and lost it into his own bunch, placing...

Una Carta Selezionata e poi Dispersa in un Mazzo Mescolato, verrà inspiegabilmente Ritrovata dal Mago, seguendo un Preciso Percorso tracciato dalle Carte Stesse!

Il Percorso che Conduce alla Scelta è Un effetto inedito di Cartomagia dove il mago, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore perché lo tagli e ricomponga. A quel punto divide in due il mazzo e fa scegliere una delle due parti allo spettatore perché lo mescoli a piacere mentre lui farà lo stesso con la propria parte del mazzo. Lo spettatore sceglierà una carta qualsiasi tra le sue e...

A special surprise gift worth $12 is included inside.

I do not know how to pronounce 'Equivoque'. But I know how to perform it, like most magicians and mentalists. Equivoque is an age old technique which can be very powerful when performed right. There are many notable works on equivoque in magic literature.

But this ebook is not exactly about equivoque. This ebook is about a few unconventional techniques which when added to equivoque make it way more powerful and way more easy. And way more elegant. You are expected to know the basic equivoque (also called magician's choice) procedure...

The spectator shuffles the deck at the start. The magician removes a prediction card, then the spectator freely selects a card and loses it back into the deck.

Next, the magician has the spectator freely cut the deck, placing Jokers at the cut points. At first, the Jokers isolate a large section containing the selection, and eventually they sandwich the exact selection itself.

The deck is split at the selection, and behind all the apparent randomness, everything leads to the final outcome. There are three packets on the table, and the bottom card of each packet perfectly matches the...

From the pen of a noted world renowned European Fakir, generally known as the Talking Wizard. Revised from the original manuscript, together with footnotes, by Prof. W. J. Judd, manufacturer of magical apparatus in New York.

• Preface
• Opening Speech
• Short Opening Address
• Obedient Ball
• Watch Mortar
• The Inexhaustible Hat
• Tape Cutting Illusion
• Bonus Genius
• Mechanical Watch Target
• Egg Bag
• Ink
• Walking Cards
• Bell And Bushel
• A Glass Of Water
• Multiplying Coins
• Cake In Hat
• Mysterious Parasol
• Voizin's Caddy And Enchanted Vase
• The Wonderful Vase Of Bran
• A Card Speech
• The Magic Windmill....

This download features six strong, audience-tested, stand-up effects plucked from his own cabaret act. Martin shows you, in a step-by-step hands-on guide, how to make the "props" on your kitchen table quickly and easily with only basic tools and materials, and needing no special skills. Then, in live performance, see how the apparatus is used to really make magic.

Includes artwork in three PDF files.

Routines:

Two Color Torn Tissue: In this version of the classic "Torn and Restored Napkin," two different colored papers are used to explain how it works ... but the audience is still...

Away With Words is a collection of mentalism and mind-reading effects built on the most underestimated tool a performer has: language itself.

Across these pages, Luke Jonas argues that the strongest mind reading isn't built on gimmicks or hidden technology, but on the careful use of spoken and written words - the rhythm of a sentence, the construction of a question, the choice of a single phrase that lets a spectator believe they have given away more than they have. The effects taught here are practical, tested, and intended to leave a memory rather than a trick.

Inside, you'll find...

Coin into matchbox.

A coin is borrowed and a spectator's initials are written on a sticker which is stuck to the money. Holding the coin at fingertips, the magician passes his hand over the coin and instantly it transforms into a matchbox! That is already totally unexpected, but a second surprise comes when the box is pushed open to reveal the signed coin sitting inside.

video 5:51.

A very fooling card location and ACAAN effect.

Two spectators each cut a packet and remember the bottom card, then replace them into the deck. The performer has a spectator cut a large packet, then deals left and right on the table, eliminating the left pile each time, until only one card remains on the right. That card is spectator two's selection. Not only that, the top cards of the four dealt piles are turned over - their values add up to reveal the final position of spectator one's card.

• No force
• No gimmick
• No crimp

1st edition 2026, video 6:52.

A hard-to-find title, now available again to a new generation of performers and their audiences.

Psychic entertainers and mentalists: Make money telling fortunes with a deck of cards and this book. Many professionals have been doing this for years... and making big money at it. Now you can, too, but only if you have a card reading system that looks and sounds legitimate. Written by Robert A. Nelson, owner of the Nelson Enterprises mentalists' mecca, and a performer himself (as Dr. Korda RaMayne). Unlike other books on the subject, Nelson includes his own professional shortcuts to get you...

Imagine this ... information is written on a paper, it is then folded multiple times until it's 1/9th of the original size, and then it is locked into itself.

Despite the information being covered with two layers of paper from one side and six layers from the other, you still manage to access the center with just one single tear.

Here are its features:

• Wide writing area.
• Takes 3 minutes to learn.
• No fiddling for opening up the paper.
• You can show the paper front and back during the tear.
• You can also steal the center right after the 1st tear and open it with one hand.

...

The Reverse Force is a fantastic new force which is not known to have been used in the field of magic so far.

This is very easy to use and is very powerful. Once you understand the basic principle, you can start applying it in a multitude of ways in various tricks. This is a multi-use force to have in your toolbox.

The Reverse Force is so simple that it is explained in just a single sentence. The rest of the pages in this ebook are filled with a dozen killer routines using the Reverse Force. You will surely come up with several of your own applications for it.

1st edition 2026, PDF...

• Preface
• On Introductory Patter
• For Children's Entertainments
• The Handkerchief And Flag Trick
• The Egg And Card Trick
• The Wizard's Breakfast
• The Miser's Dream
• The Chinese Rice Bowls
• The Mutilated Parasol
• The Torn And Restored Tape
• Imro Fox's Pigeon Trick
• The Linking Rings
• The Clock Dial
• The Hoop And Water Trick
• The Sliding Die Box
• A Novel Spirit Slate
• The Spirit Slate
• Card Patter
• A Zan Zig Burlesque
• The Tinned Rabbit
• Conjuring Yarns In General
• A Ventriloquial Dialogue
• Billiard Ball Patter

1st edition 1923, PDF 48 pages.

You start out with four cards with a blue back on both sides. They transform into four cards with red back designs on both sides, plus they have a big hole through the middle.

1st edition 2026, video 1:49.

The First Korean Book of Magic, translated and annotated

The history of Korean magic awakens from a century of slumber.

A modern interpretation and commentary on Gisulhak, the oldest magic book in Korea, published in 1907.

Today, as Korean magic has risen to a world-class level, we have finally discovered the hidden roots that were once thought to be lost. Countries with a long history of magic have always possessed original literature to prove their roots. Key examples include England's The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), Japan's Shinsen Gijutsu (1696), and China's Ehuan...

Principles and stories from cheating at the blackjack table.

Price will increase to $35, once 50 copies have been sold.

Step into the world of 1980s Las Vegas, where the casinos were iconic and the stakes were a matter of life and death. In his gripping memoir, Dustin Marks reveals how he executed over 500 cheating plays and retired without ever being caught.

Discover the "Double Down from a New Deck" and the high-tech "Computer Cooler," a masterpiece of deception that netted $151,000 in a single night. This is more than just a story of crime; it is a master class in psychological manipulation...

From the early 1970's, this unique effect may be the most visual card transformation, without any suspicious handling, fingers spread wide apart, no cover-ups. Walter Cummings was a convention favorite from the old school. Angle proof and quite startling.Requires moderate skill.

1st edition 2026, video 36 seconds.

A fooling routine: the spectator cuts off a packet and notes the bottom card, then shuffles freely, replaces it anywhere in the deck, and shuffles again. The performer still locates the selection. Furthermore, the spectator decides how the shuffle is done; the deck is then mixed into three packets, and the bottom cards of all three packets match the value of the selection.

1st edition 2026, video 8:28.

Note: A one-way deck uses an asymmetrical back design. If one card is secretly flipped 180 degrees, you can easily spot it because the design is reversed.

DEDUCTION

A two-phase experiment in which the performer can apparently identify any card after memorizing a shuffled deck.

Phase #1: The spectator shuffles and cuts the deck, then selects a card and covers it with his hands. The performer runs through the deck, looking at the faces of the cards, apparently memorizing everyone of them. After a moment's thought, he deduces that the missing card is the 4 of Clubs. The spectator checks...

• Interviews with Famous Magicians
• The Humours of Entertaining
• The Art of Ventriloquism
  • Practice. When to Practice and How to Practice.
  • Distant Voice Work
  • The Figures. The Best Sort to Use. The Cost. How to Work and Where to Buy Them.
  • Stage Fright or Nervousness.
  • Showy Effects, etc.

1st edition ~1913; PDF 9 pages.