Search Results: page 31

Tarbell Course contributor Nick Conticello is proud to release the first installment of a book he calls "a five-part meditation on one of the most powerful principles in card magic, the sunken key card."

Sunken Treasury Parts One and Two consists of fourteen effects based on essentially new concepts, material that is unlike anything you have seen before (unless you have seen Nick perform!)

Highlights include:

THE SLEIGHT-OF-MIND ROUTINE: A routine of three effects involving selected cards and a pair of Deuces.

MENTAL POLYGRAPH: A spectator thinks of a card and loses it in the pack herself. She...

IMAGINE:

• Having two spectators write down two numbers, choose two cards, lose the cards in the pack and finding their cards at their numbers!
• Letting someone cut a freely chosen card into the pack and knowing the card's location with just a glance!
• Allowing a person to freely shuffle a pile of face up and face down cards, give you half the cards without you seeing them, and having your pile match his, despite touching your pile with only one hand for only a few seconds!
• Losing the four Aces into the pack and finding them by cutting the pack, the last two at the same time!
• Performing...

Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

runtime: 2min 1s

J. G. Thompson, Jr's fabulous master-key to card control.

From the introduction by B. W. McCarron, "T-Formation (TF) is a monograph of card sleights that are not at all difficult for the average performer; yet they allow a nice range of performance possibilities. Forces, controls, peeks and even the versatile double lift are all given the 'Thompson treatment.' "

T-Formation teaches the average magician or mentalist an assortment of maneuvers with cards that are easy to execute but full of deceptiveness. In the author's words, T-Formation "enables the performer, with a minimum of effort, to perform...

This is a nicely flowing no frills tabled false cut.

runtime: 1min 2s

To do the tabled faro perfectly - a 26/26 weave - is very hard to achieve consistently. However, often you only need to faro a portion of the deck and not the entire deck. A partial tabled faro is relatively easy to learn.

runtime: 4min 54s

A move developed by Ed Marlo where you steal the top card while squaring up a deck that is resting on the table. This can also be used as a color change if the deck is face up on the table. And Allan also let's you in on Eddies 'Nickle Color Change' where a nickle is placed on the face up deck. Nevertheless the card changes instantly leaving the nickle on the deck. This one is guaranteed to fool magicians.

runtime: 2min 6s

A slip cut allows you to cut the card second from top to the top. Here Allan teaches a triple slip cut for the table.

runtime: 1min 13s

This is another very visual card change onto the table.

runtime: 55s

This is the gambling demonstration that Cristóbal uses in his show "Cartas Bajo Control" ("Cards Under Control"). About ten minutes long, it's an entire act with four phases, showing almost impossible skills, like card location while shuffling, estimation, card control, and the legendary center deal. You can deal the four aces without spectators being able to see how it is done, even when they know what you are going to do.

It is not necessary for you to know how to do a center deal, though in some parts of this routine you'll need to know some techniques. References and links are included,...

Magic for everyone: Close-up, parlor and stage. Rachel and Aldo Colombini are performing and explaining the following routines:

• RING TWICE (Aldo Colombini): Two rings are threaded on a piece of rope. One is selected and it becomes free (or vice versa!).
• SORCERER’S STONE (Rachel Colombini): Five ‘stones’ are shown and a spectator selects one. While you are back to the audience you find the selected stone. Can be done with any objects (even with people) and over the phone.
• CONTROL COINS (Subir Kumar Dhar): Great impromptu coin routine. No sleights at all, yet, you predict the chosen...

• ... his or her directions, and memorizes a word. When that person exits the store with that word in mind they can speak it out loud or keep it to themself. That person is given the appropriate fundage to open the adjacent newspaper machine. The chosen word is seen to be circled in permanent red ink.
• Card Through Person: Just what it sounds like.
• Rapport Apport: A card trick. Yep. Two people think of the same card and then are brought to a breathtaking moment of revelation.
• Clock: A person thinks of a time. They then hold out their hand as though they were standing in the middle of a clock....

Contributors to the book include Ted Lesley, Al Koran, Eckhard Boettcher, Rudolf Braunmüller, Ken de Courcy, Sam Dalal, Roger Crosthwaite and David Britland.

• THE IMPOSSIBLE CARD LOCATION
• THE SPECTATOR AS MENTALIST
• MARKED STACKS
• PHOTOSTATIC REFLEXES
• MENTAL WONDER
• DO AS I DO by ECKHARD BOETTCHER
• DO AS I DO II by ECKHARD BOETTCHER
• DO AS I DO III by ECKHARD BOETTCHER
• THE DOUBLED THOUGHT
• PERFECT HARMONY
• IMPOSSIBLE COINCIDENCE by RUDOLF BRAUNMUELLER
• MASS-CLAIRVOYANCE...

This superb dual effect does not employ any stooges or confederates. It is strictly a one man presentation, and suitable for presentation under practically all circumstances. The performer is under complete control of the situation at all times.

Easily performed - nothing to memorize. Mere words are inadequate to describe the full force and impact of this amazing mental miracle - a reputation builder that you cannot afford not to possess. Complete, with lecture, patter and everything but the newspapers...

This video teaches you how to return a card from Tenkai palm back onto the deck during the display of a fan.

runtime: 34s

TRAP & TRADE - J.K. Hartman's genius is on display in this fun routine. The four Queens are presented and the two black Queens are placed into the card box. A selection is then lost into the deck. The red Queens are sent to search for the rogue selection. The red Queens "capture" a card...which turns out to be the two black Queens. The selection is found in the card box. This is a masterful study of a brilliant plot.

1st edition 2018, 22...

• ...
  • ... The Floating Ball
• Tricks with Birds, etc.
  • No. 193—The Chafing Dish
  • No. 713—Magical Shot and Enchanted Cage
  • No. 261—The Birds From Nowhere
  • No. 422—The Hong Kong Duck Vanish
  • No. 492—The Fishing Trick
  • No. 201—Welsh Rarebit Pan
• Tricks with Cards
  • No. 688—The “Siril” Card Target
  • No. 56. The Card Tower
  • No. 69—Card and Coin Easel
  • No. 47—The Rising Cards
  • No. 45—Presto Rising Cards
  • No. 46—Cards Through the Air
  • No. 52 Rising Cards Mysterious
  • No. 378 A Novel Card Problem
  • No. 628—Pychic Thought Waves
  • No. 39—Electric Pack of Cards
  • No. 38—The Wizard’s...

One could hardly ask for a more visual demonstration of unusual mental powers. For an astonishing few moments, the universal laws of physics are seemingly displaced. Four volunteers, using only two fingertips each, somehow lift a seated adult from his chair high into the air as though he were made of Styrofoam. And no one is more astonished than the lifters themselves, considering that moments before the sitter was as immovable as a couple hundred pounds of dead weight ought to be. What's more, the phenomenon is completely under the control of the performer who can turn the power on and off...

My name is Mark Lewis. This is the book that changed my life. In fact, I suspect it changed the life of a lot of other card magicians too. The Royal Road to Card Magic was first published in 1949 and 70 years later it is still considered the standard work in card magic. A terrific study plan which if you follow carefully (as I did) you cannot possibly fail to achieve proficiency as a card magician. You can start the book knowing nothing about card tricks but by the time you get to the end you will become an expert. Of course, a lot of things have happened in card magic over the last 70 years since the book was first published...

Probably the greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled. And no card tricks are included in this first volume. It is so important not only because of its size (see the humongous table of contents below) and quality, but because the author has gone beyond the mere explanations of tricks and routines. The opening chapter, 'The Presentation of Close-Up Magic', embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Includes hundreds of illustrations by Dennis Patten.

1st edition 1967, 344 pages; PDF 254 pages.

Table of Contents

9. Foreword

   Chapter One: The Presentation Of Close-Up...

**BONUS! You're going to love this. Paul has included a large essay explaining, "The Real Essence of Magical Entertainment". Paul explains, in complete detail, how to approach spectators, bring them into "your world", control your spectators, and maximize your magic. Paul provides a deep study of magical performance in this e-book, loaded with excellent magic, color photographs, and free videos.

Effects included are:

1) Dan Tong's Egg Bag Routine - Learn Dan's multi-phased, professional routine. What more...

• One, two or three signed cards (your choice) can appear within the wallet's sealed compartment without any palming or sleight of hand.
• A signed card from a blue-backed deck appears in the wallet - but now with a red back.
• Predict one or two selected cards (your choice) before they are selected.
• Give the audience a chance to win your credit card under the fairest conditions possible but they fail (all under your control).
• After the spectator...

1. ... Work!! - impromptu mathematical trick
2. The Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
3. New Tricks - reviews
   • Tarbell's Zip-Over Rope Mystery
   • Caesar's Memo Case
   • Loyd's Screen of Bagdad
   • The Principle of Hallucination - Murray Rosenthal
   • Water-Go
   • Berland's Devil Dollar
   • Hummer's Whirling Card
   • Berland's Soap Swindle
3. Ask the Professor?
4. Gag Bag - humor
4. Crossed Colors - R. S. Glover

5. The Bat - Number Two - n.d. - 8 pages
5. Triumph of the Democracies - Afghan Bands patriotic routine
5. Sabotage - Edward J. Tomasovic - patriotic routine
6. The Bat's Belfry - editor's comments ...

The magic tricks presented here are subtle, easy to do, and require little or no apparatus. The inventions of some of our greatest magicians, these are sleights that involve a minimum of practice but achieve a maximum of effect.

Here are card tricks that are almost foolproof, and others that require some skill and more practice. Sleights for close-up performing, where the magic takes place right under the noses of the audience, and tricks with paper-folding, an ancient art adapted to modern magic, are outlined and diagramed. The author also includes tricks with coins and paper money, rings,...