Paper & Paper Money in Magic & Mentalism

An ace of spades transforms with the help of two cards with a hole to paper money.

1st edition 2026, video 2:02

Four blank cards suddenly show credit cards and then turn into paper money bills.

1st edition 2026, video 4:03.

As performed by David Copperfield on TV.

The "Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper" has been around for over a hundred years. Now Martin Lewis brings this classic into the 21st century with a new and exciting handling that relies on subtlety rather than dexterity. A handling that makes the effect clearly visible for two or two hundred! (Or even 9 million, if you have your own national TV special.)

This video shows how you can perform this ultra-clean restoration, which has consistently baffled magicians and laymen alike. Learn from Martin's 24 years of experience in performing this effect. ...

This is the most up-to-date method for making an origami butterfly from a dollar bill. It can be easily constructed and manipulated to simulate the realistic animation of this delightful creature. The slow, precise wing movements are lifelike in every aspect. Don't pass this up, it's a surefire hit with children. Making them up using stage money results in a unique giveaway.

1st edition 2026, video 1:26

Jack and the Beanstalk

This was designed as a series of booklets (even though I am only aware of one), each featuring one routine. This one explains a paper-tearing routine, including the original patter by Cedric Richardson.

1st edition 2003, PDF 8 pages.

Three blank cards change into cards with credit card images on them and then change ultimately into banknotes.

1st edition 2024, video 3:17.

You show two cards, one of which has a big hole in the center. You put them together and suddenly the non-hole card has transformed into a stack of banknotes.

1st edition 2024, video 1:51.

A short change routine.

"Mr. Grismer is one of the nice guys in magic who is also talented and has the gift of working out startling tricks that require little in the way of 'work' ... 'Shorty' is a short change routine and the best of its kind ... once made up you will use it constantly. Brilliant routine and handling ... the best short-change routine to come along in years." - Karl Fulves

Clear Plot: You have $10, then $9, then $10, then $5.

Entertaining: You show skill but lose money.

Natural: No unusual-looking counts.

The other day I asked a bartender if he could break a ten-dollar...

A totally different and highly original concept for the Bill in Lemon. With this clean and baffling method three signed bills vanish and reappear within a gift-wrapped lime, in a flash. The lime is slowly and fairly cut open to reveal the bills resting within.

The unique and practical "no fuss" loading method will completely fool anyone familiar with other methods for the effect.

In addition, the lime may be carried for hours prior to the performance - it cannot leak or damage your clothing or props. And, of course, you can prepare as many as you like well in advance - the preparation...

Until a few years ago it was possible to propose an interesting effect, using a euro banknote (any), which the spectator took out of his wallet. The serial number consisted of a letter, which identified the country, and a series of numbers; the essential feature was that each country had its own control code; by removing a number it was possible, through a procedure that we will see later, to identify it.

Then new banknotes were printed, with a new type of serial number (before it had a letter, which indicated the country; now it has two letters, the first identifies the country, the second...

You show a piece of white paper on both sides and fold it into a neat package. Instantly and visibly the paper turns into a banknote which can be unfolded, displayed on both sides, and importantly, can be immediately handed out for examination or be spent. Devised in the early 1980s, this version of instant money printing is totally practical and very magical. The fact that the printed note can be examined is a huge plus and helps to increase the effectiveness of the illusion.

1st edition 2017, PDF 2 pages.

An Easter magic trick.

A new design for an old geometric vanish. 11 bunnies change into 10 bunnies and an Easter egg by merely switching the order of two pieces of cardboard.

The PDF includes the design. Print on paper or cardboard and cut out the three pieces to perform this little miracle.

1st edition 2023, PDF 2 pages.

Visual card to paper money transposition.

The performer shows a card and with one quick movement, the card has changed to a paper money bill. The usual supplies and arts and crafts for gaffing playing cards are required to make the gimmick.

1st edition 2022, video 25:17.

A collection of entertaining and amusing models, toys, conjuring tricks, etc., in which paper is the only or principal material required.

Excerpt from the Preface:

Gregg modifies Jackie Flosso's Bill in Lemon effect to use a matchbox rather than a lemon - much less messy - among other tweaks.

1st edition 2022, PDF 3 pages.

Show a few paper bills of your local currency and transform them with one flick into playing cards - a royal flush.

1st edition 2021, video 3 min 12 s.

1st edition 2011, video 6:34

Fiddling with figures.

More along the lines of Pentertain and Son of Pentertain. The fact that there is so much material here is due to the efforts of Geoffrey Lamb, Ralph Erlewine, Dr. Bernard Juby, R. C. Buff, Peter Rees and, in particular, Leslie May who sent in pages of figure oddities.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• The Power of the Pentagram
• The Seven Dwarfs
• The Charlie Chronicles
• A Sanguinary Rise
• In the Good Old Days
• Tricky Crosswords
• Discount Coffee
• The Alternative Prediction
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Three-Way Prediction
• F.T. Publicity ...

The sequel to Pentertain. As before, these oddities can be shown wherever you have pencil and paper. For larger audiences a chalkboard, whiteboard or flip-chart is better; you can even do them in sand on a sea-shore.

• Introduction
• A Timely Legend
• No Time For Work
• The Cure For Insomnia
• Sheik A Leg
• Sheik Another Leg
• Cross Check

1st edition 1975, 17 pages; PDF 22 pages.

Fifteen minutes impromptu entertainment with pen and paper.

From the introduction:

• Introduction
• PENTERTAIN
  • THE REQUIREMENTS
  • THE PREPARATION
  • THE FORMAT
• Only Heaven (and Einstein) Knows!
• Everything is Relative
• A Not-so-Proper Charlie
• The Chinese Check
• The Forgotten Phone Number
• A Question of Degree
• A Last Word

1st edition...

In this latest download you learn all the important techniques from all volumes plus variations.

Examples:

• Braided Cards
• Braided Pyramid
• Inside-out Banknote
• V-Fold Variation
• Braided
• Banknotes to Pyramid
• and much more

1st edition 2021, video 1 h 11 min.

An ingenious alternative to a Chop Cup where the 'cup' is constructed "on the fly" from a magazine sheet while spectators make paper balls, or crumple dollar bills. No gimmicks! The trickery is built into the cup itself and undetectable. There are moves not possible with a standard Chop Cup and ends with a transport to a spectator's hand who keeps the cup and ball. No difficult sleights or handling as the Fold Cup does its thing automatically. But, the special techniques taught moves the astonishment far above a traditional Chop Cup approach.

There are many suggested Effects with special...

The magician borrows two regular money bills from two random spectators. These are torn in half and each spectator receives one half of their bill. The remaining two halves are vanished by the magician. One half reappears in an orange and the serial number matches the one bill of the one spectator exactly.

The magician struggles to reappear the second half bill and offers the remaining spectator a bottle of champagne of similar value as a consolation prize. However, the magician requests the spectator to pop open the champagne and pour him/herself a drink. When the bottle is popped, a half...

Old newspapers are the only raw material needed for paper tearing, and this ebook describes a number of ingenious and highly entertaining routines. The performer prepares the basic shapes beforehand and then tears out the figures before the eyes of the astonished audience, accompanying his actions with appropriate patter. The ebook provides full instructions and detailed diagrams for the whole process and includes enough material for several complete programmes.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preparing the Papers
  • Folding Long Paper Strips
  • Preparing Paper Rolls
  • Circles and Squares
  • Other...

A terrific audience participation effect about a famous carnival and con artist swindle. Audiences love tricks with money. They also love to learn about swindles and cons, in order to protect themselves. This effect provides both: entertainment and a lesson.

In this clever routine, you demonstrate how easy it is to swindle the victim out of $10 for a $1 purchase. Not just a trick, but an actual scam that fleeces thousands of people every day. Don't you be one of them!

And, only in this updated edition, we supply camera-ready master images of stage bills that you can use for the effect....

A dollar bill to impossible location effect that incorporates the timeless Buddha Money Papers. The noted bill vanishes from the papers only to reappear inside a pocket watch case that has been in full view the entire time.

Included here possibly for the first time is the fool-proof method for preparing two bills so that they bear the same serial numbers. This is not the inferior dodge of erasing the last digits on the bill. These bills utilize the entire serial number.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 1 min 12 s.

Show four bills of paper money from both sides and change them into four aces, which you again show from both sides, in a flash.

1st edition 2021, length 1 min 49s.