Back in print and now shipping! Fasten your seatbelt. You are travelling to a special province in the world of magic: Self-working card magic. Deceptive, automatic, and turbo-charged. Join John Bannon on a twenty-five stop wide-ranging tour of self-working card magic. Not your typical non-sleight-of-hand tricks, Bannon has thoroughly analyzed these effects and backed up subtle principles with the careful, layered construction he is known for. Anyone can cobble together a couple of principles and call it a “trick.” Bannon looks for synergies and leverages the method as much as possible. His objective: “One plus one should equal three—or more. Otherwise, why bother?” You get the trick and you get Bannon talking about the trick, all in his precise, but easy-to-read style. The perfect travel companion on this exciting journey. All with regular cards, without gaffs, crimps, pencil dots, “punches,” or marks. These highly-refined constructions will change the way you think about self-working card magic. It’s not just the destination, it’s the journey. Enjoy the ride. Let's roll ... Contents Bluff Oracle Aces I: Free cut finds four Aces. Bluff Oracle Aces II: Performer cuts to an Ace; the Participant finds the other three. Ulterior: A card discovery and a secret cull. Petal To The Metal: Participant divines the identity of a predicted card. Four-Sided Gemini: Brand new Gemini Twins variation. Seriously. Ban-nihilation: Cameron Francis’ “Annihilation Deck”—without the deck. Perennial: The Diary trick—without the Diary. Prophet Motive: Participant shuffles and deals. The prediction cannot be explained. The Thirty-Second Sense: Pocket change misses, then finds the participant’s mental selection. Mousetrap: Two Queens trap a mental selection. Second Reckoning: Mental selection is mentally spelled to…and found. Leverage: Performer predicts that participant will miss the target card and by exactly how much. Tiny Contrary Killer: Participants select a card and think of one. Both have been predicted—sort of. Perfect: Participant freely cuts, deals, and stops at a particular card. The performer has predicted it. Cross Purposes: Mentally-selected card at a chosen number. Sort Of Psychic: After a few warm-up exercises, the participant cuts to her genuinely thought-of card. Origami Poker Revisited: Fast fold finds (Royal) flush. From High Caliber. Box Of Doom: Einstein would not have stood a chance. Free Willy: Participant shuffles, cuts, makes a few free choices. Esmeralda knows. Matchismo: Performer and Participant each shuffle and cut—and find matching cards. The three digit number has been predicted. The Koko Test: After a short pop psychology test, the Participant has cut to a subliminally-selected card. Nationwide: Four freely selected cards match the States of four US quarters—sort of. AK-47: Any card is thought of. The performer commits to one card and removes it. Nailed it! Depth Charge: Any card at any number—sort of. Banco Bank Night Bonus: Over one million dollars at stake—really.
