This simple step-by-step guide makes magic easy no matter what your age. Use 'Brain power' tricks that use mathematics and exercise your memory skills to perform mind-reading stunts. Inventive tricks using mobile phones will delight more experienced magicians looking for something new.

Noted magician and magic authority offers 72 tricks that work automatically through nature of card deck. No sleight of hand needed. Often spectacular. 42 illustrations.

Become a master illusionist in no time at all with the help of this practical new guide that makes magic easy for tricksters of all ages. All the techniques needed to dazzle friends and family with 101 clever card tricks are here: practice speed and accuracy with Shifty Shuffles and Springing Cards for incredible sleights of hand; put memory and mental arithmetic to the test to perform easy mind-reading stunts; and wow them with inventive tricks using mobile phones. Some illusions, like The Levitating Card, are mastered in minutes; others require planning and props and will challenge those who want to enrich their repertoire. Come the next party, you'll want to have this little book up your sleeve!

Have nothing but a deck of cards? With this book you'll soon be dealing out playful poker, and four-ace tricks that will make everyone say: "How did you do that?" If you can shuffle a deck, you can perform "jacks be nimble," "about face," "number nonsense," and dozens more. Clear illustrations demonstrate how to execute each move precisely. A chart gauges the difficulty of each trick.

Provides instructions for performing card tricks of varying levels of difficulty

Demonstrates how to perform different types of card tricks with step-by-step instructions and photographs.