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Four cards are shown and counted repeatedly. Every time through the count, one card suddenly has a big hole through its center. These are real holes you can put your finger through. This goes on until all four cards have holes.

1st edition 2026, video 2:13.

8 cards and a bewildering number of changing faces and backs. Watch the demo video below.

1st edition 2026, video 5:32

A deck is shuffled and placed squared face down on the table. A spectator is invited to cut off a block of cards from the pack and to look at and remember the face card of the cut-away section.

The helper is now asked to cut his block of cards to lose the selection in the centre of the pile, and then he is requested to slip his pile somewhere into the middle of the cards still on the table, squaring the pack at the finish.

The magician has had no opportunity to catch even a glimpse of the chosen card, and in fact, the deck itself is put away in the box to preclude that possibility. Despite...

Six cards, three have a large red dot on their face, and the other three are jokers. The red dot cards change their backs multiple times.

1st edition 2026, video 2:35

Two sets of 7 cards are shown. One pile has pictures of the logos of 7 of the most common social media platforms. The other set has the names of these platforms written in words on the cards.

Two spectators who do not know each other are invited to see whether they can connect via the same social media platform. The pile of cards with names on them are shuffled and spread face down. Spectator 1 can touch the back of any one of the cards – it is a genuinely free choice. The selection is placed aside unseen but in view.

The pile of logo cards is shuffled and spectator 2 names any number...

You start out showing four blue cards. One by one, they turn red, and they have a big hole cut in the middle. This hole is not a fake. You can put your finger through it.

1st edition 2026, video 2:07

This is a wonderfully simple plot that creates a really puzzling effect. A regular, ungimmicked coffee cup is shown and a large sponge ball is tipped out from inside. The cup is clearly shown to be otherwise empty and both of the performer's hands also have genuinely nothing in them.

The ball is placed into a pocket, both hands again being shown to be empty. The inside of the coffee cup is displayed and then inverted mouth down onto the magician's hand. A snap of the fingers and when the cup is tipped backwards, the ball is found impossibly to be back underneath.

[Note that this is not...

You show four jokers and they all have the same back. The spectator picks a joker, and it has a different back to what was shown before. You will receive three variations of the same theme.

1st edition 2026, video 7:57.

A genuinely freely selected card (which can be signed if desired) is shuffled back into a deck. The performer then mimes the removal of that card invisibly and hands it to the spectator to hold for a moment. The cards are then spread face up to show that the chosen card is no longer in the pack.

Squaring the deck, the spectator is invited to push the invisible card he holds face up into the now face down pack. Immediately, the cards are ribbon spread face down again across the table to reveal the selection face up in the centre! Just a regular deck required, straightforward handling,...

A number of spectators appear to demonstrate some psychic ability when they create magical moments that reveal colours randomly assigned to them, and which, in theory, they should not be able to know had been allocated to them.

Simple to do, this is a nice laid-back mental/magic routine designed for parlour performance and which requires just a few simple props that you will probably already have or which you can easily acquire or make.

1st edition 2026, video 17:17.

A card is genuinely freely selected (and can be signed if required) and is shuffled into the deck, which is placed back into the box. A half dollar, which is marked with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials, is taken into the performer's hand from where it instantly vanishes.

With empty hands, the deck is slid from the box and is cut to reveal the marked coin resting on the back of one particular card in the centre of the pack. This card is turned over to reveal that it is the selection.

1st edition 2026, video 15:36.

A deck is freely displayed and shuffled, and a spectator then selects any card (no force). The helper then cuts a block of cards from the deck, and the cards are counted to determine a random number.

Reassembling the pack, the selected card is slipped into the deck at a position decided by the spectator, and the cards are then cut a couple of times to lose the card's position.

The performer then shakes the deck a little as he explains that the selected card and the randomly chosen number will come together. Handing the deck over to the helper, she counts down to the chosen number and...

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

Two jokers and two kings change places multiple times. You end with just four kings.

1st edition 2026, video 2:35.

This is an experiment to see whether the performer can identify a spectator's fingerprints. A spectator selects 5 cards from a deck, the faces of which are shown to be a random selection. The cards are dealt face down onto the table and the performer turns his back.

The helper now mixes the tabled cards by moving them around on the surface and then turns any one face up and presses his fingertips onto the card face. The card is then turned face down again and the cards mixed on the table again.

Turning back, the performer picks up the cards one at a time and amazingly manages to identify...

You show five Jokers, arrange them into a face-up and face-down pattern, and suddenly they are a royal flush.

1st edition 2026, video 3:17.

A spectator selects at random a card from an invisible pack - let's imagine the spectator says it is the 5H. This invisible card is apparently placed onto the spectator's hand.

Next a blank faced deck is freely displayed and shuffled before one card is selected. This blank faced card to placed momentarily onto the invisible card, and then when it is turned over, the blank face is now printed with the 5H card face.

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You start out with four cards with a blue back on both sides. They transform into four cards with red back designs on both sides, plus they have a big hole through the middle.

1st edition 2026, video 1:49.

Coin into matchbox.

A coin is borrowed and a spectator's initials are written on a sticker which is stuck to the money. Holding the coin at fingertips, the magician passes his hand over the coin and instantly it transforms into a matchbox! That is already totally unexpected, but a second surprise comes when the box is pushed open to reveal the signed coin sitting inside.

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The performer offers to demonstrate an effect that is part mentalism and part magic. For the mentalism part, he slides a blue-backed prediction card from a pay envelope, displaying that the envelope is otherwise empty before returning the card and leaving the envelope in view.

A red-backed deck is shown to be well mixed, and a spectator genuinely freely (no force) touches the back of any face-down card. This selection is left reversed in the centre of the deck.

The blue-backed prediction card is now removed from the envelope and its face displayed - let's say it is the QC. When the red...

A finger ring is borrowed from a spectator and placed under a handkerchief, where it is held by a second onlooker.

The performer removes a reading glasses case from his pocket and extracts his glasses from inside, the case itself being examined. The glasses are then dropped back inside, and the spectator holds the case up in view.

Reaching across to the handkerchief, the magician suddenly pulls it from the helper's hands, and instantly the borrowed ring disappears.

The assistant holding the glasses case now reaches inside and slides the spectacles out to reveal the ring hanging on...

A length of rope is displayed and can be examined if required. Taking the cord in his two hands, the magician ties a knot in the rope's centre, and instantly, as the knot is formed, a silk appears threaded through the knot!

No gimmicks required, this is a streamlined method for a classic Pavel effect.

1st edition 2026, video 8:22.

Two sets of five ESP cards are displayed, one with red backs, the other blue. A spectator takes the blue set and mixes the cards under the table while the magician does the same with the red set.

The two piles are placed on the table, and when the top two cards of the randomly mixed piles are turned over, they prove to be the same symbol e.g., the Star!

That's a surprise, but what's even more amazing is that when all the other ESP cards are turned face up, each and every one has also magically turned into a matching Star symbol!

1st edition 2026, video 9:49

A small coin (10p/US quarter) is tipped from a purse and marked with a sticker bearing a spectator's initials. It is then taken into the performer's closed fist, the other hand being shown otherwise empty.

The purse is then laid flat across the top of an examinable glass tumbler so that the top of the container is completely covered.

The hand is then brought down with a slap onto the top of the purse, opening as it does so and instantly a coin is seen and heard to penetrate the purse and fall into the tumbler.

With both hands clearly empty, the purse is lifted away to reveal that...