The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » June 21st, 2017, 11:51 am

You can turn them into a $20 download!!??

Damn, I've missed the boat on that.

Incidentally, addendum #3 is coming out shortly and it is really cool: the spectator does all the shuffling and dealing--you never touch the cards--and he deals himself a straight flush and three royal flushes.

The Bammo Flim-Flam CONglomeration is nearing completion of a first draft. Release date is uncertain. Will advise.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby timbrown » June 21st, 2017, 8:19 pm

Bob Farmer wrote:You can turn them into a $20 download!!??

Damn, I've missed the boat on that.

Incidentally, addendum #3 is coming out shortly and it is really cool: the spectator does all the shuffling and dealing--you never touch the cards--and he deals himself a straight flush and three royal flushes.

The Bammo Flim-Flam CONglomeration is nearing completion of a first draft. Release date is uncertain. Will advise.





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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby timbrown » June 21st, 2017, 8:20 pm

Addendum 3? When did #2 ship?


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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » June 22nd, 2017, 8:13 am

Tim: If addendum #2 was not included in your hard copy, send me an email bammomagic@cogeco.ca

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » June 22nd, 2017, 3:34 pm

I've just issued update #3 to all purchasers: a spectator does all the shuffling and dealing and deals himself a straight flush and three royal flushes. The Magician never touches the cards. The odds of this happening by chance are more than twenty trillion, nine hundred billion to one.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Leonard Hevia » June 22nd, 2017, 5:45 pm

Thanks Bob! Still waiting for my manuscript...

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » June 23rd, 2017, 7:23 am

Leonard, we are all at the mercy of the post office who seem to deliver things at random times to no known schedule or rationale.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Leonard Hevia » June 23rd, 2017, 9:37 pm

Bob Farmer wrote:Leonard, we are all at the mercy of the post office who seem to deliver things at random times to no known schedule or rationale.


No worries, the package came in yesterday.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » June 27th, 2017, 3:41 pm

New review from Steve Bryant:

http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 1st, 2017, 8:34 am

Some reviews are in:

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“… Trust me; you want to get on the TBBT train right now. The ideas explained are as clever as anything I’ve seen lately. You’ll fool everybody, including yourself.”
—Mike Close

“… [Bob Farmer] … has discovered a new principle for secretly coding a group of playing cards such that they can be spectator-shuffled and then quickly unshuffled back into a useful sequence … The first time you attempt this ... should thrill you. It feels like magic.
“… How could a deck unshuffle itself from a random shuffle? It feels quite magical when you see it work.”
—Steve Bryant

Very good!
—Michael Weber (re one of the effects)

“… I’m double-damn-Bammoed. This is pretty unbelievable …. awfully damned good. Within magic, no mind approaches Bob Farmer’s. Outside magic, Machiavelli came close.”
—Stephen Minch

“… a great trick and a genuinely new method for secretly arranging cards quickly, accurately, and right in front of the spectators' noses.”
—Matthew Field

“… brilliant and stimulating …”
—Nick Pudar

“[The book is] … characterized by meticulous and thorough details and wondrous overview. It swings open the creaky door to the innermost circle of Satanic Sorcery. I can't wait to run into the fires of enlightenment like a first responder, wearing my Marlo jumpsuit.”
—Jon Racherbaumer

“… I've gone over the stuff and gotta' tell you, your thinking with Triharder is simply genius! You can use that as a quote if you like. But really - it is genius.”
—Harry Lorayne

“Re: Casinodiction: I like that a lot. There’s a reason for the dealing. Everything happens in the spectator’s hands. And there’s a lovely kicker with the royal flush. Well done. “
—David Britland

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby DaveB » July 9th, 2017, 1:34 pm

I just received this, and while I use Bikes once in a while, I mostly use Phoenix decks.

I'm reading over Addendum #2, in order to eventually use this for the Redford stack.

Has anyone else already worked out marks for the Phoenix deck, I thought why spend time if somebody has already worked something out.

I have no problem spending the time, but that's time taken away from working with my new Morgans!!


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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 9th, 2017, 3:33 pm

Dave:

I've looked at the back and there is an easy way to do this. I'll include it in a future addendum.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby DaveB » July 9th, 2017, 4:27 pm

Great, thanks Bob, I really appreciate your continued support after the sale.


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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby DaveB » July 10th, 2017, 12:01 am

After perusing this for a brief time, either Bob is a fan of Tim Curry, or it's purely coincidental.


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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 11th, 2017, 11:27 am

Today I released Addendum 5 to The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox. It will be sent completely free of charge to all purchasers. One of the effects described, has, as far as I know, beeen impossible to achieve by other methods (if we leave out real magic, sorcery and divine intervention).

Here's what happens: a deck is shuffled and spread face up to show it really is mixed. The deck is scooped up and turned face down.

A card is selected (assume 3S) and lost in the deck. There is NO control, there is no sleight of hand, the card really is somewhere in the deck and the deck can be spread face up again to confirm the selection is there in the deck and not on top or on the bottom).

The deck is divided into face-up and face-down packets and the packets are mixed together. As this is done, the audience sees more face-up mixed cards, again all in a random order.

The deck is tapped once and spread face down: magically, all the cards are now face down, except for the selection, the 3S, which is now the only face-up card.

But here's the kicker--and it's a big one: the deck is flipped face up and spread and the deck is now in order from A to King, clubs, hearts spades and diamonds--and the selection, the 3S, is face down between the 2S and the 4S.

Addendum 5 also includes some bizarre ideas for using a Ouija board and a Pentagram for maximum magic (or sorcery, see above).

In addition, as requested by one purchaser, a marking system for Phoenix cards is explained.

To purchase The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox, send an email to Bammomagic@cogeco.ca

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 13th, 2017, 1:41 pm

Just in case you missed my emailed updates, there are a couple of typos in Addendum 5:

Page 5, 4th bullet: should read that the RIGHT thumb takes over the break, not the left thumb.

Page 3, about half way down the page should read:

Pick up H, a face-down packet, and place it in your left hand. Bridge it down slightly, to make that later cut easier.

Pick up D, the face-up packet just above it in the tabled packets, and place it onto packet H, holding a break between the two packets.

It says "pick up E," but it should say pick up D.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Matthew Field » July 13th, 2017, 2:57 pm

I'm not inclined to make over the top statements, but the trick ""Messcal" in Addendum #5 to Bob's Tarodiction Toolbox is one of the strongest tricks I can think of, impossible-looking on many levels but just about self-working in reality. If you like card magic, do yourself a favor and get this. If you saw it performed, you'd be fooled. If you perform it, THEY'LL be fooled. And entertained as well!

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 13th, 2017, 4:04 pm

Thank you Matt. I have to say I love practicing this trick. It's so magical and impossible looking.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 15th, 2017, 12:53 pm

I've just emailed Addendum #6 to all customers. It includes a no-gaff, regular deck version of, "Messcal," from Addendum #5, the sneakiness of which will have you cackling insanely. There is also an additional marking method for Phoenix cards and an interesting idea from one of the many happy purchasers.

For more info, email Bammomagic@cogeco.ca

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Daniel Z » July 15th, 2017, 1:02 pm

Just when you thought it couldn't get better/weirder...
When will this madness end?
Let's hope it is no time soon.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 15th, 2017, 7:42 pm

When the going gets weirder, the weird get The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 16th, 2017, 10:17 am

The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox Addendum #7 will be released later this week. It contains another cutting edge effect with a regular deck.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Leonard Hevia » July 16th, 2017, 11:55 am

This is not right Mr. Farmer! You need to charge me for those Addendums you keep emailing me!

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 16th, 2017, 1:50 pm

Your thank you is enough payment to one who lives to serve.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Jack Shalom » July 16th, 2017, 6:19 pm

IT'S A COOKBOOK!

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Daniel Z » July 17th, 2017, 8:48 am


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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bill Marquardt » July 17th, 2017, 9:57 am

Daniel Z wrote:How to Cook Forty Humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxI7B758XBQ


In keeping with our tradition of proper crediting:

From Wikipedia -

"To Serve Man" is episode 89 of the anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 2, 1962 on CBS.
The story is based on the 1950 short story "To Serve Man", written by Damon Knight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2j-4bZPSqU

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 17th, 2017, 10:43 am

Yes, there is a connection: I provide a smorgasbord of ideas for card cannibals to feast upon.

I once did a pitch for a horror movie, the title and cutline of which was:

CANNIBAL BLOODBATH: Your parents were right--the big city will eat you alive.

It didn't sell.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby AJM » July 17th, 2017, 3:20 pm

While we're on all matters macabre, let's not forget the passing today of George A Romero, who scared the bejasus out of me many years ago with Night of The Living Dead.

And back to the Tarodiction Toolbox - it's a gift that just keeps on giving.

Well done Mr Farmer.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 17th, 2017, 4:03 pm

Don't be too sure that Romero won't be back.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Gordon Meyer » July 18th, 2017, 2:30 pm

Bob's post-sale addenda include more great material than some books do in their entirety. Thanks for the updates, sir.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 18th, 2017, 3:38 pm

Thank you! Addendum #7 will be out later this week. Addendum #8 with one of the most astounding card tricks it is possible to do, will be out next week.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Pete McCabe » July 18th, 2017, 4:15 pm

More unsolicited comments from purchasers:

"That sounds great. I can't wait to get it."
—Pete McCabe

"I'm really looking forward to getting it."
—Pete McCabe, again

"When will it come? Why doesn't it come?"
—Still Pete McCabe

"Where the hell is my book, damn it?"
—Pete McCabe, early in the morning

"Damn—the mailman came today, but no book."
—Pete McCabe, around noon

"No telegram today
-- only more
leaves fell"
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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 18th, 2017, 5:13 pm

Pete, we are both at the mercy of the #$%##% post office. Stuff I send to England arrives in 5 days; stuff I send to a location 45 miles away takes three weeks.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 18th, 2017, 5:32 pm

Addendum #8 (next week) features the DEal Finding CONverger system in three levels: DEFCON 3, DEFCON 2 and DEFCON 1, the latter being the most dangerous level. Stay tuned and make sure your fallout shelter is well-stocked with playing cards.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Matthew Field » July 19th, 2017, 3:29 am

Let me tell you-- Addendum #8 to the Tarodiction Toolbox contains what I consider to be one of the finest tricks in the toolbox -- "Tarodiction Tantalizer."

I'd say more but I don't want Farmer's head to be even more swelled than it already is.

This trick will win someone an award on AGT, BGT, CGT, EGT (Egypt's Got Talent?) and will fool the pants off Teller.

This I know!

https://www.facebook.com/Bammo-Magic-670732423054382/

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 19th, 2017, 6:58 am

Thanks Matt. It's the DEFCON patter that speeds it along.

About my Facebook page: this is run by my pal and fellow band member/drummer/software entrepreneur, Joe Naszady. Joe adds whatever he wants that he thinks might be of interest. I give him free rein because I have no interest in social media.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bob Farmer » July 19th, 2017, 4:09 pm

Unsolicited comment by a happy customer:

Holy Moses! The Tarodiction Toolbox is the gift that keeps on giving! Just as I begin to wrap my head around the basics, Mr. Farmer releases another facet of possibility. If you are reading this and have not yet ordered this mind-blowing book, STOP, DROP and ROLL to this email address: bammomagic@cogeco.ca

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Bill Marquardt » July 19th, 2017, 5:07 pm

Okay, but I am running out of printer paper.

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Re: The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox

Postby Pete McCabe » July 20th, 2017, 6:53 pm

Bob,

I used to think that everyone in the world was at your mercy. But then I realized I had forgotten about the Post Office.


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