Kyle MacNeill’s 10th Ebook is Inventions, and it contains 7 tried and tested effects, a colour change created by Kyle MacNeill and Cameron Francis, and a troubleshooting method – a completely new take on the Impromptu Invisible deck plot.
"Kyle is on a roll. As reviewed above, Inventions contains seven well-constructed card effects. I also like his cartoons at the start!" - Peter Duffie
Note: All YouTube demo videos linked from the PDF are unavailable. Explanatory text and photos are complete.
John Gelasi presents three all new killer packet tricks that you can perform with any deck!
Pack3t is an ebook containing three packet tricks that you will use for all of your impromptu situations. Grab any deck, and using just the cards you take from it, you're ready to perform impromptu packet tricks that don't even look impromptu.
Magic of the impromptu category is always nice to have under your belt so you're ensured to have tricks that deliver, even when you leave your favorite...
Young magician John Gelasi presents three new takes on a classic plot in packet card magic: the brainwave effect. Each of these new effects are novel, fun approaches to the plot, with varied methods and handlings, so you're sure to find one that you'll love performing. Better yet, each effect ends completely clean, with all of the cards being totally examinable at the conclusion. Resets are fast, making these the perfect effects to have in your wallet for that spur of the moment performance.
... the cards one at a time until she reaches her thought of number. The card arrived at is the card being thought of by the 1st spectator!
Based on an effect by Larry Jennings, this has been a favorite of David's for many years. David has used this to fool both laymen and magicians alike. It is impromptu and can be done with a borrowed deck. And best of all, it is nearly self-working!
1st edition 2008, 7 pages.
Reviewed by Michael Cook
Was looking for a good simple ACAAN. I thought maybe this would be good. Nothing really good about it. To much dealing and counting. It’s just too confusing....
... colored back design! All of the cards may now be examined!
This new video download includes a full performance and explanation of the newly updated and perfected setup and handling, as well as additional thoughts. Also included are two never-before-published bonus effects:
Backspace: An impromptu all-backs routine with a killer (and nearly self-working) transposition finale.
Houdini in My Pocket: Using just a few cards removed from the deck, the magician demonstrates some of Harry Houdini's famous illusions - in miniature form, of course.
... past five decades it has undergone many different variations, however most magicians and mentalists still own an original Hen Fetsch board.
This ebook covers routines for the standard Mental Epic prop and it's modern variations, as well as One-Ahead routines that can be performed close-up and impromptu using post-it notes, business cards and index cards.
mildly curious, nor should it be. Congratulations on all your successes and many more." - Kenton Knepper
"I really enjoyed reading your book. The first card effect is Gangbusters. The Theory is Great Too" - Jeff McBride
"Alan Jones presents a fascinating lecture giving valuable ideas about magic and performance relating to his interests and training in NLP and education. Alan's presentation is humorous, eye opening and well worth every magician's attention. I thoroughly enjoyed it." - Eugene Burger
TOPICS
Statement of Intent Who the Hell Am I – Why this Book?
... to use any number of cards. The original pile can be any size, the discarded pile can be chosen, and the final card can be at almost any original position.
The elimination process is hands off. It can be combined with classic techniques or other principles to create new effects with stacks, or impromptu. This is a very simple, but powerful and useful principle to know. You can even improvise once you know it (to predict or to find a card for instance, in an unusual way).
We know many magicians hate tricks based on dealing (or spelling). But it can be solved with presentation and patter,...
In 1853 the French La Nouvelle Magie Blanche Dévoilée by Jean Nicolas Ponsin was published. It was the first book to explain exactly how the leading magicians of the day in France performed their most prized effects. Sam Sharpe translated it to English and Wilf Huggins added a couple of clarifying illustrations.
This ebook is filled with intriguing effects with cards, coins and an entire section on the Cups and Balls. Surprisingly you will find here the idea of using metal balls, the same idea with which Paul Gertner created a sensation. You can find everything from mental miracles, to impromptu effects,...
Effect: A spectator names any card, and you immediately produce it from your pocket.
Or: You write two cards on two business cards, put one in each pocket, and the spectator has to guess at least one of them. (It can be repeated right away if you want).
The method is 100% surefire and practical. There is no math, no probabilities, a little bit of memorization, but it is almost "intuitive". It is not difficult but needs a bit of rehearsal at the beginning, like for everything. It looks casual, completely impromptu, or even improvised, but you will have to do a onetime preparation with...
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"Thought Cap" is a routine of mentalism with funny hats. Everybody wants a great mentalism routine, and everybody needs a funny hat. Learn about both with this routine.
"Curse of Bank Night" is a take on Bank Night where nobody really loses, except for the magician who ends up on the wrong side of a curse. Finally, the sting is taken out of "Bank Night"!!!
"Rental" allows you to predict a movie that your friend is going to rent. Perfect for a seemingly impromptu piece.
"Autographs" is a routine involving an autograph book and a chosen card. This routine will have you drooling with the all its possibilities.
"Two Writes" gives you 52 outs from a folded piece of paper. Learn how to construct a multiple-out from one piece of paper and a gimmick.
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TOCATON, the word, is an acronym for "thought-of card at thought-of number." It's pronounced "talk-a-ton." The word was coined by Nick Conticello to describe his new approach to the classic David Berglas effect "Any Card at Any Number." Nick feels the word is more descriptive of his effects because he does limit the choice of numbers and the choice of cards. But his approach has the virtues of speed of presentation and lack of preparation. Like most of his published work, TOCATON can be performed impromptu, with any reasonably complete pack of cards.
A wonderful collection of original magic/mentalism effects and theory.
The Assumption Principle: A deceptive but simple and versatile principle that you'll surely be making your own tricks with.
Bluff ACAAN: To the spectator, it is a meaningful take on the ACAAN using a shuffled deck and free choice. They can handle the deck for the naming of the card and number. They can deal the cards.
The Passive Force: An idea for an elaborate forcing method which you may already use, but have never realized it or thought of it in this way.
The Build Up Principle: You'll totally transform your...
This thing is ingenious. It looks as if it should be fragile until one realizes it is of one piece and there is nothing to fall apart. The blister it leaves is innocuous but quite visible/feelable. It is small enough
for the pocket so as to be used for impromptu miracles or those with a borrowed deck. However, a downside is that in order to hit the same spot, some external sizer will need to be made/jerry-rigged. These
exactly placed blisters are nice for, say, Bee Club Special, or Erdnase (Conjuring Arts) backs with criss-cross patterns. Raising one of the diagonals with a blister leaves a broken or non-straight...
Here is a fall-over-easy card trick that has taken in well-informed magicians. Based on Ken de Courcy’s ‘You Do As I Do’ approach called [lp=922355You’ll Get The Point], Baxter rises to the occasion with a baffling presentation using a cleverly concealed, ancient principle. Totally impromptu, no gimmicks, set up or sleights.
Why the extraneous procedure of changing packets? To Ian, this seems totally unnecessary, although (obviously) the mechanics of the trick, as is, necessitate it. This effect is almost exactly the same as the de Courcy contribution, but the method is altogether different.
3 scripts - 3 different effects - 2 impromptu - for all performing venues. A fun exploration of the GILBREATH principle that not only entertains, but also hides the methodology.
For all performing venues.
Most mathematical tricks suffer from a multitude of challenges, and the Gilbreath principle is no different.
Issues include:
why you can't examine the deck/packet
why the cards aren't shuffled
what the point of the trick is
how to hide when the cards change columns
Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows how he used his methodology to write 3 different scripts that successfully explains...
This is an excellent cross-section of some of Karl Norman's best routines.
From the introduction:
During a very exclusive lecture for about one hundred magicians Karl demonstrated the impact and the value of his routines. That day he was nearly 75 years old and at about the same time, David Copperfield received standing ovations at his opening performance in the Deutsche Theater in München, only a few miles away from that place Karl received standing ovations for his commercial and entertaining close-up magic.
The Social Prediction has fooled the best minds in mentalism and now Debjit has finally decided to share it with the magic community. The video and PDF covers two revolutionary impromptu techniques to predict anything weeks in advance.
Imagine asking someone to think of anything, they open your Facebook profile from their phone and they see that you had already predicted it months ago.
The effects can be performed live or over phone calls, messages, Skype and radio. They can also be used to predict the winners of the World Cup or any event on social media. And it's the best way to promote...
A borrowed and signed bill vanishes from a spectator's hands and it is found in a bottle with a screw cap, that was inside a sealed envelope.
An Arthur Setterington original that's a sensation ... clean, easy, visual magic that has impact.
The magician draws attention to a stapled envelope hanging from two clips in a nicely lacquered wood and metal skeleton frame, in complete isolation. He requests the loan of a bill a $1, $5, $10, $100 - a £1, £5, £50 - it doesn't make any difference. A spectator is asked to note the number on the bill or he can place any identifying mark he wishes...
