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! (Continued on back flap) 7709
SBN:
399-11956-6
THE MAGIC DGOK
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