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• ... a set of effects, the hypercase can be examined before and after the effect.
• Production Hypercase: You produce a vanished object from the empty hypercase, prior to performing "Card to Hypercase."
• Ruminations: additional ideas for the hypercase

"Hypercase is well-done and delicious!" - Jon Racherbaumer

"I'll get my DIY stuff out and make one of these. Looks totally trippy! Totally fits my infatuation with the 4th dimension." - Mike Powers

John Racherbaumer's latest compendium Picnic Pocus, has certainly revived interest in that long-standing Ace revelation, Poker Player's Picnic. Published years back in The Royal Road to Card Magic, it is a routine most of us perform when starting out in card magic, but eventually, drop from our repertoire due to the odd counting method involved.

Ian Baxter's new approach to this classic has solved this problem, providing a clear rationale for the procedure and adding touches that considerably enhance the routine's effectiveness while still maintaining the sleight-free handling of the original. Clever thinking at work here! This new version is worthy...

Hard to believe that eighty years have passed since the Stewart James card classic Further Than That was first published in Annemann's magazine, The Jinx. Card workers everywhere latched on to this intriguing, self-working mystery; the passing years have not dimmed its popularity one iota.

Just recently, Jon Racherbaumer released a very worthwhile compilation, Further More. Essential reading and yes, currently available through lybrary.com.

And now on offer, Further Than Expected from Australian card man and author Ian Baxter. This is a brand new, reconstructed approach that freely alters the proceedings while still maintaining the essential,...

Routines with the classic cross cut force.

The Cross Cut Code is devoted entirely to the classic cross cut force, with some deadly variations and packed out with some great routines which showcase them. Seven of the routines are unpublished items from John Carey and some superb material from his great friends Cameron Francis, Mike Breggar, Michael Kaminskas, Harrison Trusler, Sean Devine, Jon Racherbaumer and John Gordon.

• You and Me!
• Casino Cross Cut
• Dribble CCF!
• Carey varies Bannon
• Cross Cut Do As I Do
• Subtle CCF
• Aces A Plenty
• Crossed Biddle
• For Bannon!
• CROSSY-VOQUE
• Face- up Fake- out X- force
• Cross-Cut Nuance
• Let...

The book incorporates three hard-to-find private manuscripts that Nuzzo and Marlo published in the 1980s: Plus Package, Unforgettable Wild Card, and 21st Century Card Magic.

This is how Jon Racherbaumer introduces the book:

In the early '70's Jon Racherbaumer received 8 mm color footage of Chuck Smith executing a five-card poker hand switch. This was featured in the short film Lookout, Cleveland, now on YouTube. An excerpt is shown below. A letter from Smith is included here describing how he used it during WWII while in the military. This unique technique has been kept hidden until now. It is not easy, as many things are happening at once. This takes skill and nerve. The price is designed to keep it out of the hands of the curious. While we don't condone cheating, it is time this was recorded for posterity. ...

• ... Pinard
• Bascom Jones: 1924-1994 / Robert Bluemle
• Untitled / Max Maven
• Center Axis / Barrie Richardson
• Wordsmith & Warrior / Lee Earle
• Spinning Straw / Richard Osterlind
• Legacy / Ted Karmilovich Jr.
• Bascom Jones & Magick: A Reflection / Barry H. Wiley
• Bascom Jones: A Brief Appreciation / Jon Racherbaumer
• Facsimile of letter notifying subscribers regarding cessation of publication
• Facsimile of letter clarifying final issue number and offering back issues
• "Issue 497": Memorializing Magick and Bascom Jones
• "Tips & Techniques": Bonus insert with testament from Marc Sky
• Compiled Index...