Although much of the material in this book comes from advanced current contributors to card magic, Al has included some fascinating lore from the past. There is, for example, the first printed information on Eddie Fay's glimmer technique. I recall that the late Rufus Steele, an informed man of gamblers' dodges, simply refused to believe that Fay was using a reflector. He thought it was a put-on and that Fay was probably using a stack or a pack of marked cards. Then there is Paul LePaul's wonderful transportation of cards into a...
Using just a few double blank business cards and a very old principle in a devastating manner, this routine creates the illusion of real mind reading. Several audience members write the names, relationships and dates of birth of their loved ones on several unprepared and unmarked business cards. All these are then gathered writing side down and mixed up. And yet the performer is able to divine all those details of loved ones of anyone of those who wrote the details. Not only that, the performer can even repeat this feat with any of the other participants too.
The performer shows his participant(s) a pack of blank index cards that have writing on one side (the other side is blank.) A different word, number and design are written on each card. The participant genuinely mixes them thoroughly and then selects one of the cards from the pack. They can remember everything on the card or just one item, it is totally a free choice. With little to no pumping you can tell them what they are thinking, duplicate a drawing, guess a pin number. Not only that, you can do this for up to 3 people at a time.
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Here is the act:
The performer borrows three business cards and a pen (obviously, he can use his own if the items cannot be borrowed). The performer...
... entertain and amaze any audience. In progressively stronger revelations, you prove beyond any doubt that you knew in advance the spectator’s mentally selected time of day and her chosen card.
5-Alarm Clock, the first version of the routine requires nothing but a normal, un-gimmicked deck of cards. (It doesn’t even have to be a complete deck.)
Blanking 5-Alarm Clock, the second version, replaces one of the revelations in the first version with a killer climax using some extra cards you almost certainly already have (and if not, you can readily get them very cheaply from pretty much...
The effect centers around the illusion of manipulating time by making a prediction about a spectator's card selection. The prediction is revealed to be blank even though the spectator thought he saw the magician write the prediction. This subtly suggests that we have moved backward through time to a point before the prediction was written down. Next, the spectator's freely chosen card turns out to be blank as well. The prediction was correct! This happens with a normal deck of cards. The effect creates a sense that the past, present, and future have been merged through mysterious forces.
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You show four cards. When you separate three of them, they suddenly have big holes cut out in their center. The fourth card has no hole.
An alternative routine using the same gimmick is shown below. This routine is not taught in the download. However, once you have learned the first routine and understand the gimmick, you should be able to understand how the routine below works. You show one regular card and three cards with a hole in the center. The three cards with a hole are blank. But once you combine them with the regular card, the holes vanish, and the faces are not blank anymore.
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A card routine that is a combination of Hofzinser's Royal Marriages and Peter Kane's Wild Card.
[Please note that this ebook does not come with any gimmicks or cards. You will need four ordinary Kings; two blank faced cards; and four Queens with blank backs.]
1st edition 1986, 1st digital edition 2013, 9 pages.
This manuscript was previously called Psychic Destiny published in 2005 and was unavailable for a while, but it has returned with extra notes and stronger than ever!
In Intuitive Dimension you'll present a Psychic Test or an Experiment to your subject. You could even present this as a Unique Psychic reading.
From a short stack of business cards you hand her one, and have her write or draw anything she wants on the blank side ... a number, a name, a picture, a question ... whatever comes to her mind intuitively (or you can use completely blank business cards, no matter).
7 Eclectic Close Up Card Effects + 1 Pen & Coin Trick
"This is an outstanding production, filled with stuff close up guys are gonna love. I really like what you did with Coincidentally Yours- just about perfect! I'm gonna have to do that trick!" - Jack Carpenter
Contents
EXPECTANT -- An assembly effect with an awesome twist.
COINCIDENTATLLY YOURS -- Harry Lorayne's classic effect reloaded.
SKILL V. MAGIC -- A killer Triumph effect with three selections.
FLYING FOUR REVISITED -- A super streamlined transposition between four signed cards and four blanks.
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Written, tested, performed and compiled by my good friend, Dr. Laszlo Rothbart, of Budapest, Hungary — a Doctor of Medicine — Secretary of the Circle of Hungarian Magicians — an outstanding Magician among Magicians with an ever increasing interest in all things Magic and an highly constructive mental capacity for invention, adaptation and presentation.
... to. It is therefore best viewed with two pages side by side. (In AdobeReader you select it with View Page Display Two Page View.)
A good number of the effects described are taken from Reginald Scot's famous The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584). Exceptions to this rule are the use of gaffed cards in the "Kings to Aces to blanks" routine and a three ball routine.
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To the curteous Reader
Notes and obseruations to be marked of such as desire to practise Legerdemaine
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... and passing on. I plan to produce more than one of these Scrapbooks, as the material is much too diverse and voluminous for just one book.
This first "Scrapbook" contains a selection of items the average handyman can make, (in addition to items that require little or no preparation, like cards and paper and pencil.)
The performer selects a lady with the object of discovering whether she has female intuition or not. Spreading a pile of envelopes, each one of which contains a double blank card, he invites her to select any one and to remove the card from inside.
The lady helper now nominates and names any person around the table who she is emotionally close to or with whom she feels she has some empathy. It could be a relative, a close friend or maybe even her husband! Let's say she selects a close friend called Sophie.
She writes the name of her chosen person, Sophie, on the back of her chosen blank...
You show four cards with blank faces and red back except one card has a blue back. Suddenly and magically the blue-backed blank card changes to a point card with a black back and a big hole right in the center of the card. How did that happen?
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