Impromptu Card Magic - Colombini
Volume 4
Impromptu Card Magic Volume #4
by Aldo Colombini
Card magic you can do anytime, anywhere, at a moment's notice. All you need is any deck of cards and you're ready to perform high-impact routines.
Impromptu Card Magic includes fifteen easy to learn, easy to perform routines. No gimmicks, no setups, no difficult sleight of hand. This is amazing card magic with maximum effect, even though many of the routines are so easy they could be considered self-working.
Don't let the simplicity of methods give you the wrong impression. The routines taught are professional caliber and can easily entertain and fool the most knowledgeable audiences.
Routines performed and explained: - Vortex (Aldo Colombini): A selected card appears between two Kings and vanishes just as magically to be found face up in the middle of the deck.
- Transcendent Transposition (Tom Dougherty): The Ace of Spades is placed face down between the two red Aces. The Ace magically changes into the selected card while appearing face down in the face up deck.
- Action (Aldo Colombini): Two selected cards are found in an instant.
- Magician (Peter Duffie): A spectator cuts the deck into three piles and eliminates two of them. The remaining pile is cut into three and each is handed to a spectator to shuffle and remember the bottom card. Each spectator then finds his own card by spelling and dealing.
- Hunting Season (Aldo Colombini): Four cards are placed on the table face down and the spectator decides which is a mate to your selection. It of course matches but when the other three cards are revealed they are the three aces with the four Ace appearing between your mates.
- Cheat Feat (Karl Fulves): Two spectators deal Poker hands and remember a card in them. You then shuffle the cards through each other separating the reds from the blacks and leaving their cards the only odd cards in each packet.
- Beyond Borders (Aldo Colombini): Four Kings are shown and two cards are selected. Based on the spectator's choice two of the Kings are placed face up in the deck and two are placed face down on the table. Amazingly when the deck is spread two cards appear between the kings – they are the other two kings while the two selections are now on the table where the kings were moments ago.
- Pop-Hoff! (Ryan Matney): Four Aces are placed on the table and a card is selected. After everything is regrouped the Ace that corresponds with the selected card is produced and the selected card has taken its place in the deck.
- Your Best (Aldo Colombini): A selected card matches three prediction cards that were in full view throughout.
- Here We Go Again (Peter Duffie): The Kings and Queens are removed from the deck and are mixed by the spectators. You then spell "marry" to separate the cards into pairs that end up with the mates matching in suite.
- Do As I Do (Rich Cowley): You and a spectator each get half a deck. You each remove one card and they match.
- Strike A Match (Richard Vollmer): Two packets of thirteen cards are handed to two spectators and you announce your lucky card. The spectators deal the cards to find their lucky card. The two lucky cards are added to count down to your lucky card.
- Lasting (Aldo Colombini): Sixteen cards are mixed and two of them are selected. You deal the remaining cards into three packets. The top three cards of those packets are mates to the first selection. Everything is gathered and when the cards are spread three cards are face up which match the second selection.
- Importanten (Howard Adams): Eight cards are mixed by the spectators and are dealt in pairs on the table. You then introduce a ten and tap the four pairs. When they are turned over the pairs all equal ten when added.
- Jet Black (Aldo Colombini): Two cards are produced and neither one is the selection but when they are added together they give the location of the selection.
With this DVD and any borrowed deck of cards you can instantly perform card magic that looks absolutely impossible. No matter what level of skill you've achieved, you'll find routines you can quickly add to your repertoire.
Running Time Approximately 80min
Volume 5
- Simpl'Ace'Ty (Stephen Jones): Four aces are lost in the deck, the spectators cut as often as they want and you immediately find all four aces in different ways.
- Parity Prediction (Reinhard Müller): A card is placed face down between two black jacks. A card is selected and lost in the deck and later ends up between the two Jacks.
- The Truth Shall Set You Free (Peter Duffie): Using nine cards as a lie detector you find the selected card.
- Sweet Sixteen (Michael De Marco): Three random cards are used to find a selection.
- Prophetic Numbers (Aldo Colombini): The spectator mixes a packet of cards face up and face down. When the packet is spread two cards are face up which give the value of the card and it's location in the deck.
- World Class (J. K. Hartman): The spectator amazingly separates red and black cards without looking at the faces.
- Spell The Name (Aldo Colombini): A card is looked at and you divine its identity by spelling to it and all of its mates using the name that a spectator supplies.
- My Dear Holmes (Stephen Tucker): A spectator cuts to three cards that match your predictions.
- Prime Cut (Aldo Colombini): A card is looked at in the deck. Two Jacks are then used to capture it.
- The Magic Shuffle (Peter Duffie): Three spectators remove five cards each and think of one of them. You then shuffle the combined cards and spell to their selections.
- Topsy-Turvy Twosome (Tom Daugherty): As your back is turned two spectators select cards and lose them in the deck. You then immediately cut to the two selections.
- Witchcraft (André Robert): Using an arrived at number the spectator counts down to a card in the deck which happens to match your prediction.
- Universal Speller (Max Maven): A spectator thinks of any word and remembers the card that it spells to. You then spell a phrase and the card arrived at is the selection.
- Doorstep Aces (Paul Gordon): Three selected cards are lost in the deck. The four Aces are placed face up in the deck and after a mixing sequence the three selections end up sandwiched between the aces.
- Predict O'Clock (Aldo Colombini): Two cards are placed on the table. The spectator thinks of an hour and you form a clock dial using two cards for each hour. The spectator names his favorite hour and the two cards at his favorite hour match the two selections.
With this DVD and any borrowed deck of cards you can instantly perform card magic that looks absolutely impossible. No matter what level of skill you've achieved, you'll find routines you can quickly add to your repertoire.
Running Time Approximately 80min
Volume 6
- Guatemala (Aldo Colombini): Two cards are selected and placed between four kings. The cards vanish from between the kings and appear face up in the middle of the deck. Thirteen Down (Peter Duffie): You show the spectator a prediction that tells him where his selected card is in the deck.
- Acapulco (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected and lost in the deck. A second spectator selects a number and counts down to that number to find the original selection.
- Pair Faced (J. K. Hartman): A spectator cuts to a card that matches a prediction that was in full view.
- Atlantis (Aldo Colombini): Two Kings are used to find a selected card after the deck is shuffled face up and face down. Magically the Kings turn to be the only face up cards with the selection between them.
- Ambitious 1-2-3-4 (Roy Walton): A card is selected and the Ace through four are used in a routine where they keep rising to the top. As a kicker ending one of them changes places with the selection.
- Toccata (Aldo Colombini): A selected card is apparently found through luck, but when it is reversed is turns out to be the card that was placed aside at the beginning, while the card that was in full view turns into the selection.
- Bottoming Out Today (Marty Kane): A funny routine where two cards are selected and you start spelling the days of the week until you reach today and find the two selections.
- Dual Zone (Aldo Colombini): Two mates are shown. One is placed in the deck the other on the table and they instantly change places.
- Central Reservation (Peter Duffie): A prediction is made and a card is selected. Amazingly they match.
- Persu-Ace-Ive (J. K. Hartman): Four Aces are are placed in different parts of the deck. One of them is placed face up in the middle. When the deck is spread all the Aces are now together and face up.
- False Memory (Aldo Colombini): The deck is split in half and two cards are exchanged. When the deck is spread the two exchanged cards are now face up in the middle with the previously selected card between them.
- Matched! (Robin Robertson): Two cards are selected and placed between two face up cards for safe keeping. Amazingly the two cards used to protect the selections signal what the selections turn out to be.
- Eight Bites Is Enough (Jack Avis): A spectator points to one of eight cards and you quickly divine it one attribute at a time.
- Match Them Up (Karl Fulves): Sixteen cards are mixed and cut. Eight of the cards are initialed, mixed and dealt into two packets. A packet of signed cards and a packet of unsigned cards. When the top two cards of each packet are revealed they are seen to match – every card in the two packets now matches in value.
With this DVD and any borrowed deck of cards you can instantly perform card magic that looks absolutely impossible. No matter what level of skill you've achieved, you'll find routines you can quickly add to your repertoire.
Running Time Approximately 70min