Ebook - Counting on Deception by Larry Barnowsky (Digital Download)

Unlock the Secrets of Astonishing Magic

Step into the world of 'Counting on Deception,' an exceptional digital ebook by master magician Larry Barnowsky. This isn't just another magic book; it's your definitive guide to performing truly baffling feats without needing years of rigorous sleight-of-hand practice. Barnowsky's collection of 44 original effects harnesses subtle, often invisible mathematical principles, allowing you to focus on presentation and deliver maximum impact. Imagine stunning your audience with seemingly impossible predictions, mentalism, and transformations, all built on clever, underlying logic rather than pure dexterity.

What You'll Discover Inside

Spanning 256 pages and featuring over 400 sharp black and white photographs, 'Counting on Deception' provides crystal-clear, step-by-step instructions. Each of the 44 chapters introduces a unique trick, ensuring a rich and varied learning experience. From intricate card manipulations (without complex moves) to coin routines, and surprising effects with everyday props like crayons, abacuses, and even salt, this ebook covers an impressive spectrum of magic. Whether you're a seasoned performer looking for fresh material or a beginner eager to impress, you'll find plenty to master here.

Dive Into the Deception

Prepare to astound with effects like 'Nine Shuffle Paradox,' where spectator-shuffled cards magically sort themselves by color. Or try 'Impromptu Pascal's Pyramid Prediction,' a baffling mentalism piece where a calculated sum exactly matches a sealed prediction. Engage their minds with 'Mind Reading Cards,' instantly knowing a spectator's chosen number. For something truly unique, 'Crayola Payola' allows a chosen object to be colored on a card, only for a hidden prediction to perfectly match the drawing and color. These are just a few examples of the ingenious illusions awaiting you, each designed for maximum wonder and minimal effort.

Your Path to Effortless Amazement

'Counting on Deception' is more than a collection of tricks; it's a philosophy of accessible, powerful magic. Larry Barnowsky shares his original methods, allowing you to build an impressive repertoire that relies on intelligence and cunning, not just nimble fingers. This digital download delivers instant access to a treasure trove of magical knowledge, empowering you to perform professional-grade illusions with confidence and ease. Get ready to captivate and deceive, the Barnowsky way.

Original Specs

• 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