Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 128

This ebook was previously only available as part of Karma Deck Pro. But it is now being released separately for the first time. You, of course, need to own the Karma Deck ebook before you get this ebook.

There are a total of 13 routines explained here. For some of the routines, the performer need not even know the Karma Deck, it is enough if the deck is stacked in that order.

1. Birthday Surprise
2. Double Deck Drama
3. Cross Weight
4. Contact Card Reading
5. Telepathic Cross Weight
6. Scuba Card Diving
7. Mini Envelope Giant Routine
8. Untossed Out Divination
9. Wrong Memory...

You show one regular card and three cards with a hole in the center. The three cards with a hole are blank. But once you combine them with the regular card the holes vanish and the faces are not blank anymore.

1st edition 2025, video 2:53.

This count has one of the highest hide-to-show ratios of any false count. You are using four different cards, yet you can show each one three times in a row to credibly demonstrate you have a packet of three identical cards. Doing this four times with four different cards looks incredible on its own. Nevertheless, you would use this as part of a larger routine.

1st edition 2025, video 1:43.

A number, generated by the sum of the values of 5 randomly selected cards, will magically reveal the exact card predicted by the magician from the beginning!

The title refers to a semi-automatic card effect, in which the magician shuffles the deck and gives it to a spectator to cut and complete. He then hands him a pair of dice (he can also just ask him to imagine them) and, before throwing them, places a card face down on the table, announcing that it is his Pre-Vision of what will happen shortly. Once they verified the score obtained from the two dice, he stacks that exact number of cards...

• Foreword
• Doctor Jekyll And Ms. Hyde
• Invisodex
• Aces - Chicago Style
• Watch Your Aces
• Watch Your Aces II
• Switchblade Aces
• Ring In Nest Of Boxes
  • Ring In Nest Of Boxes - Plot
  • Disposition Of Props And Method
• Card In Wallet - Props
  • Disposition Of Props
• The Big Little Signed Card In The Wallet Scam
• Becker And Cyprian
• Bank Deposit Slip Prediction
• Match Box
• Addenda

1st edition 1983, 31 pages; PDF 34 pages.

Forcing a card is one of the strongest moves you can do. When the spectator handles the cards and the magician seemingly never touches the cards, you have a miracle waiting to happen. The reveal can be as extravagant as you want. All of these forces require no sleight of hand and are not well known. They can be done with the spectator's deck.

1st edition 2025, PDF 12 pages.

A series of cards, taken from four piles decided at the "Stop," are progressively eliminated, until only one pair remains to decide both a card and a number. Not only will that card be found in the deck at the number, but all the cards stacked under that pair will result magically divided by color!

Shocking Coloured Card at Number is a semi-automatic effect with cards, in which the magician shuffles the deck, then deals the cards into four separate piles, alternating between a spectator's "STOPS" and his own. Having collected the piles, he will gradually eliminate their cards until he...

While you turn over a small packet of cards, you palm the bottom card. Here, Peter uses this move in a small packet routine to have Aces and tens change their packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:59.

In the early '70's Jon Racherbaumer received 8 mm color footage of Chuck Smith executing a five-card poker hand switch. This was featured in the short film Lookout, Cleveland, now on YouTube. An excerpt is shown below. A letter from Smith is included here describing how he used it during WWII while in the military. This unique technique has been kept hidden until now. It is not easy, as many things are happening at once. This takes skill and nerve. The price is designed to keep it out of the hands of the curious. While we don't condone cheating, it is time this was recorded for posterity. ...

After the spectator's selection is lost in the cards (it really is), the spectator imagines (as if in a dream) his card in various scenarios (e.g., as a mirage in the desert, as a reflection in a mirror, on top of Mount Everest, etc.).

Neither the selection nor the scenarios could be known to the magician using his five senses. And the magician could not know where in the cards the selection might reside.

Using his sixth sense, the magician reads the spectator's mind and identifies each scenario the spectator has thought of.

But the chosen card's identity and its location are still...

A stunning color change. Four cards showing several pips, what Peter calls 'compressed cards', change into the four aces.

1st edition 2025, video 3:03.

A card, generated by pure chance, together with the precise will of a spectator, after the magician, using a special shuffle method to progressively eliminate pairs, has excluded every other card from the deck, it will be magically found.

This is a semi-automatic card effect, in which a spectator cuts the deck, shuffled by the magician, and begins to turn the cards over one by one, stopping when he wants. From that point on, the first two cards can indicate the value and suit (or vice versa, at his discretion) of a completely random card. Taking the deck back, and showing that it is neither...

Compelling evidence of other-worldly existence as demonstrated with pasteboards.

I never believed in flying saucers ... that is, not until that fateful night in 2003. You may remember it. That's the night the power went out from the northeast to the midwest, and even left parts of Canada in the dark. Sunspots? Tree branches? Human error? You might think you know the cause, but I know. Because I was there when it all went down.

And so begins this extraordinary card miracle that'll have your spectators believing in UFOs and extra-terrestrials.

A borrowed deck is shuffled and a spectator...

Effect: The spectator shuffles and cuts a regular deck, then chooses four cards, placing them under the table. After he picks one card by its position (top card, second card, third card, or bottom card) and moves the cards by an imaginary roll of the dice, the magician - without seeing or touching the cards - reveals the chosen card's identity.

If you have a client or friend you want to impress, this is the effect, plus you give them a souvenir.

• Two Methods: one method, no setup, totally impromptu
• Two presentations: one presentation the spectator chooses the card with his name on it. ...

Early books on magic, such as Modern Magic and Illustrated Magic (1931) stressed mastering the pass as fundamentally necessary to every card handler. As time went on, easier sleights such as the double cut to the break replaced it, rendering it anachronistic. Times change. Recently, a friend was asked to comment on one of today's card experts. Her reply, "Too much shuffling." Modern audiences often don't know what happened, but they sense when it happened (He did something tricky) because of excessive cutting and shuffling. Attention spans are shorter now so effects must...

A card and a number, generated by a spectator's imagination, find a perfect match in reality, in a deck of cards that was in plain sight, on the table, from the beginning.

An incredible mentalism effect with playing cards, in which the illusionist tells of an ancestral magical ritual in which all the cards participate, gathering at a sacred mountain ... There, in the grip of visions caused by alcohol and drug abuse, each will discover its assigned "place in life". A kind woman imagines their "return to their village," still tipsy and staggering enough that she easily succeeds in blocking...

You start out with four aces and eight other cards. The four aces are placed individually on the table with two other cards on top of each other. The aces magically gather in one pack and then immediately return to their individual packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:39.

Memes to quicken.

• Swoggled And Boggled / Charles McFarland
• Beyond Fabulous / John Bannon
• Cogent Triumph / Bill Goodwin & Larry Jennings
• The Spectator Works Harder To Triumph / Jon Racherbaumer & Peter Duffie
• Trait Secrets / John Bannon
• Strout Fellow / Allain Slaight & Cushing Strout & Stewart James
• One-Kai / Marc Serin
• Hull-Scam / R. W. Hull & Jon Racherbaumer
• The Elusive Jacks / Edward Marlo
• Last-Minute Departure / Jon Racherbaumer
• Post-Graduate 21-Card Trick / Edward Marlo
• Hefty Oil & Water / Larry Jennings
• Definitive...

Imagine this: A spectator shuffles a regular blue-backed deck and freely selects any card - no forcing, no restrictions. That card is immediately sealed inside an envelope, in full view. On the table, untouched from the beginning, lies a wallet - secured by elastic bands. Inside, the spectator discovers another sealed envelope. The envelope in the wallet is opened and a red-backed card is extracted. The spectator's blue-backed card is taken out from the envelope, two different cards from two different places. No envelope switch (only two envelopes used). No sleights. No clue. Yet when both...

Cristian presents three very different card tricks. However, they happen to share the same easy method, allowing the performer to focus entirely on the presentation.

The three routines play for very different audiences, in vastly different environments. They include:

• a light-hearted, highly visible card trick which can be performed standing in front of the audience
• a close-up "bar betcha" trick suitable for any close-up performance (planned or impromptu)
• a reputation-building stand-up mental magic (or mentalism) routine

His line of thinking can inspire magicians to increase their...

A prediction is lying on the table. The magician asks a spectator to cut a shuffled deck in three parts and to pile them up. Then, he removes the Jokers as he explains that he and the spectator are going to choose a card through an elimination procedure. To do so, he deals the cards in two piles and asks the spectator to choose one. They are left with one half of the deck. The magician deals the cards again and chooses a pile this time. They are now left with a quarter of the deck. The procedure is repeated a couple of times again (once with the spectator choosing a pile and once with the...

Effect: Two decks are examined and shuffled by spectators. A card is freely chosen from a third deck The Queen of Hearts (QH) and turned face up. The (QH), mysteriously appears at the same position in the two independently shuffled decks. The magician seemingly never touched the cards.

Imagine: Two spectators each shuffle a deck. From a third deck, a card - the Queen of Hearts (QH) - is freely chosen and turned face up. With seemingly no involvement from the magician, both spectators are instructed to count down to the same specific number of cards in their shuffled decks. The unbelievable...

A spectator chooses, through a special "elimination ritual", only four cards that will generate both a card and a number, which will magically be found in the deck.

A formidable semi-automatic card magic effect, themed "A.C.A.A.N.," or rather: "Card to Number," in which the magician, after quickly showing and shuffling the deck, explains that the whole world we know is characterized by Duality: Good and Evil, Light and Dark, Day and Night, Positive and Negative... We can also distinguish playing cards and numbers in the same way, and to demonstrate this, he begins by dealing out about twenty...

Spectator shuffles the deck. The magician immediately produces two of the aces. Spectator shuffles again. The spectator cuts to an ace. The final ace is found under impossible conditions.

This is not another cut the aces where the magician shows off his skill. The Gilbreath Principle meets corner short cards.

• Easy to do
• The spectator shuffles the deck numerous times
• Minimal sleight of hand
• 5-second reset
• No duplicate aces
• No double facers
• No rough and smooth
• A very deceptive force that could become your favorite

1st edition 2025, PDF 11 pages.