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How to do the pendulum trick: the swing that reads your mind
Learn the pendulum trick, where a ring on a thread follows a volunteer’s thoughts, and the ideomotor science that explains why it moves.
How to do the pendulum trick: the swing that reads your mind
How to do the down-under deal card trick
Learn the self-working down-under deal card trick, where a chosen card survives a simple “one down, one under” deal, and the maths behind i…
How to do the down-under deal card trick
Magic tricks for team building: a buyer’s guide
How to use magic at a team-building event, whether you perform for the group or teach everyone a trick, with four pieces from our shelves a…
Magic tricks for team building: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for your first open mic: a buyer’s guide
How to choose and plan a short magic set for your first open mic night, with four pieces from our shelves and two free books on presentatio…
Magic tricks for your first open mic: a buyer’s guide
Silent magic tricks: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic you can perform to music without saying a word, with four visual pieces from our shelves and two free books on manipula…
Silent magic tricks: a buyer’s guide
Card magic for intermediate magicians: a buyer’s guide
How to choose your next step in card magic once the basics feel easy, with four card books from working professionals and two free classics…
Card magic for intermediate magicians: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for parents to do with kids: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic to learn and perform with your kids, from easy kits you can learn together to tricks that happen in their hands and fre…
Magic tricks for parents to do with kids: a buyer’s guide
Visual magic tricks for noisy rooms: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic for loud parties, bars and receptions, with visual tricks that need no explanation, quick resets and props that read fr…
Visual magic tricks for noisy rooms: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for public speakers: a buyer’s guide
How to choose a magic trick for a talk or keynote, with pieces the whole room can see, reveals that carry your message and free books on pr…
Magic tricks for public speakers: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for trade shows: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic for a trade show booth, with short, repeatable tricks that reset fast, ones that use a business card, and props that st…
Magic tricks for trade shows: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks you can do sitting down: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic you can do seated at a table, with four close-up picks from our shelves and a free book on the cups and balls.
Magic tricks you can do sitting down: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for introverts: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic if you’d rather not hold the floor, with quiet one-to-one tricks, ready-made patter and pieces where the prop does the …
Magic tricks for introverts: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for adult birthday parties: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic for an adult birthday party, with four tricks from our shelves that put the birthday person at the centre.
Magic tricks for adult birthday parties: a buyer’s guide
Magic tricks for scouts and youth clubs: a buyer’s guide
How to choose magic for a scout troop or youth club, with two beginner kits, free ebooks and self-working tricks a whole group can learn.
Magic tricks for scouts and youth clubs: a buyer’s guide
The history of the multiplying billiard balls
Where the multiplying billiard balls come from, from de Kolta’s billiard-ball trick in Hoffmann’s More Magic (1890) to August Roterberg’s f…
The history of the multiplying billiard balls
The history of the egg bag
The egg bag from Isaac Fawkes at Bartholomew Fair in the 1700s to Hoffmann’s Modern Magic (1876) and the routines magicians perform today.
The history of the egg bag
The history of the ball and vase
Where the ball and vase comes from, from Hoffmann’s Modern Magic (1876) to the wooden and plastic vases of the 20th century.
The history of the ball and vase
Who was Horace Goldin?
The life of Horace Goldin, “The Whirlwind Illusionist”, who presented his own sawing-through-a-woman illusion in 1921 and patented it in 19…
Who was Horace Goldin?
Who was P. T. Selbit?
The life of P. T. Selbit, the London magician who presented sawing through a woman at the Finsbury Park Empire in 1921.
Who was P. T. Selbit?
Who was Ted Annemann?
The life of Ted Annemann, the American mentalist who founded The Jinx in 1934 and wrote 202 Methods of Forcing.
Who was Ted Annemann?
Who was Okito?
The life of Okito, Theo Bamberg of the Dutch Bamberg magic family, Thurston’s hand-shadow artist and the name behind the Okito box.
Who was Okito?
Who was Servais Le Roy?
The life of Servais Le Roy, the Belgian illusion designer behind the act Le Roy, Talma and Bosco and the Asrah levitation.
Who was Servais Le Roy?
Who was David Devant?
The life of David Devant, the English stage magician who partnered John Nevil Maskelyne, showed some of Britain’s first films and was the f…
Who was David Devant?
Who was Bartolomeo Bosco?
The life of Bartolomeo Bosco, the Italian conjuror from Turin who survived Napoleon’s Russian campaign and became famous across Europe for …
Who was Bartolomeo Bosco?
