Pierce, Jeff: The King Has Left the
Building...With Amnesia Also available as an eBook |
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Comments: Edited by Paul Cummins, Illustrated by Reis O'Brien
Contents (from eBook):
i Introduction (Jeff Pierce, 2004)
ii Contents
1 Thinking Inside the Box: A card merely thought appears inside
the card box between two Jokers
5 Empowerment: Two spectators create a magical effect with cards
7 Twisting Dimensions: Twisting the Aces with color changing backs
9 Visual Rubber Band Un-Link: A new method of un-linking two
rubber bands
11 Rubber Band Split: A single rubber band is split into two
13 The Shrinking Band: One rubber band shrinks as it is absorbed
into another
16 The King Has Left The Building… With Amnesia: A two card
transposition with and Elvis King of Clubs
19 Remote Viewing: the magician draws the selected card, which is
then found to have vanished from the case and is found in a
carboard tent
23 The Card Whisperer: Magician riffles the deck and names the
position of the selection
25 What’s Your Name?: Magician predicts the card by the
spectator's shuffle
27 Light My Fire: price sticker on a Bic lighter jumps bottom to
top, then the lighter shrinks
29 Cash Deposit: A borrowed bill and a bank deposit slip transpose
33 An Open Connection: A card dealt face up matches a face down
card placed by the magician
35 A Guarded Revelation: revelation of a selected card using a
peek
39 The Rule of Three: A three phase version of the Red Hot Mamma
Plot
42 Two degrees of Separation: Out of This World performed with two
spectators at the same time
44 Four the Hard Way: The corners of a torn Joker are used a magic
wand by the spectators over their torn cards, which when opened
are found to be missing a corner that they now hold in their hand
48 Hugs and Kisses: Each member of couple marks X or O on a card
under the table, and the cards match in value
50 Paid in full: Stewart James Miraskill performed with 50 single
dollar bills
52 Predict-A-Wave: spectator chooses the only one of 10 blank
cards with a message
54 The Worlds Greatest Assistant: Spectator selects four cards,
which end up spelling his or her name
57 The Substitute: Sweet & Low and Sugar transposition
59 The Split Stack: A cyclical stack that looks totally random
60 - A Lucky Cut: two spectators each cut to a matching pair of
cards
62 - The Match Game: from a mixed up deck, magician produced
multiple matching pairs
64 Soul mates: Triumph routine where magician and spectator's
selections end up as only reversed cardsd, and they match
67 The Double-Jointed Card: a version of CardWarp with a bill and
a card
73 Red, Write and Blue: A two-card prediction effect
77 - RWB The Journey (Tom Cutts): further commentary and ideas
80 A Hard Habit to Break: A transposition of two vices, cigarette
and sugar
82 Tomorrows Technology Today: A novel plot for the bill switch;
mechanics of the bill switch not provided