Instructions for Miracles by Friedrich Roitzsch

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Pit Hartling

Introduction

Switch’em
After demonstrating an impressive hand muck the magician outs an innocent spectator as professional card cheat and coaxes him into performing an even more incredible card switch!
Luminous Readers
When seen through the lenses of a special pair of glasses the backs of the four aces appear in a different color. Or that’s at least what one spectator thinks is happening…
Robin Hood
The magician throws a card up to twelve feet high into the air, catches it in the deck and shows that it actually split a chosen card! And yes, the card is actually signed…
Fastest Card Trick in the World
The magician performs a lightning fast transposition of the four signed Aces and Kings. Then he repeats it but with the Kings going into four different pockets!
Power Matcha
The spectator succeeds several times in finding the mate to a chosen card while all the other cards are shown to be hopelessly mixed. Then suddenly the whole deck is arranged in pairs!
Nine Card Monte Revisited
A very clean version of José Carroll’s famous plot using trick cards. Nevertheless in the end all cards can be examined!
Far Out
The magician divines three freely chosen cards without ever coming near the deck at all!
Out of this Card Box
A version of Paul Curry’s ingenious OOTW. Thanks to an "out-of-the-box" concept it starts with a thoroughly shuffled deck!
Magic Squared
Four chosen cards from a special number deck add up to a freely selected number. This is repeated until a full magic square is on the table
Instructions for a Miracle
Probably the most practical and direct version of José Carroll’s fantastic plot where a signed card appears bound into a small booklet!
Disclaimer: Instructions for a Miracle is based on Juan Manuel Marcos’ El Milagro, which is a marketed trick. It is presupposed that you’re already familiar with it to fully understand this version of it.