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One single prediction card is placed face down in view to one side. Five different ESP symbol cards are openly displayed and then shuffled. A spectator is invited to freely nominate the first, second, third, fourth or fifth card in the pile. His choice is dropped out onto the table and the faces of the other cards are displayed. When the selection is compared to the prediction card, they match!

No force, this is direct and straightforward to perform and is very quick to re-set.

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A red sponge ball is displayed openly, both the performer's hands being clearly seen to be otherwise empty. Curling his left hand into a loose fist, the magician pushes the red sponge ball inside and then blows on the hand. Immediately the fist is opened to reveal the ball has changed to yellow and both hands are once again genuinely empty.

This simple effect includes a principle that you will be able to use in many other effects. No gimmicks are required.

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Every four years we like to publish a collection of all the great magic that has appeared during the period in Magicseen's Masterclass section, and from the issues which appeared in volumes 9-12 we offer you 51 effects and ideas from such well known and respected performers as Andy Nyman, David Regal, Chris Rawlins, Boris Wild, Mel Mellers, Pit Hartling, John Bannon, Vincent Hedan, Thomas Fraps, Dan Garrett, Anthony Owen and many others.

Contents:

• Trapped Prediction - Alexander Erohin
• Roll and Slide Vanish - Radek Makar
• The Great Escape - John Breeds
• More ESP - Arun Bonerjee
• Moneyball - Fritz...

From a pile of 12 cards each bearing one of the 12 star signs, a spectator removes theirs and it is slipped unseen by the performer into an envelope which is left in view.

12 further cards, which bear descriptive character trait words for each of the star signs, are shuffled and three selected by spectators at random.

The performer takes the three cards and tries to assess whether the words on any of them appear to apply to the first spectator. He eventually decides on one card. On removing the star sign card from the envelope it is seen to match!

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A card is genuinely freely chosen by a spectator and slipped sight unseen into an envelope that is placed onto the performer's hand. By simply rubbing his fingers across the envelope, the magician claims to be able to divine the name of the selection inside, and after a few moments names a card. The spectator takes the envelope and removes the card to reveal the performer is correct.

This is just one effect made possible by this special, versatile envelope stack idea. Simple to make, this gimmick is based on a tried and tested classic principle.

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A £5 note is borrowed from a spectator, the number noted, and then it is slipped into an empty envelope. Next, six further identical envelopes are introduced, each of which the performer claims contains a folded piece of paper. The envelope containing the spectator's banknote is added to the other six and the spectator mixes them before dealing them out in any order on the table.

In a fair yet random way six envelopes are discarded, yet somehow the one remaining envelope contains the spectator's money! The financial risk, however, turns out to belong to the magician, not the spectator,...

This is a version of the classic four-coin matrix effect. Four coins are tipped from a purse, placed out in a square and then covered with the four Aces.

One at a time, three of the Aces are lifted to reveal that the coin they were covering has vanished. People expect all four coins to have collected beneath the fourth Ace, but when that is raised, there is nothing underneath there either. Immediately the purse that has been lying throughout on the table is opened to reveal that the four coins have assembled back inside it!

No gimmicks required, the handling is subtle and clever. ...

This is a wonderfully convincing and natural-looking move to enable you to make a borrowed ring instantly penetrate off an ungimmicked length of cord.

The ring is genuinely threaded onto the rope and hangs at the bottom of the rope loop. A hand is slid down the cord to the ring and with a single squeeze, the ring drops off and onto a spectator’s hand or the table.

No gimmicks or extra rings required, this is one of the moves included in my Ring And String Deluxe package and which is offered here on its own.

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A small pay envelope with a square hole cut right through its centre is displayed and a selected card slipped inside where it is clearly shown. A second card is then chosen and cut into the deck's centre. Moments later, the deck is ribbon spread face down to reveal the first selection now face up in the deck centre. Immediately the card inside the envelope is removed to reveal it is actually now the second chosen card.

This incorporates a simple yet devious envelope principle that you will be able to use in other effects.

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Two matchboxes are shown one at a time. The drawer is removed from the first box to show it is empty, and then having been replaced is set down on the table. The second box is opened to reveal the drawer is full of matches. Again this is closed and placed down well away from the first box. The performer then simply snaps his fingers and an amazing transposition is revealed to have taken place, as the first box is now full of the matches and the second box is shown to be empty.

This quick and surprising effect uses ungimmicked matchboxes.

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Four Aces are removed from a deck. One at a time a spectator cuts the Aces back into the deck thus apparently losing them. Yet with one cut of the pack, the four Aces are found back together on the top.

No sleights, this is easy to do and makes a great intro to a longer four Ace assembly routine.

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Two sets of 10 cards are counted out fairly and openly onto a spectator's hand before being dropped into two glass tumblers where they can be clearly seen. One at a time three cards are invisibly moved from one glass to the other, and when the piles are counted back onto the spectator's hand again, the first glass only contains 7 cards and the other 13.

This is the classic cards across effect using a method that is completely move and sleight free. Everything happens at fingertips and there is no palming required, nor any special counts. Designed for a close-up or intimate parlour show,...

The Professional Worker Series - Volume 6

Sit back and relax as I read the complete contents of this fascinating e-book to you. It's a great way to absorb and enjoy the contents whether you are at home, in the garden, driving the car or exercising in the gym.

In this Learning From Experience Audio Book I look back over my 40 years of full-time professional experience and identify 20 key things about performing commercially for lay people that I wish I had known when I started.

Organising these into 20 key facts, I explain the lessons that I have learned in this rich period of experience...

There are many ring and rope routines in print and there are a whole host of ingenious moves which a performer can use. But if we are honest with ourselves, how many of these routines can really be said to be entertaining to a lay audience? Often the presentation is all but forgotten and so the routine becomes simply an exhibition of clever handling and little more.

I wanted to find a way of involving an audience in a ring and rope routine so that it would leave them entertained as well as fooled, and The Ring Competition is the answer I came up with. One of the great assets of this presentation...

A spectator freely names a card (e.g. 5D) which is cut into the centre of a blue deck. The performer cuts a card of his choice (e.g. AS) into the centre of a red deck. The spectator and performer are now going to attempt to make their chosen cards reverse themselves while the packs are still inside their boxes.

Having mimed the removal and turning over of cards, the performer fans the spectator's blue deck only to discover that there is one card face up, but it's the AS! The magician then fans his red backed deck - and to everyone's surprise, the only face-up card in that pack is the one...

Learn about mix and mingle magic the easy way.

This 55-minute audiobook is perfect for listening to in the car or while jogging or at the gym. It contains a reading of the contents of the hugely useful information ebook entitled Going Walkabout, in which I explain exactly how I go about performing at informal mix and mingle events and how to make a success of working close-up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement of seats, but no tables.

The 7 chapters included are as follows:

• Chapter 1 - Defining Going Walkabout ...

If you enjoy simple to do magic that never requires a re-set and which you can do anytime, anywhere, you will love this two-stage routine using a 10p and a £2 coin. (Any two coins of different sizes can be used for this effect.)

Both coins are borrowed from spectators and placed into your fist. The 10p is openly removed, shown freely and genuinely placed away in your pocket. Instantly it jumps back to your hand to join the £2.

Then the £2 is removed, but instead of both coins reappearing in the hand, they both vanish and are produced from the pocket. Very clean handling, easy to do,...

This is a wonderful participation routine for children's entertainers using the simplest of props - a wand, a silk, and an unprepared bag. Two children come up to assist. A silk is made invisible and handed to one child, while the second helper examines and then holds onto a bag. The invisible silk is 'blown' up into the air, caught on the end of the magic wand, which is then used to flick it over to the child holding the bag. The silk is supposed to now be inside the bag, but the child holding the bag seems to be unable to find it inside. Realising that the silk must still be invisible, the...

A deck of cards becomes a stable of 52 horses. The horses are shuffled by a spectator and the deck is placed down. The performer then writes down the name of one of the horses on a pad and places it sight unseen in view on the table. This is a prediction of a horse that he believes will win an imaginary race in a few moments time.

Spreading the deck, a spectator is invited to touch one at a time completely at random seven horses. These are removed and held in a pile. He then selects any number from one to seven. Using the chosen number, horses are eliminated in the pile one by one until...

This lightweight mental effect is suitable for close up, parlor or even stage and is very simple to do. A map is shown which has six named locations marked on it. A spectator mentally selects one and records his choice on a small card which is concealed in an envelope. Cards bearing the names of the six locations are shuffled by a spectator and placed by him entirely at random into six envelopes which are then given out to audience members. Despite all this, a prediction shown at the start leads to the correct person holding the envelope which contains the spectator's chosen island location. ...

The general theme with these audio messages is helping you to perform commercially more effectively.

• Approaching A Table
• Deciding How Long To Perform For
• Expecting The Unexpected
• Getting Great Table Reactions
• Using Patter Lines Sensitively
• Working Close Up Outside

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Listen to a lot of practical advice from a pro who has learned from experience.

• Checking Up On Technique
• Coping With Nerves
• Dealing With Mistakes
• Developing A Performing Personality
• Magical Self Awareness
• Making The Most Of Practice

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This is the exact routine as used by Mark Leveridge in his commercial close-up work and also to open all his children's shows. No new concepts, no 'flashy' moves, just a thoroughly professional and entertaining routine that has proved its value over countless performances.

There are few more popular routines with lay people than the sponge balls, and Mark Leveridge's fast-paced sequence will provide you with a practical version that you will quickly learn and use.

1st edition 1984, PDF 11 pages.

The Four-midable Magic Series comprises of specialist ebooks, each of which supplies four effects of a specific type.

This first volume in the series teaches four card routines that require little or no sleight of hand, and are well structured to produce clear magical card effects. They are clearly described in easy-to-follow numbered sections, supplemented by a total of 39 colour photo illustrations.

• Introduction
• Royal Flush: the magician uses magic to produce a Royal Flush from a shuffled deck of cards.
• Big Deal: a spectator shuffles a deck and cards are dealt face up onto the table...

4. Welcome to Issue #107 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. The Magic of F1 - Nigel Mansell
8. Vwgas & Lopez - A Magical Chainsaw Massacre Cabinet - cover article by Thomas L. Swieciak
14. Reader's Letters
16. The View from Behind the Stand - comedy re: convention dealers - Mark Leveridge
18. Masterclass
    18. ACAAN - The Rubik's Cube of Magic - Peter Turner
    20. Aces in Glass - Wolfgang Riebe
19. Magik Balay Announces Opening of New Magic Shop in NYC
22. Pro Tips - Part #4 Getting and Keeping Attention - Mark Leveridge
23. The Magic CRB - Magical Satire from Mark...