Magic & Mentalism: page 459

Are you tired of magic effects that fool people - but don't amaze them? Have you ever watched a spectator's face "break open in genuine, unguarded astonishment" and realized they weren't amazed by a trick, but by a fundamental violation of reality?

Most magicians treat the duplicate card like a last resort. A gimmick. Something you use when you don't have the chops for the "real" method. That's exactly backwards. The duplicate card doesn't ask your spectator to miss something happening in front of them - it asks them to fail to conceive of something entirely. Nobody watching card magic...

While these impressions and pieces of information about the world of conjuring were gathered before, during, and shortly after WWII, many are true today as they were almost a century ago.

• Who is Frances Ireland?
• CHAPTER 1 In the Beginning
• CHAPTER 2 Conventions!
• CHAPTER 3 Impressions
• CHAPTER 4 Who are They and Why do They do it?
• CHAPTER 5 'Taint Necessarily Tricks!
• CHAPTER 6 "Catching" Shows
• CHAPTER 7 Do it for Love
• CHAPTER 8 Magical Dimensions
• CHAPTER 9 You Can't Take it With You
• CHAPTER 10 Magic Bandits
• CHAPTER 11 Your Child Will Not be a Magician
• CHAPTER 12 Magic - the Theatre's...

On the Zombie floating ball effect.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Inside this ebook, you will find an abundance of good effects designed for children's shows. Tricks and routines suitable for all age groups. A real mixture. There are no individual chapters and no indexed sections - just one effect after another. The accompanying illustrations should assist the reader in the making of the apparatus or the working of the effect.

Table of Contents

• About this book...
• Foreword
• Preface
• Horse Play
• Fly Me To The Moon
• Tale Of A Tadpole
• Bunny-Bow
• Magic Card
• Piff...Paff...Poof
• Tick-Tok Bag
• Silken Butterfly
• Puzzling Pins
• Red Herring Paper Tear
• Wanderful...

Most mentalism books teach you methods. This one teaches you how to perform.

If you've spent years collecting techniques, learning routines, and chasing the latest release, yet still feel there's a gap between what you do and the reactions you want, The Art of Mentalism was written for you.

Drawing on years of professional performance and creating material used by mentalists around the world, Luke Jonas explores the elements that truly separate memorable performers from forgettable ones. Not billets. Not peeks. Not forces. The real secrets: presentation, confidence, attention control,...

In the cleanest of manners, three coins quickly and magically jump from one of the performer's hands to the other.

No gimmicks required, this just uses regular coins combined with some sleight of hand. Not a routine for the beginner, this magical-looking effect needs to be performed on a close-up pad.

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This is a completely impromptu ACAAN. The spectator names any number and freely remembers a random card. In the end, the remembered card appears exactly at the named position.

However, I prefer to think of it as a card control system - a method for controlling a merely remembered card to any desired position with no setup whatsoever. Without question, this concept can take your card magic to the next level.

Performance transcript:

• This is an impromptu ACAAN routine.
• The deck can be thoroughly shuffled at the start. No setup required.
• Have the spectator freely name a number. ...

A card chosen "blindly" by the magician will inevitably be revealed by the spectator, inexplicably.

A brand-new card magic effect in which the magician, after showing and shuffling a deck of cards, hands it to a spectator who, after cutting and completing, one or more times as desired, returns it to the illusionist. The latter, without ever turning the deck face up, runs his fingers along the backs of the cards until he chooses a mysterious card, which he draws from the deck and places, face down, on the table.

Before choosing a card himself, the spectator is free to ask the magician...

Una carta scelta "alla cieca" dal mago verrà inevitabilmente rivelata dallo spettatore, suo malgrado!

Un effetto inedito di Cartomagia dove il prestigiatore, dopo aver mostrato e mescolato un mazzo di carte, lo consegna ad uno spettatore che, dopo averlo tagliato e ricomposto, una o più volte a suo piacere, lo riconsegna al mago.

Quest'ultimo, senza mai voltare il mazzo, ne scorre tra le mani i dorsi delle carte, sino a scegliere una carta misteriosa che estrae dal mazzo e depone, coperta, sul tavolo.

Lo spettatore, prima di scegliere anch'egli una carta, sarà libero di chiedere...

A convincing poker demonstration and more.

A routine of poker deals that can be performed without long practice or great skill, plus it can be done anywhere and with absolutely any pack!

The performer deals two-handed stud, five-handed stud, four and five-handed draw poker, and finally gives an exhibition of "cold deck" work.

The magician has absolute control of the cards at all times and yet no resort is made to bottom dealing, second dealing, shuffle stacking or other difficult methods. This routine is a boon to the performer who is requested, after he has performed a few card effects,...

The complete art of two-person mind reading. From casual signals to a full professional code system.

For more than a century, audiences have watched in amazement as two performers appeared to share a single mind. A borrowed object is identified from across the room. A thought-of card is revealed without hesitation. A blindfolded performer names information they seemingly could not know.

The Accomplice pulls back the curtain on one of mentalism's most powerful principles: hidden communication.

Inside these pages, Luke Jonas takes you beyond traditional Second Sight and introduces a modern...

In the classic presentations of this popular illusion, solid metal rings appear to magically link, unlink, and penetrate one another to create different formations and chains. Most linking ring routines are suitable for both intimate and stage settings and generally include handing out rings for examination to demonstrate the impossibility of the effect. The visual and auditory elements in the handling of the rings enhance the mystery and help move the audience to surrender their initial suspicions and simply enjoy the spectacle of rings in motion. Daryl's particular treatment of the Linking...

A small coin (10p/US quarter) is tipped from a purse and marked with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials. It is then taken into the performer's closed fist, the other hand being shown otherwise empty.

The purse is then laid flat across the top of an examinable glass tumbler so that the top of the container is completely covered.

The hand is then brought down with a slap onto the top of the purse, opening as it does so and instantly a coin is seen and heard to penetrate the purse and fall into the tumbler.

With both hands clearly empty, the purse is lifted away to reveal that...

Using the classic Gemini Twins principle, these are two expanded routines with much stronger climaxes. The spectator may call stop at any time, and face-up cards are placed at those stopping points, leading to effects far beyond the original plot.

Performed with a regular deck. Easy handling, powerful impact.

Triple-Path Gemini Twins:

A spectator freely selects a card. The performer then deals three piles, and the spectator calls stop three times at any moment during the deal. A face-up card is placed on top of each pile at the stopping points. The cards are squared, and the deck...

Tecniche di base

Un videocorso serio e professionale per imparare a padroneggiare un mazzo di carte e fare splendidi trucchi in pochissimo tempo! Giogan un vero esperto nel settore, sia nell’esecuzione che nell’insegnamento, ti prende per mano e ti insegna passo dopo passo le tecniche di base dei giochi di prestigio con le carte. Potrai studiare seriamente i trucchi con le carte e stupire il tuo pubblico.

Vuoi imparare ad eseguire dei bellissimi trucchi con le carte in maniera professionale ?

I libri che compri con le spiegazioni dei trucchi ti fanno impazzire perchè non ci capisci...

New semi-automatic tricks for the mathematically minded performer.

Table of Contents

• Therapy
• Period
• Loyalty
• Mating Season
• Stripped Down
• Klondyke Oil & Water
• Match as Match Can
• 3 – 6 – 9
• Invisible Bonds
• Last Card Standing
• Ruled Out 1
• Ruled Out 2
• Trained Poker Hands
• consensus
• In Order to Delight
• Wingers
• Easy Sandwich Production
• Acid Test
• Monge/Slop Surprise
• Joe's Procedure
• Mirrored
• Sfilata
• Novel Dice Stacks
• 3 – 4 – 5

1st edition 2026, 42 pages.

Here's a question worth sitting with for a moment. What if you already knew the card before the spectator touched the deck? Not because you're skillful. Not because you're fast. Not because you forced it with your hands. But because no matter what they do - shuffle, cut, mix, choose freely - they are going to pick the same card every single time.

That's the one-way forcing deck. And in the right hands, it's the most devastatingly fair-looking card magic you can perform.

What this eBook covers: The one-way forcing deck is one of the most underrated tools in card magic. Most performers...

A card mystery that focuses on chaos? Now, who among close-up workers wouldn't like to check out something as novel as that?

The term "At Sixes and Sevens" is a term from the distant past and means simply being in a state of confusion or disorder. This manuscript offers something off the beaten path - carefully paired off cards that instantly end up in a jumbled state.

The Sixes and Sevens, reds and blacks, eight in all, are openly sorted and paired off by colour, then with a wave of the hand, disorder occurs. Two pairs now consist of a red Six and a black Seven - yet the other pairs...

If you use children as volunteers, this routine will have your audience in stitches! Adds new life to the classic linking rings, which most every magician already owns. No difficult moves or designs, just lots of laughs. Rave reviews from those who've seen it performed.

"Gene Gordon's original comedy routine with the linking rings is a riot, to state it mildly." - Frank E. Cole

"Gene's Comedy Linking Ring Routine, in which he tries to teach two youngsters how to do the Linking Rings, is one of the best, and funniest, presentations available." - Milbourne Christopher

Routine...

A free gift for the Lybrary community - my way of saying thank you.

Back in Its Place is a complete, performance-ready piece of card mentalism, and it's yours at no cost. Most of what I sell is built on the same thinking you'll find here, so consider this both a working routine and an honest sample of how my material is put together.

The effect:

A sealed deck is borrowed and opened in full view - every card in factory order. A spectator freely removes a card, looks at it, and replaces it wherever they like. Moments later it's sitting face up in a face-down spread. And when the deck...

Here's a great way to show an audience that you're a top-flight manipulator. This routine will bring you plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" from the crowd.

The performer's hands are placed together - fingers interlocked - then shown empty by showing first the palms and then the backs. Suddenly, up pops a playing card. The hands are shown empty again and another card is produced. This can be continued for 15 to 20 cards without reloading.

The thumbs are free - no preparation. The audience sees it the same as illustrated on the cover. Can be done any time. Use any playing cards. You'll understand...

New semi-automatic tricks for the mathematically minded performer.

Table of Contents

• Klondyke Square
• Pair Skating
• Puzzle Square
• 4 x 4 + 4
• Pure Guesswork?
• 2 + 2 + 2 + 1
• Penta Match
• pair saldo
• Echo, Echo
• re-pair-able
• -1, -2, -3
• ESP Test
• At-10-tion, Please!
• C ? L O R
• 13 + 2
• Courtly 12
• Shortlist
• Cryptic Open Prediction
• Salt & Pepper
• Salt & Sugar
• No Milk, Please!
• Cheers! (1)
• Cheers! (2)
• Templates

1st edition 2026, PDF 49 pages.

A pure verbal divination of a childhood dream.

"The strongest mentalism isn't about revealing information. It's about revealing something a person forgot they were carrying."

Every one of us had an answer. When we were six or seven years old, we were absolutely certain what we were going to be when we grew up. Astronaut. Footballer. Teacher. Doctor. Firefighter. We told our parents. We told our teachers. We spoke about it as though it was already decided. Then life happened.

Vocation allows you to bring that forgotten dream back to the surface and reveal it with nothing more than...

A pure verbal divination of the hero a person feels they are.

"People don't pick a hero. They recognise one."

A participant is asked a simple question: If you had to choose one hero that feels most like you, who would it be? Not their favourite. Not the coolest. The one that genuinely reflects who they are.

Without writing anything down. Without props. Without electronics. You reveal the exact hero they are merely imagining.

But that is only the beginning. Archetype is not really about superheroes. It is about identity. Using a carefully structured verbal process, you guide a...