Whistling Spirits: An examined whistle is hung from a wand; the whistle mysteriously blows while hanging from the wand.
The Vanishing Card: From a packet of seven cards, a chosen card disappears leaving six cards. No palming, sleights or false counts or misprinted cards. Totally impromptu but amazing.
Necromantic Numbers: An easy way to reveal a stranger's age and the month in which he was born.
BONUS: Included is also Vick's article on how to succeed in magic. Information that is as practical today as it was back in the 60s.
Imagine having no props at a gig. Still you can amaze your audience with a powerful mentalism piece empty handed. Impromptu and organic mentalism has fascinated several mentalists for years. Here is a variation to a classic effect of unique number divination in mentalism. The magician borrows a bill from a spectator. The magician has his head turned and he folds the bill into quarters and places the folded bill onto the spectator's hand. With no switches and no delay the magician reveals the unique serial number one by one leaving their spectators amazed.
Released back in 2009, the original Moment's Notice kicked off what became a wildly successful series of impromptu card magic ebooks. Over the years, Cameron has revisited the material from the first booklet and made significant improvements. Now, for the first time on video, comes a collection of all five of the original effects, featuring brand new handlings and, in a couple of cases, completely re-imagined plots that look almost nothing like the ones from the ebook.
This is first rate impromptu card magic that's easy to do, and guaranteed...
From a borrowed and shuffled deck a spectator finds his own selection by summing three randomly selected cards.
David Jonathan has completely restructured and reworked an old math principle to make it very deceptive. He removed most of the spectator card counting sequences and thus turned a counting and procedure-heavy trick into a stunningly effective and hard-hitting card routine.
"What David has done with THREESUM is nothing short of incredible! Seriously, no smoke blowing here. How he managed to take an old principle in card magic, remove all the procedure and dress the diabolical...
This is a multi-phase impromptu routine using three borrowed quarters or other found objects - just an introductory "attention grabber" I have used for many decades.
One coin penetrates your hand, then all three. With full attention now, the coins migrate one at a time to the other hand - not a 3Fly as the coins are waist high and the hands are shown empty between phases (no gaff or extra).
Five simple bits of magic in growing intensity and under increasing scrutiny - fully surrounded. Not for beginners. Moderate coin skills, confidence, and live human interaction experience required....
Two outstanding effects. The first effect is totally impromptu and can be done with a borrowed shuffled deck. It is completely hands-off. This is an impossible location that will fool even fellow magicians. You will get phenomenal reactions from your spectators.
The second effect is called the spectator's revenge because he will find his own card. This is a really fun and surprising routine.
Everything is explained in detail. You may need to buy something extra in order to perform the second effect - Spectator's Revenge.
As you can understand from the title, this is an impossible divination. The method is becoming more and more diabolical.
The effect is a classic: the spectator chooses a card, and the magician finds it. Here, however, the conditions are strict for the magician. There is seemingly no way the magician could find the card. The deck is shuffled while the performer looks away. Despite this, he will be able to find the chosen card face down. All this with a normal, borrowed, totally impromptu deck.
Paul Curry is a name that captures the attention of magicians everywhere, thanks to his famous card trick Out Of This World. Invented by Curry back in 1942, it remains an absolute staple for the self-working card enthusiast.
Not to be overlooked, however, was Curry's initial blast onto the magic scene five years earlier. Launched in 1937, Touch was (and still is) by any measure, a superlative card mystery. Over the years, variations from the experts have appeared in print. Some of these have been downright disappointing because they have been far too complicated, or like Curry's original, the burden...
... articles plus 25 Wesley James contributions. Two of Ed's finest New Tops contributions - the "Olram Subtlety" and "Marlo's Aces" - appeared in 1965. Additionally, "A Problem Posed" and "As an Opener" greatly expanded the options for the "Spectator Cuts The Aces" plot, and "Cards and Coins" and "Impromptu Cards and Coins" moved the fraternity closer to an ideal solution. Marlo's two articles on the "Incomplete Faro" (1/65 and 2/65) firmly established the powerful technique in the arsenal of card workers. In Marlo's 1965 material, you will find innovative and ground-breaking plots, sleights,...
The title of this eBook hides its inspiration ... The effect is totally impromptu, self-working, quick and easy to perform (only eight cards are used), does not require any kind of card magic technique, and introduces the spectator to the possibility of secretly choosing whether to lie or tell the truth in response to the few questions that the mentalist will ask him during the experiment. In spite of all this, a merely thought-out card will be punctually found at the end of the experiment.
Noting the possible whispering in the room (especially if there are fellow magicians present, I say...
Here Ken de Courcy took a clever cut effect by Gerald Kosky, changed it, and altered it to make it completely self-contained and also impromptu. Whilst doing this, Ken hit on another use and here you are getting two for the price of one.
EFFECT:
A borrowed pack is shuffled by the owner, then the magician extracts two cards from it, hands the cards to the spectator and asks him to place them into a convenient pocket. The deck is placed on the table and the spectator is requested to cut off about two-thirds and lay it face-up alongside the remainder. He now cuts the larger packet roughly...
An ever-available packet trick: an amazing mentalism effect concerning the divination of chosen or merely thought cards, complete with prediction and final surprise.
This is an impromptu mentalism effect handled as a simple packet trick, involving an amazing first phase based on a prediction and a great final surprise. The conjurer, after showing nine cards of Spades, from Ace to 9, shuffles them and has a spectator cut the pack. Holding it facedown, the magician chooses one card without showing it, leaving it in view as his prediction. He has the spectator cut the remaining pack (of eight...
For over a decade, Steve Pellegrino has created strong magic and mentalism routines that have been released to the market. Professional magicians and mentalists have added many of those routines to their repertoires. Until now, these manuscripts have been unavailable anywhere.
Collected Secrets is a 455-page collection that combines Steve's previously released manuscripts into one large volume. It features 36 effects, including 5 previously unreleased routines.
Divided into three chapters, Cards, Mentalism & General Magic, here is what is included:
A new mentalism and card magic effect, impromptu and self-working, in which the illusionist, making use of less than half a deck, will call the sister of the one chosen by the spectator and incredibly those cards will always answer the call.
An always improvisable experiment with a dash of mentalism where the magician, making use of less than twenty cards from any deck, after showing them, shuffling and having a spectator cut the deck, makes her freely choose a card. After further shuffling the remaining cards by chaotically dividing them into three separate piles, he asks the spectator...
A semi-automatic and completely impromptu Any-Card-At-Any-Number effect, in which a spectator rolls a pair of (imaginary) dice to draw a number, and randomly chooses a card, only to incredibly succeed in finding it, after the stop decided by the magician at the turning of the cards, at the very number he indicated.
An almost self-working "Any Card At Any Numer" effect, always improvisable, where the magician, once introduced to an ordinary 52-card poker deck (minus the Jokers), even possibly borrowed, hands it to a spectator to shuffle freely. Having got the cards back, he hands the first...
ESPeriment No. 2 from Pablo Amira
This is one of Matt's favourite openers for any environment. Although created for stage, Matt always keeps a mini version in his wallet for close up performances.
Finally, we have an unreleased ACAAN from Mool, which in Matt's opinion, is the best impromptu ACAAN out there. It is a true anytime, anywhere miracle. Fraser loves the casualness and simple nature of this method and feels it is almost worth the price of the book on it's own.
Forewords from Mitch Kettlewell and Reese Goodley.
"Matt Overd is an underground creator who has arisen...
A duel with an incredible outcome where the magician stages, through a simple deck of cards, a real challenge
between human and artificial intelligence, in a setting inspired by the famous sci-fi saga "The Matrix".
Strengths
The effect is self-working and practically impromptu.
No special memory efforts are required for the illusionist.
No need to follow complicated rules or apply special techniques.
Easy to perform, but with absolutely incredible results.
It will amaze anyone who should witness the execution, including yourself.
Cristian presents three very different card tricks. However, they happen to share the same easy method, allowing the performer to focus entirely on the presentation.
The three routines play for very different audiences, in vastly different environments. They include:
a light-hearted, highly visible card trick which can be performed standing in front of the audience
a close-up "bar betcha" trick suitable for any close-up performance (planned or impromptu)
a reputation-building stand-up mental magic (or mentalism) routine
His line of thinking can inspire magicians to increase their...
An everyday calling card, shown to be blank on both sides, suddenly develops printing details, caused by the magician's fingertips!
Here is an up-to-date revision of a classic idea from that remarkable 20th-century magician Francis Carlyle. It was none other than Bruce Elliott who first raved about this in his magazine The Phoenix, where this gem was first published.
No innovative developments have appeared in print since, until now. Ian Baxter has come up with this clever extension of Carlyle's original - totally impromptu, easy to perform and even more eye-popping than the...
The magician takes out the Ace of Spades, framing it as a bullet, then assembles the deck into the shape of a gun. The spectator freely inserts the Ace of Spades anywhere in the "gun," representing the bullet being loaded into the chamber.
The magician then has the spectator freely cut the deck and remember a card. Finally, the deck is reassembled into the gun and bullet. The spectator's selection shoots out of the deck like a fired bullet.
unknown, as far as I have seen, and the effects you can accomplish with the principles Leo explores are jaw-dropping.
For the mentalists who believe that playing cards have no place in mentalism, this book will prove you wrong. It contains, among many other things, two of the most powerful impromptu effects I have ever seen, and as someone who has as many books on magic and mentalism as I do, that's saying a lot. But I'll let the effects speak for themselves:
"White Noise": A spectator shuffles their *own* deck, as many times as they wish. They deal several cards face down onto a table....
... this PDF:
