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"Power-Trip Sparkling, Turbulence Brilliant and VapoRise Amazing. Three excellent card tricks. Well done - keep up the good work." - Thomas Connelly (UK)

You offer to present a magic show using seven cards. You show an Ace, Two, Three and Four plus three Jokers. The A 2 3 & 4 are the performers. The Ace, you say, is the lightest card because it has the least ink on it, whereas the Four is the heaviest. The lightest card — the Ace — is placed into the Joker packet and it instantly rises to the top. You now add the Two to the Ace and place both cards into the Joker packet — both...

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...

This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.

1st edition 1970, original 128 pages; PDF 82 pages.

Table of Contents

7. Introduction
13. Cheating at cards
13. Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33. Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36. Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40. Holdouts: Kepplinger...

1st edition 2006 by The Cairn Press; digital edition 2011; original 220 pages; PDF 229 pages.

Table of Contents

10. Preface
11. Jack Avis by John Derris
12. Introduction
13. Acknowledgements

    Chapter One Effects with Cards

15. Ace Routine Handling
17. Jack Avis Notes on All Red
19. Another Call—from...

"Really interesting combination of principles in there. I especially liked Eight Envelopes, Asymmetric Oil & Water, Yet 2 and Coin and Card ESP. The Plaid Eared Rabbit contains a very clever use of an old Tenyo prop." - Raphaël Czaja

Contents:

Appreciation: Jozsef thanks those who have helped him.

Amazing Prediction: You table a prediction deck. A lady randomly (and fairly) chooses two cards from another deck. The two cards generate a card and a two-digit number. You hand her the prediction deck, and she deals down to her randomly generated number. All the cards dealt are face down except...

CONTENTS:

• SYMPATHETIC JOKERS (Steve Cook): Two blue-backed Jokers placed in different part of the deck, come together in the middle. A selected card appears between them and at the end, their backs become red.
• KARDCOINCIDENCE (Alfred Gabriel): A very unique way to reveal a selected card, where a miniature card duplicate of the selection appears glued to a coin previously shown on both sides.
• A BLANK SANDWICH (John Yeager): A selected card is placed on the table. Two Jacks are shown and the selected card appears between them. The card on the table is now blank.
• RISING CARD (Carlos Corda):...

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143. Trix of the Trade - Ed Mishell
     • Know Your Dealer - Joe Stevens
     • Pixie Pen - Tannen's
     • disappearing candle - Tannen's
     • appearing candle - Tannen's
     • How Sweet It IS! - "Gentleman Jim" Heuser
     • Sensational Sword Swallowing - Chanin's
144. Magicians' Guild News - Marie Elena
144. Cards of Famous Magicians
     • Charlie Miller
154. M.D.A. Dealers

161. Genii - Volume 35, Number 4 - December 1970 - 52 pages
161. Cover - Tihany
163. In This Issue - contents
166. picture of Sorcar
175. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
176. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
178. cartoon - Mickey O'Malley
179. Trio Plus One For Two...

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   • The Handbook of Mental Magic - book - Marvin Kaye
   • Ice Dice - Hank Lee's
   • Line Up - Jim Vetter
   • Feature Magic for Mentalists - book - Will Dexter
   • Half a Buck - Steve Duscheck
   • Red Rascal - Ron Stark
   • Recession - Jose De La Torre
   • Aldini's Chip X - Aldini
   • Aldini's Spectrum Cards - Aldini
   • Poker X - Aldini
   • Five Symbol Card Test - D. Craig Daniel
   • You Don't Have to Slay a Dragon - book -John M. Stuart & Marjorie L. Stuart
   • Double Take - Lee's Studio of Magic
   • The Great Rip-Off - Sam Berland

125. Genii - Volume 40, Number 3 - March 1976 - 68 pages
125. Cover - Mark and Nani...

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   1. ... a wedding
106. Magic Caravan - Roberta Griffin
107. 25 Years Ago In Genii - Gerrie Larsen Jaffe
108. Tricks of the Trade - Ed Mishell
     • Hyper-Twist - Paul's Magic and Fun Shop
     • The Good Letter - Kirk Stiles
     • The Don Tanner Portfolio - Six Card Mental Test
     • Classic Prediction
     • Repeat-O Pocket Cards
     • O. Henry Monte - O'Dowd Mfg. Co.
     • Koreagate - Zanadu
     • Sucker Card Frame - Zanadu
     • Die Box Kit - Zanadu
     • World Magic Festival Poster - Morabilia
     • Dewey's New Balloon Animals - Mystofire Magic
     • balloon routines with a religious motif - Mystofire Magic
     • Cig to Bill - Elmo Magic...

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103. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
105. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
106. Illusion Plans - Paul Osborne and Associates
     • The Little Box from Borneo
108. OICUFESP - Genii Edition 17 - Howard Adams
     • Dynasthree
109. Taco Twins - Phil Goldstein
110. Heads I in, Tails You Lose - Daniel R. DeFassio
111. Cards and Plates - Fred Maro
112. Tricks That Leave Their Mark - Robetrt Momyer
     • Divining the Card
     • Weigh the Difference
113. Magicana - A Magazine Within A Magazine - Charlie Miller & William Read Woodfield, editors
     113. The Screened Leipzig Pass - Ron Bauer
     115. Intermission - Charlie Miller ...

This is the book that tells the truth about cards, dice, punch boards, gambling wheels, races, and all other kinds of gambling.

Don't be a sucker! The Open Book reveals how crooked gamblers, cheats, and con artists fleece the innocent and unwary public out of thousands of dollars daily. Even that carnival game at the local fairgrounds may not be as innocent as it looks. Get the inside scoop.

Valuable secrets of marked cards, gaffed dice, ink formulas, holdouts and other cheating devices -- all clearly explained. Also included are scams and cons used by the unscrupulous to bilk the unwary....

David Devlin has floored everyone he has shown this incredible effect. Even members of his family were nailed. This is an amazing piece of mental magic. Based on an array of different effects and principles, this is certain to go into your working repertoire. It is self-working and can even be performed impromptu (at least the majority of the effect can be performed impromptu)!

The effect is this: A deck is shuffled, and two predictions are made on the backs of two business cards. One is a number and the other is the name of a playing card. Two spectators deal cards in turn until they each...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster Editor

657 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 12, Number 1 - January 1972 - 52 pages
1. Cover - James Hagy
5. Contents
6. Cover Portrait - James Hagy - by Neil Foster
7. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
   • Color Prediction with Three Spectators
8. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
   • The Value of Vacation Bible School - Part One
9. Out of My Mind - Looking Into Things Mental and Psychic - Micky Hades
   • Mental Mandate
11. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • What's New
      • Another Card Session with Peter Kane - Peter Kane ...

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     • ... Magic - Shigeo Futagawa
19. Wacky Words - Ed Harris
19. The New Tops - Advertising Terms
20. Views on Showmanship - Mark Brandyberry
    • Appearance, Confidence, and Skill - Part III - Enchantment
21. Marlo's Almost Perfect Stop Trick - Edward Marlo
22. From the Tip of My Thumb
22. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Eliminator
    • Clownin' Aroun' - Daren Dundee
      • Center Ring
      • Prop Trunk
        • You're On TV!
      • Clown Alley
        • Kedso The Clown (Steve Bender)
24. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
25. So You Want to be an Escape Artist! - John Novak
27. Mixed Sandwich - Phil Goldstein ...

1. ... Story - Mark Sweet
32. Correction - Tam Gagnon's Floater in December 1981 issue
33. Tom-Foolery - Tom Mullica
34. On The Road Again - Re; Abbott's
34. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • replacing the ink with paper in a BIC pen with Transparent barrel
35. Magic-Up-Date - Richard Greeno
35. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Gambler, Again
36. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
37. Gimmicks, Gadgets & Optical Illusions - Robert E. Olson
    • Wooden Thimble Production
    • Second Ball Production
    • Thimble Color Change
40. [two] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
41. Flashback!
    • The Panel Chest - Joel Ross
    • Tipsy...

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   • ... Apostrophe
   • Face Up - Face Down
   • The Rise and Fall of the Capital
   • A Moving Passage
   • The Temptation of the Wrong Word
   • Redundant Physiology
   • The Problem of Ambiguity
39. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
40. The Pro Shop - David Ben
    • Count Down to Coincidence
42. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • The Four Red-Backed aces

1. The New Tops - Volume 28, Number 2 - February 1988 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Brett Daniels
5. Contents
6. Progressive Elevator - Phil Goldstein
8. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
   • The Secret Grove
     • magic doubloon effect
9. Sid Lorraine's...

Distorted Siblings combines the best aspects of several tricks by John Bannon, Max Maven, and Aldo Colombini. The routine is this:

A packet of red-backed cards and a packet of blue-backed cards are placed face-down on the table. It is explained that each packet contains the four kings and that one in each packet is face-up as a prediction. Two spectators each name a king. The named kings are in fact the face up kings. The kings are turned face down and it is shown that each king is in their opposite packets.

Each king is then placed back into its own packet. All four blue cards are together as are the red cards,...

Bending Minds Vol. 3 ends the collection of effects centered on the principle of the binary system, according to a new and innovative vision. In this third volume, not only playing cards will be used to tell our magical stories, but also tickets or some business cards.

You will find 4 new effects and an extra bonus one, using cards or just some tickets, with a number of elements varying from 3 to 7. Throughout the course of the effect, the cards are subject to a dynamic, the positions are constantly changing, each time in a different way. Even more than in the first two volumes you will...

Imagine:

The magician introduces a special deck of 52 cards, where each card is seen to have a number 1 through 52 printed on it. The spectators (two of them) are asked to verify that all the numbers are indeed different, that there aren't any duplicate numbers. The magician hands one spectator this special deck (in a face-down position) and says, "I want you to select a number 1 through 52. But instead of just thinking of a number 1 through 52, I want you to randomly select one. Like that, even you don't know what number you'd end up with, thereby eliminating any psychological influence....

Note: For those of you who own ACAAN: A Fresh Approach to an Age-Old Plot, this uses a totally different principle.

Imagine:

The magician introduces a special deck of 52 cards, where each card is seen to have a number 1 through 52 printed on it. The spectators (two of them) are asked to verify that all the numbers are indeed different, that there aren't any duplicate numbers. The magician hands one spectator this special deck (in a face-down position) and says, "I want you to select a number 1 through 52. But instead of just thinking of a number 1 through 52, I want you to randomly select one. Like that, even you don't know...

A fun close-up or parlor magic routine (with a mentalism flavor and an "OMG!" ending) that revolves around the game of chess.

The Effect: The performer shows six square cards, each with the image of a chess board setup. On each card, a different piece is missing - a pawn on one, a rook on another, etc. He then shows the backs of those cards, and each is numbered from 1 to 6. Those cards are laid aside for now.

A deck of cards is introduced, and instead of playing cards on the faces, there are pictures of chess pieces, one piece on each card. A spectator is asked to pull a card from the...

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   15. Triple Colour-Changing Wand
   16. Flower Balloons
   17. Kellini's Colour-Changing Knife
   18. Silk Through Silk
   19. Silk Through Silk Plus
   19. Blow the Silks Prediction
20. Another Presentation for Gozinta Boxes - Ken de Courcy
20. From the 19th. Century - To Tell Which Hand Holds an Odd or Even Number of Cards or Dice
21. Six-Fold Divination - George Blake
24. Colour on Three Simplified - David Fink
25. Adair's Dove Column - Ian Adair
    • meet Philip the Magician of Malta
    • Dove in Kettle - Philip the Magician
    • E-zee Dove Stealing Apparatus - Philip the Magician
27. Smoke Without Fire - Derek Lawrence ...

1. ... - Ron Thursby
44. Horace Bennett's Bafflers - Horace Bennett
    • Bennett on Bertram - or - There Go Those Coins Again
49. More Routines in Rhyme - Bill West
    • The Chinese Sticks
50. Psycho-Kinetic-Neurotic-Kebang! - A Routine for "Bang-Bang-Balloons" - Old Doc Young
51. Loading Coins Under the Cards - P.K. Ilango
53. Thoughts on Cecil Lyle - article - Peter Warlock
55. My Magic World - Edwin [Hooper]
56. advertisements

1. Volume 16, Number 2, October, 1983, 66 pages, including front & back covers
65. advertisements
73. Lets Face It - editorial by Ken de Courcy
74. Jaws - Ernie Jones
75. X-Ray Vision - W. Rory Coker ...