Next Meeting: 15 May 2025 | Theme: Restaurant Magic | Location: NLB Drama Center

NITRATE (BACKWARDS B’WAVE) by Cameron Francis

B’Wave is a 4-card packet card trick popularized by Max Maven.  In this effect, a packet of 4 Kings is placed face downwards to one side on a table.  A suit is freely called out by a spectator.  The King of the chosen suit is the only King that is shown to be face upwards […]

EMOJI CARDS & STICK

Manufactured by:  Redefine Magic (Singapore) Reviewed by:  John Teo   Emoji is everywhere.  It is the “in-thing” to everybody.  We use emojis in our social media.  There are myraid merchantise bearing emoji umages.  If we can incorporate emojis in our magic, we are considered to be performing magic with up-to-date items. Jeremy Pei’s “Emoji Cards […]

UNSHUFFLED KICKER by Paul Gertner

Paul Gertner created “Unshuffling The Faro Shuffle” some 30 years ago and it has quickly become a classic in card magic because it is a novelty to find a message inked on the edges of the cards, and then by shuffling the cards, the original message changes into a different one.  It is unthinkable to […]

SECRETS by Anthony Owen

Anthony Owen is a creative British magician who was the editor of “The Magic Circular” as well as “The Dungeon”.  He has won awards especially for his TV work such as in “The Quick Trick Show”, a kids magic TV series.  He also produced Derren Brown’s TV shows.  Together with another ritish magician, John Lenahan, he […]

CHANGELING ODO by Marc Lavelle

Changeling Odo is actually an improved version of Changeling.  Changeling is a method for performing a bill change.  The main advantage of Changeling over the old classical method of bill change is that Changeling enables the gimmick to “lock” itself and this allows the bill change to take place outside the performer’s hand, for example, […]

INVISIBLE TRIUMPH by Jim Krenz

The name “Invisible Triumph” is interesting.  It suggests that it is a triumph card effect utilising, in part, the invisible deck principle.  The handling of this special deck is even more intriquing.  Several portions of the deck are mixed up with cards facing upwards and cards facing downwards.  Yet, without any funny move, the entire […]

WITHDRAWAL by Jeff Prace and Josh Janousky

Withdrawal is a plastic gift card that allows you to withdraw money from it.  As the money appears from the card, the printed value of the card reduces accordingly!Withdrawal is a plastic gift card that allows you to withdraw money from it.  As the money appears from the card, the printed value of the card […]

NEOMIX by Jim Krenz

There are several classic magic tricks that do not seem to have a climatic ending.  Take the linking rings for example.  The entire routine is about metal rings linking and unlinking one another, although the performer may show various ways of doing that.There are several classic magic tricks that do not seem to have a […]

ROCA (ROPE CATERPILLAR)

The name of this effect, ROCA, is an abreviation for Rope Caterpillar. It is a delightful and unique rope routine invented by South Korean magician Moon Tae-Hyun, who is himself a multi-award performer. In effect, the performer takes a piece of white rope and ties a knot on it.  He then slips this knot off […]

DEVOUR by SansMinds Creative Lab

Devour is a novelty card effect.  Novelty card effects never fail to bring smiles from the spectators.  Here is the effect of Devour: A spectator freely selects (no force) a card and signs it.  The performer slides the chosen card into the center of the deck and places the entire deck inside the card case.  […]