Close, Michael: Workers Number 5 ©1996 Michael Close Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 170 pages

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Comment: The Workers series are now available as an all-in-one package in e-book format from Michael Close as The Complete Workers Series, with new and improved text.

Contents:

1 Introduction
3 Assumptions: Essay
7 The Lie Detector: Cards
16 You Hue: A Wild Card routine using the spectator's name and a freely selected color marker.
21 A Trick for O'Brien: Prediction
25 Fortune Sugar: Another prediction effect
28 Venue: Essay
30 Reverse Logic: A series of card reversals for the strolling magician
41 Too Ahead: multi-phase coin routine
55 Personality: Essay
59 On Sleights: Tips
70 Renaldo The Great: Chinese Prayer Vase routine
78 Pink Floyd: The backs of four jokers change from blue to red to blue again with instant reset.
85 The Tamariz Rabbits: Michael's version of Juan's commercial packet effect
88 Red Blue Mama Fooler: Red/Blue cards
93 Rocco Returns: Find the Lady - Ton Onosaka's Lucky Lady
98 Ring Fright: a no-pull version of Ring Flight
101 Flourishes: Essay
103 The Unreality Machine: Transposition between an origami snowball and a pack of matches.
112 Stupid Travelers: comedy cards
120 To Jay
122 On the Memorized Deck: Tips
126 The Wishing Trick: a memorized deck effect
131 Two for Simon: Four Aces, memorized deck
134 Myopia: another memorized deck effect
138 Memorized Standards
160 Jazzin: improv location
164 Magic and Meaning: Essay
166 Goodbye