If you were secretly given a playing card that had the genuine signature of someone in your audience, and no one knew or even suspected it existed, would you have a use for it? We thought so. And what if the method for obtaining this signed card happened to be an incredibly strong, 100% practical card effect? And what if the only props you needed to do all this were playing cards and a normal marker? No expensive or soon-outdated high-tech. And what if this utility principle and trick came with a number of other incredibly strong, utterly impossible-seeming card tricks using spectators’ signed cards, just to get your own creative juices flowing? If all this sounds like something you could use, Resigned to Miracles is your book.
The printing press of your dreams!Rub a blank sheet of paper, and instantly transform it into a genuine currency note! With the enclosed prop, you can apparently print money without any effort at all. Yes, the money at the end of this trick is real. A pocket printing press that your audiences will admire with envy and delight!
The book contains most of the original material but virtually everything has been re-written and benefits from the skill of an expert editor. There is a host of additional material written by Lewis Ganson and previously published in the Routined Manipulation series published by Harry Stanley.In previous editions of Al Koran's Legacy the instructions for Headline Prediction were hard to follow but Graham Jolley persevered in working out the correct method for the effect. And that is probably why,...
A spectator selects a card from the deck, and remembers it.The magician pours water into a container, and asks the spectator to concentrate on her card as she gazes at the water surface.An image of the selected card magically appears below the water's surface!
If you were secretly given a playing card that had the genuine signature of someone in your audience, and no one knew or even suspected it existed, would you have a use for it? We thought so. And what if the method for obtaining this signed card happened to be an incredibly strong, 100% practical card effect? And what if the only props you needed to do all this were playing cards and a normal marker? No expensive or soon-outdated high-tech. And what if this utility principle and trick came with ...
Dealer's Choice: A masterful routine of visual magic! Six cards, shown blank on both sides, are dealt out in pairs. As each pair is picked up and pushed through the performer's hand, winning cards for various games are "printed" visually:• Two red Threes for Canasta• The Ten of Diamonds and the Two of Spades (Big and Little Casino) for Casino• An Ace and Ten - 21 - for BlackjackThe face of one card then vanishes leaving a five-card Poker hand. The hand is worthless, however, but when the ...
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.