Magic & Mentalism: page 26

This ebook contains bets, puzzles, games and challenges that you can use to entertain, amuse and be the life of the party. Learn how to make metal float on water. How to turn a drink upside down without spilling a drop. How to balance a glass on a note. How to lift a bottle with a straw. How to inflate a bag in one breath. Along with many, many more!

1. Bridge Building
2. Balancing Fork
3. Odd Coin Challenge
4. Blown Away
5. Alternating Drinks
6. Lift Without Touching
7. Drink Turnover
8. Mousetrap
9. Cork to Glass
10. Cup Lift
11. The Drop
12. Balance a Glass on a Banknote
13. Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up
14. Floating Paperclip ...

Introduce your business cards or credit cards in a fun new way.

EMERGE
Your Business Card / Credit Card or a Playing Card eerily emerges out of the inside compartment. [One time setup and you are good to go for hundreds of performances. The speed is completely under your control. Resets Instantly.]

CARD DART
Your Business Card / Credit Card jumps out of wallet. [Even for the laziest person set-up will takes less than 10 seconds]

Works with any regular bi-fold wallet. You can keep all your stuff in there and still perform these. Also included in the explanation is CARD DART II which is an impromptu take on it's earlier version.

(For the PDF please check your digital shelf.)

1st edition 2015, length 18 minutes....

Shadow is a great utility prop that you make yourself for less than about $13! With Shadow you can switch cards, billets, money, or anything else you can think of. It can be used in mentalism routines to bring in a prediction; you can also make vanished objects appear in an impossible location. You are really limited only by your imagination.

Not only do you get very detailed instructions on how to make this prop (it takes about 3 minutes or so) and handling techniques, but you also get a hard-hitting routine that David uses as a closer in his formal close up performances. The routine is...

Time Flies! And it's hard to time it because it flies so fast. Anyway, here is a routine with a borrowed watch that you will find fun to make up. Even the most ham-fisted should be able to complete the job in about half-an-hour. It's fun-packed and the magic content is strong. In brief a borrowed wrist watch disappears in a cascade of streamers and is found in a sealed tin can.

5 pages

From the introduction:

Parlor and stage magic updated! Includes a version of the 6 Card Repeat that has an actual climax as well as a Vanishing Candle you can perform within inches of the audience.

This ebook is for the parlor/banquet/stage performer that wants to add funny, well-thought out, and highly visible routines to his or her act.

A performer that wants tricks that actually work. Where the nasty things, like angles and spectator management have been thought out.

The material is:

• Solution 6 - a 6 card repeat that has an actual magical climax and a totally logical story line. This routine is loosely...

These are notes for one of Jerry's lectures. It helps if you saw the lecture as only the essential workings are provided, but the drawings and details are sufficient to make out most of the effects. References several moves taught in Andrus Deals You In without providing the specifics.

• Vanishing Pen
• Pen Under Cards
• Reversing Pen
• Pill Tube Mystery
• Rope And Handkerchie
• Twin Pipes
• Tube Steal
• Tube Load
• False Load
• Extra Ball Move
• Lap Vanish
• Fist Vanish
• Slow Motion Vanish
• Ball Vanish
• A Utility Move
• A Routine For Twin Pipes
• Geiger Counter Routine
• They Pick The Aces
• Fan Reverse
• Torn Card
• "How It’s...

This was a lecture Jerry gave in Japan in 1974.

• Mylar Mystery
• Twin Pipes Routine
• Needle Thru Handkerchief
• Coins Thru Handkerchief
• Reverse Shuffle Mystery
• Sudden Surprise
• Coin Up Sleeve
• Waterfalls
• Vanishing Pen

1st edition 1974, 1st digital edition 2015, PDF 19 pages.

The last book of the late Stewart Judah. A remarkably fine magician with a wealth of material, and the ability to teach it through the printed word. This ebook reflects all his favorite themes, cards, ropes, ribbons, childrens' tricks, coins, all written in his scholarly way, with reference to other sources, philosophical observations, and the gentle sweet humor that was Stewart.

35 tricks and routines, illustrated by John Braun, plus rare old photos, a profile by Leslie Guest, an introduction by Mr. Braun.

• Introduction
• S.J. Four Paper Balls And Two Hats Routine
• Penetrating Bill
• Torn...

• Mylar Mystery
• Match Book Magic
• Bill and Pen
• Bill and Card
• Ring, Pen and Handkerchief

1st edition 1974, 16 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, PDF 17 pages.

• Mylar Mystery: ball and cone with a Mylar sheet
• Matchbook Magic
• Bill and Pin
• Bill and Card
• Ring, Pen and Handkerchief
• A Novel Force
• Slot Machine
• Coin Go
• Minor Miracle
• Effects with a Ball
• Perfect Package: ball appears and vanishes in a flattened box
• Paper Bag Moves

1st edition 1974, 28 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, 36 pages.

This is number 4.5 of the Paul Diamond "Gems of Magic Book" series.

• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Okito Coin-Box Routine
• Transpo Silks Deluxe
• Rattle-Bars Are "Ringing"
• Produce The Load Chamber
• Case To Table
• Son Of King Tut - Levitation
• The Kraus-Kut
• Roll-Over Coin Sleight
• A Good "Music-Stand" Table
• Wrist-Coin Flip
• Block and Rope Penetration
• Thumb-Press Coin Vanish
• Simplex Salt Shaker
• "Super Coin-On" Variation
• Fishpole-Flagstaff Production

1st edition 1974, 23 pages; 1st digital edition 2015 PDF 23 pages.

"I pause my magic show to bring you a special public service announcement. It has come to my attention that someone has regretfully become his own grandpa. Needless to say he has become the laughing stock of all far and wide. This should never happen to anyone. Consequently, through the help of this diagram, I am going to explain how it happened so you may not ever find yourself in this unfortunate situation."

For forty years this interlude has proven itself an enjoyable diversion for the middle of my magic show - demonstrating the versatility of the performer. No singing ability is required...

One of the things Jerry Andrus is known for are his safety pin tricks. He has created a whole range of methods and moves and effects. Enjoy an array of truly bewildering effects with the lowly safety pin. [Please note that no safety pins are included with this download.]

• Foreword
• A Word From The Author
• Materials Supplied With This Book
• About The Pins
• Triple Link From Spectator's Fingers
• "Tap" Linking
• From One To Another
• Triple Link From Table
• Strike Linking From Table Or Spectator's Palm
• Vanish Of A Linked Pin
• A Lu Brent Method Of Switching
• Impossible Repeat Link
• A Snappy Penetration
• Acrobatic Unlinking
• Strike Steal From Spectator's Fingers ...

Twelve practical effects from an award winning performer's professional repertoire.

With 42 pages and twelve effects, this ebook has something for everyone. Whether you perform Close-up, Strolling, Trade Shows or Platform shows, you are bound to find something here that you can use. Everything included is well within the ability of the average performer. Effects using sleight of hand are simple and well known sleights many of which you probably already know. Includes photos, illustrations, and even templates to create these effects yourself.

Hobo Travelers - A no palming version of the...

Here Jerry reveals six effects with his famous Linking Pins. They are:

Spectators examine three safety pins and hand them back to the performer who immediately demonstrates that no matter how the pins are laid on the table they will invariably end up with all their opening sides facing the same direction. If the performer attempts to lay one of the pins down facing the wrong way it will flip itself over in front of the spectators eyes.

Next the pins are shown to repel each other violently when held in a certain way.

The three pins are layed flat on the table. Performer picks up one...

Get into the Christmas spirit. This ebook is entirely devoted to tricks and routines for Christmas. Presentations and ideas with tricks you may already own. Instructions for creating or making tricks in the holiday mood, nothing difficult. Pages of ideas to make extra money at Christmas with your magic and your showmanship. Get yourself a Christmas present now and put it to work for you.

• SANTA CLAUS PASSE?
• CHRISTMAS SEASON AND THE MAGICIAN
• Suggestions for advertising
• Selling the show at established locations
• Advertising the Magic Show and/or Santa Claus
• Creating a Santa Visit Center ...

This ebook includes both the text and the photos of the original two volume hardcover set. Each of the almost 1000 photos is available twice. The first time the photos appear dispersed through the text close to where each photo is first mentioned. And the second time all photos are together in one place, the same way this material was originally published - text and photos separate. Having the photos included with the text avoids the constant reference to another volume. But having them also together by themselves allows for a stop-motion-like viewing of the action.

It is easy to sing the...

Beautiful sleight of hand close-up magic abundantly illustrated:

• Novel Card Test
• Handkerchief Card Change
• Coins Under Card
• Needle Through Handkerchief
• File Card Revelation
• Dollar Bill Delusion
• Card to Pocket
• Coins and Handkerchief

1st edition 1964; 1st digital edition 2015, 15 pages.

More beautiful sleight of hand close-up magic this time with pen, card, bill and a handkerchief. Jerry carried the 'nameless' theme further and didn't even give the routines a name. You will learn three effects:

Effect 1: A ball point pen is rolled up in a dollar bill. The bill is then unrolled and shown repeatedly on both sides, with no sign of the pen. The bill is again rolled into a tube and the pen produced from same.

Effect 2: A playing card is folded up with a dollar bill. When they are unfolded the card is found to be undamaged.

Effect 3: The penetration of a pen thru a handkerchief. ...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• Thimble And Wine Glass
• A Juggling Feat
• The Rod And Ring
• A Humorous Card Item
• The Jardine Ellis Slate Mystery
• An Experiment In Telepathy
• Card Divination
• The Holder Of The Egg
• The Measured, Cut, And Restored String
• Coin Levitation
• The Magnetised Knife
• The Floating Wand

1st edition 1925, 32 pages; 1st digital edition...

From the introduction:

Another silent film from the 1950s showcasing magic performed and explained by Peter Warlock. He teaches mostly magic with ropes and silks. It was recorded in the Harry Stanley Unique Magic Studios. The man behind the camera was Lewis Ganson.

• Robin Hood Knot
• A Colourful Surprise (cigarette pack to flowers)
• A Tale of Three Ropes
• Take Your Pick! (two rings one rope)
• The Amiable Silkworm (appearing silks)
• Porous Silk
• Two Cords one Ring
• See How It Runs (salt from silk)

All of these clever tricks use magnets in one way or another.

• Buddha Coin Mystery
• Fortune Telling Coin
• Cup Levitation
• Grant's Match Penetration
• Mental Detection
• Living and Dead Test
• Clever Coin Vanish
• Sliding Glue
• Improved Sliding Glue
• Psychic Lock And Keys
• Rising Cards And Wand
• Coin Through Block
• Box - Cover and Coin
• Tip-See Pencil
• Improved Imp Bottle
• Improved Wands and Cords
• Stopping A Watch
• Handkerchief Box
• Nu-Coin
• Rolling Cigarettes
• Adams Coin Box
• Magnetic Cigar
• Three Shell Game
• Number Detection
• Mystery Man

PDF 15 pages