Comments: Edited by David
Acer, Illustrated by Earle Oakes. This is a great
collection of Sankey's quirky magic. Lots of stuff to add to your
repertoire. Many can be intermixed in your current routine, such as
a
pen cap turning solid, a rubber band shot into the air and returning
to
the deck, and so forth. Lots of clear illustrations and well written
by
Mr. Racherbaumer. Recommended.
Contents:
iv
A Trick Question: Essay, 12 Characteristics of a good trick
1 Back in Time: (Slop Shuffle; Sid Lorraine) Deck is mixed face up
and
face down, then rights itself and the “wrong” selection
turns out to be correct.
3 Fragile Harbor: (Erdnase Change - S.W. Erdnase) A ship and a
bottle
are drawn apart on an Ace of diamonds. With a pass of the hand, the
ship appears inside the bottle!
5 Leaving Home: (Striking Vanish - David Williamson) A key is
removed
from a looped shoelace and is instantly thrown back on.
8 Big Time: A selection matches a Jumbo card
10 Slick Splits: A coin is split into 2 coins three times
12 Push Button: (Versa-Pitch; Coin Roll Hang Ping Chien; Pop Outs -
David Roth) Four coins “pop-up” off the back of a card case
at the push of an imaginary button on the case
16 Hot Tomato: Quick production of two small tomatoes from a packet
of
seeds
18 Wichita Slip: a nice slip force
20 Wham Barn!: (Vernon Strip-Out Switch) Four cards are chosen and
turn
out to be “marked” with huge letters on the back; the rest
of the deck is found to be blank.
22 Unscrewed: A borrowed dollar is twisted and unscrewed into two
pieces, then restored
25 Divine: Magician successfully removes a selection from one half
of
the deck into the other half of the deck
26 Forbidden Fruit: A stick of gum is used as a magic wand and turns
into the selection (folded)
28 Extended Credit: Magician bends a borrowed credit card in an
envelope past the breaking point and restores the card
30 Jaw-Dropper: (Hunter's Distant Misdirection Palm - Rudy Hunter;
One-Hand Top Palm) Signed card travels from the deck to the case
almost
instantly – twice.
33 Going Down: (Card To Card Case - Ed Marlo) Another selection
cleverly transfers from the deck to the card case
35 Inside Trading: $20 Bill appears inside a Perrier (or other)
bottle
37 Yo-Yo Mon: Yo-Yo string cut and restored
39 Short Fuse: Ace and Two are fused into a Three, with signatures
intact! (no gimmicks)
42 Just Joking: (Riffle Pass, Biddle Steal, Two-As-Three Count,
Revolution Count, Bluff Tent Vanish) Jokers help find the selection
by
sandwiching it, then the selection vanishes from the sandwich and
appears back in the deck
46 Seven: Selection is revealed during a telephone call
47 Bon Bon: (Palm-Down Retention Vanish, Pocket Drop Vanish) Copper
coin in left hand and Silver in the right turn into two candies
49 Electric Candy: The end of a candy wrapper is torn off and then
restored
51 Holistic Medicine (Bobo Switch - JB Bobo; Palm Change; Spellbound
Change Variant) Holes in coins multiply, transpose, etc. Requires
making a few unique coins…
55 Topper Tack: (Annemann/Christ Alignment Move) A clever force that
also acts as a control
57 Group Hypnosis: Three spectators and the magician all select the
same card value
59 A Stronger Magnet: (Monte Move; Paint Brush Change; Vernon Depth
Illusion) A “magnet” card elevates a selection to the top,
then pulls to hard so the selection becomes blank and the magnet
card
absorbs the image
63 Broken English: A paddle trick with a Chopstick and a card
prediction
65 Family Tree: A pencil goes back to its roots and grows a stem
67 Mightier Than The Sword: (“Snapper" Move) A pen gets a
“snapper” top, which is then found to be solidly glued to
the pen
69 Through and Through: A card visibly penetrates a dollar that has
been wrapped around the packet; the card turns out to be the
selection
72 Crocodile Tear: An approach to the $100 bill tear
74 Personal Check: A folded check turns into a real bill
75 Cornered: Corner of a bill is torn, the bill is unfolded and the
tear has moved to the opposite corner, but the torn portion still
matches
77 Geometrick: Round hole in the middle of a bill turns into a
square
hole
78 Genuine Counterfeit: A corner is torn from a sheet of paper;
paper
turns into a dollar bill, and the torn corner still matches!
80 Voodoo: (Mercury Card Fold) An index card is folded, and the
selection is found folded in the deck; the selection is burnt, and
the
index card is found with a burnt corner
83 Swiddle Kings: (Swiddle Move): An assembly introducing the
Swiddle
Move, which is an undetectable switch while peeling cards
85 A Clear Impossibility: (Hofsinzer Wild-Card Move;
Through-The-Fist
Flourish - Dai Vernon) Two cards change places in two plastic cases
several times under seemingly impossible conditions
88 Power Lunch: Spectator signs 1/2 of a business card, Magician
signs
1/2 of another business card, and the cards (with sigs) merge into
one
(Out to Lunch principle)
90 Healed: Holes are punched in an envelope with a business card in
it;
the business card is visibly healed
93 XXX-Rated: X's are drawn on several business cards; they transfer
to
one card, then to the spectator's card
96 Sleeves-Up Bluff Pass: An easy pass
98 Amateur Versus Professional: (Reverse Double Undercut -
Jennings/Elias): Two cards are selected and discovered by the
magician,
one using the "amateur" method, and a 2nd using the "professional"
method
100 Sugar Rush: Selected card is found folded in a sugar packet
(restaurant magic)
102 Strange Journey: A dime is pushed through the length of a straw;
the straw can even be seen "bulging" at the seams
104 Hard To Swallow: A cocktail "sword" is vanished
106 Touch of Evil: (Turnover Pass) A card selection "jumps" a
flaming
candle, and receives a burn mark in the process
108 World's Smallest Magic Wand: (Shuttle Pass) A match is used as a
wand and a selection in a card case transposes with the matches in
the
match-box
110 Fire Down Below: A matchbook transforms into a card selection
112 Firefly: One of 2 matches is torn from a matchbook and burnt.
The
Burnt match is transposed with a match in the book
114 Lightning Bolt: (Vernon Depth Illusion) A ambitious Joker effect
is
performed, only to find the deck is bolted together with a metal
bolt
and nut
116 Once in a Lifetime: Performer divines a selection AND the
spectator's birthday
119 What's In A Name?: Magician names the spectators selection
"Raoul",
but then it is found that Raoul is printed on the back, that the
other
cards have different names, and that the Raoul card IS the
spectator's
selection
120 Prime Time Bend: A quarter mysteriously melts and bends; can be
handed out
122 Silver Lining: A spoon mysteriously bends under a napkin
124 Spinach: Performer bends a long nail
125 Twister: Performer visibly twists a metal spoon when held over a
flame
127 Between The Sheets: A "Spirit Slates" routine with business
cards
129 Merger: Performer writes 2 predictions on 2 business cards. 2
spectators end up selecting the same card, and the performer's
prediction matches in a cleverly unique way!
131 Drew As I Drew: Magician and spectator each scribble on two
business cards, and the scribbles match
133 Paging Ben Franklin: An incredible prediction with a deck of
cards,
a book and a $20 bill
134 Ghost: Spectator says stop as a ghost story book is riffled; the
selected page turns out to be missing and is found in an envelope
137 Creamed: A "single cups & balls" routine with a dairy
creamer
and its lid crumpled into a ball. With a solid creamer ending.
139 Secret Passages: Coins vanish and are heard to arrive in a
glass;
then the coins and the glass penetrate the table
141 Hot Knife: a paddle trick with a knife to be performed impromptu
at
any candlelight dinner
143 Shanghai Change: A wrong card is revealed, but instantly changes
to
the selection with a wave of the deck
145 Homing Band: (Sure-Shot Vanish) A rubber band is shot into the
air
and returns to its place around the deck
147 Special Delivery: A stamp vanishes from a packet and ends up
stuck
on the selection
149 Greed: Spectator chooses one of three envelopes and finds a
penny,
the other two contain a $50 and $100 bill!
151 A Delicate Balance: Three machine nuts are balanced on each
other
one at a time, then the entire stack is turned sideways and is found
to
be solidly glued together
153 20th Century Fox: Three movie tickets are torn, one is signed,
and
ends up attached between the other two tickets
156 Nightcap: After using a pen to sign something, the spectator
can't
put the lid back on because it has turned solid
158 House Bound: A card selection is found to have transposed with a
card that was seen taped to the top of the deck
160 The Blues: A blue stone causes the back of a red card to turn
blue,
then a selection, then the whole deck
163 Box 'N Ring: A card selection is found rolled up inside a ring
that
was placed in a card case at the start of the trick
165 Stretching It: A finger ring is visibly stretched and restored
167 The Hustler: The "ashes through the hand" modified to use blue
pool
chalk
169 Glass in Steel: A small nut melts into and out of a small bottle
171 U.F.O.: A metal ball rises and falls in a test tube
173 Black Stack: An 8 coin production for parlor or stage (not close
up)
175 Bouncing Baby: A ball is bounced and turns into an egg, which is
cracked into a glass
177 Paper Cloud: A knife is stabbed into the midst of a card deck
that
was previously tossed, and comes out impaling the selection
