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....
Comes complete with PDF files to print out all the needed 8.5" x 11" photo-cards in full-color. Includes a gag photo of the performer when he was child, plus a comedy picture of your kids. You get the complete performance script detailing every gag and punch line, plus additional jokes you can use in the routine. Everything has been real world tested prior to this new release.
Suitable for Magicians, MCs and Comedians.
REVIEWS
I use it all the time. - Bill Malone
"The new addition with the adult photo finish is an excellent idea and...
read, giving me insight into a branch of magic I knew nothing about. Most important to me was that the book quickly extinguished
any notion I had about making my first million dollars selling packs of gaffed cards.
I guess I won't be quitting my day job anytime soon.
*Grafters (along with Punch & Judy performers and Hurdy-Gurdy men) seem to be a strictly British phenomenon. Here in America, our version is the fast-talking television infomercial pitchman like Billy Mays, who made his fortune hawking pretty much anything that sliced, diced, and julienned vegetables.
"It Ain't All Glamour" or ... Please Lord, No More Rehearsals! - Carol Roy (aka "Mrs. Electric")Twenty-five Years of Luv and A Couple of Disagreements! - Carol Roy (aka "Mrs. Electric")
Effect: The magician writes a secret prediction and gives it to the spectators to hold. The spectators shuffle the deck. Under the fairest conditions, two spectators each look at a different card (no force) in different locations in the deck. The deck is cut by both spectators. The magician's prediction reveals the card in between the spectator's two chosen cards.
Description: The spectators never see the ending coming! This is not another prediction effect. This plays like the classic Magician in Trouble ploy.
With minimal magician involvement, a true miracle happens. Before the effect...
Following on from the success of Ripped & Repaired, Holes is a manuscript from David Forrest featuring three close up miracles with playing cards, each involving holes!
On Holemeal - A super visual sandwich! A signed card which was lost into the center of the deck suddenly appears between two blank cards, one of which has a hole in it, as they are waved over the deck. The spectator actually sees their card arrive through the hole! Extremely visual. Easy to do. Resets automatically. Special cards included.
Hole’d the phone - A card is freely selected from a genuinely shuffled pack and signed across the...
A card is selected and lost in the deck, we'll say it's the Six of Diamonds. The magician introduces a packet of four cards. Each card has one hole punched through it. The cards are flipped face up and are seen to be the four Aces. "The Aces are going to tell us the suit and value of the card you selected. First they'll tell us the suit."
The magician gives the packet a twist. He spreads the cards and one of the Aces is now face down. The Ace of Diamonds. "This tells me that the card you picked was a Diamond!" The magician then...
... states and utilize them in entertainment. And much much more.
"The Art of Suggestion and Influence is a gold mind and must have for any one who wants to make their show truly Mesmerizing." - Dr. A. C. Marriott PHD. B.A.A.Hyp
Would you like to be able to ask someone to name a playing card and have them name the card you gave them to hold only moments before? Would you like to be able to hand somebody an envelope and then ask them to describe an image or scene, once finished have them open the envelope only to find that they have described the image inside?
A collection of graceful arts, merry games, and odd tricks, intended to amuse everybody and enable all to amuse everybody else. Full of suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, charades, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements. With nearly 150 illustrative pictures.
In the days without the Internet, TV, or even radio, people entertained themselves. This book covers all kinds of things one can do from arts and crafts, little plays, simple conjuring tricks, and other activities.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I: Something censorious; Declaration of Independence; Card puzzle; The magic...
Marked cards allow the magician to identify a card from its back or edge. Sometimes only certain cards are marked, other times each and every card is marked and identifiable. Sometimes, the marking is tactile rather than visual. For example, a stripper deck is a form of tactile marking where a certain group of cards can be separated from the others by feel. Long, short, and thick cards of various kinds are another version of tactile marking. A more sophisticated form of tactile marking is a punched deck.
Another type of deck that falls within the marked deck category is a so-called one-way deck. Usually, the back design is asymmetric and allows one to know in which orientation a card has...
Below, there is a full performance video by my friend, but here are some conditions to keep in mind before you watch it:
The deck doesn't contain any tactile markings whatsoever. So there are no short cards, no crimped/bent cards, no punched cards, etc. Each and every single card physically feels the same - you can't differentiate one card from another based on touch. There are also no back markings or edge markings. That said, the deck may (or may not) be gaffed or gimmicked in some other way - so perhaps it's a regular deck, but perhaps it isn't. That is left open for...
... & Co., R. R. Donnelley and James McKinney & Co, as well as his own startup companies which included the rather short lived newspaper Payne Weekly People founded in 1889 during the boom in Fort Payne, AL, and a most surprising stint at the circus where he worked as orator (door talker), had a Punch & Judy and magic act, and later even worked as side-show manager. In 1924 he founded the School for Print Estimating in Chicago. He would eventually publish his own textbooks on print estimating in 1927 and 1929.
His remarkable writing ability is clearly seen in the various books he authored, either under his real name, under pseudonyms, or for larger corporations without any author specified....
... visual voodoo ritual on someone who has wronged them in the past. This killer routine has appeared on the Reel Magic DVD and The Wicked World of Liam Montier, and in many acts since.
Celebrity Skin - Darren McQuade's genius-inspired moving hole routine where a hole punched through your business card visibly and visually restores itself in a flash of fire.
Twilight Buddies - A new method for a more personal version of Paul Harris's classic "Twilight Angels" routine that moves it away from playing cards.
TrickShot - Astonish everyone by potting all the balls on a pool table at once -...
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