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Gerald Deutsch

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE $100 DOLLAR BILL SWITCH AND MISMADE BILL This popular effect can be well presented as Perverse Magic. As usually presented a dollar bill is borrowed, changed to a $100 dollar bill and then back to the dollar bill which is returned. A Thumb Tip is used to make the change. Magi...

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Perverse Through the Table - Again Back in April of 2006, on this thread, I posted some Perverse Through Table routines. Heres another that was inspired by Al Bakers A Dinner Table Trick from his Magical Ways and Means. Effect Does someone have a quarter? I just learned a new trick today. A dinner c...

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Perverse Card On Forehead This effect has been the subject of discussions on this forum (See Close Up Magic August 1, 2004 and September 17, 2005) as well as other forums. Michael Close has included his version in his Workers number 3 and I first came across it in a book called Basic Card Technique ...

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Wife Swapping Party Effect Four couples have gathered at the magicians home expecting him to show them some magic. Instead he has a surprise Well gang, to spice things up were going to do some wife swapping tonight. Look, I wrote all of our names on these sheets of paper. Next to each husbands name ...

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Puzzled Miracle Worker Effect 1 The magician enters the hospital room and sees two beds with a patient in each. Hell do a trick for both. 2 He takes out a deck of cards and cuts it in half and leaves half on one of the beds and has Patient A touch a card in the other half and remember it. He shuffle...

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Dallerchrist Effect 1 Is that a Bicycle Deck? the young magician asks one of the girls playing cards. Well, yes. Why? Well, I read that you can do some things with these cards that you cant do with any other. Like what? asked one of the girls, interested. Ill show you. Shuffle the deck. Smiling she ...

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Perverse Magic And Presentation I strongly believe that magic should entertain! That is the purpose. To entertain. And its the audience that should be entertained NOT the performer. I also believe that the audience should remember the performer more than the effect he performs. So many magicians rus...

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The Bill- Cup Routine Effects 1 Well, are you going to show my friends a trick? his girl friend asked the magician who, with two of her friends were finishing their dinner. Okay, said the magician as he wiped out his coffee cup and looked at a piece of paper in his pocket. Lets see, I need the cup, ...

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Another Perverse Walk Around Card Routine A Card In Hand and Homing Card I want to spend a minute talking about routining. Too many magicians are on too long when they perform and Ive learned that its always better to leave them wanting more. I have worked out several walk around card routines that ...

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SIT DOWN ELEVEN CARD TRICK Background Back on this thread February 2, 2003 I posted my version of Edward Victors Eleven card Trick with what I think is a strong ending. The Eleven card Trick is a wonderful example of Perverse Magic. This is a sit down version which uses lapping and retrieving in an ...

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Cigarettes Effect 1 My wife and I were having dinner at a clients home with the client and his wife. At the start of the meal, my clients wife took out a cigarette and lighted it. I asked her if I could have one and, since so few people smoke today she was surprised as she offered me a cigarette. I ...

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CONFUSING MIND READING Effect 1 I just learned a new way to read your mind, says the magician. Here, touch a card. The spectator does. The magician shows the touched card to the spectator and then cuts it back into the deck. The 7H! right? Uh no, says the spectator. The magician looks confused, shak...

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Perverse Sugar - 1 Effect 1 My wife and I were finishing dinner with my friend and his wife. Well, it was a great dinner but you didnt even do one trick, my friends wife said. My wife just smiled, knowing I would do something. Well, I did learn a new trick last week but I really should practice more...

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Be Honest What Is It? Effect 1 How do you learn these tricks? asked a woman of the walk around magician at the party. Well, says the magician, I read some in books. As matter of fact, I just read about a new way to change a card. Let me show you. 2 The magician pulls out a 4C and 7H. He tells the sp...

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The Selected Card In The Mouth My Presentation of Slydinis Helicopter Card The production of a selected card from the mouth has been written up before. (See Greater Magic page 308, The June 1975 issue of The Linking Ring in the Rick Johnsson column and my version in the January 1984 Warren Kaps issu...

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Perverse Magic When Caught I was doing this effect at a hospital for kids which I use to end a routine: (It is posted on this thread way at the beginning on December 21, 2002) 2 Ambitious Card I have a card selected and say it will come to the top and it's not there - another card (say 4C) is there....

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Heads Down Effect Her: Mmmm. That dessert was delicious. Im glad your sister introduced us. Elaine tells me that magic is your hobby. Him: Yes. Its a good hobby. Lot of nice people have that as a hobby and magicians come from all races and all economic groups. Her: Can you show me something? Him: Su...

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MATCHED FINDERS The plot of this is similar to The Magic Card posted on this thread November 1, 2009 but its a simpler effect. Effect Like The Magic Card presentation, the magician explains that he just got a new trick but is not sure about how it works but hell try it. A card is selected and shuffl...

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The Missing Card Was In MY Pocket Background This is one of my favorite effects which I do when I only want to do one effect. The basis is Lenny Greeenfaders Card to Wallet which appears in Harry Loraynes Reputation Makers and The Classic Collection Volume 2 and its another gem from the great stuff ...

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Goldfish Snack Effect The three couples were at the magicians home deciding where to go for dinner. The magician and one of his friends wanted to have Chinese food but his wife and the others all wanted sea food. If you want sea food we can stay here, says the magician as he reaches into his fish ta...

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MATCH PREDICTION Effect Is that a Bicycle deck? Oh I just learned something about them, says the magician as he picks up the deck and looks at it. Mmmm. I think this deck works with the four of clubs. He looks through the deck and finds the four of clubs and gives it to the young woman watching him....

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WHICH IS THE BEST COIN TO USE? Effect So what did you do at the magic group today Jerry Jerry and Sam and their wives were having dinner on a Saturday night. Well Sam, the magicians were discussing what size coin is best to use for a trick. Here, Ill show you. Jerry reaches into his pocket with his ...

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Perverse Card Stab Effect Ladies and gentlemen, Im now going to perform a modern version of the famous Card Stabbing Effect. Would you mind selecting a card. Good. Now please place in back in the deck. Good. Now well shuffle the deck and put the deck back into the card case. Now for years magicians ...

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Coins Almost Across 2nd Version I published a Coins Almost Across on this thread back in December of 2010 and since then Ive come up with this more elaborate routine. Its playful with a Perverse Magic ending. Effect 1 Dinner was over and the check was paid and then his wifes friend asked him if he w...

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Instant Change Effect Whats your favorite card? the magician asks a spectator. The AH, says the spectator. The magician removes all the aces and turns them face down on table and moves them around and asks the spectator to move them and he, the magician, will find the AH. The spectator does move the...

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Bubbles I volunteer every other Tuesday at a childrens hospital. I spend an hour, a few minutes in the playroom and then for the rest of the time I, together with a senior member of the Child Life division visit the bedsides of those who the staff thinks might enjoy magic. I carry little a deck of c...

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Coins in Lucite Cube Perverse Magic is magic that happens by itself not something the magician does. Ive always thought in those terms and always look for an opportunity do create a bit of Perverse Magic. I remember once I was sitting in a clients office at a meeting with several people and on the c...

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The Wizard The sixth classification of Perverse Magic the performer explaining that something will happen but he doesnt understand why it happens (see above this thread December 1, 2005) can be used to make classic effects into Perverse Magic. I think The Wizard is such a classical effect. This effe...

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Flying Card Rub a Dub Flying Card (Greater Magic page 231) and Rub a Dub (Expert Card Technique page 301) are two classic effects that I like to do together as a routine. The ending is the only Perverse Magic in the routine and it comes from something I read in the Fred Braue column in the February ...

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2 Men Perverse Magic I enjoy this show with Charlie Sheen and John Cryer as brothers and Angus T. Jones as Johns son and Charlies nephew. I tuned in late on an episode I hadnt seen and saw just the well epilogue but it was great Perverse Magic. Charlie told his nephew he was going to teach him magic...

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There's a Follow The Leader routine in the Perverse Magic thread of this forum on July 1, 2007.

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COINS ALMOST ACROSS Effect 1 I was attending an attorneys conference and I arrived early, sat at the large conference table and began reading Martin Gardners The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. Another attorney arrived and asked what I was reading and I showed him saying, Martin Gardner was a gen...

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Perverse Daley Quick Trick This is another effect that can be done when youre handed a deck of cards and you really dont want to perform but you decide to do one effect (see above this thread May 1, 2009) It is Dr. Jacob Daleys Quick Trick number 150 in his notebook Effect Youre handed a deck of car...

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Merger The evening was coming to an end. The card game was over. The magician lost a few dollars. Of course he didnt take his turn dealing no one told him not to but everyone agreed that it was for the best. Did you learn any new card tricks since last time? one of the fellows asked. Well uh I read ...

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USING PERVERSE MAGIC WHEN CAUGHT WITH A DOUBLE LIFT I have always felt that presentation is the most important part of presenting magic. People want to be entertained. So many magicians take an attitude that they are superior to their audiences and to many that is a turn off. Perverse Magic can be u...

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POWER OF CONCENTRATION Background In going through some magic papers I found an effect called Power of Concentration. I dont know whose this is but at the end of the write-up is Louis Tannen Inc 1540 Broadway which gives an idea of the dating. This is my suggested presentation as Perverse Magic. Eff...

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The Bending Spoon This effect has been discussed several time in The Genii Forum (See Close Up Magic May 9, 2002 and April 29, 2004) but as a psychic type effect. I do it more as a comedy effect using Perverse Magic. This fits me because much of my magic is done at a dinner table, social or, if its ...

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GARDNERS PERVERSE POWER Effect and Presentation 1 The magician sees two Bicycle decks of cards on the table, one red and one blue. Some weird things happens with these Bicycle cards that I just dont understand, he says, picking up the red deck. Here, take a card. The spectator does. 2 The magician s...

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Reflex Paul Harris published this in his book Paul Harris Reveals Some Of His Most Intimate Secrets saying, magicians dont like it because the whole thing is based on continuous double lifts. The way I do it there are only TWO double lifts. The effect is wonderful. The magician compares himself to a...

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SOME OPENING COIN EFFECTS - WALK AROUND MAGIC AND THE SIXTH CATEGORY OF PERVERSE MAGIC Walk around magic at cocktail parties is one of the hardest types of magic to perform. There are several reasons: 1 The audience is not there to see magic; they are there to socialize, to talk to one another or, p...

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