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first became interested in magic at the age of four when I saw a magician on TV for the very first time in my life. Shortly after that, my mum bought me a magic box, so I started to perform magic tricks in the kindergarten.

The Hungarian magic literature is nearly nonexistent; there are only four or five books for children and only one of them was available in our small village library. Only two magic clubs

existed, and both were in Budapest (the capital of Hungary), which was too far from where I was living. So, at that time children like me had no real opportunity to get involved in magic. As a result, I stopped doing magic when I was about thirteen or fourteen, and forgot about it for quite some time.

Ten years later, when I was living in Budapest, on my way to the university one day and completely by

accident, I walked past the one and only Hungarian magic store... and my interest was revived.

At first I started to buy videos, as it seemed much easier to learn from them, however, a few years later I became more interested in books. My reasoning for this was that I thought that, for the same money, I could get far more tricks if I bought a book instead of a video. It took immense effort for me to read the first books – because of my poor English knowledge at that time – but I soon realized that learning magic from books can be much more stimulating and inspiring than watching magic videos.

Aldo Colombini, Peter Duffie, Stephen Tucker, Phil Goldstein, Karl Fulves and Jon

Racherbaumer became my favourite authors. And, as I became more confident, I tried to reach out to some of the experts that I valued the most. I'm very grateful that I was able to share some of my tricks with my favourite magicians and get feedback from them.

Over the years... Wild Colombini Magic have marketed my Shouting Jokers, The

Magicbox have marketed my Element

routine, the ebook site Lybrary.com carries my Cardophilia, The Gleaner and Simple Sample ebooks and Peter Duffie published my Colour Scheme routine in his Mind Blasters II ebook.

For a few years I was living in Blackpool, and I am very grateful to the

Blackpool Magicians’ Club for accepting me as an associate member. I really enjoyed the club meetings and I am very lucky that I met a lot of great people and magicians there.

I am interested in close-up magic, but mainly in card magic.

I now live in Budapest, but I am always planning to move back to my village. I am a member of both Hungarian clubs, but unfortunately I rarely have time to visit them.

All the photos of me that appear in this ebook, including the one on the cover, were taken by my girlfriend, Mónika Szigeti.

Finally, I would like to thank Stephen Tucker for offering me the opportunity to first publish these routines in The Budget magazine, and for putting this ebook together for me.

Meet the author... József Kovács

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INTRODUCTION

On July 26th, 2012 József Kovács emailed me out-of-the-blue regarding a

British magazine that he was trying to track down.

After a brief exchange of emails József mentioned that he had a few

routines that he would like to offer for publication in The Budget magazine

(the monthly magazine of Ring 25 of the I.B.M. of which I am the current

editor).

I had already heard of József’s magic, having read his routines in several

of both Peter Duffie and Aldo Colombini’s ebooks, and in various

magazines. I also knew that Magicbox (a UK dealer) had marketed his

ELEMENT: an experiment in pseudology, so I was delighted to reply...

“Yes please!”

By the way, you can watch a video demonstration of József’s ELEMENT

here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSnA2CtYJ0

József then set to work translating ten routines for me from his native

Hungarian into English, and I published one each month, from January to

October, throughout 2013. He even sent me a bonus eleventh routine, his

RESIGNATION, which will appear in The Budget some time in 2014.

József was also kind enough to give me permission, in a year or two, to

email out “taster” ebooks (containing a few routines from each of his

ebooks) FREE to those British Ring members of the I.B.M. who opt for the

electronic version of The Budget rather than the printed version.

My thanks to József for his kindness in all the above, and for the eleven

excellent routines that you will encounter in this ebook. It is nice to see

them all brought together under one cover.

If you enjoy these routines, be sure to check out his other ebooks, lecture

notes and manuscripts... they are all great and I highly recommend them.

Stephen Tucker

(October 1st 2013)

Email: stephen [email protected]

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he first effect in my CARDOPIA series combines the 21 Card Trick with Paul Flory’s Think of Any Card.

You need a special deck. The top 21 cards are stacked in Bart Harding order (if you don’t know the Bart Harding stack, see the note at the end), these are followed by 10 indifferent cards. The next 21 cards are duplicates of the top 21 and they are in the same order. The 31st card from the top (the 10th indifferent card) is Breather Crimped (though other key card will also work fine) so that you can cut it to the face of the deck.

Ed:- A video explanation of the Breather

Crimp can be found at the YouTube url below. Spread over the top 21 cards into your right hand, without changing their order, and table the lower part of the deck face down.

Fan the 21 cards in your hands, showing their faces. Ask a lady to think of any one of these cards. Square the cards and drop them face down onto the tabled cards. Pick up the deck and hold it face down in Dealing Grip. Deal out a row of seven cards, from left to right, then repeat this two more times, dealing rotationally as in a card game, until you have seven piles with three cards in each.

Number the piles (mentally) from left to right: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Ask her to guess which pile contains her card. Show her the faces of the cards in the selected pile then table the pile face down where it came from. Ask if she was successful or not. Continue this guessing game until she finds her card. Congratulate her. Remember the number belonging to the pile with the thought of card in. Ask her to collect the piles together, in any order, and then drop these cards onto the rest

of the deck.

Pick up the deck and hold it face down in

Dealing Grip. This time deal out three piles onto the table with seven cards in each pile. Again... deal rotationally, as in a card game from left to right. Assign the three piles (mentally) from left to right with the following numbers: 14, 7 and 0. Say that her task is now much easier, as there are only three piles. Ask her to guess which pile contains her card. Show the faces of the selected pile to her and ask if she was successful or not. Continue this guessing game until she finds her card. Congratulate her. Remember the number belonging to the pile that contains her card and add it to your previous secret number. The sum tells you the position of her thought of card in the stack and because you know the position of the card... you can calculate its identity! Ask her to collect the piles together, in any order, shuffle them and drop them onto the rest of the deck. Ask her to cut the deck as many times as she wishes.

Pick up the deck and cut the crimped card to the face. The top 21 cards are now stacked in Bart Harding order. Table the deck face down. Tell her that it’s your turn now. Adding that, because there is only one pile (the whole deck) on the table, your task is the easiest, as you are sure that her card is in the deck. After saying that, concentrate then name her thought of card and its position from the top.

Finally, deal/count down to it to reveal it.

Note: If you don’t know the Bart Harding

stack use ANY 21 cards and 21 duplicates of them. Write down the order of the 21 card stack on a piece of paper that you can later peek at after you have learned the position of the thought of card.

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Or...

equired: A 52 card deck with a corner

short card on top. Look through the cards, faces toward you, and move the Kings to the face of the deck in alternated colour order. Hold the deck face up in dealing position. Spread the Kings into your right hand, showing them, obtain a little finger break below the face card of the deck. Square the Kings on the face of the deck, stealing the face card below them. Table the Kings face up with your right hand,

immediately turning your left hand palm down, so that no one can see that the face card has changed. Table the deck face down with your left hand.

Ask someone to cut off half the deck and table the cut off portion next to the rest of the cards. Ask her to cut off half of the right hand pile and table these cards to the right. Ask her to cut off the half of the left pile and table these cards on the left side. There is a row of four piles on the table and the short card is on the far left or on the far right pile (it depends if she is right or left handed and where she put the cut off cards at the first cut). Let’s assume that the short card is on top of the far right pile. Mentally number the piles 1 to 4 from left to right.

Pick up the Kings, turn them face down and put a King on the top of each pile starting from the left. The fourth King is a double card really. You can flash the faces of the second, third and fourth Kings. Give her pile 1 and ask her to shuffle it. Meanwhile you pick up pile 2 and shuffle it; shuffling the top card to the face. Table your pile where it came from and have the spectator do the same with her pile.

Give pile 3 to her to shuffle. Meanwhile you shuffle pile 4; shuffle off four cards one-by-one and drop them back on top then...

repeat this (the order of your pile is the same as it was.) Table your pile

where it came from and have the spectator do the same with her pile.

Put pile 1 onto pile 2 with your left hand and at the same time put pile 4 onto pile 3 with your right hand. Put the combined piles 3 + 4 onto the remaining pile. The order of the deck from the top down is: two Kings, the short card, 48 cards, a King. Ask her to cut the deck and complete the cut at around its middle. Tell her that the Kings are lost and your task is to find them... with her help.

Hold the deck face down in dealing position. Riffle up from the bottom until you hit the short card (the short card is the top card of the lower portion). Riffle off two more cards then cut the deck at that point. Put the top two cards (.ings), squared as one, face down in front of you. Give the deck to her and ask her to do the same as you did; cut the deck at its middle and put the top card in front of her.

Take the deck back and riffle up again from the bottom until you hit the short card. Riffle off one more card and cut the deck at that point. Put the top card (.ing) on top of the double card (.ings) in front of you. Give the deck to her and ask her to cut the deck and then put the top card in front of her. Ask her to table the deck. Drop her two cards on top of your two (really three) cards. Pick up the four (?) cards face down from above (Biddle Grip). Peel the top three cards one-by-one into your left palm. Put the double card remaining in your right hand under the left hand cards. Turn the four cards face up and perform an Elmsley Count to show that, between you, you have found the four Kings!

One King is seen twice, but no one will notice this as they see two red and two black Kings.

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Passes

worked out the following after reading Karl Fulves’ Square One from his Four Color Problems booklet.

Required: A marked ESP deck stacked in

cyclic order: circle, cross, wavy lines, square and star repeated five times, from the top down, throughout the 25 card deck.

Performance: Cut the deck, completing

the cut, a few times. Hand the cards to a lady and have her do the same. When she has finished, secretly read the back of the top card and remember it. Turn your back.

Ask her to deal five cards, from left to right, on the table in a face down row and then discard the rest. Ask her to turn any card face up in the row as her chosen card. Have her remember it. Ask her to turn any other card face up in the row. Next, ask her to switch the positions of the two face up cards. Then, ask her to switch the position of her card with one of the three face down cards. Then, ask her to switch the positions of the other two face down cards. Next, Ask her to switch the positions of the two face up cards. Finally, have her turn all the face up cards face down.

Turn to face her again. Now, because you know what the original top card was, before she dealt out the cards, you know in which order the five cards should be. However, the spectator has since changed their order but, there is still one card, which is where it was originally. That is the chosen card!

Concentrate... then name the chosen ESP card and turn it face up on the table.

To clarify... fig. 1 shows a row of five face down ESP cards, marked as shown.

Let us assume that she turns the wavy lines face up as her selection, then turns the star face up and then switches the positions of these cards. Fig. 2 shows this. Fig. 3 shows

the position after her card has been switched with one of the face

down cards. Fig. 4 shows the position after the other two face down cards have been switched. Fig. 5 shows the position after the two face up cards have been switched. Fig. 6 shows the position after all the face up cards have been turned face down. Only the wavy lines card is in its original position!

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Please

his is not a trick. It is a control of a selected card, which has been lost in the deck very fairly by the spectator while you have your back turned. I have based it on Stewart James’ Vida Pack.

You need to make one of your Jokers into a very special key-card. Put a Breather Crimp (www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexS00QFxYI) in the card, so that you can cut it to the bottom of the deck, but also trim away a little of the card from the upper right and lower left corners or... bend/break the lower left and upper right corners of the face down Joker. This means that, if you riffle up the deck at its bottom left corner with your right thumb you will hear a click as you reach one of the Joker’s short corners. Cut the deck at that click point and the Joker becomes the top card of the deck. So you now have a key-card that you can cut to the bottom of the deck, using the Breather Crimp, but you can also cut it to the top of the deck by using the short (or broken) corners.

Performance: Ask a lady to shuffle the

deck. Ask for the cards back, and cut the Joker to the face. Table the deck. Turn your back. Ask her to cut off about a third of the cards and set them to one side for the moment. Ask her to cut off a very small portion (ideally less than 10 cards) from the top off the remaining cards in front of her. Ask her to count (silently) the number of cards in her cut off portion, by spreading through them. Have her now shuffle them, remember the face card and drop the cards back on top of those on the table. Ask her to pick up the tabled cards and to cut them a few times. Ask her to deal all of these cards out into as many piles as her secret number is (dealing from the top, like in a card

game). Ask her to collect all the piles together, in any order,

and drop all of these cards on top of the cards that she cut off, and set aside at the very start. Ask her to hold the now assembled deck and to cut it a few times.

Take it back and give it a Charlier Shuffle. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjgcwV3wAI) Next, give the cards a few genuine cuts – making sure that you cut your special Joker to the top (back) of the deck on the last cut.

The chosen card is now the face card of the deck. You can finish the trick in any way you like. You can palm her card and then produce it from your pocket or wallet. Or cut it to the top, perform a Braue Reversal (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz9r-XR49cU) then show that her card is now face up in the middle of the face down deck.

The possibilities are endless.

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Odd Backed Triumph

his trick was inspired by Nick Trost’s Dingle’s Royal Triumph trick, which appeared in The Card Magic of Nick Trost.

Requirements: a blue backed deck of

cards, a double backed card (blue/blue) and a red backed card (for example the Five of Hearts).

Set-up: The order of the deck, from the

top down is as follows... an indifferent card face down, the red backed Five of Hearts face up, the double backed card, the blue backed Five of Hearts face down followed by the rest of the deck face down.

Performance: False shuffle, keeping at

least the top four cards in place. Double undercut the top (back) three cards to the bottom (face) of the deck. Now force the top card on a spectator using the Balducci Cut Deeper Force: Have someone lift off a small packet of cards from the top of the deck, have them turn them face up and replace them on top. Next have them cut off a larger packet of cards (cutting deeper into the deck), turn these face up and place them back on top. If you now take the deck back and spread through the face up cards until you reach the face down section, the first face down card you reach is your force card (the blue backed Five of Hearts), which you thumb off for them to look at.

While they look at their card, flip the face up cards in your hand face down onto the rest of the face down deck. Ask the

spectator to push her selection back into the middle of the deck face down. Perform Tenkai’s Triumph Move: Lift up the top half of the deck with your right hand (from above in Biddle Grip), turn your right hand palm up and your left hand palm down at the same

time, put the left hand half deck on the top of the right hand half deck

in side-jogged position. Change the grip and shuffle together the two halves leaving the top two cards of the face down section on the top of the deck. Cut the deck, at its middle, and complete the cut. Turn the deck over (face down) and spread it across the table showing that all the cards are now face down except for one.

The only face up card is the selection. Push out the chosen card from the spread and show that its back has changed from blue to red. Cut the deck where the chosen card was.

The double backed card is now on the top of the deck, which you can use for your next trick or... you can palm it away to make the deck clean.

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Mathemagic

n the faces of four blank faced cards, draw one each of the mathematical signs shown below. The order of the cards, from the face, is: ÷ (divide), + (add), -(subtract) and x (multiply).

You also need a deck of cards and a dice. The order of the deck, from the top down, is: 2, 10, Ace, x, x, x, 2, 10, Ace, x, x, x, 2, 10, Ace, rest of deck. The ‘x’ cards represent indifferent cards (any cards). Have someone seated opposite you.

Performance: Show the four cards with

the mathematical signs. Tell the spectator that she will choose one of them randomly. Ask her to throw the dice. If she throws an even number (2, 4 or a 6): hand her the four cards, face up, and ask her to move one card to the bottom (to reach the 2nd card) or three to the bottom (to reach the 4th card) or five to the bottom (to reach the 6th card). She now tables the face up pile with her chosen sign at the face. If she throws an odd number (1, 3 or a 5): give her the four cards, face up, and ask her to move that many cards, one at a time, from the face to the back of the packet. This leaves either the (+) or the (x) card at the face of the packet. She now tables the face up pile with her chosen sign at the face.

Now, false shuffle the face down deck (keeping at least the top 18 cards in place). Deal off three cards onto the table in a pile. Next to that pile deal five more piles of three cards. Deal the piles from left to right. The first, third and fifth piles from your left contain

a 2, 10 and an Ace. Shuffle the rest of the deck and have her to

choose one. Control her selection to the bottom of the cards you hold.

Overhand shuffle 13 cards from the top of the cards you hold then throw the rest of the cards onto the shuffled off portion (or, you can shuffle off the cards in two or three portions: 6 and 7 cards or 4, 4, 5 cards).

The selection is now the 14th card up from the face and the 21st down from the top. Table these cards. Ask her to throw the dice again to choose one of the six piles. If the outcome is 1, 3 or 5 count from your left and push the pile at the chosen number forward a little. Show her that the piles on either side of her chosen pile contain totally different cards. If the thrown number is 2, 4 or 6 ask her to count from her left and continue as above.

Next, if she previously chose the (+) card, ask her to collect the other five piles together and drop the collected pile on top of the larger tabled pile (which contains her selection). Or, if she previously chose the (x) card... have her drop the larger tabled pile on top of the assembled five piles in her hand.

Ask her to add (+) together or multiply (x) the three values of the cards in her chosen pile. The total will be 13 or 20. If the total is 13, ask her to hold the pack face up and deal 13 cards onto the table: the next card (on the face of the deck) is hers.

If the total is 20, ask her to hold the pack face down and deal 20 cards from the top onto the table. Ask her to turn over the next card: it is her selection.

Notes: If you want to skip the force of the

(+) or (x) card... just ask if she wants to add or multiply the three values of the cards in her chosen pile. Also, if you don’t have a dice, use an invisible one!

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Demi Sec

his was inspired by Peter Duffie’s The 21st Card Trick, which appeared in his excellent Cards Insight book.

Effect: Two cards are selected and then

cut face up into the otherwise face down deck. Someone now cuts off a portion from the top, turns them face up and replaces them onto the rest of the face down cards. You spread through and table the first face down card. This turns out to be a King. Someone waves the King over the deck, then you spread through to reveal that the other three Kings have flipped face up, but there are two face down cards sandwiched between them. These turn out to be... the two cards previously selected!

Set-up: The order of the deck, from the

top down is... face down King, face down King, face down King, a face up indifferent card, the fourth King face up followed by the rest of the deck all face down.

Performance: False shuffle then double

undercut the top card to the bottom. Ask someone to choose two cards from the middle of the deck. Do this by spreading through the cards, so that they can choose two of them, but be careful not to reveal that the 3rd and 4th cards from the top are in fact face up... just push over a small block of cards then continue spreading through the rest asking them to choose two.

Once two cards have been chosen, hold the deck face down in 'ealing *rip and obtain a break below the top card. Take back their

two cards and turn them face up on top of the deck. Pick up the three

cards above the break in Biddle Grip. Peel the top face up chosen card off the three card packet and onto the top of the deck then drop the double card, assumed to be the other selection, remaining in your hand, on top of it. Double undercut the bottom (face) card of the deck to the top. It appears that you have simply shown the two chosen cards and then cut them, still face up, into the deck. Hold the deck face down in your left hand and ask the spectator to cut off a portion of cards from the top. Ask her to turn her cut off portion face up and replace these cards back on top. Spread through the upper face up section, between your hands, but stop when

you reach the first face down card. Push the first face down card off the lower section and onto the table with your thumb. Flip the right hand face up portion of cards face down on top of the left hand portion and table the deck.

Ask the spectator to turn the tabled card face up and she will discover that it is a King. Have her wave the King, like a magic wand, over the deck. Finally, ribbon spread the deck face down across the table to reveal that the other three Kings have now flipped face up in the middle and there are two face down cards between them.

It only remains for you to remove the two face down cards, that are sandwiched between the three Kings, and show that they are in fact... the two selections!

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Twin Giants

his trick was inspired by Karl Fulves’ Gemini Twins and Jack Avis’ Predicted Stopping Place. The order of the deck, from the top down, is: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King of Hearts, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 of Spades, the rest of the deck.

The King of Hearts is Breather Crimped, so that you can cut it to the face of the deck. You need two spectators: ‘A’ and ‘B’.

Injog Shuffle the deck and ask someone to give it a few straight cuts. Cut the Breather Crimped King of Hearts to the face and table the deck. Give a small piece of paper each to spectators ‘A’ and ‘B’ and ask them to write a number from 1 to 10 on them. Ask for the papers back and turn them over to write a secret prediction on the

other sides. You will need to see which number each spectator has written then make the following calculation. For spectator A’s prediction... subtract the written number from 14 and the suit is Hearts. Example: if the written number is 5, write 9 of Hearts as your prediction.

Calculate spectator B’s prediction by subtracting her number from 14 for the value and the suit is Spades. Example: if the written number is 4, write 10 of Spades as your second prediction.

Put the papers on the table with the spectators’ number sides up. Ask spectator ‘A’ to pick up the deck and hold it face down. Ask her to deal the cards one-by-one onto

the table into a pile. When she has dealt more than spectator B’s

number (in this case 4) ask her to stop dealing any time she wishes. Drop spectator A’s paper on the dealt pile, number side up, and ask her to drop the cards remaining in her hand on top of the paper. Ask spectator ‘B’ to pick up the deck and deal the cards onto the table, from the top, into a pile. When she has stopped dealing (you don’t have to wait this time) drop her paper onto the dealt pile and ask her to put the cards in her hands on top of it.

Ribbon spread the deck face down from left to right. You will see the two papers with the spectator’s numbers showing in the middle of the deck. Using the number on the left side paper, start to count to the right side of the paper and continue until you get to

the card at the written number (the 5th card to the right of the paper). Turn the card at which you have arrived face up. In the above illustration, you would turn the card marked ‘X’ face up and it will be the 9 of Hearts.

Using the number on the right side paper, start to count to the right side of the paper and continue until you get to the card at the written number. Turn the card at which you have arrived face up. In the illustration, you would turn the card marked ‘Y’ face up and it will be the 10 of Spades.

It only remains for you to show your two predictions, written on the other sides of the papers, and... they are both correct!

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Paddle Hofzinzer

pread the deck between your hands so that you can see the faces of the cards, but no one else can. Explain that you will remove a few cards. Look for the four Aces and the Jack of Spades. When you find them, remove them and put them onto the face of the deck but... the face card is the Ace of Clubs, followed by the Ace of Hearts, Ace of Diamonds, Jack of Spades and the Ace of Spades.

Note: Once you have read the full

routine, you will realise that this is not the only combination of cards that will work. There are in fact many, and in reality you will not need to look for a specific non-Ace card like, in this example, the Jack of Spades.

Remove the five face cards in a pile and put them on the table face down without showing their faces.

Ask the spectator to shuffle the rest of the deck and then table it face up. Pick up the Ace packet and hold it face down in your left hand. Tell the spectator that you put these cards on the table because you didn’t want her to pick one of them. Keeping them faces down, spread them (but keeping the bottom two squared as one) showing that there are four.

Square the fan of cards and drop them face down onto the face of the deck. Pick up the deck and hold it in your left hand. Perform the Paddle Move with the whole deck. Tell the spectator that you need to know which card she has shuffled to the top of the deck. Perform a Double Turnover showing, in this example, the Jack of Spades. Turn the double face down and deal the top card only face down to the table.

Next, perform the Paddle Move again then spread over the

top four cards of the deck and into your right hand without changing their order. Table the deck.

Square the four face down cards and hold them face down in your left hand. Tell the spectator that normally there are two methods to turn a card over and you will now demonstrate those two methods: 1) Double turnover the top two cards and allow them to fall as one face up onto the other cards. 2) Now turn your left hand palm down, explaining that this is another way to turn a card over. Tell her that you won’t use any of those two ways. Slide out the bottom (back) face down card with your right fingers, turn the card over and put it back on the bottom face up. This is basically the same opening “move” as used in Dai Vernon’s “Twisting The Aces” routine, but you turned over a double and not a triple as in Vernon’s handling.

Now, keeping the packet of cards face up, perform an Underground Elmsley Count (this is simply a regular Elmsley Count but putting the fourth card to the bottom of the packet and not the top) showing four Aces. Tell the spectator that if you snap your fingers, the Ace with the same suit as the card on the table, the Jack of Spades, will turn face down.

Snap your fingers, then spread the four cards to show that one card has turned face down. It will be assumed to be the Ace of Spades – the Ace of the same suit as the tabled card.

Snap your fingers again, then show that the face down Ace and the selection have actually changed places, giving you the classic Hofzinzer twist ending.

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Far And Wide

his is my variation on Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser's Everywhere and Nowhere plot, which first appeared (in English) in Modern Card Magic Without Apparatus by Will Goldston (1915).

Set-up: Put the four Queens on the top

of the deck in alternating colour order.

Performance: Injog false shuffle the

deck and then cut the top two cards (Queens) to the bottom using the Double Undercut. Ask the spectator to select a card from the middle of the deck and ask her to sign its face. As she does so, obtain a Tilt break below the top card. Ask for the card back and perform the Tilt move apparently putting her card into the centre, but really... into the Tilt break, so that it ends up second card down. Say that you will show her the four methods you have mastered that will allow you to find her card.

The 1st method: Say that if you riffle

the deck, her card will jump to the top. Riffle then Double Turnover to show the signed selection on top. Turn the double face down again and deal the top face down card to the table.

The 2nd method: Say that you can cut

the deck at her card. Double undercut the top card to the bottom. Turn the deck face up to show that the face card is her card. Triple turnover (turning three cards face down onto the face of the deck) then remove and table the upper face down card

only from the face of the deck with the other

tabled card. At the same time, turn your left hand palm down so that the other two reversed cards are not seen. Cut the deck at its middle.

The 3rd method: Say that, if you riffle

the deck twice, the selection will turn over in the middle of the

deck. Hold the deck face down in Dealing Grip and riffle it twice. Push the cards from the top of the deck into your right hand until the selection appears on the top of the left hand cards, don’t spread any further or another face up card will be seen beneath it. Cut the deck at the selection. Perform a Double Turnover (turning the two face up cards face down) and then put the top face down card onto the two previously tabled cards.

The 4th method: Say that, if you click

your fingers, the chosen card will jump into your pocket. Hold the deck from above in Biddle Grip and palm the top card using the One Handed Top Palm. Click your left fingers at the same time. Put the deck in your left hand and produce the palmed card from your right outside (or left inner) pocket. Show the face of the card, turn it face down and use it to scoop up the three card face down pile from the table.

Hold the four card packet from above (Biddle Grip) and perform Brother John Hamman’s Flushtration Count to show four identical selections (put the fourth [last] card on the face [bottom] of the packet).

Hold the packet face down in Pinch Grip and perform an Elmsley Count. Turn the packet face up and perform an Elmsley Count to show that their assumption that you are holding four identical selections was just an optical illusion because... you are in fact holding the four Queens!

Because the Queens were originally in alternating colour order on top of the deck, the final Elmsley Count will display a black, a red, a red and a final black Queen.

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Resignation

his trick was inspired by Stephen Tucker’s Abdication, which appeared in his Chicanery magazine, vol: 1, issue: 1, page: 1. It will only appear in The

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bonus routine here.

You need ten cards. The order of the face down cards from the top down is: AH, QC, 10C, JH, KH, QH, AC, JC, KC, 10H.

Hold the cards in your left hand Dealing Grip. Double turnover the top two cards as one to show the QC. Turn the double face down and deal the top card onto the table to your right. Openly move the current top face down card of the packet to the bottom.

Double turnover to show the JH. Turn the double face down and deal the top card onto the table to your left. Openly move the new top card of the packet to the bottom.

Double turnover to show the QH. Turn the double face down and deal the top card onto the table to your right, on top of the right tabled card. Openly move the new top card of the packet to the bottom.

Double turnover to show the JC. Turn the double face down and deal the top card of the packet on top of the tabled card to your left.

Turn the six cards in your hand face up and Elmsley Count to show two more Queens and two more Jacks. Hold the cards face up in your left hand Dealing Grip. Take the face Queen with your right hand, turn it face down and put it onto the right side cards. Take the Jack from the face of the packet turn it face down and put it onto the left side cards.

Draw back the face card a bit in an injog position. A Jack is on the face and a Queen below it. Perform the Christ/Annemann Alignment Move by pushing the injogged Jack ‘and’ the Queen below it forward until the Jack

is squared with the packet and the Queen is outjogged. Remove the

Queen and put it on the face of the cards you hold. Turn the cards face down and put the top card to the bottom. Perform a triple turnover to show a Queen. Turn the triple face down and put the top two cards (as one) on top of the right cards. Put the double card remaining in your left hand on top of the left cards without showing its face. As you are doing that say that you’ll place the final Jack on the top of the other Jacks.

Pick up the left side packet and hold it in Elmsley Count position. Push the top four cards with your thumb into your left hand Pinch Grip position leaving the face card of the packet in your right hand. Turn the right hand card face up and table it. (10C)

You are holding the four cards in left hand Pinch Grip, Elmsley Count position (the mirror image of the previous position when you were holding the packet in right hand Pinch Grip).

Push the top three cards as a block to the right with your left thumb. Grab the right long side of the pushed block with your right hand in Pinch Grip (you are still holding all cards with your left hand) and push the top two cards to the left. Your right hand holds one card (the second card from the face of the packet). Draw out that card from between the others and turn it face up to show the JC. Deal the JC on top of the 10C in jogged position. Now, remove the top card of the packet, turn it face up and deal it face up in jogged position onto the tabled cards. Repeat this two more times to show... a Royal Flush in Clubs.

Pick up the right hand packet. Remove the top card of the packet, one by one, turning them face up and dealing them onto the table to show... a Royal Flush in Hearts.