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Eugene Burger (June 1, 1939 – August 8, 2017) was an American magician.He was born in 1939 and was based in Chicago, Illinois.He was acclaimed for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and bizarre magic.
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic is a book on magic written by magician Mark Wilson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book is a popular reference for magicians and has been in print since its first issue in 1975.
The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.
Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and also to properly attribute an effect to its creator. For example, consider an effect in which a ...
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Take the card's face value (with aces counting as 1 and royal cards counting as 11, 12 and 13 respectively) Double it. Add 3. Multiply by 5. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a spade, subtract 1. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a heart, subtract 2. If the card the spectator is thinking of is a club, subtract 3.
Richard Valentine Pitchford was born in the Mumbles, Swansea, Wales on 24 November 1895. [2] Some sources use the incorrect year of 1899. [1]He joined the British Army during World War I, where he passed time in the trenches by practicing card manipulations.
The book contains advice on the appearance, the dress and the staging of a magician. [3] It then goes on to describe many tricks with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups and balls , balls, and hats, and concludes with a long chapter of miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice ...