Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 47

• Design For Wrist Watch Gimmic
• Preface
• The Arrangement
• Mechanics Of The Arrangement
• To Openly Arrange A Strange Deck
• The Peculiar Arrangement Of The Deck
• False Shuffles
• The “Perfect” False Shuffle
• Hugh Johnston False Shuffle
• False Cuts
• The Jordan False Cut
• The Lightning Card Counter
• Table Of Short Cuts
• Patter For Counting Cards
• The Human Scales
• The Strange Powers Of The Joker
• Patter Routine Number Two
• Another Presentation
• The Phantom Card Game
• Another Patter Routine For The Phantom Card Game
• Read My Mind
• Card Locations
• Positive Thought Control
• Clairvoyant Power ...

12 easy to do strong impact routines. From the introduction by Aldo Colombini:

• SCAMP (Spectator's Card At Magician's Predicted Number)
• Ad(d) a Double Cheese
• Ungaffed Odd Jokers
• Stick Out
• Die
• Mission: Impossible
• Straight Ahead
• Prediction: Impossible 2
• Extra Spelling Perception
• Love Prediction
• Easy Simple Prediction
• Royal Detector

1st edition 2014, 11 pages....

David Devlin has released a staple from his impromptu card act. This is a full routine, and it is a killer! This is based on an effect by the great Nick Trost, and is a tribute of sorts to him. This may become your "go-to" effect when someone hands you a deck and says, "Do something." You will be performing this routine in no time. It is not difficult, and it looks incredible.

Here is the routine: The jokers are removed from the deck, and placed on the table. The performer removes any card he wishes, but shows it to know one, not even himself. This card is placed face down between the two jokers, but...

This is a fascinating book on card magic. It shows U. F. Grant at his best. (Robert J. Smith mentioned on the cover was one of U.F. Grant's pseudonyms.) These are some of the most ingenious methods for card tricks you will find. Many are magician foolers. All are very easy to do but pack a wallop. Most of them require no sleight of any kind!

You get 50 tricks in all. Some of these items can be used as show platform tricks such where a glass of ink changes to glass of clear water with a selected card inside using no chemicals. Another effect is that three people just name cards at random....

Over 200 different impromptu take-a-card trick endings.

From the introduction by John Braun:

The spectator selects, remembers, and returns a card to the deck. Without any unnecessary handling the performer counts down to its value, then spells the suit. The selected card is turned over at the end of this counting/spelling sequence.

Based on a trick by Frederick Mosteller in 1943 that used two decks. This is a streamlined and more commercial one deck version.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

Ed Marlo performs and teaches some of his greatest secrets, gleaned from private footage.

This 60 minute video offers the richest, most complete teaching tape ever released of the world's greatest cardician, Edward Marlo, with over twenty-five quality ideas, moves and routines jam-packed into one video. Watch as Ed demonstrates and explains: Spectator Cuts the Aces, The Fifth Peel, Vanishing Aces, Shake the Spots Off . . . and much, much more. Ed Marlo lectures on Shank and Zarrow shuffle sequences and applications, gives advanced tips on card handling, and adds performances of items from...

From the Preface:

This e-book offers three similar effects all based on a singular premise.

1. Australian Aces: The performer casually shuffles a pack of cards, then hands it to a volunteer. The performer need not touch the cards for the duration of this feat. The volunteer cuts off roughly a quarter of the pack. The volunteer names any Ace freely. He spells its name and gives the packet an Australian Shuffle. The last card he holds is the Ace he named! The volunteer now spells the word 'Ace' and the Ace matching the color of the named Ace turns up. Finally the volunteer spells the suit of the named Ace and...

Distorted Siblings combines the best aspects of several tricks by John Bannon, Max Maven, and Aldo Colombini. The routine is this:

A packet of red-backed cards and a packet of blue-backed cards are placed face-down on the table. It is explained that each packet contains the four kings and that one in each packet is face-up as a prediction. Two spectators each name a king. The named kings are in fact the face up kings. The kings are turned face down and it is shown that each king is in their opposite packets.

Each king is then placed back into its own packet. All four blue cards are together as are the red cards,...

Some sixty complete routines are performed and explained! As far from a "one trick wonder" type offering as can be imagined, when you get the series you are just paying one dollar and thirty-five cents per routine.

This is the complete set of all four vintage Randy Wakeman instructional videos. now available by download for the very first time. It includes performances and thorough explanations of most of the pieces from Randy's first trilogy of books (Formula One Close-up, Randy Wakeman's Special Effects, Randy Wakeman Presents), Randy's Linking Ring Parade, Randy's Genii issue, Randy's...

Visual sleight-of-hand card magic.

• Acetral Projection
• Do You Feel Lucky?
• Unbelievably Copless
• The Devil and Randy Wakeman
• Miracle Move Aces
• Professional Reverse Assembly
• Eidetically Yours
• Marlo's Aerial Change
• Randy Fooler
• Expecting the Unexpected
• A Dime A Dozen
• Topsy Turvey Charlie
• Marlo's Unbelievable Aces
• Spectator's Invisible Palm
• A Frantic Tumble and a Shy Goodbye

1st edition 1990, length 1h 20min

All card routines except one, which is a torn and restored paper money effect.

• All That Jazz
• Three Phase Follow-Up
• I Like Nice Things
• The Odds Against Me
• The Bill Tear
• Marlo's Six Card Trick
• Mini Surprise Stab
• The Force is with You
• Heba Haba's Favorite
• R.W. Ambitious Card Routine
• Exploding Aces
• The Formula One Card Routine
• The Card of a Thousand Faces
• Smorgasbord Cannibals
• Playing on the Three-Way
• Reverse Reverse Surprise
• Did You Get The Odd One?
• Shuffle Them Twice ... They Rollover Nice

1st edition 1989, length 2h

A selection of Randy Wakeman's favorite card routines.

• Ascension Transposition
• Spectator on Stage
• The Randy Revelation
• The Natural
• Give Us This Day Our Daley Aces
• But Fast!
• Free Choice Sudden Aces
• The Mystic Card
• Marlo's Bluff Ace Assembly
• Triversion
• One-Hand Center Deal
• The Emergency Card
• Overclock
• R.W. Four Card Stunner
• Fore-Figuration
• Maximum Penetration

1st edition 1988, length 1h 24 min

• 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 ...

Variety assortment of card routines of all kinds - self-working, sleight-of-hand, quickies, classics.

• The Slow Motion Nudist Pack By John Derris
• Ten Knights In A Card Room By Bill Hendricks
• Color Change Illusion With Cards By Everett Lyda
• New Three Card Monte Move By Victor Comello
• All Fair Card Transposition By Jack Avis
• Cardlepathy By Theo Dore
• All Fair Hallucination By Jack Avis
• The Switchless Switch By Edward Marlo
• The Utility Prediction By Victor Comello
• Sympathetic Card Miracle By Roy E. Smith
• Super Do As I Do By Geoffrey Buckingham
• A Double Change By Al Leech
• Kings On The Loose By Al Leech
• Preface To Out Of This World By Harry Riser ...

In this vintage and somewhat wacky video, Randy Wakeman demonstrates and explains in great detail his work with "Small Packet Ambitious," "The Visitor," the Rainbow Deck, Tom Gagnon's Impromptu Haunted Deck, Gagnon's "LBD Aces," and much, much more.

Miscellaneous mayhem by Simon Lovell is also included. And yes, although this isn't exactly "Team America" . . . puppets are involved.

length 1 hour

• Winning At Gin Rummy
• Hole Card Wild
• Cards Of Unrest
• Double Denouement
• Mental Reverse
• The Incredible Prediction
• Four-Card Finale
• Thoughts Across Space
• Miracle From Smoke
• Miracle From Smoke (No. 2)
• Impromptu Daub Location
• Cards Do Not Lie

PDF 14 pages.

This is a quick playing card divination effect. The performer divines the card merely thought of by the participant and the best part is that there is no need of any physical deck of cards. Just one single business card is used.

There are no sleights, no stooges, no preshow, no peeks, no impressions, no outs, no tears. Nothing to reset and instantly repeatable for other participants.

The method is an old classic reworked for this effect. The underlying principle is very flexible and can be put to multiple uses with a little creativity.

A new design shared by Michael Lyth is included. Another cool...

A wonderful look at the life and times of Ed Marlo, with vintage, rare, underground footage. Called "one of the most important tapes of the Millennium" by Matt Field, this tape lets you get to know the real Ed Marlo.

1st edition 2000, length 1h

"I think your routine is very good. I may use it a couple times myself." - Brian T. Lees (a.k.a. Topper)

Effect:

You produce a deck of cards and hand it to a spectator. (You will not touch it or see it any more). The spectator shuffles the deck, selects a card, folds it and puts a rubber band or a paper clip tight around it. Despite these lab conditions, you try to guess their card! And believe it or not, you will always succeed. Their card can be given back as a souvenir. It does...

The 17 effects contained in this collection can be performed with an unprepared deck. Never again be caught without a trick. The audience-tested effects range from no-skill puzzlers to outstanding mysteries that require rudimentary sleights. Nelson Hahne's clear illustrations help make everything clear.

Here's what's included:

A Close Fit - Some of you will win bar bets with this impossible-appearing optical illusion.

The Unconfused Joker - The Joker helps locate the spectator's card, though the audience thinks its impossible.

Double Vanish and Recovery - A beautiful effect by Ed Marlo where...

Feast your eyes on and fry your spectators' brains with six more insanely impossible impromptu card miracles.

TRIP EL REMIX - An amped-up version of a classic triple prediction trick with a major kicker ending. A serious fooler - and best of all, it's entirely self-working.

BIDDLE-ISH - A lean, mean, super-clean "Card Across" effect. You've never seen this spin on a time-tested classic of card magic.

BUT NOT LEAST - A wildly deceptive triple sandwich effect with an eye-popping, in-the-spectators-hands ending.

EAT FRESH - Inspired by the Buck Twins' legendary "Subway" - but you don't...

From the Foreword: