Product Description
If there is one book we'd recommend on card magic - it would be this. Karl Fulves Self Working Card Tricks.
No sleight of hand, no difficult handling. These are 72 wonderfully simple yet utterly baffling card tricks that any beginner can perform. And in our opinion not only is this Karl Fulves best book on the subject - but also the best book on self working card tricks.
It contains a wealth of card tricks that any church or youth worker can take and use to illustrate a presentation in a school assembly, church service, youth group or community event.
Many paid professional magicians use self working card tricks in their repertoire. Some use the very same tricks found in this very book. The effect shown in the video by Daryl, the 'magician's magician' is his presentation of second trick in this book, A Sporting Proposition - also known as the Circus Card Trick.
MUCH MORE THAN CARD TRICKS
But this isn't just a book on card tricks. Swop the deck of cards for a letter deck, post cards and photographs and suddenly you no longer have a card trick - but a baffling effect that uses a principle of card magic. Tailor a card trick to your next talk. All you need is some flash cards and pen to write the relevant Bible verses, characters, numbers or names that fit your message.
Imagine this. Instead of turning over 4 Kings your turn over 4 cards that spell the letter L O V E. Instead of your prediction being the 4 Hearts, you've predicted that the photo the volunteer has 'freely' selected is that of the Head Teacher!
72 FOOL PROOF CARD MIRACLES!
We don't have the space to go through all 72 trick but here are 3 that caught our imagination.
Trick 22 - Do As I Do. Great fun with a volunteer of any age. Our colleague Paul Morley uses this in his Gospel Magic shows. The magician and the volunteer magically select the same card. Message - Life is about choices. It's much easier to make the wrong choices than the right choice.
Trick 29 - The Haunted Name - The volunteer picks a card and writes their name on the face and then the name JESUS on the back of a second. It turns out both names are on the opposites sides of the same card. Message - Jesus calls each of us by name.
Trick 2 - A Sporting Proposition - Performed in the video! a classic piece of fun where the audience thinks you've got it wrong until the funny twist right at the very end. Message - we might fool ourselves, but we can't fool god.
LEARN KEY PRINCIPLES & METHODS
By learning these tricks you are also learning key principles and methods of card magic. Learn how to:
- use the key card principle
- glimpse a card
- force a card using easy but ingenious methods
- reveal a card in different and entertaining ways
- do impromptu cards tricks with a borrow deck
- arrange a deck before hand to create impossible effects
- create an entertaining presentation
What more is there to say except buy this book! It's an invaluable resource for any gospel magician, teacher, youth and church worker looking for self working magic to illustrate biblical stories.
You will receive: Karl Fulve's Self Working Card Tricks softback book. 72 card tricks and 113 pages. Dover publication.