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A visual two-phase oil and water routine. Show four red cards and four black cards. Interleave them black-red-black-red ... exchange the top two cards and you can show the cards have unmixed into four black cards and four red cards. Mix them again, and they will again separate.
1st edition 2025, video 2:14
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Unlock the power of coincidence with Pocket, Left & Right by Wolfgang Riebe. This mind-bending effect will have your audience questioning reality as you effortlessly influence their choices. Picture this: you shuffle a deck of cards and hand three to a spectator. They freely shuffle and choose one to keep in their pocket while the other two cards are again shuffled and one card kept in either hand - total free choice for the spectator. The jaw-dropping moment arrives when the card in the left hand reveals "LEFT," the right hand shows "RIGHT," and the pocket card declares "POCKET." And just...
After shuffling the deck, you put a prediction card face down on the table. After some further shuffling you spread the deck and three cards appear face-up, three tens. You turn over your prediction but it is not the fourth ten but an ace. But don't worry, another fan of the cards and your prediction ace is now the missing ace in a royal flush.
1st edition 2025, video 3:55.
Step right up! Are you ready to astound your audience with a mind-boggling display of prediction and choice? Dive into the thrill of Duck Roulette, where you can predict the winner of your very own duck race, leaving your spectators in absolute awe.
Picture this: 7 colourful ducks, each uniquely numbered, are showcased before your audience. With the freedom to choose any 6 ducks, your spectators will be buzzing with excitement. Each choice is accompanied by a strip of paper with random numbers printed on it. These can be freely examined by the audience who can keep their strips as a memento....
A visual mystery with a Sharpie pen.
Imagine this: you casually place the cap of a Sharpie pen on its back end, and with a simple gesture, it vanishes before their eyes.
The twist? In a flash, the cap reappears perfectly recapped on the pen's tip, right where it belongs!
You show four cards from their back. A magic word and two of them have turned face up, for example, two Jack of Hearts. You turn them back but suddenly two other cards, for example, two 10 of Spades. You turn these face-down and a moment later the four cards have changed into the four aces. A bewildering and fast paced change of cards.
1st edition 2025, video 2:19
You show four queens of diamonds and perform a twisting the queens type of routine. You turn the packet face down and one by one the queens turn face up. But Peter goes further in his effect. Suddenly all the queens are double-faces and show a queen of diamonds on the front and back of each card.
1st edition 2025, video 3:47.
You show four cards from the back. They all have blue backs. When you shake them, one turns up face. It is the king of diamonds. When you show the cards again, they now all have red backs. Another shake and another king turns face up. But now they all have green backs. You then display all four kings from the face. The climax is that all four kings link into one ribbon.
1st edition 2024, video 6:12.
Yes, this looks impossible. You show four cards. Turn over one and the rest also magically turns over. That is just the warming-up effect. The real stunner is when you turn over the cards and suddenly three of them have big circles cut from their center and the fourth has changed color.
1st edition 2024, video 4:45.
This video includes a variation of the Bert Allerton trick Eye Popper, a transposition of two cards. This trick appeared in his book The Close Up Magician.
Two Don Alan card tricks using jumbo cards: Big Deal and A Comedy card trick.
A Paul Rosini card trick taken from House of Cards, two selected cards are found after the magician has failed to find them. This trick features a variation of the Paul Le Paul Top Change. Several variations are suggested.
A comparison of Malini's handling as compared to the handling in the book: The Magic of Matt Schulien, Schulien called it 'Put It Back In The Deck'. There are two comedy card tricks from Schulien: Catch The Light, and The Professional...
You show two cards from both sides. One is the Queen of Hearts and the other is the Jack of Spades. The Queen of Hearts has a big square hole cut from its center. You briefly put these two cards together, separate them again, and suddenly the Jack of Spades has a round hole cut from its center and the Queen of Hearts is restored without a hole. The hole moved from the Queen to the Jack and changed from a square hole to a round hole.
1st edition 2024, video 2:33.
You show 8 cards. Four are the aces that you place on the table. And the other four cards are jokers. Three of the jokers you put face-down on the face-up ace of spades. But when everything is turned face up, the other three aces have joined the ace of spades, and the rest of the cards are kings rather than jokers.
1st edition 2024, video 5:42
This small packet trick combines several color changes. You start by showing five blank cards. Showing them again one of the blank cards has changed into a king with a blue back. You table this king. This process continues until you have all four kings with blue backs on the table and one blank card in the hand. The remaining blank card changes to one with a red back. Suddenly all five cards have red backs, and as the climax, you fan the five cards face-up and you now hold a royal flush.
1st edition 2024, video 2 min.
A new spin on the classic piece-by-piece card restoration.
This is a real-world Torn & Restored Card that's easier to do and better on angles than most. It looks great on social media or in the real world. This is a T&R that was built for workers.
1st edition 2024, video 33 minutes.
You show four cards, one of which has a big round hole cut out. Suddenly all the cards have a big round hole cut out. In another blink of an eye, the round hole has transformed into a square hole and you are only holding a single card. This effect is best seen performed. Watch the demo video below.
1st edition 2024, video 2:39.
Card tricks with big holes in some cards is one of Peter Pellikaan's unique themes. This is another visual effect using cards with holes.
You show four regular playing cards and a coin. When you count the cards again one card suddenly has a huge hole cut out of its center. You place this card aside and count the remaining three cards. Another card has a hole. You do this until all four cards have turned into cards with big holes cut from their center.
When you pick up these four cards with holes, they magically become whole (pun intended) again. They are restored without any holes just like...
You show four Eight of Diamonds. On one you draw a large X and you ask the spectator to follow it. You turn the cards face-down, and after some mixing, you table the cards one after each other face-down. When you turn the cards face-up they have all changed to aces. The eights including the one with the cross on it have vanished.
1st edition 2024, video 3:30
A quick and easy packet trick for those with analytical minds. An envelope containing a prediction is introduced, along with seven cards, each displaying a different number. You explain that there is something written behind each card, but that will be revealed later.
The cards are then arranged in two rows - one with four cards and the other with three. The participant is asked to eliminate one of the rows, and you turn over the cards in that row, revealing that you had predicted which row they would choose.
Next, the participant pairs one card from the remaining row with any other...
A stunning color change of blank cards into printed cards.
You show four cards which are blank on both sides. Suddenly an ace of spades appears. When you spread the four cards all formerly blank cards are now aces. Turning over the fan shows four different backs. The blank cards have changed to non-blank front and back.
1st edition 2024, video 3:16.
Three cards are put face down on the table. Put three blank cards over the first card and the blank cards all change into the same card they were put on. Repeat this with the other two cards. The cards always magically change their faces. At the end, the faces change again and the entire deck is blank.
1st edition 2024, video 5:09.
You show four cards with blue dots and another four cards with red dots. Then you stick a blue dot over a red dot card and a red dot over a blue dot card. After 5 seconds the dot color of the remaining three cards in each packet has changed, too.
You continue to mix the cards but they always separate into packs of the same color, like oil and water separate. In the final sequence, you remove the two dots you stuck on in the first phase and the colors change again magically.
1st edition 2024, video 5:46.