Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 18

Dai Vernon's "The Travelers" plot has always been one of Scott's favorites. In this eBook, Scott has compiled several of his streamlined handlings for this plot. All of them are very easy to do, and one of them is almost self-working!

In addition, Scott has included "A Visit to Boise," a routine inspired by Larry Jennings' "The Visitor" that makes a great follow-up to "The Idaho Travelers" (the first routine in the book). This book ends with "Sun Valley Serenade," Scott's super-easy handling of Jack Carpenter's "Multiplex Reset."

5 routines, 50 pages, with 52 photos

Level: Intermediate

"Idaho Travelers" is a GREAT routine...

"Unfathomable is an absolute killer! Rock on, Cameron. Rock on!" -- Jamie Daws

An incredible, super easy, completely examinable prediction effect that fits in your wallet!

Effect:

The magician removes a packet of playing cards and two face down business cards. He shows the playing cards to be a mix of red and black spot cards and then gives the packet a shuffle. Saying that there are two predictions on the business cards, the magician places one in front of the spectator and one in front of himself. During an extremely fair procedure, the spectator divides the cards between the magician and...

The performer places a blue deck and a red deck on the table. The blue deck is given to the spectator to hold for the entire performance. The assisstant is invited to select any card from the red deck (without looking at it). Next, the playing card is inserted face-down in the face-up deck. Neither the performer nor the spectator knows the identity of the card.

The magician then invites the spectator to open the blue deck which was given to him at the beginning of the effect and instructs him to spread the cards face-up on the table. When the cards are spread face-up, it is seen that there...

Ever thought that all other Oil & Water routines were a bit boring? Did you think they lacked some visual elements? Here’s Holy Blood Holy Water! A super visual multi-phased Oil & Water routine. Just imagine seeing the card mixed and then separate in front of your eyes.

This is the most visual Oil and Water routine to date, and, best of all, it’s easy to do! Virtually sleight free. There’s no reset and no need for a table, it can be done in THEIR hands, which probably makes this the most workable and commercial Oil & Water to date as well.

This manuscript details Daniel’s version...

The Best of Peter Duffie 1 consisted of material extracted from all of Peter's ebooks prior to the year 2005. It was published by Magic.org. Peter has published more books since that date.

"The Best of Peter Duffie is a perfect cross section of card magic’s evolution over the years. Duffie has worked with so many legendary figures that his inspiration is a frenzy of possibilities. Each trick in this book was selected as the very best of Peter Duffie’s extensive online library." - Aron Smith

You may ask. ‘if volume one was “the best of” then what is special about Volume 2?...

Spectator merely thinks of any card out of 52 and that card is the only one with a different back than the rest of the deck. But what if the spectator would have named another card? To demonstrate the performer takes another card and visually moves the off color back from the first selection to the new one. A very visual and stunning transformation.

runtime 9 min 32s.

Ten super card routines.

• IMPULSE (Peter Duffie): A three-phase routine with a finale that will blow their heads off. A card changes place with another card with a hole!
• REMEMBER/FORGET (Mike Rogers): A quickie but so commercial where a card is revealed under a spectator’s finger.
• A BUNCH OF BLARNEY (Aldo Colombini): The classic plot of the Lie Detector revealing a selected card and the four Aces.
• COMPOSITION (Aldo Colombini): Incredible routine with a lot of surprises. A closing effect!
• WILD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Stand up magic at its best. The classic Wild Card Theme performed entirely in...

AN AMAZING TRANSPOSITION OF TWO SIGNED SELECTED CARDS WITH AN INSTANT REPEAT!

Each of two audience members (our good friends Bob and Sue) select a card and sign its face. Sue's card (the 3S) is placed on top of the deck, while Bob's (the KD) is placed in your pants pocket. You put Sue's card, reversed, in the center of the deck. After a magical gesture, the deck is spread, and... the reversed card at the center is Bob's signed KD! Remarking that you thought you put Bob's card in your pocket, you reach into said pocket and remove the card--only to find that it is Sue's signed 3S!

Sue's...

RED HOT MAMA'S LIPS IS A VERY POWERFUL CARD EFFECT. THIS ONE HAS IT ALL, A SELECTED CARD'S BACK CHANGES COLOR, TRANSPOSITION OF TWO CHOSEN CARDS, AND A GREAT KICKER ENDING THAT LEAVES YOUR SPECTATOR WITH A GREAT SOUVENIR.

What do you get when you mix Red Hot Mama with a killer presentational twist and a powerful finish! A great card routine, that's what--Scott's most performed card routine! "The Guinn Touch" applied to this Al Leech classic means an audience-pleasing presentation, motivated moves, and ease of performance with a complete script. Everything you need to put this signature piece...

The 1st installment of the "Sit-Down Card Magic" Series, Quicker than the Eye! is Scott's award-winning card to purse routine, with his full, professional script!

"The hand is quicker than the eye." This old axiom is still widely believed to be true, and most people associate it with magicians. In Quicker than the Eye!, you offer to prove this expression is true in a contest with the participant. You put up money (in the form of a silver dollar in a coin purse) that the participant gets if you lose, but you keep if you win. You fail to provide the proof, so the participant gets the dollar....

Your participant shuffles the deck, cuts it, and removes a card and signs her name on its face. She returns this to the deck at a spot of her choosing. The deck is cut in half, and one half is turned face up. Your participant shuffles the two halves together, face up into face down. You snap your fingers and spread the deck--every card is face down with one exception--her signed card is face up in the middle of the spread!

There is also an amazing kicker ending--you'll have to buy the ebook to find out what it is! You finish by allowing her to keep the deck as a souvenir.

This is the...

If you're a fan of the Oil & Water plot, feast your eyes on this release, containing three takes on Oil & Water!

Ed Marlo's Oil & Water plot is a modern classic of card magic, and contrary to what some magicians say, the effect can absolutely rock laymen! Great Scott's Oil & Water Routines is a 43-page ebook with 49 photos, in which Scott teaches the following in his famously clear writing style:

1. ELMER'S SOW - A very simple yet very magical and clean one-phase routine.
2. SIMON'S COW - An exceptionally clean and convincing O&W routine.
3. THE "X" ON VAL DEES - A much more technically demanding...

Easy-to-do and commercial routines. The contents includes:

• ANIMAL CAPERS (Aldo Colombini)
• MAGILLOGICAL (Tom Daugherty)
• FLIPPING ACES (Aldo Colombini)
• MINI OIL & WATER (Aldo Colombini)
• 37-THREE (Karl Fulves)
• THE CUT KNOWS (Jean-Pierre Vallarino)
• CORNERED (Aldo Colombini)
• RED OR BLACK-WHICH? (Nick Trost)
• THE FLY CARDS (Aldo Colombini)
• REALLY FIT FOR KINGS (Gene Castillon)

[Note that in 1985 Tom Craven published a booklet with the same title which is completely unrelated to this material....

Are you tired of the same old card tricks? You know what I mean...

"OK, I'll deal down three rows of seven cards each, and you just tell me which row contains your card..."

or...

"Was this your card? No? How about THIS one?"

or maybe...

"Now, the fifth way I'll find the four aces is..."

or even...

"Look! For the 22nd time, your card has risen to the top of the deck!"

Sometimes it's good to get off the beaten path. Sometimes, you just want to do something different. Sometimes, you want to take a deck of cards and perform some routines that are not your ordinary card...

Fifteen of Scott F. Guinn's best card effects from his out of print books, edited, expanded, and updated. Unique plots and twisted classics, all audience tested in the real world!

• BOXING A JOKER
• OPEN FLIPPIN' PREDICTION
• A COUPLE OF BANDITS
• RANSOMED BACK
• WHAT THE DEVIL
• WHAT IN THE WORLD
• FACE-OFF
• KINGS' NITE OUT
• UNPREDICTABLE
• WAKE ME AT TEN
• BACK TO THE FUTURE
• UNIVERSAL APPEAL
• COLOR MY WORLD
• A TRIUMPH IN PLASTIC

"If you want real workable routines that play strong...

“Wild Card” is an icon of card magic. Most close up magicians have purchased some version of it somewhere along the way in their journey through magic. And yet, you almost never see it performed. Why? It can’t be because it is “hackneyed”--as just stated, one almost never sees it performed, so how could that be the case?

Flip Hallema said it best:

“Most Wild Card routines are nice to do for magicians, but too drawn out for a genuine party-audience; too much repetition of the same move, slow tempo, and no climax, while the trick cries for [a] crescendo. In my opinion, [it] should build...

A plot by Ben Harris with a solution by Steve Shufton and an out by Felix Schellenberg.

"Ben Harris and Steve Shufton's X-Ray is, I think, one of the three best card effects to come out this decade. It's so unbelievably smart, and I use it all the time." - Joshua Jay

"A wonderfully clear cut plot. This is very powerful and appears utterly impossible." - Marc Paul

From the introduction:

When I was young, my uncle Peter fooled me badly with a simple X-Ray Vision stunt. It played serious havoc with my developing mind. Pete had been using his X-Ray Vision to "see through" the table top in order to identify how many fingers I was...

When Aldo published his book Double Decker (routines with two decks of cards) little did he know what he was getting into. He really enjoyed studying the routines and consequently he went into a frenzied quest for more. It is amazing how many he found! Here’s a new collection of routines using two (or three) decks of cards. Have fun studying the routines and, above all, performing them all for your audiences.

CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:

• COLORS CAN’T MIX (Karl Fulves)
• THOT CARD TO POCKET (Martin Gardner)
• CRISS-CROSS COINCIDENCE (Ian Adair)
• PACKED BAGS (Aldo Colombini)
• TURN BLUE (Ken Krenzel)
• DOUBLE CLOCK DECEPTION (John Yeager) ...

This is one of Ben Harris's favorite effects. Released in 1987, it featured heavily in his lectures across the '87-89 period and was a total sell-out at the major magic conventions, or whenever demonstrated.

In effect, a small envelope is shown, signed on BOTH sides by a spectator, and then left IN FULL VIEW upon the table. A card is now FREELY selected from the deck, and also signed. The spectator pushes his card squarely into the deck and then counts the cards. Mysteriously, his card has vanished. There are now just 51 cards in the deck.

The envelope, which has been in FULL VIEW the...

Scott has been using this diabolically simple routine for over twenty years. How can something so easy play so strongly?

Effect: You deal five cards to the table. A spectator mentally chooses a number from one to five. You turn your back, and he looks at the card that fell at his number, then replaces it. The cards are gathered and shuffled and placed in your shirt pocket. After a few moments of focused concentration, you remove the cards one at a time. Finally, you reveal the card that the spectator merely thought of, proving you also knew his number! But you're not done yet... The rest...

A New Collection of Card Magic & Mentalism.

Return to Ipcress:
A handling variation for Jerry Sadowitz’s Ipcress.

Fragmented Thoughts:
You place a sealed envelope on the table or give it to someone for safe-keeping. This envelope contains your prediction. You now bring out four pieces of playing cards: one full-size card, one three-quarter card, one half card and one quarter card. These are placed in a row on the table and mixed. A spectator now picks one of the four pieces. Let’s say he chooses the three-quarter card. The envelope is opened, and the missing quarter is tipped out. Everything can...

The Ambitious Card is visual, impossible, and engaging. It breaks the old "never repeat a trick" rule - in fact, it becomes stronger when repeated, especially as the conditions become more stringent along the way.

This ebook teaches Scott's Ambitious Card routine (no surprise there, eh?). He explains not only what he does, but why he does it--why each phase goes where it does, etc.

A lot of you will be adding the finale to your own routines; it's free, quickly constructed, easy to use, and it creates the same illusion as some pretty expensive marketed gaffs. It is also much cleaner and...

Commercial card magic at its best. All practical effects which you will use.

• COLOR CHANGE AGAIN (John Yeager): A color changing deck routine involving two selected cards.
• MATCHED PICTURE CARDS (Nick Trost): The picture cards are shuffled and magically they match up in pairs.
• DOORSTEP ACES (Paul Gordon): The four Aces find three selected cards.
• REPROCESSED ELIMINATION (J.K. Hartman): A selected card appears in an unexpected way. Very strong effect.
• RANDOM THOT (Karl Fulves): An impossible selected card revelation that will fool you too!
• JACKS IN THE BOX (Aldo Colombini): Red and black cards alternate and then...

This is the second DVD featuring Rachel Colombini. It includes a special guest appearance by the one and only Patrick Page. This is great magic and easy to do.

Here are the routines:

• SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED (Rachel Colombini): A torn and restored card routine that will floor your audience.
• AGAINST ALL ODDS (Aldo Colombini): Five cards cut in two and two dice. The spectators select how to use the dice and the dice match up the cards.
• DIGITAL DIAMONDS (Karl Fulves): A routine that can be done over the phone!
• X-RAY DECK (Rachel Colombini): A freely selected card is the only card with a big X. The effect...