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Scott F. Guinn

Scott F. Guinn

#1 Coins, Chips & Buttons author

Scott F. Guinn ("Great Scott!") is a former full-time professional magician (now a full-time pastor and part-time pro) from Star, Idaho (near Boise). Scott has been entertaining and amazing audiences throughout the US and Canada since 1978. In addition, he performed regularly in Boise-area restaurants several nights per week over two decades, and he has had numerous television appearances.

Scott’s corporate clients include food and beverage giants like Nestle, Heinz and Coca-Cola, as well as companies from many other fields, such as Hewlett-Packard, Micron Computers, Dollar and Hertz car rental agencies, Bank of America and many more. For many years, Scott earned his living from performing magic.

In addition, Scott has written many books on magic, and starred in a DVD teaching his material, all of which have received rave reviews from organizations, magazines, and individual magicians, both amateur and professional.

"Your success is well-deserved. I read a lot of stuff that is either poorly structured or just doesn't have anything 'new' about it. Your ideas have structure and I can immediately see that they will work in the real world. Some guys put out stuff that will only work one-to-one or for YouTube. I like the fact that you cover the routine by writing up your patter and all the inside bits, unlike sometimes when I read a routine and I can't make out how it will play because all they do is give a basic explanation of the effect and then a very bland explanation of the method. You know what you're doing and it's a pleasure to read." - Greg Arce

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Scott F. Guinn
A Little Something by Scott F. Guinn

In this ebook you will find material that entertains and amazes, but more importantly, it is material that 'mere mortals' can actually do. Two dozen incredible routines. Cards, coins, and parlor/platform material is included.

Nothing is duplicated from Scott's other ebooks, lecture notes, or DVD--with one exception, and that has been greatly expanded and updated.

These routines bear the Guinn trademarks of clever thinking and thoughtful construction, from a man who has been called "one of our best close-up and stand-up performers" (Aldo Colombini, in The Linking Ring) and "one of the best writers in...

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My Best To You: Cards by Scott F. Guinn

Fifteen of Scott F. Guinn's best card effects from his out of print books, edited, expanded, and updated. Unique plots and twisted classics, all audience tested in the real world!

  • BOXING A JOKER
  • OPEN FLIPPIN' PREDICTION
  • A COUPLE OF BANDITS
  • RANSOMED BACK
  • WHAT THE DEVIL
  • WHAT IN THE WORLD
  • FACE-OFF
  • KINGS' NITE OUT
  • UNPREDICTABLE
  • WAKE ME AT TEN
  • BACK TO THE FUTURE
  • UNIVERSAL APPEAL
  • COLOR MY WORLD
  • A TRIUMPH IN PLASTIC
As always, profusely photo-illustrated, written in the clear, conversational style Scott is known for.

"If you want real workable routines that play strong...

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My Best To You: Coins by Scott F. Guinn

This is Volume Two in the "My Best to You" series. Containing 13 gems of coin magic excerpted from Scott's long out of print books, this material has been edited and updated, with loads of tips, finesses, new handlings, and additions that weren't in the originals.

Contains:

  • SUCKER TRICK
  • GLASS ACTION SUIT
  • WORMHOLE
  • INTO THE FOURTH DEMENTIA
  • EYE-CON
  • POUCHED CSB
  • SHEEPISH THIEVES
  • NORTH AMERICAN JUMPING COINS
  • UN COINS THRU TABLE
  • STRUCK, PACKED, & PITCHED
  • SHELLED, FOLDED, & HOOKED
  • STACKED, WAXED, & HIJACKED
  • GREAT SCOTT'S FLURRY
Unique plots and twisted classics, all...
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My Best To You: Close-Up & Stand-Up by Scott F. Guinn

The 3rd and final installment of this series, volume three contains great magic from Scott's early books Great Scott! It's MORE Magic! And Magishing My Way. This is stuff Scott has been making a living with for over a decade! No filler here!

5 close-up routines that don't use cards or coins, 4 routines for parlor/platform, and three routines for kids shows!

CONTENTS

CLOSE-UP ROUTINES:

  • STICK AROUND - ring & stick
  • JELLIS - Ellis ring
  • RINGS OFF...RINGS ON - keychain rings & string
  • STRUNG OUT - borrowed finger ring & string
  • A TRUNK FULL OF NUTS - 2-in-hand, 1-in-pocket
STAND-UP...
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Not Your Ordinary Card Tricks by Scott F. Guinn

Are you tired of the same old card tricks? You know what I mean...

“OK, I’ll deal down three rows of seven cards each, and you just tell me which row contains your card...”

or...

“Was this your card? No? How about THIS one?”

or maybe...

“Now, the fifth way I’ll find the four aces is...”

or even...

“Look! For the 22nd time, your card has risen to the top of the deck!”

Sometimes it’s good to get off the beaten path. Sometimes, you just want to do something different. Sometimes, you want to take a deck of cards and perform some routines that are not...

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Belgian Blockbusters by Scott F. Guinn

This is an ebook about the magic of Peter Vanspauwen. Peter's name is not well-known in the magic community--yet! This ebook has some great stuff that will get your juices flowing, and like all of Scott's ebooks, is absolutely loaded with photo illustrations. 4 card routines, 3 coin routines, a wonderful rope routine, and two more routines for parlor or platform. 226 photos. Level: Intermediate

1st edition 2003; 100 pages.

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Guinn Gone Mental by Scott F. Guinn

In this, his sixteenth magic ebook, popular author Scott F. Guinn shares a baker's dozen of his favorite mind magic effects. Clairvoyance, predictions, intuition, second sight, and other plots await you within this work.

Nine of the effects were published in Scott's previous (now out of print) ebooks, but these have been updated and expanded:

  • CLAIRVOYANT JOKER: The mentally selected card is the only non-Joker
  • BLIND-SIGHTED: Divine a mentally selected number & card
  • A STRONG IMPRESSION: You predict the card a spectator will name (no force)
  • FOR REAL PREDICTION: A strong and easy take...
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Marked for Death by Scott F. Guinn

Scott has been holding this close to the vest for more than a decade. A small part of his do-it-yourself marked deck system was published in his long out of print book "Never Miss a Trick," but in this manuscript Scott gives you the full meal deal, explaining the entire system. Along with instructions on how to make up your own decks (in just minutes!), Scott gives you memory hooks to make learning the system as quick and painless as possible. Then he gets into the routines--and what routines they are! Killer routines that will slaughter your audience! Stuff that seems absolutely impossible...

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Great Scott! It's Magic! by Scott F. Guinn

Routines from a full-time pro that you can (and will) do!

Scott F. Guinn is a full-time professional magician from Star, Idaho (near Boise) who has been entertaining and amazing audiences throughout the US and Canada since 1978. Scott earns his living performing for "real people" in the "real world". Scott has also written several books and ebooks which you can find here at Lybrary.com. He was also featured in publications such as The Linking Ring, MUM, and AM/PM. On this DVD, you will find material from Scott's "A List", the stuff he performs for real people in real-world paying gigs. The...

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Dark Thoughts by Scott F. Guinn

Jean Boucher's "The Dark Card" is one of the greatest utility card gimmicks ever--you can do MIRACLES with it! In Dark Thoughts, Scott teaches seven incredible routines using the Dark Card.

PART ONE: ALONE WITH THE DARK

  • Olympic Champion: Two spectators' signed cards (with different colored backs) transpose!
  • Red & Blue Times Two: The Alex Elmsley classic, with an impossible instant repeat!
  • The Legend of Scott Star: A tale of the Old West, with lawmen, card cheats, killers, and a hangin' judge. There is magic all the way, including a poker deal, and a finish that they never see coming...
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The Guinn Utility Backslip by Scott F. Guinn

The Guinn Utility Backslip or GUB is an extremely versatile and surprisingly simple technique, which can be used to accomplish or replace all of the following sleights:

  • Control card to top
  • Control card to second from top
  • Control card to bottom
  • Control card to second from bottom
  • Multiple Shift (all of the above done with two or more cards)
  • Sidesteal
  • The Pass
  • Secret Reversal
  • Top Change
  • Multiple Top Change
  • Bottom Change
  • Multiple Bottom Change
  • Color Change
  • Lap
  • Gambler's Cop
  • Tenkai Palm
  • False Deals

The most exciting feature of the GUB is that all of these applications are...

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Great Scott's Matrix Routines by Scott F. Guinn

Do you like the Matrix effect? Here are four versions of this classic effect of coin magic, each with "the Guinn touch", plus an entire comedy script, straight out of Scott's professional performing repertoire, meaning you're really getting FIVE routines! This fun, funny, and exciting story will grab your audience's attention and lock it in place right up to the big finish!

This ebook has recently been drastically expanded to include extra nuances and finesses. In addition, all the required moves and sleights are explained, in the lauded clear style Scott has become famous for. The table...

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Great Scott's Oil & Water Routines by Scott F. Guinn

If you're a fan of the Oil & Water plot, feast your eyes on this release, containing three takes on Oil & Water!

Ed Marlo's Oil & Water plot is a modern classic of card magic, and contrary to what some magicians say, the effect can absolutely rock laymen! Great Scott's Oil & Water Routines is a 43-page ebook with 49 photos, in which Scott teaches the following in his famously clear writing style:

  1. ELMER'S SOW - A very simple yet very magical and clean one-phase routine.
  2. SIMON'S COW - An exceptionally clean and convincing O&W routine.
  3. THE "X" ON VAL DEES - A much more technically demanding...
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Three Killers by Scott F. Guinn

THREE KILLER COIN ROUTINES FROM SCOTT'S PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING REPERTOIRE.

Not only are these routines powerful and commercial, they are easy to learn and perform! These are the three most-performed coin routines from Scott's arsenal--the bread and butter material he has used to make a living for years. Scott has held nothing back: the routines are masterfully explained, profusely photo-illustrated, and include all the subtleties and nuances, along with complete, professional performance scripts! The three effects can be performed one right after the other to form an entire coin set--in...

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Traveling Thru Idaho by Scott F. Guinn

Dai Vernon's "The Travelers" plot has always been one of Scott's favorites. In this eBook, Scott has compiled several of his streamlined handlings for this plot. All of them are very easy to do, and one of them is almost self-working!

In addition, Scott has included "A Visit to Boise," a routine inspired by Larry Jennings' "The Visitor" that makes a great follow-up to "The Idaho Travelers" (the first routine in the book). This book ends with "Sun Valley Serenade," Scott's super-easy handling of Jack Carpenter's "Multiplex Reset."

5 routines, 50 pages, with 52 photos

Level: Intermediate

"Idaho Travelers" is a GREAT routine...

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Two Sides of the Same Coin by Scott F. Guinn

Three powerful coin magic routines with "tricky coins"--professionally routined, complete with patter! Easy of execution, but strong and commercial!

Scott has held nothing back: the routines are masterfully explained, profusely photo-illustrated, and include all the subtleties and nuances, along with complete, professional performance scripts! The three effects can be performed one right after the other to form an entire coin set--in fact, that's exactly how Scott performs them. There is good variety between the routines, and audiences absolutely love all three.

Kung-Fooled - a twisted...

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U.N. Coin Box Routines by Scott F. Guinn

STRONG MAGIC WITH COIN BOXES!

Two powerful and commercial routines using Okito-type coin boxes (Boston Box and a Slot Box) and international coins with gaffs.

You will need a range of gaffs:

For Routine # 1:

  1. Two copper/silver coins (C/S), one side showing a US half dollar, the other an English Penny.
  2. One each of the regular matching coins--an English Penny and a US half dollar.
  3. An English penny expanded shell (EXP).
For Routine # 2:
  1. Three Chinese coins that are the size of a half dollar
  2. An expanded shell Chinese coin (CES) to match
  3. An expanded shell half dollar (EXP) ...
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Great Scott's Ambitious Card Routine by Scott F. Guinn

The Ambitious Card is visual, impossible, and engaging. It breaks the old "never repeat a trick" rule - in fact, it becomes stronger when repeated, especially as the conditions become more stringent along the way.

This ebook teaches Scott's Ambitious Card routine (no surprise there, eh?). He explains not only what he does, but why he does it--why each phase goes where it does, etc.

A lot of you will be adding the finale to your own routines; it's free, quickly constructed, easy to use, and it creates the same illusion as some pretty expensive marketed gaffs. It is also much cleaner and...

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The Working Pro's Bill in Lemon by Scott F. Guinn

"THE PERFECT CLOSER!"

This is quite possibly THE SINGLE STRONGEST ROUTINE in Scott's arsenal. A clean, magical, and effective Bill in Lemon routine that is audience tested and approved.

A spectator's dollar bill (verified as the same bill at every step of this process) is identified, such that everyone in the audience knows it is HIS bill. The bill is then openly (no envelopes) burned by the same spectator. Another spectator has been holding a package since before the show started. He brings it forward. The first spectator opens it and removes its contents: some napkins, a lemon, and a...

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Clairvoyant Joker 2.0.1.0 by Scott F. Guinn

Scott has been using this diabolically simple routine for over twenty years. How can something so easy play so strongly?

Effect: You deal five cards to the table. A spectator mentally chooses a number from one to five. You turn your back, and he looks at the card that fell at his number, then replaces it. The cards are gathered and shuffled and placed in your shirt pocket. After a few moments of focused concentration, you remove the cards one at a time. Finally, you reveal the card that the spectator merely thought of, proving you also knew his number! But you're not done yet... The rest...

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Great Scott's Ring and Rope Routine by Scott F. Guinn

Another routine that has helped to earn Scott's reputation, both in the magic community and with lay-audiences. Combining some well known moves with some that will be new to you, this is a multi-phased routine where a solid metal ring magically penetrates on and off an ordinary rope. The penetrations become progressively more clean and amazing, leading up to a killer finale!

The ring and rope are completely unprepared and may be examined. The ring is never just put on or taken off the rope--it goes on magically, and then it comes off magically. It is also modular, so you can do the whole...

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Having A Ball: Three Ball Routine by Scott F. Guinn

Scott's version of the classic 3-Ball routine, with some fun twists and turns along the way, including color changes, perpetual productions from the mouth, and more! A lot more variety than most routines of this type.

Scott's clear writing style, combined with tons of photos accompanying the text, will have you ready to perform this in the very near future.

This is a strong, commercial, professional routine, and it is unlikely that your audiences have ever seen anything like it. It's a great routine to put in the middle or at the end of your set, and it doesn't use cards or coins! Modular,...

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McCall of the Wild: A Wild Card Routine by Scott F. Guinn

“Wild Card” is an icon of card magic. Most close up magicians have purchased some version of it somewhere along the way in their journey through magic. And yet, you almost never see it performed. Why? It can’t be because it is “hackneyed”--as just stated, one almost never sees it performed, so how could that be the case?

Flip Hallema said it best:

“Most Wild Card routines are nice to do for magicians, but too drawn out for a genuine party-audience; too much repetition of the same move, slow tempo, and no climax, while the trick cries for [a] crescendo. In my opinion, [it] should build...

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Participant's Triumph by Scott F. Guinn

Your participant shuffles the deck, cuts it, and removes a card and signs her name on its face. She returns this to the deck at a spot of her choosing. The deck is cut in half, and one half is turned face up. Your participant shuffles the two halves together, face up into face down. You snap your fingers and spread the deck--every card is face down with one exception--her signed card is face up in the middle of the spread!

There is also an amazing kicker ending--you'll have to buy the ebook to find out what it is! You finish by allowing her to keep the deck as a souvenir.

This is the...

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Peanut Butter & Jelly by Scott F. Guinn

HERE IT IS! THE ROUTINE THAT EARNED SCOTT A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION...

With just three sponge balls, a purse frame and a "special something" (readily available from virtually any magic dealer), Scott has created a routine that is fun, charming, and extremely commercial. It has proven to be mystifying and tremendously entertaining for audiences of all ages, and has garnered praise from laymen and big name magicians alike. Many magicians have said that this is the best sponge ball routine EVER!

Thoroughly explained along with photo-illustrations, this routine teaches a couple of utility moves...

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Quicker Than The Eye! by Scott F. Guinn

The 1st installment of the "Sit-Down Card Magic" Series, Quicker than the Eye! is Scott's award-winning card to purse routine, with his full, professional script!

"The hand is quicker than the eye." This old axiom is still widely believed to be true, and most people associate it with magicians. In Quicker than the Eye!, you offer to prove this expression is true in a contest with the participant. You put up money (in the form of a silver dollar in a coin purse) that the participant gets if you lose, but you keep if you win. You fail to provide the proof, so the participant gets the dollar....

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