Search Results: page 21

• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
  1. Introductory Observations
  4. The Magic Wand
  5. The Magician's Table
  8. The Magician's Dress
  9. Profondes
  9. Pochettes
  9. "Loading" Pockets
• CHAPTER II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT-OF-HAND APPLICABLE TO CARD TRICKS.
  11. The Cards
  12. To "Make the Pass"
  21. To "Force" a Card
  23. To Make a "False Shuffle"
  27. To "Palm" a Card
  27. To "Ruffle" the Cards
  28. To "Change" a Card
  34. To Get Sight of a Drawn Card
  35. To "Slip" a Card
  36. To "Draw Back" a Card
  37. To "Turn Over" the Pack
  37. To Spring the Cards from one Hand to the Other
  38. To Throw a Card
  39. The...

need to believe there is something more to Life than today's mundane responsibilities and attendant stresses -- and that there are knowing individuals who can home in on that desired something. Ones who on a clear or cloudy day can interpret, can possibly see forever. The Readers of palms, cards ordinary and Tarots exotic, of runes and tea leaves and the psychology of recognizing subtle yearnings unexpressed. OORT guides.

First -- what OORT is not. It is not a primer for shabby storefront psychic scams full of trickeries of the trade for fleecing the gullible, for exploiting the...

"Everyone should work the Castle for a week. Not for the money, but for the memories." - Larry Becker

At the Psychic Entertainers Association convention in St. Louis, I was requested to demonstrate my abilities for the TV media. The effect that I chose to perform was "Psycho II". Approximately 25 years ago, I released the grand-daddy of this remarkable ESP design miracle as just plain "Psycho". It proved to be an award...

This was Werner Miller's first English publication and it holds 51 astonishing tricks, all based on clever mathematical principles. You will find next to tricks with cards, numbers, and dice also topological tricks with paper and cardboard.

One of my favorite tricks is called "Quick Change Square" where a 4x4 square changes from a non-magic square to a magic square in a flash. In "Crazy Square", Werner combines the olde "Chinese Compass" with the "magic square" and produces a witty, lively piece. In "Aeolic Prelude", Werner takes a compass and an ESP deck to produce a nice little bit of ritual...

Predictions are one of the most important plots in mentalism. As a performer you want to be ready to make a perfect prediction any time any where. And you want it to be simple, clean, and unsuspicious.

Imagine being able to make a prediction without any force, without any switch, with borrowed items, without any suspicious movements. Spot is a 100% impromptu way to make a prediction of any kind:

• ESP symbols
• Initial names
• Numbers
• Dates
• Playing Cards
• Etc.

The method behind Spot is so simple, so easy and yet so deceptive and powerful....

1. ... 5th Booklet
97. The Sheriff and the Card Sharp
98. Variatio Delectat
98. The Sheriff and the Card Sharp
98. Souls in Harmony
98. Crystallomancy
99. The Sheriff and the Card Sharp
100. "Roll the Film"
102. The Brainwave Deck
105. Important Afterthoughts On A "Course of Study"
107. Souls in Harmony
111. Crystallomancy
111. Crystal Balls and Playing Cards
112. A Completely Crazy Idea
115. One Last Crazy Idea

     6th Booklet

116. The Oracle
117. The Oracle or "The Three Wishes"
125. The Center Tear
127. Final Remarks

     7th Booklet

129. Psycho Bell
130. Foreword
130. The Dictionary Trick
131. "Reflecta - Thot"
133. Psycho-Bell Version 1
137. Psycho-Bell Version 2
141. Outline of the Routine

     Bonus ...

Using your own deck or a borrowed deck, you turn your back to the spectator. The spectator can shuffle the deck while your back is turned. The spectator removes the top 15 cards from the pack just as they come. From those 15 cards he is to remove all the black cards and put them in his front left pants pocket. The remaining red cards, he counts and then places them in his right front pants pocket.

Next, he takes a few more cards from the remaining deck, the number to correspond the number of red cards in his right pants pocket. If he placed 7 cards there, he would remove from the deck face...

"... The PAT Switch will have you rethinking many of the tricks you know and probably have in your repertoire, as well as suggesting new ideas." - Matt Field

This second volume of The Gaming Table is from a magician's point of view much more interesting. It includes a history of dice and playing cards including a fairly detailed description of how playing cards were made. It has a chapter on fortune telling with cards. And it also features a surprisingly good chapter on card tricks with explanations for four sleights (false shuffle, false cut, glide, card change) and 18 very nice card tricks. Among them we find a version of the prearranged deck and two person codes.

For people interested in Erdnase it is interesting to note that at the beginning of the...

• ...The Scryer / Hugh Wylie
• The Torn and Restored Paper Trick
• The Birdcage Vanishes / Michael Symes
• Cola-Spension / Ian Adair
• Stanley Jaks lecturing at the Unique Studio

• Tribute to Jack Avis
• In the Manner of Jack / John Derris
• Interior Designs / Roy Walton
• Four in Hand / Hugh Scott
• A Pentagram Ego
• 53 Cards Won't Do! / Ed Marlo
• From Deal in Kent / Ted Danson
• The Pearl of Fate / Bobby Bernard

• Jack Avis Tribute Issue
• Paper Money / Sid Lorraine
• Lost and Found / Francis Haxton
• Power Play / Karl Fulves
• Mysterious Matching / Paul Flory
• Streamlined Solo Aces / Michael Symes
• Card...

An incredible Nate Leipzig card effect, now redesigned with subtlety, instead of knuckle-busting sleight of hand. A deck of cards is genuinely shuffled. The spectator then chooses a suit and removes the corresponding thirteen cards from the deck. The performer chooses another suit and likewise removes his thirteen cards. The spectator places the top card of his packet on the bottom of his packet; the magician duplicates this procedure. The spectator places his next card face down on the table. The magician does likewise. The spectator then alternately places cards on the bottom of his packet...

• ... one hand and Silver in the other; which Hand the Gold is in, and which the Silver
• A Notable Hocus Pocus trick with a Cock
• Another Trick, played with a Fowl
• To make sport with quick-silver
• Another trick to make sport with quick-silver
• Several letters that contain no meaning, being wrote upon cards, to make them, after they have been twice shuffled, give an answer to a question that shall be proposed; as for example, What is Love?
• To discover the number of points on 3 cards, placed under 3 different parcels of cards
• The Secret of the Invisible Girl
• The wonderful Well
• To make a ring shift...

1. ...
   • ... prop
   • RGB - N2G - Chinese coins
   • Silent Rings - Axel Hacklau - Chinese linking rings
   • Optical - Danny Goldsmith - coin vanishes
   • Broadside Glimpse - Jack Tighe - card move
   • It's Your Choice - Paul Brook - book on effects with a card method
   • Mechanic's Palm - Fran Amor - card move
   • ESP Testing Kit - Spooky Nyman - ESP routine
   • Silver Surfer - Wolfgang Moser - coin effect
   • Coinception - Roddie McGhie - coin gimmick
   • The Jack Hughes Ultimate World of Magic - Chris Cross - Book and DVD
   • Movie Night - Jon Gadd & Steve Bowring - mentalism
   • Get Outta My Way, I'm Doing to...

The first and last effects, "Say My Name!" and "The Final Countdown", in addition to being fully automatic, can be performed entirely in "contactless mode": the magician, after handing the deck of cards to the spectator, will simply give him the instructions to follow and will not touch the cards again until the effect is concluded. The only trick that needs a little preparation is the third: "Game of Life," but this will be performed openly in front of the spectators and will be an integral...

Easy miracles using a new stack of cards.

This eBook collects a series of no less than seven tricks that are very simple to perform in front of one's audience, but all very impressive. All this is only possible thanks to a particular pre-arrangement of the pack of cards, derived from Si Stebbins but which, unlike it, will not be recognizable even to the majority of magicians, appearing on first examination to be entirely similar to a real shuffled deck. I have called this pre-order: VR Stack Pro and I will describe it extensively on the following pages.

Below you will find the effects...

1. ...
66. The Academy of Magical Arts in Genii - Knights at The Magic Castle
    • Conjurers Book Club - Libby Ward
70. One Night in Brooklyn - Jamy Ian Swiss
    68. Part Two
84. Light from the Lamp - Reviews
    84. Tricks Reviewed by David Regal
        • Copeland coin Box - Jeff Copeland
        • Changing Cards - Bob Swadling
        • Takeoff - Arnaud
        • Vanishing Ring - SansMinds
        • The Ring Box - Tom Yurasits
        • No-Ring Ring Hank - Lynetta Welch
        • A Clean Ring Vanish - John Archer
        • The Oracle System - Ben Seidman
        • Aces Front - Alan Wakeling
        • Dinglish Deck - Curtis Kam
        • Hit - Luke Jermay
        • Tell the Truth - The Creators of ThoughtCast
    88. Books Reviewed by Francis Menotti
        • That Old Black Magic: The Lives and Legends of Great African American Magicians - Jim and Melania Magus
        • The...

Eine kurzweilige Betrachtung des von Tenyo jährlich neu aufgelegten zauberhaften Bonusprogramms der Jahre 1996 bis 2023.

Die T-Serie von Tenyo Zaubertricks ist weltbekannt. Weniger bekannt ist die "Plus 1" Serie die nur in Japan erhältlich ist und nur gegen Punkte die man mit gekauften T-Serien Tricks sammeln kann. Seit fast mehr als 30 Jahren kommt in dieser Plus-1 Serie jedes Jahr ein neuer Trick heraus. Solano stellt diese 28 Tricks hier vor.

Es ist ein wunderschönes Sammelthema das so manches tricktechnisches Gustostückerl beinhaltet.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance...

An entertaining look at the annual enchanting Tenyo bonus program from 1996 to 2023.

The T-series of Tenyo magic tricks is world-famous. Less well-known is the "Plus 1" series, which is only available in Japan and only for points that can be collected with purchased T-series tricks. For almost 30 years, a new trick has been released every year in this Plus 1 series. Solano presents these 28 tricks here.

It is a wonderful collector's theme that contains many a trick-technical gem.

• 1996: Psychic Battle ESP
• 1997: Four Chance Game
• 1998: Fortune Telling Card
• 1999: Dream Psychometry ...

• CHAPTER I
  19. INTRODUCTORY HINTS
• CHAPTER II
  24. THE DRESS, SERVANTES, PULLS AND APPARATUS
• CHAPTER III
  27. CARD TRICKS
  48. Card case, the
  50. Card changing box, the
  34. Card jugglery
  57. Card spelling
  32. Dealing seconds or retaining the top card
  58. Diminishing cards, the
  58. Disappearing card, the
  33. Forcing cards by telepathy
  38. Inseparable jacks, the
  40. Magnetic aces, the
  42. Mysterious deal, the
  51. Pips vanished from a card and reproduced on a handkerchief, the
  32. Quickest pass on record, the
  44. Rising card from pack held in hand
  45. Rising card from pack in a glass
  48. Rubbing...

What an excellent book. The quality of the material is outstanding. What makes this book particularly rare is a chapter on juggling and how to fake great juggle skills. I have yet to see another book on magic with such an extensive chapter on juggling. You will also find the obligatory chapter on shadowgraphy, a good write up of black art, and large sections on cards, coins, and tricks with many other props. You will find billiard ball manipulation as well as stage tricks with large apparatus.

1st edition, 1902, Frederick J. Drake & Co, Chicago; 440 pages; PDF 325 pages.

• Introduction ...

In this classic manual, the first Hugard wrote for people outside the inner circle of magic performers, he reveals the secrets of a host of mystifying tricks covering all major forms of close-up and stand-up magic: conjuring with coins, watches, rings, balls, eggs, silks, cigarettes, cigars, thimbles, flowers, ropes, bills, cards and mental magic.

This is a great primer for anyone aspiring to be a performing magician. The large amount of effects also holds gems for the intermediate and advanced performer. There is some overlap of material with other Hugard publications.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Cameron Francis brings you a twisted packet trick that will blow your spectators away.

Effect: The magician displays a packet of six Jokers and asks the spectators if they have ever heard of marked cards. Assuming they reply in the affirmative, the magician continues, "Well, most people don't know how to really mark cards. Especially in a subtle fashion. But I do. And I'll show you right now using this packet of jokers." Noticing two blue backed jokers in the packet, the magician sets them aside, claiming they are "troublemakers". The other four Jokers are shown to have normal red backs....