"Impromptu" (#126)

"Impromptu"(#126)

Effect :
A Card is selected by a spectator and placed back on top of the pack. The pack of cards is then cut several times and handed back to the magician. A pile of cards suddenly fall off the pack leaving the magician holding the spectators card.

SECRET
When the card is selected the card on the bottom of the pack is crimped by the magicians pinky.
The spectators card is then placed on the top of the pack and the pack is cut.
This now means that the spectators card is underneath the crimped card.
The pack of cards can be passed around the room to be cut several times and the spectators card will always be under the crimped card.
The pack is then handed back to the magician who quietly puts his thumb under the crimped card, appearing to be clumsy and allows the cards above his thumb to fall on the floor. The card under his thumb will be the spectators.
The magician can also allow the rest of the cards to fall leaving only the spectators card in his hand.
This card trick looks amazing because the audience has seen that the magician has not had a lot of contact with the pack and the whole routine has been totally impromptu

"Self-Working Anomoly" (#125)

"Self-Working Anomoly"(#125)

Method: : Shuffle a pack of cards well. Holding the pack face down, turn over the top card and place it face up on the table. Think of it as a pile. Starting with its face value, deal face up on top of it as many more cards as needed to reach 10.
For instance if it's a 3, deal seven cards on top of it; if it's a 5, deal five cards. Face cards count as 10, so no more cards are needed. An ace counts as 1 and needs nine more cards. Continue making piles as above, keeping them separate, until you have used up all the cards in the deck. If there are not enough cards to complete a final pile, keep that incomplete column in your hand. Now choose at random, any three piles that contain at least four cards each and turn these piles face down. Gather all the remaining cards in any order and add them to the cards (if any) in your hand.
Pick any two of the three face-down piles on the table, and turn up the top card on each of those two piles. Add their values together. Remove this number of cards from those in your hand, and then remove an additional 19 cards. Count the remaining cards in your hand. Now turn up the top card of the third pile. Its value will equal the number of cards in your hand.

"Mind Mimic" (#124)

Mind Mimic(#124)

Effect : In this baffling routine the magician asks a member of the audience, a series of questions, a lot of them that are unique to that person. The spectator is asked to write each answer on a piece of paper and place the piece of paper in glass. At the same time, the magician is seen to be concentrating deeply and writing his prediction on a separate piece of paper which he also puts in another glass. After the last question has been asked, the magician's predicted answers are compared with the spectator's answers and are found to be the same. This can get an amazing reaction from the audience as the magician is seen to be able to read thoughts.

SECRET: The spectator is asked a series of questions and asked to write them on a piece of paper and place the piece of paper in a glass. After each answer has been placed in the glass by the spectator, the magician asks the spectator what answer they had given. The magician acknowledges that he had also predicted that answer and placed it in his glass.

Really, the magician writes the spectators answer one question behind. The spectator has told the magician, the answer to the last question asked which the magician will write and put in his glass after asking the next question. When the first question has been asked and the spectator reveals his answer, the magician has placed his supposed prediction in another glass at the same time. What he has actually written on his paper is "carrot " which is the most probable answer to the final question that the spectator will be asked shortly. The will allow the magician to write each answer as the spectator reveals it. The spectator will be unaware that the magician is writing his answers one question behind. Take out the papers from the glasses and pair up the answers. Stand back and watch the amazed expression of your onlookers.

"Salt Card Prediction" (#123)

Salty Cards Prediction (#123)

With nothing more than kicking a deck of cards you can tell which is the chosen card.

Method
Have a shuffled deck of cards placed on the floor. Have a person look through the deck and choose a card. Have him/her place his card on top of the deck. Now have them cut the deck into five piles. (Remember that their chosen card is on the top of the first pile.)
Now, by pointing to the piles have them put the deck back together in a different order.

As you are pointing at the card piles, instructing the audience member to put them back together, you take a pinch of salt and drop it on top of the chosen card as you point to it)

Then, lightly kick the deck of cards with your right foot, slide into the cards to make them glide to the left.

Examine the deck. The place in the deck with the most distance between one card and the next is the chosen card.

OR, just by sliding the cards in one direction you will find that the choosen card will usually be exposed easily----practice it a few times !!

"BOTTOMS UP" (#122)

"BOTTOMS UP"(#122)

Effect: A pack of cards is fanned out in front of a spectator. The magician runs his fingers around the card fan and the spectator is asked to tell him when to stop his fingers on a card. This card is shown to the audience, replaced in the pack and the pack handed back to the spectator to shuffle. The magician then reveals the card which was chosen.

Method: Ask a spectator to shuffle the cards. When he/she hands them back to you note the bottom card . That is going to be their card.
Start by fanning the cards out. Run your finger across them and ask the spectator when to stop. When he/she says to stop, put your thumb on that point of the deck.
While your thumb is on that point, use your other fingers to slowly work the bottom card under your thumb. As you pull the cards off the top of the deck with your thumb, slide the bottom card under the other cards and pull them off the deck and show the spectator his/ her card. This is where you take over. Since you already know the card you can have the spectator cut, shuffle, e.t.c.

"Liquor Switch"(#121)

Liquor Switch (#121)

Challenge: One shot glass is filled with water and the other with whisky. The challenge is to get the whisky in the glass that has the water and the water in the glass that has the whisky without using any other containers including your mouth.

Preparation: You needTwo identical shot glasses One non porous piece of paper, like a playing card. Water and your choice of spirit.

Solution: Place the non porous paper ( playing card ) on top of the shot of water. Turn the card and the water shot glass round carefully. The paper will stay attached to the shot glass easily. Now place the water shot glass and card, still upside down, on top of the shot of bourbon. Slowly and carefully, pull the playing card just far enough out to make a small opening between the two glasses. Water, being heavier than alcohol, will flow into the whisky glass and displace the whisky into the water glass.

You have just made the switch.

If you are truly skilled at this bar trick, you will be able to replace the paper between the two shot glasses and remove the whisky and put it back on the bar.
Please make sure that the opening between the glasses is very small as a large opening will cause the water and alcohol to mix.

"Magic in a Glass"(#120)

Magic In A Glass (#120)

The magician takes a long-stemmed glass and announces that he's going to perform a card trick. The amazing thing about this card trick is that he wont be able to touch the cards, because they'll be inside the glass the whole time!

Placing the pack, face out in the glass, the magician states that he's going to find all four aces using special " Locator Cards ". He reaches into the glass and pulls out a red number card ( we'll use the Ten of Hearts for the example ) and puts it in front of the rest of the cards in the deck so that the ten of hearts is the card the spectator now sees looking at them through the glass.

The magician then states that he will let that red 10 find a red ace . Holding the glass by the stem, the magician passes a cloth napkin over the glass, quickly. When the napkin has completed it's quick pass, the red 10 has been replaced by a red ace ! The magician then takes the red ace and puts it in back of the deck and passes the napkin again.

This time, the red 10 is replaced by the other red ace ! Now the magician gets a black number card (say, 6 of spades) for the " Locator " and puts it in front of the red 10. A quick napkin pass, and there's a black ace!

The magician takes the ace and puts it in back of the deck. Another pass, and there's the last black ace! Now pull out the pack and put it back in the case, smiling as you take your bow. All of this magic occurs in the glass, so there's apparently no way that you could've manipulated the cards!

SECRET:
A slight amount of preparation work is required, but this is worth it. First, find a wine or any other long-stemmed glass that will allow you to set at least half a deck of cards in it.

There can be no design on the glass or stem!!! Next, take the two red aces and glue them back to back. Make sure you make them look as much like one card as possible!

Do the same with the two black aces. Now get two identical number cards - one black and one red - from an identical deck. Glue one red and one black back to back. Don't do this with the other ones. Finally, get a cloth napkin that is big enough and dark enough to completely cover the glass.


Set up the deck like this: The black 6 card face up on top of the face-down deck. Now, set the double-sided black ace on top of it. Now place the double-sided " red 10 /black 6" card with the red 10 face-up. Next, comes the double-sided red aces. And finally, the last red 10 FACE DOWN on the face-down deck.
The rest is showmanship. Place the deck in the glass with the bottom card facing your spectator. Announce that you're going to do the trick using a red locator card . Pull the red 10 off the top of the deck and put it on the bottom, facing the spectator. You should now be looking at a red ace . Holding the glass by the stem, you pass the napkin over the glass and spin it around so that the ace is now facing the spectator.
It helps if you hold the glass with you fingers rigid and the stem in the first bend of your finger. When you spin the glass, your thumb does the work and your fingers look pretty much the same. Now take the ace and put it on top of the deck.
You should now be looking at the other red ace . Perform the pass/spin again, and your spectator sees the other red ace . Now say that you need a black locator card. Take the red/black card off the top with the 6 facing. When you get to the black aces, if you stick the Ace of Spades on top so that it's the first ace you'll show, you can ask the spectator to name a black ace. Nine out of ten times, they'll say the Ace of Spades!
You then make it appear for them. If they happen to mention the Ace of Clubs, just say "So that leaves the Ace of Spades," and make it appear.

"Dragon Breath" (#119)

"Dragon's Breath" (#119)

Preparation:
1 glass, a matchbook, six coins, and an ashtray with water.

Objective:
Bet your friends one drink that you can get the water out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without moving or tilting the ashtray.

SECRET
Make sure ashtray is filled with at the most, a quarter of an inch of water. Stack the coins in the center of the ashtray so that the top two coins are above the water. Place four unlit matches on top of the coins. Light the matches and immediately cover the flame and coins with the glass. The water will be drawn into the glass. You win !!! collect your bets

"PRESTO" (#118)

"PRESTO" (#118)

Effect: The spectator chooses a card. After a series of shuffles the spectator spells a magic word and finds his card. But the magician never touches the cards from the start of the trick to the end.

Secret: Hand a full deck of cards to a volunteer to shuffle. (Make sure it's a FULL deck.) Ask the volunteer to deal the deck into two piles. Have them choose one of the piles and remember the bottom card. Tell the volunteer to look at it but not to show you. Ask them to place the pile containing the bottom card on top of the other pile. Then ask the volunteer to deal the deck into four piles from left to right.

Pick up each pile and ask the volunteer if their card is in that pile. As you ask, reassemble the deck, making sure the pile with their card goes on the very top. Give the deck to the volunteer and have them deal the cards, one at a time face down on the table, spelling out the word "PRESTO". Have them turn the next card over. This is their chosen card!

"Coin from thin Air" (#117)

" Coin From Thin Air " (#117)

Effect: Amazing audience reaction because even though it's clear your hand is empty, you appear to grab coin after coin from behind their ears, under tables, even from thin air!

You Will Need:1 coin 1 thin strip of scotch tape.

How To Do The Trick :
1. Stick the coin to the back of your hand with a small(2 - 3 inches) piece of clear adhesive tape. The coin will hang down the back of your hand a few inches on the tape. This will let you palm the coin behind your hand very easily while the front of your hand faces the audience.

2. Begin with the coin hanging behind your hand. Hold your hand naturally so that no one will think that something is in it.

3. Find a place where you can reach out with your hand, putting it temporarily out of sight of the audience. For example, under a table, or behind their ear. Reach your hand out and when the hand is at an angle that is out of view of the audience, flip the coin up so you can grab it with your thumb, then bring your hand back into view. It will look like the coin came from nowhere!

4. Do this a few more times.

5. To create a good finish, reach out into the air and flip the coin up into your fingers. Don't do it too fast-- or the coin will come off the tape. This will look like you grabbed the coin out of thin air

"World's Simplest Trick" (#116)

World's Simplest Trick (#116)

Don't Be Fooled By This Trick's Simplicity, It Really Works !!!
Effect: You take out a deck of cards and ask the spectator to shuffle it thoroughly. You then ask him to name any two cards (just the name of the card, without the suit). After the spectator names two cards, you put your hand on the deck of cards, and concentrate hard on it. After a minute or so, you ask the spectator to turn over the deck of cards and fan through it. Astonishingly, the cards that he names are right next to each other.
You Need: A deck of cards .
Nothing! You really don't do anything! If I have to say, the only thing you have to do for this trick is to act like you are really concentrating very hard on the cards when you put your hand on them. That's all! This trick simply works! All by itself! This trick works by probability.
When the spectator names two cards (remember to tell him not to name the suit), let's say Ace and Ten, he is really naming four cards of each kind since the suit is not specified. The theory is that out of those eight cards (Ace of Spades, Ace of Hearts, Ace of Clubs, Ace of Diamonds, Ten of Spades, Ten of Hearts, Ten of Clubs, Ten of Diamonds), at least one of the Aces in the deck will be next to one of the Tens. Don't believe this? Try it out! About 10% of the time, there may be a card between the Ace and the Ten. If that happens, simply tell the spectator that you are not concentrating hard enough. When you repeat the trick, it will work. You can never find a trick that's easier than this one!
Note: This trick can be done to the same spectator a few times, but if you do it too many times, they will eventually figure it out. So, don't overdo this one!

"Matching Sisters" (#115)

Matching Sisters(#115)

Effect: The two black queens find the two red queens by being put into the deck where the spectator freely wants to place them.

Secret: Start by putting one red queen on top of the face down deck and the other red queen at the bottom both face down.

Next, give the two black queens to a spectator. Start dealing cards off the top of the deck, laying them in a face down pile on the table, until the spectator tells you to stop.
Have the spectator put the first black queen, face up, onto the pile on the table (these are the cards you have just counted face down) Then drop the remainder of the deck in your hand face down onto the black queen (so the only card facing up is the black queen)

Next, repeat the process above, having the spectator put in the other black queen, face up, and drop the remainder of the deck on top of the other black queen, again face down. Have the spectator cut the deck, and complete the cut.

Now announce that without any help from you the spectator was able to find the black queens sisters. Simply go to the face up black queens, take them out, and the cards immediately above each will of course be the red queens.

NOTES: You can very easily put the two red queens in place while you find the black ones right under their noses. As long as you don't make a big deal out of it no one will suspect a thing.

"jumping rings"(#114)

" The Jumping Rings" (#114)

The magician holds a rope between his hands. There are three knots tied on it, and on the center knot is tied to a wire hanger. The magician says a magic word and FLASH, right before everyone's eyes, the hanger jumps from the center knot to the right knot!

SECRET

Use a strong piece of rope, about 3' long. It should be about ¼" thick. It shows 4 knots on the rope. Knots B, C and D are regular knots. The hanger is tied to knot C. But knot A isn't a regular knot, it is a "slip knot." It looks pretty much like the others, but when pulled by the ends of the rope, comes undone.

Begin the trick with knot D covered by your right hand. Hold the rope so that knots A, B, and C are showing.

Say: "Here we have three knots. Notice that a hanger is tied onto the end knot. But watch … Abracadabra!"

Now, do two things:
First: Pull the rope very tight between your hands. This will cause the slipknot (A) to come undone. It seems to disappear.
Second: Pull the rope again with the left hand. Slide knot D from your right hand. When you do this fast, it looks to the audience as if the hanger has jumped from the end knot to the center knot.
Practice, practice, practice … try it in front of a mirror, then when you can do it fast and smoothly, try it in front of your friends and family.

"Money Appearance" (#113)

"MONEY APPEARANCE" (#113)

You Will Need:

Some Money Bills
Long Sleeved Jacket or Sweater

Calmly seated at a table, the magician invites a spectator to sit down across the table from him. The magician opens both hands and clearly shows them on both sides, to show that they are completely empty.To reinforce this fact, each sleeve is pulled up to expose the magicians lower arms and each hand again is shown open at this stage.
The magician then clasps both hands together and with a vigorous rubbing motion, proceeds to spew a fountain of seemingly limitless money bills, out from between his hands.

What's The Secret?

Simply roll up a few money bills into a tight roll and place the tube of bills in a crease in the sleeve of your jacket, right where there is a bend at the elbow. Do this before inviting the spectator to join you for this amazing illusion.. If you hold your arm relaxed, with your elbow resting on the table, the roll of bills should remain concealed.
Then, when you pull up your second sleeve, pull the sleeve, near to the hidden bills. Open your hand to show it is empty, this action will distract the spectator's attention, allowing you to subtly sneak the bills into your other hand. Place hand s quickly together and you should be able to push out the bills from your finger tips, one by one. This really works!! Try it a few times for practice first.

"1-100" (#112)

"1 -100" (#112)

Pick a number between 50-100 with even and different digits.”

Answer: 68.

Mental Quickie" (#111)

"Mental quickie"(#111)

. “Think of any card” it's a wild guess but a spectator will almost always think of the Nine of diamonds, Ace of spades, Queen of Hearts or the Six of Clubs. Have each of those cards hidden on you in different pockets, remember which card is where so that you can reveal the hopefully chosen card.

"coin change" (#110)

"Coin Change" (#110)

The Effect:You throw a nickel into your hand a couple of times and then close your hand around it. When you open your hand, it has turned into a quarter!

The Method:

I usually do not post a trick that requires "skill", but this one is simple and requires little practice.

Place the quarter into your right hand fingers (known as the finger palm position, see illustration on the left showing your fingers slightly curled ) and then hold the nickel between your right index finger and thumb of the same hand. Only the nickel should be visible to the spectator.
Coin held in finger palm position.

Throw the nickel into your left palm a couple of times and pick it back up again.
This time, pretend to throw it again, but instead retain it and drop the quarter into your left palm instead. Immediately close your left hand around the quarter.
Conceal the nickel in your right hand and as you slowly open your left hand, ditch the nickel into one of your pockets. The spectator will see that the coin in your left hand has turned into a quarter!

"Elevator Card" (#109)

"Elevator Card" (#109)

Effect: The top card of the deck is turned face up to the audience.
The card is once again turned face down and removed from the deck.
The magician now places this card into the middle of the deck and then squares the deck
The magician clicks his fingers and the card returns immediately to the top of the deck.

Method: This trick uses the principle of the double lift (lifting two cards instead of one).

When showing the top card actually perform a double lift and show the card that was really second from the top of the pack.
Then remove the actual top card and place it into the middle of the deck.
The already shown card is still on the top of the deck and can be revealed in any way that the magician wishes.
Make sure that the double lift is clean and bend the cards slightly to ensure that they stay together as one.

"phone book prediction"(#108)

"PHONE BOOK PREDICTION" (#108)

Effect
The magician draws attention to a windowed envelope standing on a stand on stage. The audience can see a piece of paper inside the envelope. The magician explains this will come in to play later on. A spectator is invited to sit on a chair on stage. This person is given a phone book.
A beach ball is then thrown out in to the audience. The first person to catch it is asked to call out any page number in the phone book. The spectator on stage opens the phone book to that page. Again, the ball is thrown, and another person calls out a column number, our local phone book has four columns on a page. The spectator goes to that column in the phone book. Finally, another person calls out a line and spectator looks at the name on that line and circles it with a pen, he DOES NOT reveal the name yet. This really is a random name choice, absolutely NO force. The magician then draws attention to the envelope and the prediction that is inside. The envelope is turned upside down. The audience sees the prediction fall out. Spectator finally reveals the name he has circled and it matches EXACTLY the prediction that was inside the sealed envelope. I have also performed this where I also reveal the phone number as a kicker.

THE HOW
The strong point of this routine is that the spectator never reveals the name in the phone book until the very end, so how does the performer know the name to load it? All will be revealed.

I actually have two identical phone books, one is onstage, the other offstage with my wife. As people are calling out the numbers, columns and a line, my wife is offstage following along. As soon as she hears the line number, she finds the name and phone number and uses her cell phone to text message me the results. My cell phone is onstage in my case.

Without exposing the exact method for loading Dream Prediction, I use a white board to write down the answers as they are called out by the audience. This gives me the opportunity to load the final prediction without audience seeing it. Once the spectator starts looking at the name in the phone book, I go to my case to get a pen for them to circle it. All I have to do is glance at my phone and read the text message. The first thing I read is the name. I hand the spectator on stage the pen, asking them to circle the name they are looking at. This gives me time to do the ‘dirty´ work and as the envelope is opened and the final prediction falls out revealing my prediction. I can now follow this prediction routine by revelaing the phone number. As I put everything back in my case and the audience thinks it´s all over, I get a glimpse of my cell phone and look at the phone number on the text. It´s then a matter of asking the person to concentrate on the phone number. I then reveal the numbers as I write them in front of them on the white board. Of course, you could memorise both name and number to start and have both on the prediction. I am a huge fan of using technology to perform magic, and in this case, the cell phone replaces the need for a spectator to actually walk onstage and hand you the information. This makes this type of effect so much stronger. I am sure many of you will take this effect and using the cell phone idea come up with your own ways to reveal the final prediction.