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This short compilation follows on the heels of another compilation titled Dreamwork. Both relate to Bob Hummer's "The Midreader's Dream." Bob Hummer introduced to the magic world many interesting principles and effects. One of the first to make a splash was introduced in 1952. The dreamy dealer ad seemed too good to be true: A spectator merely thinks of a card and then performs a few, unseen dealing procedures with a deck of cards. The magician, whose back was turned throughout these actions, turns and faces the spectator. He takes the deck, briefly scans the cards, and consults a "dream book." He then names...

This is the authoritative reference for false counts and displays. It is the only encyclopedia of its kind. If you read somewhere a reference to the Copdiddle Count or the Biddyro Count and you have no idea what they are and how they are done, Racherbaumer's Counthesaurus will provide the answer. More than 70 counts and displays are explained. False counts are particularly useful for small packet tricks. If you want to create your own small packet tricks and you need a false count with particular characteristics and features you will likely find it here.

Includes Robert Walker's trick "Hyper...

The contents of this series, for the most part, emphasize the history of effects and ideas. There are effects and methods in some of them, though.

• Proem
• A Double Take on "Double Trouble"
• Double Trouble, Marlo Miracle No. 2 / Edward Marlo
• Lalapaloopa / Deane Moore
• Never Touch the Pack! / Gerald L. Kaufman
• The Loop and I
• Joseph K. Schmidt's Letter to Marlo
• Treble Trouble / Roy Walton
• Redouble Trouble / Jon Racherbaumer
• Andrus False Slop Shuffle

1st edition 2014, PDF 25 pages.

26 installments from Racherbaumer's journal, which are directly or tangentially related to magic, magicians, and the amorphous body called the "magic community".

1. Clarifying "Fusion" Confusion; Modality Dalliance, Tilt Tizzy
2. An Open Letter to Rudy Coby
3. On the Steven's Control; Out of Sorts
4. Don Alan Transcript
5. Copycats; A Footnote Regarding Roger Klause; Secret of the Palmettos; Meeting a Master Mechanic; Setting the Record Straight
6. Deconstructing Harry
8. Diss and Data; A Railing of Idiots
9. Face-Up Triumph Poker Deal; Card Puzzle
11. Copycats
12. In the Interest of Credits; Flustration...

Jon Racherbaumer lectured around the globe. These are the lecture notes for a lecture he gave in Italy in 2008.

• Rules of the Game / Max Maven
• Snap-Slap Transpo / Marc Serin
• Supra-Gemini / John Guastaferro
• Mathematician - Psychic - Magician
• Suit Yourself / Henry Evans
• Unambiguous Discernment / Edward Marlo
• Humma-Humma-Hummer / Lewis Jones and Jack Avis
• In the Nick of Time / John Gustaferro
• The Last Game / David Britland
• Dunbury Lie Speller

1st edition 2008, PDF 28 pages.

This manuscript explores in detail the possibilities of the 'Double Count'. As the title implies, the possibilities seem unlimited. After reading this PDF you will surely come up with your own variations and takes on the effects presented. The Double Count in its basic form is to show five cards absolutely cleanly as six. One of the five cards is a double facer.

1st edition 1953, 2nd edition 1983, 3rd edition 2002, 48 pages.

Table of Contents

8. The Card Goes Home (Norm Osborn)
13. Improved Double Count (Edward Marlo)
14. Effect One
18. Effect Two
20. Effect Three
22. Effect Four
22. Effect Five
26. Effect...

The 'Real-Gone Aces' problem is a side branch of the classic four Ace trick. In the classic you place four aces on the table, then put three indifferent cards on each ace, and magically all aces end up in the same pile. In the 'Real-Gone Aces' plot which was originated by Marlo, after correspondence with Neal Elias, three aces vanish to join an isolated leader ace.

If this plot appeals to you then you will learn a good number of variations on it in this ebook. And I am sure, if you are the kind of guy or gal who enjoys reading such detail filled descriptions of finesses and fine points, then...

This treatise is a compilation of Marlo's methods for performing a card-to-wallet, incorporating his Exclusive Card in Wallet (1961) with methods published in Ibidem, [lc=4446 Hierophant, Card Finesse, Marlo's Magazine, and other previously unpublished but related methods. This material was discovered in a thick folder among Marlo's private effects.

The idea of causing a selection to disappear from the deck and then reappear elsewhere is almost as old as playing cards. Reinhard Müller has painstakingly researched the basic effect classified as "Card Found in Some Object," which was being performed (in some form)...

This routine was inspired by a magician’s challenge that it was unfeasible and unadvisable to perform several Ace Assemblies in a row for lay audiences. In fact, he argued that most Four-Ace Assemblies are neither entertaining nor interesting to layman because they are essentially magician’s exercises. This synergism is an exercise based on an opposite view; however, a key lies in presentation. The performer ostensibly is relating a bit of history regarding how a card trick was performed in the 16th century. In the course of the explanation, he acts as a proxy for skeptical spectators who...

Karl Fulves published in Pallbearers Review an unsolved card problem wherein an Ace having the same suit of a previously selected card changes into that selection. The puzzling aspect of this problem was this: The four Aces are shown, mixed, and tabled face down. Nobody knows the order or disposition of the Aces, not even the spectator.

Jon describes eight solutions each with its own trade-offs, strengths and weaknesses.

Jon concludes his manuscript with:

These are all self-working or very easy to perform effects.

One item that I would like to highlight is the Klutz Force, because it is on the same skill level as the popular Criss-Cross force, which is frequently used in self-working effects. With the Klutz Force you have an alternative that has a different feel and procedure.

• Simplex Physical & Mental
• Telephenomenal
• 21 And Then Some
• Guesstimation City
• Marked Calculation
• What Is the Question?
• Easy Prefiguration
• Klutzy Forces
• Hobson Chooses Again
• Punch-Line Division
• Simple Sync
• Is Your Pants On Fire?
• Made In the Shade
• No-Clue ...

Gene Castillon presented this lecture at a meeting of Ring #27 IBM in the early 70’s, calling it "The Double Undercut Routine". This routine was designed to feature only one sleight or move—the Double Undercut. To prove the versatility and usefulness of this one move, Gene incorporated into one routine a series of different effects all accomplished by this one move. As you will discover, there are magic appearances, a simple sandwich prediction, several Ace tricks, a poker deal, and a simple triumph trick.

When recently asked to lecture again, Gene pulled out his old lecture notes and was surprised...

This is the fourth revised treatment that Marlo and Jon worked on during the last year of his life. Their objective back then was to publish a new old-book by expanding the original work to include ideas, finesses, and variations devised after 1962. More important, the revision was to be more organized and cohesive than the original.

The original K.M. MOVE booklet was typed on twenty-three pages. There were only eleven hand-traced, inked drawings [by Marlo]. The material faithfully duplicates Marlo's hand-written notes and was typed by Muriel Marlo. All in all, the finished product had an unpretentious,...

A treatise on how to determine a thought of card.

• Out of Sight - Out of Mind (Dai Vernon)
• Streamlined Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Mental Discernment Improved (Ken Krenzel)
• Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
• Far Out Of Sight (Bob King)
• No Questions Asked (Randy Wakeman)
• The Spectator Seems to Really Think of any Card (Bob Farmer)
• A Card That Lies = A Deck That Tells The Truth (Bob Farmer)
• Unambiguous Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Fish-Fry For Two (Robert Baxter)
• Fish (Lewis Jones)
• The Discerning Mentalist (J. K. Hartman)
• Mental Schemental (J. K. Hartman)

1st edition 2011; 52 pages....

Ways To End Up With the Only Thing You Want

From the introduction:

• Two Ways to Convincingly Disclose One of Two Possibilities
• A Card That Lies, A Deck That Tells...

Brother John Hamman's effects are conducive to creating strong, synergistic routines. That is, many of his individual effects, including its discrete parts, can be combined to form powerful presentations. The following nine-phase is a good example.

Holistic Hamman was originally part of an unpublished book titled Real-World Cardstuff: Synergistic Schemes.

Requisites: A regular deck of cards.

1st edition 2000, 2nd edition 2013, 15 pages.

There is something incurably viral about this curious card problem. Does anyone know? What's so irresistible about displacing, displaying, counting, spreading, mixing, re-mixing, un-mixing red and black cards? What's the allure? What's the incentive? Yet, despite all cease-and-desist entreaties, methods keep popping up, including the ones in this compact manuscript.

The Ten Phase routine described in this ebook combines ideas and handlings by Hideo Kato, Dave Solomon, and Edward Marlo. You can figuratively use the Oil and Water patter theme, referring to red cards as "water" and black cards as "oil," but some...

This ebook features six presentations by Edward Marlo, one of the most prolific producers of card magic ever known. My criteria for selecting these six presentations was to pick effects that stressed subtlety and psychological cunning and required little or no difficult sleight-of-hand. The irony here is that such tricks are seldom associated with Marlo, even though he devised scores of easy, semi-automatic tricks during his career. But don't despair. The ones in this ebook run a gamut.

Cozy Card to Case is a subtle version of an ancient trick dating back to Walter Gibson's Popular Card Tricks. Most versions are based on miscalling a...

A different take on the usage of the mini-plunger or tiny plunger. When Danny Orleans showed the item to Jon it sparked his creativity. Read about the outcome here.

• About the Mini-Plunger
• How to Make a "Breather"
• Stuck Up
• Suck-Up Sleuth
• Malini Lite
• Pokerratum
• A Plunger Went A'Courting
• Aces Take a Plunge
• In-Depth
• Bonus: Ham-Fisted Find

1st edition 2013, 41 pages.

This manuscript is ancestrally related to Criss-­Crossings: Unleashing the X-­Force insofar as it also deals with cutting cards. In this case, it deals with "cuts" and "turnovers."

This type of combinatorial maneuver began with Henry Christ's forcing technique that he developed in the early 1920s. He originally developed six variations but he only published the fifth one in Ted Annemann's book, Sh-­h-­h It's a Secret, calling it "The 203rd Force." It subsequently has been referred to as the Christ Force and it spawned many versions and applications.

Because of the cut-­?turnover-­?and-­?replacement mechanics, the Christ Force is often confused with Ed Balducci's...

This ebook explores variations on the Universal Card theme, is part of the Yod series. Universal Card is a classic card plot in which a single card (like the joker) transforms to one at a time to match each of the selected cards. Originally posed by Karl Fulves in his Pallbearers Review, where he used the term "Universal Card", a name that caught on.

• The Hypnotic Card
• Marlo's Favorite Universal
• Universal Solutions
• Universal IV
• Tout's Universal
• The Chameleon Card
• Universal Combine
• Hypno-Versal Way
• Cervon's Universals
• More Universals
• Not Quite Ambiguous Universal
• Full-Circle Universal
• Open-Faced...

The presentations in this manuscript are homage to the nonmanipulative, off-the-cuff approach taken by Chan Canasta.

The material is stuff Jon has published elsewhere, mostly piecemeal. The thrust of the ebook, though, is how these effects are PRESENTED in a CANASTA WAY. This then is its organizing principle. It is basically designed to demonstrate Canasta's approach. The material is easy and commercial.

• INTRODUCTION
• KISS MET
• OPTICUNNING CUTTING
• SOMATIQUE
• TACITRIX
• VOCALYSIS
• THE JOKER EATS YOUR MIND
• UNTOUCHABLY YOURS

1st edition 2016, 25 pages.

Issue 1:

• Proem
• Marlo Handles the Open Prediction (10 Variations, 15 Methods)
• Addition to Marlo's "Matching Miracle"
• Heldman's out of this World Clean-Up
• Estimations: Faro Fantasy, Finagling, and Paul Swinford
• The Satiricon
  • Cardmanship
  • Footnote to Ferris
  • Mirabile Dictu
  • Excerpt from a Dialogue Overheard at a Convention
• Postscript

• New Fangled Glimpse Anthology
  • If Glimpse
  • Fi Glimpse
  • Spring Glimpse
  • Neo-Piquant Glimpse
  • Marlo's Beveled Deck Glimpse
  • Turn Around Center Glimpse
• Marlo Stalks the Ultimate Sandwich
  • Marlo's "Collectors"
  • Alternatives for the "Collectors" ...