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RPi Pico Test Lab and PicoBasic

Burkhard Kainka
Read more about RPi Pico Test Lab and PicoBasic by Burkhard Kainka...
  • ...
    • ...4.1 Switching outputs
    • 4.2 Binary numbers
    • 4.3 Hexadecimal numbers
    • 4.4 Speed test
    • 4.5 Port inputs
    • 4.6 Pull-up and pull-down
    • 4.7 A timer switch
    • 4.8 An RC oscillator
  • 5 Calculating with bits and bytes
    • 5.1 Serial data transmission
    • 5.2 Arithmetic operations
    • 5.3 Basic logical functions
    • 5.4 Counting loops
    • 5.5 Dice
  • 6 Analog data processing
    • 6.1 Voltage measurement
    • 6.2 Series measurement
    • 6.3 PWM outputs
    • 6.4 Brightness modulation
  • 7 Measurement technology
    • 7.1 Data recorder
    • 7.2 Single-channel oscilloscope
    • 7.3 Dual-channel oscilloscope
    • 7.4 Arduino oscilloscope
    • 7.5 Frequency counter
    • 7.6 Rectangle...
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Las Vegas Magic

Derek Lever
Read more about Las Vegas Magic by Derek Lever...
  • ...
    • ... Candle
    • Chameleon Card
    • The Surprise Shot
    • The Red Hot Ball
    • Leat's Coronation Card Case
    • Multiplying Matchboxes
    • Diminishing Matchbox
    • The Educated Pencil
    • Demon Rope And Wand
    • Bottle Of Typsee Milk
    • Demon Thumb Screw Illusion
    • Wandman Locking Drawer Box
    • Orrin's Match-Box Trick
    • Colour Changing Dice
    • Unique Wilting Candle (Yimka)
    • "Bolted" - Fred Lowe
    • Condensed Milk!
    • Leats Cigarette Box
    • Cups And Corks Mystery
    • "Arabian Vase"
    • "Focus"
    • Harry Leat's Matchbox To Candle
    • Thru A Brick Wall
    • Laurie's Broadside Thru'
    • "Dagger Of Damocles"
    • The Phantom Discs
    • The Handkerchief Stand
    • The Burning...
$25

Arcane Crumbs #3 (January 2025)

Alexander de Cova
Read more about Arcane Crumbs #3 (January 2025) by Alexander de Cova

Lost ideas, concepts and tidbits of legerdemain.

  • Editorial
  • THEATER PRACTICE
    • Direction in Magic
    • The Theater Crew
    • A Director - Yes or No?
    • The Title of the Show - The Script
    • The Plot
    • Audiences Crave Emotion
    • Conflict: The Key to Emotional Flow
    • Building a Resourceful Repertoire
    • Recommended Reading
  • HIDDEN GEM: Mark Elsdon's Limelight
  • CLOSE-UP MAGIC: My Dice Switch
  • HIDDEN GEMS: The Body-Load Box
  • MENTAL MAGIC: Ballydesmond Polka
  • RAMBLINGS: Crossroads
  • CARD MAGIC: The Al Koran Deck Reimagined
  • LETTERS FROM ETERNITY: A Letter from Dai Vernon
  • GIMMICKS: Bill In Envelope Fold
  • PRESENTATION IDEAS: Makramé Magic ...
$10

The Book of Mystery and Magic

David Devine
Read more about The Book of Mystery and Magic by David Devine...
There is a splendid variety of items, but none is difficult to understand.
  • Preface
  • A Chat with my Readers
  • The Red, White, and Blue Candles
  • The Half Crown that Goes
  • The "Diana" Trick
  • Any Card You Like
  • Reading the Cards
  • Balancing a Billiard Ball on a Fan of Cards
  • A Good Trick with Dice
  • Thought Reading
  • Where did the Cigarette Come From?
  • Cutting the Handkerchief
  • The Handkerchief Illusion
  • Where Do the Cards Come From?
  • The Useful Bowler
  • The Magic Blocks of Wood
  • The Balancing Cigarette
  • Telling the Cards
  • All-a-Growing
  • Palming a Coin
  • The Marked Shilling
  • The Sixpence in...
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MUM Volume 8 (June 1918 - May 1919)

Charles Roltare
Read more about MUM Volume 8 (June 1918 - May 1919) by Charles Roltare
  • No. 63: Our Fourteenth Annual Dinner; Golden Gate Assembly; Passing of Paladino; The Mishaps of a Mystic / Edwin Fay Rice
  • No. 64: Kit Clarke, Veteran Manager of Magicians Dies
  • No. 65: The Life and Five Years Before the Public, of Robert Nickle, the World's Prestidigitateur
  • No. 66: One of Our Members at the Front; The Princes of German are Shaking Dice for the United States / Herbert Quick
  • No. 67: Kit Clarke and His Contempories / C. Fred Crosby
  • No. 68: Kit Clarke and His Contempories / C. Fred Crosby
  • No. 69: Katterfelto: One of the Most Interesting Characters in the History of Magic....
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Performing at Hotels and Resorts

Regardt Laubscher
Read more about Performing at Hotels and Resorts by Regardt Laubscher...
  • ...
    • ... Media Prediction
    • Hank the Pet Handkerchief
    • Gypsy Wool
    • Ring Vanish
    • Mouth Coil and Toilet paper
    • Linking Ropes
  • Themed Tricks and Routines
    • Sucker Torn and restored Christmas paper
    • Bonus Christmas video: Christmas tree appearance
    • Hippity Hop Rabbit for Easter Video
    • Pick a Box for Xmas/Dice Box
    • Word Game
    • The Good bye Competition
    • Birthday traveller
  • Performing new tricks and routines
  • Longevity
  • Trade mark at a Resort
  • Kids Club performance
    • Colouring book
    • Mr Glove
    • Colour-changing dog
  • Bonus: Cruise ship Performance Idea
    • Sell merchandise afterwards.
    • Clothes
    • Marketing ...
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Mental Blocks

Bob Malinchock
Read more about Mental Blocks by Bob Malinchock

Imagine four helpers who each secretly select and mentally store a symbol from a group of sixteen unique characters. Only they know what they chose. Now imagine a mentalist who determines the symbol each participant selected by merely observing the scrambled sixteen symbols. That's it!

Everything can be examined. No forces of any kind. Symbols are selected from four sides of four cubes or blocks. Cubes are randomly mixed and the order of display selected by a participant.

There are two presentations offered. A parlor version uses 2" blocks or cubes. A close-up version uses four dice....

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Wild Chance

Raphaël Czaja
Read more about Wild Chance by Raphaël Czaja

The spectator can create any card, yet the performer is still able to predict it.

A packet of thirteen playing cards, containing every value and every suit, is shown to the spectator. By combining the value of one card with the suit of another, any card can be created.

The spectator rolls two dice and obtains a total that serves as a starting number - for example, 9. The performer deals nine cards and arrives at a first card - for example, the 2 of Hearts - whose suit the spectator remembers. The performer then deals two cards (the value of the first card) and arrives at a second card...

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Options 4

Werner Miller
Read more about Options 4 by Werner Miller

New semi-automatic tricks for the mathematically minded performer.

  • Therapy
  • Period
  • Loyalty
  • Mating Season
  • Stripped Down
  • Klondyke Oil & Water
  • Match as Match Can
  • 3 – 6 – 9
  • Invisible Bonds
  • Last Card Standing
  • Ruled Out 1
  • Ruled Out 2
  • Trained Poker Hands
  • consensus
  • In Order to Delight
  • Wingers
  • Easy Sandwich Production
  • Acid Test
  • Monge/Slop Surprise
  • Joe's Procedure
  • Mirrored
  • Sfilata
  • Novel Dice Stacks
  • 3 – 4 – 5

1st edition 2026, 42 pages.

$70

Personal Magic 2

Eric C. Lewis
Read more about Personal Magic 2 by Eric C. Lewis
  • CLOSE-UP MAGIC
    • Expanding Texture / Eddie Joseph
    • Colour Cones / Werry
    • Bolt of Lightning / Fin Haugen
    • Coin Transposition / Kaplan
    • The Penton Dice Routine / Charles E. Penton
    • Paper Balls to Hat / Slydini
    • Burnt and Restored Handkerchief / Jean Hugard
    • My Business Card / Evan P. Morgan
    • A Sharper's Trick (31) / Ellis Staynon
    • Marked Coin, Glass and Okito Box Routine / Lewis Ganson
  • MAGIC WITH PLAYING CARDS
    • Dippy Magnet / Robert Harbin
    • Hidden Power / Jack Yates
    • A "Slate" Mistake / Harbin and Lewis
    • Jumbo Wild Card / Peter Kane
    • Sharper Sharped / Eric C. Lewis
    • The Contact Card /...
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Personal Magic 3

Eric C. Lewis
Read more about Personal Magic 3 by Eric C. Lewis...
  • ...
    • ... / Audley Walsh
    • The Affectionate Coins / Roy Johnson
    • Amazing Coin Penetration / Ed Marlo
    • Mendoza Cups and Balls / John Mendoza
    • Ring Trick / Roy Johnson
    • Cidentaquin (ESP Cards) / Howard Adams
    • Dancing and Floating Cord / Fred Kaps
    • Disc Hop / Jack Griggs
    • The Sailors Trick / Rink of Holland
    • Dice Galore / Fred Lowe
    • Cherry Ripe / Bruno
    • Broken & Restored Cigarette / Slydini
    • Buck-a-Reno / Larry West
    • Five to One / Tim Egan
  • MENTAL
    • The Gold Medallion / Al Koran
    • Bill Under Cup / Al Koran
    • Behold! Heres Poison! / Jack Yates
    • Prediction on Ice / Kenneth Thompson
    • Knights Tour / G.E....
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Subtle and Pleasant Inventions

Jean Prevost & Mago Marko
Read more about Subtle and Pleasant Inventions by Jean Prevost & Mago Marko...
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    • ... to find the original.
    • HOW TO TELL, AMONG A GROUP OF PEOPLE, WHO HOLDS A RING, ON WHICH FINGER, AND ON WHICH JOINT: An algebraic formula based on doubling and multiplying that yields a result revealing the details after subtracting 250.
    • HOW TO TELL THE TOTAL POINTS SOMEONE ROLLED USING THREE DICE: A trick based on the mathematical constant that opposite sides of a die always equal 7; adding 14 to the visible faces reveals the secret.
    • HOW TO GUESS THREE DIFFERENT ITEMS TAKEN AND HIDDEN BY THREE PEOPLE: A logic puzzle based on a base-2 system (1, 2, 4) and 24 counters that leaves a unique...

H. C. Evans

H. C. EvansH. C. Evans was a Chicago supplier of crooked as well as legit gambling supplies, such as marked cards, loaded dice, literature on gambling, money trays, a.s.o. They were established in 1892.

John Albert Briggs

John Albert Briggs... Great Chandu" (1938), and "Rajah Singh" (1938). Founding member and 1st President of Australian Magic Circle 1923 and Australian Magicians' Club 1944. A notoriously contentious man.

Edited Magic Mirror 1921, The Conjurer (Australia) 1922-38, Magic in Australia 1924-25 (4 issues), and Box and Dice 1946-53? (22+ issues). Wrote Stage Magic, Dinkum Magic (1928), Magical Revelations (1941), and Practical Magic (1946). Tricks in Magic (1910) and Linking Ring (Mar 1971 "Parade").

Paul Green

Paul Green... 8th June 1950 - )

Learned in 1957. A top pro society and nightclub magician in Los Angeles. Taught Jason Randal in exchange for karate lessons. Also taught magic course in Los Angeles Community College. In 1990s turned to trade-shows.

Wrote Take a Stroll with Me (1989, 16pp), Miller's Dice (1995, 2pp), and Nothing up My (Green) Sleeves! (1998, 28pp). Articles and tricks in Genii, Talisman, and MUM. Columnist for The Magic Menu.

Todd Strong

Todd StrongTodd Strong is a juggler. He is particularly known for making and selling devil sticks and diabolos at the Pike Place Market in Seattle, and his dice stacking innovations.

David Malek

David MalekDavid Malek is considered one of the world's foremost experts on game protection. His sleight of hand skill with cards and dice is legendary. Mr. Malek puts on presentations for law enforcement, casino personnel and celebrity clients. He works as a gambling consultant for film and television productions, as well as giving demonstrations at trade shows and hospitality suites for a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Malek lives in Newport Beach, California.

Jeff Busby

Jeff Busby... with Into the 4th Dimension ... and beyond (1973), Michael Skinner's Intimate Magic (1982, 45pp), The Paul Fox Checker Cabinet (1985), The Automated Sefalaljia Book (1995, 56pp), The Secret of the Palmettos (1998), etc. With joint pen name (with Paul Burton Spencer) of "Burton Williams" wrote Dice—Squares, Tops and Shapes (1982, 104pp). Co-authored (with Bart Whaley and Martin Gardner) The Man Who Was Erdnase (1991, 434pp), which won the SAM Special Library Award. See Craige Snader, Pre-Epoptica Writings 1976-1981 by Jeff Busby (1988, 24pp). Tricks and articles in Chronicles, Magicien, etc.

Clarke Crandall

Clarke Crandall... wholesale.

Invented "Poker Player’s Nightmare" (by 1964). Edited The Senator's Pink Sheet 1957-59 as house organ. Columnist for New Tops since 1962. Moved to Hollywood by 1970. AMA Best Lecturer 1970, 1974. Taught Gary Michaels in 1974.

Wrote Entertaining with Magic (1952), How to Stack Dice [1974, 18pp], and The Best of Senator Crandall (1998, 108pp, ed. by Neil Foster, based on his New Tops column).

Ralph W. Hull

Ralph W. Hull... (1932), N.R.A. Deck (1933), Cosmic Ray Cards (1933), Nudist Deck = Mental Photography Deck (1934), Mirage Deck (1934), Photographic Card (by 1935), Nu-Idea Deck (1935), Jim Jam Cards (by 1936), Delirium Tremens (by 1936), Tuned Deck (by 1938), and Coo Coo Cards (by 1940). Also invented Goofy Dice (by 1940).

Wrote Eye-Openers (1932, 20pp), More Eye-Openers (1933, 28pp), Fifteen Minutes with a Rope [late 1930s; 2nd ed by Snyder, 1942), Modernism in Pasteboard (1934, with Nelson Hahne), Smart Magic (1935, with Nelson Hahne), etc. See Trevor H. Hall, The Testament of Ralph W. Hull.

Frank Garcia

Frank Garcia... the staff at Tannen's in late 1958.

Also noted expert on gambling cheating methods. Co-founder (with George Schindler) of the School for Magicians (in New York City) 1973-78.

Wrote Frank Garcia's Sponge Balls (1959, 14pp), Frank Garcia's Billiard Balls (1960, 23pp), Marked Cards and Loaded Dice (1962, 274pp), Million Dollar Card Secrets (1972, 128pp), Super Subtle Card Miracles (1973, 214pp), Million Dollar Card Secrets (1974, 96pp), All in a Nutshell (1974, 81pp; with French translation by G. Lammertijn, 45pp), Amedeo's Continental Magic (1974, 115pp, with George Schindler), Magic with Cards (1975, 175pp, with George Schindler; repr), The Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic (1976,...

Michael MacDougall

Michael MacDougall... Chicago World's Fair. Sometimes did a nightclub act. Then a gambling investigator and lecturer, competing bitterly with John Scarne in 1940s. Later left magic to be a stamp and coin dealer.

Wrote Gamblers Don't Gamble (1939, 166pp, with J.C. Furnas), Card Mastery (1944, 81pp), MacDougall on Dice and Cards (1944, 90pp), Card Mastery (1944, 81+205pp), Don't Be A Sucker! (1945, 80pp), and MacDougall on Pinochle (1951, 90pp). Memoir is Danger in the Cards (1943, 319pp).

Barry Ray

Barry RayBarry has been a magician for over thirty years, and as a professional, working dinner functions, car promotions and weddings since the early 1990's. His passion and forte is close-up, strolling magic and doing readings using dice, as he likes the personal contact with the clientele.

Barry Govan

Barry Govan... magic teacher since 1960s. Co-edited (with Ian Baxter) Blueprint 1974-78. Partner (with Graham Etherington) Abracadabra Promotions since 1985, a promotion company thru entertainment, particularly magical.

Wrote Close-up Magic Restaurant Style (52pp), One Pitch is Worth a Thousand Words (32pp), Dice and the Purse, and Close-up Magic--Restaurant Style 2 (1992, 52pp). Tricks in Gen, Apocalypse, S.O.B. Jr, Pabular, MUM, Magic Makers, Blueprint, Linking Ring, Genii, New Directions, and Australian Magic Monthly.

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