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Counterfeit Detector
$20.00

A comical way of collecting money. Drop in a borrowed bill into the top of the Counterfeit Detector. Then watch it visibly shred! Your victim will gasp as their greenback is cut to ribbons in plain sight. Sound effects emanating from the detector add to the effect. Of course, the borrowed cash is unharmed, and can be reclaimed from the back of this novelty bank easily.

This gag item will really make them laugh. Very cool and looks just like it’s being shred! I’m sure there are some creative magicians out there who could turn this item into a foolery of a trick.

Batteries included.

Heirloom Wallet (Alakazam)
$62.50

After weeks of designing and negotiation, Alakazam are pleased to announce that we will be offering a brand new custom designed leather wallet for use with the Heirloom trick.

This wallet has been specially designed in dark leather to make performing the effect easier than ever before. And a special built-in feature allows you to show the wallet empty after you remove your prediction, eliminating any doubt in your spectator's mind!

After the phenomenal success of Heirloom, we are very excited about the new companion wallet, which will also come with additional ideas and routines that will enable you to perform a number of high-impact, killer mentalism effects.

Sharpie Thru Anything (JB Magic)
$25.00

ULTRA STRENGTH yet appears ordinary
The STRONGEST 'Pen Thru' EVER!

Penetrate a Selected Signed Card with Ease! The Sharpie Pen is made to pass through a selected card or borrowed dollar bill. Audience clearly sees the complete penetration from and back of the card.

Kenton Knepper has a excellent effect using this gimmick in his new book “Miraculous Ploys”.

Two Sharpie Pens included. Manufactured in England.

Mental Ice Breaker (Cobalt Magic)
$50.00

Have you ever witnessed true mind over matter? What you are about to read is true! You hand out two small tiles for close examination. You then introduce or even borrow 2 ice cubes (yes, you can borrow them if you want). You ask a spectator to put one ice cube on each block. One of the ice cubes will be the control while the other will receive your mental waves. You now begin to concentrate on one of the ice cubes and IT IMMEDIATELY MELTS AWAY! The ice cube melts as if you placed it on a radiator! It’s as if your brain was projecting high intensity microwaves or heat!

......After 5 seconds it begins to drip!
......After 15 seconds the ice cube is lying in its own water!
......After 30 seconds the ice cube is nothing but a memory!

You never approach or come in contact with the ice cubes before, during, and after the effect. WOW! Imagine the impact this has on any audience, whether they be laymen or performers! It's just devastating!

Everything can be examined more than closely (even under X ray !) before, during or after the effect.

No chemicals.

There is absolutely no preparation.

The blocks are regular but if you ask the question the answer is no, the blocks are not producing heat in any way.

This is an astounding effect for walk around. Ask them to remove the ice cube from their glass and watch their face !

One for the Money (Bill Goldman)
$10.00

From the creative mind that brought us Little Bunny's Card Trick, and Mental Yarn, Bill Goldman will help you floor your spectators!

Here's how: A spectator is given a deck of cards or uses his own. He is instructed to shuffle them and select a card while the magician stands on the other side of the room with his back to the spectator. He is further instructed to put the card anywhere in the deck and shuffle the cards, remembering his selection. All of this occurs in the spectator's hands- the Magician touches NOTHING! Then, the magician asks the spectator to pick a number from one to fifty-two. The magician then deals the cards face down until he reaches that number. Setting the rest of the deck aside, he reveals that the card that was next IS the selected card! Believe it? Believe it!

Includes booklet with amazing, detailed instructions!

Super Sharpie (MagicSmith)
$40.00

Imagine asking a spectator to think of any number. You write a prediction on the back of your business card. When they say their number, you turn over your card and it matches. Every time! Does magic get any more direct than this? Now you can predict a spectator’s freely thought of name, number, date, age - even the amount of change in their pocket. The list goes on and on - and your reputation will only grow and grow! All this is possible with the Super Sharpie. The Super Sharpie is a revolutionary redesign of mentalism's most potent weapon. It's so incredibly simple to use, you’ll be performing mind boggling mental miracles just minutes after practicing with it.

The Super Sharpie can be used as a regular Sharpie - because it is! Feel free to hand it to spectators to sign cards - they’ll never discover its hidden secret. There’s a built-in precision gimmick that allows you to make sharp, distinct predictions with clarity and legibility. Best of all, you'll do all this right under their noses - while they're staring at you. Since it's all built into the pen, there's no fumbling. You start clean when you pull the pen out, and you end clean when you put the pen away. It’s self-contained, self-inking and undetectable, and it's always ready to go. You’ll make your predictions on playing cards (even plastic cards), business cards, and virtually anything else that you can write on with a regular a Sharpie pen.

In the 15 minute companion video CD (included), you’ll learn expert technique that will get you up and running with your Super Sharpe immediately. Comes with Super Sharpie, video CD and illustrated instructions.

Matrix Poker (J. Steinmeyer/A. Wakeling)
$24.00
Matrix Poker is a strange game. The rules are very simple. So simple, that they're printed on a coin purse, which the magician displays. Along with the purse, the magician lays out 16 cards on the table. Each card has a monetary value printed on it. A spectator - completely freely, without any undue influence from the magician - selects four of the number cards. The values on the cards are added, to arrive at a value. Surprisingly, despite the completely free selection, the magician has predicted the total exactly! The very same amount the spectator selected is found inside the coin purse.

But there's more. When the number cards are flipped over, four playing cards are on the reverse. The magician predicted these cards, too! Their values were permanently printed on the coin purse all along! The trick requires no sleight of hand. It works every time, all the time.

Matrix Poker comes complete with specially printed cards (from the US Playing Card Company), custom-manufactured coin purse, illustrated, detailed instructions and specially printed bills.

Words of Jaks (J. Leslie)
$27.50

Anytime Dr. Jaks comes up in conversation the word is unanimous. He was an extremely clever man. You have come to expect nothing less from this legend. Words Of Jaks is no exception. The effects you can perform with this deck of cards is second to none. The Words Of Jaks deck is a 23 word card deck that looks so innocent yet allows you to perform trick after trick.

FOUR different principles are incorporated to give you many options. You could perform a variety of different routines right in a row.

Two volunteers each select a word card from the deck. The mentalist writes his impressions on paper and when both words are compared to the predictions they match.

The deck is divided between the volunteers. They each memorize a card from their deck and replace it into the others. The mentalist can ascertain which of the cards were selected even though the two decks can be shuffled by the volunteers.

Any card or cards can be removed and replaced yet the mentalist knows what words were taken.

One or two cards may be removed and held by the volunteers and the mentalist will know their identity and reveal their names to the volunteers.

The cards are printed on heavy card stock

These are not marked cards

No sleight of hand required

No rough and smooth

Updated and improved instructions by Jay Leslie

A Game of Life & Death (David Parr)
$15.00

A playfully macabre piece of close-up magic, in which an audience assistant is invited to play a game of cards with the Grim Reaper! This mainstay of David Parr's repertoire can now be yours. A spectator is challenged to cut the pack at any card - except Death's card. Easy enough, considering that chances are only 1 in 52. Avoid the fated card the spectator does, though in the process she comes very close to it. For a surprising, magical finish, the magician proves that he knew all along exactly which card would be cut to.

No sleight-of-hand - the spectator does all the cutting.

Complete audience-tested script, instructions and special props included.

A delightfully different card routine!

Radar Deck (Richard Osterlind)
$20.00

The Radar Deck is an amazing tool that allows you to divine playing cards that your spectator's have merely thought of. Suitable for all performing venues - close-up, platform or parlor - The Radar Deck will be a highlight of your show once you harness its diabolical secrets.

Besides the very special Bicycle-brand deck, you'll also receive a twenty-page booklet that details the exact routine Richard Osterlind uses in his professional work along with all of the handling nuances that have made The Radar Deck such a powerful part of his shows.

Just Name It (Jay Sankey/Elmwood Magic)
$20.00

You begin by turning the top card of the deck face up. You proceed to write a prediction across the face of that card. You then spread the cards face up between your hands and ask the spectator to name any one of the cards they see. They may choose any card; they can even change their mind. No matter what card is named, the deck is turned over to reveal your prediction is 100% correct!

A remarkable demonstration of clairvoyance under the fairest of conditions!

There is NO force, the card will be different each time you perform the effect!

There is nothing to replace and you can reset in less than a second.

Complete with custom printed cards on Bicycle card stock and two handling's.

Free Will (Deddy Corbuzier)
$15.00

We all want to believe that we are in control. We want to believe that our decisions are our own. But maybe those are just beliefs....You begin by removing a small piece of paper from a cloth bag and handing the bag to a helper. You explain that you'd like their help in an experiment involving free will. Your helper removes three wooden disks from the inside of the bag. Each disk has a simple geometric shape on one side. The helper mixes up the disks and then places them face down on the table. The helper now chooses one disk for himself, one for the performer, and one to be put back in the bag. The choices are always up to the helper and they may change their mind before they commit to the selections.You now ask one final question to the helper, "Did you feel every choice you made was of your own free will?" The helper responds, "Yes." The helper now opens the piece of paper which has been on display before ANY choices were made and it explains with complete accuracy where each of the symbols is now located! A terribly unnerving reminder that the choices we make may not always be our own!

A diabolically clever effect! Insanely easy to do! FREE WILL uses no switches or sleight of hand! Everything may be examined.

Optical Wallet (Net Magic)
$20.00

A jack of hearts and nine of clubs are removed from a handsome black wallet. The nine is placed face down on the jack, and the magician announces that he will cause the nine to penetrate the jack. When the two cards are peeled apart, the ink on the face of the nine has disappeared - leaving a blank face card! The jack is turned over to reveal that the nine is now printed on its back!

Supplied complete with specially printed Bicycle cards and the beautifully made prop, imported from France. Many other routines and effects are possible, a few highlighted in the illustrated instructions.

Expert Deck (H. Goldenberg)
$35.00

The effect so clean it seems impossible! You ask the spectator to choose any card (no forcing involved!). After the spectator chooses the card, ask them to return it to the deck anywhere they want. Then give the spectator the deck to shuffle (shuffling can occur before they choose the card as well); then have the spectator put the deck back on the table. Tell your spectator a number, for example 12, then ask the spectator to hold the cards and count from the top 12 cards. As they reach the 12th card you stop them and ask them to turn it over - without touching, forcing, cutting, or slight of hand the 12th card appears as the chosen card!

Coins to Cash (Tony Clark)
$30.00

Tony Clark is known for strong commercial magic. This is NO exception! You show two real half dollars and change them into two real dollar bills! Smooth and astonishing for stage or close-up venues. Simple to do. Absolutely no sleights!

Comes complete with three routine ideas. Illustrated by Tom Jorgenson.

Quink (Phil Goldstein)
$15.00

If you're looking for an offbeat close-up routine, you've found it! The magician displays four cards, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. While the performer's back is turned, the cards are mixed and then sorted out by the spectator. The result is that some of the card are face up, and some are face down. The participant adds together either set of numbers to produce a random total. In a surprising climax, the performer reveals that this was known in advance, and the prediction was right in front of the audience from the very start!

Complete with special cards. No sleight of hand, and no gimmicks. Produced by Ton Onosaka's Magic Land of Japan.

True Hue (Phil Goldstein)
$20.00

The performer introduces an envelope which, it is explained, contains a forecast of a choice yet to be made. A set of cards is now displayed, each bearing a different color on its face. One is fairly chosen by the participant; for example, red. The prediction is withdrawn from the envelope, and found to be a piece of cardboard on which is printed: YOU WILL SELECT THIS COLOR. Beneath that text is a cut-out window. The performer puts the prediction over the chosen card, so that the selected color shows through the window. Of course, the spectator is not particularly impressed with this, as the prediction would be correct for any color over which the prediction was held. When the spectator has voiced this reaction, the performer turns the prediction over, revealing another statement printed on its back: WHAT-YOU DON'T BELIEVE I KNEW YOU WOULD SELECT RED?

Complete with special cards, predictions and envelope. No sleight of hand required. Produced by Ton Onosaka's Magic Land of Japan.

On the Case (J.B. Magic)
$20.00

Effect: A hard spectacle case is shown, it has a random eye chart printed on one side just like an opticians.The opposite side is shown and is completely BLANK! A card is selected from a regular deck. You now remove your invisible mind reading glasses from the spectacle case. After a couple of minutes by play with invisible glasses and you guessing the card wrong several times. The spectator is asked to read the eye chart on the case. it now reads THE CARD YOU SELECTED IS Every letter has rearranged itself in a BLINK. Slowly you turn the case around, THEIR CARD IS ON THE BACK OF THE CASE.

NO Switching Cases

Completely Mechanical Marvel

Perform in 5 Minutes

Arrow Dynamic (Phil Goldstein)
$15.00

How do magic tricks come about? Well, here's on fanciful explanation: They're trained in infancy! The magician offers to demonstrate using nine cards, blank on both sides, and a black poker chip. "They're un-printed, fresh from the factory, and ready to learn!" A spectator signs an adhesive sticker, which is placed onto one of the blank cards. The participant loses this signed card in amount the others, and then deals the cards into a three-by-three layout. Now the magic begins, as printing suddenly appears on the plastic chip: the word, "Start," plus an arrow, indicating where to begin. The designated card is now turned over, and it's got another arrow, and that points to yet another card. The process continues, until-yep, you guessed it - the last arrow points to the signed card! If you know mentalism, you know Phil Goldstein, and here is your chance to pick up another gem! Produced by Ton Onosaka's Magic Land of Japan.

Coin Yo (Chazpro)
$20.00

The Yo-Yo Coin! What a great Yo-yo idea and magic trick! Show two half dollars and stuff them into your fist one at a time, then stuff in a length of string. When your fist is opened, the string has magically coiled itself between the two coins! You really floor your spectators when you yo-yo the coins! Whether you are a yo-yo enthusiast, or a magician looking for a twist to your coin magic, the Coin-Yo is a fun item to use!

Skydini Pins (Palmer Magic)
$17.50

Safety pins link and unlink smoothly and quietly in an entertaining routine that "plays with" the spectator. Slydini shows you how to combine the moves with the words to create a masterpiece of fun and mystery that YOU can do. You don't have to be a "pro" to do good magic. With plenty of illustrations, the instructions teach you exactly what to do.

Slydini is a legend, a magician's magician, and a grand master or the magical arts. Slydini's reputation as a gentle worker of miracles circles the globe. The methods he created have influenced close-up magicians everywhere. He is known For his attention to detail, and in his hands a Slydini routine is magic in its purest form.

Digital Feedback (Richard Osterlind)
$50.00

Richard Osterlind's DIGITAL FEEDBACK takes the traditional add-a-number routine into the 21st century. Imagine two groups of spectators, each multiplying two 2-digit numbers on a pocket calculator to arrive at a totally random 4-digit number. The performer writes a prediction and sets it aside. He then begins to slowly reveal the numbers that make up the 4-digit products arrived at by the spectators. The multiplication is then done by longhand to show that the calculator's products were correct. For the mind-numbing finish, the two products are added together and found to match the performer's prediction.

This routine, originally featured in Osterlind's Dynamic Mysteries, has not been widely performed due to the difficulties in obtaining the proper apparatus. Now, with DIGITAL FEEDBACK, you'll be able to add this powerful routine to your own show. You receive the very special scientific calculator, hand-modified by Richard Osterlind, plus a manuscript which describes this powerful routine, in addition to other possible effects. Please don't confuse this with other calculators that have been on the market.

The DIGITAL FEEDBACK calculator is totally examinable and will function normally, yet its secret will allow you to do very extraordinary things!

Precious Metal (Zander Magic)
$15.00

A great routine with built-in laughs and a kicker ending they'll never see coming! PRECIOUS METAL is a great comedy spoon bend! You will hook your audience in and wow them with stellar magic!

Effect: The magician displays a spoon and tells the audience that he is going to change the physical properties of the metal right in front of them. The magician begins to concentrate on the spoon, and it begins to bend. When it is revealed, the audience expects to see it bent, but instead it is now a FORK!

Both hands are clean!

Easy to do!

No sleights involved!

Instant reset!

This is a must have for any comedy magician, mentalist, or person who wants to add a funny magical bit to their act.

The Nothing Box (Terry Lagerould)
$12.00

A spectator is handed a small (1 1/4” x 3/4” high) round metal box and instructed to shake the box then try to guess what is inside by sound alone. You state that NO one has ever correctly guessed the contents of the box. After the guess, the spectator removes the lid and to everyone’s surprise the box is seen to contain nothing at all!

This clever prop can also be used in the vanish of a small coin or ring. When you apply your imagination, the possibilities are endless!