John Bannon lectured at Le Double Fond on October 23, 2023. It was an unprecedented encounter with a great artist who gave us the best of his art. The Ace of Spades from a deck of cards is placed under a stem glass, and the Queen of Diamonds on top. The two cards are about to change places! Superb! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

A card is chosen, and lost in the deck. The pack is wrapped with a rubber band... and still, the chosen card pops out of the deck! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Are you interested in coin magic? Here is a routine that covers most of the effects with coins: they appear, disappear, pass from one magician's hand to another, multiply, and finally, pass into the spectator's closed hand! To buy some coins click here.  

Like ACAAN, this effect is considered the Holy Grail of card magic. This version is completely impromptu, is performed with a normal deck, and the icing on the cake is that the “predicted” card is freely chosen by the spectator at the beginning of the trick! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Here's a nice simultaneous production of the four Aces from the deck. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

The magician shows two blank cards, on which are handwritten the names of two cards: 5 of Diamonds and 6 of Clubs; this constitutes a kind of "Open Prediction" with two cards. One card from the deck is chosen by the spectator. It's face down, and nobody knows it yet. The magician gives himself 4 possibilities of having predicted the chosen card with his two prediction cards: it could therefore be a 5 or a 6 for value, and Diamonds or Clubs for suit. The chosen card is turned over: nothing to see, since it's the 4 of Hearts! The magician is dismayed, and turns over the two written cards on the table: they are both 4 de Hearts! Everything is handed out for examination. To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - some single blank back card click here.  

Alain Choquette explains the first magic trick he learned from his father when he was very young. Then he explains the version he later developed as a tribute to his father. It's a superb production of the Four Aces. He follows (demonstration only) with an equally visual version of “McDonald Aces”. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

A spectator names a four of a kind at random. The magician pulls out these 4 cards, betting that they'll travel invisibly into his pockets... in a fraction of a second. And guess what? It works! No gaffed cards or gimmicks for a clean, straightforward effect! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The deck of cards is thoroughly shuffled by both magician and spectator. Yet the magician produces the four Aces in the blink of an eye! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

In the magician's arsenal, it is very practical to be able to "force" a spectator to take the card you want. Here's how you can force FOUR cards using the Hindu shuffle. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Dominique Duvivier demonstrates a new Eddy Taytelbaum wonder (no explanation). A card enclosed in an openwork frame is instantly transformed into another!  

Two half-dollar coins appear one by one in the magician's hands and turn into Chinese coins! To buy: - a half-dollar coin click here. - some Chinese coins click here.  

Two coins are attracted by magic, illustrating the proverb "Money attracts money" ! ( with the explanation of Kaps and Ramsay subtleties ). To buy some half-dollar coins click here.  

Four Jokers turn upside down one by one, and transform into four Aces. A truly stylish effect! To buy some regular single cards click here.

A four coins across effect (coins magically travel from one hand to the other). To buy some half-dollar coins click here.  

Another magical exercise in style. A startling and baffling effect where a card that becomes four cards in an instant…