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The Shrinking Fan of Cards
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Steve Myers (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 23 June, 2025)
Very nice Tommy Wonder never fails
The L. W. Mindreading Mysteries
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 22 June, 2025)
When I first heard of these gentlemen, I was only interested in 4-Ace Tricks. That was a long time ago. Since then, I have developed a respect for mentalism and I would say that I like the works by these men and their minds, and an interest in the writings of this period in mystical entertainment. I am enjoying this book again and again. I admit to being retired, but I read and also write about things magical, and if I had to do over, I'd use this material for sure.
Mostly Perfect / Perfectly Possible: Combo
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Hans-Christian Solka (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 19 June, 2025)
EXCELLENT!
In Mostly Perfect, M. Daniels teaches sequential magic squares. Ideally, you can construct a so-called ‘most-perfect,’ ‘diabolic,’ ‘panmagic,’ ‘super-magic’ or ’pandiagonal’ magic square. The book is the MOST IMPORTANT magic book on 4x4 magic squares until 2015.
The Perfectly Possible method directly exploits a unique property of the ‘most perfect’ squares. Daniels’ methods are suitable for all even and odd sums.
BTW: The well-known 4x4 ‘most-perfect’ magic square used by Harry Lorayne dates back in magic to Robert A. Nelson in 1929 and was popularized by Theodore Annemann in “Book Without A Name” in 1931. Lorayne had - as was usually the case - forgotten to cite the sources.
Crafted with Carey
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Mark Millen
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 17 June, 2025)
A lot of nice material.
Mind Over Math
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Kevin Needham (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 08 June, 2025)
This is absolutely amazing and very fun to perform. The prediction is made before the spectator enters their numbers at random on their own device. Another great effect from Tommaso Guglielmi. Highly Recommended!!
Impromptu Gambling Routines
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by raphael czaja
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 06 June, 2025)
For EXCHANGE POKER alone, this is a must buy. I don't perform gambling routines much but this is certainly one I'll add to my repertoire.
Bammo Dead Rebel Angels and Demons Dossier
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Rick Kirkes (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 04 June, 2025)
Bob Farmer sort of turned me onto the Angels & Demons deck which I have been doing John Bannon's Mundo which is a short version of OOTW with lots of success. I've just read though this e-book today and I must say that I am totally impressed. I originally bought the e-book because of Psychometrick.
But there are other effects in this e-book that caught my eye too, like Spectator Cuts to The Angels and the follow up to that Angels Up.
Let me say, I haven't yet performed any of the effects in the e-book, but I plan to.
You get a lot here for your money.
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Die-Bolical ACAAN
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jesse Hittle (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 01 June, 2025)
This is a great version of the ACAAN effect!
The Logsquare
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Kevin Needham (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 27 May, 2025)
This is not just one, but two effects that work together beautifully! You will look like a mind-reading genius using this very easy method. Highly recommended.
Spirit Glass
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Joshua Johnson (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 26 May, 2025)
Overpriced for something which is in multiple sources, Magic and Showmanship, Dark Matter Secrets, and the Dark Waltz. Don't get me wrong. It's a good method, but I bought it at the price I was hoping it might offer some extra tips or routines, but it is the briefest of the many sources.
The Secret Edge For Children's Entertainers
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jason Rippetoe (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 24 May, 2025)
Does his one-step advice give children's entertainers an edge? I don't know that I would put it that way and it's such a no-brainer that to call it a "secret" seems a bit much. If you're working with children and you don't already know this secret, you're in a bad place. It certainly isn't something I would charge people for. In fact, treating this as a means to increase sales seems incredibly cynical. This is one "secret" I would like every one of my competitors to know, take seriously, and shout from the rooftops.
Get Paid Doing Free School Shows
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jason Rippetoe (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 24 May, 2025)
In this age of tighter school budgets, many schools choose not to budget (or budget less) for school assemblies. The author presents a creative method to finance your assembly program without getting grants, selling ads, or making the school cough up the dough. In a big school, there's the potential of making more than the average school show fee. It could be a back-door method to get a booking when the school says they don't have the budget. Also, there's some room to update the process and use online payment processes to eliminate cash and checks.
I haven't yet committed to following this method, but it seems very viable, and I'm not disappointed that I purchased the ebook.
Eyegraphs
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Bob Max (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 21 May, 2025)
The Step Jumble Force is diabolical. It is in plain sight but impossible to find. The basic principle is very clever. The routines here are great. And I'm also enjoying creating my own routines using this force.
Scripted #4: The 21 Card Trick
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jason Connolly (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 19 May, 2025)
This is great. Mr. Brodahl has taken one of the most boring tricks in magic and made it entertaining and deceptive by adding some smoke to the procedure and a lot of cleverness to the presentation.
Will I perform it? Probably not, but it's well worth a read as a model of how good scripting can elevate even the lowliest trick, and for this price, it can't be beaten.
Expert Card Technique
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 18 May, 2025)
Truly one of the great books on cards. It has stood the test of time and there have been so many other texts published in the meantime while this one is still selling. The price for it as an eBook is amazing, and within the budget of students everywhere. I am a professional and a hobbyist at the same time, lucky for me. It is about half a century since I read it the first time, and many years since I read it the last time. We get caught up with keeping up with what's new, and yet now that I'm re-reading it again, it seems new again and I'm re-learning things I forgot I knew.
Number Nonsense
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 11 May, 2025)
These are not magic tricks, but tricks in the sense of stunts or puzzles. Nevertheless, they are entertaining. The inclusion of the PowerPoint file makes it easy to present the first surprising demonstration.
Haunted
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 11 May, 2025)
This video provides a clear explanation for handling for a Haunted Deck effect based on a variation of one of the standard methods. It was easy to follow and would be especially useful for a beginner wanting to perform this classic.
I do wish it contained a little more on the actual presentation, and not just the method.
Easy Lift: no get ready double lift
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 11 May, 2025)
This is a short video, but it provides a technique that might be useful who have trouble with double lifts or are just interested in learning alternative handlings.
It's similar to a technique that I have occasionally used, but I don't recall seeing it published elsewhere.
The Book Test Book
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Mauro Rapinesi
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 11 May, 2025)
Jim Kleefeld’s book is the Library of Babel of the book test. It’s an indispensable resource if your goal is a thorough exploration of book test methods; a stimulating one if you're searching for your own presentation style, inspired by the 500 examples included—though described only in broad strokes. The only real risk? You might not be able to stop reading...
The book is rounded off with three extremely useful indexes (by effect, by method, and by author), which will always help you find your way through this vast terrain. As if that weren’t enough, the book itself is an incredible forcing book you can actually use in your performances.
Ted Lesley's Working Performer's Marked Deck Manual
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Roberto De Gesu (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 09 May, 2025)
Really interesting and enjoyable book to read.
The Möbius Strip in Magic: A treatise on the Afghan Bands
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Dan Cogliano (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 09 May, 2025)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Afghan Bands is here. This was well researched and a great reference guide in the bibliography to other publications mentioning the Afghan Bands.
It's Better Than Digging Roads
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Michael Brooke (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 08 May, 2025)
It was great to hear my Dad’s voice again after so many years. The transcript was also very welcome as it felt like Dad had left this conversation for me. He never really talked about his early life and his parents died before I was born so I didn’t have a chance to meet them.
Chris was very helpful and responded to questions very promptly - the download was very easy to access.
Principles and Deceptions
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 08 May, 2025)
I recently read a short review of this great book, and revisited it. I read it several times long ago, but this time through I felt compelled to mention how good it really is. I performed professionally for about 16 years, but on and off many more. Even when not performing, I am involved with writing about the art. The main reason I've taken a new interest is the inclusion of billiard ball magic explained in a wonderful way. While the other items are covered with interesting writings, the work on billiard balls interested me the most because it is probably my favorite branch of magic. While I often mention Gaultier and Hull in regard to B. Balls, I must remember to include this book in the group to study if fascinated by this field. The price is surprisingly low in this downloadable version.
Ireland's Year Book 1960
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Philip Heckman (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 30 April, 2025)
Love this yearbook 1960 because of the Walt Rollins segment and of course the cover artwork
Smooth Honeycutter
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by hal barlow (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 29 April, 2025)
Smooth indeed! Well worth the $8.