The Magician (Club 71): 2005
by Geoff Maltby

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Issue 163

• A different perspective—a spectator's nightmare is related by Amanda R. Hyatt
• Malcolm Yaffe makes a record for future reference
• Magic Moments as Walt applies the psychology of Tommy Wonder
• Eddie Dawes reports on the New England Magic Collectors' Association and discovers a rare postage stamp
• JJ's wagon rolls into view and he tell two salutary tales of regret
• Fred Castle explains the use of the Ascanio Spread with jumbo cards to perform a four queen transformation
• Ian Adair again treats us to a double dose. Firstly with a version of magic painting and secondly with a tick and cross bat.
• Barrie Richardson, our regular columnist with a very novel approach to the Turnover Pass
• Jim Breedon's magic pen darts across the page and draws our attention to . . . a snowball!
• Peter Duffie presents a very bad influence that no doubt will be a very good influence of your card repertoire
• Max Maven returns to our pages, shuffles a deck and presents us with a performance of a PreFormer
• Arun Bonerjee computerises fortune telling with nary a silicon chip in sight
• Werner Miller offers his suit and value with a clever self worker
• Stephen Tucker offers the ultimate world's greatest spongeball routine
• Alan Ward waxes all nostalgic with a "Micky Mouse Radio' for entertaining the little ones
• A brand new series on the application of stagecraft and acting techniques to enhance your magical performance
• Steve Zudeck offers a clever, magical acrostic
• Details of this year's competition. Your chance for fame and fortune . . . Or at least win a couple of bob!
• Magical event diary. Is your magic club on the map?
• Unclassified Adverts. Buy sell, swop or exchange for free
• John Rhodes once again rounds up all the magic in the lay press
• To round off this issue take a look at a sneak preview of what we have in store for you in the February issue

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Issue 164

• News round up conducted by Geoff, including a special appeal by IBM British Ring President, Don Beattie
• Letters page. Brickbats, bouquets and information— Your chance to have your say
• Eddie Dawes returns with his round up of the othe magic magazines
• Ian Adair with another double whammy, this time clipantics and colour in mind
• Barrie Richardson presents his mental target practise and proves to be spot on the bull
• Jim Breedon shows his take on close up with a card under a wet tablecloth
• Werner Miller proves to be inseparable this month with a devilishly ingenious card effect
• Basic Card technique continues with lesson 68 and Walt teaches partial false cuts
• Stop Cut — a force turns into a trick with this cutie from Simon Lovell
• Spelling tricks and memorised decks is the topic of Ian Keable's offering this month
• Stephen Tucker asserts that it is your round, and rounds off with a confusing bar bill
• Peter Duffie proves to be more convivial than usual this issue with some cheerful card conjuring
• Ali Cardabra is hooked on coke, but strictly only the bottled kind
• Alan Ward with his magic balls, a centrifuge and a professor who sucks
• Magical Event diary—is your magical society on the map?
• Buy sell rent or inform—it's all here in the free unclassified small adverts
• Malcolm Yaffe considers the properties of materials we use and how Fitzkee affected his thinking
• Henrique attends a poisonous party and finds an effective magicians' wax substitute
• Walt Lees with his thoughts on Television and Radio magic and solves a Bruce Elliot puzzle
• John Rhodes compiles another collection of magic and allied art articles in the U.K. lay press
• We round off this issue with a tempting taster of some of the many March treats and delights in store for the next issue

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Issue 165

• News and reviews conducted by Geoff
• Letters page. Your chance to have your say
• JJ wins the Grand Prix with a poker trick from Hugard's Royal Road
• Reviews covers The Secrets of Magic, Derren Brown and Midsomer Murders
• Malcolm Yaffe continues with his very materialistic approach to magic
• Peter Duffie leaves us all in the dark this issue and as always the cards are to blame
• Amanda R. Hyatt with trials and tribulations of a very nervous playing card
• Stephen Tucker returns to the Bart Harding Stack and simplifies his mental arithmetic
• Jim Breedon and his trusty pen paradoxically conjures playing cards
• Werner Miller's Mysteries continue apace as this month he goes west young man
• Max Maven concludes colourfully that it is all because of U and whether U are British or an ex-colonial
• Ian Adair gives us all a dose, twice with a pig and a picture painting
• Ali Cardabra is still hooked on coke—indeed he is still on the bottle ... this month with a Foo Bottle
• Alexander Allen gives us a messy force topped with a pretty girl
• Barrie Richardson, our guru in residence this month shares his Slippery Jack Sleight
• Simon Lovell with his very own approach to the centre tear and assures us it is a 'wowser' for the ladies!
• Arun Bonerjee adds focus to the pocus with a mental effect featuring cities around the world
• Magical Events around the magical societies. Is your Magic Club covered in this comprehensive list?
• Henrique ponders on vent, puppetry and a Romeo and Juliet Punch and Judy, all done without a single Duracell to be anywhere in sight
• Unclassified Ads. Buy, Sell, Swop, Inform and enquire the choice is yours on this free page
• John Rhodes rounds up this issue with all the magical news culled from the unmagical press
• Finally we tempt you with a handful of the delights awaiting you in the April Issue. You would be a magical fool to miss them!

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Issue 166

• Magical News and happenings collated by Geoff
• Henrique discusses business cards, squaws, tomahawk throwers and cremated cash
• Amanda Hyatt and her tea room oddity
• Eddie Dawes continues on collecting matters and also magical Christmas cards
• Letters page. Your very own forum for thoughts, ponderings and questions
• Walt Lees casts a ruminative eye over the media and related topics
• Malcolm Yaffe with part 3 of his monograph on some materialistic thoughts
• Jim Breedon's magic pen and a trick of four rex
• Alan Ward with a monkey, a keeper, a snooty lady and finds her secret beau
• Alexander Allen counts diagonally while his pretty lady looks keenly on with interest
• Arun Bonerjee personalises his spelling. More marvellous mind magic from India
• Barrie Richardson with a diary of which both Messrs Danson and Stebbins would be proud
• Ian Adair with another double dose, a funky frame and somewhere over Dorothy's gaily colourful curve
• Peter Duffie deals the collectors a steal
• Ali Cardabra contrives to find not a ship but a message in his coca cola bottle
• Basic card sleights. This month Walt tackles false cuts, but only partially
• The Royal Mint honours the London Magic Circle with unique stamps that do tricks!
• Steve Zudeck gives us another Magicrostic
• Stephen Tucker goes even further with Bart Harding
• Peter Kane reprises a blank thought deck
• JJ considers the important difference between a magician and a Magician
• Unclassified ads. Buy Sell Swop and inform for free!
• Magical Diary. Put your club on the magical map and let us all know what you are doing
• Malcolm Yaffe asks if you are child hater!
• John Rhodes rounds up this issue with all the interesting magical news from the Nation's lay press

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Issue 167

• News on the magic scene with Geoff
• The Materials part four by Malcolm Yaffe. This month he considers duplication
• Henrique recounts of a nightmare drive with an eccentric aristocrat as his driver
• Amanda Hyatt hits magicians below the belt and offers some useful advice
• Competition details of your chance for fame and fortune
• Patrick Lindley's Magical History Diary for this month
• John Rhodes with all the magic in the lay press that is fit to print
• Magical event diary. Is your club on the free magical map? If not why not?
• Unclassified adverts ... Buy sell swop or inform
• Malcolm Yaffe poses the question 'Why do some tricks, which we regularly attempt, never register as strongly as we expect, whilst others, which we might otherwise consider as indifferent, even mediocre, elicit enthusiastic response almost every time?' He then provides some answers
• Al Smith hopes that your audience will not walk out on you no matter where you perform
• A taster of the excitement planned for the next issue
• Steve Jones makes a welcome return with what he describes as a "flirtatious" card trick
• Peter Duffle's contribution is a startling revelation of four aces and kings, which appear in the hands of different spectators.
• Werner Miller is concerned with dividing up odd numbers of horses without harming any ... an impossible-seeming task until he explains how
• Winner takes all, shows Chris Wardle
• Stephen Tucker gives some more thanks to Bart
• Ali Cardabra transposes of two different bottles, by magic of course.
• For the cabaret performer, Tom Batchelor has a highly entertaining card discovery by a comical gloved-hand vent head.
• Chaotic Aces ... a cunning and clever presentation from Daniel de Urquiza
• Peter Kane's Royal Flush Flash ... a trick with a pretty flourish for the finale
• Steve Zudeck presents a clever red and black reader
• Simon Lovell A coin a gun and a clever presentation produce Assassination
• Alexander Allen describes his original move to reverse a selected card in the centre of the pack while his pretty princess peers ponderously on
• Ian Adair—Is he alive or is he dead. You are the judges

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Issue 168

• News on and around the magic scene with Geoff
• Competition—your chance for fame and fortune
• Patrick Lindley's Historical Magical Diary for June
• Magical Event diary. Is your club on-the magical event map?
• Unclassified adverts.. buy, sell, swop or inform
• Henrique relates a salutary lesson about fees and verbal agreements.
• Al Smith considers boredom and concludes with mentalism.
• Amanda Hyatt tenders the resignation of a card, a particularly upset Ace and the rest of his suit.
• Malcolm Yaffe discusses difficult children with equally difficult parents.
• Alan Ward brings along another of his curiosities.
• John Rhodes keeps us abreast of magic in the media.
• A taster of the excitement planned for next month
• Benjamin Mack discuses The Magic of the Fox News Channel
• Walt Lees on this televisual and bookish
• Bob Ostin discloses a divine mystery, i;e., a spectator dowses for the chosen card with a forked twig.
• Peter Kane offers an exploding card revelation.
• Peter Duffie raises Hell with a fast-moving Elevator routine that finishes in the hands of a spectator
• Stephen Tucker details some further thoughts on the Bart Harding System.
• Steve Jones presents a comedy card in wallet—or should that be cards? Loads of them!
• Jim Breedon describes his handling of the card in nesting boxes.
• Alexander Allen's Lady is fooled with a deceptive method of reversing a card.
• Barrie Richardson's Mind Scanner—A new technology impression device
• Arun Bonerjee's Card & Month Divination another clever mental effect from India
• Ali Cardabra lets the genie out of the bottle — a Coca Cola bottle of course!
• Ian Adair opens the cat flap to reveal a furl-filled children's effect. And for good measure throws in a bare-faced prémonition for older audiences...
• Tom Batchelor gives-some new twists to a ropy and knotty problem
• Werner Miller takes to drink but finishes on a watery note
• Max Maven Encumbers the beast with a variation on a Peter Duffie idea

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Issue 169

• Al Smith takes a wry look at stooges and all that they entail - or at least some of what they entail!
• Amanda Hyatt narrates a sleightiy humorous scene.
• Alan Ward has another reversible drawing from the past, culled out of his archive of curiosities.
• ohn Rhodes combs the news media for stories about magicians.
• Magical News collected from around the world by Geoff
• Collecting Thoughts collated by Eddie Dawes
• JJ Pulls a posh Bird — or does he?
• Is your club or sotiety on the magical map?
• Buy sell or swop with our free unclassified ads
• Journals in and around the Magical scene dissected by Eddie Dawes
• Competition
• John Rhodes with all the magical news in the lay press
• Jim Breedon locates a card by means of the selector's thumb print
• Peter Duffle's random cuts of the deck reveal the suit and value of a selected card. With no further manipulation, the spectator himself locates it.
• Peter Kane has Aces A-Risin in our continuing tribute to him
• Malcolm Yaffe deals with the accusation of using marked cards.
• Tom Batchelor on the other hand, openly flaunts a crooked deck!
• Alexander Allen causes a chosen card trapped between two red jacks to be magically transported to between two black ones.
• Barrie Richardson deals In bent money in an intriguing cabaret coinbending demonstration.
• Ali Cardabra attempts a bullet catch with a Coca Cola bottle.
• Steve Jones offers a utility move to load a small object into your fist
• Shamlock a rip-off courteously acknowledged with profuse thanks to Roy Walton
• Ian Adair dramatises the rhyme of Jack & Jill in a fun-filled routine.
• Mike Hopley's Vowel Movement is an unusual idea which many will enjoy.
• Werner Miller mystifies with a mental-type mystery using wooden cubes. James Ward has money in the bag

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Issue 170

• News and Reviews with Geoff Maltby
• Al Smith muses on those who call themselves magic enthusiasts but show little enthusiasm for magic.
• Amanda Hyatt offers a magical sonnet
• Rex Stott, aided by Eric Sharp reviews the recent Queen Mary 2 Magic Cruise
• Walt Lees recalls Fred Robinson's Heroes, both real and otherwise
• Competition details. Do fame and fortune await you?
• Unclassified ads
• Society Event news
• Henrique in a nostalgic mood
• Brian Lead on ill advised predictions
• Malcolm Yaffe discusses consistency in handling moves and sleights.
• John Rhodes as usual has all the latest news from the public media
• Letters, your chance to put your oar in and have a row
• Jim Breedon takes us through his excellent and practical Ring & Rope routine.
• Ian Adair has some novel twists on paper tears.
• Peter Kane's best-selling Bottle Glass — Glass Bottle. An intimate version of the Passe Bottles using pictures on oversized cards.
• Alan Ward offers an example of kirigami.
• Bob Ostin revisits Twiggy
• Barrie Richardson shares his Parity Prediction - an unusual psychic stunt with coins using a clever mathematical concept.
• Werner Miller mystifies with an ingenious matching effect using ESP cards.
• James Ward sells a posh gaff
• Arun Bonerjee fortune telling, spelling and foreseeing the future.
• Peter Duffie's Crime Suspect involves a spectator locating a selected card without knowing how.
• Alexander Allen has a simple-to-do transposition of a card from between two kings held in the hand to between two others in the centre of the pack.
• Steve Jones with an effect where two spectators shuffle the pack. One cuts to select two cards. The other finds the matching pair.

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Issue 171

• News and gossip related by Geoff
• Al Smith tells a mythical story to highlight the ambivalent attitude many magicians have towards skill with cards.
• Malcolm Yaffe considers preparing to ad lib and recording prior to use.
• Henrique recalls a 'children's' show of the type that you really do not wish to encounter
• John Rhodes garners magical news from the non magical press
• Small and unclassified ads
• Society Diary put your club on the magical map
• A brief taster of what is in store for the Halloween issue
• Peter Duffle's effect is one where the performer knows that the spectator's card is one of three, but not which. Yet the selection is found to be magically reversed in the pack, while the two indifferent cards are not
• Argentinian Monte revisited with Daniel de Urquiza
• Werner Miller has an ingenious revelation of a freely chosen card, which appears in a position randomly decided upon by the chooser.
• Steve Jones comes forward with a much easier but no less spectacular version of Peter Kane's Exploding Revelation from the May issue.
• Peter himself is remembered with his dassic Kane's Variant, a marketed manuscript of knockout effects based on a simple but well-hidden mathematical principle.
• Jim Breedon revives a seldomseen effect in which the performer locates a chosen card because the spectator's thumb print is on the back.
• Barrie Richardson describes his Switching Pen, a brilliantly clever prop for exchanging billets, notes etc.
• Ian Adair has a Barefaced Premonition — a variation on the classic effect but involving blank-faced cards.
• Alexander Allen describes his version of the dassic Bill Switch. The audience decide on an amount of money and a cheque is written out to cover it. The cheque is folded up, and when opened up is seen to have been transformed into a banknote of the same value!
• Alan Ward explains how drown a duck with mild green fairy liquid! You may never want to do it, but it's nice to know how!
• Ananta Deb Banerjee's spirit cabinet, which was promised for the last issue but got spirited away, has finally materialized.
• Stephen Tucker explains Bob Ostin's Squirde
• Jack Stephens releases an excellent bit of comedy by-play with a balloon mouse, which is bound to get a huge reaction from children and adults.

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Issue 172

• Geoff Maltby rounds up the latest magical news and events.
• Alan Ward shares a bewitching optical illusion of a puzzle for Halloween.
• John Rhodes surveys the non magical media and tells us who is magically making the headlines.
• Small and unclassified ads
• Society Events Diary put your club on the magical map.
• JJ gets it right twice—and doesn't know how he did it!
• Competition. Your chance for fame and fortune?
• Eddie Dawes Collates Circle Centenary Collectables
• Letters Page
• Henrique Carpenters, Conjuring and Breaking and Entering.
• A special sneak preview of the contents in the November issue next month.
• Alexander Allen discusses The pivot change and shows a clever insight using it.
• Max Maven finds a card in an unusually impressive way.
• Peter Kane's Transportation of a merely thought of card from one pack to another.
• Daniel De Urquiza with a magical transposition in a killer way.
• Barrie Richardson divulges his Novel Action Palm—a useful method of stealing away a card while cutting the pack.
• Ian Adair presents two more novel ideas. The first is a pen which divines a pair of chosen cards with a surprise twist on the second revelation.
• Jim Breedon's magic pen is moved to reveal his treatment of the classic 21 Card Trick.
• Peter Duffie offers a clever coincidence effect involving the performer and spectator matching suits in shuffled packets.
• Werner Miller's latest mystery is a prediction of the number of face-up cards after a packet has been twisted and turned in various directions.
• Stephen Tucker enjoys a very large Martini Cabaret
• Ali Cardabra makes a welcome return with a new series, kicking off with a clever and subtle switching envelope for jumbo cards, pictures, photos etc.
• The second of Ian Adair's contributions is an unusual approach to performing the dassic 20th Century Silks.
• Chris Wardle has a humdinger of a prediction involving bingo balls.
• Arun Bonerjee is getting mental vibrations.
• Steve Jones outlines some action games suitable for older children. Not magic but useful for whole parties.

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Issue 173

• Eddie Dawes: looks at what is happening in the magical media.
• Henrique: muses and meanders in his usual way, covering a number of topics related to growing old as a magician.
• Alan Ward: digs out some Victorian trick drawings from his copious archive of curiosities.
• Malcolm Yaffe: ponders the application of applause cues
• John Rhodes: scans the press for mentions of magic and who is making the headlines.
• Mandy Davis reports on the Fringe at Southport
• News and Reviews conducted by Geoff
• Letters. Your chance to have your say
• Amanda Hyatt espies a naff table limper
• Magical Event diary... Is your sodety on the magical map?
• Unclassified Buy sell or swop
• Peter D'Arcy starts a new series for the children's entertainer
• Walt Lees considers a recent radio programme about exposure and the Magic Circle
• Al Smith and his gobsmacked punters
• Jim Breedon: turns detective with a magical thumb print.
• Peter Duffie: shows four cards with backs but no faces, which suddenly become printed. No, there are no extra cards!
• Steve Jones: uses dice to locate the aces.
• Peter Kane: has a method of causing a card to pass from one pile to another, which is totally different to the one he describes in the last issue.
• Werner Miller: presents an ingenious effect with a standard ESP deck.
• Barrie Richardson: describes a finesse to use when produdng a palmed card from the pocket.
• Alexander Allen: discloses how he solved a problem he found in using a Thumb Tip.
• Ron Chatbum with a clever variation on esp stacking
• Ian Adair: weighs in with two children's effects — a Visit to Magidand and some fishy business, simply entitled Caught!!
• Ali Cardabra: has devised reallife adaptation of an ancient optical illusion to make an ideal introduction to a Magic Washing routine.

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Issue 174

• News and Reviews by Geoff
• Henrique talks about some of his experiences when working close-up.
• Steve Jones is not so wet behind the ears when he explains how a magician should empty the bath
• Amanda Hyatt writes on cruelty to children.
• Unclassified Ads. Buy, sell, swop end exchange
• John Rhodes will be taking his usual soundings of magic in the media.
• Al Smith notes one way in which avoidable suspicion is often aroused.
• Magical Event Diary—Is your society on the map?
• Alan Ward shows his puzzling tricky triangles
• JJ's T.V. tale from the wagon
• Stephen Tucker with solutions for Euan Bingham's Three Mates
• Peter Duffle with a crystal dear Transpo
• Ian Adair shows how after some slick demonstrations of cutting to matching pairs, the faces all turn blank
• Alexander Allen reveals his method of holding a Fourth-finger Break, which leaves all the fingertips visible
• Peter Kane's unorthodox approach to the classic Four-ace Assembly is reprised.
• Werner Miller plays a game of chance that the spectator can never win
• Chris Wardle's Bells — a Christmas cracker of a dose-up effect
• James Ward humorously explains how to pull a plate of mince pies through a closed window
• Ian Adair's second offering is a sudden change of sponge cubes to balls
• Ali Cardabra describes his bending pencil — it makes a change from cutlery
• Alan Ward looks at an intriguing geometrical anomaly and explains how it works
• Peter D'Arcy's new series continues with a look at handling whole parties
• Arun Bonerjee is back another close-up mental mystery where he plays with matches
• Steve Jones has an entertaining prediction of one of five possible objects.
• Barrie Richardson shows a woman how to perform a miracle with eggs and a ring
• Walt Lees presents all square in the calendar

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