Description

By Forces Unseen is one of my favourite books on the subject of card magic. I have always loved how the author never compromised on difficulty to achieve his aim of clean, visual card magic. In this project I revisit some of my favourite tricks from the book to try and make the handling more congruent with the way that I handle cards.

Moves:

Effects:

Exchange Rate – An extremely fooling version of Bureau d’change which happens completely isolated and away from the deck. A card is named and placed in the performers pocket and then a 4 of a kind is named and placed under a card box. The card is taken from the pocket and turns in the 4 cards that were placed under the box moments before and the single card from your back pocket is found under the box.

Bonus Effect – Lonely Due to Bottom Dealing – Ross Tayler provides a streamlined variation for Lonely at the Top, one of my least favourite effects in the book. He has changed the construction so that it is easier to understand making it more inline with a “reset effect” and also provides some insight into dealing from the bottom using a Erdnase grip.