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If magic didn't exist, someone would invent it.

Jim Steinmeyer's The Password Fallacy in Subsequent Impuzzabilities. Well, it least it gives the illusion of getting someone's password.

Sending PM.

Purple sponge balls. At the end of the routine take them all back and squeeze them in your hand having some wine drip out into a glass. Drink it and say, "don't worry, it's non-alcoholic."

What 10 effects do you perform most? What books and DVDs do you have? What props do you have other than cards (e.g. Ninja Rings, Scotch & Soda, TT, etc.) My other advice is to come up with some effects that relate to grapes or wine. Some ideas: Cups and Balls and Final Reveal (click on...

Overdone. Same presentation. Say, do, see. Looks like it was printed in color rather than actually colored in. Innovate. Take the concept and apply it differently. Take a regular coloring book and make your own - rather than the one that looks like it came from a magic shop. How about...

John Bannon writes that he doesn't perform card tricks for people until they ask three times. Darren Brown writes about how he sat down at a table with Eugene Burger who looked at him and said in his deep baritone voice, "I want to show you something truly amazing." Darren said that he could...

Because 47 cards just don't handle as well.

Drags out soapbox and gets on it.... So there are two ways you can do this. You can follow the traditional wisdom or you can innovate. The traditional wisdom, in my opinion, leads to being a cliche children's magician. I'd include the silk vanish and the coloring book as effects that fall...

We even had a working title - "The Mentalist and the Magician."

Click on the highlighted link in my prior post. Also, a Google search for "Toxic Force" will yield links to various products and, yes, the method.

If you have obtained a legal copy, you typically are able to print it for your own use. However, check the website of the company you purchased it from because they are able to put in certain restrictions.

The best full deck stacks are Mnemonica and Aronson. They both allow you to do similar things based on knowing the order and location of the cards in the deck and each has certain effects that can only be done with that specific stack. The other difference is how you can get into the stacks...

Exactly. Sing the song with the numbers to a tune you like. "One is the four of clubs, two is the two of hearts; Three is the seven of diamonds, four is the three of clubs." Draw pictures on the front. Use the muscular method. Use the conceptual method and the security methods for ones you...

Are you singing and does your song include the number of the card? Did you draw pictures on a deck?

Figure skater... mentalist.... same thing. Speaking of that... I miss reading Craig's posts and, in a different way, miss @Steerpike (stumbled across a couple of his old posts list night). Do you keep in touch with either of them?

The second one is an application of the TOXIC principle.

Those who do not study the history of magic are doomed to buy repackaged tricks.

As long as you have obtained the digital copy from the owner of the copyright or the work is no longer under copyright, you can print a digital copy for your own use.

Experience is the best teacher.