A Blog About Magic and Other Nonsense

Tricks con­tains mate­r­ial for all skill-levels, from tech­ni­cally demand­ing ren­di­tions of the “Cards to Pocket” and “Open Trav­el­ers” to self-working “Faux Automata” using cel­lu­lar phones and lap­top com­put­ers. In between, close up mir­a­cles, par­lor tricks and stage effects abound. Stand­out effects include “Postage Pre­dic­tion,” a no-nonsense men­tal effect with postage stamps; “Bad Habits,” an improved, log­i­cal ver­sion of the “Cig­a­rette Through Quar­ter” plot; and “Match­less Psy­chom­e­try,” an up-to-date ver­sion of Annemann’s clas­sic “Pseudo-Psychometry.”

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