I feel this version of the 15 Card Pass far surpasses any other in regards to method and presentation. Any pack of cards (no duplicates) and some envelopes may be borrowed and are all that you need. With a person standing at your left, and another at your right, the cards are produced and given the right hand assistant. He shuffles and counts 10 onto your right hand. They are sealed in an envelope by the helper and his initials put on the outside. The man on the left next shuffles the cards and counts 10 of them face down…
If it is that the effect counts in magic, this seemingly supernatural happening can be said, and proven by actual performance, to be far above the method by which it is accomplished. While much magic is accomplished by sleights and trickery of a sort that depends upon misdirection and subtleties, the following makes use of subterfuge and downright "brassy" nerve. Some playing cards are shown to have their faces blank. The spectator takes his pick of one. Next he has free choice of an empty envelope from among several offered him. The blank card is put into the envelope together…
When, in Jinx #95, we offered Card In High as an effective vanish of a pasteboard, a number of readers seemed to like the idea well enough to write regarding its use in many varied ways. One dealer even suggested the printing of thin paper card faces which could be pasted on a newspaper sheet and thus eliminate the necessity of the individual having at least a hundred newspaper replicas made up with no variety of cards thereon. We liked that very much. Since that time we've mulled over the two essentials which must precede and follow such an evanishment.…
Publisher's note: For the readers who do not wish to mutilate their Jinx pages in order to make use of the Bluebeard effect, an extra set of pictures is supplied with this issue. The heads should be mounted on cardboard and cut out. Extra pages will be supplied for stamped and addressed envelopes. Those who have read the fairytale version of Bluebeard and his wives will immediately realize that the mise en scène is easily applicable in the case of the seven wenches. The performer has seven drug envelopes which he explains represent the seven doors behind which Bluebeard incarcerated…
This is a conceit which will be a novelty for any performer working in front of any club or group of about 50 to 150 people. The magician borrows a postage stamp from a spectator. It is seldom that from a fairly large group a postage stamp is not available, for many persons carry several in their notebook or pocketbook. If none is on hand the performer may introduce a half sheet of them which he passes to someone. The spectator marks one stamp on the gummed side in any manner identifiable. Spectator N°2 is now asked to assist the…
The trick is ruthless, but effective. The audience sees four envelopes passed out, and four cards taken from the pack by those people. The cards are sealed, collected by a fifth person, mixed well, and laid, BY HIM, in a row on a table between performer and audience. Now the magus speaks out. He wants to show that a sympathy exists between people and the objects they have touched. To emphasize that sympathy he will let each of the four people pass through a sieve of chance. Each of the four persons is given his chance. Each, in turn, keeps…
Stewart James introduced this principle in Jinx #25 under the title of Numismatigic. That erudite discoverer of oddities had found that Canadian five cent pieces were magnetic while the like coins of the U.S. were not. (It should prove both interesting and probably practical for residents of other countries ((and we get to 22 other countries, too! Ed.)) to test their own metal currencies for magnetic qualities.) My presentation here is completely different from that of Mr. James. I have also added a subtlety not heretofore used (in print) by those who have made use of magnets. It is simply…
Wait a minute. I must polish the crystal and rub the black cat in the right direction. It is the year 1954 A.D. (After Diachylon) and the scene is a super magic shop of that era. Chairs are overflowing with non-buying magi. Two wizards are setting up decks; another is trying, for the fourth time, to locate the chosen card; the rest are trying to explain just why they played that two-dollar date. Chatter ceases when the inventive genius of the day enters/Elmer Slideslip. Recognized as the author of that monumental work Tracing the Thumb-tip to its Tepee his actions…
The effect IS the thing, and this effect IS different. Three books or magazines are shown and one selected by choice. The performer has three piles of envelopes, each of a different size so they can be nested one within the other. From the smallest pile he gives a spectator one into which he puts a blank piece of paper and seals. The envelope is placed into one of the next size larger and the spectator writes his name across the flap. This marked set of two envelopes is now sealed in the last and largest size of the three.…
Effect: The performer writes predictions on two blank cards and seals each one in separate envelopes. A spectator steps forward and seats himself at a card table. He cuts a pack of cards into three heaps according to the directions of the performer. Then he cuts the center heap into two piles, but before the cutting is completed, one envelope is placed between the sections so that two cards are touching, one above and one below. The spectator then removes these cards, shows them to all, and reads the sealed prophecy. It is correct. A second person is asked to…