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A classic routine for producing the four Aces: the magician shuffles the deck and has the spectator cut the cards. The cards at the cut are shown to be indifferent, but with just a few throws of the two packets in the magician's hands, the four Aces are easily found.

1st edition 2025, video 1:57.

From a deck of cards, shuffled at will by a spectator, a card is taken at random and scattered in the deck, then found by the spectator himself at the number he thought of!

This is a semi-automatic card effect, in which a spectator freely shuffles a deck. Then he thinks of a number and removes that same number of cards from both the top and bottom of the deck; he memorizes the card now on top of the deck and places all the cards he just removed on top of it, after shuffling them together.

The magician, who had been facing away the whole time, now turns around and, taking the deck, cuts...

Master's ACAAN looks exactly like described below:

You place a pack of cards in full view. The audience decides on a card and names a number. You remove the cards from the box, deal down to that number, and there it is — their card at their number. But wait, that's not the end...

You reveal that it had to be that exact card at that exact number — any change would have resulted in complete failure. Because, apart from their card at their number, all the other cards are blank.

No switches. No sleights. Just one pack of 52 cards.

1st edition 2025, PDF 5 pages, video 6:18.

You show four cards. When you separate three of them, they suddenly have big holes cut out in their center. The fourth card has no hole.

An alternative routine using the same gimmick is shown below. This routine is not taught in the download. However, once you have learned the first routine and understand the gimmick, you should be able to understand how the routine below works. You show one regular card and three cards with a hole in the center. The three cards with a hole are blank. But once you combine them with the regular card, the holes vanish, and the faces are not blank anymore. ...

This count has one of the highest hide-to-show ratios of any false count. You are using four different cards, yet you can show each one three times in a row to credibly demonstrate you have a packet of three identical cards. Doing this four times with four different cards looks incredible on its own. Nevertheless, you would use this as part of a larger routine.

1st edition 2025, video 1:43.

A number, generated by the sum of the values of 5 randomly selected cards, will magically reveal the exact card predicted by the magician from the beginning!

The title refers to a semi-automatic card effect, in which the magician shuffles the deck and gives it to a spectator to cut and complete. He then hands him a pair of dice (he can also just ask him to imagine them) and, before throwing them, places a card face down on the table, announcing that it is his Pre-Vision of what will happen shortly. Once they verified the score obtained from the two dice, he stacks that exact number of cards...

A rubber band is stretched across your open palm. You insert a pen under the rubber band and slowly start to stretch the rubber band further away from the palm. Everything looks fair and as it should be. Suddenly, the rubber band has melted through the pen without any apparent motion.

The rubber band and pen can be handed out for inspection. They are completely ungimmicked.

1st edition 2025, video 4 min.

A series of cards, taken from four piles decided at the "Stop," are progressively eliminated, until only one pair remains to decide both a card and a number. Not only will that card be found in the deck at the number, but all the cards stacked under that pair will result magically divided by color!

Shocking Coloured Card at Number is a semi-automatic effect with cards, in which the magician shuffles the deck, then deals the cards into four separate piles, alternating between a spectator's "STOPS" and his own. Having collected the piles, he will gradually eliminate their cards until he...

While you turn over a small packet of cards, you palm the bottom card. Here, Peter uses this move in a small packet routine to have Aces and tens change their packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:59.

In the early '70's Jon Racherbaumer received 8 mm color footage of Chuck Smith executing a five-card poker hand switch. This was featured in the short film Lookout, Cleveland, now on YouTube. An excerpt is shown below. A letter from Smith is included here describing how he used it during WWII while in the military. This unique technique has been kept hidden until now. It is not easy, as many things are happening at once. This takes skill and nerve. The price is designed to keep it out of the hands of the curious. While we don't condone cheating, it is time this was recorded for posterity. ...

A stunning color change. Four cards showing several pips, what Peter calls 'compressed cards', change into the four aces.

1st edition 2025, video 3:03.

Early books on magic, such as Modern Magic and Illustrated Magic (1931) stressed mastering the pass as fundamentally necessary to every card handler. As time went on, easier sleights such as the double cut to the break replaced it, rendering it anachronistic. Times change. Recently, a friend was asked to comment on one of today's card experts. Her reply, "Too much shuffling." Modern audiences often don't know what happened, but they sense when it happened (He did something tricky) because of excessive cutting and shuffling. Attention spans are shorter now so effects must...

A card and a number, generated by a spectator's imagination, find a perfect match in reality, in a deck of cards that was in plain sight, on the table, from the beginning.

An incredible mentalism effect with playing cards, in which the illusionist tells of an ancestral magical ritual in which all the cards participate, gathering at a sacred mountain ... There, in the grip of visions caused by alcohol and drug abuse, each will discover its assigned "place in life". A kind woman imagines their "return to their village," still tipsy and staggering enough that she easily succeeds in blocking...

You start out with four aces and eight other cards. The four aces are placed individually on the table with two other cards on top of each other. The aces magically gather in one pack and then immediately return to their individual packets.

1st edition 2025, video 3:39.

A prediction is lying on the table. The magician asks a spectator to cut a shuffled deck in three parts and to pile them up. Then, he removes the Jokers as he explains that he and the spectator are going to choose a card through an elimination procedure. To do so, he deals the cards in two piles and asks the spectator to choose one. They are left with one half of the deck. The magician deals the cards again and chooses a pile this time. They are now left with a quarter of the deck. The procedure is repeated a couple of times again (once with the spectator choosing a pile and once with the...

You start with two packets of four identical cards each, for example, four 10s of hearts, and four aces of spades. You interleave them, show them again singly to confirm that they have been interleaved, but then magically they have separated. You do this twice, once face-down, and the second time face-up.

1st edition 2025, video 2:04.

Want a sock finish for your favorite ambitious card routine? Here it is. The object card is always handled by two indifferent cards. A perfect effect to add "medical" themed patter to your routine.

[Cover photo credit: Louis Sahuc]

1st edition 2025, video 40s.

"When everyone zigs, zag." - Marty Neumeier

99% of all the ACAANS out there either look or feel, or both, the same. This is an attempt to stand out in that 1%.

Here is what happens:

A deck of cards is handed to someone in the crowd. They point to a stranger - who freely names any card. That person points to someone else - who names any number from 1 to 52.

You take back the deck and spread it out. Every card has a big, bold number on its back - from 1 to 52 in perfect order. You count to the named number. The card is revealed to be the exact card they named.

Mind-blowing?...

An impossible prediction.

Your spectator uses their own phone to fill a 3x3 grid with numbers 1-9 in completely random positions. They calculate the mathematical total themselves using their own choices, their own device, their own numbers. (Note: The input method is handwriting. To give you an idea, this is the app the spectator will use to manually fill out the 3x3 grid.)

Yet you've already predicted their exact result.

No apps to download. No gimmicked props. Pure mathematical impossibility.

Why this destroys audiences:

• Their phone, their choices - eliminates every possible...

A magical journey undertaken by a spectator based on her choices inevitably leads to the result predicted by the magician.

A spectator raises a deck of cards previously shuffled, shuffles it in turn and chooses a card from which to begin a journey that will inevitably end at a card that was prophesied from the beginning and which, lost in the deck, will be magically found by the magician at the very number assigned to it by that same path taken together.

This is a new Card Magic effect in which, after showing and quickly shuffling a standard deck of poker cards, the magician asks a spectator...

This is a "Twisting the Aces" routine, here performed with the Jacks, that includes two color changes of the backs. First, they change from blue to red, and then the Jacks all have different backs.

1st edition 2025, video 3:32.

When Jimmy Grippo saw this in 1974, he realized its merits and immediately added it to his repertoire. It requires no turnovers or other distracting actions, but is not for the card novice. The effort it requires is more than adequately repaid by its stunning effect, coupled with a surprise ending. You receive a bonus tutorial on the Ascanio Spread with the instructions for the effect. These helpful videos easily enable you to achieve success. Note that a table isn't required.

[Cover photo credit: Patricia Ireland]

1st edition 2025, video 3:04

Four cards with backs on both sides turn into four queens, then back to backs, and then again to four queens.

1st edition 2025, video 2:09.

Four aces vanish in a pile of blank cards, only to magically reappear.

1st edition 2025, video 4:15