The 5th Corner and Tactics

[Ben Harris]

Hi there,

As promised, we've completed TWO installments this month. If you're a BACKSTORY MEMBER, then do NOTHING. Your installments will hit your mailbox within hours.

The TWO new installments are:

The 5th Corner by Ben Harris
$6.95

A flash back to 1987 and a "long lost" manuscript, (seen by only ten: Jerry Andrus, David Brotland, Jeff Busby, Dave Faulkner, David Harkey, Ed Marlo, Dan McArthy, Harvey Rosenthal, Jay Sankey and Mark Trudinger), made it's brief, and only appearance... Then, it was gone!

So what is the 5th Corner? It's a splash of ideas and techniques with a single playing card and it's ripped corners. You are both "one ahead" and "two behind" at the SAME TIME. This charming but annoying attribute is what probably led to the stony silence heard by the author in 1987. Can YOU make head-way with this strange and bizarre single-card oddity...(read more at www.wowbound.com and click on the downloads section)

19 Pages, photo-illustrated PDF.



TacTics by Ben Harris
$6.95

2002 and a small lecture tour. I needed an oddity that would contrast his card work. Some visual and aural distraction. TacTics was the answer. 150 units were assembled, fingers burned, and instructions written. The item was quite popular and did end up in an issue of Genii. Here is the original manuscript, re-edited and with clear photos. Ideas with color-changes, sound-based illusion and the "Milk Pitcher" application allowing you to vanish tictacs, half a container at a time, till they're... (read more at www.wowbound.com and click on the downloads section)

14 Pages, photo-illustrated PDF.

Cheers

Benny