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Gerald Deutsch

On May 1, 2008 I posted Quadruple Coincidence on this thread and recently someone pointed out that there is an error in number 3 under “The Routine” of that write up and so I’m reposting it with the correction. Quadruple Coincidence Effect “It’s our second date,” the magician says to the woman he ho...

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BIG STOP Effect The walk around magician has just finished doing a coin effect for a group of people at a party. “Would you like to see a card trick I just learned?” he asks and the four men nod and one of the four women smile. The magician takes out a deck of cards. “Please take out a card,” the ma...

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Harry Lorayne’s The Magic Eraser As Perverse Magic The Magic Eraser, an effect of Harry Lorayne appears in “Reputation Makers” and “The Classic Collection Volume 2. The effect is that magician shows a deck of cards that is set up from ace to king of each suit. He turns the deck face down and asks a ...

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We were talking about Reubens at our current Saturday meeting place Cafe Rustico this past Saturday and Wesley James and Sol Stone seemed to have the best memory. I think - though you should check with Wes or Sol - that the gentleman's name was Stanley but I am not sure and don't remember his last n...

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MERGER PART 2 – WITH COINS Effect 1 “So what did you learn being with the magicians this afternoon?” Kathy, Jack’s wife asked. Jack is a magician. “Magicians?” asked Sue. Sue is Kathy’s friend but she hadn’t met Jack. Nor had Jack nor Kathy ever met Bob, Sue’s husband. The women thought it would be ...

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“Now Look Here” – a great Perverse Magic candidate. I saw David Levitan, a fellow magician perform Chad Long’s “Now Look Here” and I immediately saw it as an effect that can be presented as Perverse Magic. Here’s my suggestion for such a presentation: The magician says he just bought a new trick and...

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I like Pete McCabe’s idea above of vanishing a borrowed quarter when someone asks the magician to do a trick. I do this as Perverse Magic. I borrow the quarter and say I will make it float and then I’m confused when the quarter vanishes. (With Perverse Magic what happens has to be stronger than what...

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On the Perverse Magic thread of this forum (September 1, 2011) I suggested ending this fine effect by having the selected signed card produced from my mouth.

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Richard's suggestion seems the best.

If you're seated you can lap the top card and then add it to the bottom as you slide the packet off the table.

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NOW IT MATCHES – I DON’T UNDERSTAND!!! Effect “Show us a trick!” says the girl sitting at the table with her friends. He reaches into his pocket and removes two decks of cards, one red and one blue. He casually picks up the blue deck and puts it back on the table and then picks up the red deck. “The...

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IF YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT – USE SALT Effect “You know, if you women really want you lose weight you should use lots of salt.” Salt?” asked my wife’s friend sitting across from me at dinner. My wife shook her head. She knew what was coming. “Yeah. I don’t understand it but I read about it somewhere ...

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Perverse Magic – Hector Mancha I’ve seen a video of Hector Mancha and it’s a delightful act! Not only his great skill but the music and his acting. His acting! Much Perverse Magic as what happens with the cards at times seems to confuse him. I said before on this thread: “I have long maintained that...

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Force Some Background I contributed this to Harry Lorayne’s Best Of Friends Volume III and, as Harry points out there, it was inspired by his routine “Foursome” in the Decksterity section of The Classic Collection. It’s presented here as an example of Perverse Magic. Effect 1 The magician asks a spe...

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I’ve always felt that if I get one effect out of a magic book it is a book worthwhile for me. Well, I only went through Jaw Droppers very quickly (I’m a bit like Harry that way – I expect I will be reading it more thoroughly later. ) and I found an effect that - well - I changed a bit to fit my pers...

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I’ll Make The Aces Turn Face Up Background I posted two “Perverse Cutting The Aces” effects on this thread , one last month and one on May 1, 2004. In both of these effects I try to get the four aces but, instead, I get four of the same indifferent cards (i.e. the four fives etc). This is a quick Pe...

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CUTTING THE ACES – 2 Background I posted a Perverse Magic Cutting The Aces on this thread above on May 1, 2004. This is another version based on Al Leech’s Ace Location in his “Manipulation With Leech” Effect 1 The magician removes the 4 aces from the deck and says he’s going to lose them into the d...

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Perverse Benson Bowl Routine – Stand Up Way back on this thread – April 2, 2004 – I posted “The Sponge Ball- Cup Routine which I said was a combination of the ideas of Slydini, Roy Benson and Dr. Jaks. That routine was a ‘sit down’ routine involving “lapping”. Sometimes it’s not practical to be able...

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Perverse Torn And Restored Card Effect 1 A card is selected and returned to the deck and the deck shuffled. Let’s say the selected card is the 2D. 2 The magician says he will find the card and drops the deck on the table and the KS turns face up. 3 “That wasn’t my card,’ says the spectator. “Oh what...

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Progressive Production is one of my favorite coin effects. A single coin becomes 2 then 3, then 4 and then 5. I have two different presentations which I posted on October 1, 2004 of the Perverse Magic thread of this forum. This effect by Bob Carver appears on page 377 of Bobo "The New Modern Co...

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Vanishing Things A “vanish” is one of the basic magic effects and, as my friend Sol Stone always said, it is stronger than a “production” and it is an ideal type of effect for “Perverse Magic”. In Perverse Magic I distinguish here between having something “vanish” (which falls into the 2nd classific...

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Quarter App Background On November 1, 2014 I posted “Oh You Have One Of These Pens” on this thread, the effect of which is that you pick up a spectator’s pen, pretend to examine it, pull off the cap, look at the cap and then shake it. A quarter drops out from the cap though the diameter is much smal...

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In The Card Box Effect 1 “Hey guys, I just learned a new trick,” says the magician as he pulls a deck of cards out of his pocket, removes the deck from the case and tosses the case on the table. 2 He approaches a girl and as he spreads the deck he tell her to take a card. She does. 3 He has her repl...

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Perverse Quarter, Nickel and Penny The May 2000 issue of Genii was dedicated to the magic of Japan and on page 28 there’s an excellent effect by Tomoyuki Takahashi called Fading Coins. The effect lends itself for a presentation of the fifth category of Perverse Magic – the performer and the audience...

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Perverse Magic - Some History I think I first became interested in Perverse Magic when I saw Roy Benson producing white billiard balls and when a red ball appeared he looked confused and looked in a book to try to understand what happened. I first learned the term “Perverse Magic” when reading Darie...

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Thank you Submariner. My purpose on this thread is to show how Perverse Magic can be used with so many effects to make the magic more entertaining. It can be used as an incident in a prepared magic presentation or as a quick interlude by itself. Back on this thread, in November of 2014, I posted , “...

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Mysterious Match Tony Mulle was one of the nicest of the people that met at Reuben’s before it closed and shortly before he died Tony taught me this which he told me it is based on an Al Leech effect. Wesley James, one of Tony’s very good friends, made some excellent suggestions to me that are incor...

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David Levitan David Levitan, the inventor of Gypsy Yo-Yo, is a professional magician who performs for various groups including adults, teen-agers etc. He and I belong to a club that has 10 magicians and we meet once a month. During a recent club meeting I performed an effect using Perverse Magic. Da...

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Perverse Magic At The Dinner Table With Food I mentioned some Perverse Magic done with food at the dinner table above on this thread (see for example “Coin In Roll” December 1, 2008). Also see various Perverse Magic effects with sugar above: Perverse Sugar 1 October 2011 Perverse Sugar 2 June 2012 P...

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POWER OF CONCENTRATION ADDENDUM Back on this thread, on October 1, 2010, I posted this and said: “In going through some magic papers I found an effect called “Power of Concentration. I don’t know whose this is but at the end of the write-up is “Louis Tannen Inc 1540 Broadway” – which gives an idea o...

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First Perverse Ambitions Card Above I’ve discussed several Perverse Ambitious Card routines in the thread before, the first on December 21, 2002 where I said: “I have a card selected and say it will come to the top and it’s not there – another card (say 4C) is there. I bury the 4C and try again but ...

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The Bent Coin I mentioned this in this thread above (April 2006) in connection with “Perverse Through the Table”. It’s also noted in Bobo on page 186 and, as I noted before, the bent coin is a great prop. (It’s easy to make. Just grab a quarter – or a penny with two pliers, one in each hand and --- ...

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Sit Down Invisible card – Card Through Table Effect 1 “So did you learn any new tricks today,” she asked her husband sitting to the left of her as they were having dinner with another couple. “Well, I did learn something but I really should practice more,” said the magician. “Oh come on, show us,” s...

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Oh You Have One Of These Pens! Background The sixth category of Perverse Magic – Performer explains something that will happen but he doesn’t understand why it happens – can present a quick and very entertaining bit of magic. Like this for example— Effect 1 “Oh you have one of these pens,” you say a...

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Had Martin Gardner lived he would be 100 years old this month and both MUM and Scientific American note this in their current issue. In September of 2010 I posted Gardner’s Perverse Power in the Perverse Magic thread of this forum and in that posting I said: Martin Gardner published a trick called “...

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More On Mismade Bill I mentioned this on this thread on May 1, 2012 but lately I’ve been doing this as a Perverse Magic effect. Effect 1 My wife and I were having dinner with another couple when the woman – my wife’s friend - asked me if I have any new tricks. “Actually, I did learn how to change a ...

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Teaching Perverse Magic To Middle School Children I have been teaching magic to middle school children that express a desire to learn magic. (My goal is to get these children interested on something other than Facebook which can be so harmful to children that are bullied.) I start the first session ...

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FOUR CARD MONTE Background 1 This came from Richard Vollmer’s Poor Man Monte (Apocalypse April 1980 page 472) with modifications suggested by my friend Peter Marshall (Apocalypse September 1982 page 678). 2 It’s a “packet trick” and I believe packet tricks should end “clean” – that is-the cards shou...

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SEX TEST Effect The magician and his date are sitting at the table in the restaurant across from his date’s friend and her boyfriend. It was a wonderful dinner which began with wine and all have finished their coffee and are about to ask for the check. “Can I try a little sex test?” asks the magicia...

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I have done magic for many years for children at a children's hospital and I prepared the following memo for my own use (which may not be clear to anyone else)but it may be of some use. From: GERALD DEUTSCH To: File Re: For kids in hospital bed Date: February 2009 Card Routines Invisible Card 11 Car...

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That’s My Phone Number! Effect The magician asks a young lady if she knows whether there’s a deck of cards in the company lunchroom. She smiles and gets one and when she hands it to him he says, “I just read if you put your hand on my hand as I cut the cards I may cut cards that mean something to yo...

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