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Sharps and Flats is probably the most important early book on cheating devices and methods. Sharps being the cheaters and flats being the cheated, the mark. Maskelyne details among others, marked cards, holdouts (Kepplinger holdout), reflectors and manipulation. He describes not just cheating at the card table but also cheating with dice, cheating at Sporting houses, and at Roulette. The book is very thorough with many wonderful illustrations.

1st edition, 1894, Longmans, Green and Co., New York and London; reprinted, Gamblers Book Club, Las Vegas; 335 pages.

7. Preface to the Second Edition ...

ACAAN is a genre of card magic and mentalism effect that has now become a classic since it was first proposed by the great David Berglas, who was the first to call it "Any card At Any Number".

This version of mine is very easy to perform but, if well presented, will be likely to arouse great amazement among both magicians and lay audiences, and can be performed as well in Close-Up as on Stage. It simply requires an ordinary deck of 52 cards and possibly a pair of very ordinary six-sided dice (but it can also be just imaginary dice for each of which the spectators will decide the score), and you will...

A mentalism routine with dice and coffee cups.

Three dice are rolled, and a number is freely and fairly created by the volunteer. No force of any kind. You then show a prediction that has been in full view the entire show, and that prediction is 100% correct.

1st edition 2023, PDF 5 pages.

This is the fourth release in the Coffee Break Mental Magic series and features two very special routines plus for the first time, a short story on a magical theme!

Paul Voodini presents the Story Teller's Oracle. This is a dice based reading system that is totally original and works in a way that has perhaps not been explored before. The system is pleasingly easy to master meaning memory work is kept to a minimum (no need for hidden cribs or sheets of numbers!), all of which allows the performer to concentrate on presentation, atmosphere, and engaging the sitter.

Paul is also delighted...

[Note: Although the information has been expanded in this release, the basic tearing system was explained in Devin's Random Thoughts trick that used dice. If you own that trick, then you already know the streamlined tear system.

The holy grail of all newspaper tear predictions. Even Al Koran would have been amazed, if he knew of this version. Are you one of the thousands of magicians who have tried to learn one of the newspaper tear predictions and threw up your hands in frustration trying to learn complex tearing systems and trying to memorize confusing sequences of tears? That is all about to end with Devin Knight's amazing streamlined tear, which you can learn to do in just a few minutes. You can do this without having to...

How a page is forced during a book test is the most important part of the test. Unfortunately, most page forces are sadly lacking. Most appear contrived. Dice are rolled to determine page numbers, playing cards are used or math is used to determine a random number. This not what a real mind reader would do.

Other methods involve mis-calling numbers. If the audience realizes that the mentalist knows the page number, then the effect has dropped a few levels. Many people have read in books about secret cue lists and realize if the mentalist knows the page number, then he may have memorized the...

Marble Matrix - Paul came up with this Matrix routine when he was just a kid at his first paid show...it fooled a room full of neighborhood Moms. Paul also gives the Reverse Assembly.

Math Magic - Two math tricks (one with dice) are provided here as magic effects. Both of these effects will fool anyone and everyone. The second math trick will fool the magician performing it. You will not believe that this can even work - but it does...even a child can do this.

1st edition 2016, 25 pages.

The greatest ebook on dice work ever written for the magician. A complete manual of dice manipulation from the magic angle. Reputation making tricks. A wealth of content, including the Great Dice Stack in which four dice on the table are covered with a dice cup. Performer slides cup in a swinging motion, with its mouth against the table, then lifts it, and the dice are piled in a perfect upright stack! Featured by the famous John Paul, John Platt and many other close up men.

Also includes dice transposition, a dice and hat routine, holdout, They're Loaded, 3 dice and a coin, etc. Complete...

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     • Two Rings and a Silk
100. The HC Coin Change - Harry Carnegie
100. A Cute Stunt! - re: a trick by Sidney Lenz
101. News and Views from the Colonies - George Johnstone
103. Cover for Your House - Len Belcher
104. The Real Ones! - re: Linking Rings
105. The English Invasion - as seen by George Johnstone
108. A "Triple Dice" Follow-Up - Michael D. Fuller
109. Ideas for Supreme Props - Matthew Hobson
     • The Hungry Rabbit - using the Surprising Cage
     • The Chinese Bank - using Four Dragon's Folder
     • Die Through Silk Surprise - patter
     • The Adder - using Sneaky Snake
111. Card Work - David Britland
     112. Another...

This is an unusual mix of contents including magic card tricks, card games and how gamblers cheat at those games, other swindles and scams, a section on dice and cheating at dice games, as well as moralizing against the evils of gambling.

Jonathan H. Green was a reformed gambler, who made a career exposing cheating via lectures, presentations and books.

An earlier shorter edition of this book was published under the title Games and Tricks with Cards.

If you are looking for an edited version and somewhat modernized rendition of this book you can find it here.

• Chapter I
  • Invention Of Cards
  • Mysterious Trick...

• ...
  • ...
    • ... Shorts
    • Sauter La Coupe
    • Convex And Concave Cards
    • Handling The Cards
    • Garreting
    • Slipping The Cards
    • Walking The Pegs
    • Pricked Cards
    • The Bridge
    • Skinning
    • Shuffling Or Weaving
    • The Gradus, Or Step
    • Slipping The Fives
    • Saddling The Cards
    • Dealing The Fives From The Bottom
    • The Telegraph
  • The Dice Board
    • Dice And Dice-Boxes
    • Loaded Dice
    • Cogging, Now Called Securing
    • Scratched Dice
    • The Doctor Dice-Box
    • Unequal Dice
  • The Dangers Of A Gaming Table

1st edition 1851; 2nd edition 1855 72 pages; PDF 61 pages.

• ... Fred Robinson
• Chop-Coin / Arthur Setterington
• Faro Felon / Mark Scudiery
• Extra / Bob Hamilton
• The Page boy speaks ...
• Carousel / Roy Walton
• Gone Sandwich / William Zavis
• Focus

• We'll Ring You / Kevin Fox
• Earthbound / Roy Walton
• The Page boy speaks ...
• Diary Dice-Card / Des Colgan
• Edge Spinners / Fred Robinson
• My blue Ac-es Again / Michael Austin
• Supertransportation / Ian Baxter
• Tickets Please / Bob Ostin
• Focus

• Elmsley Out-Sexed / David A Wright
• The Bending Key / Barry Govan
• High-Jacked / Trevor Lewis
• The Page boy...

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   • ... Sash - Ian Adair
   • Nesting Paper-Bins - Ian Adair
54. Arthur Carter Column - The Mysteries of Arthur Carter
    • Bamberg Bluff
56. Edwin's Magi-Go-Round - comments from Edwin Hooper
58. Fantastic Value! - testimonial
60. Ganson's "Teach-In"
    • The Magic of David Wright
      • Creepy Dice
      • Wright's Ring on Rope
      • Invisible Ring Off Rope (A Sequel)
63. P.S.! S.O.S.! - errata for March 1978 Magigram - Alistair Dabbs
64. Humberside Young Magicians Competition - Arthur Setterington
64. Praise for Elizabeth [Warlock] - from Dai Vernon
64. Shelley's Spells - testimonial
65. advertisements

73. Volume 11, Number 2, October,...

1. ... - Glen E. Towns, editor
   • Max Storm
   • correspondence & magazines

73. Genii - Volume 24, Number 3 - November 1959 - 36 pages
73. Cover - Richardine, Jr.
75. In This Issue - contents
81. The Genii Speaks - WWL Jr. - WWL Jr.
82. Visible Silk Vanish - Glenn Gravatt
83. Diceneatatswitch - The Growing Dice - Joseph Bevilaqua
84. How TO End It All - Bill Hendricks
    • Merry Climax
    • Sixty Card Repeat
    • Six - Count 'em - Six
85. Pretty Silk, Pretty Bird - Pete Howard
86. Triune A Mental - Joseph M. White
87. Rhymning Patter for Ken Allen's Jumping Gems - Al Hancuff
87. Name Your Card - Glenn Gravatt
88. Double Daring...

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  • ...Puzzle For Wantons / Jack Avis
  • Aces In The Ascendant / Dudley Whitnall
  • The Lady And The Tramp / Peter Warlock
• No. 7: April 1956
  • The Lady And The Tramp (cont.) / Peter Warlock
  • My Choice / Peter Warlock
  • Joker Transformations Extraordinary / Herb Runge
• No. 8: April 1956
  • A Bow To U. F. Grant / Peter Warlock
  • Three Dice - Fifty Two Cards / Roy Walton
  • A Letter From Francis Haxton / Francis Haxton
  • Again The Dead Name / Peter Warlock
  • Bluff Card Stab / Ravelli
• No. 9: June 1956
  • A Simplified Newspaper Test / Edmund Rowland
  • Cubit / Edmund Rowland
  • Right From Left / Edmund Rowland
  • Multiple Addition / Edmund...

1. ... Castle (Hollywood) - Bill Larsen, President
196. Trix of the Trade - Ed Mishell
     • Imported Fanning Decks - Tannen's
     • Electric Sawing a Woman in Half! - Tannen's
     • Miracle Coin Routines - Hillcrest Enterprises
     • Telegram Card Trick - Hillcrest Enterprises
     • Silks - Philip Jamison III
     • Shock-Dice - Tannen's
     • Phoenix 151-200 reprint - Tannen's
     • Ventro-Folio - George Schindler
197. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
     • Cardiste (bound) - Russ Duck & Gene Shelley
     • A Taste of Money - Gene Shelley
     • AN approach to Genuine Magic - Part 1, Strange and Weird...

• ... Cull-Stock
• Greekmanship Phoney Cull Stock - 1
• Greekmanship Phoney Cull Stock - 2
• The Mystery Of The Seventh Card
• The Punched Cards For The Seventh Card
• Scalbert's Master Mystery
• An Untested Test
• Scalbert's Musical Mystery
• Reading A Nap Hand
• Telling The Time
• The Mystery Of The 3 Dice
• Scalbert's Double Deal
• Scalbert's Mystery Of The Zodiac
• Mystery Of The Zodiac
• The Mystery Of The Zodiac
• Nikola Pairs
• Mutus Memory
• Divination Frame
• Pocket Divination Stand
• Eight Kings Play Nap
• Scalbert's Express System
• Scalbert's Express Cull Shuffles
• The Royal Dice
• Injog Only
• Moffat's...

こざわまさゆきの第一奇術作品集 "Incomplete Works" の電子書籍版です。カードやコインを使ったクロースアップマジックを収録しています。

• A Left-Handed Coin - 左利き用のコイン
• Octrix - 8枚のコインアセンブリ
• Hello World - ガイドカードの交換がない Out of This World
• Tiltless Ambition - アンビシャスカード手順
• Erdnase Not Required - やさしいポーカーデモンストレーション
• The Loaded Dice Cup - ダイスカップとダイスのカップアンドボール手順
• The Quinted of the Rings -...

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter on 'Magic Writing' is a wonderful history of cryptography and steganography. The chapter on animal training is one of the most detailed I have encountered. It also includes a wealth of magic tricks, science experiments, and effects based on apparatus.

• Part I. Modern Magic By Sleight Of Hand...

This multi-part article starts with some historical perspectives and then is largely about the evils of gambling. However, it has a section on crooked play which is interesting for historical reasons. The topics covered in the section are:

• Reflectors
• The Longs and Shorts
• Convex and Concave Cards
• Pricked Cards
• The Bridge
• Skinning
• Shuffling or Weaving
• The Gradus, or Step
• Palming
• The Telegraph
• Dice and Dice Boxes
• Unequal Dice
• Loaded Dice
• Cogging, now called Securing
• Scratched Dice
• The Doctored Dice-Box
• Sauter La Coupe (the pass or shift)

1st edition 1837, PDF 73 pages.

1. ... Sorcery - testimonial
800. Kids Stuff - testimonial
800. Mental Magic - testimonials
800. Service - testimonial
800. The Magigram - testimonial
801. Between Ourselves - comments from Edwin Hooper
803. Kennaugh Kalling - Alan Kennaugh on the Show Business Scene
805. Hastings I.B.M. British Ring Convention - announcement
806. Dice, Dice and more Dice!
806. Award Winner - testimonial
807. Psycho-Mentality - Stanton Carlisle
810. Sign of the Twelve - testimonial
810. joke
810. A Letter from the U.S.A. - testimonial
810. Easy Card in 7 - testimonial
810. Favorable Reaction - testimonial
811. Ganson's Magic
     • Magical Methods
       • Dice Stacking
816. No Help Needed - joke
816. Music - joke
816. Pop Away - testimonial
817. My Way - Eric D. Widger
     • The Hen Bag
     • The Gag Bag
     • Snakes and Ladders
     • Finale for...

• ...David Britland): A fancy and spectacular way to cut a deck of cards.
• PADDLE CIN-CIN (Aldo Colombini): A paddle with a cover. On both sides the cover has a full glass of wine. The paddle is blank on both sides. Suddenly, the glass is empty on both sides. The cover is removed and a face of a drunk appears.
• DICE-SIMPHONY (Aldo Colombini): Three dice, green, red and white. The white and the green go into a cup, the red in the pocket. Inverting the cup, the three dice are together. The green and red dice are placed in the cup and the white in the pocket, he reappears with the other but double in size....

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   • Club Special - Hank Lee's Magic Factory
   • The World's Fastest Money Trick - Suds
   • Transilience - Magic Unlimited
   • Double Flash Wand - Zanadu
   • R-R-R-Rip Bag - Fassini's Magic
   • Break in Half Dove Bag - Fassini's Magic
   • Magic Carpet - Fassini's Magic
   • Dis-traction - Tannen's
   • Conjur-Dice - Tannen's
   • Super Head Chest - Zanadu
   • Coffin Nail - Masklyn Ye Mage
   • Fantastic E.S.P. Test - David Robbins
   • Time Out - Hank Lee's Magic Factory
   • Clairvoydex - Syd Bergson
   • Bac-Flips - Norman Schultz
   • Isolation - Hank Lee's Magic Factory
   • Power Plant - Sylvan and Son
   • Ship Wreck...