Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 81

Routines performed with a regular deck of cards.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• FEELING THE SPOTS (Howard Albright & Ken de Courcy): You reveal a freely selected card from a shuffled deck placed in your pocket.
• TRAMEZZINO (Aldo Colombini): A card is lost in the deck and four Aces are removed. The Ace of the same suit as the selection turns face down. The Ace is now face up in the deck and the face-down card in the Ace packet is the actual selected card.
• THE ULTIMATE GAME (Karl Fulves & Roy Walton): Amazing predictions with all the cards under the spectator's control.
• COMPELLING (Aldo Colombini): A lot of magic...

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Deception, subterfuge and a deck of cards.

The debut lecture notes from Daniel Madison. In 2005 Daniel held a private and invite-only lecture called ONE held at a secret location at the Blackpool convention, it was the success of this lecture that launched Daniel into the underground magic scene as a leading underground artist.

The 45-minute lecture led to his notes completely selling out. The lecture went down in history as the first of it's kind and the notes continue to sell to an audience of underground magicians across the world. Now available as an exclusive PDF instant download,...

Once Removed is a hands-off approach to the think-a-card plot.

You will be taught a method for revealing a mere thought of card in an extremely fair manner. There are no peeks or forces, and the deck can be given away after the performance if you so wish. Unlike most handling's, the spectator can truly think of any card, and can do this before the deck is even introduced. The clever principle at play allows you to easily discern the thought of card with very minimal memory work (no more difficult than, say, an "invisible deck"), allowing you to focus fully on presentation. The nature of the...

A finessed examination of a unique technique.

This manuscript is about a basic card technique that is sui generis, although it remains a limited application. Nevertheless, it is worth knowing because it's been cleverly used to perform one of the best short versions of "Triumph" extant.

The basic move permits you to secretly reverse a card while the deck is tabled and simultaneously riffle shuffled. This manuscript also reveals the how, when and who worked on it. The first Tabled Reverse appeared in Marlo's Off the Top in 1945, credited to Russell Barnhart. Therein it was sparsely explained,...

A card to mouth routine followed by a card to pockets sequence.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

Routine with cards that you will use. Includes Aldo's famous Jumbo Coincidence with a cut in half packet of jumbo cards. Special guest appearance by Cameron Francis who performs his two effects.

• ACES UP (Lin Searles): The four Aces are lost in the deck and they reappear on top.
• LOST AND FOUND (Nick Trost): You find a selected card under impossible conditions after the spectator shuffles the deck.
• JOKER DILEMMA (Aldo Colombini): A card matches your prediction and the whole deck turns out to be all Jokers.
• CARD LIE SPELLER (Marty Kane): One of the best versions of the 'Lie Detector' theme.
• A 'LESSEN' IN DISHONESTY...

The "Acrobatic Cards" captured Marlo's imagination - a brand new concept in a mechanical changing card. Now with this big ebook by Ed Marlo, the card trick is changed into a miracle...or a whole series of miracles! Plus an innovation called Marlo's secret Gimmick, which carries you even farther into the world of Acrobatic Cards. Contents include: six methods for handling the gaffed card, three methods for placing the selection, fifteen effects with Acrobatic Cards, Secret Gimmick, with ten effects, and a dozen inspired tricks including some by Jon Racherbaumer. Fully illustrated by Nelson Hahne. You will need...

With this specially gimmicked and prepared card, you are able to link it to a borrowed glass unnoticed in 3-5 seconds. The edges (which is very important for me) are completely intact and have no cracks. The card can be presented firmly linked to the glass as a souvenir.

What the video hides at the lower edge would normally be hidden behind a box, book, silk, or some other visual obstruction.

1st edition 2023, video 50 min.

A spectator signs a playing card which you link to the stem of a borrowed wine glass. The card can be moved while it is linked to the glass. Eventually it is unlinked. Both glass and card can be inspected by the spectator before and after the linking/unlinking sequence.

1st edition 2020, video 30 min.

The world's only examinable B'Wave - Two sets of blue Bicycle backed aces are shown. You table one set face down and have someone name any ace. With the other set behind your back, you manage to reverse their named ace (big deal!) However, you now spread the tabled set and their ace has magically reversed there too!

Next, you hand someone your set of aces and, whilst in their hands, the face of their ace vanishes and the backs of the other three change from blue to red! (They are now examinable!)

Finally, someone picks up the tabled set and, with the cards in their hands, their ace becomes...

This is a very deceptive and visual 3-4-4 count, hiding one card, developed by Ed Marlo. In case you wonder who or what 'Olram' is, that is Marlo spelled backwards.

runtime: 1min 32s

"The Filet Mignon of Ace Assemblies." - Ed Marlo

Olram Aces is a tribute to the genius of Edward Marlo which shows how Marlo's lifetime work steadily influenced Jon.

The presentation makes maximum use of the gaffs and the Aces in the non-leader packets disappear in different ways that are successively stronger. It has been audience-tested on laypersons and magicians.

In typical Racherbaumer style you also get a history on the Ace Assembly plot starting with The Discoverie of Witchcraft.

1st edition 2009; 10 pages.

Effect: Show to spectator 4 blank cards. Suddenly the blank cards change into four normal face cards. Additional supplies may need to be purchased to perform this effect.

length 3min 29s.

Show five cards face down with red backs. Magically cards turn face up one by one revealing four Queens but with blue backs. For the climax, the four Queens have now entirely different backs, and the fifth card has yet another back we haven't seen before.

1st edition 2023, video 2:35.

There is something incurably viral about this curious card problem. Does anyone know? What's so irresistible about displacing, displaying, counting, spreading, mixing, re-mixing, un-mixing red and black cards? What's the allure? What's the incentive? Yet, despite all cease-and-desist entreaties, methods keep popping up, including the ones in this compact manuscript.

The Ten Phase routine described in this ebook combines ideas and handlings by Hideo Kato, Dave Solomon, and Edward Marlo. You can figuratively use the Oil and Water patter theme, referring to red cards as "water" and black cards as "oil," but some...

A classic of card magic: Oil & Water. This version is done entirely face-up, a strong and unusual version of this classic effect.

1st edition 2024, PDF 4 pages.

This effect appears described briefly, yet adequately, in the Singapore Lecture Notes. This is a more thorough description and is accompanied by clear photographs, making it easier to learn.

The routine uses four black cards, and four red cards. Interlaced three times, they always separate. The moves used are smooth and create a lovely illusion. It does not look like sleight of hand, it really looks quite convincing! Heavily based in Marlo's work.

1st edition 1985; 1st digital edition 2009; 18 pages.

Aldo Colombini's favorite plot is Oil and Water. He has collected literally hundreds of variations over decades of performing magic. He has selected the best and most unique representatives of his collection here in his Oil and Water series of download DVDs.

Ten more powerful routines on the classic theme.

Contents:

• DIMINISHING OIL & WATER (Aldo Colombini): Four red cards and four black cards are mixed and then separate. You repeat with six cards, then four and then two (?). At the end, the whole deck separates into black and red.
• TRI IT (Karl Fulves): A fast oil & water routine with six cards. ...

Aldo Colombini's favorite plot is Oil and Water. He has collected literally hundreds of variations over decades of performing magic. He has selected the best and most unique representatives of his collection here in his Oil and Water series of download DVDs.

Ten powerful routines on the classic theme. All performed with regular cards.

Contents:

• FOURTEEN-CARD OIL & WATER (Nick Trost): An easy routine basically self working.
• ITALIAN DRESSING (Aldo Colombini): I am biased but this is my favorite oil and water routine. Four phases.
• OIL & QUEENS (Roy Walton): The routine became a classic and still...

Another Oil and Water routine from the creative mind of Peter Pellikaan. Openly mix the cards, and by just flipping some cards around - they UNMIX!

You will need:

• a split facer (vertically split in the middle)
• Elmsley Count
• OPEC Count

length 2min 14s

Here is an astonishing ending to one of the classics of card magic - "Oil & Water". There are many ways to perform it, but Mario Tarasini has created an extremely visual final phase with face-up cards and just before the very eyes of the spectator. After a couple of your favorite phases of Oil & Water, this is an amazing way to end the routine. Just tell the spectator to not blink and she/he will witness a miracle. Requires arts and crafts to prepare the gimmicked cards.

length 9min 7s.

The oil and water effect is a classic of card magic, some love it, some hate it. If one has ever seen Rene Lavand do it slow motion with one hand you probably love it. But there is only one Rene Lavand. Some say the effect of red and black cards separating is rather weak, until Roy Walton added a kicker in 1969 where half the cards change to Queens. Dave Bendix tweaked Walton’s handling. Bob Stencil and Terry LaGerold devised a narrative that logically excused the surprise appearance of the Queens. Jon Racherbaumer and Jeff Busby independently expanded the kicker to not only change half the cards but...

This is a full deck false shuffle that is based on the Hindu Shuffle. Very easy to do and very deceptive looking.

runtime: 2min 41s