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• Murder by Suggestion / Stewart James
• The Curse of Dracula / Arthur Setterington
• Surprise by the Numbers / Phil Goldstein
• Close-Up Fishing / Edward Bagshawe
• Precog Speller 1980 / Peter Warlock
• Round Five / Phil Goldstein
• Rope Revels / Leslie May
• Horace Goldin: The Merry Magician

• The Multiple D. J. Knot / Phil Willmarth
• Everywhere and Nowhere Simplified / Dr. Nicholls Harley
• John Brearley's Writing Pad Mystery
• ESP Count / Leslie May
• Doubly Impossible / Michael Symes
• A Routine for Rule-It / Jack Avis
• Prince Kuroki

• Laced / John A. M. Howie
• The Witch...

While it's hard to be partial, as we like all the material, the Penetration effect is especially commercial. In essence, it is a no-frills version of the Penetration Frame dealer trick that uses only a small envelope. It can be adapted to other properties besides playing cards, too.

Partial contents:

• Routine: A Tricky Thimble
• French's Clip Pass
• Don't Drop It
• Presto Chango
• Slippery Sphere
• The Flip Pass
• A Surprise Vanish and Color Change
• Another Card Flourish
• French's Card Stabbing Routine
• Paper and Pasteboards
• French's Transpo Balls
• A Novel Card Fan...

19 of Gene Grant's most brilliant mental presentations using books, magazines, paper billets, envelopes, playing cards and more that will allow you to perform unbelievable demonstrations of apparent mindreading. All are one-man effects. Many can be performed close-up for intimate audiences, while others will play great for platform and theater stage, as well as on TV.

This is the third edition, revised (again) to bring it up to date, and adds even more content.

PARTIAL CONTENTS

• A Miracle Mental Routine
• Message Reading Without a Clue
• Image-Ray
• Remoto
• Psychia
• Telemento
• Psychia-Trik ...

Penciltration

An interesting idea with a pencil, coin and playing cards. Show spectator all three random objects. Put a coin in a folded card and visually stab the pencil through the coin. Rub with the fingers and the hole in the coin will heal itself ... and now the best part ... after the effect you can give the spectator all the props to check. No threads. Coin...

It's a devilishly clever method with four different presentations. You'll likely think of several more. There's a You-Do-As-I-Do effect, a Card Climax, a Phone Miracle, and Scarne's Best Prediction. No sleights. Simple, sure, and direct. Can be worked surrounded by spectators and dead easy to perform. All you require is the instructions, as no gimmicks are used. Use anyone's cards.

If you think that the pandemic is limiting your performance opportunities, you'll especially like Scarne's Phone Miracle. All you need is a spectator with a smartphone or landline. And, unlike virtually every...

Mathematical Fooler is in fact an impossible location effect. It really is a fooler. The principle appears as already known but will succeed in deceiving even fellow magicians.

First of all, it is possible to proceed with a borrowed deck, a real selling point. The magician borrows a deck. He looks through the deck with faces up and inquires if it is a full deck. Then he asks the spectator to cut a third of the deck and count how many cards he has in his hand. It will certainly have a two-digit number. The spectator adds the two digits together and looks at the card that corresponds to that...

J. Stewart Smith's third book on card magic, containing six more card masterpieces. Like his previous releases, all the work is accomplished without knuckle-busting sleight of hand. Only a few simple moves are necessary, easily within the grasp of the average magician.

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

• Our Cards
• False Cut
• Ascent of the Black Fours
• A Restoration
• Triple Alliance
• The Four Aces
• Double Cut
• A Prediction

Card workers the world over praise his beautiful effects and their methods. See below for a few brief quotes from experts in the field.

"The author has attempted to approach as...

• Preface
• Chapter I. I Learn To Cheat With Marked Cards
  • An Optical Illusion In Anilin Dye
  • Off To St. Louis For A Good Time
  • Lumber Swede’s Squeeze Wheel
  • The Phony Poolroom Enterprise
  • A Winter At Hot Springs
  • The Luck Of Slippery Sills
• Chapter II. I Join The Circus And Elope With Minnie, The Elephant
  • Wheels Within Wheels
  • The Booster...

The latest issue of The Hermit Magazine is a unique blend of magic and creativity from a broad range of contributors.

EFFECTS

• CKR / Boyet Vargas: A simple and easy to do mental effect where a thought-of object is divined. Can be performed over the phone or on Zoom, as well as in person! A variation by Scott is provided as well.
• Ten-Star Prediction / Kyle Leon: Cleverness abounds once more as Kyle teaches a version of the Koran Miracle Prediction that allows you to display the prediction before the cards even come out of the box.
• Kings & Aces / Scott Baird: This is my variation of Jerry Sadowitz's routine from Cards On The Table. Aces...

The other articles in 1968 include More Deuce Sandwiches, Cards Tossed into the Deck as locators (P.D. Mental Stab), and a rather pretty, and certainly startling Visual Change-Appearance-Vanish. The Mental Stab has the advantage of making it nearly impossible to miss. The Visual Change, while bold, has far greater laymen impact than you might expect.

Despite...

Twilight Buddies - A new method for a more personal version of Paul Harris's classic "Twilight Angels" routine that moves it away from playing cards.

TrickShot - Astonish everyone by potting all the balls on a pool table at once - on a pool table that is drawn onto a business card. This has a shocking visual and not a single sleight.

Windex - The only card trick in the book. Ever get asked if you can do "The one with the card on the...

• ...
  • ...Basing
  • Front Loading
  • The Cut
  • Oh, Excuse Me...
• Stacking
  • Definitions
  • The Lay Stack
  • Shuffle Techniques
  • Getting Past The Cut
  • Advanced Shuffle Techniques
  • Heads Up
• The Cooler
  • Old Fashioned
  • The Switcher
  • The Dealer
  • The Shills
  • The BP
  • Turners
  • The Details
  • Computer Coolers
• Switching Cards in Play
  • Handmucking
  • Two-Player Switches
• Gambling Across America
• What is Legal?
• Other Casino Games
  • Craps
  • Combinations of Dice
  • Roulette
  • Baccarat
  • Slots
  • Keno
  • Poker
  • Sports Betting, and Horse Racing
  • The Bullseye
• Conclusions
• Glossary
• Resources
  • Books
  • Videos
  • Periodicals ...

7 Effects:

Extra Sensory Perception: This is one of my favorite "real" ESP effects, and it gives the spectator real power.

Poker Bill: A gambling demo closer where the spectators walk away with a lucky charm and real cash!

Elastic Sensory Perception: If your mentalism lacks visual appeal, then you've just found the perfect remedy.

Burnin' Time: Fire, time travel,...

1. ... Aces
84. Brian Glover
84. Interlaced Vanish Revisited
86. Hot and Cold Card & Magician Makes Good Once Again
90. WalCardlet
92. No-Exchange Do as I Do
94. Anthony Brahams
94. A.A.
90. Walt Lees
96. Lewis Jones
96. Book of Words
100. Pokerface
103. Andy Nicholls
103. Kings 'n Aces
104. Cop Out
107. Jamie Badman
107. Call as Ace
110. Dominic Twose
110. Magic Cards
112. Joker Guarantee
113. The Rotating Hand
114. Justin Higham
114. Clairvoyant Plus
116. Clairvoyant Plus Wand
117. Clairvoyant Plus Name
117. Clairvoyant Plus Colour
119. Paul Gordon
119. The Eradicator
121. Mystery of the Number Nine
123. J R's Twisted
124. The Mystic Nine
125. Half a Higham
126. Murder to Describe
128. Stand Up for CATO
130. Hum Drum ...

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   • ... Crosthwaithe's SBS Tribute - The Magic Circle - DVD
   • Your Personal Key - El Duco - effect
   • The RaMa Deck - Owen Packard - effect
   • Quick Change: Rapid Costume Changes For Men - Sven Schoppenhauer - book
   • Overboard - Paul Stone - effect
   • Unclamped - Wayne Dobson - DVD
   • P-Pik Prediction Cards - Kipp Sherry - effect
   • Confabulation Deluxe - Ken Brooke Signature Classic - effect
   • Patlock - Patrick Page - effect
   • Dobson's Choice - Wayne Dobson - DVD
   • On The Shoulders Of Giants - Roger Crosthwaithe - DVD & lecture notes
34. Breaking with Convention - interview with Paul Gordon...

1. ... The Building! – review of the IBM dealers at the Eastbourne Convention
27. What Did They Say? – comments about the Eastbourne IBM Convention
30. Reviews
    • Cap Trap – Charlie Justice – cap in bottle trick
    • Dual Cyclone – Paul Knight – card trick
    • The Complete Dumbfounders With Cards – Eddie Joseph - book reprint
    • Moving Violation – Jay Sankey – card trick
    • Stigmata – Wayne Houchin
    • Tricks To Freak Out Your Friends - Pete Firman – book
    • Still Fancy A Pot Of Jam? – James Brown - DVD
    • The Gordon Diary Trick – Paul Gordon - trick
    • Mental UFO II – Soren Harbo...

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Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007; 68 pages.

Cover: David Stone

7. Welcome to MagicSeen – editor’s letter
7. Meet The Team
8. Letterbox
9. News
13. The Think Tank, DB Or Not DB? – Jay Fortune - satire
14. Girls Allowed! - Women In Magic – interviews with several female magicians
20. So you want to be a … Commercial Close Up Magician – Mark Leveridge - article
24. Kernow Magic Adventures: A Message from Our Sponsor
28. Reviews
    • Comic Book Test & Stag Mag-ic – S. A. Lea - trick
    • Unexpected - Marc Spelmann & Peter Nardi – 2 DVD set
    • Cool – Steve Cook – ESP trick
    • Blow By Blow – Jerry Luff...

1. ... Potassy
19. To the Reader
1. Part 1
3. Voila, Four Aces! Someone selects a card and returns it to the deck. One card mysteriously turns over in the deck and leads directly to the location of the selection. At the end, the four Aces are suddenly produced!
8. The Australian Fives. Two previously selected cards reappear mysteriously with the aid of the "Australian Fives" and an exotic procedure.
13. Fully Automatic Aces. The magician demonstrates the difference between coincidence and pure sleight-of-hand. Two Aces are then spectacularly produced by him. An audience member finds the two remaining Aces...

The Advocate is a pocket card index...a device that holds a full deck of playing cards in consecutive order that works as an index hidden within the performers pocket allowing the performer to secretly locate and obtain any desired playing card from the full deck within seconds without having to look at the cards. The desired card would then be palmed from the users pocket for...

[Note: In Jinx #103, page 624, fourth paragraph, Annemann states that he never published this manuscript. He calls it a fakeroo.

Annemann’s Stop Trick
Performer removes pack from case and shuffles cards. The spectator is asked to cut the pack in half and keep either part. A card is chosen from one of the piles, and the spectator replaces it in the same pile. The performer deals from the other pile, asking the spectator to stop the deal whenever he chooses and to turn over the card at which he stops the performer. Assuming the stop card is a six, the cards immediately before and after the six are shown...

• ... - Mark Leveridge
• Topit Without A Topit - Alexander Allen
• FU/FD Mix - Aldo Colombini
• Great Minds Think Alike - Richard Blackie
• Healing Hands - Harry Lucas
• 3 Card Selection - David Siracusa
• Hocus Pocus - Paul Gordon
• Cap In Bottle - Rey Ben
• The Happy Birthday Trick - Trevor Duffy
• Stung Cards Outdone - Wolfgang Riebe
• Missing A Nail - Ben Highway
• Extra Sensitive - Wolfgang Moser
• Symbolero - Max Maven
• GLS Vanish - Lawrence Turner
• The Stone Drop - David Stone
• Colour Pom Poms - Richard Ballinger
• Reverse You-Do-As-I-Do - Jack Stephens
• The Amazing Stiff Rope - Magic Dave
• Anybody...

"Kudos to Michael for bringing something this good to the magic community ... Diabolic and truly amazing ... pure killer magic!" - Doug Canning

Effect

Three, four or five different items (cards or counters) are tabled. While the mentalist looks away, the spectator makes an unknown number of moves, freely mixing and turning over the items. The spectator can stop at any time when there are just two items face up. She then completely covers these with her left and right hands. The mentalist...

• ... Lay news
• Ian Keable considers Llandudno and the competition
• Eddie Dawes rounds up with Collectors' Corner

• News and Views around the studio
• Ian Adair is Over the Moon with a special routine for the children's entertainer
• Ian Keable v Guy Hollingworth
• Peter Duffie Dreamt of cards
• Basic Card Technique - This time Palming from a tabled deck
• Arun Bonerjee with another mental effect called Row ESP
• Al Smith listens to the rythm of the falling rain - pitter patter
• Ali Cardabra with a new for old ring in bottle
• Reading Matter if you really want to be a children's entertainer ...