Ebook - No Moves Magic by Rick Kercher

Unlock the Secrets of Sleight-Less Card Magic

Step into the captivating world of card magic without the years of practice typically required for complex sleight-of-hand. Rick Kercher's 'No Moves Magic' ebook is your essential guide to performing truly astonishing card tricks, focusing entirely on presentation and impact. This unique collection is perfect for beginners eager to impress, experienced magicians looking for powerful, direct routines, or anyone who's ever felt intimidated by the manual dexterity demands of traditional card magic. These routines have been meticulously selected and re-worked to possess inherent magical impact, allowing your presentation to be as straightforward as simply stating what you're doing, yet remaining incredibly effective and entertaining for any audience.

Dive into Diverse Routines

'No Moves Magic' is thoughtfully structured into two distinct sections, offering a broad spectrum of magical experiences. The first section introduces you to a series of mental-type, self-working tricks. While some may require a bit of memory, they demand absolutely no manual dexterity, making them accessible to everyone. You'll astound spectators with feats of mind-reading and prediction using just a deck of cards. The second section ventures into non-mental card effects, encompassing baffling transpositions, impossible assemblies, and precise locations. All routines in this section are executed without the need for difficult sleight-of-hand, thanks to the expert streamlining and collaboration with renowned magician John Mendoza. Each effect is designed to deliver maximum wonder with minimum effort, proving that powerful magic doesn't always rely on hidden moves.

Expand Your Magical Horizons

Beyond the incredible routines, this ebook offers valuable resources to further your magical journey. An included 'glossary' provides brief descriptions of common card moves, serving as an enticing incentive to explore the broader world of card manipulation when you're ready. While these moves aren't necessary for the tricks in this ebook, they open doors to countless other outstanding effects. Additionally, a final appendix features a carefully curated list of books that Rick Kercher, alongside John Mendoza, considers the very best in print on the subject of card magic. This recommended reading list acts as a compass for your continued study, guiding you to master additional techniques and theories. 'No Moves Magic' is a digital download, packed with 94 pages and 96 illustrations, providing clear, concise instructions to make you a proficient card magician.

Original Specs

This is a marvelous ebook on mostly sleight-less card magic. The only skills you will need to bring to these effects are presentational. Pros will tell you the presentational aspect of a trick is more difficult to master than any sleight or move. That probably is true, however, these effects have been selected and re-worked so as to have built-in impact so that your presentation can even be as direct as simply stating exactly what you are doing. This is the most basic form of presentation, but it remains effective for those who do not have the creativity or inherent comedy to develop entertaining or funny presentations. The magic itself, in these routines, entertains. You need only direct the audience in what to watch for.

The ebook is divided into two sections followed by the appendices at the end. The first section deals with mental type self-working tricks. Some will require memory, but absolutely no manual dexterity. The second section contains tricks of a non-mental nature. These are transpositions, assemblies and locations, etc. and are all done without the need for difficult sleight-of-hand. These routines were worked out and then streamlined completely with the help of John Mendoza.

Also included is a "glossary" of terms including brief descriptions of moves that, hopefully, will serve as an incentive to whet your appetite to take the time to learn card sleights. While you will not need them for the routines in this ebook, there are numerous outstanding effects that cannot be accomplished without sleight-of-hand.

The final appendix shows a list of books that Rick Kercher, along with John Mendoza, consider to be the best in print on the subject of card magic.

• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 SIMPLE SIMON
• Chapter 2 THE LIGHT STUFF
• Chapter 3 TWO PILES, NO WEIGHTING
• Chapter 4 ADDS UP TO MAGIC
  • 4.1 THE FOUR ACE COUNTDOWN
  • 4.2 HIGHLY UNLIKELY
  • 4.3 WHY IT WORKS
  • 4.4 ADDENDUM
• Chapter 5 A COINCIDENCE OF NUMBERS
• Chapter 6 THE BIG SWITCH
• Chapter 7 FOUR CARDS SHORT TO MYSTERY
  • 7.1 THINK SPELL
  • 7.2 SECOND THOUGHT
• Chapter 8 EVOLUTION OF AN EFFECT
  • 8.1 Principle of the 21st Card
  • 8.2 The Strange 20 Card Coincidence
• Chapter 9 CHEATING
• Chapter 10 TAKES A LICKING AND KEEPS ON TICKING
• Chapter 11 AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY LINE
  • 11.1 Vanish #1
  • 11.2 Vanish #2
  • 11.3 Vanish #3
  • 11.4 The Climax: The Queens Return
• Chapter 12 MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN SUSPECTS RE-VISITED
• Chapter 13 THE INSEPARABLE PAIR
• Chapter 14 NO-MOVE OPEN TRAVELLERS
  • 14.1 The First Transposition
  • 14.2 The Second Transposition
  • 14.3 The Last Transposition
• Chapter 15 THE R.W. FOUR CARD STUNNER
• Chapter 16 POOR MAN'S DARYL
• Chapter 17 BONUS: THE MYSTERIOUS 19 CARD TRICK
• Appendix A GLOSSARY
  • Bottom Deal
  • Break
  • Butt Shuffle
  • Charlier Pass
  • Crimp
  • Criss Cross Force
  • Culling
  • Deal and Duck
  • Deck Switch
  • Double Facers or Double Faced Cards
  • Double Lift and Double Turnover
  • Double Undercut
  • Down & Under
  • False Cut
  • Faro Shuffle
  • Fishing
  • Gemini Count
  • Gilbreath Principle
  • Injog
  • Invisible Pack
  • Klondike Shuffle
  • Magician's Choice
  • Olram Subtlety
  • Outjog
  • Overhand Shuffle
  • Palming
  • Pass
  • Peeking Cards
  • Powder Fan
  • Pressure Fan
  • Reverse Faro
  • Ribbon Spread
  • Riffle Force
  • Riffle Shuffle
  • Rubaway Vanish
  • Slip Force
  • Tabled Cut
  • Tent Vanish
  • Thumb Count
  • Time Misdirection
  • Turnover Pass
  • Twenty-First Card Principle
  • Up and Down Shuffle
  • Upjog
  • Vernon's Add-On Switch
• Appendix B DEALERS
• Appendix C RECOMMENDED READING
• CONCLUSION

1st edition 1984; digital edition 2020, PDF 94 pages, 96 illustrations.
word count: 30656 which is equivalent to 122 standard pages of text