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A card is selected and returned to the deck. The performer cuts to a random position to show an indicator card. The value of the indicator card is used to count to another card which the performer thinks is the chosen card. However, the indicator card was already the spectator chosen card. So it appears as the performer messed up. Nevertheless, everything straightens out magically and the card counted to is the spectator card and the card counted off are the aces.

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A deceiving card control + an intrepid card move = An audacious card at any number

AMBIENCE CONTROL : A single card control from the middle of the deck to the top. Originally put out in The Blind Faith Collection (2015). It can also be used as a phase in an Ambitious Card Routine.

SAY STOP : A Selected Card At Any Number where you don't really need to know the number before hand. Originally put out in Audacious (2013) and as a bonus in C.I.A (2015).

Notes and Credits: Do not confuse Ambience Control to be same as Bizau Christian's Blind Square. They both are different. Say Stop was inspired from Paul Wilson's Yamfacaan. However...

An in-hand two card transposition with a surreal ending.

In the demo video I am simply using two cards, these can very well be selected (forced) cards, the explanation video has a couple of methods for it. In this download you'll also learn the Ambience Control. It is an essential move for the in-hand two card transposition.

1st edition 2020, length 13 min

3 gimmickless in-hand card tricks.

AMBIENCE // A multi utility card move that can be used both as a control to the top or as a reversal at the bottom.

DYAD // An in-hand Card At Any Number.

DYAD 2.0 // An in-hand two card transposition ending with a surreal ending.

DYAD 3.0 // An unusual card trick based on the idea of an in-hand triumph with a colour changing deck finale.

Honest Note :: Each of the 3 clips in the demo video was shot in one single take to let you see how it'll look in real time.

1st edition 2020, length 20 min

This is a collection of early Lybrary.com discs (CDROM, CD). Blackston Party Magic is an audio CD, the others are all CDROMs with HTML ebooks on it. The smaller ones were called mini-CDs or business-card-CDs because some used them as business cards to hand out their resume or other digital files and documents. We used them to deliver ebooks.

Included in this collection are:

• Party Magic
• Card College 1
• Angels May Shuffle But The Devil Still Deals
• Pocket Power
• Hoffmann's Trilogy - two different label design versions (Modern Magic, More Magic, Later Magic)
• Dreimal Karo
• Peter Duffie Collection 17 ebooks
• Buckley Trilogy (Card Control, Gems of Mental Magic, Principles and Deceptions)
• Tarbell Course
• Jamy Ian Swiss Book Reviews

Please note that since all of these discs are burned and not pressed they may or...

Contains all the early Marlo material for your convenience. Formerly put out in a dozen or more pamphlets - now with improved art work in digital form for easy study.

• Early Eddie
• Learning To Fool The People
• Pasteboard Presto
  • Two Pets
  • A. First Pet
  • B. Second Pet
  • Marlo's Rosini
  • The First Miracle
  • Another Rosini
  • Everywhere And Nowhere
  • Four Aces Again
  • The Ambitious Card
  • General Ace Trick
• Amazing, Isn't It?
  • Foreword
  • Card Counted To
  • Marlo's Think A Card
  • Simplex Ten To One
  • No Palm Aces To Pocket
  • Do As I Do - U Can't Unless I Want U 2
  • Streamlined Discernment
  • Surprising Transposition ...

Deck is shuffled and spectator cuts to a card. Performer removes one pip at a time from the card until it is entirely blank and as a final climax the card vanishes completely.

runtime: 3min 11s

This book was edited by Jean Hugard and illustrated by Stanley Jaks.

Martin Gardner had the following to say:

"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."

This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience...

Imagine you are anywhere but on stage, and you are unprepared. Somebody asks you to do a 'magic trick' (yeah, they know who you are!). You answer you would like to, but you have nothing with you, but a pen and a few business cards. You take out your business card holder or box, and you start amazing your audience.

Now, imagine you would take a deck of cards. It would be all different … Nobody would believe you are unprepared!

This ebook is a compendium of Gerard Zitta's effects, that can be done with business cards. They all 'look' impromptu, and most of them are indeed impromptu...

Effortless is probably just as apropriate or misleading as self-working. It doesn't mean that these tricks don't require any effort on your side. You have to read the descriptions, remember the sequence of actions and perform the act - entertain, which in my book is neither self-working nor effortless. But what these terms try to convey is that you will not need to master difficult moves or finger breaking sleights to perform these effects. And they are very good effects. Often an 'effortless' trick can be performed to greater effect because the performer can pay more attention to audience managment,...

1. ... "oil cards" vanish. You are left with only 8 red or water cards. Jon Racherbaumer loves this effect.

2. One Cup – This is a hilarious routine, fashioned after a Senator Clark Crandall effect and his "blazing" wit. This trick will keep the spectators laughing with TWO amazing kickers!

3. Name Any Card – This very clever effect is based on Jim Steinmeyer's ingenious principle. This effect is self-working and even the performer won't know how it works. The spectator completely controls the outcome and yet he finds his own selection every time.

4. Impromptu Book Test – Paul re-vamped an old...

Subjects covered:

• flashing
• controlling the ends
• camouflage
• securing elastic thread
• making a band of elastic thread
• the slider (a precursor to Zoom)
• the enchanted butterfly
• floating smoke ring
• flying pip
• floating card
• coins on the move

Elliott was a very popular magician. Particularly some of his card effects were considered best of its kind. Nobody knew the secrets to some of Elliott's tricks. People waited impatiently for the release of this book. But it was met with some disappointment that not all of Elliott's tricks were described. We do not know which tricks these critics mean. The reason might well be that Elliott died before he could finish his book. Burgess and Houdini had to collect Elliott's notes and fill in some of the missing explanations. However, Elliott and Houdini believed that all the material in this book was...

The Elmsley count, developed by Alex Elmsley, is probably the easiest and most deceptive count there is. Allan calls it 'the monster move of the 20th century'. Countless of routines have been devised using this move. The most famous of all is Twisting the Aces by Dai Vernon.

runtime: 2min 43s

From John Bannon's book Smoke and Mirrors here is another 2-4-4 count - a variation of Larry Becker's Mirage Count.

runtime: 1min 39s

Featuring notes and ideas from Andrew Gerard and Dr.Bill.

• Emotional Imprinting? The energy of our feelings attaching itself to objects? I always thought this the stuff of fiction. And usually bad fiction at that.
• He called it an "experiment." Everything seemed fair and under my control. There was no opportunity for him to manipulate the outcome.
• You know me; I'm a rational person. I have eagle eyes and would have seen if anything fishy happened.
• He followed my instructions, my choices exactly as I voiced them. Everything was in my hands!
• Did I really imprint my emotions onto inanimate...

This book is indeed worthy the name Encyclopedia. Originally compiled by Doctor Wilhelm von Deusen in collaboration with Mr. Glenn G. Gravatt (published in two volumes Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks and The Second Encyclopedia of Card Tricks), and later rewritten by Jean Hugard. It has a very interesting introduction by Ted Annemann where he addresses the issue of inventing new tricks and claiming ownership. This book will provide you with more card tricks than you ever wanted. The combined value of its contents, were the tricks to be computed at their original marketed price, was in the thousands of dollars. Now you can have it for a few bucks.

Hugard added a number of items over what...

This is a marvelous compilation of mostly easy and sleightless, or as it is usually called self-working, card tricks. Some effects do require moves such as palming, and a good false shuffle and false cut will go a long way to make many otherwise sleightless effects much stronger. But for the most part no sleights are necessary to perform the vast majority of effects taught.

From the Introduction:

Original and good new card tricks appear frequently, but new amazing coin tricks are much much harder to come by. Eni-Where is one of those rare effects which will fool you badly. This move allows for a perfectly clean production and vanish of a regular coin. There are no gimmicks, no pulls, magnets or other stuff. Before I say more watch the video demo below. It is pure magic.

This is such a fair and clean production that you will think this is a doctored video. To be honest when I first watched it that is what I thought. But it is exactly what you will be able to do once you know how it...

• ... what life was like on the road for a female magician from Canada.
• Jerry Conklin gives George Schindler a tour of the Colon cemetery, each giving insights on the famous names found there.
• Ed Ellis, the fastest hands in the world, works with the basics of the double lift and controlling the card to the top.
• Jim Moody gives us a taste of his lecture, "How to be Show-Wise".
• Kevin & Caruso reveal the history of their Miami magic show "New Wave Magic" and how they continue to perform their act on the cruise ships.
• Tomas Medina teaches us a couple of his favorite magic tricks, accompanied...

• ... and reminisce about his career, his mentors and a few of his secrets.
• George Schindler, John Bohannon and Tom Klem give us not only the history behind the Houdini gravesite, but also a broken wand ceremony.
• Ed Ellis, the fastest hands in the world, works with the basics of controlling the card to the bottom and the false cut.
• Gary Darwin opens his Las Vegas doors for a tour of his famous collection of magic memorabilia which left us breathless.
• New York City's Monday Night Magic is the premiere showcase for magicians in Manhattan, and they come from around the world to perform. ...

Werner Miller continues with his third volume in this series of self-working and semi-automatic effects all based on mathematical principles. Most of them are card tricks. A total of twenty effects for the magician looking for subtle math to enable stunning miracles. Everything is clearly explained with drawings, diagrams and tables.

Peter Duffie (review from Magic Magazine), Feb 2010: "Miller knows how to work with strange and wonderful arithmetical principles, and he comes up with some brilliant ideas. ... If mathematical magic scares you or you find it dull, Enigmaths could well change your mind and pull you over...

This is a tabled false riffle shuffle from The Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.

runtime: 1min 15s

This is a one-handed cut from Expert at the Card Table by Erdnase.

runtime: 43s