Special Effects by Randy Wakeman
From the introduction:
Effort has been made in this work to include material that will appeal to close-up workers of all experience levels. Even those individuals who are just getting their feet wet in card magic should not have great difficulty learning routines such as "The Odds Against Me," "Forefiguration," "The Force is With You," "Six Card Trick," "Nick's Trick," and several others.
Effort has also been made to make this book as complete an entity as possible as you will notice by the rather generous appendix of Marlo ideas that I have included. Hopefully this will motivate serious students of card magic with limited libraries to unlimit them.
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Chapter One: Special Card Effects
- The Natural
- Covered Half Pass
- Flexible Hittop Change
- Cardician Makes Better
- The Mystic Card
- In Lieu Of The Double Cut
- I Like Nice Things
- Throwing It In Reverse
- Generally Speaking
- Shuffle Them Twice ... They Rollover Nice
- Mini Surprise Stab
- The Odds Against Me
- Teflon Card Stab
- Forefiguration
- Wakeman's Way
- Needed A Jump
- Cannibal Vanish
- Chapter Two Classic Routines
- R. W. Ambitious Card Routine
- Direct Delusion
- A Real Devilish Miracle
- Let's Twist Again (Like We Did Last Summer)
- The Last Traveller
- R. W. Four Coins Through The Table
- Randy's Cups & Balls Routine
- Chapter Three Old Business
- The Force Is With You
- Not Finished With Randy-Mar
- Taking A Pass
- Bill Tear Clarified
- Follow-Up On Follow-Up
- Chapter Four Edward Marlo Mysteries
- Six Card Trick
- The Ace Problem That Hofzinser Never Had
- Marlo Ambitious Card Routine
- Nick's Trick
- The Marlo Revelation
- Banded Revelation
- Holee Revelation
- Another Revelation
- Repeat Signed Cards Across
- An Oil And Water Story
- Bluff Ace Assembly
- Marlo's Startling Observation Test
- Appendix
- The Double Undercut Palm
- Marlo's Opec Count
- The Mechanical Change
- Marlo's Wrist Turn Pass
- Marlo Deck Switch
- Marlo's "As An Addition" Switch
- The Razor's Edge
- The Sail Count
- Bonus Section: The Randy Revelation
- In Conclusion
1st edition 1987, 117 pages; 1st digital edition 2022, PDF 142 pages.