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The "2 as 4 count" is a very versatile utility move which can be applied to any number of effects.

Peter goes into detail on how to grip the cards, make it look natural and even teaches you a little trick you can do with the move. People have been begging Peter to teach them his counts, that time has finally arrived!

length 2min 27s

To many, this will look like the flustration count but different. Many call it the FRUSTRATION count, so here's a good alternative to use in your effects.

length 2min 18s

The big holes in the cards make for a great visual change. It also is an interesting take on an old principle.

length 3min 33s

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 kings change to aces, the Pellikaan way.

You will need:

• double backer
• wax

length 3min 1s

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

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

You will learn the Xerox Spread that allows you to spread five cards as four, hiding one - the second from top.

length 1min 45s

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

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

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

Fold more impossible objects from a regular banknote. No glue. No hidden cuts. A perfect gift or souvenir for your audience.

• Pleated Bill
• Pleated Bill Variation
• Shrinking Banknote
• Diamond Pyramid
• Multi Folded Bill

length 27 min

This fourth volume of Ralf's impossible objects series is a little bit of a departure in his methods. He is still not using any glue. However, all these objects have hidden cuts to make the illusions possible. The "Interlocking Banknotes" can be handed out for examination. The other two need to be kept behind glass.

• Impossible 8
• Interlocking Banknotes
• Impossible Ring on Cardboard

length 21 min

Here Marconick demonstrates many of his signature pieces with silk and some billiard ball manipulation, rope magic and cigarette magic.

• Silks vanish from cage ball. (Silken Bombshell, see Gen Volume 21 page 322)
• Four billiard balls from silk.
• Two purple silks are knotted on a rope. A third yellow silk appears knotted on the rope.
• Cigarette manipulation with a magical way to light a cigarette.
• Five billiard balls from silk.
• Yellow silk appears knotted between a green and a blue silk.
• Splitting a silk in two.
• Four white billiard balls from silk twice.
• Silk vanishes and reappears knotted on a rope. ...

Trick Tac is an effect where you balance a Tic tac box in an impossible way on your finger. It is very easy to do and once you made the gimmick it lasts you for a long time.

Consider these:

1. No glue, wax, magnets etc.,
2. Everything is examinable
3. Can be done with or without tictacs in the box
4. Quick reset

1st edition 2016, length 7 min.

C Through is an effect where you visually push a torn off corner of a spectator's selected card into an empty tic tac box. The spectator can check the corner to confirm that it matches their card.

1. No gimmicks
2. Visual and direct
3. Everything is examinable
4. The spectator can hold the box and can keep it after the effect
5. You can also do it with bills
6. Easy to do
7. Quick reset

1st edition 2016, length 7min 44s

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. There are some English subtitles, but for the most part you will get the instructions of how to make the gimmick and how to perform with it from the visual contents of the video.

The label changes to another one while it is under the plastic cover of the notebook. This is great for the back to school crowd.

1st edition 2016, length 12 minutes.

Make any signed corner melt through a glass bottle.

Imagine this. You show a complete empty glass bottle (real glass) and make a signed corner from the label of the bottle, playing card, banknote, business card etc. melt through the glass - only by a small wave of your fingertips. It's really inside the bottle! No magnets, no slits, no trapdoors and no duplicates.

• You make the gimmick in under two minutes
• Works with any bottle
• The corner is ripped and signed by the spectator
• Perform completely surrounded

1st edition 2016, length 20 min.

New impossible linking card designs

Here you learn a few simple ways to make some new impossible folded playing cards. You also can do this with your own business cards or banknotes. You even could link your business card with a banknote or playing card. A perfect souvenir! You don't need glue or anything like that. Put it in a frame or carry some with you and hand them out.

1st edition 2017, 23 min

A bottle label magically penetrates the glass and is attached on the inside of the bottle.

Effect: Write down a prediction, for example a playing card. Since you have no piece of paper you write the prediction on the label of a cola bottle. Then have a spectator take a card from your deck (yes folks, you will need to force the card). And then reveal that you have correctly predicted the card. To give the spectator a little souvenir you sign the bottle label. On further thought you want to make it even more special. Take out your lighter, burn the label and suddenly the label with the prediction...

Have a spectator select a card (for one version it is a free choice, for a second version it has to be forced), have it signed, apparently loose it in the deck, and then you either spring the cards onto your baseball cap, or fan the cards before the cap and the previously selected card will appear to be attached to the top knob of your baseball cap.

Ralf explains how you have to gimmick the cap, and he will demonstrate several ideas and handlings of how you can perform this routine.

1st edition 2019, length 30 min.

"WTF, some witchcraft?? I can't figure it out. Amazing!!" - Mario Tarasini

• No gimmick used
• Do with any size (within reason) rubber band
• Watch your angles. This looks great from certain directions, but you are exposed from others. Certainly not a trick to be done surrounded.

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This is a silent film of a magic show for children performed by Geoffrey Buckhurst probably from the early 1950s. Among the tricks he performs is the Zombie, Egg bag, Torn and Restored Rope, Diminishing Cards, and many other bits and pieces to entertain the kids.

This is performance only, no explanations of the tricks are provided. An interesting window into magic for children during the 1950s.

1st edition ~1950s; video length 11 min 42 s.

Medium can be made with any deck of cards. The spectator thinks any card and the magician will be able to find it. The conditions are impossible. Medium is a real pearl to add to your repertoire. Easy to do. Not only will you be able to amaze laymen, but you will be able to fool fellow magicians, too. Requires no memory or sleight-of-hand.

• No gimmick
• Easy to do
• No memory work
• Normal deck of cards

1st edition 2021, video 9:11.