Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 39

This is an incredible card through window effect. The gimmick is easy to build and doesn't take that long to make, but it is a little project and will take some care to make well.

• Use cards, photos, banknotes and other objects
• The card is not behind the tape before the performance
• Setup only takes a few seconds
• Fits in your pocket
• Perform it on almost any window including car windows

1st edition 2014, length 32 minutes

Three predictions! Two methods! One sensational effect!

Effect: The performer removes three cards from a shuffled deck and leaves them in a face down pile on the table. He explains that these cards are mates of cards that will be selected by two spectators and himself. The two spectators choose numbers freely and the cards at those positions are placed into a separate stack on the table. The magician offers the audience a choice of two different numbers for his cards. Whichever is chosen, the performer counts to that card and places it on top of the first two selections. A spectator turns...

Another creative small packet trick based on hole cards. Have a card vanish in the hole.

length 2min 8s

A visual stunner with hole cards.

You will need:

• hole cards that you can make yourself
• Pelli Spread (briefly explained)

length 3min 56s

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

Simple Collectors is Peter's take on the original Collectors plot. Three cards are selected by three spectators, and after they have remembered their selections the cards are lost in the deck. The magician shows the four kings and also randomly distributes these throughout the deck. With a snap of the fingers the magic happens, and the magician spreads the cards out on the table. In between the 4 Kings; 3 Cards assembled themselves. The Three selected cards.

You will need a little bit of wax.

length 3min 59s

You show the spectator four blank cards, explaining them you'll show them a quick illusion. All four cards are shown blank on each side, but with a snap of the fingers backs magically appear! Even the faces become printed BUT... It was only an illusion...

You will need:

• 3 double blank cards
• 2 Jokers
• Elmsley Count
• Block Push Off
• 2-as-4 Count

length 2min 13s

A card keeps rising to the top from in between four blank cards, only to reveal that you have a few helpers: THE FOUR JOKERS!

You will need:

• 2 Jokers, 2 10 of Spades, 2 blank facers
• wax
• Cut Count
• 2-as-4 Count

length 3min 9s

Cards shrink the Peter Pellikaan way.

You will need:

• four small jacks (mini cards)
• scissors and double sided tape
• 2-as-4 Count

length 3min 55s

This is a signature effect from Peter, containing multiple counts and a surprising ending. This trick involves color changes of both the front of the cards as well as the backs. As a kicker, at the end of the routine you will be able to show four different backs all different from the ones shown to the spectators before.

You will need:

• 2 double backers
• 4 Jacks with different backs
• 2-as-4 Count
• Elmsley Count
• Pelli Spread

length 2min 19s

Another epic effect by Peter Pellikaan – with an unexpected kicker!

You will need:

• three double facers (Queen/9H, Queen/9H, Queen/9H, regular 9H, four regular Queens)
• Cut Count (briefly explained)
• Elmsley Count

length 4min 23s

Four kings change to aces, the Pellikaan way.

You will need:

• double backer
• wax

length 3min 1s

Four regular cards are shown front and back, only to have X's appear on both sides right in front of the spectators eyes!

You will need:

• 2-as-5 Count (briefly explained)
• Flustration Count

length 2min 11s

Four queens consume three selected cards which have been chosen by a spectator.

You will need:

• 3 extra 9s with two of them having Queens on their backs (double facers)
• 2-as-4 Count
• Elmsley Count
• Pelli Spread

length 3min 20s

"The change blew me away!" - John Gelasi

"I have no idea how it works! Really good stuff!" - Liam Montier

An incredibly visual, high-impact, in-your-face Ambitious Card ending.

A signed card suddenly appears on the card case - under a piece of electrical tape! Easy to do, and generates powerful reactions.

Simple to make gimmick - you probably have everything you need laying around the house already.

Gimmick can easily be transferred to another card box.

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1st edition 2014, length 25 min.

Basically, two thought-of cards selected from a thoroughly shuffled deck are revealed by the magician. The first one is found by reading in the spectator's mind. The second one is found by spelling the name of the first card revealed, dealing one card for each letter from the top of the deck. The card at the last letter is turned over: It is the second thought-of card!

Here is the performance in detail: The deck is shuffled by the magician and a spectator. A second spectator does the last shuffle and the magician turns his back to them. Spectator 1 is asked to remove a small packet from the...

Sight Unseen will earn you a reputation. If you already have a reputation, it will make it bigger. The effects in this eBook contributed greatly in earning David Devlin his IBM Entertainer of the Year Award in 2003.

This eBook comes with two presentations and two methods for the same effect. The basic effect is that a deck is shuffled by spectators until they are content. The deck is spread face down. The spectator slips a joker face up into the deck anywhere she wishes. The second joker is placed face up above the face down card above the other joker, thus trapping a single unknown card...

Jack Spade is a private investigator trying to solve the case of the stolen diamond ring. Told through the revelations of a pack of playing cards, this is a story-deck routine that acts as the finish to Stephen's close-up, parlour and stage shows.

Each card is produced from within the deck in time with the narrative. Stephen goes through several versions of the effect, the stack, the false shuffles, the revelations, secret marks, extra cards and all the gags - everything.

Its a card trick with every card in the deck and its a superb finish to any magicians set.

[Note that additional files and documents are available on your digital shelf.]

1st edition 2014,...

Two of the Most Impossible Card Effects of this Century

No one is surprised when Wesley James introduces a card effect that breaks new ground. He has been doing so for nearly fifty years. However, when he releases two innovative new plots in one dedicated volume, you know they must be incredibly powerful.

Out of Sight Discernment II and How'd You Know are two such effects.

Out of Sight Discernment II

From a shuffled deck, which could be borrowed, a spectator is given the opportunity to think of any one of potentially dozens of cards you offer to show them at different random points...

This is Stephen's stage size Find the Lady Routine using any three ungimmicked, any size cards. It can be done close-up with playing cards or business cards. It can be done on stage with A2 size cards with cartoon pictures on them or images of the company logo. The possibilities are endless.

Because the cards are ungimmicked, it can be customized to the client. So you can have a picture of the bride in-between two pictures of the groom for a wedding. You can have a picture of the company boss in-between two signs that say "You'r Fired" for a corporate dinner party.

On this download...

"It's a BEAST! Nice work!" - Liam Montier

"Great, solid commercial stuff like you ALWAYS do, Cam." - Jack Carpenter

"It's really f***ing GOOOOD!" - Dave Forrest

Three amazing effects. One professional grade routine... This is The Triple.

If Triumph, The Collectors, and a color changing deck effect all got together and had a baby, it might just look something like The Triple. Cameron Francis delivers another knockout multi-phase card routine that's truly amazing to witness but devilishly simple to execute. No gimmicks. No difficult sleight of hand. Just a truckload of powerhouse magic. Perfect for the professional...

Impossibly produce a card the spectator is thinking of from a cased deck, bound with a rubber band!

Your spectator shuffles the deck and hands it back to you. You make no moves. They think of a card from inside the deck. You make no moves. They are then immediately handed the deck to shuffle again. You make no moves. The deck is fairly cased and then bound with a rubber band. Within THREE SECONDS you produce one card from inside the deck yet the deck itself is still cased and bound. The spectator removes the band. The spectator removes the deck and is asked to locate the card they were thinking...

As a plot, Cards Across is fairly simple and direct. It's a transition effect where a number of cards - usually three - magically travel from one packet to another. There are methods that use gimmicked cards, others use purely sleight-of-hand.

This manuscript is an exploration of subtle methods based on Stewart James' "Pockethereal." Its selling point is that there are no switches or exchanges. The only sleight of hand is the false counts. This put it in a class by itself.

• INTRODUCTION
• POCKETHEREAL (Stewart James)
• POCKETHEREAL, MINUS POCKETS (Bert Fenn)
• POCKETHEREAL MINUS POCKETS (Edward Marlo)
• CLARIFIED PACKETHEREAL...

A blue backed deck is shown. A card is removed, and placed aside. The deck is spread face down. It is seen that all of the cards have blue backs, except for one card which has a red back. Two cards are now very randomly chosen, and their values are added together. Let's assume that the total is "13" (the actual total is up to you!). The deck is turned face up (in every instance) and the cards are dealt one at a time until the 13th (or whatever value was chosen) card is dealt. Let's say that the 13th card is the Queen of Clubs. The deck is now spread face down. Each and every card has a blue...