Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 116

This is a very powerful two-spectator coincidence effect, where one spectator selects (and loses) a card under very fair conditions, and then a second spectator impossibly locates the card. I will teach two versions, one in which the second spectator can't look at the card they reverse under the table and one in which they can. (The effect description and conditions below are for the former version.)

Imagine:

The magician introduces a deck of cards - he spreads it face-up to display that all the cards are different. He then hands the deck over to one of the spectators and asks them...

In the art of magic, the ultimate goal is to create a moment of pure, unadulterated astonishment - an experience so clean and impossible that it transcends mere trickery and feels like real magic. For the spectator, this requires an effect built on a foundation of total fairness. The challenge is to guide them to a place where the only remaining explanation is: your spectator has just experienced the impossible.

Effect: Imagine this from your spectator's perspective. You are handed a deck of cards. You inspect it and shuffle the deck. When you are satisfied, the magician turns his back....

Four superb card routines.

From the introduction:

From Val Andrews' introduction:

A lovely story trick involving two queens, four kings and two hotel rooms. Both the faces and the numbers of cards in two piles magically change.

length 5:29

"This totally fooled me! It's VERY clever and VERY deceptive." - Marc Paul

"By far the best solution I've seen for this card plot. I have numerous unpublished solutions of my own but none are as deceptive as this one. When the Unnamed Magician first shared the basic idea with me, I was blown away." - Tommaso Guglielmi

"It really does live up to its title." - Alexander Javier

"An outstanding method. The creative thought process that is needed to come up with something like this is something I can't even begin to imagine." - Tony Bianco

"A mystery for the ages. I can't see anyone, layman or magician, working...

A deck is borrowed. It is thoroughly shuffled by a spectator. The performer has any spectator think of any number between one and fifty-two, but not to reveal it to anyone until asked by the performer. Nothing is written down. The number is simply thought of. The performer now has a different spectator name any card. There is no force of any kind! After a very funny gag, the performer for the first time asks the spectator to reveal the number that he has merely been thinking of. Let us assume that the number is twenty three. Without any fumbling or manipulation of the deck, no cuts, no shuffles,...

Effect: After shuffling the deck, the magician turns away, while the spectator cuts the deck and deals cards face down into two piles, stopping whenever they choose. The magician then reveals the bottom card of each pile. As a kicker, the spectator selects any numbered card, and the magician tells them which card is at that position in the remaining deck. After demonstrating the procedure, the magician never touches the cards again.

Description: If you have taken the time to memorize a stacked deck but rarely put it to use, that's about to change. This effect is powerful and simple to perform....

Effect: After the spectator shuffles the deck, he looks at a card in the fairest conditions and buries that card in the deck. He then freely selects a helper card (QD) and cuts the deck again. Unbelievably, the Helper card finds the spectator's card without the magician touching the cards.

Description:

Imagine a routine where the spectator does everything. They shuffle the deck, they look at any card - no force required - and they bury the card into the deck. You don't touch a thing while they "fairly" lose their card in the pack.

Why it's a must-have:

• Total Freedom: The spectator...

This is an effect by Francis Carlyle. It is an unusual revelation of a peeked at card. The Ace of Spades, also known among gamblers as 'the bullet', is used to shoot out the spectator's card.

runtime: 2min 22s

The Guinn Utility Backslip or GUB is an extremely versatile and surprisingly simple technique, which can be used to accomplish or replace all of the following sleights:

• Control card to top
• Control card to second from top
• Control card to bottom
• Control card to second from bottom
• Multiple Shift (all of the above done with two or more cards)
• Sidesteal
• The Pass
• Secret Reversal
• Top Change
• Multiple Top Change
• Bottom Change
• Multiple Bottom Change
• Color Change
• Lap
• Gambler's Cop
• Tenkai Palm
• False Deals

The most exciting feature of the GUB is that all of these applications are...

"Another look at the Three Of Clubs problem" and you will be hard pressed to find an easier, more practical application than this one. Performer places a card on the table, spectator thinks of and names any card in the deck. Performer turns over his prediction and wow...that's it!

The raw effect is impressive: Performer extracts a card from the deck, placing it face down to the table. Spectator now names any card that comes to mind, with the tabled selection revealed as the one thought of. Yes, as brief and as straightforward as that.

A firm favourite that has been making the rounds for...

A spectator signs a freely selected card (no force). The card is replaced into the deck which is shuffled and thrown loose into a McDonald's paper bag (or any other bag, or container, which can be borrowed and is completely ungimmicked). The bag is shaken by various spectators - the cards are genuinely mixed-up. The magician then reaches into the bag whilst looking away - and brings out a single card. It is the signed card! This is so easy, self-working, and perfect for close-up or on stage.

You can find the only blue card in a red deck - whilst properly blindfolded. Includes a fantastic,...

A matrix effect with playing cards.

[Also available as a video download.

Without a doubt, this "matrix" with playing cards created by Aldo is truly special. A splendid opening routine and a surprising ending.

The classic trick of four coins that gather under a card is presented here with playing cards that are found under a jumbo card. The manipulations are really simple; they should already belong to the repertoire of every magician. In a close-up magic program, this could be the only card trick to be presented.

Effect: The A, 2, 3 and 4 of Diamonds are placed on the table, in a square formation. The cards are covered...

A card magic act that won the hearts of millions.

In 2024 Mark Lewis appeared on the Canada's Got Talent television show and got a sensational result winning $25,000 and a place in the semifinal by winning the Golden Buzzer. You have to see his performance below.

Now you can learn the entire act from the man himself, Mark Lewis, with all the bits of business, additional ideas, and showmanship the man has to offer. You do not need to be a sleight-of-hand wizard to perform this act. Clever sequencing, psychology, and a winning persona are the keys to success, and of course this ebook, too. ...

Changing Collectors
Three spectators choose three cards. You lose the selections in the deck. You produce the four Kings from your pocket. The four Kings turn face down magically and after this they change into the four Aces and the three selections appear between the Aces.

Cheese In My Pocket
This is a reverse collectors effect. You put three selections between the four Queens. Then you cut the seven card packet in the middle of the deck. The three selections disappear from between the Queens and you produce them from your pocket.

1st edition 2011; 4 pages.

In this PDF, I am publishing a very strong variant of my effect The Gift. I call this variant The Gift 3 - I've already published another effect called The Gift 2, hence this is the third effect in the series.

If you first watch the performance video of The Gift (using the aforementioned link) and then you watch the performance video of The Gift 3 (below), you will notice a crucial difference that makes this variant more impossible-looking. Thus, this variant is a good performance piece for those magicians who are aware of the workings behind the original The Gift...

In this PDF, I am publishing one of my most treasured secrets. Like The Exception and The Gift, this effect was originally released as a competition here, where the first person to figure out the method (within a one-month time frame) was to be rewarded prize money. However, no one who entered the competition managed to figure it out.

I call this effect The Gift 2.0 because effect-wise it's very similar to The Gift, even though the method is different.

I won't expose the method of The Gift here but I will speak in 'code' and say this: for those of you who own...

Another trick that fooled the best cardmen in the world.

"This is a fooler! The Unnamed Magician has created an impenetrable mystery that not even your magician friends will be able to figure out. It's really well constructed and how he gains the secret knowledge is ingenious!" - Marc Paul

"A truly diabolical method which will fool even the most knowledgeable of card magicians!" - Matt Baker

"There aren't many creators reaching the same standard as Unnamed Magician when it comes to creating real mind puzzling card effects; you need to be Alan Turing to break these codes. In this effect you are...

Originated by Martin Lewis, retailed for many years, and manufactured in a larger than jumbo size, by Ken Brooke, and enhanced by Wolfgang Riebe.

An incredible giant 4 card routine that totally bamboozles your audience. Three blank cards and an ace are shown and the audience is instructed to follow the Ace. They always get it wrong. An unexpected surprise finish occurs when there is only one blank card and three aces!

An incredible stage routine for any serious professional.

The video instructions include:

• Full explanation
• Custom make your own giants cards for under $15
• 30 years of refinement explained ...

The principle facilitates in determining the position and identity of the matching of cards in two decks, which have been randomized by the cutting of each deck. The principle works in conjunction with a memorized stack. A presentation is given where you don't have to commit a stack to memory.

The Gerats Principle enables you to perform the following effect:

Two decks are on the table. After two spectators have each cut one of the decks to their heart's content, the magician is able, without handling the cards, to tell whether there will be a matching of cards (ie: 2♥/2♥)) at a certain...

The Gemini Motif is an apparently fair-looking, semiautomatic dealing procedure that forces two, three, or four cards, depending on its application.

• Introduction
• The Gemini Motif: Background of the Gemini Motif
• The Basic Automatic Placement Procedure
• Junking Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Blushing Gemini (Jon Racherbaumer)
• On Perfection Day (Henry Evans)
• Caster & Pollux (Allan Slaight)
• Multiple Gemini (Al Thatcher)
• Free Will Refutation (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Collected Bibliography

1st edition 2016, 31 pages.

Stephen Tucker is the magician who prefers a clever gimmick over a difficult sleight. That is not to say that he isn't capable to execute some of the most difficult sleights - and you will get a taste of those in this ebook, too. But the real strength here are Stephen's clever gimmicks and uses for common items and the fun and amazing routines he constructs with them.

• 13 card miracles
• 9 bonus effects (originally published in the Talon)
• 27 futuristic coin routines

1st edition 1983, original 73 pages, PDF 109 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
5. Introduction

   PARAGON - card effects...

This second volume of The Gaming Table is from a magician's point of view much more interesting. It includes a history of dice and playing cards including a fairly detailed description of how playing cards were made. It has a chapter on fortune telling with cards. And it also features a surprisingly good chapter on card tricks with explanations for four sleights (false shuffle, false cut, glide, card change) and 18 very nice card tricks. Among them we find a version of the prearranged deck and two person codes.

For people interested in Erdnase it is interesting to note that at the beginning of the...