Pages from Harry Lorayne's The Magic Book

THE COMPLETE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAGIC

At last! The man who made The Memory Book a #1 national bestseller reveals the well-guarded secrets of his favorite hobby: magic.

THE MAGIC BOOK THE COMPLETE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAGIC

HAIWOWNE In The Memory Book, Harry Lorayne showed how anyone can develop a good memory. Now, the master of recollection proves that he is the best teacher of magic in history. With characteristic wit and directness, he explains the secret of a few simple techniques that will enable anyone to perform the most complicated magic.

Mr. Lorayne guides the novice magician through the principles of performance and execution which he perfected after 40 years of painful trial and error. In no time you'll be dazzling yourself and your friends with incredible feats of legerdemain—card tricks, coin tricks, number tricks, and much, much more.

Best of all, there are no props to buy, no preparations to make, no gadgets to construct. Every feat in T H E MAGIC BOOK can be performed with common household items: a deck of cards, coins, rubber bands, even a potato.

After the basics, Mr. Lorayne provides simple step-by-step instructions for hundreds of amazing tricks and, after each section, the magician answers your personal questions—he discusses the problems most beginners have with the trick which has just been explained; he teaches the philosophy of performing magic as it's never been taught before. In addition, there are over 200 illustrations which make the learning process simple—and fun!

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Books by Harry Lorayne

How TO DEVELOP A SUPER-POWER MEMORY SECRETS OF MIND POWER INSTANT MIND POWER MIRACLE MATH MEMORY ISOMETRICS COURSE MENTAL MAGNETISM COURSE GOOD MEMORY— GOOD STUDENT! GOOD MEMORY— SUCCESSFUL STUDENT! T H E MEMORY BOOK REMEMBERING PEOPLE (THE KEY TO SUCCESS) CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC PERSONAL SECRETS MY FAVORITE CARD TRICKS DECK-STERITY DINGLE'S DECEPTIONS REPUTATION-MAKERS THE GREAT DIVIDE (A Manuscript) TARBELL # 7 RIM SHOTS AFTERTHOUGHTS THE EPITOME LOCATION T H E MAGIC BOOK

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THE MAGIC BOOK THE COMPLETE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO ANYTIME, ANWHERE, SLEIGHT-OF-HAND MAGIC

HARPY IDPAYNE ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD KAUFMAN

G. P PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK

Copyright Š 1977 by Harry Lorayne, Inc. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Published simultaneously in Canada

by Longman Canada Limited, Toronto.

SBN: 399-11956-6 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Lorayne, Harry.

The magic book.

1. Card tricks. 2. Coin tricks. 3. Magic.

I. Title.

GV1549.L64 1977 795.4'38 77-1080 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For my wife, Renee and my son, Robert who love me That's my greatest trick!

CONTENTS Preface

13

Foreword

17

Terminology TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

23

To Square a Deck

27

Hand-to-Hand Spread

28

To Remove and Display Cards The Riffle Shuffle CARD FLOURISHES

CARD HANDLING AND SLEIGHTS

30

The Ribbon Spread The Charlier Cut The Jog Shuffle

29

32 36 40

For a Selected-Card Control /For Selected-Card Positioning

The Slip Shuffle Instead of the Pass

46 47

Legitimate and False Cuts

52

The Kick Cut / The Swivel Cut / A 3-Way False Cut

The Hindu Shuffle

56

The Hindu Shuffle as a Control

The Double Lift (Three Methods)

60

The Palm (Two Methods)

68

The Hindu-Shuffle Force (Two Methods) 76 Four Forces

79

The Crisscross Force / The Between 10 and 20 Force I The Revolving Force I The Classic Force

The Glide SLEIGHT-OF-HAND EFFECTS AND ROUTINES

83

Cutting the Aces

88

The Spectator Locates

Anyone Can Be a Magician Insert

91

94

Strange Voyage

96

The Acrobatic Deck

97

One-at-a-Time Aces

99

Instant Aces

105

Ultra Location & Prediction

107

The Color-Changing Deck The Lonely Card

111

115

Color-Changing Aces

117

Two-Card Revelation

118

The Double-Lift Reverse Triple-Climax Speller The Double Color Change

121 122 125

The Calculating Deck

127

Name a Card

The Ambitious Card PRACTICALLY SELF-WORKING CARD ROUTINES

Mental Message

130 134

This Guy and The Drinker Prediction

137

141

Prediction Expanded

The 10 and 20 Aces

144

Matching Thought

145

It's Impossible!

146

Spell-a-Name /Lie Detector/ Think Stop

King of the Card Sharps Cast an Instant Spell Key Cards BASIC COIN SLEIGHTS

149 151

152

The Finger Palm

158

Complete Vanish I Complete Vanish and Production

Persistence-of-Vision Coin Vanish (Three Methods) 163 The Paper-Fold Coin Vanish

COIN MAGIC

Basic Coin Switch

170

Copper and Silver

172

The Jumping Coin

174

168

The Magnificent Seven Four Coins Across

176

179

The Coins-Through-the-Table Classic 185 Magnetic Pull

194

The Traveling Salesmen

195

Coin Through Handkerchief

201

Copper or Silver?

NUMBER, MAGIC

Coin Through Ring

204

The Nine Principle

209

The Missing Digit Ten-Eighty-Nine

211 214

Lightning Addition Your Lucky Number

215 217

The Instant Magic Square MENTAL EFFECTS

Line o'Type

224

Which Coin?

226

I've Got Your Number The Larger the Bill That's Odd!

MISCELLANEOUS MAGIC

218

227 231

234

Three Ways to One

236

Mind Reading Plus

237

The Headless Match The Traveling Match

241 245

Pen Through Handkerchief

249

The Asbestos-Handkerchief Routine 252 Not a Knot!

257

Three Times and Out

260

Sgt. Elastec and the Clip Artists 263 From 1 to 10

266

French Fries

268

Everything Goes!

Four to Go

271

274

The Mystic Saltshaker

278

The Ring-String Thing

281

Ashes to Ashes

285

Magic Breath

289

Another Paper Tear Ultra Bind

290

294

Tongue in Cheek

298

And That's Real Magic Last Word

304

300