Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 42

Use the Minus One Bottom Deal as a fake center deal. (You will need the description of the Minus One Bottom Deal to perform this move.)

runtime: 32s

Way Back in 1963 the Magic Castle opened its doors to the outside world so it could see the great variety and talent of magicians from all over the world. It began simply, but kept growing until today it is a world famous and beloved institution.

So it is with someone who wants to learn how to do card tricks. They begin in an easy manner with simple props and a minimum of skill. Slowly they grow in stature until someday they can hold their own with any other card magician in the world.

This booklet, small as it is, is the Open Sesame for people who want to learn to do card magic. It is...

The magician holds a card in front of his body and with a wave of the hand, the center vanishes only leaving the border.

This is an improvement to the older version because it does not require a black background. You will need the usual supplies and arts and crafts for gaffing cards.

1st edition 2022, video 19:20

A super visual partial vanish of a playing card.

Performer holds an empty card frame in one hand and a playing card in the other. By moving the playing card behind the frame the back of the playing card partially vanishes only leaving its frame visible. This looks incredible since the cards can be moved around and everything looks as it should. One could suspect CGI, but everything is achieved with gaffed cards and sleight of hand.

This requires the usual supplies and arts and crafts for gaffing cards, plus a black background like a black T-shirt.

1st edition 2022, video 33:40

A visual partial vanish of a playing card.

Performer holds a playing card in front of his body. Suddenly most of the card vanishes leaving only the border behind.

This requires the usual supplies and arts and crafts for gaffing cards, plus a black background like a black T-shirt.

1st edition 2022, video 27:24

Kevin Parker has created a prediction effect that is too impossible to be true: you predict where their card will land in a shuffled deck (*this many* cards down in the deck), mixed in someone's hat to eliminate false shuffling in the hands.

This uses no gimmicks and no trick decks. Use your hat or their's, no specific type. Very practical.

• Spectator can assist the shuffle in hat.
• Use anyone's hat, even your's, no specific type.
• Easy, a complete beginner could do it.

1st edition 2018, length 10 min

A deck is shuffled by a spectator. A card is picked in a fair and open manner. The card is returned and the deck is shuffled again by the spectator. The performer takes out four cards, one of the four is the spectator chosen card. The chosen card vanishes leaving only three cards in the performer's hands. The card appears face-up in the tabled deck.

runtime: 11min 58s

Three face down cards are show and tabled to one side for the moment. Introducing a regular deck of cards, you have one selected, signed across its face, returned and then lost.

The deck is now set aside, as you show the three cards tabled earlier. Incredibly, all three appear to be the signed selection! Then the cards become shy and refuse to show their faces in public, backing away from everyone (all three cards now have backs on both sides!) Finally, they all return to normal!

This is a brilliant routine and easy to perform. Only three cards are used - apart from those in your deck...

This is a fun card trick with multiple climaxes. It starts off as a 4-Ace production trick, then it goes wrong as 4 random cards are produced instead of the 4 Aces. Next, these random cards are shown to be predicted on the magician's Facebook page. Not to be outdone, the magician also produces the mates of the 4 random cards. At last, the magician produces the 4 Aces. Of course, the best part is that the deck is face-down almost the entire time and it is handled by the spectator.

1st edition 2020, PDF 8 pages.

Includes a more clarified explanation of Marlo's "Super Count" routine, and a lot more.

• Frank Shields: Bits And Pieces
• Super-Counting Caper
• Tabled Bottom Placement
• Gutting The Glut
• Everybody Is A Magician
• Re-Rereading
• Quick Note For The Cow-Pawed, Gibblefisted,
• Scram-Handed, Ballock-Handed,
• Keg-Handed And Cack-Handed Brethren
• Shades Of Ricky Jay
• The Credit Game
• Magic As Stamp Collecting?
• Marlo And The Second-Dealing Monkey
• Remembering Al Koran
• Guess What?
• Color Monte Notes

1st edition 2017, 70 pages.

• Last Card to Laugh (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Sounds of Silence?
• Face Value?
• Elevated Elevator (Edward Marlo, Frank Garcia)
• Shiner Notes (Files of Jon Racherbaumer)
• Remembrance of Things Passed (Jon Racherbaumer)
• About a Procedure for the Clock Trick (Jon Racherbaumer)
• The Cardini Control (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Niggling Narrativity (Jon Racherbaumer)
• New-And-Clear Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Bare-Faced Boys With Decks In Hand (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Impromptu Casino Shuffle (Gene Castillon)
• Notes on Peek Decks
• Marlo's Spread Lift (Edward Marlo)
• Magic: On the Edge: Trick-Soup For Dummies? (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Constructive Criticism ...

• Introduction
• Charlie Miller's Material in Expert Card Technique
• A Glimpse through the Fourth-Wall Window
• Uncontrolled Prediction (Edward Marlo)
• Indecent Exposure?
• Numero Trois (Blair Bowling)
• Breathing Heavy (Blair Bowling)
• Hofzinser, Carried Away (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
• Putting a Placement in Its Place
• Wee Madness in Vegas
• Yakety-Yak (Don't Talk Back)
• Footnotes to a Book-In-Limbo
• Busby Follies Redux
• "F" Is For Fake

1st edition 1996, 35 pages.

This issue of Facsimile includes the complete contents of the first two (and only) issues of Jon Racherbaumer's periodical Marlophile. Jon has reformatted Marlophile, and added some additional routines.

• Publisher's Note
• I
  • Introduction
  • Marlo's Personal Annotation
  • Marlo's Variation Of The Zarrow Shuffle
  • MARLO In IBIDEM (1956-1969)
• II
  • Introduction
  • Marlo's Personal Annotation
  • The Easy Way: A Bottom Deal For The Millions
  • Two Memory Bits
  • Mental lie
  • Slop Shuffle Or Triumph?
  • Whispering Snitch

1st edition 1995, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 50 pages.

• Introduction
• Marlo's Routine For Abbott's Chinese Coins
• Cursory Commentary On Close-Up Fantasies Books 1 & 2 By Paul Harris (1980)
• Bombshell Twins
• LSDM Aces
• LSDR Aces
• Patter For The "Ropes Of India"
• Clipper Passage
• Deuce Sandwich Ideas
• Better Than Best Lie Speller
• Simplex Lie Speller
• Complex Simplex Lie Speller
• Whose Oil And Water?
• Million Dollar Card Secrets By Frank Garcia

1st edition 1994, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 55 pages.

• A Decade Later
• Publisher's Notes
• Round-Trip Travellers
• Student's Exchange
• Marlo Card-To-Pocket Items In Print
• Detached Collectors
• Table Side Manners
• Future Trap
• Olram Cunningly Catches A Card
• The 1003-1006 Aces
• An Apparitional Bit Of Nonsense
• On The Spread Cull

1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1994, 50 pages; 1st digital edition 2020, PDF 52 pages.

A startling series of visual card changes created by Didier Dupre and performed by Aldo Colombini. The routine is based on the Paul Gordon trick called "Spectrum." This is an amazing card trick which is fun to do and has a stunning climax. You show four cards which are mis-printed, in fact they have faces on both sides (the cards are clearly shown on each side). One card is placed in the pocket but it comes back to the packet in hand and this time it has a back. The other cards develop a back as well and you now show four cards with different colored backs and all can be examined!

A second...

Three great effects combined into a stunning routine.

HEAVY TRAFFIC: You place a prediction face down between two face-down Jacks. The prediction disappears. You try again placing the prediction face up between the two face-down Jacks and the prediction card vanishes once again. You place an 'invisible' prediction between the two Jacks. A spectator chooses a card, say the 7D. The Jacks are fanned and the invisible prediction has become visible. It is indeed the 7D!

SEIZE THE NIGHT: The two black Jacks capture the same amount of cards cut by a spectator and then capture a previously freely...

You ask the spectator to blindfold you, or you turn around so that you can't see anything that the spectator is doing. You really do not see anything! You ask the spectator to create 5 piles of 10 cards each, so that 50 cards are in play. You tell her to make sure that there are 5 cards face-up and 5 cards face-down in each of those 10 piles. They can be in ANY order, and she is to do all of this ordering in ANY way she wants, without telling you (and, of course, you can't see anything that she is doing).

You then let her know that you are going to separate each pile of 10 cards blindfolded...

Two outstanding effects. The first effect is totally impromptu and can be done with a borrowed shuffled deck. It is completely hands-off. This is an impossible location that will fool even fellow magicians. You will get phenomenal reactions from your spectators.

The second effect is called the spectator's revenge because he will find his own card. This is a really fun and surprising routine.

Everything is explained in detail. You may need to buy something extra in order to perform the second effect - Spectator's revenge.

1st edition 2021, video 19:24

An interesting evolution of the classic "card to ceiling effect". Two cards are involved.

The first card appears on the ceiling as in the classic card to ceiling effect. A little later, a second card is selected from which a corner is torn off. This card is now suddenly on the ceiling where the first card was before. Alternatively, you could use a wall or a pane of glass.

1st edition 2022, video 38:38.

Using only one card, this is probably the easiest and most deceptive Torn & Restored Card ever created. The ingenious creator of this is Ben Harris and he calls it Hoodwink. One could call this self-working, because all you do is fold, tear and open an ungimmicked card. It can't get any simpler and the effect is amazing.

Kenton adds his clever suggestive words that let the spectator dig his own hole of astonishment.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 1998.

runtime: 6min 48s

You, a spectator, a deck of cards, a miracle!

A spectator shuffles a deck of cards, you instruct them to hold the cards face up, under the table, so that only they can see them. Despite these test conditions, you apparently display a genuine feat of 'remote viewing' by attempting to name each card in turn, as if you are somehow able to 'see through the table'. With an accuracy way beyond the odds you are able to prove to your audience that they are witnessing a real demonstration of 'psychic' ability and what you claim to be true, must be possible.

This effect will completely 'blow away'...

An exceedingly clever location of two cards using the Free Cut Principle by the inventor of this beautiful principle.

Effect: The performer hands a deck of cards to one of two spectators with the request that he shuffle it, and then divide it equally with a second spectator. While this is being done, the performer turns his back.

Now each spectator is instructed to select a card from his respective half. Next they each exchange a number of cards so that the performer doesn't know how many cards each man holds, or which cards were selected (and he doesn't). Now the performer tells them...

This is an ACAAN effect using two decks.

The performer shows two decks closed within their boxes. A spectator selects one of them and puts it aside (This deck will be used later). The perfomer asks the spectator to remove the second deck from his box and to check if the deck is a regular deck. At this point the performer instructs the spectator to select a number and a playing card using a very clean procedure with this deck. The spectator for example chooses 31 and Ace of Spades. Now, without the performer touching the decks, the second spector removes the first deck from its box and counts...