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Jack Yates’ Line-Up is MARKED THOUGHT a mental card miracle Bob Mason’s seemingly impossible with a borrowed pack matching effect! From a mixed of cards. After a specta- pack, ten cards are dealt face tor thoroughly shuffles down on a table and a spectator a borrowed deck and freely marks several with a coin removes a dozen or so or poker chip. Ten more cards are cards, a number of spec- dealt on top of these – forming ten tators (up to the amount pairs. When the cards are turned of cards) each select and over, only the pairs marked by the remove a card from the spectator match! No marked cards. packet. These are gath- No gaffs. Plus, our new instructions ered up along with any unchosen cards in the packet and returned to explain how do it with a standard you. Without looking at the packet, you shuffle it a couple of times. You ESP deck (symbols match) or regular playing cards (with mates of then take the first card in hand and without looking at it, run your finger same value and color matching)! Ingenious, just one easy move underneath it and “feel for vibrations.” This card is now either rejected accomplishes everything. Keep in mind, after the cards are mixed, and tossed away, or handed to one of the participants – who confirms it no one ever sees the faces of the cards until the end of the test. is their card. This process is repeated until all but one of the selections 6 pages, illustrated. have been successfully returned and the rejected cards litter the table or floor. As you begin to prematurely take your bow, a chorus from the audience bellows out that you that you forgot someone. You now turn Synonymental to this person and after a moment of concentration, slowly describe the Ed Mellon's mental mystery with a packet card they chose – a fitting climax to this sensational mental demonstra- of 18 business-size cards – each with name tion. Use as a feature effect for club or stage, or near perfect impromptu of a different common object people carry effect. Clean and easy to do! 7-pages. in their pocket. Cards are now dealt in three rows of six cards each. Spectator places a pen Add this devastating mentalism effect to your own repertoire... or pencil on a card in the first row, a cigarette on a card in second row, and finally a coin on a card in the third row. As each card is turned SERIAL DECEPTION over it is seen to bear the name of the object Whether working impromptu or that the spectator placed on it! 8-pages. on stage or platform, the ability to divine the serial number on a bor- rowed bill or banknote is one of the Real People. Real Numbers. most devastating feats in the entire No Forces, Switches realm of mentalism. And yet, there or Gimmicked Pads. is relatively little information on this important topic in magical literature. That’s why, we are pleased to bring you a collection of some of the most deceptive bill reading methods ever developed from such legends as Dr. E.G. Ervin, Bob Nelson, Eric Mason, Ed Mellon, U.F. Grant and Ted Annemann. Over a half dozen methods in all. Plus, all are direct and 100% practical.

Volta Table Sealed ALMOST REAL PREDICTION Question Reading Method Download our instructions for This masterful, close-up sealed message reading technique was origi- Jack London’s legendary, original Business Card add-a-number effect. Plus, BONUS nally reserved for Hull’s $150 mentalism course. Perfected over years of section added with five additional Miracles Series professional work under demanding, sometimes surrounded, nite club London presentation ideas! Astounding and blatantly self-pro- conditions, it offers a convincing demonstration of thought reading for the table worker. Hull explains every move and subtlety along with the Also available... moting magic and mentalism effects you can perform with reasoning behind it – from start to finish. In addition, he provides a range ADD-A-NUMBER METHODS your business cards! All are easy of helpful tips and pointers for table work. These include how to deal A half dozen proven methods – to do and require a minimum of with hecklers, a major pitfall of table work to avoid, how to get paid for from self-working ploys to the preparation, if any. Volumes 1 -3 charity work, techniques for maximizing your fees and gratuities, boost- approaches used by top pros. now available. ing private party engagements, and more. 20 pages. ALL PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE BY INSTANT DOWNLOAD ON TRICKSHOP.COM. CLICK ANY ITEM TO VIEW.

“What a great treasure-trove of information! Thank you so much!” DECEPTIVE CARD FORCES - Mr Kerry Summers, USA Card forces are the workhorses of most magicians’ repertoires. So we believe it’s impossible to know too Brilliant DIY many really good ones. In this new, Book Tests photographically-illustrated guide Vols. I & II we provide easy-to-follow instruc- Perform powerful book tests with tions for 16 powerful forces – from best-selling books and paperbacks, semi-automatic and classic ones to trendy magazines, local phone books truly innovative and clever forcing or directories, and even the latest techniques we’ve uncovered in the pocket dictionaries with ease. If you magic literature that are sure to thought you had to spend hundreds of delight you. Plus, we’ve thrown in dollars to get a great, nearly self-work- three knockout effects. 21 pages, over ing book test, think again. In this, our two dozen crystal clear photos. latest release, Brilliant DIY Book Tests (Vols. I & II), we build on our earlier RUSSIAN ROULETTE work to bring you more than a dozen proven solutions from such lumi- Simulate the world’s most lethal game of chance, naries as Al Koran, David Hoy, William Larsen, Sr., Paul Curry, Dr. Jaks, Russian Roulette, with six cards from a borrowed Sid Lorraine, Richard Himber, U. F. Grant, Orville Meyer, Jack Dean and deck. Based upon a clever Jack Yates’ method. Works others! 26 pages, illustrated. with any cards. Easy to do. 5 pages THE THREE ARTICLE TEST ENVELOPING THOUGHTS Three brilliant solutions Ten of the most deceptive close-up card and envelope mindreading for the classic Three methods, variations and subtleties ever conceived – solutions from Article Test. Here’s mentalism greats like Ted Lesley, Dr. Stanley Jaks, Ned Rutledge, the basic effect: You J. G. Thompson, Jr., Eddie Clever, W. G. Magnuson, and course, Ted introduce or borrow Annemann. 16 pages, photo-illustrated. any three objects. For example, a watch, a ring and a key. You now turn VOLTA’S MASTER METHOD around and three dif- Add one of the most powerful ferent spectators each thought-reading weapons ever secretly place one of these objects in their pocket. Following a brief and devised to your mentalism arse- direct presentation, you reveal the object each spectator has hidden on nal. Originally developed by Burl- their person! No questions asked. No shills. No mirrors. No nail writers. ing Hull for his Q&A act performed No impression devices. No guess work! You are 100% correct every time. at posh supper and nite clubs, the All three handlings are different and easy to do! Ideal for parties and Volta Master Method remained other intimate gatherings. one of his most closely-guarded secrets for many years. Today, it is View our website for more Three Article Test solutions, including used by mentalists for everything Jack Miller’s Boxes of Chang and Wallace Lee’s Cryptesthesia. from Q&A presentations for large Also available... groups to private, one-on-one readings. BOB HUMMER’S Mathematical 3-Card Monte No Billets • No Tearing • No Steals • No Switches • No Carbons • No Envelopes Magician divines position of spectator’s thought-of card, despite the fact that he is given free reign to repeatedly shift the position of various cards STOP! with performer’s back turned! Also works with borrowed objects or find COLLECTED STOP TRICK METHODS an object hidden by a spectator under a cap, cup, thimble or shell! All variations explained, plus bonus mental card effect. 8 pages. Without a doubt, one of the most impressive ways to discover a selected card. After a spectator’s card is shuffled back into the pack, you deal the cards one at a time onto the table, the spectator being requested to say Air Tight Prediction “Stop!” at any time. This is done and the designated card is turned face upwards. Amazingly, it is the spectator’s card! We provide seven of the As seen at Mel Mellers’ Blackpool lecture! best ways to perform this reputation-builder. 14 pages. Now you can perform one of today’s hottest mentalism effects with ease! Audience mem- bers choose different features of their dream CONFABULATION The New Standard vacation. The answers they provide are IMPRESSION CARD CASE ultimately discovered to match those written on your prediction slip – a slip which was Construct an Impression Card Case with Bicycle’s sealed inside a balloon and safeguarded by a new “Standard” card case IN LESS THAN 10 MIN- spectator from the start of the presentation. UTES! An Impression Card Case that works as well No shills or assistants • No forces, psychological or otherwise • No carbons as Annemann’s original! 10 pages. No Swami gimmicks or nail writing • No suspicious or extra pen movements PAY SECURELY WITH PAYPAL OR ANY MAJOR CREDIT CARD

The gimmick? You’re looking at it! ARTHUR BUCKLEY’S THE MENTALIST’S PAD Card Control At last, an Arthur Buckley’s post graduate course impression in card magic first published in 1946. pad that defies This is a must-have resource for every detection. The serious card worker. Four Big Chap- Mentalist’s Pad ters! Chapter One covers fifty master is an ordinary sleights, so direct and clean cut that the looking writing modus operandi is concealed by nat- tablet that can ural movements that permit indetect- be handled freely, yet will capture Ultimate Koran Deck able execution as an automatic func- a clear impression of anything a tion. Chapter Two explains the choicest Reveal the identity of a card spectator writes or draws. And methods of gambling principles – merely looked at by a spectator. As while it rivals any well-made entertainment at the card table you will revel in. Chapter Three is devot- impossible as it seems, apart from clipboard in terms of performance ed to modern methods and new principles of back-palming and manip- fanning the cards at the begin- and deceptiveness; our innova- ulation with cards, revealing many new and revolutionary principles, all ning of the effect, you never need tive, new device costs just a few thoroughly practical. Chapter Four is devoted to a complete description touch or go near the deck again! dollars and takes less than 10 of over forty beautiful card effects invented by the author especially for Keep in mind, nothing is written minutes to construct. Use it for this book. 228 big pages, completely re-typeset with over 200 action down. There are no sleights, pre-show work, design duplica- photos of the author’s hands. glimpses or card control to worry tion, and more. about. No stooges, marked cards or gimmicks. 11 pages. ASTROLOGIA One-Man Act Magic for ASTROLOGIA is a sensational KORAN’S LINKING FINGER RINGS Monsters one-man mentalism act espe- Three men’s finger cially designed for more intimate by rings are borrowed settings, such as clubs, private and in the fairest Arnold Furst parties, smaller business groups, manner possible – etc. Albright shows you how to give LINKED TOGETHER to up to 30 “personalized” psycho- form a chain. The rings are then Hands down, one of the best logical readings with ease using his unlinked and returned to their books ever written on kid show special "prompter" method (with respective owners. 9 pages. work. Arnold Furst details his com- examples), as well as reveal written plete act, giving you a masterclass thoughts. Slightly different than on how to entertain children. The the standard Q&A approach you're SUPREME MENTAL seventeen tricks described include used to, but just as impressive DISCERNMENT every word of patter, every move, and much easier to perform. Every every gesture and nuance – all Spectator aspect of the act is covered in detail – from what to say and to how honed to perfection over years to say it, down to the underlying methodology (based on one simple shuffles deck of successful performances. This and mentally move) and subtleties. Plus, Albright even gives you seven proven includes several original comedy information-gathering methods for close-up work you can use for selects any routines that offer the maximum card. Nothing this act as well as private readings. The information contained in this in entertainment value and audi- publication is priceless to any mentalist or magician. 20 pages. is written – he ence response with a minimum just remembers of preparation or investment. it. Performer The book stresses the psychology FAKERITHMETIC asks him no questions but runs and presentation necessary for through the cards without looking the successful entertainment of Perform astonishing, rapid fire mental at the faces and picks out the one children. The effects are arranged calculations! First the audience gives spectator mentally thought of. As as a full hour presentation and can you five different four digit numbers, close to real mind reading as it be used under all conditions and these are written down just as called gets. Ralph Hull’s methodology is for every age level. If you perform out. This is the first problem. Next, the ingenious. No sleights. 13 pages. for children, this book is a must- audience calls out six different digits, have reference. Foreword by Miss which again you write down. These Check out our website for more Shari Lewis. Originally published numbers are used for the second brilliant THINK-A-CARD solutions! in 1960. 54 pages. problem. Without delay you proceed to write nine five-digit numbers that total JACK’S PACK the six-digit number called out by the Quickly determine the precise POSITION OF ANY spectators. You then turn your attention to the first problem and write CARD NAMED or THE IDENTITY OF THE CARD LO- the total after just glancing at it for a moment. Your audience may now CATED AT ANY POSITION in the deck. Imagine the independently verify the accuracy of your calculations for both prob- possibilities! No mental gymnastics, mnemonics or lems. A long-time marketed effect, Wallace the Magician confounded his multiple outs, just a clever arrangement and some regular audiences, as well as other magicians, expert mathematicians, easy math. And yes, you can show the faces of the accountants and engineers with this feat. Work it impromptu or feature cards without fear of detection. Works with any it on stage. Once you know the secret, it's easy to do! No complicated 52-card pack. 6 pages. memory work, nothing to set-up or conceal, and you don't have to be a real math wizard to look like one! 8 pages with illustrations. ALL PUBLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE BY INSTANT DOWNLOAD ON TRICKSHOP.COM. CLICK ANY ITEM TO VIEW. PHANTINI’S CHALLENGE George Tollerton’s Original PERFORM MIRACLES WITH ANY DECK MENTAL ACT PERFORMING FLEAS SI STEBBINS UNPLUGGED There’s a very good reason why Gene Grant’s complete, close-up  MagicWeek.com mentalism act that fits in your this seriously laugh out loud funny Unleash the potential of magic’s pocket! Six diabolical mentalism routine has found its way into the most powerful card control system. effects using simple, inexpensive programs of countless magicians In Si Stebbins Unplugged, you’ll objects you can carry in your since the 1940s. 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Priceless to the magical the system – from basic handling to entertainer. 5 pages. innovative concepts and techniques designed to elevate your work into Coincimental Revisited the miracle class. Dr. Thornton’s standout mental word matching effect. A spectator “CardSource features the slimmest, lightest index that I’ve ever seen...this THE ZENNER EFFECT and performer choose letters from is the stuff that reputations are made of. Highly recommended.” You and a spectator each begin two packs of shuffled Alphabet – Mr Duncan Trillo, MagicWeek.com with a standard set of five different Cards. As soon as the spectator’s ESP symbol cards. The spectator letters are arranged, the performer CardSource pockets one of his cards and then, turns his cards around to reveal CARD INDEX SYSTEM that not only have both chosen one by one, attempts to match Designed with today’s performer in mind, CardSource puts one of the same letters, they have both each card you lay face down on magic and mentalism’s most powerful secret weapons at your fin- formed the same word! Any one the table by placing one of his own gertips – the card index. With CardSource, you’ll be able to quickly of several words could have been symbol cards face up on top of it. formed from the cards chosen by and covertly acquire a duplicate of ANY card selected, named or When the cards are finally flipped the spectator even thought of by a spectator. CardSource takes just seconds to over – the symbols of every pair and he is deliver any card. No fumbling. No guesswork. Just the precise card match exactly, including your last even allowed you need, at the moment you need it. card and the spectator’s pock- to discard a “...a great version of the ‘any card at any number’ effect...” – MentalismUK eted card! 19 pages, illustrated, card before he includes David Britland’s original forms his four “Zennerism” routine, plus ESP letter word! ROUGH AND SMOOTH ROUGH STUFF symbol artwork. 42 pages. POSSIBILITIES Complete instructions – from This rare Tan Hock Chuan man- preparation to performance for uscript offers 11 effects based seven different trick decks from Vishnu Rope Miracle upon the rough and smooth Joe Berg and Al Aldini. Plus, we’ve A seven foot length of soft rope and a pair principle. Tricks include innova- added in two more popular decks of scissors are shown by the magician. He tive application of various half – Berg’s Ultra Mental Deck and holds one end of the rope up, and with the card roughing combinations that Vernon’s Brain Wave Deck. Plus, scissors, about two-thirds down, he cuts open even more possibilities and where to buy Roughing Fluid, the rope in two. The ends are tied together, amazing effects with one of the including commercially available then holding the rope up again he cuts the magic’s most powerful and close- liquid and spray products, plus longest rope in half, again tying a knot. ly-guarded methods. 17 pages. how to apply. 29 pages. Please remember that the rope is cut twice and that there are actually three pieces of rope seen. Another knot is tied, making the FOX MIRACLE GIMMICK HOMING CARD rope into a circle, and holding the rope in Perform absolute mind reading One of Fred Kaps’ signature his left hand, the magician cuts the knots miracles with a deck of cards. For effects. Performer shows five cards away. The mystical Hindu Word is spoken, VISHNU, and behold a miracle, years, this was Paul Fox’s best – four of which are spot cards and the rope is restored. Robert Ellis fooled many magicians with this one. kept secret. A small gimmick that the fifth, a Queen of the opposite Over a half dozen new photos. 5 pages with cover. allowed him to ascertain the iden- color. The performer repeatedly tity of cards merely thought of by discards the court card, only to one or more spectators. Nothing HIMBER’S THROW-OUT ROPE TRICK have it reappear in the packet to except the deck, is ever seen by his seeming consternation. His A six foot piece of rope is openly knotted, then cut. The two resulting the spectators. The gimmick does plight continues as cards are dis- pieces are seen to be knotted and cut again, apparently into four lengths. everything except whisper the carded one by one, until the last Then the rope is given a yank and the knots fly off the rope revealing a names of the chosen cards in your spot card changes into the Queen! neatly restored rope which can be used for other effects or tossed into ear. Easy to do. 10 pages with No gaffs. 9 pages plus Frederick the audience. 12 illustrations. Use any rope, no gimmicks. 13 pages. ready-to-print Paul Fox Gimmick artwork. Braue’s original handling.