Non-Automatic Card Tricks

For over 40 years, Justin Higham has made a reputation as one of England's most talented underground card magicians. A student of Ed Marlo, Justin’s material has fooled some of the biggest names in magic. His unique approach to card magic perfectly blends flawless techniques with clever thinking and construction.

Self-working and semi-automatic card tricks are good and fun, but what about non-automatic tricks? But just because an effect is non-automatic doesn’t mean it is impossible to do. The material in this book ranges in difficulty, but all is within reach for most card magicians.

This is a collection of over twenty previously unpublished items , including:

• A cut-the-high-cards game in which the spectator “loses” by cutting all the Aces
• An Instant Sandwich where three effects happen simultaneously
• A visual transition based on Geoff Latta’s Ambitious Card using the riffle pass
• A Rising Card designed to be performed in a bar environment
• A Clock Trick where a mentally selected card vanishes from a packet of twelve cards and reappears back in the deck at a thought-of hour
• And much more!