\NonberR /VATERIAL written, illustrated, invented, printed, y Tommy Wonder \Ur, Secre™Dear friend, Out of gratitude for buying my lecture notes,you get this booklet with,compared to the contents of the lecture notes,far less inportant information as a free gift. Of course,this gratitude does not count in those cases where this booklet suddenly multiplies itself in a "magical way" into one or more heaps of photocopies for your friends ,ander the pretext of promoting magic. apart from the close-up magic,you will find some manipulative material described as well, a branch of magic so little wrirten about these days in our literature. I hope you find the material etimulacing enough to inspire you to new things. d best wishes, Thanks again TOSS UP PADDLE MOVE This paddle move is especially good for the colour changing pocket knife.Its main strenght lies in the fact chat it looks so very aonchalant.[t does not seem you are showing both sides of the knife.Instead it seems that both sides are accidently seen,while you are toying with the knife.Your right hand is palm up,the knife is lying on the Fingers. Now the knife is tossed up,see figure 1.While you tous the knife up,tura the right hand anti-clockwise, from the wrist,see arrows in figure l.this turning will be imparted to the knife,which will do a half turn while going up-Note that while the knife is in the air the same side of the knife will stay up,the audience will never see the underside Wow the knife will fell doun again,and when ic is caught in the right hand agein,the hand goes down at about the same speed to prevent the knife from bouncing on the right Fingers.Because,if it should bounce,it might very well turn over,showing the other colour. The bad angle to watch our for is at your right side.By turning the knife clockwise insteaé of anti-clockwise, the bad angle will be at your left.Sut remember that the bad angle can be covered by your body.When you try this move in front of a mirror,you will see thet the half turn really gives the illusion that both sides of the knife are scen. Remember that the idea is not to show the knife but to “toy” wich it.Toss up and catch the knife without giving the action to much attention.This move will fool yourself. THANKS TO PAUL HARRIS Paul Harris described in his book Supermagic a more than fantastic method for the tora and restored card.This is a revolutionary method for this classic trick,making it very practical since it is an impromptu method.Ic is vorth much more than the price of his book.[t is not up to me to divulge his method,all I can give you are some minor changes in the method,uhich,alehaugh minor,will improve the trick a lot.If you vant to learn the trick,go out and buy Supermagic,if you have not already got it. Firct of all,a thouhge about the counting of cards.1 feel it is not very natural when you have say 3 or 4,or even 5 cards to count them like 1,2,3 etc.The amount of cards is too smell to couat them like that.With a small number of cards I feel it is much more natural to show the carde,to display them.Because with such 2 small mimber it is very easy for the eye to see how many there are in just one glance.Only when you heve 5 or nore cards it becomes a natural thing to count them one by one.This point makes many packet tricke co unnatural to me.In the trick of Paul Harris,the pieces are counted to be 3 pieces. It would be better to do the count without audibly counting,ive. you display the pieces.I discarded the counting altogether,by a very deceptive Kind of display-At the moment che last piece is torn from the card,the left thumb pushes the back part of the folded card to the right(see figure 1 and 2).Place the locae picce next to it and you can clearly show 3 seperate(?) pieces(figure 3).This is more convincing,I think,than the counting method as in the original. Now follow my method for a very quick and Flashy restoration of the catd.Hold everything ac in figure 4.The right thunb and firet finger hold the loose piece and the protruding part of the folded piece.the left thumb and first finger hold hold the exposed lower left corner of the folded card.Now the left hand is moved straight up and the right hend straight down VERY QUICKLY.Autonatically you will get the situation as in figure 5.The extra loose piece is autonatically palmed inte the right hand.When done very fast, the restoration is seen to happen in a flesh.Now continue as in the original version.THE COMPLETE RESTORATION If you want,you can have an extra climax,by restoring the card completely, thereby avoiding questions likes"Nov,can you restore the last piece to the card?!For this you must prepare the card beforehand.Cut through half the thickness of the card with a sharp knife as shown in figure 6.Very sticky tape is stuck over the cuts,overlapping the cuts for only 1 mm.Use white tape for this,figure 7.Do the usual routine,but be sure to keep the tape hidden from viow.Thie you will find to be quite easy.The loose piece to be torn from the card is the piece with the tape.the card will tear exactly at where the cuts were made.The tape vill stick out a bit at the sides of the loose piece,and will mistakenly be held for the edge of torn paper.At the ond,when you show that the piece exactly fits the rest of the card,secretly press the tape.the loose piece is now fastened to the card.Show the card to be restored, figure 9.Then,you show the audience that you have cheated then by using sticky tape, figure 10.Nobody(we hope) will know vhere the wape has come from. Here is my way to get the prepared card into the deck,or better said,into the gane. I like to have my tricks to reset without any preperation during the performance of during the intervals between the tables.The simplest and mast practical way I found is to have some prepared cards in your cide pocket.You have the regular deck in your hand.Ask the audience;"Did you ever see a card trick with less than one card?" .After this rather strange question,which by the way is a good verbal attention raiser to the trick,people will look up to you.At this moment,pocket the deck and remove vith the sane hand one of the prepared cards,face out.Do the trick and when ready take the deck out Of your pocket again, (leaving the other prepared cards behind,of course).This way will allow you to do the trick many tines without resorting to palming prepared cards into the deck or some other kind of seerot preperation during the perforuance LIGHTER TO MATCHBOX One of my most logical effects.A lighter vhich dozs not work is changed into a box of matches.A very natural thing to do for 2 "real" magician.Because it is such a logical trick,it is perfect to be used as en ice-dbreaker in informal vork. A lighter is save through at the place of the arrow in figure 1.It should now have the length o£ @ matchbon.One side of the matchbox drawer is renoved and the lighter is fastened to the inside of the draver by one or two nylon threads.The Length of the threads should be such so that the lighter can slide out of the drawer almost complet See figure 2.At the aide of the lighter is a smell compartment to hold a few matches. This special compartment is indicated in figure 2 by the small arrow.The drawer is put into the box proper,hold everyhthing as in figure 3 when you take it out of your pocket to perforn.Let the half lighter slide out of che box,figure 2 and 3.NOW READ CAREFULLY. The way Co hold the lighter is as followssit is held TIGHTLY between the TIP of the first finger and the CUSHION at the root of the first finger,see figure 4.To the audience it seems you are just holding s regular lighter.Try to light the lighter,this will not work since there is no gas in it,but che sparks will definately get attenticn. Watch in daily Life when someone's lighter does not work,it allways gets attention. Anyhow, your Lighter dozs not work.Now you will change it into a box of matches by letting the half lighter slide back into the box and at the same tine turning your hand over 2s in figure 5.When you do this very fast,the lighter seems to have changed in an instant.Hold the box in the left hand,open it’ by pushing the draver out of the box with the right thunb, figure 6,the right fingers hide che half Lighter in the box from view,(the right nand is drawn by a dotted line in figure 6).Draw back the right hand,the lighter will slide back as well,hiding itself in the box proper.The drawer is seen empty apart from a few matches.This implies that the lighter cannot be inside che box.Apare from that,a regular lighter would never fit into the box in the first place anyhow. Take a match,close the box and light the match. A funny thing about this trick is that when you do this for people who know you are a magician,do not be surprised if they say;"Hey,I thought you are a magician,and you have a lighter which docs not vork?Gen't you make it work?".Then you can change it. Is it not wonderfull,you get challenged,and you can more than meet the challenge. Sometimes you will meet someone with the same type of lighter of the same colour.in those cases borrow their ‘lighter and switch it for yours,then change it.Crest "inpromptu" magic.Later you give then their lighter back. This is 2 much improved version of what I described in ay former Lecture otes.SHRINKING BOX T have always found the shrinking card box to be a nice effect.Today I use it in combi- nation with the effect SQUEEZE which is described later on.(ne of my first versions is written up in Genii,volune 46-number 6,June 1982.The next version is suitable for hoxes with a design similar to the backs of the cards.te is also much simpler to meke.A regular box is cut in two,widthwise.the side with che flap is decorated as 2 small box by pasting snall bits of carton of a regular box onto it.when a small box of a similar design is available, you can of course paste that on the Aalf box.A close study of figures 1,2 and 3 will show you how everything is made.The deck is in the box as seen in figures 2 and 3, The vorking is simple.Take the box and deck out of your pocket and hold it as in figure 4.Because both the box and the cards bear the seme design,one can see through the thumb and fingers,and the box will seen to be of the regular size.Take the cards out of the box,figure 5,and close the flap.When you turn the hand palm up,it is seen that the box has shrunk to half its size, figure 6. If you do not want to follow this effect with SQUEEZE at the end of the routine,you can take the half box our of your pocket after the tricks and hold it as in figure 4,(this time however there are ao cards in it).Opea che flap and return che cards to the box. Tt will not attract attention that the box has grown full size again.Everything is now reset to go again at the next table FALLING PIPS A crazy little gagywhere the pips on the cards move to ono side-For this you need a set ef double face cards.One side of the set shows normal faces,and the order is;8S(regular card)-6C-3H-76-10D-4D.When you turn the set over it shows "fallen" pips,snd here the order is the sane,namely;8S-6C-3#-70-10D-face down regular 85.Place the set with the Fallen side up on top of the face up deck in irs card box.Take the cards out of the box, but do not show its faces yet.Tap the deck onto the table as if to square the deck. WHILE you are tapping the deck,tura it with the faces tovard the audience,the deck leoks ruined.Fan out the first five cards one by one.Do not let them see the sixth card, Secretly take a break under the sixth card.Close the fan and hold the deck with both hands as in figure 2.The whole set is taken into the right hand thumb palm,which is easy because of the break. Once egain tap the cards onto the table,at the same time folding your hands together figure 3.The set will turn over undetectably.Now you can show you have tapped the pips to their normal position again.The full deck seoms to be 0.K.The top card(the regular &S)is shown on both sides,to allay any suspicion you night be using double faced cards.The set should be gotten rid of now or a little bit later, for instance when your hand goes to your pocket or case to get sonething aut. Later it can be picked up again from your case or pocket by returning the prop.This way the trick can be resetting. A nice feature of this effect is that when you tap the deck and starc to curn the faces towards the audience,they see a moving deck.They see some black and some white in move- nent.The mind expects playing cards with normal fsces.Then when the capping slowe down they gradually realise that the pips axe "fellen"dowa.Since this ic GRADUALLY realised, pany people will actually think they SEE che pips fall dovn bit by bit.Whac the mind expects makes the trick mich more beautifulhere than it really is,and that is nice. 2 SECOND CARD FOLD Apart from being very Fast and extremely exact,this method allows you to fold a card with your hands in full view.You do not need to hide your hand under the table edge or behind your leg or something like that-Also,the card ends up folded VERY small. The first two folds is exactly the method as described in EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE. The third fold I added to chis method. ‘The top card is to be folded.Hold the deck face up in the right thumb crotch.It is very important that the thumb is exactly in the middle of the short side and the thumb should be sticking down under che deck as far 2s possible.The left hand squares the deck and moves from the outer to the inner end of the deck.The left first finger pushes the lowermost card towards you, thereby folding it in half.Wnen the left hand has reached the right thumb,the card will be folded once.Now the left hand does aot stop its invard movenent,out instead contiques.Since the thumb will act as a stop,the left fingers can do nothing but fold around the thumb.This way the card gets its second fold.Be sure that the right thumb is at a right angle to the deck,thereby insuring the card gets folded at a right angle as well,see figures 1 and 2.The left hand now goes down a little, the right thumb hooks or pulls the folded card up halfway out of the left hand.The left first and second finger press hard and flatten the card,see figures 2 and 3 This happens underneath the deck and is vell covered.Simltaneously turn the left hand palm down,figures 3 and 4.0pen all left fingers except the first finger.Press the deck against the folded card.Now the left hand turns palm up again and takes the deck.The deck, being pressed against the folded card,vill act as a block, folding the card around the left firot fingertip, figure 5.Normally,e lot of force is needed to put the Last fold into a card,resulting in rather strained and cramped movenents of the hand.Here, both hands are used to apply force,making it much eacicr to put the last fold in.Aleo the deck acting as a block,helps a lot.The left first finger is moved out of the folded card, figure 6,and now,press hard with the left thumb to flatten the last fold.The card is now folded 3 times,resulting in a very small package.The recult with thie method can be extrenely neat,all folde can be at straight or almost straight angles with a little bit of practice.The neater a card is folded,the nore effective it will be to the audience, since to fold a card neatly takes a lot of time(?)!1t takes me no more than 2 seconds to fold the card,hence the title. SQUEEZE Taie little effect is a deceptive follow up when you de che shrinking card case.After all the card tricks,take the box out of your pocket again.The deck obviously does not fit into the box. Instead of enlarging the box,the cards are squeezed into the enall box. Tais trick is not only highly deceptive,but also very husorous,giving proof to the theorie that comedy magic can be strong magic at the same time.Many comedy magicians do not seem to care nuch if there magic is strong or not.I feel magic should always be strong if at all possible,also comedy magic or childrens magic(anather branch af magic,where a lot of people do not seem te care about the magical content of their effects). Make # snall box from bits and pieces froma regular box,in order to get the sane look as the original card box.The height must be EXACTLY the width of the regular sized cards you use.The width of the small box is nade in its proper proportion.Glue all cards of a deck together and saw it with a jig-saw into the shape as shown in figures 1,3 and 4.1 mist be of such @ size,so thet it barely fits into the small box.The front card is a blank card,decorated as a PICTURE card which is compressed at the botton.It must be a picture card since that gives the most humorous look,see Figure 1.At the back of tha block, lay (NOT glue)a circle of cerd,about 1/4 inch in diameter.A card in the same shape and size as the block wich a hole,snaller in dianeter than 1/4 inch is placed over that and glued at the sides only to the block.Now 2 small circle of card,3/16 inch dianeter,is glued via the hole in the top card to the circle underneath the top card.A regular card,cut to ¢ third of its lenght is glued to the smallest circle only,see figure i.The 1/3 of card is now attached to the block and can swivel around. Another. regular card is cut through half its thickness twice,once on each side at about 1/3 the length from the short sides-By doing that it becomes very cacy to zig-zag fold the card.This card is attached by a piece of double sided tape Co the dlock.It has to be replaced each and every performance,and looks like figure 4. During your last card trick,switch the deck for the prepared one.Which method you use is dependent on the trick in question.Hold it as in figure 5.It looke like a normal deck. Obviously, it does not fit the small box,so you start to squeeze it in as follows.Hold the left hand with its Dack towards the audience.While you pretend to squeeze it into the box the right thumb holds the lovermost part of thecard,figure 5.The left hand goes down, there- by folding the card zig-zag, figure 6.Now evivel the card a quarter turn clockwise and place it into the box, figure 7.The audience sees it as in figure 1.This is a hilarious sight.Now push the deck into the box further by turning the block under cover of your left hand as indicated by the arrow in figure 7.fverything ie now pushed into the box as in figure 8.Close the flap of the box.Seemingly,a full size deck has been squeezed into a very small box. When the audience sees the deck halfway inside the box as in figure 1,it gives the idea that the small box is already chock full,actually,it is etill empty.No one will imagine thet the visible part of the deck could be pressed into the box as well,and yet you do just that. At the Dutch national convention in 1981,this trick won me the prize for invention.REGALCITRANT This routine is very suitable co open a manipulative card routine with.It docs away with the usual back palm card fan productions,so often used to open manipulative card routines with.A dock of cards ie taken fron its case,the case is vanished,but reappears constantly to bother the magician. ‘The box and the cards consist of 5 parts,figure 1.Part A is the front and is a flap card, one way it is = picture card,the other way it is the front of the card case.Perpendicular to the flap card are tuo pins,1/2 inch long,figure 1.Part B are 18 to 20 cards.Part C is a thick card with two perpendicular pina ee vell,only this tine they point to the front.Part D are about 30 cards.Part E is the back of the card case(complete with a flap),with a normal card glued to it.Part D+ & are held together with an elastic band.Figure 2 clearly shows the whole set-up,the flap is tucked under part A-Important with this trick is that the design of the card case contrasts with the design of the becks of the cards. Show the case boch sides and hold it as in figure 3-You are now going to take the cards out of its case.This is done as follows.Open the flap and hold the tip of the right chumb againet the top right corner of the flap on the front of the case,that is the side facing you.Turn both hands in a semi-circle,clockwise,sce figures 3 + 4.Tho Flap will automatically turn,it shows 2 picture card now,figure 4.Part A,B and C slide down into che right hand, figure 4 + 5.T0 the audience it seems that you have just taken a pack of cards out of its ‘The cards in the right hand are fanned wich the faces towards the audience,pert D + = are held in the left hand as shoun in figure 6.Fanning movements are made towards the card case.During this fanning, the fan gets in front of the case,the left hand turns dows with its back towards the audience,figures 6 + 7.The "case" is stolen with the right fingors behind the fan of cards.The left hand makes a throwing mocion in che air,in the meantime turning ics palm to the audience again.The case is gone.This is a stendard procedure to make 2 bunch of cards or a cese disappear. Close the fan vich che aid of the left hand as in figure 8 and hold everything as in figure Q.The right hand squares the deck,and during those movements the flap is turaed over under cover of the right hend,figure 9.The case has returned!The right hand turns over the case end for end,as indicated by the arrow in figure 10.The flap of the cese is hereby "wrepped” around the side,in a sense closing the box again.Everything is taken into the right hand by the narrow sides, figure ll,and shows the caso both sides without changing its grip. Tho case ic now placed into the left hand in the sane position as in figure 3.0pen the flap and take the cards out,this is exactly the same procedure as before, figures 3,4,5 and 6.Now the left hand holding the case(part D + &)slides vith the fourth finger che rubber band off the case.It vill fly away unnoticed.Now the left hand holds a bunch of loose cards.Change your grip and hgld the cards in the left thumb croteh as in figure 124. ‘The right hand makes fanning movements again towards the case.Pretend to throw the case aay,as if you expect it ro vanish.Actually,turn the left hand with its back towards the audience,at the same tine straightening the fingers, i-e.you make 4 one handed fan and turn this fan’ faces towards the audience at the same time,figure 12a;b,c,d-The box has vievally changed into a fan of cards! While the box changes into a fan of cards,the right hand hides its fan by turning its back towards the audience.Figure 13 is a view from the top as you would see it if you looked down at thar monent,which of course you de not do during an actual porformance Close the fan by moving your right thumb tip directly over che right liccle finger cip. It vill become a neat block of cards because of the little pins attached to part A and C. Hold it all gripped between the right first and fourth finger, figure 14.This will free the right thumb to turn over the flap,figure 14 + 15.The right thumb cakes over the grip from the right fourth finger and turn it into view.The cards have changed into the case! The case and the cards change simultaneously,ia other vorde, there has been a transposition of the cards and the case! The case(A,8 + Care thrown in whatever receptacle you might have.Close the fan in the left hend with the aid of the right hand,figuce 16-Hold everything as in figure 17.Look into the receptacle to cee the thrown avy care-While you look there,turn the hand so that the audience once more sees the case back agein, figure 18.Pretend the ease is gone from the receptacle ,and notite it back in che left hand.Teke the cards for the last time out of the case(let the cards slide fron behind part E)in the sane kind of manner as in figures 3,4 and 5,and throv the "case" (part E)into the receptacle.You are now free to continue the routine in any way you fancy,since you are left with only regular cards.DIMINISHING CARDS Thie ie a very unusuel method for thie effect.The trick comes very close to what it should look like,the fan of cards always remains in sight and obviously is not exchanged,and yet they slowly and gradually shrink.All you seemingly do is wait until they have disappeared. Twenty strips of thin cardboard ,1 inch wide,are needed.The length of the strips varies from | inch to 4 inches,each following strip being about 1/8 inch longer that ire prece- ding one.One end of the strips are fastened together by a rivet,figure l.The other ends of the strips are sewn together by a thread,so that the strips can be fanned out at regular intervals,figure |.The vhole thing gets the appearance of a snail-house.The front of this fan is decorated vith card indexes,and looks more or less like e regular cerd fan.The size of the card indexes is relative to the length of the strips,the long strips carry Large or normal size indexes,the shorter strips carry smaller indexes. A small half size playing card is so made,so that it can be folded in half, figure 2.At the back of this is glued a quarter size playing card as well as a very small card fan, figures 2+ 3.Finally you need a regular size card with an extra corner glued to the back,creating a little pocket,figure 4.The small card is placed in this pocket.0n top of all that place the closed "strip fan", figure 4 + 5. To perform,hold everything in the left hand,regular card to the front.The regular sized card is taken in the right hand end che "strip fan" is fanned out under cover of this card, See figure 6.When the strips are fanned out conpletely,the situation will be es in figure 7.The audience sees 2 reguiar fan of cerds,figure 8. The card in the right hand is used to make magic gestures over and above the fan.The fan will ebrink.Thic shrinking is done se follova;the left firet finger pulls the stripe one by one into the left hand.As you see it the fan revolves counter clockwise,and into the left hand,where the strips come on top of each other one by one.Each tine a long strip is pulled into the hand and out of view,a small one will revolve out of the hand and come into view.So each tine a strip is pulled into the hand,the total area of the fan gets a little bit less.Gradually the fan gets smaller,and so seems to shrink. IMPORTANT}To prevent the audience from noticing that the fan is revolving,beceuse they can see the indexes move, please note the following-After some magic gestures with the card in the right hand look to the audience.Wnile you look,relax you left hand at the weist,so the hand dips down 2 little at the wrist,figures 8 + §.While the hand goes down,bend che left first finger,pulling 3 or 4 strips inte the hand.Now study figures 8 + 9,and vatch point X.You will see that in a sense the fan hac not moved,i.e.the indexes ere still at the sane place.Only has the left hand moved its relative position to the fan.This will not be apparent to the audience.When the left hand is brought to its former position, just keep holding the fan,figures 9 + 10.The fan has now becone smaller without any apparent revol- ving of the fan.Continue this way until the fan is half its original size, figure 11. Put the regular sized card into your breast pocketyat the sane time palning the half sized card.Bring this small card into view fron behind of the fan,as if pulling it out from betueon the other cards in the fan, figures I1 + 12.3e carefall not to obscure the audience view of the fan.Show the omall card to the audience,as proof that the fan of carde have really shrunk,at the sane time making the fan smaller again.Put the small card back into the fan,figure 13.When it is halfway into the fan,fold the upper part down and to the front and palm it in the right hand.Take the regular card from your breast pocket again,and continue with the magic gestures, (shrinking the fen further as explained earlier). ‘The whole procedure is repeated. The small card(now folded double)is seemingly taken out of the fan,figure 14,and shown.The fan is very smell now.When the double folded small card is placed back into the fan all strips should be in the hand and on top of each other. ‘The double card is left in the left hand,with the snall fan visible,the closed "strip fan" is palmed into the right hend imperceptibly,figures 15 + 16.The strip fan is cropped into the breast pocket,while you teke out the regular sized card. ‘The right hand With its card makes some more magic gestures while the double card is pulled into the left hand and out of view,figure 17,Now the cards seem to have vanished completely. the right hand with its card goes to the left hand and the double card is stolen behind the regular card with the right thumb.Innediately continue brushing the card over the empty left palm once or twice,as if cleaning it from little pieces of dust. Figure 18 shows you how this is done. Correctly performed, this effect is very beautiful.Lt probably was the most commercial effect in. my former manipulation act.