Bill Nagler, M.D.

16311 Middlebelt

Livonia, Michigan 48154

734-422-8040 voice

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Doctor Nagler's Diary

"I have a wonderful present for you.  Give me your paw.  (You put a card face down in their paw.)  I'm not going to let you see your present, until you tell me your birthday.  When's your birthday?  (You hand them a small pocket diary.)  "Look at your birthday.  Look at your card.  I told you it was wonderful.  (The card printed in the diary is the card in their paw.) "

OR -

2 different playing cards are placed in 2 different paws.

Each paw names their birthday.  The cards in their paws are the cards printed on their birthdays.

A single ungaffed playing card is placed in the paw at the top. 

No switches.  

No preparation. 

No nail-writing or secret writing in the diary. 

The card in the paw is pre-printed in the diary on the date they name.

You don't know the date before they name it.

They can name any of 366 dates, including February 29.  

Perfect for table hopping. 

A different card is at the selected date at different tables.

People can follow you around and watch you again, and again and again.

Embarrassingly easy to do.

$99 - $5 shipping US - $15 international

Bill Nagler, M.D. - 16311 Middlebelt, Livonia MI 48154 - 734-422-8040

800-511-9769 - billnagler@yahoo.com  - www.25offmagic.com

Any Card At Any Number

40 years ago in London, Martin Breese ran an ad for the Berglas Effect, Any Card At Any Number.  The deck is out at the top.  No stooge.  No force.  No switch.  The spectator names a card.  The spectator names a number.  The spectator uncases the deck.  The spectator counts.  The card is there.  The effect is 50 pounds, $100 at the time, more than $1000 today.  Sales are limited to 100 orders.  Breese gets 100 orders.  Goodliffe dies, the deal falls apart, and Breese refunds everyone's money.  This really bugs me. 

David Berglas is driving in downtown London.  My friend Marcello Truzzi is in the passenger seat.  Berglas hands Marcello a deck.  Marcello is vehement, vehement the deck is out at the top.  Marcello names a card.  Pat, Marcello’s wife, names a number.  Marcello hands the deck to Pat in the back seat.  Pat counts to the number.  The card is there.  This really, really bugs me.

Actual script of my performance at Fechter’s 2006.  (The deck is out at the top.  No stooge.  No stooges.  No force.  No card switch.  No deck switch.  The spectator could have uncased the deck.  The spectator could have counted.) 

“Start the elimination.  Choose red or black.  (Black.)  We eliminate black.  There is no equivoque.  Whatever you choose, we eliminate.  Hearts or diamonds?   (Hearts.)  We eliminate hearts.  We have diamonds, Ace through King of diamonds.  We going above or below 6?  (Below 6.)   Fine, we eliminate below 6.  We have 7 through King of diamonds.  Do you want to do the elimination with spot cards or court cards.  (Court cards.)  We eliminate court cards.  Do you want the 7, 8, 9 or 10 of diamonds.  Whatever you choose is the card we use.  (8 of diamonds.)  The card is the 8 of diamonds.  We need a number between 1 and 52.  Do you want to do the elimination above or below 26?  (Above 26.)  We eliminate 26-52.  Name a number between 1 and 26.  Whatever you choose is the number we use.  (12.)  The number is 12.  (I uncased the deck.  I counted to the 12th card.)  The card is the 8 of diamonds.”

$99 - $5 shipping US - $15 international

Bill Nagler, M.D. - 16311 Middlebelt, Livonia MI 48154 - 734-422-8040

800-511-9769 - billnagler@yahoo.com  - www.25offmagic.com

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MACHAYA  -  MACHAYA  -  MACHAYA  -  MACHAYA  - MACHAYA - MACHAYA

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Any Card At Any Number - Tell as much of the true story as you can.

Bill Flight - A bill trick with the impact of sponge bunnies.  Hidden in Wes James's Stop Fooling Us.

Capehart's 3 Ring Routine - The best reaction I ever got out of the rings.  Even though Jay said all 3 ring routines are !@#$%.  I use the 7 inchers from www.magicbyjr.com

Contortionist - Michael Giles's brilliant unfolded Card Warp.  Jaws drop as the flat card warps.   

Cube Libre - Sheets inspired simplification makes me laugh.  

Dean's Box - Worth every penny.  The last 2 segments (do all 4, the bonus visible penetration is best) totally got by me.

The best way to do Dean's Box is without a table, sitting, with the Box in your lap.  Do it this way once, you'll never go back.  (1) Improve the impact of phase one this way.  Bring the 2 ropes up through the top of the box, lock them in place with the lid, show them separate, then pull the ropes down through the sides of the box as you do in phase two.  Repeat the bring through of the ropes to the top, but this time do the link.  (2) Phase 2 plays better this way.  Bring the 2 ropes up through the box, lock them in place, get your fingers in position, and rapidly separate your hands.  The link happens instantaneously.  (3) Get an extra phase this way.  Steal the gaff while a spectator pulls the linked ropes from phase 2 out of the box.  Put the linked ropes back in the Box, and do the unlinking as an effect.   You'll fool everybody.  If you don't want to steal from your pocket, attach the gaff to the bottom or back of the Box with 3m adhesive spray.  (4) Do the first ring on rope penetration as in the basic routine.  (5) At the end of the penetration, turn the Box to the left and right for show, leaving the Box slightly turned to the right.  You are in perfect position to set for the bonus.  Do the visual penetration.  So near perfect it's hard to follow.

Diablo Deck - Best pump deck almost on the market.  Make one from Hilford's veiled description at the end of Fem Fatal.  4 -12 card banks.  Every "No" is followed by a "Yes".  AD 2H 3C 5H 6C 7C 8H 9S 10S JD QC KH .  I use it for Tamariz's Mnemonicosis, and count or spell to the selections without worry.  Gazzo's routine with a 6 card bank is terrific, because he figured out how to end Tossed Out Deck.  Penguin posts the ending on their site.  Abbott's Octopus is not good - a 6 card pump bank double-stick taped to double indexers for the peek, you keep track of which end they peek with 2 different color rubberbands, and you have to deck switch for a 26/26 deck for the finish.   Regal's In Flight roughing solution is interesting for magicians, but not as trustworthy as glued cards.

Doctor Nagler's Diary - Most direct diary on the market.  A single card is face down in the spectator's paw at the top.  They name their birthday.  They are handed the diary.  The card is there.

Esoteric - Do it on the floor with Biro's inspired thread-pulling, and clean up with Blizzard.  The best card trick in the world for human beings.  Have 2 cards selected, hold them to your forehead, obviously glimpse and name the the cards.  Cards are inserted face up into opposite narrow ends of the deck, thumb count one card between cards.  Hand invisible thread to 2 spectators and have them pull.  Blizzard switch to a blank deck to finish.

Examining the Thumbtip - Took forever to get around to watching this.  Big mistake.  3 effects.   de Cova fooled me 3 times.  Reverse Take Vanish at the end is the best and you will use it.

Friend 1, Friend 2 - DVDs by Bruno Copin.  Best magician I have ever seen.

Butterfly Effect and Ripple are the 2 best card effects in magic.

Fulves Gambler's Third Lesson - Unfortunately back in print.  Fortunately no one knows about it.

Gazzo's Read Between The Lines - Terrific one liners.  Edgey and funny.

It Beats Working - Mark Mason's walk around card stuff.  Lecture DVD does not do him justice.  Go see Mark work.

Josh Jay's Homing Card - Use Anglo Giants with Jay's brilliant gaff.  The simplest and most deceptive handling on the market.

Kaps' Currency - Edward Victor's 11 Card Trick with bills.  Still needs an ending.

Kovari's Chinese Sticks - Splurge on a third stick and do Kaps' routine.

Moe's Miracles with Cards - Do Think Of A Card as written.  Go down on one knee and everything. 

Newsflash - Axel Hecklau's inspired reworking of Gene Anderson's Newspaper Tear.  The flash restoration is beyond belief.  No moves, no folding, no finger positioning, no nothing.  The pieces look like they melt together.   Can be done surrounded. 

Pavel's Phenomenal Rope Trick - The most practical and cut and restored on the market without refills.

Penny Flight - Superglue a penny to a nylon thread attached to a reel.  Put the reel in your right rear pocket.  Show your left hand empty and make a loose fist.  "This is a Magic Wishing Well.  Make a Wish.  You got it."

Riser Traditional Cups and Balls - Perfect for Kaps' top loading routine.

Stealth Assassin - My everyday wallet.  Rip out the swinging flap and remove the magnetic strips to make the wallet 1/3 thinner.  The best hip pocket Card to Wallet on the market.  The only glimpse worth doing is outside the wallet.  The movie star effect is terrific.  Ditto Visa Cabaret.

Tangled Web - Second best Copper Silver routine in print.  Scotty York's is better.  I do it with a Johnson Magnetic Copper Silver to clean up the handling.  As Don Alan said, gaff everything.

Total Coincidence - You have to see the magicians screaming on the tape. 

Wellington Magic Switchboard - Corded version killed me 30 years ago.  Mini is even better. Plays well for humans and magicians.  Get a sponge-lined carrying case at Lowes.

Wicked Book Test - Mother of All Book Tests on steroids for $100.  Instead of pumping for the first letter, you name a word close to the word the spectator is thinking of, then pump.  There are 3 words you can name for repeat performances.  You can also name the first and last words on each page.  The last word is a rhyming homonym with the page number.  The first word is a Sam Schwartz interlocking anagram.  Also includes a matching Dynamite Book Test, which totally fooled me.

Williamson's Rocky - The best 8 minutes with the racoon on the planet is on MacMillan's 1989 half hour David Williamson DVD.

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TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS - TACHLIS

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Don Alan - Said all effects must have a beginning, a middle and an end.  Beginnings are easy.  Start as late in the action as possible.  The middle builds tension.  Most important, you must release the tension at the end, or the effect just sits there.  Alan was the master of tension release.  After the lump of coal came out, he reduced tension by drawing an X on the table - "Got to keep track of where I work".  After the 2nd ball came out of the chop cup, he released tension by trying to pound both balls back into the cup - "Can't understand it.  They fit in there a minute ago."  Releasing tension after an appearance is easy, because you have an object to work with.  Releasing tension after a vanish is hard, because the spectators are looking for where the object went.  Action must always be taken to release tension and allow the audience to relax again. 

Del Ray - Blew our socks off and released tension by failing.  He backed himself into a corner and got us rooting for him.  Watch his brilliant poker and blackjack deals. 

Fred Kaps - Was the master of taking the offense out of being fooled.  When you fool someone, you put them down.  Fooling is offensive, unless you change the social contract.  You must release the tension and take the sting out.  There is no such thing as suspension of disbelief.  It's not fun to be fooled.  It's not nice.  Kaps defused tension by screwing up.  Something always went wrong.  The magic got out of control and happened to him.

Juan Tamariz - Fools without offense and releases tension by playing a character outside the normal social contract.  Being duped by a non-human doesn't hurt.

Siegfried & Roy - Fooled without offense and released tension by creating a spectacle.  We were at the circus.  It was glorious, wonderful and impersonal.  It had nothing to do with us.  There was no interpersonal social contract to violate.

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WHAT I'M DOING - WHAT I'M DOING - WHAT I'M DOING - WHAT I'M DOING

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PENNY FLIGHT – "This is a Magic Wishing Well.  Make a wish.  You got it."

COPPER SILVER – "It’s in my other hand.  But if it disappears from your hand, we call a rabbi."  

BILL FLIGHT – "This is most difficult thing I do.  I need to borrow a dollar."

DOCTOR NAGLER'S DIARY – " I have a present for you.  I can’t show it to you now or I have to kill you.  When's your birthday?"

ANY CARD AT ANY NUMBER – "The 3 most famous card tricks in magic are Any Card At Any Number, 52 Faces North and Out of This World.  I'm going to do all 3 at the same time." -  Wild deck is out at the top.  Victim 1 shuffles and tables the deck.  Victim 1 names a card, names a number, counts and removes his card without looking at it.  Card is placed face down on the table.  Because of the deck, you know the card on the table.  Announce the card on the table as your Open Prediction.  Pick up the deck, shuffle and move the card Victim 1 named to the top.  Go into 52 Faces, dealing a double card from the top face up on the table, and a few more cards to demonstrate what needs to be done.  Victim 2 deals through the entire deck, leaving one card face down on the table.  Pick up the deck from the table, shuffle Victim 1's card from the top to bottom, and go into Grant's Nu-Way Out of This World.  Go through about half the deck.  Leave the dealt packets face down on the table.  Cop Victim 1's card in Tenkai palm or leave it on the bottom of the deck.  Turn over the 2 cards from ACAN and 52 Faces, doing a Curry Turnover Change or Tenkai Switch.  Turn over the OOTW piles.

CARD TO WALLET – This is my 4 phase (2 palm, table-free) Card to Wallet.  A modified Stealth Assassin Wallet (see above) is in your left trouser pocket. A blank card with "Your Name" printed on it is in the horizontal compartment.  The card from Doctor Nagler's Diary is signed.  Overhand shuffle the signed card to the bottom.  Stencil Overhand Shuffle Action Palm the signed card into your left hand.  Take the deck from your left hand into your right hand.  Hold the deck in dealing position in your right hand.  Remove the wallet from your left trouser pocket, holding the signed card against the slit underside.  Flip open wallet and remove the face down signed card with your right fingers.  Replace the wallet in your left trousers pocket.  Turn over the signed card.   Replace the signed card on the bottom of the deck with your left hand, immediately bottom palming it.  Remove the wallet from your left trouser pocket again, holding the signed card against the slit.   Flip open the wallet and remove the face down signed card with your right fingers.   Repocket the wallet.  Turn over the signed card, replace it on top of deck.  Overhand shuffle the signed card to the bottom and back to top.   Hold the deck face down in your right hand in dealers grip again.  Show your left hand empty and remove the wallet from your pocket again.  Flip open the wallet and start to remove the face down "Your Name" card with your right fingers.  As your right hand turns palm down to remove the "Your Name" card, get a right pinky break below the signed card on top of the deck.  Remove the face down "Your Name" card with your right fingers.  Flip the wallet closed and put the wallet on top of the deck in your right hand.  Put the face down "Your Name" card on top of the wallet.  Hold the face down card in place on top of the wallet with your right thumb.  "If this card has your name on it, that's pretty darn amazing."  Holding the "Your Name" card in place with your right thumb, your left hand removes the wallet (with the signed card under it) and puts the wallet back in your left trouser pocket.  Turn over the "Your Name" card.  Put the deck away in your right trouser pocket.  Show both hands empty.  Remove the wallet with the signed card underneath.  Remove the signed card and give it to the spectator as a souvenir.

CAPEHART'S LINKING RINGS - Count – Clink link – Unlink – Over arm and spin - Unlink – Crash link sequence – Off shoulder link – Clover link – Unlink - Impossible link.

PAVEL'S PHENOMENAL ROPE TRICK - Cut at end - Knot at end – Knot in middle – Equal ropes – Knot in middle – Knot at end – Stretch ropes – Link ropes – 1 Rope.

KOVARI'S CHINESE STICKS – "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.  The chalice from the palace has the brew which is true. They broke the chalice from the palace.  They replaced it with the flagon with the dragon."

JOSH JAY'S HOMING CARD – "February 9 1964 was the first 1st Ed Sullivan appearance of who?  Yes, that's right.  Anybody know the poor schmuck who followed?"

11 BILL TRICK - Need 11 - Spectator counts 11 - Steal 3 - Count 8 as 10 - Add 1 - Count 9 as 10 - Add 1 - Count 10 as 10 - Spectator counts 10 - Add 3 – Take away 2 - Count 11 as 13 - Take away 2 - Count 9 as 11 - Add 1 - Spectator counts 10 - Steal 5 - Add 5 - Spectator counts 10. 

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DRECK  -   DRECK  -   DRECK   -   DRECK  -   DRECK  -   DRECK  -  DRECK

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3-D Cash DVD - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills.  Some bills appear face up, others appear face down.  Poorly presented and incompletely thought out.

A.E. 2.0 - Total trash, as is everything I've seen from Peter Eggink.  You switch a borrowed bill for a flap glued gimmicked bill at the beginning and end when the heat is on.

Abbott's Cocktail Magic - $25 for 3 tricks, horrid advice and confusing presentations for walk-around.  But I like his framing of the Omni Deck as a vanish in the spectator's hand.  And I like framing an autograph collection to motivate a signature on a card, even though Abbott doesn't do this.

Art of Floating DVD - Kaps' cork with a pearl and other objects.  Nothing new,  defective sound track, awful beyond belief.  Do not waste your money. 

Baxt Better Newspaper Tear - The gaff is a heavy 1.5 "x 1.75" magnet covered with newspaper, and 2 - 2.25" x 2.5" metal plates covered with newspaper, that need to be remade with rubber cement every 3-4 times you do it.  Dr. Anderson 's original takes less time to make and looks better.  Gene Anderson owns the intellectual property.  Jay Marshall owned the copyright.   Neither was contacted for permission or payment to release the effect.  More than 6 months after the effect was on the market, Baxt contacted Gene and sent him one.  In Dr. Anderson 's words, "Baxt takes the effect to lower ground, yielding a torn and restored where you are ripped off both financially and theatrically."

Bending Coin - $375 for a pen with a pliers grip in each half.  Totally undeceptive, rotten handling.  Would not, could not, fool anyone.

Burn Witch Burn - Generic force of a pencil dotted envelope and a dead scratch-marked cigarette lighter.  Not sure what Hilford is selling here.

Boomerang - The bottom 10 cards are reversed, #5 is your prediction.  Spectator names a number and you start counting from the top face down.  5 away from the number, you turn the cards on the table face up, and at the same time turn over the pack and table it.  This is in Barrie Richardson's book.  Goldman is stealing again.

Carpenter's Nightmare - The ad says you hand out the bent nail for "immediate instant examination".  Yes, but after a lousy switch and horrible dump of the terrible gimmick when the heat is on.  Hank personally recommended this one to me.  Total crap.

Cezanne Code - For $150 you imagine a 9-point matrix, like the dial pad of a telephone.  You send the appropriate quadrant by tilting your head or pointing your feet.  You look like an epileptic.

Cigarette Up The Nose - You have to wear a jacket.  It is unconscionable the ad does not mention this.  Another waste of money, unless you want to spend $30 for a cigarette pull.

Ceremony of Immortals - $20 for the exact same trick in Cornelius's $5 Marked Deck Manuscript, with half a deck and a crib sheet.

Completely Cold - $40 for a 31 page pamphlet of watered-down Rogerian psychotherapy.  You say "Yes, and - " or " No, but - ", instead of cold reading. 

DaVinci Zone Book Test - Two $2 scroll pens (www.scrollpens.com) with cribs for $200.  You have to hide the scrolls behind a pad.  Why not crib on the pad directly?

Destined To Be - $60 for a beautifully produced, flatulant rewrite of Krenzel's slit-case cut-dump.  Doesn't tell you the most important thing, how to edge mark the deck.  Nobody is gonna (can?) do this.

Double Vision - You have to get a glimpse of the opposite page of the book to give the reading.  The instructions are printed right in the book (subtext, the spectator is stupid), so the book cannot be examined. 

Ebony and Ivory - Looks terrific on the net, but in person you see the magnetic linking ropes gaff.  A switch is required when the heat is on.  The visible penetration is not 100%. 

Elevator - Before I bought this, I commented to a friend that it was probably a doorstop on a rope down your pantleg.  He assured me I had to be  incorrect.  We were both wrong.   It's worse.   A keychain reel is attached to your belt, with a plastic cup on the end that you put under your heel.  You wear a jacket to hide the gaff.  Just your toes levitate.   Difficult unless you have the balance of an acrobat.  Angles are impossible, and you cannot rotate without exposing the cable running down your leg. The levitation looks awful.  Everyone I know who bought this is spitting. 

Eliminator - $25 for a Mene Tekel Deck.  2 spectators think of even and odd #'s, then count to their cards.  Selections end up on top and bottom.

Eugene's Last Dollar - 1/8 bill with waxed cardboard backing.  Lousy undeceptive handling and no ending.  Klause at least covered new ground. 

Expert Deck - The side of the deck is edge marked with a magic marker stripe.  Goldenberg would have you believe that you can estimate the position of an edge marked card from the top of the deck.  Effect is a fraud.  Murphy's choose to distribute this, which tells you all you need to know about Trono and Murphy.

Flight 204 - Fickle Nickel with a wax button.  No way to cleanly attach the wax to a ring.  Doesn't work with most rings. 

Grail - Prediction is a double index.  Mates at 12, 24, 36, 48.  You shift 1-3 cards from top or bottom as necessary. 

Greed - Dirty at the top, dirty at the bottom, horrible looking changes, and it costs $37 to make the horrible multi-flap gaff. 

Heirloom - $35 for off-by-one on a cheesey letter you take out if needed, instead of on the back of the 16 photo cards. 

Hermit of Dreams - Top pocket switch to force the reading card in your pocket.   Wouldn't fool a squirrel. 

Hot Rod Convertible - Changes color with temperature.  Useless.

Hundy-500 DVD - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills.  Effect just sits there at the end.  Wilson is clueless about how to release tension and get off.  A perfect example of how not to do magic for humans.

Invisible Watch - You glance at a joggers watch in your breast pocket.  Swear I saw this 15 years ago.

Impossible 1 to 52 - A magnet you hold on top or bottom of the card case, holds back shim cards, which holds back cards during the dump.  Force cards throughout the deck.  Impossible to do, impossible to memorize where you hold the magnet, and impossible to memorize which side of the case you dump from. 

Impossible Devination - $20 crazy cube.  The cheap plastic plate was sitting on my desk on top of a newspaper before I read the instructions.   I could see the headline and groaned.  Total ripoff.  Hard to believe this has gotten by all press, who are not stupid, and every magician who has seen it. 

Impossible Signed Card to Any Wallet - Ortiz's Dream Card.  Selection is held by magnets outside the card case when the deck is boxed.  Multiple turnover for revelation.  Would not fool a flea.

Infinity Switch - Impossible angles and fiddling to setup.  You paperclip 2 bills together, and pivot switch them in your hands. 

Invisible Deck - Dobson is right.  The display at the end is weak and their 12 year old bought one last week at Houdini's.

Just Passin Thru - Eddie Taytelbaum's Dowel Penetration, miscredited and poorly recycled with a slit pencil.  Gets lead all over your hands and the bill.

K.E.N.T. - Spectator removes 5 cards, you pump for the court card.  You can't reveal the suit.  1/3 of the time you are wrong without an out.  3x the price of Tsunami for 1/10 the effect.

Key Melt - You have to do an impossible switch of a lousy-looking rubber key when the heat is on before examination.  Totally fraudulent ad.

Kohler 3-Fly - $300 for 3 silver dollars, Slippery Sam and generic non-deceptive handling.  No idea why Close wet himself over this.

Live at the Jailhouse - Fleshmann's Card in Wallet sits there at the end, waiting for the tension to be released.  Kozmo's Bill in SweetnLow is an object lesson in telegraphing moves.  Kirk Charles blows off the climax of every effect. Worst  DVD set I've seen in a while.  Perfect example of what NOT to do in restaurants.

Magician's Nightmare - You wear jacket with an uncreditted Neff Rope Gimmick.  Must be done as an opener.   Rope Miracle is superior for this much work.

Mental Yarn - Ned Rutledge's Triple Threat, the property of Dane Rutledge.  Goldman put this on the market while Ned was alive. People screamed it was not Goldman's to sell, and Goldman took it off the market.  Ned left us, and Goldman put it back on the market, with a false statement on page one that Ned gave Goldman permission to market the effect. 

Mindreading Orange - John Kaplan's absolutely vomitorious routine.  Stupid, not funny.

Miraculous Ploys - Make a coffee stirrer move by blowing on it.  Use pen thru anything on top of a pad for spirit writing.  Drop water from a cottonball on a spectator to make them feel cold.  Secretly touch a spectator's head with your thumb.  Worse than Wonder Words.  No, that's not possible. 

Mullica Wallet - Always hated this.  Totally obvious, from the day I first saw Tom do it at Magic Inc, a couple of months after he put it out.  No idea why people wet themselves over Burger's handling.  Use LePaul and go off the bottom, if you are skittish.

New World - First 26 cards are regular cards in Aronson for no reason, followed by 26 red/black half/half cards.  What is the point?  If you don't want to switch piles, use Harris's Gemini.

Northbound - You wax the ring to your thumbnail for the vanish, thread the ring on the chain as you remove the chain from your neck.  Only good on the net.

One & Only - Standard equivoque with 8 JQKA double facers in a way too thick, weird looking, square 4-way double envelope. 

One Dollar - Five Dollar Bill Switch - Even with Roger Klause's brilliant gimmick, the effect just sits there at the end.  No way to release the tension and get off.

One For the Money - As spectator deals cards face up, you spot the 2nd card.  Spectator stops dealingr, buries top and bottom cards, takes top card for selection, buries and shuffles.  Get the selection to the top and table the deck.  Spectator names a number.  Deal to the number.  Pick up dealt cards in left hand.  Peek at top card with right hand, replace card, pick up all the cards except the bottom card with right hand, at the same time you lift the selection to your face with left hand. 

One Hundred Dollar Bill Switch - Even without a tip, you start and end dirty, and it's obvious you fold up one bill and open another. Juan Pablo switch is a step back, as it's even more obvious you just flip over the bill.  Does not fool anyone.

Out of Body - $25 for a Himber Card Case and Si Stebbins.  

Plastique - If your spectator looks at the cards for more than 2 seconds, they see the numbers all add up the same.  Nondeceptive and boring.

Polter - Sponge earplug attached to a thread with a coin on the end.  Sponge plug expands and knocks the item over.  Coin on thread pulls the sponge to the floor.

Raxon Billet Switch - $50 for Annemann Billet Switch.  Would not fool a chipmunk.

Ripped up - A double faced 10D with torn card pieces printed on one side.  You shake your hand and rotate the gaff.  Awful.

Route 1 - You show a red deck and put it in your pocket.  Card and number are named.  You futz with and put a blue deck in your pocket.  You take out the red deck, and the card is at the number.  Blue deck is in a half red, half blue case.  Yeecch.

Silver Bullet - You touch the selected page with your finger and put lubricant on it.  The book cannot be examined after, as it slides open to the selected page.

Silver Shifter - Lousy looking rubber coin.  See Key Melt. 

Suspended Dimension DVD - Large suspenders and an insanely gaffed shirt, slit along the line of the suspenders.  Totally obvious you throw things in your shirt. 

Spirit - Doug Edward's Really Haunted.  Why is Murphy's selling this?

System 88 - Hilford's $75 rewrite of Annie Gottlieb's The Cube, $5 on Amazon. Includes a horrible tick sheet that was borderline in the 1950's.

Telekinesis for Dinner - 9" metal gimmick with an arm that whips out and knocks over the glass.  You have to work on a tablecloth.  You have to have a napkin over the gaff.  You start and end dirty.  You can hurt yourself and others. 

Ties - $100 to Penguin for a 90 cent spool of elastic thread, and instructions to tie a surgeon's knot.  Comes with a plastic device that makes tieing a surgeon's knot more difficult.

Thought Reader Card - Total trash from Paul Brook.  Side A of the card is a list of random objects.  Side B is just Knife and Doorframe, alternating.  Did not fool my labradors.

Torn - The best and most deceptive torn and restored card on the market.  Except it's Yves Doumergue's Ripped and Restored.  Garcia even credits Doumergue on the DVD.  Harris and Murphy's should be ashamed.

Visibill DVD - Pat Page's Easy Money with a stack of bills again.

Whispering Deck - $37.50 to Hocus Pocus for a "guaranteed magician fooler" that is Si Stebbins in a slit card case.

Winks Diary - Spectator thinks of a month, doubles the number of the month for the date.  The card written in the diary matches your prediction.  Except a chimpanzee thinks of another date, flips through the diary and sees your force card again.

You Know Who Card - More trash from Brook.  5 lousy outs.  Back of the card says Paul or Ruth, depending if card is upside down.  Piper out is the first letter of each suspect spells Piper.  Isaac out is that every picture contains eyes and a sack.  Edgar out is the photo has a mark on the corner and suspect is facing a different direction.