Tricks: Magic Tricks

After naming any one of the Queens, a spectator mysteriously divines its position among four face-down cards. As an additional climax, all the other cards are shown to be jokers.

A clean, clear effect with a Legitimately Free Choice

First Climax: The Selected Card is the Named Queen!
Second Climax: The Other...

A non-card idea from England's Paul Gordon, and it's a goodie!

You now have a good reason for introducing this excellent prop. Manufactured to resemble pads of paper.

The sheets alternate: real paper, No-Tear paper etc., etc! So, you peel off 2 sheets... you use one and give the other to the spectator. Yours...

The Magician has a spectator help him shuffle the deck, and make sure that thte deck is well shuffled. Then the magician cuts the deck into four stacks, and infront of the four stacks are four cards laying on the table face down with a question mark face up. From this the magician predicts that he will make each stack mysteriously have the...

New Brighter Light

An excellent gag item for magicians, MCs, or anyone wishing to show off a novel prop. Looks like a regular light bulb, but you can make it light up in your hands whenever you wish. This model uses a super bright LED that will not fuse like ordinary torch bulbs, and gives a brighter diffused glow enabling...

The Rattle Box is a prop for vanishing a coin and having it appear elsewhere. This is a slightly larger model that will enable you to perform the effect with any borrowed coin, finger ring, or similar item. This box measures about 4.5" long, 3" wide and 1.75" high. The rattle feature allows a spectator to "hear" the coin or ring in the box,...

The performer displays a beautiful Rosewood box which contains six black dice. The dice are arranged in sequence from one to six. The lid is replaced and the spectator is given a die and a shot glass. He is to shake the die within the glass and then to toss the die onto the lid of the box. What ever number comes up with be the chosen number....

The visible vanish of a marked coin under impossible conditions

Imagine having a coin marked, then placed into a small brass box, the coin being visible at all times. Then you hand a spectator a small wooden box or another brass box to hold.

Next, you pick up the brass box containing the marked coin and simply allow...

Rider is one of the funniest gags for close-up card magic!

Simply place Rider on the table, with your arm extended towards the spectator in front of you. Apply a gentle pressure down with your hand or fingers and move Rider a couple of inches forward. When you release the pressure, Rider will skitter across the table, towards...

Rodger Lovins' newest effect PLAY-time

The Magician has two cards selected from a deck of cards. He tells the spectators that a lot of people ask him, How long have you been doing magic?

The magician then shows the spectators an old black and white photo of himself as a child. The small child, age one, is...

Four cards are selected and presented face down. One card is placed face down on the table. Just to make sure there are only 3 cards remaining, the performer counts them. The cards are lined up in hand and turned over to show 3 different cards. The fourth card on the table is flipped over to form a pair. A flick of the wrist and a pair...

The "Antique Razor Blade Illusion" is a Brand New Method for performing an amazing effect that will baffle equally well in a parlor or stage situation.

The Solid Oak Display Stand is reminiscent of the furniture and hardware designs of the early 1920's

A spectator selects a card (for example, the Queen of Hearts). The performer requests that they sign the front and/or back. The card is placed on top of the deck still in the performer's hand. A 'magic card', with 2, quarter sized holes, is produced and placed on top of selected card. The performer makes a cutting motion with...

One of the current "hot" items in coin magic is the sliding shell. Used for effects like 3-Fly and other coins across, Porper created the perfect gimmick, supplied with three routines from one of close-up magic's greats, Mike Gallo.

For centuries rumors have blossomed: tales of gurus, shamans, mystics and the secret powers of the mysterious "Third Eye" have fascinated the populous. But, can the myth's reality actually be demonstrated? Now, Ben Harris brings this fantastic mystery to life”creating a unique, freaky and visually-arresting effect”one slick enough for...

A spectator shuffles a deck of cards and another spectator simply names any of the four suits. The magician retrieves the pack and then quickly cuts it into 10 piles. Amazingly, the first packet is counted and found to contain just one card! The second packet contains two cards, the third three cards and so on, all the way through to the...

A rubber ball is magically produced, then vanishes and reappears. One ball becomes two, then three rubber balls. One at a time, the three balls are placed in the left hand. One at a time they travel across and are cleanly dropped from the right hand. This sequence is repeated once. One ball is placed in the pocket and magically returns....

A "Wild Card" effect with six cards! You show five blank-faced cards and one Four of Spades. The Four is brushed against two of the blank cards and they change to Fours! This is repeated with the other blank cards and at the finish, all six cards have changed to the Four of Spades a Four Flush! No double-faced cards are used, yet spectators...

A matchbox flips over on the Magician's hand, then the drawer slides open and a match jumps out and stands on the box!

Many have dreamed of turning worthless metal into gold. In this effect the magician show a brass vial and places some metal filings inside. They are poured out and have now changed to gold. The filings are placed back in the vial where they change to gold nuggets!Precision crafted by Viking magic.

The spectator selects a card from a regular deck of cards. The magician instructs the spectator to mix the cards together, and to then hold the deck in one hand, palm down. The magician places a quarter on the back of the spectator’s hand, and he is told to concentrate on the selected card.

The magician then pulls a stack of business...

From the man who always succeeds, though not by playing with a full deck!

In addition to being a delightfully direct discovery of a thought of card, this is the ideal way to learn to understand and master the basic principles of "outs" without the usual hazards.

Milt Kort invariably used this stunt to secretly reveal the...

A selected card is shuffled back into a deck. A small packet of baseball cards are shown to be all different. After mixing the cards together, the top card is shown on both sides to be a baseball player swinging a bat. The spectator inserts the baseball card anywhere in the deck. The spectator is told that the baseball card will find his...

You start off with a paddle blank on both sides... then an arrow (engraved and highlighted) appears on one end. The arrow moves to the middle, then to the far end. It's shakenfrom spot to spot, then slid. It multiplies, and even jumps about on its own volition. In one wild sequence, the arrows on the paddle refuse to cooperate and apparently...

The magician brings out a deck of cards and removes the cards from the case. All of a sudden the box shrinks, then the entire deck shrinks! The magician puts one of the miniature cards aside, scoops up the deck, gives it a shake and it instantly grows back to poker size! He then causes the one small card put aside earlier to also grow back...

A cigarette slowly floats out of its pack and into your mouth. Suddenly the pack changes into a box of matches. The drawer slides open by itself and one of the matches floats out, STRIKES ITSELF, then floats up and lights the cigarette!

The burning match floats back down and pushes the matchbox drawer closed, then floats into your...