Un sándwich doble

I like the basic sandwich plot and I use Ed Marlo’s technique which I think is one of the cleanest.

Effect: In this version, the two black jacks are removed and displayed face up on the table as the spectator selects two cards. The cards are lost in the deck with the deck shuffled, and the two Jacks placed on top of the deck, face up. The deck is cut several times and then ribbon spread face down, and the two jacks now have one face down card between them. The deck is cut so the Jacks and the trapped card are on top and the trapped card is shown to be one of the selections.

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Detector de mentiras

Me estoy haciendo viejo y olvidadizo. Esta mañana recordé un truco de cartas que me gustaba hacer, pero no recordaba los pasos ni en qué libro o revista lo aprendí. Finalmente reconstruí los pasos y decidí que necesitaba escribir estos trucos. Cabe destacar que esto no es original. Simplemente no recuerdo dónde lo aprendí.

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Rápido y rollo

Esta es mi versión del "Riffle 'n' Roll" de Jack Carpenter, de su libro "El portafolio del experto n.º 1". Soy fan de la obra de Carpenter y recomiendo cualquiera de sus libros.

La razón principal por la que ideé esta versión es que su método me parecía un poco engorroso al mantener múltiples frenos. Esta versión elimina ese problema, pero con el gasto de usar una tarjeta con un engarce de ventilación.

Citando de “La cartera del experto n.º 1”:

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Magia con tu teléfono

I have been intrigued with some of the smart phone apps for magic. But I have been off put by their prices, or that they only run on Apple IOS. So I decided to write my own, although it is not an app per say, but rather a web page that you can use for a mental magic effect.

The effect

There are two basic effects. The first is that you place a prediction down on the table. The prediction is a card that they spectator is about to select, using a phone (theirs or yours). You use the phones internet browser to go to a web site that shows a deck of cards that are face up in new deck order. There are two buttons above the cards: Shuffle and Toggle Backs.

Start of app with deck in new deck order.

You demonstrate the shuffle button, pressing it several times to demonstrate how the cards are shuffled each time the button is pressed.

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Tarjetas cortas

When I was performing regularly in restaurants the scalloped or concave short card was my favorite tool in my card magic arsenal. For those who don’t know what a concave short card is, it is like a normal short card, but instead of the end of the card being trimmed off with a straight cut, and then the corners reshaped, it is cut so that the corners remain, the cut starting past the corner and cutting on a slight curve.

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