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Jackie McClements
Dicychometry: Four spectators + four colored dice = a knockout prediction!
Killer Finish!: Simply that - a Killer Finish that can be used for the above, or at another time.

Peter McLanachan
AL Together Now: Peter's impromptu version of the Card at Any Number. A spectator names a card, a second gives a number between one and fifty-two and...

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....

This is probably the most important work John Scarne wrote. It is complete and authoritative. In this revised edition John provides the reader with a complete look at the world of dice, including for the first time an insider's view of how dice games are played at the Atlantic City casinos.

Scarne covers the history of modern dice and their earliest uses in games, and then analyzes the mathematics behind gambling to give players a solid foundation in odds and percentages. The most popular forms of dice games are then studied in detail. Bank Craps Las Vegas style gets full treatment with coverage...

No.3 - Stay At Home Coins Four coins and a Boston Box - pure visual magic.

No.4 - The Ring Competition Stand up routine with a 5” chrome ring and rope - terrific presentation.

No.5 - Wild Dice Cups and balls and walnut shell and pea with matchbox drawers and dice.

No.6 - The Ring And String Routine Four exquisite moves using a borrowed finger ring and cord.

No.7 - Spot The Difference A Jumbo ‘3 Card Trick’ with a presentation that actually makes sense!

No.8 - The Security...

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.

From his long experience in this field, John Scarne provides a wealth of professional tips and sound, game-winning strategy. Of special interest is a chapter...

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.

• Veteran magician Jack Kodell discusses his many firsts in magic, including creating the world's first bird act and performing in Las Vegas
• We travel to Pigeon Forge, TN for the 33rd Winter Carnival of Magic and find a genuine warmth toward all magicians
• Fantasio sits down with Stylesmith and reveals...

1. ... Or High, Low Jack
27. The Half-Stock
27. The Whole Stock
28. Crimping
28. Marking The Edges
28. Strippers
28. Briefs
29. The High Hand
29. Holding Out And Dealing Seven Cards
30. Turning Jack From The Bottom
30. Paper
31. Euchre
33. The High Hand
34. Vingt-Un, Or Twenty-One
34. Whist
37. Cribbage
38. The Value Of "Paper" To The Gambler
39. Loaded Dice
41. Dice Tops
41. Dead Props
42. A Few Specimens Of Card-Sharping
45. Valedictory

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...

• ... effect with the second prediction coming as a surprise, despite the fact that you state you have two predictions at the outset! In effect; from a set of cards that spell the word 'prediction' a spectator freely selects any four in an attempt to form a new word. The four cards can form the word 'dice'. Your prediction is revealed as two dice. The cards also have numbers on their backs. So now a second spectator selects one of the remaining cards. It might bear the number 7. What is the total of your 2 dice? Seven!
• Everywhere but Wrong! Linking Ring, August 1995.
  A rather perverse rendition...

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...

This was Larry Becker's first book which is now available in a new layout and design as ebook. Anybody into mentalism knows the name Larry Becker who was one of the most creative forces during the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Unbelievable are his accomplishments and honors. He was winner of the "Mentalist of...

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

Bobby Bernard teaches you how to stack dice featuring Bobby's presentation of School for Croupiers. This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In series originally published by Supreme Magic Inc. Rights are now owned by Martin Breese whom we thank for the kind permission to reproduce this booklet.

If you prefer video instructions over photos and explanatory text we recommend Learn the Basics and for sophisticated tricks Mr. Dice Stacking and Friends.

[Get the full collection of all 17 Teach-Ins at a huge discount.

1st edition 1979; original 23 pages; PDF 27 pages.

4. Contents
5. Introduction
6. The Materials Needed for Dice Stacking
6. - THE WORKING SURFACE
7. - THE DICE
7. - THE CUP OR...

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.

This is the first part of Vernon's famous Inner Secrets of Card Magic series. It includes notable work on color changes. In "Dai Vernon's Colour Changing Pack" Vernon provides the proper motivation for the use of the Hindu Shuffle: showing the back color of the deck. "Emotional Reaction" is an example...

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...

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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...

These are the second four volumes of the Wizard Magazine as a PDF which you can download. It includes a hyperlinked index.

1st edition July 1951 - July 1956; 1733 pages.

• No. 49
  • George Armstrong / Charles Cole
  • Geomental Rayond / Two Person Mentalism
  • Dennis Barnes / Opening to a 4...

• ... 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...