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To become a master in anything you have to pay attention to the details. This ebook is all about details, the details of sleight of hand with cards.

Excerpt from the foreword:

In these wonderful lecture notes, you will find a lovely self-working card trick called Dueling Card Tricks, which uses a unique principle discovered by Alex Elmsley. It has a great presentational theme of how a mathematician, a psychic, and a magician go about their business. It finishes with an unexpected climax and thus has everything a good magic trick needs.

This lecture was prepared for the participants of the Midwest Magic Jubilee - St. Louis, Missouri - August 5-8, 1993.

• Pumping B'wave
• Wide-Open Prediction
• Hull-Scam
• Opportune Oldie
• Cased-In Vision
• Ladyspell
• Chi-Psi Opener ...

• Hull-Scam: This is a variation of the R.W. Hull trick where an unknown card is placed aside, a spectator thinks of any card in the deck, and later the unknown card turns out to be the mental selection. In this variation, two selections are made. One is mental, the other, physical. The performer finds the physical selection - say, the Ten of Hearts - then rubs it against the unknown card, which turns out to be the mental selection.
• Hull-Quik: The magician removes a card from a borrowed, shuffled deck and places it face down on the table. He asks a spectator, "Just guessing, what's the name of this...

If you can perform the easy block-transfer shuffle by Dai Vernon you will be able to perform Daryl Martinez's/Easton's commercial routine with only a little practice. The routine is structured to produce maximum impact with minimum effort and it creates a lasting impression on lay audiences.

EFFECT: Two selections are made from a shuffled deck, then are returned and lost. The deck is given a topsy-turvy shuffle so that face-up cards are mixed into face-down cards. This mixture is shown to be erratic and random. When the cards are eventually ribbon-spread, all the cards are face-down except two, which...

Excerpt from the opening remarks:

The Think Ace effect is a hybrid, reduced to a packet trick. It was inspired by an effect described to Marlo by Bill Simon in 1955.

• Introduction
• Beginnings
  • Touch Turn
  • Named Reverse
  • Think Ace
  • Gaffed Think Ace
• Tributaries
  • Swindle Think Ace
  • Technicolor Think Ace
  • Four-Card Technicolor Thought Number One
  • Four-Card Think Ace Number Two
  • More Four-Card Technicolor Thoughts
  • Cased-In Technicolor Thought
  • Tabled Think Ace
  • Spread Think Ace
  • Contingency Aces
  • Bold B'wave
• Unanswered Letters

1st edition 1993, PDF 35 pages.

Ten things to do when spurred by the moment.

• Rules Of The Game
• Further Impact
• Snap-Slap Transpo
• Houdini Breaks Out
• Between Elmsley, Brown, and Himber
• Pushing Past Failure
• Why Is This Odd Card So Queer?
• Stranger Succession Aces
• Simple-Simon Copper-Silver
• Marlo's Pellet Classic

1st edition 2002, PDF 31 pages.

The purpose of these reports is to cite known references, suggest ancestral ties, credit precursors and progenitors, reveal any chronology, and trace the evolvement of ideas, tricks, sleights, and presentations.

1. Automatic Placement Used to Produce a Different Effect
2. Flustration Count
3. Three Jacks Deal
4. In-the-Hands False Riffle (Waterfall) Shuffle
5. About Convincing Control

1st edition 1997, PDF 10 pages.

A mysterious, baffling, entertaining, eye-appealing transposition of two selected cards.

A selected card vanishes, reappears, vanishes, and transposes itself with another previously selected card. This PDF includes the original manuscript, plus all the refinements and methods Marlo added over the years.

More detailed effect description:

Two spectators freely select cards from a shuffled deck. The selections are returned to the deck, which is mixed and cut. The cardician removes five cards. Each one is shown and tabled, then he asks, "Did anyone see their card?" One of the spectator...

Thoughts about building on the ideas of others. Jon then explores the example of the secret addition move in "Adding to an Add-On" that was first described in the Sphinx Volume 20 in 1921.

1st edition 2015, PDF 12 pages.

Edward Marlo's "Further Flight" from 1972 was a response to Lynn Searles "Pre-Cannibal Cards". These are some routines around that topic.

• Prologue
• Pre-Cannibal Cards / Lin Searles: A selection is placed between two red Kings, disappears, and then reappears between two black Kings in the center of the deck.
• Flight For Three / Edward Marlo: Three selected cards are placed between four Aces and then suddenly disappear. These selections reappear between four face-up Queens in the middle of the deck.
• Further Flight / Edward Marlo: Four men (Kings), married to four women (Queens), live in different parts of the city....

EXHUME: v. to dig (something) buried; to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light.

In Jon's own words:

This is a compilation of all 56 Exhumations columns from Genii starting with the first column from February 2020 to the last one in December 2024.

1. February 2020
2. April 2020: In Situ Lazy Man's Card Trick
3. May 2020 The Extremely Hidden Count...

• Introduction
  • I. Simplicity
  • II. Directness
  • III. Empathy
  • IV. Drama
  • V. Humor
  • VI. Spectator
• Wide-Open Prediction: This is one of the easiest, most puzzling solutions to Paul Curry's card problem. It's the creation of Robert Parrish.
• Cased-In Vision: A spectator freely selects a card by cutting off some cards and using the leftover talon. He notes and remembers the top card of this portion, then places it in the center of his portion. This is done with the cards behind his back or under a table. In other words, the cards are out of sight. Finally the talon is placed in a card case, which is closed. The magician...

This ebook focuses on how the pinky is used to obtain breaks, which is popularly known as The Pinky Count.

The history of the Pinky Count is murky. One creation story is that it was created by Dai Vernon after reading a comment about Hofzinser that he had a way to count cards secretly with one hand. However, most card enthusiasts will associate the Pinky Count with Jim Steranko and/or Darwin Ortiz.

1st edition 2015, PDF 12 pages.

Oddities and weirdness to show uncle Ezra, cousin Ozzie, and the boys in the band.

• Simple-Simon Copper-Silver / Edward Marlo: An English penny and an American half-dollar are examined by a spectator and then the magician performs several transpositions. Afterwards, the coins are returned to the spectator for inspection.
• Short Hop / Mark Jenest & Jamy Ian Swiss: A Hopping Half version that can be done with genuine coins for the short-attention-span spectator.
• Curse Of Nine
• Knotty Feat
• Tit-Tat-Toe / Martin Gardner & Costello: A large tit-tat-toe board is drawn on a sheet of paper. The magician and spectator proceed to play a...

A newsletter for the curious and nosy.

• Borges, Me, and a Wishful Well: about presentational plots
• Boys of Autumn: about Larry Jennings, Derek Dingle, and Martin Nash

1st edition 2022, PDF 20 pages.

In the early days of the Phoenix, issue number 12 to be exact, Lu Brent had an intriguing idea in an Ace effect titled "Together Again." In the effect, he was able to show each and every Ace being replaced into the deck, except for a chosen packet that contained, of course, the chosen Ace. At the finish, the four Aces were in the chosen pile. It used duplicate Aces. Marlo eliminated the need for duplicate aces.

• Together Again / Lu Brent
• Hindu Aces / Arthur Buckley
• Methods of Apparently Losing the Aces
• Sudden Aces
• Convincing Aces

1st edition 2025, PDF...

About the Sweat Palm.

The basic idea goes back to Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft. Jon traces the principle, as much as possible, through the conjuring literature.

1st edition 2025, PDF 10 pages.

January 2013 – December 2013
1328 pages

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1. Genii – Volume 76, Number 1 – January 2013 – 112 pages
1. Cover – Steve Cohen
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available – Peter McLanachan - Whatever Number Mentioned
    11. online video file available – International Magic Dealer Room - Woody Aragon, Angelo Carbone, and Bruno Copin
    11. online video file available – More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
12. On the Slant – Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available - On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Poll Dancing?
14. Now Performing
15. Memoirs...

January 2014 - December 2014
1252 pages including 20 extra pages

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1. Genii - Volume 77, Number 1 - January 2014 - 104 pages
1. Cover - The 13th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available - Face to Face - Matthew Field interviews Peter Samelson
    11. online video file available - John Calvert
    11. online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
    11. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. Parker Swain (1928-2013)
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available - On the Slant...

January 2015 - December 2015
1160 pages

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1. Genii - Volume 78, Number 1 - January 2015 - 96 pages
1. Cover - Walter Rolfo, FISM Italy 2015 President
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    10. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    10. online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
    10. online video file available - Face to Face - Matthew Field interviews John Carney
11. In Memoriam - Bobby Bernard (1931-2014) - by Brian Sibley
    • online video file available - In Memoriam - Bobby Bernard
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available...

January 2016 - December 2016
1296 pages

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1. Genii - Volume 79, Number 1 - January 2016 - 96 pages
1. Cover - The 14th Los Angeles Conference on Magic History
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    10. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    10. online video file available - Charmen Tissue with Coe Norton
    10. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    10. online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
11. In Memoriam - Barrie Richardson (1934-2015) - by Jon Racherbaumer
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • online audio file available...

January 2017 - December 2017
1352 pages

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1. Genii - Volume 80, Number 1 - January 2017 - 112 pages
1. Cover - Flip
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available - Perpetual House - Yasuo Amano
    11. online video file available - Tenyo 2017 Demonstrations - 15 Items
    11. online video file available - On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    11. online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
    11. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
12. The Eye - Todd Karr
17. Now Performing
20. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • As Luck Will Have It
24. Classic Correspondence...

January 2018 - December 2018
1298 pages including 2 extra pages

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1. Genii - Volume 81, Number 1 - January 2018 - 112 pages + 1 extra
1. Cover - Handsome Jack [John Lovick]
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
    11. online video file available - Eugene's Notebook 2 - Eugene Burger
    11. online audio file available - On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    11. online audio file available - Brief Encounters - host John Lovick - Jared Kopf
    11. online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
12. Now Performing
14. The Eye - Todd Karr
20. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • A Bunk Bonanza
24. Classic...