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EXPLODING ACES As terrific as twisting effects get, with a knock 'em dead transformation followed by your choice of two mind-melting, reputation-making blow-offs.

STACKED IMPACT Join the ranks of Alan, Crandall, Paul and Ryan with this well-proven Dice Stacking crowd-pleaser with your choice of two powerful punchlines.

STANDING TEN COUNT Spectator counts ten cards; they continue to multiply in their hands until the jolting juggernaut finale!

RED HOT MAMA One of magic's finest openers: Al Leech's signature effect, as beautifully baffling...

and probably more importantly, you're going to learn an attitude which can be used to approach performing in all real world situations." - Colin McLeod

"Conversations as Mentalism series is a collection of impromptu gems that can be used at the drop of a hat. Just the piece with the invisible dice alone is worth the cost of the entire booklet! With just what you carry in your pockets and the knowledge in this booklet, you will be able to perform a whole host of practical material anywhere." - John Carey

1st edition 2016, 26 pages.

Here are 22 funny, irreverent, off-beat magic and mentalism effects that are sure to get you noticed.

There's magic here with cards, dice, dictionaries, a paper giraffe, a restaurant menu ... even an Egyptian Scarab. Rarely does an ebook come around that's as much fun to read as it is to perform. This is just such an ebook. Here's a peek at what's inside:

• The Pasteboard Alibi
• The Card in the Ice Cube
• The Trick Without a Name
• The Nest of Sacks
• A Deck in Bondage
• Magic by the Hour
• With a Bit of Spice
• A Toast to Magic
• With the Sense of Touch
• Metamorphosis
• The Skeleton of Jekyll and...

• ...Improved De Lawrence Clock Trick
• Feeling The Spots On Cards
• Kard-U-Reka
• Twin-Thot
• Futuramic
• Design Duplication
• A Message From The Deep
• Ment-O-Flex
• Prediction Chest
• Spell Bound
• Tale Of Fifteen Cities
• Zenith Headline Prediction
• Atomic Sight
• Citation
• Private Reading
• Cognomen
• Space Thought
• Frame Of Mind
• Gamblers Dice Throw
• Hypnotism
• Rear Vision
• Twin-Thot
• Center Tear Perfected
• The Telephone Coin Trick
• X-Ray Vision
• A Word To The Wise
• Impromptu (Practically) Telephone Book Test
• Within The Law
• Well Stacked
• Hypnotism By Radio

PDF 36 pages.

Jumbo Touch Prediction: Predict 2 freely chosen cards. Two methods given.

Jumbo Two Card Monte: This version has a surprising climax.

Lady Luck: A three phase routine with borrowed coins, dice and a deck of cards.

Lightning Card Stand: 25 tricks explained with this gimmicked stand.

Mechanical Cards To Pocket: A no sleight version of cards to pocket.

1st edition 2017, 31 pages.

• ... of Paper on the Nose
• The Bottle Conjuror
• To Name Top Card
• How to Make a Telephone
• A Nocturnal Surprise
• The Watery Knife
• The Jumping Egg: A Party Trick
• The Magdeburg Hemispheres
• The Triple Vanishing Billiard Balls and Glass Table
• An Artistic Card Effect
• Telling Fortune with Dominoes
• The Dice Trick
• The Running Mouse
• Chemical Experiments
• A Siphon Trick
• Blowing Out a Candle Behind a Bottle
• The Origin of Dominoes
• The Magic Glass
• Trick with a Balanced Coin
• Ice Made in a Drawing-Room
• Who Wears the Ring?
• The Double Meaning
• Imitation Thunder
• Pool Table Tricks
• The Magic Egg ...

• ...
  • ... With Coins
  • The Pass
  • The Change
  • The Joining Of The Coins
  • The Handkerchief Wrapper
  • The Vanishing Quarters
  • The Increasing Dimes
  • Money Multiplied
  • The Dime In The Orange
  • The Shower Of Money
  • Head Or Tail
  • Odd Or Even
  • The Handkerchief
  • Tricks With Watches
  • Tricks With Dominoes
  • Tricks With Dice
  • The Cut String
• IV: Stage Illusions

1st edition 1919, 188 pages; PDF 59 pages.

• ... Ring Test
• The Extinguished Cigar
• The Charmed Organ Pipes
• D’Alvini’s Album Trick
• Lightning, Slate And Blackboard Test
• The Egyptian Cremation
• New Hat Fake
• The Diamond Mystery
• The Spirit Scribe
• A Live Hat
• Changing Decapitation
• The Wonderful Lager-Beer Glass And Paper Cones
• The Dice House
• The Devil’s Rod Or Stick Of Enchantment
• Improved Torn Card Trick
• New Tape Trick
• Newest Wine And Water Trick
• Colored Sands Of Enchantment
• New Sensational Card Trick
• Eclipse Coin, Card, And Candle Trick
• New Programme, Ring, And Envelopes Trick
• New Method Of Getting Flowers Into...

• ...
  • ... Half Billet Peek
  • Blank Reading: Half Billet Peek
  • Opaque: Full Billet Peek
  • The Black Billet
  • Acidus Drawing
• Impression Devices
  • The Scanner: Impression Device
  • The Best Pre-show You Will Ever Find
  • $1,000 Mind Reading Case
  • Amazing Psychic Sharpie Twins
• Forcing Thoughts
  • Invisible Dice Force
  • Half Life Equation Force
  • Justifying The Existence of Lists
  • The Black Notebook
  • Hands Off Variation
• Propless mind reading
  • Guessing Colors
  • Guessing ESP symbols
  • Guessing Names: Celebrity-Deathmatch
  • Guessing Star Signs: Monkeying Around By Peter Turner
• Reveals
  • Revealing Meaningful...

These systems include: Little Jim Forrester's $25 Secret for Winning with Fair Dice, as well as other systems, cheats and scams including lotteries, stock market swindles, bucket shops, gambler's secret codes, horse racing, sleight of hand with cards and coins, and more.

Well illustrated, with over 200 drawings and photos. The author intended this book to be a form of protection...

• Chapter I: Introduction
• Chapter II: Dress, Table, Wand, Apparatus, And Stage
• Chapter III: Tricks With Handkerchiefs
• Chapter IV: Palming, Passing, And Changing Coins, Rings, And Small Articles
• Chapter V: Tricks With Coins Not Requiring Apparatus
• Chapter VI: Coin Tricks Requiring Apparatus
• Chapter VII: Tricks With Cups And Balls
• Chapter VIII: Tricks With Rings
• Chapter IX: Tricks With Hats
• Chapter X: Tricks With Watches
• Chapter XI: Tricks With Dice And Dominoes
• Chapter XII: Tricks With Electricity
• Chapter XIII: Miscellaneous Tricks
• Chapter XIV: Spiritualism And Mesmerism

1st edition...

• ...
  • ... having been formed Face downwards, to divine how many have been moved from one end of the Row to the other
  • To make a Card thought of by one Person appear at such Number in the Pack as another Person shall choose
  • The Affectionate Quartette
  • To discover a Chosen Card by the Throw of a Pair of Dice
  • The "Whispering Trick"
  • The Capital Q
  • To pick out a Chosen Card under a Handkerchief
• CHAPTER VI. CARD TRICKS WITHOUT APPARATUS, AND CHIEFLY DEPENDENT UPON SLEIGHT OF HAND
  • The Obedient Aces
  • Conus' Ace Trick
  • The Shower of Aces
  • Bertram's Ace Trick
  • Clairvoyance by Touch
  • To Pass a Card...

• ... Platten
• Luzifers Pocketplatten
• Magic Blitzdruck III
• Magic Blitzdruck
• Magic Coin Box
• Magic Colour-Clown
• Magic Colour
• Magic Nummern-Safe
• Magic Origami
• Magic Salzstreuer
• Mini-ESP-Marking-Deck
• Magic Tresor
• Magic VIVIL
• Magie der Orakel-Zahlen
• Magiros Blitz-Verwandlungsrahmen
• Magiros Dice Stacking
• Magiros Geisterring
• Magiros Geldschein-Wunder
• Magiros Glasklare Wanderung
• Magiros Kaffeehaferl
• Magiros Kartenleiste
• Magiros Münzofix
• Magiros Ring-Automat
• Magiros Super-Chips
• Magiros Teufels-Zahlenwürfel
• Magiros Verwandlungsgroschen
• Magiros Wunderkarten
• Magiros Würfel-Eierbecher ...

H. C. Evans was a company specializing in the manufacture and sale of gambling and carnival equipment. They also sold sporting goods like baseball gloves, various balls, hunting and fishing gear. Particularly noteworthy are their offerings for cheating purposes such as hold-outs, or dice which have been altered in a number of ways, or marked cards, etc.

1st edition 1909, 64 pages.

• ...Silkwonder
• Simsalabim-Fächer
• Single-Flower to Bouquet
• Skarabäus
• Skelett im Schrank
• Skull-ocator
• Slaxon's durchsichtige Okito-Dose
• Slide Vision
• Soft-Coins
• Spazierstock-Vermehrung
• Spiegel der Lüge
• Spiegel der Wahrheit
• Spiegel Weinglas
• Spiegel Würfel
• Spinnen-Dressur
• Spinnen-Kassette
• Spirit Dice
• Sponge Color
• Sprechende Karte
• Springende Farbblüten

A complete Gambler Expose act.

• Introduction
• The Gambler's Touch
• I Get The Aces
• The Gambler Gets Your Cards
• The Gambler's Second Dealing
• Three Card Monte
• Cutting The Pack
• The Sensational Poker Demonstration
  • The Demonstration
  • The Shuffle
  • Suggestions For Interchanging Cards
• Heads Or Tails
• Hitting The Spots
• Predicting The Spots
• The Thimbles And Dice
• Suggestions For Arranging A Routine

PDF 25 pages.

• ...Thought-Reading Trick
• Who Wears The Ring?

• The Balanced Coin
• Balancing A Card On The Edge Of Another
• Balancing An Egg
• Balancing An Egg On A Knife
• Hairpin, Hatpin And Half-Penny

• Counting The Coins
• Discovering A Number Thought Of
• A Mathemetical Trick
• A Quartette
• Two Dice Tricks

• Ale And Water
• An Unexpected Result
• A Board With A Newspaper
• Bottle And Candle
• Breaking A Broomstick
• Claret And Water
• The Contumacious Card
• Cork In Bottle Trick
• The Erratic Egg
• Flicking The Finger
• Getting Water Into A Glass Upside Down
• The Inverted...

This is book 3 in the SOHO (Sleight of Hand only) trilogy. The other two are SOHO and The Shade.

"Gregg Webb's brand of magic spans the full spectrum to include closeup, mentalism, manipulation, and stage. He spins his magic web - always inviting spectators one step closer to his inevitable moment of no explanations we call magic." - Doug MacGeorge

• Foreward
• Chapter I
• Chapter II: Rattle Caps
• Chapter III: Poker Dice and Poker Cards
• Chapter IIII: Nate Leipzig X
• Chapter V: Harry and Bess - Love and Bondage the Card Trick
• Chapter VI: Blinded by the Lack of Light III
• Chapter VII: The Lizard and...

A fascinating casebook of true stories from the self-styled "Card Detective" that reveals the inner workings of backroom poker cheats, dice scams, bunco artists, horse race swindles, rigged games of the carnival and midway and much, much more.

Written in a breezy style, "Mickey" MacDougall takes the reader along for an entertaining and informative ride as he consults with casino bosses and card room owners to stamp out cheaters and grifters.

Swindlers take many forms and purvey their trade anywhere people gather: aboard trains and cruise ships, at the racetrack, in back alleys, military...

• ...
  • ...
    • ... Match
    • N o Strings on These Rings
    • Domino Numbers
    • N ow You See It; Now You Don't
    • Match Tongs
    • Quick-Change Checkers
    • Water-Drinking Spirits
    • What Makes It Float?
    • Cigarette Follows Lead
    • Diving Eye Dropper
    • Coin from an Empty Box
    • One or Two Balls
    • Disappearing Sugar
    • "Thin Air " Force
    • Shifting Dice
    • Flaming Fission
    • The Shell Game
    • Human Egg Factory
    • Matches Obey Command
    • Pencil-in-the-Box
    • Orange Picking
    • Seeing with Your Hands
    • Stand Match on End
    • Magnetic Paper
    • The Uncut Paper
    • Name the Color
    • Drop the Coin
  • Sleight-of-Hand Tricks
• 8 FAMOUS STAGE ILLUSIONS
  • Egyptian Torture Cabinet ...

• ...
  • ...The Parlor Boomerang
  • The Complacent Vizier
• Arithmetical Amusements
  • Aphorisms Of Number
  • To Find A Number Thought Of
  • To Discover Two Or More Numbers That A Person Has Thought Of
  • How Many Counters Have I In My Hands?
  • The Three Travellers
  • The Money Game
  • The Philosopher's Pupils
  • The Certain Game
  • The Dice Guessed Unseen
  • The Famous Forty-Five
  • The Astonished Farmer
  • The Expunged Figure
  • The Mysterious Addition
  • The Remainder
  • The Three Jealous Husbands
  • The Arithmetical Mouse-Trap
• Puzzles
  • 1. - The Card-Chain Puzzle
  • 2. - The Square And Circle Puzzle
  • 3. - The Magic Octagon
  • 4. - The Board...

KC Card Company specialized in legit and crooked gambling supplies.

• Dice and measuring tools to make sure they were properly manufactured.
• Game layouts
• Marked cards
• Crooked dealing boxes
• Holdouts
• Books on gambling
• and more

1st edition 1961, 77 pages.

A collection of wonderful coin routines.

• The "Sky Hooks" Routine
• The Vanishing Biro
• A Coin From Two Cards
• Perfection Penetration
• Card-To-Wallet
• The "One Cup, One Ball, One Move" Routine
• The "Four-In-One" Routine
• The Coin On The Pipe Cleaner
• Name Spelling
• Copper To Silver
• Reading Cards - Behind Your Back
• Coin Through Ring
• The "No Load" Dice Stack Climax
• A Novel Penknife Routine
• The Cigar Tube Mystery
• The "Good Company" Penetration
• The Lie Detector
• A Routine For The "Pencil Through The Penny"
• A Clean Finish For The Coins Across
• The "Swivel Up" Card To Top
• Adding A Stack...

• ...
  • ...Silks From Water
  • Apparatus To Produce A Silk
• Section Four: Mental Magic
  • An Easy One-Ahead Number Effec
  • Thoughts Can Fly
  • A Design And A Prophesy
  • Numeric Detection
  • Card Prediction
  • Seeing Behind Your Back
  • Repeat Cigarette Prediction
  • Think Of A Number
  • Finding The Marked Cigarette
  • Divine A Symbol
  • Three Dice Prediction
  • Rainbow Eyes
  • Number Divination
  • Heavy And Light
  • A Stage Triple Prediction
  • Choose A Lid
  • The Encircled Number
  • A Simple "Number" Prediction
  • Silent Thought Reading
  • The Names Divine The Numbers
  • Choose A Fan
  • Marked Slate
  • A Novel Triple Prediction Method
  • Pseudo Memory Test
  • A...