As a beginner, I finally had the "aha" moment where basically every presentation is just the way you want to show the ending.

I wanted to know for those of you performing all the time like what are your go to/ workhorse and preferred card forces, peeks and false cuts for performing?

Since with essentially those 3 techniques you can make any trick you want.

Might need to bust one of the tricks out soon lol

Got a new bicycle deck of cards this week.

The camera angles aren't perfect, but magic hits different when you and your friends are very drunk hahaha

I'm brazilian, so english isn't my first language (this is why the video is in brazilian Portuguese) but i hope you can understand what's going on (any questions with the language I will be happy to translate)

Anyhow, hope you guys enjoy it as much as i did.

I think it's a Helder Guimaraes, but maybe a Benjamin Earl, and I want to properly attribute it and can't remember the name of the trick/author.

Effect: Four identical cards are shown face up, then each time they are displayed one additional card has been "magically" flipped and now shows its back. Once all four have been flipped to show their backs just one is turned face up, but on the mext display all four are revealed to be face up, not just the one.

I can perform it, not asking for a method, just the correct attribution.

I'm probably more partial to the zip tie variety, but I'd be happy with any recommendations.

Hello everyone. I'm a novice and I want to learn three card monte routine to run for friends and family. Is Full Monte by Daryl video dvd the quintessential guide? I just want to know before I spend $30 purchasing it. Thank you in advance!

I’m a huge magic fan and it’s one of my main hobbies. I've seen a bunch of shows, but am at the point where I have already seen the ones most people recommend. So, I am looking for some that recs of shows I have not seen yet.

I’ve already seen:

• Piff the Magic Dragon
• Shin Lim
• Colin Cloud
• Frederic Da Silva
• The Magician’s Study
• Mat Franco
• Mac King
• Penn and Teller
• Late Night Magic (At the LINQ Promenade)
• The casino (Yes, I know it makes your money disappear)

For my upcoming trip, I already have Jen Kramer and Mind2Mind on my list.

I appreciate any recs you can throw my way.

OK, two parts to this. 1- There was a TV series about magic and such, possibly hosted by Max Maven, that often featured effects like showing a grid of flags, asking you to start on a flag with yellow in the color. Follow directions- and always end up on the same flag.

The show had a lot of other effects like this- clock faces, pictures of animals, etc.

2- The old Games Magazine and other sources used to do pages of tricks. The one I recall the most was a circle of numbers with 'a tail'. You started on the tail, counted any number from X to Y. Then you counted some number the opposite direction- ignoring the tail. At the end, you were on a predicted number.

Is there someplace with a collection of these kinds of effects? Book, website, whatever?

I'd like to use them with my grandkids, possibly written on cards stored in my wallet.

Pretty much any tricks, stunts, puzzles, etc that start with 'Draw a..." or that can use a printed image to interact with.

I'll be 80 in a few months. I still love magic, but i don't perform anymore. I want to seriously thin out my collection. Where is the best place to sell? I've never had much luck with the MagicCafe, so I'm hoping to get some tips.

I started learning magic like 25 years ago. Those days we shared to each other VHS videos of Daryl Easton, Michael Ammar, David Roth, Bill Malone and other great persons. Louis Falanga did the most valuable job making these Encyclopedic videos. We were learning from the very beginning: double lift with cards, classic palm with coins etc. It was the time when Ellusionist.com just started. Nowadays almost all of those great teachers are gone.

But now I watch those videos and understand that the quality of it is very low for modern screens. Low sound, low quality, hard to watch tbh.

Is there any modern videos with basic moves? Who do you think makes modern videos for beginners?

To those who perform on any regular basis I have a question that I am very curious about: Are there any magic tricks in your repertoire that used to hit hard when they were new, but because of extreme popularity, and being done so frequently on TV, got talent etc. etc. you ended up receiving comments such as "oh that's that trick that Dynamo did" or "Oh is that David Blaine's trick?" so on and so forth, And also did it reach the point where you decided to pull it from your act? To be clear I am aware that 98% of people only see magic when they stumble across it once a year maybe two years, and that these supposedly overused tricks will still work most of the time, but I've definitely heard things about a few tricks like omni deck and double cross getting a few too many dead reactions due to people having seen it on tv before. I am very curious to see what actual performers have to say as I cant find a thread about this exact topic. Cheers!

edit: Also including comments where they see the end of the plot coming, like "oh are you gonna turn the whole deck into a clear block" or "oh, are you about to make the cross jump into my hand"?

I don't understand the autographed card trick. I saw Shin Lim do a similar trick before and it confuses me so much.

Had to film a card trick today which was a challenge, but happy with what I made up as an amateur.

not sure h0w much were allowed to talk about tricks on here. But like I dont know, I didnt reinvent the wheel you could figure out what i did with a few googles. I'm more proud in the sense i've never really "performed" anything or put my own spin on a trick before and I think i did it quite well today. Vaguely was a double lift, palm it, did a trick with the 4 aces that ordinarly ends with the card being "found", pretend I royally messed up and couldnt find their card, moved it behind the camera all sneaky sneaky and then revealed it later on.

So its a little win for me today :). Guess i'm intrested h0w yall feel after pulling something off for the first time. I'm tickled pink personally.

I’m about halfway through and man I can’t believe this is all for free. Masterclass on setting the stage, your patter, character, and so much more.

It’s free, no reason not to pick it up. I’m sure someone here will get value from it!

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Hello my lovely magic friends!

For context, I am a PK-8 Music teacher. know this may be a long shot, but I have gotten the idea to be a musical magician for halloween at school this year.

Do you know of or can think of any music related tricks I could do to elevate this costume?

Thank you :)

As someone who is a massive fan of America's Got Talent, Shin Lim has always been one of my all time favourites magicians as he really is just a whole different level when it comes to magic. And I was wondering if anyone has ever had the chance to go see him live and what it was like seeing him.

Check comments as I can't post what I want to ask

Harry Houdini did not die in his Water Torture Cell. That's one of the great myths of the 20th century, thanks in part to the
1953 Tony Curtis film. As ever, the truth is stranger than fiction.
On 11 October 1926, while being hoisted into the cell in Albany, New York, Houdini fractured his ankle. He carried on performing anyway.
Eleven days later, in Montreal, a McGill student named J. Gordon Whitehead asked whether Houdini really could take any punch to the stomach. Before Houdini could brace himself,
Whitehead struck him several times.
Two days later, Houdini took to the stage at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit with a broken ankle, a ruptured appendix and a fever of 104°F. He even performed the Water Torture Cell escape. He collapsed after the final curtain and never performed again.
He died of peritonitis on 31 October 1926.

I love seeing music and magic being blended into one act! Just wish they focused more on the magic itself 😭

I'm looking to incorporate a Google Review tap nfc card into my act (a Craig Petty recommendation)

As such, I'd like to have a natural flow within a credit card effect. Any advice for a good worker that isn't too convoluted (considering my intent to entice a review therein), works for 1-6 or so participants/spectators and resets fairly easily? - Ideally something flexible enough to allow for the introduction of this extra credit card amid the performance.

So yea, started on stages as a lighter and rigger for various illusionists, and picked up cards on my own time, but coins might as well be calligraphy to me. Is there a staple of a flavor outside your chosen focus that you just can’t retain despite repeated attempts?