Magic tricks, bar bets, gambling scams, cons, puzzles, and gotcha's with playing cards, dice, coins, rope, dominoes, and humor.
"Bob's brilliance, deviousness, and creativity are perfectly balanced by his wacky sense of humor .... With The Bammo Flim-Flam Conglomeration you get everything you expect from a Bob Farmer book: an off-the-wall sense of humor, laser-sharp intelligence, clear and concise writing, and a mountain of intriguing and entertaining scams, cons, betchas, and tricks - enough to amuse any magic enthusiast of any skill level, whether or not they have larceny in their heart." - Excerpts from Mike Close's review in his newsletter
"... Bob Farmer is knee-slapping, gut-busting, beverage-spewing funny! If I didn't like a single effect in this book, I'd still recommend it because it's a riotous ride of a read ...There is an overwhelming amount of great material in this book! ...The Bammo Flim Flam Conglomeration is wantonly wonderful! ...Highly Recommended." - Excerpts from Tom Frame's Genii review
This book is for the most part a compilation of Bob's long-running Flim-Flam and Flim-FlaMagic columns in Magic and Genii respectively. However, Bob has added and expanded on some tricks for this compilation, and reorganized and indexed it. Certain themes have been excluded because they have been published elsewhere, for example, the ten-card deal material. The book has been professionally illustrated by Tony Dunn and Maxwell Pritchard has edited it.
"...I know Bob Farmer and LOVE whatever he puts out. I have everything he has ever published and he is one of a handful of magicians that I would buy sight unseen and know that I was going to learn something. The book is $75.00 and I would pay $150.00 ... My favorite effect in the book that is worth the price of the book (I really mean it) is Skull Scavenger. A deck is shuffled and cut into four piles. The Spector cuts into one pile, fans the cards cut off and thinks of one. The magician has up to this point has not touched or seen the cards. The magician now cuts the deck several times and fans the cards towards the spectator and asks, "if he sees his card or is it lost." This process is repeated. The deck is placed on the spectators hand and he names his card and the magician has him turn over the top card. It is the selection." - Excerpts from Norman Beck's M-U-M review
Luxurious oversized hardcover in three-piece cloth binding, printed in the USA on acid-free archival paper (will outlast the Dead Sea Scrolls).
- Foreword
- How To Cheat Your Friends And Why You Should
- The House Percentage
- The Ten Scammandments
- I. Thou shalt always tell the Mark that you will cheat and he will lose
- Column 1
- Jiggery Pokery
- Reverse Jiggery Pokery
- Jiggery Pokery In Two Hands
- References
- Scam To The Future
- Brainpopper: Martin Gardner
- Beer Money
- Column 2: Lay Your Money Down
- Column 3: Game, Set And Match
- Column 4: Cheat The Magic Store Where You Bought This Book.
- Column 5
- Excuse Me, But Did You Drop This Fifty-Dollar Bill?
- 2-5-7
- Same But Different
- The $100 Swindle
- Fifty Bucks Says This Is An Alien Brain And I Am Elvis
- How To Fake A Veneer Of Normalcy
- Dollar Deal
- Column 6: Texas Rose
- Column 7: Count Diceula
- Column 8
- The Little Man Who Was There
- The Chicago Bar Scam
- Column 9: Chess For Chumps
- Column 10
- Satanic Mechanic
- Satanic Mechanic Update
- Picture This
- Name Your Favorite
- Napoleon Meets His Watermelon
- Column 11
- Con Of The Realm
- Three Rights Make A Wrong
- Roll With The Punches
- II. Thou shalt always appeal to the greed of the Mark
- Column 12
- Beat'em, Cheat'em, Leave'em Bleedin'
- Squeeze Play
- No-So-Easy Money
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Column 13: Who's Ted?
- Column 14
- Monte Bones
- Other Ideas
- Kirk's Kup
- Game Of Bones
- Column 15
- Double-Barreled & Double-Headed.
- Pocket Change
- Two Heads Are Better Than One
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
- None Out Of Three
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Badder
- Column 16
- Two-Card Monte
- Two-Card Monkey
- III. Thou shalt always lie about the true odds
- Column 17
- Diverse Flims & Variegated Flams
- The Unbreakable Bank
- Born In The USA
- Mental Arithmetic
- Stand Up And Be Conned
- Word Morphing
- Column 18
- Free Drinks For Life
- Turn Of The Screw
- Splash
- All You Can Bet And Half Of All You Can Bet
- Through A Glass Markly
- Column 19: La Monte Symbiotic
- Column 20
- Pair Of Dice By The Dashboard Light
- Four Dice Game
- Version 1, 2, 3, 4
- The Probabilities
- The True Probabilities
- A Simple Dice Switch
- Further Investigations
- Column 21
- Dr. Scam & Nurse Fraud
- The Four Sevens
- Rolling Coins
- Square Of Cards
- Column 22
- Deck Of Thieves
- Deck Indirect
- Deck Circumspect
- Deck Collect
- Deck Genuflect
- Deck Eject
- Column 23
- Debit And Credit: Part I
- Change Of Mind
- Correct Change
- Oh! Canada?
- Cash In Hand
- Jackpot Coins
- IV. Thou shalt always risk less money than the true odds say you should
- Column 24
- Debit And Credit Part II: A Matter Of Debit And Credit
- Dollars And (6th) Sense
- Column 25
- Not The Tsunami I Expected
- The Family That Preys Together
- Too Bad About That Guy, But Doesn't His Suit Fit Great
- Column 26
- Mel Stover They Want You Back On Your Planet
- Spinner
- False Odds
- Equivocoin
- Home Run
- Cheating At Checkers
- Hooked On Phonies
- Column 27
- Nothing To Lose
- One-Card 10/20 Poker
- Pat On The Back
- Cards That Play Together Prey Together
- Flush With Cash
- Column 28
- Interview With The Scampire
- Reversal Of Fortune
- Spin To Win
- Column 29
- Fifty Years Ago In Magic By Stan Allen III
- Circular Argument
- Column 30
- Mr. Grift Goes To Washington
- Spin To Win Again
- Gremlins
- Thirty Pieces Of Silver
- Pay Your Money And Take Your Choice
- Column 31
- The Scam That Rocks The Cradle
- Catch 23
- Catch 24
- V. Thou shalt always entice the Mark to risk more money than the true odds say he should
- Column 32
- To Honor Martin Gardner
- A Penney For Your Thoughts
- Irwin Stern Calls Flim-Flam's Bluff
- De Bruijn Doublets
- Hustler TH, Mark HH
- Hustler XX, Mark YY
- It's Triplets, Mr. Farmer
- The Secret Formula
- Rouge-Et-Noir: Nick Trost
- Humble-Nishiyama Randomness Game
- Noir Et Rouge
- Little Bingo
- Column 33
- It's A Wonderful Lie
- Note From The Editor
- Snow Job
- Scrooge's Penny Pincher
- Merry Cashmas
- Column 34
- Marathon Scam
- Chicago Nontransitive Authority
- Column 35
- Making A Killing In Las Vegas
- Jack The Rip-Off
- A Ship In A Bottle
- A Cut Of The Cash
- Column 36
- Tony Forgio, Tough Guy: Arrivederci Farmer
- The Real Secret Of Cheatin' At Cards
- Did Vernon Ever Cheat?
- The Real Secret Of Cheatin' At Dice
- Erdnase Don't Know Nuddin'
- Words You Gotta Know
- Column 37
- Ten-Hand Poker Stack - Not!
- Face Up To It
- Column 38
- Big Money In Mime And Balloon Animals
- A Virtual Shuffle And A Real Scam
- Underhanded Overhand Shuffle: Dan Garrett
- The Underhanded Overhand Optical Shuffle: Bob Farmer
- Zarrow One Shuffle, One Cut, Full-Deck Control
- Column 39: Non-Trance-Sitivity
- Column 40
- Ugly Incident Mars Flim-Flam Convention
- Three To One
- Soaking The Mark
- VI. Thou shalt never welch
- Column 41
- Marxism & Magic
- Marx Ink
- Marked For A Countdown
- Column 42
- Dirty Dealing
- The Devil's Dominoes
- Column 43
- Column 44
- Art Beats Science
- Triple Cross
- Catch 24
- Column 45
- Tuesday Night With Ahab, Einstein And The Queen Of Halloween
- Jive Five
- Column 46
- Professor Con-Quistador
- If Three Strikes, You're Out: Robin Dawes
- The House Percentage
- Jacking Up Your Odds
- Sucker Bets With Cards: Nick Trost
- Odd-Even Bet
- Red And Black Wager
- Tic Tac Toe Bet
- Two Reds And Two Blacks
- Red Black Swindle
- Suit Bet
- Pair Bet
- Ace, Deuce Or Jack Bet
- Queen Bet
- Deck-Cutting Bet
- Two-Together Bet
- Four-Ace Proposition
- Combination Bet
- Four-Heap Combination Bet
- Two-Deck Bet
- Sucker Bets With Dice: Nick Trost
- Four-Roll Bet
- Three-Dice Proposition
- VII. Thou shalt always offer the Mark a chance to win his money back
- Column 47
- Con-Fiscation
- Pat's Hand: Pat Hennessy .
- Column 48: Y2 Kon
- Column 49: Y1 K
- Column 50
- My Secret Pact With Satan
- Savoir Pair: Robin Dawes
- Column 51
- Dice Advice
- Fogging The Possibilities
- Shading The True Odds
- Bending The Payoff
- Column 52: 6-8-7
- Column 53
- Oil And Water Dice
- 5-3-4-1-6-2
- Column 54: Die Cannibal Die
- Column 55
- Die Cannibal Die Part II
- Braun Variations
- Die 2/19
- Die 3/18
- Die 4/28
- Die 5/16
- Die 6/2331
- Column 56
- From Here To Eternal Oblivion
- The Devil's Die Secret
- Column 57: Dead Giveaway
- VIII. Thou shalt understand the flim-flam fully and describe it clearly
- Column 58
- Bar-Racuda
- Efron Dice Set 1
- Efron Dice Set 2
- Uncle Scam Wants You
- Uncle Scam Still Wants You
- Grime Dice
- Another Three-Dice Solution
- Simplex Nontransitive Poker Die: Tomas Blomberg
- Six Bones Of The Beast
- Cheng's Cards
- Cheng's Dice
- Jan-Ken-Pon Chips: Max Maven
- Making Your Own Dice
- Nontransitive Gaming References
- Column 59: Point Spread
- Column 60
- Between The Cheats
- Three Of The Devil's Teeth
- Column 61
- The Very First Flim-Flam Consumer Alert!!!
- Sue? Not Me!
- IX. Thou shalt be gracious in victory and defeat
- Column 62: Dixie Cuppa Magic: Roy Cottee
- Column 63: Aces At Any Number
- Column 64: Skull Scavenger
- Column 65: Slop-Shuffle Royal Flush
- Column 66: Mojo Boogie Boxes Two Box Routine
- Column 67: Bummer (Bob's Hummer)
- Column 68
- Three-Card Monty Hall
- Game #1, #2, #3
- The Original Troublemaker
- Psychobabble
- Chuck-A-Luck
- Rules For Fools: Hit The Mark And Strike It Rich
- X. Thou shalt not transfer money to a Nigerian prince
- Column 69
- Opti-Con Five-Packet Optical-Confusion Illusion
- Cutting A Royal Flush
- Jive-Ass Aces
- Cutting Any Poker Hand Called For
- Lagging
- Ace-Cut-Ruse References
- Column 70
- One Face South
- Markus Maximus
- Markus Mentalus
- Column 71
- Beat'em, Cheat'em, Leave'em Bleedin'
- Welcome To My Wonderful World Of Cheating!
- Where To Get Marked Cards Loaded Dice And Double-Headed Coins
- Double-Headed Coins
- Con Of The Realm
- Pocket Change
- Putting The Muscle In Your Hustle
- Two Heads Are Better Than One
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
- None Out Of Three
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Badder
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Marked Cards
- Renaissance Man
- Ten Cards, Twenty Fingers, Unlimited Cash
- The Game Of 31
- Montes
- Svengali Monte
- Two-Card Monte
- Three-Card Monte
- Loaded Dice
- 7/11 Dice - Load And Fire
- Another Game Of 31
- Bone Dry
- 7/11 Dice
- Pair Of Dice By The Dashboard Light
- A Simple Dice Switch
- Swindle Tech
- Scamdex
- Backward/Word
- Acknowledgments
1st edition 2021, 453 pages.
