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Comments (Alex Rossi):
Contents:
3 Kick-Star Aces: The spectator finds the aces without looking
5 Sweet Sixteen: Four fours are shown, then one four is split into
two
twos. Then the last two change into two queens
7 Six Card Interlude: Six cards act as a computer to find the
spectator’s card
8 Magical Mixture: “A well shuffled coincidence followed by a
magical
teleportation”
10 Bypass: A two cards are revealed and one appears in the pocket
12 Halloween Location: A nice revelation using the 31st
13 Fact or Fiction?: Lie detector effect using four questions
15 Miracle or Impossible again!: A variation on Arun Bonerjee’s
"Miracle or Impossible"
16 Make Mine a Double: A very simple matching effect
18 Fat Chance: A spectator has four chances to find his card, and
fails...like the magi said he would
19 The Brown Detective: The magi needs help from the “Detective
card”
to find the selection
21 Totalizator: Spectators each think of a card, the magi then
produces two card that have the same total of the thought of cards
22 The Mental Pack: The deck tells the magi what number the
spectator
was thinking of and then the spectator’s selection magically
appears
24 Suit Carrier: A variation Hofzinser ace problem except it in
the
spectator’s hands
26 Hour Magic: Spectator locates his own card using the magic hour
27 Innocent Confusion: A variation of Roy Walton’s "Confusion of
the
Innocents"
29 Word Count: “A selected card is found in the deck by spelling
out a
regular sequence of numbers”
31 Ritual Abuse: The magi asks the deck for the Value and Suit of
the
selection, and they both match the actual selection
33 Straight Quality Poker: “A spectator mixes a packet of 11 cards
then produces three matching pairs. The five remaining cards form
a
royal flush!”
34 Heaps of Lies: Another version the Lie Detector plot
36 Blackjacked: “A production of perfect blackjack hands from a
shuffled packet”