Aldo Colombini: React
©1994 Hades Publications, Inc., Canada
Softcover, spiral-bound, 6x9", 102 pages
ISBN: 0-921298-23-4
React
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Aldo Colombini: React

Comments: "New Cards, Coins, Ropes, Balloons, Thimbles"

Contents (from book, descriptions added Feb 2022):

5 Introduction (Aldo Colombini)
7 On The Professor's Nightmare: Aldo's ending for this rope routine
8 Rope Just Chance: winner chooses only rope with a knot in it
10 Vice-Versa: lead-in for a ring and rope routine
12 Up Your Sleeve!: M.C. routine with a silk
13 The One In The Middle: brief Okito Box interlude with coins and a card
16 Bubbles (Phil Goldstein): idea for a routine where a bubble in a balloon vanishes, reappears, etc.
19 That Professor Is A Nightmare!: another bit for your rope routine
21 Blowing In The Wind: colored balloon selected from a clear bag, the same color balloon unties from a string of balloons
23 Gong: balloon animal matches card prediction
24 Computer Prediction (Fumio Eric Inagaky): card revelation with a comedy barcode gag
25 Catching The Wind: knot in a rope catches the selected card
27 Stabbed Revelation: spectator stabs the deck with a card and finds the selection
29 Get Off My Spread (Ken De Courcy): chosen card vanishes from packet and is found in pocket
31 Hofzinser's Again: Ace changes to selection, and Ace is found reversed in the deck
33 Somersault: card sandwich effect
35 Flippant Prediction: 2nd spectator pulls card out of deck which matches 1st spectator's thought of card
37 Pin-Acle Prediction: spectator predicts card clipped in a clothes pin
38 The Torn And Restored Card: signed
42 Quartet: matching the cards effect
45 A Thimble On Your Finger: pips on selected card transpose to the thimble
47 Easy False Shuffle: leaves deck in order
49 Fontana Di Trevi: coin thrown into deck finds selection
50 Rendezvous: Aces from regular deck vanish and appear under Jumbo card
56 All At Home: Ace assembly using the Jokers
59 Mismatched Quarters: a jumbled Jumbo card ends up matching a prediction
61 Too Simple Too Good!: magician finds two selections
62 First Thought: Ace vanishes and is found in another packet
64 Second Thought: variation where backs also change
65 Alter Ego: Jack vanishes and appears in a card case
67 Square: series of apparitions and transpositions with Kings and Aces
69 Manila Coin: Four Aces, a coin and a card selection
71 Match The Corner: selected card corner matches the card, not using a force bag
73 Red Baron: good follow up for an Out of This World effect
74 It’s About Time: clock themed card effect
77 Submarine Card: Jack progressivel moves up a card packet
79 Surprising Demonstration: four four-of-a-kinds are assembled from packets
81 Wild Crosses: routine using six 7-of-hearts and a Joker
84 Underground Card: packet trick
87 Name-It Deck: spectator's thought of selection gets a name, and that name matches the card
89 Just A Bit Of The Heart: a balloon changes shape to match a card selection

93 Appendix
93 Ascanio Spread
94 Biddle Grip/Count
95 Criss-Cross Force
96 D'Amico Spread
96 Double Undercut
96 Down Under Shuffle
97 Elmsley Count
98 Flushtration Count
99 The Glide
99 Hamman Count
100 Hindu Shuffle
100 Jordan Count
101 Olram Subtlety
101 Reverse Faro
102 Riffle Force
102 Tent Vanish



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