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Eric Kokish and Beverly Kraft, two of the world's leading bidding theoreticians, writers, teachers and international coaches, with impressive playing credentials, present a cohesive system with treatments aimed at improving constructive Standard American bidding based on their version of the Two over One system.

Based on mainstream American methods (strong notrumps, five-card majors), Kokish-Kraft cover all areas of uncontested bidding and show you how to apply the agreements and treatments that comprise their version of modern Two over One. They offer solutions to difficult and subtle problems...

Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker's Rising Cards have been an unexplainable fascination for nearly a century. Hooker first showed his effect in 1914, and in 1993 and 2007 John Gaughan gave abbreviated performances. Nobody who has seen the Hooker Rising Cards performed has ever been able to explain how such effects can be accomplished. This includes the most notable and most knowledgeable magicians from past and present. How can, from a borrowed and shuffled deck, any card called for rise in the fairest possible manner on a well lit stage only a few feet from the spectators?

This work is not just about...

Interspersed amongst this goldmine of advice are 18 strolling routines to add to your repertoire:

• Spin Out
• A Bite To Eat
• Intuition
• The Hypnotised Coin
• My Card Sir
• Badgered
• The Department Store
• Paper Money
• The Magic Ring
• Beer Money
• A ‘Groan’ Man
• Aces Under Control
• Name Dropper
• Copy Ring
• The Caught Card
• The Acrobatic Coin
• Credit Scare
• Simplex Hopping Halves

12 Chapters, 50+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

1. Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
2. Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
3. Cut Force: Diminishing Matches; Beastly Assembly; Faith Counter; 51 Faces North
4. Daley's Delight Switch: Hotel Daley; Shifty King; Repelling & Attracting; Double Rouge et Noire; Daley's Do-as-I-Do
5. Daryl's Diminishing Count: Bad Guys Wear Black; Just a Little off the Top, Please; Repligator; Blackjack & Blackjacks
6. Divide and Conjure (Marty Kane)
7. Double Deal Turn-over:...

14 Chapters, 70+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

1. Interlocked Principle: Topmost; Blackjack Aces; Between 2 Worlds
2. Jog Switch: The Producers; JS Ace Production; Rags to Riches
3. Kosky Switch: Compression Agents; Compression Agents Revisited; Fan Dancing Queens; Infallible Foolable Kings; Self Correcting Sandwich & variants
4. Misc. - General: Bottom Biddle Following Orders; Change-Over Queens; Clockwise; Con-found; The Piston; Shiftless Royalty; Impaired Royalty; The Ringmaster; Return to Sender; Traveling Queen; Vollmer Variant; Ambitious & Overworked
5. Misc. - Set-ups: Flexible Choice; Harvey's...

1. Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
2. Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
3. Cut Force: Diminishing Matches; Beastly Assembly; Faith Counter; 51 Faces North
4. Daley's Delight Switch: Hotel Daley; Shifty King; Repelling & Attracting; Double Rouge et Noire; Daley's Do-as-I-Do
5. Daryl's Diminishing Count: Bad Guys Wear Black; Just a Little off the Top, Please; Repligator; Blackjack & Blackjacks
6. Divide and Conjure (Marty Kane)
7. Double Deal Turn-over: S.O.P. (Slightly Open Prediction); Blackjack Transpo;...

SECTION I: Routines, Effects & Trickery
9. Countdown
   The spectator freely names a card and a number. The deck is dealt to the chosen number, and the final deal is turned to reveal the chosen card. A moment later, this can be repeated with any variation of card, number, and spectator.
12. Socked
    A signed selection appears in the magician's socks, under the fairest and most impossible conditions.
16. Liquidation
    A borrowed dollar is folded and pushed into the magician's...

• ... 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....

WARNING!
The author, publisher, editor, and/or seller of this ebook and anyone else connected to this ebook in any way, shape, or manner, shall not be responsible for your use or misuse of the information in Lunarcy. This leaves you as the sole person responsible for your use or misuse of this information.

• Control Minds
• Control Skies
• Dominate the World - If you dare!

"Dale Hildebrandt has produced a real gem with 'Lunarcy.' His ideas are outside the box, solid, workable and well worth your serious attention. I particularly enjoyed his work on the Cube and "Alien Amazement." This...

Effect: A spectator is asked to choose any card (no force) from a freely shuffled, completely regular deck of cards. The card may be signed if so desired. The card is then lost back into the deck. The magician places the entire deck inside the card case and, holding the deck with one hand, begins to concentrate. Very slowly, one card begins to emerge from the center of the cased deck. Little...

1. ... quick bios of "Ten Present Day Australian Magicians."
27. If you're ready for more things Australian, here are "Ten Things You Never Knew About 'Magic' Australia." It's a short read at two pages.
29. It's not "Grandma's Necklace," but "Grandma's Purse" that Sean Taylor explains (as well as "Colossal Card Memory" in "Aussie Masterclass." Tim Ellis also features and explains "Wifeswapping," something that has a better ending than you probably expect. This lasts until page 32, where we have...
32. more News, one column's worth. Then a column of "the Five Golden Rules for Illusionists," which is supposed...

Move Mastery 3 contains 1hr 40 min of amazing sleights with playing cards. Demonstrations with explanations. Plus a bonus clip of Duffie demonstrating (no explanation) the Legendary Fred Robinson Middle Deal.

We also offer volume 1 Move Mastery 1 and volume 2 Move Mastery 2 in this series.

• Ace Production 3
• Flush Cut
• Multable Shift
• Riffle Force Touch
• Spread Pass
• Spread Control
• Triumph
• Peek Steal
• Shuffle Palm
• Spread Switch
• Center Double
• Dapeeko
• Charlie Miller Waterfall Control
• Blind Cut
• Ace Production 4
• Second Deal Lapping
• Strike Second Deal
• LePaul Second Deal
• Bottom Deal
• Legendary Middle Deal (Demo-only)

Here is a low resolution demo. The video on the disc is higher resolution.

...

Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could perform a close-up effect in the most intimate setting as well as command the largest stages in a style unlike any other.

1st edition 1963, PDF 192 pages.

9. FOREWORD

   CHAPTER ONE

12. Nate Leipzig

    CHAPTER TWO

22. Leipzig's Card Sleights
22. Colour Change
25. Side Slip
26. Peek Control
28. The Pass
29. Double Lift

    CHAPTER THREE

32. Leipzig's Stage Act - 1: Thimble Routine

    CHAPTER FOUR

38. Leipzig's Stage Act - 2: Colour Change Routine

    CHAPTER FIVE

42. Leipzig's Stage Act - 3: Slap Four Ace Routine

    CHAPTER SIX

48. Leipzig's Stage Act...

This ebook is all about reversing a card and includes five original ideas.

• Minority: A chosen card is pushed flush in the center of the deck, and instantly reverses itself.
• Flip Side: The deck is spread to show that it is completely normal, and then almost instantly a card reverses itself, the previously chosen card.
• Don't Blink: A ridiculously visual reversal. An out-jogged card reverses itself with a flick of the wrist.
• Wrong Turn: A card is lost, and the wrong one is found. The magician states that something must have been preventing the card from coming to the top, and when the deck...

Also included in this download are two PDFs. One is a reproduction of the booklet originally included with Martin Breese's MagiCD. It describes two effects, "A Sophisticated Card Trick", and "An Experiment in Concerted Motion." The second PDF is a reproduction of a limited edition booklet Martin Breese published in 2001. It holds two articles on Canasta, one by Graham Jolley and the other by Val Andrews.

This is a licensed reproduction of the famous Magicassette and...

Deception, subterfuge, sleight of hand: 30 entries, 171 illustrations, 37 pages, 1 in depth lesson on the deceptive sleights of Daniel Madison.

• An introduction to III by Daniel Madison
• An introduction to III by Chris Alexander
• The D Double - A rotating double lift from the center of the deck
• The M Double - A rotating double lift from the center of the deck with a one-handed opened
• Mad Tenkai Steal - A technique for stealing a card into Tenkai-palm from the bottom of the deck with one hand
• Inverse MTS - An inverted MTS [Mad Tenkai Steal] reversing the top card into a face up Tenkai from a face-down deck...

• COUNTING CROWS - Daniel Madison - A force / A 4-card-revelation.
• COLT45 - Daniel Madison - Sandwich routine which begins with 4 aces vanishing one by one.
• TOKYO SMILE - Daniel Madison + Randall Freeman - A powerful method for changing four of a kind to another four of a kind. All in one hand.
• THROUGH PASS - Randall Freeman - A method for controlling a card to either the top or bottom of the deck.
• BACK DROP - Randall Freeman - A multiple shift variation.
• SPINAL CUT - Randall Freeman - Cut to a selected card from a shuffled deck.
• THE FINAL CUT - Randall Freeman - A mentalists approach...

SQUIDS is a manuscript that covers the power of ambiguous phrasing, psychological forcing and psychological subtleties to these five detailed effects. All these effects are built with true psychology in mind obviously backed up with foolproof magical methods

• Regress your self: an effect similar to what Derren Brown performed in His Evening of Wonders, where a spectator reads the minds of three people from the audience.
• Spectator as Mindreader: where a spectator reads your mind whilst dealing cards. You can proof you actually selected thought of card
• Forcing an American Icon: You show 30...

In this effect you tell a story with the help from some spectators. All important details are given to you by them and you have no control over what they say. Despite this, these details appear inside a book of matches, inside your pocket. And a card, crucial to your story, is missing from a deck that, like the match book, has been inside your pocket the whole time.

This ebook contains everything you need to perform the effect as a 15 mins+ piece. Including tips and jokes for playing it light. Despite the macabre subject matter the laughs come easy with the spectators providing most of them...

When I read these lecture notes I was transported back about 20 years when I built Anverdi props - a box that mysteriously closes just before the selected card should be placed into it - and others. I was dreaming to manufacture many of these and build a company selling such props. My career path took a different turn, but others have just done that. Fabrice Delaure has built a successful magic business solely based on manufacturing effects very similar...

Know their traits and what to expect. Learn routines that work.

1st edition 2003; 21 pages.

5. FOREWORD
6. TO DO or NOT TO DO
6. - DO - Be Polite
6. - DO - Maintain Crowd Control
7. - DO - Maintain an Energy Level
7. - DO - Use Audience Participation
7. - DO NOT - Make a Fool Out of Any Individual
8. - DO NOT - Work From the Floor
8. - DO NOT - Turn Your Back on the Audience
8. - DO NOT - Do Smokes, Booze or Drugs
9. - DO NOT - Do Blue Material
9. - DO NOT - Do Card Tricks
10. THE TRAITS OF CHILDREN BY AGE GROUP
10. - AGES 1 through 2
10. - AGES 3 through 4
11. - AGES 5 through 8
11. - AGES 9 through 11
12. - AGES 12 through 16
12. -...

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