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:. August 1st, 2005 :. Issue# 28 :. Rick Carruth / editor :. Copyright (c) 2005 All rights reserved.. ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ Hello All..
Welcome to the latest issue of Magic Roadshow, magic's premier newsletter. First.. I want to welcome all the new subscribers who have signed up since the last issue. I hope after reading this issue, you're glad you shared your address with me.. Always feel free to email me with any question, comment, rant, or rave. ( Rick @ MagicRoadshow.com ) Well, I have a genuinely eclecctic collection of resources this issue. Take you time and explore them all. Bookmark this issue if you need to, it'll be here when you get back.. ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ :: Very Predictable Nice little prediction trick to use when you have a number of volunteers in the audience. This virtually self-working trick is very devious.. I've used it to fool plenty of otherwise smart folks... All you need is a small spiral bound notebook, preferably one like a stenographers notebook where the pages flip over the top, and a small glass jar with a lid. Begin by telling your audience of your amazing psychic powers. Tell them that to prove your point, you are going to predict a chosen number under almost laboratory conditions... Make a show of writing a number on one of the notebook pages. Tear the page off the notebook, fold it up, carefully - and in full view of the audience - place it inside the jar and screw on the lid. Pick someone from the audience to hold your prediction while you work your magic.. ---------- Side note: If you have, or can get, a small green snake, garden snake, or other harmless snake, have the snake inside the glass jar and show him to the audience. Call him/her by name - "Killer", "Viper", "Annie Conda", whatever, and tell the audience that after 600 performances, Killer has never allowed anyone to tamper with your prediction.. Getting a female to hold the jar during your performance can be a comedy routine in itself.. Lot's of funny possibilities. If you can get your hands on a genuine set of rattlesnake rattlers, the possibilities are increased tri-fold.. ----------- Take your notebook and a deck of cards and walk into the audience. Ask someone near the front to pick a card out of the deck and look at it. Let them return the card to the deck without you seeing it's value. Now, hand them the notebook and ask them to write down the value of the card they selected, with ace being one, jacks are eleven, queens twelve, and kings thirteen. Ask them not to write too big as three other people have to add their numbers to the same page. Now, go to a second spectator and repeat the same sequence of events, with the selection of a card and then adding it's numerical value to the notebook. Repeat this with both a third and then a fourth spectator. At this point you have four numbers on one page of your notebook. Walk back to your table, or any table actually, and lay your notebook on the table. Turn, and ask someone from the audience to assist you with your prediction. Have them come to the table , hand them a pen, and ask them if they will kindly add the four numbers together. After they calculate the total, ask them to turn and tell the audience the total. Now, ask the spectator holding the jar with the prediction to open the jar, remove your prediction, and read it aloud. If you have the optional snake, well, you can see the humor... The number you predicted on your paper and the number read aloud by the spectator will ALWAYS match.. Secret: Write four numbers on the back side of the pad long before beginning the trick. Make them appear to be written by four different hands.. As you walk toward your table after the fourth spectator adds their number, casually drop the pad to your side. When you put the pad on the table, lay it down with YOUR four numbers showing. Of course, your prediction IS always correct, or, you need a new profession.. Laying the pad on the table prohibits the pad from being picked up and/or the audience glimpsing the other four numbers. It's not really necessary for you to use a deck of cards to perform this trick. You can simply ask the audience members to write down any number from one to ten or fifteen. Using cards makes the trick longer. Allowing the audience to pick their own numbers makes the trick simpler.. Your choice. As far as I know, this is an original effect. If someone knows of another magician performing this effect.. let me know.. ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ Solari's Monte.. Without a doubt, three card monte is one of my very favorite 'tricks'. I have a deep appreciation of the psychology involved in the 'cons' used by the carnival types. I suppose it goes back to a time when I was , oh, about seventeen, and lost twenty dollars to a carnival huckster. Enough about my education... let's talk about Bob Solari and "Solari's Monte". Here's the effect: Performer displays two blue backed tens and a red backed Queen of Hearts. All three cards are shown front and back. The Queen is placed between the two tens, and the packet is squared. The packet is turned face down, and the spectator is asked, "Where is the Queen?". The response.. "In the middle". The packet is spread and the spectator is shown to be correct. The cards are mixed and the spectator is again asked which card is the Queen. A third time the cards are mixed and the routine repeated, with the spectator correctly identifying the Queen (by the red back) each time. The magician now shuffles the cards one last time and lays all three cards, face down, on the table. The spectator is asked to identify the Queen, and after he touches the red backed card. The red backed card is turned over to reveal a Ten!. Each of the other two cards are also revealed to be Tens. Both hands are shown clearly empty. The magician then reaches into his pocket and produces the Red Queen.. ------------- Bob supplies you with all the necessary tools for performing the monte, including the Bicycle cards. You can master this trick in about twenty minutes, as there are No funny moves or sleight of hand involved. Actually, there's NO double face cards, double backed cards, or specially printed cards. There is a 'gaff ' (of sorts) involved, but it's totally invisible to the audience. If you're even half-way creative, you can easily devise numerous other tricks from this trick.. If you are a fan of three card monte, I think you will enjoy Bob's version. I have thought of several other uses for the 'method' used with this trick, as well as several other interesting 'reveals' for the Red Queen at the ending. I think you will too.. On the Carruth Scale.. 4 of 5 stars.. Available from Bob Solari at: http://www.bobsolarimagic.com -or- Bob Solari Magic, 233 Lakeview Ave, Clifton NJ, 07011 USA ----------------- Speaking of Bob... Bob Solari, Bill Wisch & Carl Bajor invite you to attend an exciting, brand new, annual, one day, close up convention, conveniently located at the New Jersey Meadowlands on Sunday, November 6th.. * Strictly limited * to the first 225 close-up magicians to sign up for this super, value priced event.. Featuring - the legendary Steve Dusheck, one of magic's most prolific and imaginative minds. - Darwin Ortiz, one of the very best card technicians in the world. - And Bobby Gallo, who regulary performs over 400 shows a year throughout the country. Plus.. a special surprise 'guest', will be working the lobby, along with Steve, Darwin, and Bobby.. Get more datails at.. http://www.bobsolarimagic.com http://www.metro-magic.com -or- call Bob at.. 973-546-6110 or 973-773-8818 for all the details ... ~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~ :. Free Stuff Free PDF. Download a free pdf and discover the secrets to these and several other easy, but impressive, card tricks.. Black and Red.. (1)The magician sorts the deck into a pile of red cards and a pile of black cards, face up. He then turns them upside down and riffle shuffles them into each other and then continue several over hand shuffles explaining that the cards are now well and truly mixed up. The cards are then dealt back into two piles, face down and when turned over they are back in red and black order! Aces High.. (2)The magician cuts the deck in half, and gives you half and keeps the other for him self. You are then asked to follow every move. Both put the deck behind your backs. Both select any card from your decks and swap them with the other with out looking at them, you then both place the swapped cards face up any where in your decks. You then repeat this selecting, swapping and placing routine one more time. The two halves are brought back together and spread across the table to reveal that all four aces have been selected and can be seen face up in the deck. Extraction.. The magician passes you two cards and asks you to return them to the deck he is holding anywhere you like. They can be together or apart. As you are about to place then he says, ‘I hope you remembered them?’. You take another quick look and place them in the deck. He then taps the deck on the table to make all the edges neat, telling you it disguises the location of your two cards. He then riffles the deck. Places his thumb and second finger on the top and the bottom of the deck whilst holding the deck firmly in his other hand and then snaps your two cards straight out of the deck! ----------------- Download these and other free tricks *HERE* ~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~::~~ :. Mind Reading Games for Fun and Profit - This free ebook features the following chapters... for what it's worth.. Lesson 1 - The Nature of Mind Reading- A plain, practical, scientific explanation of this Vast, Mysterious Subject, explaining the action of Mind upon Mind, and the Mental Wireless Telegraphy, according to the latest and best authorities. Lesson 2 - The Proofs of Mind Reading- The result of scientific experiments and investigations regarding the subject: practical proof and indisputable facts. Lesson 3 - Contact Mind Reading- Full instruction regarding the "Nerve Currents" passing from the human Transmitter to the human Receiver; stated so plainly that any one may instantly grasp the theory and practice. Lesson 4 - Development Exercises- How to develop yourself; how to grow proficient in practice; how to find Locations; how to find Objects; how to perform the necessary elementary feats, and thus prepare for Public Performances, if desired. Lesson 5 - Simple GAMES of Mind Reading- Public or private party games; Practical Games are explained; full directions for performing them are given, so that the student may reproduce the experiments and games. Lesson 6 - Difficult Games- Explanations and instructions gives for their performance. The Banknote Test; the Blackboard Dazzle; Drawing Pictures; Telepathic Chess and Checkers, etc., described, explained, and full instructions given for their reproduction. Lesson 7 - Higher Phenomena of Mind Reading- Games without contact. Development Directions. Long Distance Experiments, Automatic Writing. Valuable Suggestions and Advice. Download here.. http://snipurl.com/readminds ~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~:.~~ :: Cardsleights.com Cardsleights offers a nice ebook with over eighty sleights, from false cuts to fanning, and over 650 color photo's. By visiting cardsleights at.... http://www.cardsleights.com you will have immediate Free access to a sample download containing a number of useful techniques.. including: The overhand shuffle, running the cards, control top and bottom card, controllling top stock, the injog shuffle, retaining bottom stock, the lift shuffle, and the overhand control. I must admit that, as good as the sample ebook looks, I have not bought the extended version. As such, I am recommending the Sample Download by default.. if any of you girls or guys order the full version at a modest $9.95, email me and let me know what you think. I'll try to do a full review if you think it deserves it... http://www.cardsleights.com ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ :: Success In Magic If you have a burning desire to build your business as a professional magician, I invite you to take a few minutes to explore this website. It could save you years of painstaking work and struggle. Earning a living as a magician takes perseverance and commitment. It also helps if you have a mentor who has actually "done it", and is willing to share his techniques, thoughts, and experience with you... without reservation. Jim Snack offers a Free 5 part email course on success in magic. There is no obligation, no spamming, and no pressure. Just sign up and read the emails as Jim sends them to you.. Check it out.. PS.. A Special "ThankYou!" to those of you who have purchased Jim's material in the past month.. Email me and let me know what you think. ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ :: Carney Talk I know... this is where you guys wish you had one of those big hooks used by the shepherds to bring his sheep back in-line. One of you would reach out and snatch me by the neck, pull me back on the path, and question my sense of direction.. I'm curious, OK? After Wonder Ella toured with the carnival through 46 states and parts of Canada she decided to write about it instead.. Her website "Welcome to the Fair" ( http://welcometothefair.com ) features an ezine, links pages, and a forum. But I found the Carney Lingo section especially interesting. "the most comprehensive glossary of carnival terms to be found anywhere on the Internet. I put this here to help you understand me." Just a couple of the many terms defined by Wonder.. ALIBI - A carnival game with very little chance to win, but usually not 'gaffed'. Instead, the agent gives you an explanation of why you lost, usually gives you a better offer. BABY NEEDS MILK - When carnies see another carny flirting with the townies, they will often go by and say this just to mess up their buddies 'score'. GRIND STORE - Usually a small game that needs a lot of action to make a profit, generally one that operates on pennies, nickels, or dimes. MITT CAMP - A fortune telling booth on a carnival. NUT - The operating expenses of a show (daily, weekly or yearly). Can also mean the operating expenses of individual joint owners. So a show always sought to 'make the nut' and start making money above its expenses. A show that hadn't yet 'made the nut' was said to be 'on the nut' and one that had was said to be 'off the nut'. POSSUM BELLY - Racks built underneath the semi-trailers that are used to haul excess cargo. POSSUM BELLY QUEEN - Derogatory term for ladies that sleep around with all the carnys, yep, sometimes in the possum belly. Visit http://welcometothefair.com ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ :: Kard Klub - Street Magic Bullets Top Earning Video "One of the ultimate highlights of the tape is watching quiet but fearless Jonathan Bayme, 16, step into a gritty, rowdy, all black high school in South Carolina and begin to perform. Within minutes the principal of the school was forced to rush in to shut down the magic, demanding that Jonathan leave the school for bringing the cafeteria to a horrifying level of screaming and excitement. Follow the action as the entire cafeteria pours into the school yard to keep watching Jonathan do the magic he can do. We have never seen anything like this." Watch the preview.. http://snipurl.com/kardklub ---------------- My sale of Ellusionist videos and related products make this newsletter possible. Without Brad and the staff at Ellusionist, I would be living in the back of a '74 Chevy, shaving and showering at truck stops, and eating those 9 for $9.00 TV dinners prepared with a microwave rigged to my brake lights. I could survive.. I suppose. But it would be really hard on my two assistants in the back seat. They've grown accustomed to indoor plumbing, free coffee and donuts every morning, high-speed internet connections, and sleeping in oversize office chairs... ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ :: Video of the Week Check out this nice little four card sleight of hand. I could tell you how he does it, but then you guys would be preoccupied with making your own videos, and you wouldn't have time to visit ... http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/four-card-trick-p1.php ~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~::~ I hope my next issue finds you well. Remember, if you have articles or information you would like to share with other magicians around the world, email me. 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