WJ34-01
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The Three Ball Trick is very old. Some
history: The Chinese Marble Trick (or Three
Ball Trick or Balls in Net) is an ancient
trick that was used for centuries (we guess) by Chinese
conjurers as a follow-up to cups and balls, in which
balls magically cross from one hand to the other. It
pre-dates the innovation of sponge balls for magic, and
was first performed with solid “hard” balls of
ivory, glass (marbles), cork or rubber. One of the first
modern descriptions of the effect was by Edwin T. Sachs
in Sleight of Hand (1877). Silent Mora was first
to perform it upon a net held by spectators (c.1934). The
use of different color balls was pioneered by Dr. Daley
in 1939. I'm taking it a few steps further using current
technology. In the e-Book we will take a journey through
magic history, showing the transformation of this
centuries old trick into a brand new trick for 21st
century audiences.
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WJ34-02
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Giant Soul-mates
A Lesson in the Gilbreath Principle
by Jim Gerrish
The Gilbreath Principle is the closest
thing this world has to REAL MAGIC, given to us by
mathematician Norman L. Gilbreath, who, in July of 1958,
presented it to the mathematical community in the Linking
Ring Magazine, after observing card patterns by chance
while doing arithmetic on a napkin. This Search for a
Giant card's Soul-mate is just one of the ways the
principle can be used and Jim will try to teach it in
such a way that you appreciate what REAL MAGIC is all
about. Your audience will find itself drawn up into the
magic quest as well, as four or five spectators
participate in making it impossible for any
trickery to be involved in locating NOT a chosen card,
but its Soul-mate from the thoroughly shuffled
and mixed deck of GIANT cards. Nothing to build in this
one - just buy a deck of giant or jumbo sized playing
cards.
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WJ34-03
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In the 1930's, Doctor J.
B. Rhine used Zenner card designs in ESP tests. But Rhine
recognized that his test couldn’t distinguish
telepathy from clairvoyance. That is, there would be no
way to tell whether a Receiver was receiving messages
from the mind of the Sender or was receiving information
independently of the Sender’s mind. That’s
where my special Clairvoyance test cards come in handy.
There are only eight cards, each card having random
playing cards printed on them. A Sender and a Receiver
are chosen from the audience. The Receiver is not trying
to guess, nor to mentally see, the Sender’s freely
and randomly chosen card, but only a hole in the
universe of 52 cards. It is the ABSENCE of the Sender's
card that he must perceive. The Receiver must mentally
look for where it is NOT. And of course, he does! Every
time! All by himself (or herself)! Two Bonus Routines
included.
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WJ34-04
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Inspired by a yard filled
with weekly grocery store advertisements from Shop-Rite*
when I got back home from vacation, I cleaned up by
converting them into enough Torn & Restored magic
tricks for several shows in advance, plus lots of
practice. Now that the yard has been cleared of
unsolicited junk mail, I know “Rite” where to
go to get new supplies for future shows.
In making my
“Rip-Rite” T&R version, I combined ideas
from Karrell Fox’s “Final Edition Paper Tear,
” from Richard Osterlind's "Signed Torn and
Restored Newspaper", and from my own "Torn & Restored Comic
Book/Coloring Book" here
at The Magic Nook, plus adding improvements from
Spellbinder and Qua-Fiki and Ee-Gee-Fiki who always have
bright ideas to share. Finally I cut out all the excess
and came up with a no-nonsense "Do-As-I-Do"
T&R that can invite help from a spectator to assist
with the Tearing AND the Restoring.
*Any
advertising flyer papers will do, not just Shop-Rite!
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WJ34-05
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by Jim Gerrish
Based on a concept by
mentalist Ford Kross, adapted by mentalist Bob Cassidy ,
and given the final twists by a real mental case, me, I
present to you a card trick which requires no decks of
cards; no cards at all need to be harmed in the
performance of this cardless card trick. You do
talk about cards, however. And you use a Psychic
spectator to convince a Skeptic spectator (and the rest
of your audience) that just maybe
paranormal powers really do exist. In the course
of this presentation, everything used may be passed out
into the audience so they can see that it is all on the
up and up with no possibility for trickery.
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WJ34-06
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It started with Jim Zee's Hot Rod,
c. 1970. Then in 1995, Karrell Fox turned it into Karrell's
Kard Schtick. Now Professor Spellbinder turns it
into a real puzzler that can reveal three or four freely
chosen cards, one after another. It can even be made
large enough to be seen from a stage.
Also included, as a Bonus, is Professor
Spellbinder's Comedy Cardometer from 1964 and
revealed now for the first time.
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WJ34-07
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When Qua-Fiki was a young teen,
performing escapes as a Wiz Kid, he sometimes combined
the escapes with magic. This is one of those
“escape” magic tricks in which Qua-Fiki
challenges the Great Houdini as a card trick.
After performing a rope escape, Qua-Fiki
offers to challenge the Great Houdini to escape from a
rope and he will attempt to beat him. Of course, Houdini
being dead and all, Qua-Fiki removes and displays two
Jokers kept in a transparent folder. The cards are shown
front and back. One of the Jokers has a picture of
Houdini, and the other shows Qua-Fiki (of course you will
substitute your own photo!) performing the escape that he
just showed his audience. You can have both cards signed
on the faces by one or two spectators if you wish.
There are holes punched into the Jokers
on each side (or a single hole at the top), and a cord is
threaded through the holes. The ends of the cord stick
out on each side, so the two cards can be lowered back
into the jail folder, where they are told that both
Jokers will attempt to escape from the string, and the
first one out, wins… place your bets! Everyone wins
because the two cards have merged into one!
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WJ34-08
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Magic has many Flip-Flop Folders, some
dating back to 1584 and the Discoverie of Witchcraft;
others not so far back, and some brand new. Many of them
have multiple uses in Magic, Mentalism, Mental-Magic and
Astrology. Jim explores a range of them and shows you how
to build them. They are all easily made with paper,
cardboard, plastic, tape and ink. If you are looking for
a way to change silver to gold, predict the future,
change your luck, or are just looking for a "way
out", look no further.
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WJ34-09
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You already learned how to escape from a
single rope after reading Qua-Fiki's book Escapes For Teens. Now grown
out of his teen years, Al-Quadir has come up with a
special ending for the Escape Artist who is also a
Magician - he just makes the rope disappear! Then he
makes the rope appear again, but this time his helper
from the audience is all tied up in it when it happens!
In the e-Book, Al-Quadir shows how to make two types of
vanishing bags- one is made from gift wrap paper, and the
other is made from cloth - your choice, but the gift wrap
bag ending is funnier.
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WJ34-10
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Jim's Totem Tubes represent symbols of
Halloween from his heritage. That's Frankie-Burger on top
with Jack-O-Weenie underneath, and grouchy Jim on the
side. The Tubes can be folded flat and worn as masks, or
opened up, shown to be empty, and immediately fill
themselves with Halloween treasures. But they aren't
limited to Halloween. You can design Totem Tubes in a
variety of ways, all revealed and explored in the e-Book
to give YOU ideas for your own designs. The tubes still
fold flat, open up to be shown empty, and then you begin
to produce a large quantity of magician's
"stuff" known as "production items".
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