Minch, Stephen: Ken Krenzel's Ingenuities
©1997 Ken Krenzel, Stephen Minch. Hermetic Press, Seattle, WA
Hardcover, w/dj, 7x10.25",  210 pages
ISBN: 0-945296-19-3
Ken Krenzel's
              Ingenuities
Image courtesy e-Bay seller Pangrl

Comments: Illustrated by Kelly Lyles. Photography by Debbie Murray. Mostly cards, but some coin magic and even an effect with a pencil.

Contents (from book ToC; descriptions added Jan 2024):

v Introduction (Jon Racherbaumer)
vii Primordia Rerum - Magical Magic (Ken Krenzel)

1 Chapter One: Out of Hand
3 Box Top: signed selection inserted into deck in the card box moves to the top
9 Simulacrum Mirabundum: approach to Any Card at Any Number
17 Remote Chance: version of Open Prediction
21 Open Prediction - A New Angle: deck can be borrowed; performed seated
24 Halfway to Hell: selection vanishes from between Aces and comes back, in the spectator's hands
29 Shoe-In: forcing a card as they are dealt from within the card case
33 The Other Shoe: another approach

37 Chapter Two: Things Change
39 Around the World in Several Ways: a card changes as it is passed around the deck, two methods
48 Change at a Rapid Clip: each of the four Aces appear instantly face up at the top of the deck
56 Slip-Lap Change: card change with hand passing over the deck; performed seated
60 Sequence Mechanique: selection moves and turns face up to the middle and top of the deck; cards are mixed face up and down, and righted except for the selection
67 It's a Wrap: selection moves from center of deck to the face

73 Chapter Three: Escaping Cardville
75 Pocket Passport: ending for a Copper-Silver Transposition routine
79 Flipperoon: coin vanishes from top of deck to be found next to selection
86 Obstacle Course: coin penetrates glass onto the card case, then into the case next to selection
92 Flippant Alchemy: instant change of a copper coin to a half dollar on the palm
97 Poor Miser: sequence for the Miser's Dream with pail
100 The Million Penny Mystery: production and vanish of a long pencil in the fist

109 Chapter Four: New Tools
111 Peak Decks: construction and use of a variation of the Taylor Peek Deck
116 A Natural False Cut: a less is more approach using a table
120 Top-cover Dribble Pass: new handling
125 Mr. Fingers Goes to the Bottom: control to deliver selection to bottom palm
128 The Eclipse Production: hands sweep over a ribbon spread to reveal face up Aces
131 Opti-Stack: four Aces insert into center of deck become dealt to the Magician

135 Chapter Five: Tall Tales and Short Cons
137 The Lost Aces of Louie the Loser: Poker routine
145 Cloning Queens: Queen of Hearts splits into three and a half duplicates
152 The Last Heist: a four Jacks as the Robbers routine with color changing backs
161 Gravity Travelers: four selections fly from the deck to four pockets
168 Under Wraps: named card is found at predicted number in the deck wrapped in a napkin
175 Poles Apart: Two deuces come together with the help of a third card, then separate in the deck
179 Sand-witches: instant sandwich location
186 Sluggard's Monte: three sequences for a Monte routine to be done slowly so as not to confuse the spectator
186 - The Slow Show
189 - Slow Second
192 - Slow Slip
195 Strip the Leader: packets follow the color of their leader card, with a full deck climax
200 Fired Up: prediction effect with the story of a firefighter



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