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The Great Bridge Conspiracy ebook chronicles the espionage and card playing exploits of Captain Diggery Piper -- a flamboyant expert first created by Terry Quinn for a serial in Games Magazine. Just as Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Nabokov's The Defense are structured in accordance with the rules and logic of chess, so Quinn has patterned the action of this swift-paced, suspenseful tale on the psychological intricacies of bridge, craftily building a house of cards that tumbles into a surprise ending.

1st edition 1979; 208 pages.

• ... dice, including how it is possible to cheat with honest dice.
• Twenty fundamental rules for improving your poker-playing skill.
• Bridge conventions and playing devices such as Blackwood, Gerber, Rule of Eleven, Stayman, etc.
• What your chances are of being dealt a Royal Flush in the original five cards. Three of a kind, etc.
• Five rules to follow to gamble sensibly at Bank Craps.
• Rudiments of basic chess strategy plus some famous chess openings and responses.
• The many fascinating games played with dominoes throughout the world.
• Different types of dice specially made for cheating: flat passers,...

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   • ... Years
   • Conclusions

245. Volume 24, Number 11, March, 1969, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Bobby Bernard
247. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
248. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Symbols in Sympathy - John Bragoli
249. Magic for Youngsters
     • Konjuring for Kids, Part III - Cards - Jack Gittings
251. Card Magic
     • The Educated Frog - Bobby Bernard
253. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
     • Start for a Rope Trick
255. Money Magic
     • Now You See It - Now You Don't! - Horace Bennett
256. Silk Magic
     • Timed Century - Len Belcher
258. My Premonition...

Based on his own childhood and personal experiences, he is acclaimed as a story-telling magician. Graphic designer and illustrator. Expert on Logotype design. Highly experienced in creating designs for business cards, letterheads and promotional leaflets and brochures. Mentor and SYM leader. Recipient of The Charles Hopkins Award for Magical Excellence. Co-performer and co-producer of a CD pertaining to the usage of music in magic performances. Highly skilled in the areas of Children's magic and open-air performances.

Kyle is also a weekly columnist for Magic NZ Ezine as well as columnist for The Funny...

This is a great move by Tony Slydini. The four aces are put back into the deck, letting them stick out by about half. Despite the fact that the aces protrude, the clever Tony steals them into a Tenkai Palm leaving four other cards protruding. How he does that you will learn in this video.

runtime: 1min 5s

Classic routines with coins, bank notes, cigarettes, thimbles, and cards by the amazing Al Koran & and the ingenious Jack Lamonte.

Including Koran's amazing Miracle Card Stab.

1st edition 1947; reprinted 1987; digital edition 2010; original 66 pages; PDF 44 pages.

Table of Contents

3. CONTENTS
4. PREFACE
5. Amazement with Money
6. - THE "LAST-WORD" NOTE ROUTINE
10. - THE MASTER "SILVER AND COPPER" ROUTINE
14. - THE MASTER "CLOSE-UP" COIN VANISH
16. Cigarette Sorcery
17. - PERFECT CIG-SWITCH
19. - THE CHAPEAU CIGARETTES
21. - CIG SUSPENSION
23. Thimble Amazement
24. - THE MASTER MOVE
26. - THE "PINCH" HIGH SPEED VISIBLE VANISH ...

And, that's exactly what we have here, in THE XRAY DECK. Steve has done a wonderful job, completely solving the problem - creating a practical, perform anywhere solution for the effect. He's then gone on to clearly and concisely detail every nuance of his clever and direct method....

EFFECT #1: The magician opens up a card wallet displaying some playing cards torn in four pieces, each of them held by a rubber band. He explains, "Those are a few of the wrong predictions I've made in the past. Since then, I've learnt to keep being positive. For example, this one was wrong at the time it was made, but what if it was just right today?" You move this one aside and pocket the rest.

A spectator selects any two-digit number up to 50. The deck is dealt accordingly to make up a card, selecting a value and a suit. Despite the huge range of possible outcomes, the prediction that...

• ... & Ready
• Chapter 8: Non-Gaffed Arrangements
• Chapter 9: Variations on the Theme – Jazz Deck
• Chapter 10: Marked & One-Way
• Chapter 11: Self-Contained Card Delivery System
• Chapter 12: The Pseudo-Copy Concept
• Chapter 13: In & Out Tuck Case
• Chapter 14: Yin / Yang Setup
• Chapter 15: DYI Short Cards and Corner Rounding
• Chapter 16: DYI Card Roughing Techniques
• Glossary of Card Presentations: Selections and Handlings

1st edition 2013, 98 pages.

This text contains an astonishing array of impromptu routines! Any time you are asked to perform a feat of mind reading, all you need is a pen and something to write on.

For example:

On five (or more) different pieces of paper (business cards work well) you write a unique sentence, folding each card as you finish. The participant takes all five pieces of paper, and while you turn around (or leave the room), opens one and reads it. Once this is done, the Mentalist has a short chat with the spectator, and then tells them the sentence...

Hide And Seek - a selected card gets 'stage fright' and keeps vanishing from the top of the deck and hiding itself in the deck's centre, before at the finish changing its back colour altogether! Regular cards only required, no re-set, a commercial up-in-the-hands routine for walkabout performance

No Palm Card To Pocket - if ever a trick title defined what happens in the trick itself, this is it! Easy to do, neat routining

The Right Wrong Prediction -a spectator genuinely freely selects a card...

This by far the most complete book ever written on the subject of virtual numbers. Devin shows you how to use them on websites, business cards and advertising to create a local presence anywhere you want. Creating a local presence will get you more gigs than you currently have.

The ebook also explains why 800 numbers intimated most people wanting to hire an entertainer and why you should not be using them if you want to book shows....

[Note that due to the age of the recording there are occasionally problems with the audio and the video freezes. Despite these problems there are many very practical ideas, moves and routines being taught.]

On 31st March 1985 the American street magician John Lenahan gave his first ever lecture. The event was held in the Magic Lounge London and organized by Martin Breese. John calls his lecture "Taking it to the streets ... or the tables ... or the bars ... or wherever they will watch."

• Miser's Dream with a surprise ending
• Chats about working on the street
• Vanishing handkerchief
• Rope routine
• Sponge ball bit
• Tips on working on the street
• Ambitious card routine
• Working tables
• Bullet card trick
• Four ace routine
• Rising cards

length 1h 20min...

THE BIGGEST SNAG IN "EIGHT KINGS" OR "SI STEBBINS" EFFECTIVELY REMOVED.

Are you afraid of being caught when using a stacked deck of cards? Then you must know George Blake's system! No more fear of spreading the deck face up, if you know it.

From the introduction:

• Introduction
• Promotional Material
  1. The Marketing Map
  2. Stage Name
  3. Logos
  4. Leaflets
  5. Colour Branding & Costume
  6. Business Cards
  7. Roller Banners
  8. Branded Giveaways
  9. Free Party Invitations
  10. A-Frame Boards
  11. Brochure / Flyer
  12. Party Tips Flyer
  13. £10 Discount Voucher
  14. Sign Writing Your Car
  15. Personalised License Plates
  16. Profile Photos
  17. Show Pictures
  18. Celebrity Photographs
  19. Promo Videos
  20. Colouring Page of Yourself...

Five mind blowing effects on one single card. Impossible killer mentalism.

Launched in FISM Italy 2015 through Charles Gauci Magic.

What the experts have said ...

"Pocket Minds cards are really clever and a great way to always have something with you ready to go. They are professionally made and worthy of any entertainer making their living with this art." - Richard Osterlind

"I like your ideas. Pocket Minds is very good. It is very nice to have a mentalism act in your pocket. Keep creating this kind of things." - Luca Volpe

"Your ideas are exceptional. This is a very practical prop...

Mail Mentalism is a card trick that can be done via mail, email, phone, radio, across rooms or other communication channels. It is an automatic effect where you only provide instructions but do not require any feedback or response. The spectator will need a deck of cards. The instructions are customized for each occasion.

This is a great trick to amaze somebody long distance, be it to solicit a possible engagement, introduce yourself to a journalist, or even fooling a magic friend.

1st edition 1949, 8 pages; PDF 9 pages.

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
     • The Magic Book - Harry Lorayne - book
     • Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling, and Dynamic Computer Memories - S. Brent Morris - book
     • Doc Eason Live! Volumes 1-3 - Doc Eason - three videos
     • Easy to Master Card Miracles Volumes 4, 5, & 6 - Michael Ammar - three videos
     • Miracles with Cards Volumes 1, 2, & 3 - James Swain - three videos
     • Glink - Jon Allen - prop
     • Sketch-O-Magic - David Garrard - prop
     • It's Not Magic, But - Photomosaics - Robert Silvers - book
     • Details - about the items and addresses
38. In His Words: Hank Lee - Interview by John Moehring ...

"I think your routine is very good. I may use it a couple times myself." - Brian T. Lees (a.k.a. Topper)

Effect:

You produce a deck of cards and hand it to a spectator. (You will not touch it or see it any more). The spectator shuffles the deck, selects a card, folds it and puts a rubber band or a paper clip tight around it. Despite these lab conditions, you try to guess their card! And believe it or not, you will always succeed. Their card can be given back as a souvenir. It does...

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 as it is easy to perform. It just might be the best surprise transposition ever.

THE BIG STOP The classic "stop"...

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  • ... (three balloon monte)
  • Card in the Air
  • Silk in a Balloon
  • Rainbow Prediction
• Cut and Restored Rope
  • Smashing!
  • Cord-Fusion
  • Flash Rope Restoration
• Endless Circle (principle)
  • Triple Pin Coincidence
  • The Right Spot
  • The Lady's Choice
• Three Classics Revisited
  • (In)Visible Cards
  • 20th Century Silks (Imaginary Silk)
  • Impossible Rising Card
• Tricks with False Knots
  • The Yellow Rope
  • Three at Once!
  • Chameleon Knots
  • Fantastic Knot
  • The Black Knot
• Rope Gimmicks
  • Methods of Joining Ends Together
  • Magnet Assortment
• Preparation of Ropes
  • How to attach Magnets to Ropes
  • How to attach Snap Fasteners...

The next large section is titled: "Magic In The Making" and it deals with constructing some of your own equipment. To aid you in this undertaking, there...

This is a collection of 10 ACAAN and plot variation methods. It covers subconscious predictions, Si work, and other such shenanigans.

Here is a list of the contents:

Predestination - A deck is shuffled by the spectator, and a card is thought of. The participant deals cards until they find the one they thought of. You have predicted the exact position it was found in. No forces involved, and nothing is said out-loud by the participant. Oh, and you can perform this blindfolded.

True ACAAN - No stooges, forces, trick decks, etc. It requires work, but it's not hard to do, and is entirely...