Magic & Mentalism: page 35

9 Hands off effects you can do completely naked

Elimination: A card prediction without cards

The bills trip mystery

• "Happy Hour"
• "Money transfer"

• 3 card monte
• 4 card monte
• 5 card monte
• all hands off

Take my order: Imagine you are performing in a restaurant, you approach a table.
"I am your waiter. Are you ready to order?"
"Actually my name is …, I am a Performer"
"You are the waiter and I am the customer!...

Innovative! Brilliant! Impossible! As seen on TV! So, what is Crazy-8? A signed piece of paper is torn, rearranged, and restored MIS-MADE... and it's still signed. No tape, no glue, just magic! The spectator keeps the cool souvenir of your awesome magical powers. Plus, you'll learn how to do it with a borrowed dollar bill. Imagine that!

Includes: Fully illustrated instructions with the professional script written and performed by Harlan. Original artwork for making your own gimmicks... no refills needed. Full instructions for Crazy-Cash with information on how to obtain the secret materials...

A very visual and entertaining effect, complete with presentation, beautiful graphics, and soundtrack.

You will predict :

1. The ingredients freely chosen by spectators to make their unique "Crazy Cocktail"!
2. The price of the cocktail!
3. An additional, totally free choice made by the spectator at the last second before the revelations. The prediction will be found in an envelope the spectator had in her hands since the beginning of the routine. The envelope is normal, is not switched, and can be examined by the spectator!

The ebook includes:

• Every detail for maximum impact with...

Borrow a credit card and show the strips found on back of the card. Now just with your finger tips peel the identity strip completely off, restore it and return the card with your hands completely empty. A timely presentation around the issue of identity theft.

Unique magical effects and routine ideas made possible by the handle on a tea, demitasse or christening cup. Dozens of new moves, sleights, and subtleties beyond traditional cups and balls and chop cup routines.

Descriptions and definitions of T-cups and objects suitable for producing minor miracles and new feats of conjuring with free and ungaffed materials – simple teacups and small, common objects.

Explanation of more than sixty (60) moves using T-cups.

Detailed patterns of performance with T-cups using these moves.

A complete description and identification of 57 cup and ball...

Cybercup is a fast attention grabber with nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Based on a well-known handling, this effect will fool your spectators.

Do it for yourself in front of a mirror. You'll fool yourself, so strong is the illusion.

Cybercup is a fast, visual, and interactive effect. Whether you are a miracle worker, salesperson, event host, or public speaker, this will help you break the ice and engage people in an instant.

The effect has been created to be remarkably visual on camera - whether that's using Zoom, FaceTime, Instagram Live, YouTube, or Skype. Your (digital)...

Cyclopedia of Magic is an interesting book. It's primary quality stems from its alphabetical organization. It was compiled and written to provide the magician with a wide and solid background of magical knowledge. It provides definitions, descriptions, biographies and some routines on hundreds of magic topics. It is for the most part a compilation of material contributed by magicians such as August Roterberg, Charles Bertram, Eddie Joseph, Ellis Stanyon, John Mulholland, T. Nelson Downs and many others.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects (15 are card tricks the other 15 are non-card effects) that have appeared in various magazines more than a decade ago. There is no overlap with any other English ebooks by Werner Miller.

Two effects won the 1998 and 1992 Tenyo Magic Competition respectively!

The magic journals these effects have been published in are:

• Genii
• [lc=2163 Magigram
• The New Tops
• Club 71
• Tenyo Magic Catalog

• Under Down Puzzle
• PP-AA-II-RR-SS
• Update on an Old-timer
• Court Couples
• Double Match
• Add the Values
• A la Hofzinser - Plus
• Focused
• Mathemagician's...

This is a collection of 30 tricks which appeared in Genii, Magigram, The New Tops and Club 71 - all before 2000. As usual with Werner Miller these are math based without any difficult sleight-of-hand.

• Paradox Candles
• What about Magic Squares?
• Square Bet
• Square Move
• Two Way Forcing Device
• Hallucina-Turn
• Pip Dream
• Clean Cut – Plus!
• You Do K(Not) As I Do
• Running up the Odds
• Around the Table
• Permission to Lie
• Color Spelling
• At 100 “Pair” Cent
• Right – right – right – right, again!
• Yes, David, I Will!
• Diamond Speller
• E-Z Elmsley
• The Equation of the 8th Degree
• EZOP
• 4tuitous
• The French...

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects based on math, geometry and logic.

These tricks originally appeared 2000-2003 in the print magazine Club 71 and in the online journal Online Visions.

The list of effects:

• Questa poi!
• Sandwich Sympathy
• Squaring the Cards
• Partner Swapping
• That Ace of Clubs!
• Three Chances
• Two to Toulouse
• Pointing the Way
• Australian Zodiac
• Diamond Speller II
• Everyone's a Wizard
• Right there!
• Fetsch + Hofzinser
• Ask the Cards!
• Magic Is Easy
• Split Personalities
• A Salute to Aberystwyth
• About Turn!
• Trikolore
• Club Speller
• Watch the Joker!
• Cupidity
• Escort Agency
• Without...

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects based on math, geometry and logic.

These tricks originally appeared 2003-2005 in the print magazine Club 71 and in the online journal Online Visions.

The list of effects:

• Tripod
• I Can Work Wonders
• An Under/Down Force
• Piercing
• As Easy As Counting
• Stand to Lose
• Auto Transpo
• Color-Ado
• Klondyke Separation
• Criss Cross
• SEVENade
• Spellimination
• Pars pro toto
• Value & Suit
• Inseparable
• Go West!
• Pentaflush
• PuzzLegacy
• Cheers!
• Tabula rasa
• Marked for Matching
• Triple Jump
• CATO Plus
• SymboliClue
• ColOracle
• The Proof
• Hey, Peter!
• Promo
• Quiz...

These tricks originally appeared 1999-2010 in the print magazines Club 71 (later The Magician), Abracadabra, The Mystery Magazine, and in the online journal Visions.

The list of effects:

• An "Honest" Card Trick
• Janus-faced
• The Magnetic Joker
• Royalties
• Daltonico
• No Risk But Fun
• Thanks to Fibonacci III
• Orthochromatic ESP
• Aleaque
• Sex and the City
• Betwixt
• Family Affairs
• L'addition, s'il vous plait!
• Bizarre or Romantic
• BalVallaBel
• Happy Birthday!
• Bubble Sort
• Swindle Sudoku
• Shake Well Before Use
• Mixed Double
• Seeing Black
• Age Cube
• 4-3-2-1
• More Monge Shuffle Trickery
• Obedient to the Word
• Two Spelling Tricks ...

These tricks originally appeared 2006-2012 in the print magazines The Magician, Abracadabra, The Mystery Magazine, and in the online journal Visions.

The list of effects:

• Astro Nonet
• Double Sandwich
• Taken In Tow
• Quadrigula
• Stebbins Combo
• Joker Out – Your Card In
• ESP Twins
• Three Predictions
• Nothing
• Color Filter
• Sey On
• J. O'Seph
• Liar's Clock
• WYSIWYG
• Good Bye, Joe!
• Symbol Pattern Squares
• Migratory
• Lined Up
• Vive le Roi!
• Magic Patchwork
• Ghost Rider
• You Push the Button
• Fives or Sevens?
• He & She
• High Math
• Higher Math
• Quod Licet Jovi
• A la Harry
• Six Times No
• Not

1st edition 2012; 31 pages....

This is truly a gem, an early Vernon publication, the lecture notes to his first European lecture tour in 1955. Explained are classics of card, coin and ball magic and Vernon's Thumb Tie routine:

• Three Ball Transposition
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief
• Seven Card Monte
• Expansion of Texture
• A Chinese Classic
• The Thumb Tie

1st edition 1955, 1st digital edition 2014, 14 pages.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is the revised and expanded second edition. (The first edition can be found here.) In particular it includes two additional effects: "Follow the Leader", and "Vernon's Automatic Gambler".

• Introduction
• "Topping The Deck"
• The Royal Marriages
• "Follow the Leader"
• Vernon's Automatic Gambler
• Addition And Subtraction
• The Little Dictators
• Winged Silver
• Two Impromptus
  • (1) Fallacy Of Vision
  • (2) Matchless Digits
• A Cigarette Switch
• Heads Or Tails
• Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick
• Snow Storm In China

2nd edition 1949, 41 pages; PDF 38 pages.

This is a fascinating combination of biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets researched and recorded by Dai Vernon and Lewis Ganson.

Vernon was an intimate friend of Leipzig. Vernon not only saw many performances given by Leipzig, but Leipzig also explained Vernon in detail how all of his tricks worked and how they are to be performed. Vernon recorded this in his notebooks from which this publication was prepared by Ganson and Vernon. It is therefore fair to say that this is as close as you will ever get to learn from Leipzig.

Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could...

These were Ken de Courcy's USA lecture tour notes. It includes great material which puts entertainment first and foremost.

• The Haired Card - a comedy surprise with four outsize cards from a pack.
• Balloon Prediction - three balloons, the audience nominate the colors, these magically burst one at a time ... then you show that you knew the order the spectator chose and made a prediction to that effect!
• The Economy Card in Balloon - a simplicity version of the great classic effect.
• Explosive Rope Cut - cut and restore a rope with a bang. Unusual and good!
• Seeing is Disbelieving - spectators...

Definition of DARE

As you read this ebook, "may your deceptions dare to dazzle and delight". May you find the imagination and boldness to take the mechanics of the tricks herein and find the dynamics to make them dazzle and delight.

In this ebook, you'll learn a diverse range of unique close-up and mental magic effects --- discover how to use a GPS Card with strategic roughing techniques, how to pre-stack a deck that can be freely shuffled, accomplish the pen-thru-bill trick with a borrowed pen, learn how to visually...

From the Foreword:

J.J. ZAPPATTA. The enigma, the man of mystery who hung with the shadows throughout the course of many a magic convention, over many a decade. These books are a first glimpse at the crazy and wild world that was/is ZAPPATTA. And, at last, his clever levitation is fully explained in Volume 2!

All items are described in J.J.'s brief and point by point style. If you're not prepared to THINK, J.J's not interested in ya. Period. Illustrated with Mr. Zappatta's crude but informative sketches.

1. THWONG
Flip-Flops (or thongs) are a kind of footwear fashionable at resorts, beach-side, and other casual...

All items are described in J.J.'s brief and point by point style. If you're not prepared to THINK, J.J's not interested in ya. Period. Illustrated with Mr. Zappatta's crude but informative sketches.

1. ZIP-WOW
A super-quick torn and restored card or dollar note. Looks absolutely perfect and is examinable.

2. CELL-PHONE GLIM
Put the ubiquitous cell phone to clever use as a "glim device".

3. PERFECTO-CIRCLE CARDS
Revealed, the underground secret for cutting perfectly bur-less holes in playing cards. Idea for users of the Eidetic-type changes. (If you have to ask, then this is not...

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...

The story of the late Jesse Demaline and 65 years in magic. Apart from his interesting life story there are lots of his effects: Mental Magic 21 items, Children's Magic 21 items, Close Up Magic 23 items, Miscellaneous Magic 26 items. This ebook received great reviews from Terry Seabrooke and The Magic Circular when it was first published.

MENTALISM AND SECOND SIGHT

• The Act
• Card Mentalism
• The Handkerchief Test
• The Jay Dem Book Test
• Card Transition
• Psychic Visions
• Absolutely Silent Card Mentalism
• Designs
• One In Fifty-Two
• Animal Magnetism
• Jay-Dem Mentalism (Using a Dictionary)
• Pools Win
• A Good...