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A collection of 6 miracles with methods so devious that even YOU won't fully understand how they work!
John Bannon, the undisputed master of magic design, proves his genius once again... and then some!
The Art of Fooling Even Magicians
In John Bannon's latest book, Outnumbered, you'll discover stunningly deceptive card tricks that will leave you questioning your own execution. It’s like learning magical incantations—you follow the process and produce impossible, jaw-dropping results. If the magic feels real to you, it will certainly feel real to your audience.
Bannon’s effects follow his signature design philosophy: they lead the audience down one path, giving the illusion of predictability, only to take an unexpected turn for a truly astonishing climax.
With ingenious methods, your audience will be completely fooled and left with no idea how the trick works.
When Magic Transcends Numbers
Number-based tricks are often dismissed as “math tricks.” While some of these effects rely on basic mathematical principles, they require no calculations or “math skills” from the magician. The magic lies in the design, not the execution.
This stigma has kept many magicians away from these types of effects, but Outnumbered is here to change that perception.
Rest assured, these are not the math tricks your uncle used to perform. These are true performance pieces that create the illusion of real magic. They’re routines you’ll integrate into your repertoire and perform for years to come.
Table of contents
Game, Set, Match! – Pairs of cards freely formed by your spectator match the total of some pocket change that has been on the table since the outset. A strange combination of Will the Cards Match and Jack London’s Almost Real Prediction. But not quite…
Blindsided Plus – What if could actually tell the future—or some of the future—but you didn’t understand what it meant. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? In this amazing trick, you will find out. It’s self-working (or ridiculously easy, depending on your definition). The deck is regular. No one will see the ending coming. And no one will figure out how it’s done (even if they’re familiar with the underlying principle).
Counter Intuitive – An impossible location that makes the discover of the selected card unimaginable in the absolute fairest conditions possible (or so they think). If you are not familiar with this method, it might become your new favorite toy.
Psychic Encounter – the same incredibly clean discovery as in Counter Intuitive but with a completely different method.
Cosmic Conspiracy - Under impossible conditions, the performer’s predicted card appears at a participant’s freely-chosen thought-of number. What’s more: the participant’s mentally-selected card appears at the performer’s predicted number!
The Sum of All Fours - If you want to do a close-up, no-pressure, self-working, full-blown, four-by-four, fifteen ways to Sunday, show off your inner math geek superpower, magic square, this is the way to do it. It’s an effective way to introduce your audience to the magic square’s truly amazing properties.
All of these effects are like toys you will use to fool yourself and your audience. You’ll bring that feeling of amazement to your spectators as you won’t fully understand how the magic happens. In this book you learn the incantations to do what seems like real magic.
Highlights
- Tricks that feel magical, even to the magician.
- Number-based routines without complicated calculations.
- Unpredictable effects with devious methods.
- Easy to perform yet incredibly impactful.