Prepare to be amazed! “Counting on Deception” by Larry Barnowsky unveils original magic using subtle math, not sleight of hand. A magician’s MUST-HAVE! ✨

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Counting on Deception by Larry Barnowsky

Discover the art of magic with Counting on Deception, a groundbreaking collection of original magic tricks designed to captivate and astonish your audience. This book is perfect for magicians of all skill levels, as it eliminates the need for complex sleight of hand, relying instead on subtle mathematical principles that work invisibly in the background. From cards and coins to balls, salt, cups, predictions, crayons, an abacus, and even the Periodic Table, this book offers a diverse range of magical effects that will leave your spectators in awe.

Premium Quality and Comprehensive Content

Printed on #80 weight gloss enamel paper, this book is available with either cloth or optional leather binding, a four-color dust jacket, and colored end papers. With 44 chapters, 256 pages of detailed text, and over 400 sharp black-and-white photos, learning and mastering these tricks has never been easier. The high-quality printing matches the standards set by The Book of Destiny and Kingdom of the Red, ensuring a premium reading experience.

Highlighted Tricks and Effects

Nine Shuffle Paradox: Despite nine different shuffles, the blacks and reds become completely sorted.
Fifteen Card Poker Deal: The spectator helps mix the cards, yet the magician deals a royal flush.
Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction: A shuffled deck creates an addition pyramid, with the sum matching a sealed prediction.
Underhanded Deception: A double prediction effect where the magician correctly predicts the number of face-up cards and reveals all four aces.
Mind Reading Cards: Automatically know the number your spectator is thinking of.
Abracadabacus: A famous year in history is chosen, and the predicted date appears on an abacus.
The 39th Card: The spectator fairly cuts the deck, and the sum of chosen cards matches a sealed prediction.
Crayola Payola: The spectator colors an object on a chosen card, which matches a sealed prediction.
Four For Sure: An impromptu effect where the spectator magically finds the mates of a pair.
Undercover Queen: The spectator tries to find an English Penny, only to discover it’s gone and a half dollar is now under each card.
The Match Game: The spectator’s guesses on matching card colors turn out to be 100% correct.

Cards: 1. Nine Shuffle Paradox, 2. 15 Card Poker Deal, 3. Sort-ability, 4. Iron Certain Poker, 5. Four For Sure, 6. Ambitious Card, 7. One At A Time Aces, 8. The Trick That Fooled Me, 9. Underhanded Deception, 10. Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction, 11. Eliminating Control, 12. The 39th Card, 13. Until There Were Four, 14. Loser’s Poker, 15. Prime Number Prophecy, 16. Shall We Switch, 17. All Roads Lead to Rome, 18. Match Game, 19. Hidden Order, 20. Pascal’s Prediction, 21. Pass the Pack, 22. The Uncertainty Principle, 23. As Many Hands As You Want, 24. Oldest Trick in the Book, 25. Drawing a Blank, 26. Parallel Uniforce, 27. Shuffle Survivor, 28. The Fabulous Athletic Aces

Props: 29. Crayola Payola, 30. Periodic Table Prediction, 31. Abracadabacus, 32. Salty Air, 33. Mind Reading Cards, 34. Force To Be Reckoned With, 35. Tale of the Tape, 36. The Illusion of Free Choice, 37. No Lose Musical Chairs

Coins: 38. Coins, Cards, and Caps, 39. Change of Mind, 40. Undercover Queen

Balls: 41. Patriotic Balls, 42. Color Me Clairvoyant, 43. Silent Colorama, 44. Glass, Tube, and Bag Mystery

Counting on Deception is a collection of original magic designed to astonish your audience without having to rely on difficult sleight of hand. Many of the effects depend on subtle mathematical principles which operate invisibly in the background. You’ll find magic with cards, coins, balls, salt, cups, predictions, crayons, an abacus,The Periodic Table and much more.

This book is printed on #80 weight gloss enamel paper, with cloth or optional leather binding, four color dust jacket, and colored end papers. 44 chapters, 256 pages of text, and over 400 b/w sharp photos make learning easy. The quality of printing is the same as found in The Book of Destinyand Kingdom of the Red.

With Nine Shuffle Paradox, even though you and your spectator shuffle the cards nine different ways, the blacks and reds become completely sorted.At every point in the Fifteen Card Poker Deal the spectator gets to cut and help mix the cards, yet at the end the magician deals a royal flush.With Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction after a deck is fairly shuffled, ten consecutive cards are used to create the base of an addition pyramid. The calculated sum at the apex is found to exactly match a sealed prediction.Underhanded Deception is a double prediction effect where the spectator deals face-up and face-down cards under the table to the magician, yet the magician correctly predicts the number of face-up cards and gets all four aces.Perform Mind Reading Cards and you’ll automatically know what number your spectator is thinking of.After a famous year in history is chosen, the predicted date magically appears as numbers on an abacus in Abracadabacus.Amaze them with The 39th Card where the spectator fairly cuts the deck and chooses six cards in the fairest manner. The sum of those cards is used to count to a card in a second deck which matches a sealed prediction.The spectator chooses one of 16 colored crayons and one of eight cards containing the outline of different objects. After they color in the object on the chosen card, they open a prediction showing the same drawing in the same color. It’s easily done with Crayola Payola. Four For Sure is a favorite impromptu effect where a pair is removed from a shuffled deck and the spectator magically finds the mates himself.In Undercover Queen the spectator tries to find an English Penny under one of three cards only to discover that it’s gone and a half dollar is now under each card.The spectator sorts pairs of face-down cards into pairs that he guesses will match in color and those that will not match. Despite the free choices made, his guesses turn out to be 100% correct with TheMatch Game.
Table of Contents
Cards:1. Nine Shuffle Paradox
2. 15 Card Poker Deal
3. Sort-ability
4. Iron Certain Poker
5. Four For Sure
6. Ambitious Card
7. One At A Time Aces
8. The Trick That Fooled Me
9. Underhanded Deception
10. Impromptu Pascal’s Pyramid Prediction
11. Eliminating Control
12. The 39th Card
13. Until There Were Four
14. Loser’s Poker
15. Prime Number Prophecy
16. Shall We Switch
17. All Roads Lead to Rome
18. Match Game
19. Hidden Order
20. Pascal’s Prediction
21. Pass the Pack
22. The Uncertainty Principle
23. As Many Hands As You Want
24. Oldest Trick in the Book
25. Drawing a Blank
26. Parallel Uniforce
27. Shuffle Survivor
28. The Fabulous Athletic AcesProps:

29. Crayola Payola
30. Periodic Table Prediction
31. Abracadabacus
32. Salty Air
33. Mind Reading Cards
34. Force To Be Reckoned With
35. Tale of the Tape
36. The Illusion of Free Choice
37. No Lose Musical Chairs

Coins:

38. Coins, Cards, and Caps
39. Change of Mind
40. Undercover Queen

Balls:

41. Patriotic Balls
42. Color Me Clairvoyant
43. Silent Colorama
44. Glass, Tube, and Bag Mystery

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