$7(1 review, 6 customer ratings) ★★★★★
Over 60 routines and effects by various magicians including Dale Salwak, Ian Adair, Robert Olson, Percy Abbott, Walter Gibson, Charlie Miller, Peter Warlock, James Reneaux, and dozens more.
- Multiplying Golf Balls
- Golf Ball Routine
- A Flash Billiard Ball Sleight
- Color Changing Balls
- Ball Production
- Two Balls Vanish
- A Subtle Vanish Of A Ball
- Rainbow Ball Routine
- A Wrinkle For Rainbow Balls
- Billiard Ball Color Change
- A Ball Routine Flourish
- Routine With Four Solid Balls
- Routined Ball Sleights
- Cigarette And Ball Routine
- Cigarette - Ball and Hank
- A Billiard Ball and Silk Routine
- Change
- My Favorite Pocket Trick
- Tips On Ball Manipulation
- Shell Spinning
- Ball - Oon
- Novel Effects With Billiard Balls
- A Ball And Hat Trick
- Billiard Ball Climax
- A Silk Gesture
- Black Ball To White
- Ball Transposition
- Ball Transposition
- Color Changing Billiard Balls
- The Changing Balls...Improved
- Ball Color Change
- Vanishing Billiard Ball
- Flash Billiard Ball Finish
- Billiard Ball Vanish
- A Ball Penetration
- Ball And Hat Routine
- Flight Of The Billiard Ball
- Billiard Ball To Silks
- Hooked Golf Balls
- Confetti To Ball
- Zombino
- Ball-Glasses and Silks
- Presto Four Ball Vanish
- Bag – Snap
- Hole In Fore
- Tomato Surprise
- A Bag O' Balls
- Golfer S Dream
- Santa Sock Egg Bag Presentation
- The Skeets – Burgers
- Overhead
- Homing Balls
- Chameleon Ball
- Color Change Ball
- Ball Of A Different Color
- Billiard Ball Passe
- Giant Color Change With Silk
- Billiard Ball Change
- Unprepared Silk Ball Production
- A Colorful Ball Routine
- Ball Vanish
- The Confederate Ball Vanish
- Flourish Vanish
- Second Ball Production
- Rosini's Billiard Ball Move
- No-Gimmick Ball and Vase
- Ball Release
- Ping Pong Explosion
- Perpetual Balls
1st edition 1999, 104 pages; digital edition 128 pages.
word count: 35688 which is equivalent to 142 standard pages of text
Reviewed by Dr David T Williamson (confirmed purchase)
★★★★★ Date Added: Tuesday 25 August, 2026Although there is a wide variety of sleights, maneuvers, and routines, the majority of the content toward the back (using balls with props) requires other apparatus that the magi may not have lying around, thus making that content null. The hand-drawn illustrations are terrible. Not only should those be redrawn by someone other than a 3rd grader, there should be a lot more of them! If you are a visual learner you might have a difficult time following the narrative. But, all said, for $7 it's worth the purchase. You might have to look long and hard, but you'll get your money's worth.
A serious rewrite is warranted.
