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  1. ...To illuminate water
  119. To make flash paper
  114. To obtain fire by applying water
  115. To set fire to a handkerchief without injuring it
  119. To smoke with two empty pipes
  116. To suspend a ring by a burnt thread
• CHAPTER VII
  122. PARLOUR TRICKS
  136. Ascent of wine in an inverted glass of water
  137. Burning coal on a muslin handkerchief, a
  140. Dice trick, the
  139. Electrified pipe, the
  126. Glass of water suspended by a thread
  133. Glass of water that cannot be moved without spilling the whole
  136. Grape seed in the glass of champagne, the
  132. Juggler's dessert, the
  137. Magdeburg hemispheres, the
  131. Magical mirror, the
  132. Musical poker, the
  134. Mysterious paper bands,...

He was born Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia in Steubenville, Ohio. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he learned as a teenager how to perform card tricks like three-card monte and to gamble using cards and dice. His mother, disappointed in how he was making his money, encouraged him to take up magic instead. He soon started making money at card tricks.

Scarne became quite an expert at tricks and games of all kinds. Articles were written about him in various magazines, and he was hired as a consultant or advisor by various companies. He wrote 15 books on magic, gambling and games. He served as a technical advisor in the 1973 motion picture, "The Sting",...

THE 5 POINT 5 TRICK: The classic gag "The 31/2 of Clubs" (why always Clubs?) always seems to go down well, despite the fact that the magical depth is shallow, because once the gag has registered it is not impossible for the method to be reconstructed by almost any lay person, as the properties of dice are well known today. OK, it 's only a gag, but we are also a magicians aren't we? Here is the version I constructed which is, I think, methodically sound, and the finish, though different, has the same punch as with the original. The force belongs to Bob Ostin.

DRAW POKER: This trick came about...

A STEBBISH LOCATION: While your back is turned, a spectator rolls two dice to get a random number. He deals that number of cards and notes the card at that position. A second spectator, using the same number, deals further into the deck and he too notes a card. Deck is squared then cut by the spectators. Without looking through the cards, you instantly produce the first...

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  1. ... Marlo
  24. Afterthought Aces Jon Racherbaumer
  16. All Backs David L. Bendix
  14. Another Visual Surprise Edward Marlo
  3. Closet Cupid (name withheld)
  12. Collectwist Robert Walker
  14. Collectwist Dave Solomon
  9. Colorful 21-Card Trick Edward Marlo
  19. Curtailed Placement Edward Marlo
  16. Dial Operator 999 Jon Racherbaumer
  14. Dice Combine Marvin Johnson
  20. Dunbury Sandwich Robert Walker
  18. Ever-Ready C.O.C. Roland Hurley
  6. Every Chance Jon Racherbaumer
  15. First Aid Sandwich Edward Marlo
  6. Four-Play Jon Racherbaumer
  15. Fourtold Four-Fold From Scratch Gene Castillon
  18. Futzless! Carmen D'Amico/Jon Racherbaumer
  4. I Need A Magic Wand Edward...

1. ... into the other by Legerdemaine
49. How to make sixe pence seeme to fall thorow a Table
49. How to seeme to blow a sixpence out of another mans hand
50. How to deliver to one man one sixpence, and to another another sixpence, and to make both the testors come into one mans hand
51. Conveyance of Cards and Dice
52. Of Confederacy

"I've been doing magic 40 years, and this may be one of my five favorite tricks. Excellent thinking. Hard to top." - Clyde Hayre, US.

A spectator is asked to throw three fair dice (this is an absolute fair throw or even just a mental throw - no force here). From the number fairly thrown you construct a perfect magic square. For a kicker, the cards are put together and the face of a King of Hearts appears.

There is no palming of cards or exchanging of decks or anything like it. You work with 16 cards and 16 cards only without any sleight-of-hand.

You get 16 specially printed cards...

"I've been doing magic 40 years, and this may be one of my five favorite tricks. Excellent thinking. Hard to top." - Clyde Hayre, US.

LOVE IT! I've been looking for a trick to help promote my business and this is perfect as I trade under the name "That's Magic" - Barry Harvey, UK.

You get 16...

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  • ... mind is not a pushover
  • He is consciously intelligent
  • Details do the trick
• CHAPTER VIII - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NORM
  • How the spectator views the performer's appearance
  • The important norm
  • Discord brings damaging attention
  • Characteristic naturalness
  • Bewilderment not deception
  • Disguise
  • Dice and rabbits
  • Palming a card
  • Diversion
  • The importance of naturalness
• CHAPTER IX - THE NORM IN SPEECH
  • Speech in deception
  • The norm in speech patterns
  • Variations "telegraph"
  • What as well as how
  • Subject matter norm
  • Undue emphasis
  • The strength of implication
  • An example with bonds ...

Invented the Dice Frame Escape (by 1939).

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  • ... Cards
• Card Locations
  • Behind The Back Trick
  • The Four Packs
  • Finding A Selected Card
  • Mind Control
  • Braude's Mental Card Trick
  • Locatrix
  • Breath Control
  • Lorayne's Mindreading Trick
  • The Impossible Location
  • Behind My Back
  • The Second Guess Card Trick
  • The Atomic Location
  • Double Revelation
  • Dice Will Tell
  • Scarne's Knockout Card Trick
  • Leipzig's Pocket Card Trick
  • The Traveling Card
  • Hands Off Miracle
  • The Stopper Mindreading Trick
• Divinations
  • The Whispering Card
  • Cardology, Card Trick Without
  • Ribbon Spread
  • The Poker Face Card Trick
  • The Talking Card
  • Double Duty
  • The Card That...

X10 - Short on cash? No problem when you can do magic. Show a dime and almost instantly change it into a silver dollar.

Roll ‘Em - The magician shows why he never plays dice. When he attempts to roll them they transform into one spotted white ball!

F.B. Change - With a mere snap of the fingers a half dollar on the left hand visibly changes into a Mexican centavo.

Sonic Split - The magician offers to do a trick with a quarter but finds he only has a half dollar....

John Scarne, now deceased, was recognized during his lifetime as the world's foremost expert on gambling. His knowledge and spirit live on in the many books he wrote, including Scarne's Guide to Modern Poker, The Odds Against Me, Scarne on Dice, and many others.

1974; 871 pages.

One of the most convincing remote viewing routines yet devised. May be performed any time at any place. It is an improvement of Bob's earlier "The Moleskine Divination". It does not need the Royal Heath's classic "Dye-ciphering Dice".

1st edition 2003; 26 pages.

1. ... Knee
121. Another Coin Vanish

     CHAPTER FOURTEEN

124. Coin Tricks
124. Coin in Glass
129. Copper and Silver Transposition
130. Penny out of glass of Beer
131. Leipzig's Pride

     CHAPTER FIFTEEN

138. Off the Beaten Track
138. The First Born Child
139. Creation of Life
140. Reading the Pencil
141. Cigarette paper Prediction
143. Tumbler Vanish
145. Dice Moves
146. Levitation of a Cigar or Cigarette
149. Ring on Stick
150. Vanish of Matches
151. The Stretching Match
152. Ball Vanish

     CHAPTER SIXTEEN

156. Some Favourite Card Tricks
156. Leipzig's Opener
157. Acrobats
160. Automatic Gambler
162. Ambitious Card Quickie
163. Mathematics
165. Leipzig's Favourite Four Ace Trick
167. The Matching-up...

The strange magic continues!

Well, Shane has done it again! His second book, Two, is another must-have winner. Anyone and everyone with a sincere interest in bizarre, storytelling, magic should read this book and I assure you there is something in it for everyone. Shane employs Cups and Balls, Himber Wallets, coins and cards, dice, mirrors, math, scents, liquids, limericks, jokes, wagers, and even scorpions in his routines... The variety will please you. You will laugh, cry, wonder and worry. You will be entertained just reading the pages. In short, this book is for you. Buy it! -- Larry...

The final volume of weird and wonderful magic!

A lucky coin that becomes as scarred as its owner, a murdered woman kept alive in a photograph, dice that tell the future just for starters, a Chinese magician who gets his revenge in the most horrible of ways, an obscene thing which hides beauty and reveals hypocrisy -- and that's just the beginning of what you'll find in Five, the last volume of the strange magic series!

13 routines of bizarre, touching, weird, scary, and entertaining magic!

• Demonstrate the transparency of the human personality with the most horrid of tests!
• Show just...

Tenkai was a legendary magician from Japan. As his gift for achieving the 'living legend' status in Japan he asked to meet Dai Vernon - which he did, but that is a story for another time.

In this manuscript Robert Parrish describes several wonderful effects created by Tenkai. All illustrations are drawn by Tenkai himself.

20 pages.

5. Tenkai Dye Tube Technique
7. Knots Supreme - Tenkai Silk and Tapes
11. Tenkai Three Dice Trick
13. Tenkai Two Penny Trick
15. Two Coin Moves
17. Tenkai Card Flight

They make their guesses, you flip both cards face up... showing that they are also queens and, yet again, they have lost! You pocket both cards with the other and... you are re-set!

Bonus Routine: The Diabolical...So Can I! A dice trick with cards.

1st edition 2008; 5 pages.

1. ... Stephen Tucker
214. Switched – card effect – Graham Smith

217. Spell-Binder Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 12, April 1982 – Stephen Tucker, editor – 21 pages
218. Jargon – comments from Stephen Tucker
219. Quartet – coin assembly – Stephen Tucker
222. Volume: 2 – what's coming
223. Poker Logic – poker dice effect – Ian Land
225. Double Decker – clever deck switch – Stephen Tucker
227. Coined – coin thru hand – Bill Goldman
229. Black Red – red and black aces effect – David Britland
231. 12-10=6 ? – off-beat coin effect – A. R. Mousley
232. Lehk - letters
233. Converted Cannibals – cannibals method – Stephen Tucker
233. Smalls – to be phased out
234. The 24 Card Trick – card effect – William...