Synopses & Reviews
Sixty-three easy-to-learn tricks from a master magician show you how to use simple props like cards and coins to show off your seemingly rare powers to predict, read minds, and find answers through extra-sensory perception. With easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams.
Synopsis
In Easy Magic, master magician Karl Fulves presents a choice collection of 63 magic tricks that are as mystifying to audiences as they are simple for you to learn and perform. You'll learn about card tricks, "out of sight" magical mysteries, mental and paper magic, novelty tricks, mind-reading stunts, and more. These tricks will entertain any audience and you won't need expensive props. Most routines require no more than everyday objects like playing cards, coins, rope, or string.
With just a deck of playing cards and the step-by-step guidance on these pages, you can show off your seemingly uncanny ability to read minds. With a pocket calculator as your only prop, you can demonstrate what appear to be your rare powers of extrasensory perception. Or, when you request a quarter and a dollar from a member of your audience, you'll be able to name the date on the coin and the serial number on the bill -- without looking at either
These and many other dazzling deceptions will be at your command when you follow the simple instructions and helpful diagrams in this book. Practice the tricks, learn to present them confidently, and presto In moments you can make real magic
Table of Contents
Tricks with Cards
1 No Guesswork
2 Secret Thought
3 Think of a Card
4 The Lie Detector
5 Sum and Difference
6 I've Got Your Number
7 Stock-Market Magic
8 What's in a Name?
9 The Computer Deck
It Figures
10 Think of a Number
11 Iced Dice
12 Figure Fun
13 Number Magic
14 Murder by Calculation
Out of Sight
15 Trisecting the Paper
16 Time Out
17 Time Further Out
18 Ghost Ring
19 Behind That Door
20 Loopy Loop
21 Band It
22 Interval of Darkness
Mental Magic
23 Beyond Numbers
24 Devil's Dictionary
25 Knowing the Future
26 Ribbon Revealed
27 "Red, White, Blue"
Paper Magic
28 The Paper Rabbit
29 Lucky Lollipop
30 Boys and Girls
31 WOW! MOM!
32 Out of Nowhere
33 Jumbled Numbers
34 Red Magic
35 The Rings of Saturn
36 Favorite Food
Novelty Magic
37 Vanishing Ring
38 Hank the Ghost
39 Reverso
40 Chair Lift
41 Raise Your Foot
Two-Person Mind Reading
42 Truth in Labeling
43 Reading the Classifieds
44 Behind Closed Doors
45 Behind Closed Doors II
46 Magic Mind
47 Think Alike
48 Think Alike Again
49 Who Done It?
50 The Three-Object Test
51 Crime Does Not Pay
Money Magic
52 Strongman Stuff
53 "By George, He Got It!"
54 Guessing Game
55 Watch George
56 Bare-Handed Vanish
57 Spirit of '76
58 Pocket Presto
59 Cloak of Invisibility
Confederates
60 Numbers in Mind
61 Guilty Party
62 A Mind for Money
63 The Nine-Cent Card Trick