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The Classic Collection Omissions, Additions, Decisions, Revisions, Upgradings and Updatings for and of
The Magic Book, Star Quality: The Magic of David Regal & The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel
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I’ve dedicated many books— books on magic and books on memory— to my wife Renée and my son Robert. This one is also dedicated to them. It’s good that some things don’t change!
Contents Preface..................................................................................................................... xv
The Magic Book Foreword................................................................................................................... 3 Card Handling & Sleights The Jog Shuffle....................................................................................................... 7 Instead of the Pass................................................................................................... 9 Double Lift/Turnover............................................................................................. 9 The Palm............................................................................................................... 13 The Crisscross Force............................................................................................. 15 Between 10 and 20 Force...................................................................................... 16 The Cut Deeper Force.......................................................................................... 16 The Classic Force.................................................................................................. 17 Sleight-of-Hand Effects/Routines Cutting The Aces.................................................................................................. 19 Anyone Can Be A Magician................................................................................ 20 Insert...................................................................................................................... 22 Strange Voyage...................................................................................................... 23 The Acrobatic Deck (or Saltless)......................................................................... 24 One-At-A-Time Aces........................................................................................... 26 Instant Aces........................................................................................................... 29 Ultra Location & Prediction................................................................................. 30 The Color-Changing Deck.................................................................................. 33 The Lonely Card.................................................................................................. 35 Color-Changing Aces........................................................................................... 36 Two-Card Revelation........................................................................................... 37 Triple-Climax Speller........................................................................................... 38 The Double Color Change.................................................................................. 40 The Calculating Deck.......................................................................................... 41 vii
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The Ambitious Card............................................................................................ 43 This Guy & The Drinker..................................................................................... 46 Prediction............................................................................................................... 49 Prediction Expanded....................................................................................... 50 Matching Thought................................................................................................ 50 It’s Impossible!....................................................................................................... 51 King Of The Card Sharps................................................................................... 53 Cast An Instant Spell............................................................................................ 54 Key Cards.............................................................................................................. 55 You Do As I Do............................................................................................... 56 Betcha................................................................................................................ 57 Basic Coin Sleights/Magic The Finger Palm................................................................................................... 60 Complete Vanish................................................................................................... 61 Complete Vanish & Reproduction....................................................................... 62 Persistence-of-Vision Coin Vanish....................................................................... 62 The Pinch Vanish................................................................................................. 63 Basic Coin Switch................................................................................................. 64 Copper And Silver................................................................................................ 65 Four Coins Across................................................................................................. 66 Coins-Through-Table Classic............................................................................... 69 Magnetic Pull........................................................................................................ 72 The Traveling Salesmen....................................................................................... 73 Coin Through Handkerchief.............................................................................. 76 Copper Or Silver?............................................................................................ 77 Number Magic The Nine Principle............................................................................................... 79 Ten-Eighty-Nine................................................................................................... 80 The Missing Digit................................................................................................. 81 Your Lucky Number............................................................................................ 84 The Instant Magic Square................................................................................... 84 Mental Effects Line O’ Type......................................................................................................... 87 I’ve Got Your Number......................................................................................... 88
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The Larger The Bill............................................................................................. 90 Three Ways To One............................................................................................. 92 Miscellaneous Magic The Headless Match............................................................................................. 95 The Traveling Match............................................................................................ 98 Pen Through Handkerchief...............................................................................101 Sgt. Elastec & The Clip Artists.......................................................................... 103 Three Times And Out....................................................................................... 105 Four To Go.......................................................................................................... 106 And That’s Real Magic...................................................................................... 108 The Ring-String Thing......................................................................................110 Ultra Bind.............................................................................................................113
Star Quality: the Magic Of David Regal Foreword(s)............................................................................................................121 Section I Cheating............................................................................................................... 123 A Point Well Made............................................................................................. 129 Coin In The Middle........................................................................................... 132 High-Gloss Paint Job.......................................................................................... 136 The Aces Are Here!........................................................................................... 140 Any Card—Any Number................................................................................. 144 Up For The Count...............................................................................................147 The Bermuda Triangle.......................................................................................149 An Incredible Journey........................................................................................ 156 Double It...............................................................................................................161 A Star Is Borne.................................................................................................... 163 Section II Illegal Collections.................................................................................................167 Straightforward Collections................................................................................171 Clearly Impossible............................................................................................... 173
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Popover................................................................................................................. 179 Royal Treatment.................................................................................................. 183 Everywhere.......................................................................................................... 186 Small Thinker......................................................................................................191 Tipped Off........................................................................................................... 193 Wavelength.......................................................................................................... 199 Club Sandwich.................................................................................................... 202 Temporarily Out Of Order................................................................................ 205
Section III Half And Half.................................................................................................... 209 The Flying Hole...................................................................................................212 A Flighty Personality...........................................................................................216 Freshly Painted.....................................................................................................218 The Optical Shuttle............................................................................................ 222 Four Coins, Two Hands, One Glass................................................................. 223 Self Evident.......................................................................................................... 226 Piece By Piece...................................................................................................... 227 On Your Mark..................................................................................................... 234 Dave’s Move-A-Card.......................................................................................... 237 The Cardboard Magician.................................................................................. 240 The Divining Card..............................................................................................242
Section IV Perfectly Oiled......................................................................................................245 Mirror Image....................................................................................................... 249 Impulse................................................................................................................. 253 Illusion Jacks........................................................................................................ 255 Optical Wild Coin.............................................................................................. 259 Simply Wild......................................................................................................... 262 A Failsafe Prediction.......................................................................................... 264 A Four-Coin Routine......................................................................................... 268 Mind On The Line............................................................................................. 271 Stack Attack........................................................................................................ 275
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Section V Triple Reverse...................................................................................................... 277 Dream Poker....................................................................................................... 280 Illogical Switch-Out............................................................................................ 282 Making Cents...................................................................................................... 284 Burned Out.......................................................................................................... 287 Simple Sympathy................................................................................................. 290 Streamlined Assembly........................................................................................ 293 Coins Through The Table................................................................................. 296 Subliminal Attraction......................................................................................... 299 Easy Fan Steal..................................................................................................... 301
The Card Classics Of Ken Krenzel Forewords............................................................................................................. 309 Section I The Natural Double Lift....................................................................................311 Natural Multiple Turnover.................................................................................313 Natural Multiple Turnover Plus.........................................................................314 As An Ambitious Card Ending....................................................................314 Triumph Mode................................................................................................314 “Stop Me”..............................................................................................................315 All The Way.........................................................................................................316 One-Hand Stop....................................................................................................318 The Pressure Hideout.........................................................................................319 To Indicate The Future...................................................................................... 320 Section II The Invisible Bottom Reverse............................................................................ 323 The Finger Stab.................................................................................................. 325 Invisible Reverse Transfer.................................................................................. 327 At Any Number.................................................................................................. 329
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One-Card Double Turnover.............................................................................. 330 Four-Ace Trap..................................................................................................... 332 The Optical Sandwich....................................................................................... 333 Section III Mental Matrix..................................................................................................... 335 The Peek Corner Crimp.................................................................................... 337 The Magic Bullet................................................................................................ 338 The Ultimate Tunnel......................................................................................... 341 Variation of To Catch An Ace #6...................................................................... 345 The Princess........................................................................................................ 346 Mechanical Spell................................................................................................. 348 Mechanical Poker................................................................................................ 350 Ken’s Panoramic Shift Handling...................................................................... 352 Panoramic Shift Add-On....................................................................................353 The Panoramic Plunger......................................................................................355 Section IV The Eerie Spin-Out............................................................................................ 357 Rip-Off................................................................................................................. 360 Instant Appearance............................................................................................. 362 The Tilt Sandwich.............................................................................................. 363 The Front Tilt..................................................................................................... 365 Ken’s Kolor Finesse............................................................................................. 366 The Purist’s Mini Hofzinser.............................................................................. 370 Force-Eps............................................................................................................. 373 Down-Down-Down........................................................................................... 375 The Card Catch.................................................................................................. 377 Section V The Classic Pass.................................................................................................. 381 Block-Cover Pass............................................................................................ 386 The K-E Pass....................................................................................................... 386 The Mechanical Reverse.................................................................................... 388
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The Vanishing Collectors................................................................................... 389 Miracle Multiple Peek......................................................................................... 392 Block-Cover Pass 2-Card Control..................................................................... 395 The Dribble Pass................................................................................................. 395 The Surefire Second Deal.................................................................................. 397 OMM Handling.................................................................................................. 399 The Slip Shuffle.................................................................................................. 401 Instant Drop-Switch Get-Ready........................................................................ 402 Last Word........................................................................................................... 405
Preface Welcome to the last of the series—LORAYNE: THE CLASSIC COLLECTION, Volume 4. In the Preface of THE CLASSIC COLLECTION, Volume 3, I said—“I’ve done it; that’s it; I don’t want to write any more; I’ve said all I have to, or want to, say; I’m tired.” Well, I’m about three years “tireder” but there’s just a bit more “I want to say.” After that volume was published I kept getting requests for three books that I hadn’t as yet re-written, up-dated, and etc.—my own THE MAGIC BOOK, STAR QUALITY (The Magic of David Regal) and THE CARD CLASSICS OF KEN KRENZEL. So, I thought, “What the heck, let’s do it.” (I guess it was my “completion complex” taking over.) This then is it, my re-writing, revising, correcting, upgrading and up-dating of those three, above-mentioned books. There would have been no way to fit all of the three into one volume but two concepts made it possible. As I did for the first three volumes, I omitted items that I’d stopped using, was no longer that excited about. Also, I originally wrote THE MAGIC BOOK for laymen, the general public. For this re-write, for you, I didn’t include the real beginners’ basics which you, obviously, already know—or you wouldn’t be reading this book. I omitted items that were no longer viable, didn’t “work” anymore. One good example is the drinking straw into raw potato idea that was in the original THE MAGIC BOOK. It worked fine with the paper drinking straws of that time. Then, drinking straws became plastic. It doesn’t work with plastic straws, so leaving that item in the book would be silly. Anyway, what isn’t omitted from these three books—all that remains—is, in my obviously biased opinion, the crème de la crème. (That, of course, was/is my intention, my goal.) And, I’ve written most of this volume in what I call “rapid writing.” For example, instead of “grasp the deck from above with your palm-down right hand” I’d write, “right hand holds deck from above.” Says the same without the “your,” the “the,” the “palm-down,” saving five words. I’ve also, in many cases, used the figure (“3”) instead of the word (“three”) between quotes which is ordinarily wrong, but saved space here. I did it only in places where I knew it wouldn’t be confusing; the same in places where I used “KS” instead of “king of spades.” Most of those who saw my original manuscript thought that all this xv