Games of chance have a rich and colorful history, but perhaps the most famous - and notorious - of them all is the simple three-in-one proposition game known alternatively as Find the Lady, Tossing the Broads, and most popularly, Three-Card Monte. While written descriptions of early versions of this...
Games of chance have a rich and colorful history, but perhaps the most famous - and notorious - of them all is the simple three-in-one proposition game known alternatively as Find the Lady, Tossing the Broads, and most popularly, Three-Card Monte. While written descriptions of early versions of this...
In 1962, British magician Peter Kane invented a trick that he named Watch the Ace! The effect was reworked and subsequently renamed Wild Card by Frank Garcia and very quickly became a sensation in the magic world. In fact, the Magic Dealers Association named it as the best-selling card trick for 196...
Of the many varied plots in coin magic, the ones that seem to most intrigue creators and performers the most involve coins that travel invisibly from one hand to the other. In some tricks, the coins gather and in others they completely transpose, but the basic effect involves coins traveling invisib...
The very puzzling and entertaining con game known as the Endless Chain has its roots in an old Gypsy swindle from the 1500s called Pricking the Garter. It was subsequently adopted by magicians in the 1800s and has been used to delight and captivate - and humorously frustrate - audiences to this day....
The basic plot of the card effect that we know today as Oil and Water can be traced back to the 1940s and a Walter Gibson trick from the pages of The Jinx. It was Ed Marlo who attached the name Oil and Water to the effect (in addition to most likely creating the greatest number of methods for the ef...
People always ask magicians if they're banned from casinos or exclaim that they wouldn't want to play cards with the performer. To laypeople, having an advantage at gambling and games of chance is an alluring idea, and a magician demonstrating his skill usually brings this enticing image to the fore...
One of the hits of the 2012 EMC convention: a magic square routine by Richard Wiseman using a deck of cards. In effect, a spectator selects a card from a deck of numbered cards. The magician then deals out four hands of cards and asks the spectator to guess which hand adds up to the same number he h...
Inscrutable marks the debut of Joe Barry; a young British card magician with an extraordinary talent who created quite a buzz at our convention, The Session. This two-DVD collection includes Joe's prized routines, moves, subtleties and thoughts. Ranging from self-working miracles to the more advance...
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could produce smoke from thin air? Shin Lim's SSS is a versatile and inexpensive device that let's you do just that. With this device, you can stand literally two feet away and make smoke eerily appear inside a glass on the table. Shin Lim's SSS requires no sleeves, no ...