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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MACHAYA - MACHAYA - MACHAYA - MACHAYA - MACHAYA - MACHAYA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any Card At Any Number - Tell as much of the true story as you can. Bill Flight - A bill trick with the impact of sponge bunnies in Wes James's Stop Fooling Us. Capehart's 3 Ring Routine - The best reaction I ever got out of the rings. Even though Jay said all 3 ring routines are !@#$%. I like the 7 inchers from www.magicbyjr.com Coinvexed 2 - The best coin / key bender on the market. Gaffs are in and out very quickly. Watch the slightly excruciating Skin DVD for ideas. Contortionist - Michael Giles's Card Warp with an unfolded card will fool you. Corner of Piccadilly - Gordon's write up and presentation are terrible, but his structure is sound and there's an ending. Use a Himber Wallet instead of your breast pocket. Cube Libre - Sheets's inspired simplification made me laugh out loud. Dean's Box - The last 2 segments (do all 4, the bonus visible penetration is best) totally got by me. I do Dean's Box without a table, sitting, with the Box in my lap. (1) Improve the impact of Phase 1 this way. Bring the 2 ropes up through the top of the box, lock them in place with the lid, show them separate, then pull the ropes down through the sides of the box as you do in phase two. Repeat the bring through of the ropes to the top, but this time do the link. (2) Phase 2 plays better this way. Bring the 2 ropes up through the box, lock them in place, get your fingers in position, and rapidly separate your hands. The link happens instantaneously. (3) Get an extra phase this way. Steal the gaff while a spectator pulls the linked ropes from Phase 2 out of the box. Put the linked ropes back in the Box, and do the unlinking as an effect. If you don't want to steal from your pocket, attach the gaff to the bottom or back of the Box with 3m adhesive spray. (4) Do the first ring on rope penetration as in the basic routine. (5) At the end of the penetration, turn the Box to the left and right for show, leaving the Box slightly turned to the right. You are in perfect position to set for the bonus. Do the visual penetration. Decade - Mark Mason's brilliant walk around card stuff. Diablo Deck - Best pump deck almost on the market. Make one from Hilford's veiled description at the end of Fem Fatal. 4 -12 card banks. Every "No" is followed by a "Yes". AD 2H 3C 5H 6C 7C 8H 9S 10S JD QC KH . I use it for Tamariz's Mnemonicosis, and count or spell to the selections without worry. Gazzo's pump routine with a 6 card bank is terrific, because he figured out how to end Tossed Out Deck. Penguin posted his ending on their site. Abbott's Octopus is not good, a 6 card pump bank, double-stick taped to double indexers for the peek, you keep track of which end they peek with 2 different color rubberbands, and you have to deck switch for a 26/26 deck for the finish. Regal's In Flight roughing solution is interesting for magicians, but not as trustworthy as glued cards. Digital Dissolve - Best visual climax for Copper Silver. Try Scotty's routine on New York Coin Seminar Volume 9 with 2 Slippery Sams. As Don Alan said, gaff everything. Doctor Nagler's Diary - A single card is face down in the victim's paw at the top. They name their birthday. They are handed the diary. The card in their paw is written on their birthday in the Diary. Esoteric - I do it on the floor with Biro's inspired thread-pulling, and clean up with Blizzard. Have 2 cards selected, hold them to your forehead, obviously glimpse and name the the cards. Cards are inserted face up into opposite narrow ends of the deck, thumb count one card between cards. Hand invisible thread to 2 spectators and have them pull. Blizzard switch to a blank deck to finish. Examining the Thumbtip - 3 effects, de Cova fooled me 3 times. The Reverse Take Vanish at the end is brilliant. Friend 1, Friend 2 - DVDs by Bruno Copin. Best magician I have ever seen. Butterfly Effect and Ripple are the 2 best card effects in magic. Fulves Gambler's Third Lesson - Unfortunately back in print. Fortunately no one knows about it. Jay's Homing Card - Use Anglo Giants with Josh's gaff. The simplest and most deceptive handling on the market. Kaps' Currency - Edward Victor's 11 Card Trick with bills. Still needs an ending. Kovari's Chinese Sticks - Splurge on a third and do Kaps's or Benson's routine. Little Hand - Ammar / Farmer's vanish is the best coin opener I've ever seen. Maestro Leonardo's Cups and Balls - Fooled me, fooled me, fooled me. Moe's Miracles with Cards - Do Think of a Card as written. Go down on one knee and everything. Newsflash - Hecklau's inspired reworking of Anderson's Newspaper Tear. Flash restoration is beyond belief, pieces look like they melt together. Can be done surrounded. Penny Flight - Super-glue a penny to a reel. Put the reel in your right rear pocket. Show your left hand empty and make a fist. "This is a Magic Wishing Well. Make a Wish. You got it." Prince Cups and Balls - The best reaction I ever got from the cups. James Prince brings the big loads in so early, you can't stop grinning. Prince Bill in Kiwi - The most practical and deceptive routine on the market. Make a gaff by modifying a 99 cent Sur La Table strawberry huller. Riser Midis and Minis - Perfect for Prince's routine. Air Dog Squeaker Balls from Target or SandMaster footbags (hacky sacks) fit perfectly. Stealth Assassin - My everyday wallet. Rip out the swinging flap and remove the magnetic strips. The best hip pocket Card to Wallet on the market. Do the glimpse outside the wallet. Movie star effect is terrific. Ditto Visa Cabaret. Total Coincidence - See magicians screaming on the bootleg tape. Wellington Magic Switchboard - Corded version killed me 30 years ago. Mini is even better. Plays well for humans and magicians. Get a sponge-lined carrying case at Lowes. Wicked Book Test - Mother of All Book Tests on steroids. All 22 force words are related to Ticket - policeman, Disneyland, etc. You say Ticket, then pump for the first letter. You can also name the first and last words on each page. Includes bonus Dynamite Book Test, which totally fooled me. Williamson's Rocky - On MacMillan's 1989 half hour Williamson DVD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Alan - Said all effects must have a beginning, a middle and an end. Start as late in the action as possible. Use the middle to build tension. Release the tension at the end, or the effect just sits there. Alan was the master of tension release. After the lump of coal came out, he drew an X on the table - "Got to keep track of where I work". After the 2nd ball came out of the Chop Cup, he triedto pound both balls back into the cup - "Can't understand it. They fit in there a minute ago." Releasing tension after an appearance is easy, because you have something to work with. Releasing tension after a vanish is hard, because the spectators are looking for where it went. You must always release tension, to allow the audience to relax again. Del Ray - Released tension by failing. He backed himself into a corner and got us rooting for him. Watch his blackjack and poker deals. Fred Kaps - Released tension by screwing up. Something constantly went wrong. The magic got out of control and happened to him. Juan Tamariz - Releases tension by playing a character outside the normal social contract. Being fooled by a non-human, doesn't piss people off so much. Siegfried & Roy - Released tension by spectacle. You were at the circus. It was also impersonal. There was no interpersonal social contract to violate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRECK - DRECK - DRECK - DRECK - DRECK - DRECK - DRECK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-D Cash - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills. Some bills appear face up, others appear face down. Poorly presented and incompletely thought out. 49 Seconds - Bubble peek the top card. Deal stud seconds until you are told to stop. Deal the top card face down. Do this 3 times. Name the 3 face down selections. Why is this $20? A.E. 2.0 - Total trash, as is everything I've seen from Peter Eggink. You switch a borrowed bill for a flap glued gimmicked bill at the beginning and end when the heat is on. Abbott's Cocktail Magic - $25 for 3 tricks, horrid advice and confusing presentations for walk-around. But I like his framing of the Omni Deck as a vanish in the spectator's hand. And I like framing an autograph collection to motivate a signature on a card, even though Abbott doesn't do this. Affected - Deck is 5-10 card banks. Spectator names the card they looked at, and you "secretly" move cards from the top or bottom, to get card in position. Dreadful. Art of Floating - Kaps' cork with a pearl and other objects. Nothing new, defective sound track, awful beyond belief. Do not waste your money. Baxt Better Newspaper Tear - The gaff is a heavy 1.5 "x 1.75" magnet covered with newspaper, and 2 - 2.25" x 2.5" metal plates covered with newspaper, that need to be remade with rubber cement every 3-4 times you do it. Dr. Anderson 's original takes less time to make and looks better. Gene Anderson owns the intellectual property. Jay Marshall owned the copyright. Neither was contacted for permission or payment to release the effect. More than 6 months after the effect was on the market, Baxt contacted Gene and sent him one. In Dr. Anderson 's words, "Baxt takes the effect to lower ground, yielding a torn and restored where you are ripped off both financially and theatrically." Bending Coin - $375 for a pen with a pliers grip in each half. Totally undeceptive, rotten handling. Would not, could not, fool anyone. Burn Witch Burn - Generic force of a pencil dotted envelope and a dead scratch-marked cigarette lighter. Not sure what Hilford is selling here. Boomerang - The bottom 10 cards are reversed, #5 is your prediction. Spectator names a number and you start counting from the top face down. 5 away from the number, you turn the cards on the table face up, and at the same time turn over the pack and table it. This is in Barrie Richardson's book. Goldman is stealing again. Carpenter's Nightmare - The ad says you hand out the bent nail for "immediate instant examination". Yes, but after a lousy switch and horrible dump of the terrible gimmick when the heat is on. Hank personally recommended this one to me. Total crap. Cezanne Code - For $150 you imagine a 9-point matrix, like the dial pad of a telephone. You send the appropriate quadrant by tilting your head or pointing your feet. You look like an epileptic. Cigarette Up The Nose - You have to wear a jacket. It is unconscionable the ad does not mention this. Another waste of money, unless you want to spend $30 for a cigarette pull. Ceremony of Immortals - $20 for the exact same trick in Cornelius's $5 Marked Deck Manuscript, with half a deck and a crib sheet. Completely Cold - $40 for a 31 page pamphlet of watered-down Rogerian psychotherapy. You say "Yes, and - " or " No, but - ", instead of cold reading. Crossroads - Premonition Deck is missing 2C 3H 4S 5D 6C 7H 8S 9D, replaced with random court cards. 8 force cards are in various pockets and places (shoes). Victim names a number between 1-10, you equivoque the correct suit. ACAN Deck is 2 Jokers, 10 random cards, 5 banks of 2C 4S 6C 8S, 5 banks of 3H 5D 7H 9D. Card selection as in Premonition. You limit choice of number for the card to 10-30 or 30-50, depending on color, and count to the card using the Jokers or not. Beyond vomit for $35. DaVinci Zone Book Test - Two $2 scroll pens (www.scrollpens.com) with cribs for $200. You have to hide the scrolls behind a pad. Why not crib on the pad directly? Destined To Be - $60 for a beautifully produced, flatulant rewrite of Krenzel's slit-case cut-dump. Doesn't tell you the most important thing, how to edge mark the deck. Nobody is gonna (can?) do this. Double Vision - You have to get a glimpse of the opposite page of the book to give the reading. The instructions are printed right in the book (subtext, the spectator is stupid), so the book cannot be examined. Ebony and Ivory - Looks terrific on the net, but in person you see the magnetic linking ropes gaff. A switch is required when the heat is on. The visible penetration is not 100%. Elevator - Before I bought this, I commented to a friend that it was probably a doorstop on a rope down your pantleg. He assured me I had to be incorrect. We were both wrong. It's worse. A keychain reel is attached to your belt, with a plastic cup on the end that you put under your heel. You wear a jacket to hide the gaff. Just your toes levitate. Difficult unless you have the balance of an acrobat. Angles are impossible, and you cannot rotate without exposing the cable running down your leg. The levitation looks awful. Everyone I know who bought this is spitting. Eliminator - $25 for a Mene Tekel Deck. 2 spectators think of even and odd #'s, then count to their cards. Selections end up on top and bottom. Eugene's Last Dollar - 1/8 bill with waxed cardboard backing. Lousy undeceptive handling and no ending. Klause at least covered new ground. Expert Deck - The side of the deck is edge marked with a magic marker stripe. Goldenberg would have you believe that you can estimate the position of an edge marked card from the top of the deck. Effect is a fraud. Murphy's choose to distribute this, which tells you all you need to know about Trono and Murphy. Flight 204 - Fickle Nickel with a wax button. No way to cleanly attach the wax to a ring. Doesn't work with most rings. Grail - Prediction is a double index. Mates at 12, 24, 36, 48. You shift 1-3 cards from top or bottom as necessary. Greed - Dirty at the top, dirty at the bottom, horrible looking changes, and it costs $37 to make the horrible multi-flap gaff. Heirloom - $35 for off-by-one on a cheesey letter you take out if needed, instead of on the back of the 16 photo cards. Hermit of Dreams - Top pocket switch to force the reading card in your pocket. Wouldn't fool a squirrel. Hot Rod Convertible - Changes color with temperature. Useless. Hundy-500 - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills. Effect just sits there at the end. Wilson is clueless about how to release tension and get off. A perfect example of how not to do magic for humans. Invisible Watch - You glance at a joggers watch in your breast pocket. Swear I saw this 15 years ago. Impossible 1 to 52 - A magnet you hold on top or bottom of the card case, holds back shim cards, which holds back cards during the dump. Force cards throughout the deck. Impossible to do, impossible to memorize where you hold the magnet, and impossible to memorize which side of the case you dump from. Impossible Devination - $20 for crazy cube. The cheap plastic plate was sitting on my desk on top of a newspaper before I read the instructions. I could see the headline and groaned. Total ripoff. Hard to believe this has gotten by all press, who are not stupid, and every magician who has seen it. Impossible Signed Card to Any Wallet - Ortiz's Dream Card. Selection is held by magnets outside the card case when the deck is boxed. Multiple turnover for revelation. Would not fool a flea. Infinity Switch - Impossible angles and fiddling to setup. You paperclip 2 bills together, and pivot switch them in your hands. Invisible Deck - Dobson is right. The display at the end is weak and their 12 year old bought one last week at Houdini's. Just Passin Thru - Eddie Taytelbaum's Dowel Penetration, miscredited and poorly recycled with a slit pencil. Gets lead all over your hands and the bill. K.E.N.T. - Spectator removes 5 cards, you pump for the court card. You can't reveal the suit. 1/3 of the time you are wrong without an out. 3x the price of Tsunami for 1/10 the effect. Key Melt - You have to do an impossible switch of a lousy-looking rubber key when the heat is on before examination. Totally fraudulent ad. Kohler 3-Fly - $300 for 3 silver dollars, Slippery Sam and generic non-deceptive handling. No idea why Close wet himself over this. Live at the Jailhouse - Fleshmann's Card in Wallet sits there at the end, waiting for the tension to be released. Kozmo's Bill in SweetnLow is an object lesson in telegraphing moves. Kirk Charles blows off the climax of every effect. Worst DVD set I've seen in a while. Perfect example of what NOT to do in restaurants. Magician's Nightmare - You wear jacket with an uncreditted Neff Rope Gimmick. Must be done as an opener. Rope Miracle is superior for this much work. Mental Yarn - Ned Rutledge's Triple Threat, the property of Dane Rutledge. Goldman put this on the market while Ned was alive. People screamed it was not Goldman's to sell, and Goldman took it off the market. Ned left us, and Goldman put it back on the market, with a false statement on page one that Ned gave Goldman permission to market the effect. Mindreading Orange - Kaplan's routine is stupid, not funny. Miraculous Ploys - Make a coffee stirrer move by blowing on it. Use pen thru anything on top of a pad for spirit writing. Drop water from a cottonball on a spectator to make them feel cold. Secretly touch a spectator's head with your thumb. Worse than Wonder Words. No, that's not possible. Mullica Wallet - Always hated this. Totally obvious, from the day I first saw Tom do it at Magic Inc, a couple of months after he put it out. No idea why people wet themselves over Burger's handling. Use LePaul and go off the bottom, if you are skittish. New World - First 26 cards are regular cards in Aronson for no reason, followed by 26 red/black half/half cards. What is the point? If you don't want to switch piles, use Harris's Gemini. Northbound - You wax the ring to your thumbnail for the vanish, thread the ring on the chain as you remove the chain from your neck. Only good on the net. One & Only - Standard equivoque with 8 JQKA double facers in a way too thick, weird looking, square 4-way double envelope. One Dollar - Five Dollar Bill Switch - Even with Roger Klause's brilliant gimmick, the effect just sits there at the end. No way to release the tension and get off. One For the Money - As spectator deals cards face up, you spot the 2nd card. Spectator stops dealingr, buries top and bottom cards, takes top card for selection, buries and shuffles. Get the selection to the top and table the deck. Spectator names a number. Deal to the number. Pick up dealt cards in left hand. Peek at top card with right hand, replace card, pick up all the cards except the bottom card with right hand, at the same time you lift the selection to your face with left hand. One Hundred Dollar Bill Switch - Even without a tip, you start and end dirty, and it's obvious you fold up one bill and open another. Juan Pablo switch is a step back, as it's even more obvious you just flip over the bill. Does not fool anyone. Out of Body - $25 for a Himber Card Case and Si Stebbins. Plastique - If your spectator looks at the cards for more than 2 seconds, they see the numbers all add up the same. Nondeceptive and boring. Polter - Sponge earplug attached to a thread with a coin on the end. Sponge plug expands and knocks the item over. Coin on thread pulls the sponge to the floor. Raxon Billet Switch - $50 for Annemann Billet Switch. Would not fool a chipmunk. Reformation - A giant looseleaf binder, holding a giant 4 page index of folded cards. You steal the card as the victim draws it. Card is fed through a slit in the prediction envelope. Ripped up - A double faced 10D with torn card pieces printed on one side. You shake your hand and rotate the gaff. Awful. Route 1 - You show a red deck and put it in your pocket. Card and number are named. You futz with and put a blue deck in your pocket. You take out the red deck, and the card is at the number. Blue deck is in a half red, half blue case. Yeecch. Silver Bullet - You touch the selected page with your finger and put lubricant on it. The book cannot be examined after, as it slides open to the selected page. Silver Shifter - Lousy looking rubber coin. See Key Melt. Suspended Dimension - Large suspenders and an insanely gaffed shirt, slit along the line of the suspenders. Totally obvious you throw things in your shirt. Spirit - Doug Edward's Really Haunted. Why is Murphy's selling this? System 88 - Hilford's $75 rewrite of Annie Gottlieb's The Cube, $5 on Amazon. Includes a horrible tick sheet that was borderline in the 1950's. Telekinesis for Dinner - 9" metal gimmick with an arm that whips out and knocks over the glass. You have to work on a tablecloth. You have to have a napkin over the gaff. You start and end dirty. You can hurt yourself and others. Ties - $100 to Penguin for a 90 cent spool of elastic thread, and instructions to tie a surgeon's knot. Comes with a plastic device that makes tieing a surgeon's knot more difficult. Thought Reader Card - Total trash from Paul Brook. Side A of the card is a list of random objects. Side B is just Knife and Doorframe, alternating. Did not fool my labradors. Torn - The best and most deceptive torn and restored card on the market. Except it's Yves Doumergue's Ripped and Restored. Garcia even credits Doumergue on the DVD. Harris and Murphy's should be ashamed. Visibill - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills again. Whispering Deck - $37.50 to Hocus Pocus for a "guaranteed magician fooler" that is Si Stebbins in a slit card case. Winks Diary - Spectator thinks of a month, doubles the number of the month for the date. The card written in the diary matches your prediction. Except a chimpanzee thinks of another date, flips through the diary and sees your force card again. You Know Who Card - More trash from Brook. 5 lousy outs. Back of the card says Paul or Ruth, depending if card is upside down. Piper out is the first letter of each suspect spells Piper. Isaac out is that every picture contains eyes and a sack. Edgar out is the photo has a mark on the corner and suspect is facing a different direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EFFECTS - EFFECTS - EFFECTS - EFFECTS - EFFECTS - EFFECTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any Card At Any Number
40 years ago in London, Martin Breese ran an ad for the Berglas Effect, Any Card At Any Number. The deck is out at the top. No stooge. No force. No switch. The spectator names a card. The spectator names a number. The spectator uncases the deck. The spectator counts. The card is there. The effect is 50 pounds, $100 at the time, more than $1000 today. Sales are limited to 100 orders. Breese gets 100 orders. Goodliffe dies, the deal falls apart, and Breese refunds everyone's money. This really bugs me.
David Berglas is driving in downtown London. My friend Marcello Truzzi is in the passenger seat. Berglas hands Marcello a deck. Marcello is vehement, vehement the deck is out at the top. Marcello names a card. Pat, Marcello’s wife, names a number. Marcello hands the deck to Pat in the back seat. Pat counts to the number. The card is there. This really, really bugs me.
Actual script of my performance at Fechter’s 2006. (The deck is out at the top. No stooge. No stooges. No force. No card switch. No deck switch. The spectator could have uncased the deck. The spectator could have counted.)
“Start the elimination. Choose red or black. (Black.) We eliminate black. There is no equivoque. Whatever you choose, we eliminate. Hearts or diamonds? (Hearts.) We eliminate hearts. We have diamonds, Ace through King of diamonds. We going above or below 6? (Below 6.) Fine, we eliminate below 6. We have 7 through King of diamonds. Do you want to do the elimination with spot cards or court cards. (Court cards.) We eliminate court cards. Do you want the 7, 8, 9 or 10 of diamonds. Whatever you choose is the card we use. (8 of diamonds.) The card is the 8 of diamonds. We need a number between 1 and 52. Do you want to do the elimination above or below 26? (Above 26.) We eliminate 26-52. Name a number between 1 and 26. Whatever you choose is the number we use. (12.) The number is 12. (I uncased the deck. I counted to the 12th card.) The card is the 8 of diamonds.”
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Bill Nagler, M.D. - 16311 Middlebelt, Livonia MI 48154 - 734-422-8040Paypal billnagler@yahoo.com THE WORK The Court Deck is 26 alternating JD / KD – JH / KH, face to face with 26 alternating JC / KC – JS / KS. On top of each 26 is a face up joker. Beneath this face up joker is a face down joker. The Red Deck is 26 alternating 8D / 10D - 7D / 9D, face to face with 26 alternating 8H / 10H – 7H / 9H. On top of each 26 is a face up joker. Beneath the face up joker is a face down joker. The Black Deck is 26 alternating 8C / 10C – 7C / 9C, face to face with 26 alternating 8S / 10S – 7S / 9S. On top of each 26 is a face up joker. Beneath the face up joker is a face down joker. Three decks allow you to choose which cards to use, and to repeat the effect with different cards. Equivoque is aggressively used to give the illusion of no equivoque. For magicians, keep saying “there is no equivoque.” For humans, keep saying “whatever you choose, we use.” My favorite equivoque, if you are not happy with the selection, when all is done - tell the spectator to choose the opposite card. If you have a low red spot card, tell the spectator to choose a high black court card. I love this for magicians. Hiding the Index - Half the time, the display of the card is perfect, just cover the wrong index with your fingertip. The other half, you have to cover a miss-indexed body. You have five options. (1) Cover the wrong index with your finger tip, flash the card, snap the corner, keep it moving. (2) Leave the deck on the table, and stick the selection face up, half way in the deck. (3) Flip over the selection with the joker, and display the joker and selection in a fan on the table, covering the wrong index and body of the selection with the joker. (4) Use your fingers to cover the wrong index and bottom third or side of the card. (5) Know where the good cards are in the run of 26, and equivoque a good card number. 8/10 has either an 8 body or a 10 body. 7/9 has either a 7 body or a 9 body. Arrange the run so 1-13 are 8 bodies and 7 bodies, and 14-26 are 10 bodies and 9 bodies. I use option (1) and occasionally (4) COURT DECK - Presentation Put the Court Deck in the case, face down on the table, bicycle back against the table. Say “Start the elimination. Choose red or black.” (Spectator says red.) Say “Fine, we eliminate red. OR (Spectator says black.) Say “Fine, we eliminate black.” Continuing, say “Whatever you choose we eliminate. There is no equivoque.” (If black was eliminated) Say “Choose hearts or diamonds.” (Spectator says hearts.) Say “Fine, we eliminate hearts. OR (If black was eliminated) Say “Choose clubs or spades.” (Spectator says spades.) Say “Fine, we eliminate spades.” Continuing, say “Whatever you choose we eliminate. There is no equivoque. We have ace through king.” 1ST EQUIVOQUE. “We going with spot cards or court cards?” (Spectator says spot cards.). Say “Fine, we eliminate spot cards. We have the jack, queen and king.” OR (Spectator says court cards.) Say “Fine, we have the jack, queen and king.” 2ND EQUIVOQUE. “Boys or girls?” (Spectator says boys.) Say “We have the jack and king.” OR (Spectator says girls.) Say “We eliminate the queen. We have the jack and king.” Continuing, say “Whatever you choose, we eliminate.” (Spectator says king.) “The card is the jack.” Continuing, say “We need a number between 1 and 52.” 3RD EQUIVOQUE. Do you want to do the elimination above or below 26?” (Spectator says above 26. OR Spectator says below 26.) Say “Fine, name a number between 1 and 26. Whatever number you name, we use.” (Spectator names a number.) Remove the deck from the face down case, or turn over the case and remove the deck. Discard the face up joker. For a diamond at an even number or a heart at an odd number, deal to the card. (Mnemonic DEEHO.) For a diamond at an odd number or a heart at an even number, turn face up and discard the face down joker, deal to the card. For a club at an even number or a spade at an odd number, deal to the card. (Mnemonic CEESO.) For a club at an odd number or a spade at an even number, turn face up and discard the face down joker, deal to the card. Put the deck in the case and put it away. Turn over the card. RED DECK - Presentation Put the Red Deck in the case, face down on the table, bicycle back against the table. Say “Start the elimination. Choose red or black.” (Spectator says red.) 1ST EQUIVOQUE. Say “Fine. We have hearts and diamonds.” OR (Spectator says black.) Say “Fine, we eliminate black. Whatever you choose, we eliminate.” Continuing, say “There is no equivoque. Whatever you choose we eliminate. Choose hearts or diamonds.” (Spectator says hearts.) “We eliminate hearts. We have ace through king of diamonds.” 2ND EQUIVOQUE. “We going above or below 6?” (Spectator says above 6.) Say “Fine, we have the 7 through king of diamonds.” OR (Spectator says “below 6”.) Say “Fine. We eliminate below 6. We have the 7 through king of diamonds.” 3RD EQUIVOQUE. “Face cards, sorry, court cards in or out?” (Spectator says face cards.) Say “We eliminate the jack, queen and king of diamonds.” OR (Spectator says court cards.) Say “We eliminate the jack, queen and king of diamonds.” Continuing, say “We have the 7 8 9 10 of diamonds. Whatever you choose, we use. Name the 7 8 9 or 10 of diamonds.” (Spectator names the card.) “We need a number between 1 and 52. Do you want to do the elimination above or below 26?” 4th EQUIVOQUE. (Spectator says above 26. OR Spectator says below 26.) Say “Fine, name a number between 1 and 26. Whatever number you name, we use.” (Spectator names a number.) Remove the deck from the face down case, or turn over the case and remove the deck. Discard the face up joker. For an even card at an even number, or an odd card at an odd number – deal to the card. (Mnemonic even-even, odd-odd) For an even card at an odd number, or an odd card at an even number – turn face up and discard the face down joker, deal to the card. Put the deck in the case and put it away. Turn over the card. BLACK DECK - Presentation Put the Black Deck in the case, face down on the table, bicycle back against the table. Say “Start the elimination. Choose red or black.” (Spectator says red.) 1ST EQUIVOQUE. Say “Fine. We eliminate red. Whatever you choose we eliminate. OR (Spectator says black.) Say “Fine, we have black.” Continuing, say “There is no equivoque. Whatever you choose we eliminate. Choose clubs or spades.” (Spectator says spades.) Say “We eliminate spades. We have ace through king of clubs.” 2ND EQUIVOQUE. Say “We going above or below 6?” (Spectator says above 6.) Say “Fine, we have the 7 through king of clubs.” OR (Spectator says below 6.) Say “Fine, we eliminate below 6. We have the 7 through king of clubs.” 3RD EQUIVOQUE. Say “Face cards, sorry, court cards in or out?” (Spectator says face cards.) Say “We eliminate the jack, queen, king of clubs.” OR (Spectator says court cards.) Say “We eliminate the jack, queen, king of clubs.” Continuing, say “We have the 7 8 9 10 of clubs. Whatever you choose, we use. Name the 7 8 9 or 10 of clubs.” (Spectator names a card.) Continuing, “We need a number between 1 and 52. Do you want to do the elimination above or below 26?” 4th EQUIVOQUE. (Spectator says above 26. OR Spectator says below 26.) Say “Fine, name a number between 1 and 26. Whatever number you name, we use.” (Spectator names a number.) Remove the deck from the face down case, or turn over the case and remove the deck. Discard the face up joker. For an even card at an even number, or an odd card at an odd number – deal to the card. (Mnemonic even-even, odd-odd) For an even card at an odd number, or an odd card at an even number – turn face up and discard the face down joker, deal to the card. Put the deck in the case and put it away. Turn over the card. IN A NUTSHELL COURT DECK Whatever you choose, we eliminate - free choice of color. RED OR BLACK DECK 1st equivoque - Start the elimination, choose red or black. DECK SWITCH I don’t see a deck switch working for Any Card At Any Number. The heat is too high when you need to switch. That said, Martin Sanderson fooled me with his Bill in Kiwi Crossing the Gaze switch when the heat was on, so there might be a way. That said, Tamariz did not fool me with his Crossing the Gaze card silk switch. I’ve always wanted to build a Lazy Susan into a tabletop and lever the correct deck up into a deck shell. BORN, WATERS, RICHARDSON I have not seen Born do his card case cut-dump, but I fear too much futzing is necessary to get the break, and the dump telegraphs method. Water’s thin-card double-deck also bothers me for the same reason. I don’t think Richardson’s deck turnover would get by me, but that said, Del Ray’s turnover in his poker and blackjack deals fooled me. Stooge solutions are of no interest. Trick That Can’t Be Explained varying the effect is of less than no interest. Martin Breese is 5 years younger than David Berglas. Berglas may not be able to take it with him. Thanks to Gene Anderson, Martin Breese, Tony Chaudhuri, Bob Farmer, Bruce Florek, Ken Krenzel, Marv Long, Dennis Loomis, Geno Munari and Tommy Wonder. I got the idea for the equivoque from Ingenuities. Krenzel suggested the face down card case and displaying the card in the deck. Loomis told me about the alternating stack in the Aronson Approach. The double indexers, 3 decks and aggressive equivoque are mine. See Goldstein’s book for more information on equivoque if you need it. ADDENDUM Arrange the RED DECK: Face up joker-face down joker-face down 8D / 10D - 7D / 9D - (26 run) - face down 8H / 10H - 7H / 9H - (26 run) - face down joker. Left top and right bottom corner short all 8D / 10D. Right top and left bottom corner short all 8H / 10H. Arrange the BLACK DECK: Face up joker-face down joker-face down 8C / 10C - 7C / 9C - (26 run) - face down 8S / 10S - 7S / 9S - (26 run) - face down joker. Left top and right bottom corner short all 8C / 10C. Right top and left bottom corner short all 8S / 10S. Arrange the COURT DECK: Face up joker-face down joker-face down JC / KC - JS / KS - (26 run) - face down JD / KD - JH / KH - (26 run) - face down joker. Left top and right bottom corner short all JC / KC. Right top and left bottom corner short all JD / KD. RED and BLACK DECKS Even card at even # or odd card at odd #, count to the card. Even card at odd # or odd card at even #, discard face down joker, count to the card. Clubs and Diamonds – Equivoque 1 - 26. Hearts and Spades – Equivoque 27 - 52. COURT DECK Clubs and Diamonds at even # or hearts and spades at odd #, count to the card. Clubs and Diamond at odd # or hearts and spades at even #, discard face down joker, count to the card. Clubs and Spades – Equivoque 1 - 26. Diamonds and Hearts – Equivoque 27 - 52. Doctor Nagler's Diary "I have a wonderful present for you. Give me your paw. (A card is placed face down in the spectator's paw.) I'm not going to let you see your present, until you tell me your birthday. When's your birthday? (Spectator is handed a small pocket diary.) "Look up your birthday. Look at your card. I told you it was wonderful. (The card printed in the diary is the card in their paw.) " A single ungaffed playing card is placed in the paw at the top. No switches. No preparation. No nail-writing or secret writing in the diary. The card in the paw is pre-printed in the diary on the date they name. You don't know the date before they name it. They can name any of 366 dates, including February 29. Perfect for table hopping. A different card is at the selected date at different tables. People can follow you around and watch you again, and again and again. Embarrassingly easy to do. $99 - $5 shipping US - $15 international
Bill Nagler, M.D. - 16311 Middlebelt, Livonia MI 48154 - 734-422-8040 Paypal billnagler@yahoo.com THE WORK 8 diaries force 2C or 3D or 4H or 5S. Vary the force card for table hopping. Fill in the diaries with force cards on the dates indicated. Fill in random cards on other dates. Put diaries 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 in 4 different pockets. (1) - 1-2C 2-3D 3-4H 4-5S (2) – 1-3D 2-2C 3-5S 4-4H (3) - 3-2C 4-3D 5-4H 6-5S (4) - 3-3D 4-2C 5-5S 6-4H (5) - 5-2C 6-3D 7-4H 8-5S (6) - 5-3D 6-2C 7-5S 8-4H (7) - 7-2C 8-3D 9-4H 10-5S (8) - 7-3D 8-2C 9-5S 10-4H
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