1. Show a deck of playing cards to your audience, and invite a spectator to freely select one card. Place that card face-up onto the deck. 2. Magically, the card slowly floats upward! You can even remove the card below the floating card, and the selected card remains suspended in mid-air. 3. The selected card slowly returns to the deck. You can immediately spread the deck to show the faces of all the cards.
Perform an incredible solid through solid effect with an ordinary die and just a couple of playing cards. Direct from the mind of one of the modern masters of gimmicks comes a visual miracle that you have to see to believe. This is Die-Abolical Bet by Nicholas Lawrence.Here’s what happens:The magician hands out a shot glass and translucent dice to be examined. The magician removes a pair of cards from the deck and stacks a card on the glass, the die on the card, and the second card on the die....
This effect is inspired by Jack Hughes’ Skeleton in the Cupboard, with a different presentation theme of a mis-made lady (as in the popular stage illusion) instead of a skeleton.The performer displays three blocks, which when correctly placed one on top
1. Six dice are placed into a small case at random and covered with a lid and shaken.2. When the lid is removed, the dice are lined up in order from 1 to 6. With another shake, the order of the dice reverses (6 to 1).3. The magician makes a prediction on a slip
1. Show a deck of playing cards to your audience, and invite a spectator to freely select one card. Place that card face-up onto the deck.2. Magically, the card slowly floats upward! You can even remove the card below the floating card, and the selected card remains suspended in mid-air.3. The selected card slowly returns to the deck. You can immediately spread the deck to show the faces of all the cards.
In this volume, Ross Bertram, noted Canadian magician, gambling authority, and coin magic expert, gives magicians the best of his many years of performing experience. It includes over 400 photos to explicitly portray every detail of the text.