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Magicana Tricks On Youtube

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Magicana Tricks On Youtube are some tricks from Genii's Magicana that have been posted on Youtube. Feel free to add any others you know of, or record yourself performing a trick, sleight, or routine you learned from Magicana, post it on Youtube, then update this list.

If you're interested in something you see on Youtube from the list below, back issues are available for the price of a single-trick download by clicking the link at the top of this page.

Legend:

  • = performed by originator

2009

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2008

2007

2006

  • Genii, June, 2006 • Jack Parker's "Oddservation" (an observation test with eight regular cards drawn from any deck that includes several transpositions and transformations): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNi1aWPrhMc

2005

2004

2003

  • Genii, December, 2003 • Jean-Pierre Vallarino's "Hypnotic Rumba Count," a variation of his Rumba Count that shows the faces of only two cards while apparently showing all the faces in a four-card packet (shown here at the beginning of his marketed trick, "Carre Blanc"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMjqZIvDGgs

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Molecule 2", a triple cut, one-card production (performed by Kaman):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gga8tekNmmc

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "TiVo Transpo," an in-the-hands two-card transposition with no duplicates (performed by Alejandro Portela):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnaXoIzN-Y&NR

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Collectors," a double-sandwich effect wherein two selections are magically trapped between four Aces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEA4z3_hSAo#t=0m20s

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Revolution E," the one-handed Erdnase cut with a twist (literally):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPxMxKIXr04#t=1m18s

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Hand to Mouth," a quick card-to-mouth opener:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX7Jx7YrIpQ

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Real Time," an instant production of four Aces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBqUsBl8il8#t=1m01s

  • Genii, October, 2003 • Dan & Dave Buck's "Kryptonite," a triple-packet one-handed false cut (performed by Chris Hestnes):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMK5X5cAWro&NR=0m13s


2002

  • Genii, November, 2002 - Dr. Sawa's "Why a Big Purse?", a series of two-coin transpositions with a jumbo-coin finale (performed by Antonio Yang):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPzYumJ9KW8

  • Genii, October, 2002 • Akira Fuji's "Jet Coins" (three-coins-across routine using a novel invisible transfer):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8azS3n0JTI

  • Genii, August, 2002 • David Acer & Richard Sanders' "Splittant," a variation of a Looy Simonoff's Flippant that creates the illusion of splitting one card, like a red Four, into two constituent cards, like two red Twos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1JS8HGSSY#t=0m18s


2001

  • Genii, May, 2001 • Christian Engblom's "Anti-Faro," a lightning-fast method for un-interlacing a deck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXUuA8gSRU

  • Genii, April, 2001 • Karl Hein's "Heinstein Shuffle," a benchmark in-the-hands false riffle-shuffle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o_8yU6xOE0


2000

  • Genii, December, 2000 • David Acer's "Unflappable," a visual torn-and-restored matchbook with spectator's phone number on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOxeen5doQs

  • Genii, May, 2000 • Tomo Maeda's "Human Cannonball," performed by Evan Shuster. A chosen card vanishes in a flash of fire from between two jokers that have been rolled and rubber-banded into a tube (or "cannon"). The selection is found inside a sealed envelope at which the "cannon" was aimed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tks9xf13Pqs#t=1m02s

  • Genii, May, 2000 • Masao Atsukawa's "Warp 9," a topological mystery with a jumbo card:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUpFC49oFM

  • Genii, February, 2000 (and Genii, November, 1970) • Al Schneider's original "Matrix":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVwFpj4i3E


1990s

  • Genii, Dec. 1999 • Dr. Hiroshi Sawa's "Submarine Coins," a direct and unusual three-coins-across routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9QxWS4eUpQ

  • Genii, June, 1999 • Jay Sankey's "Leaving Home" (the magician removes a knotted loop of string with a key on it from around his neck, then magically unlinks and relinks the key):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnG_Qc5Umw

  • Genii, June, 1999 • Jay Sankey's "Fragile Harbor," performed by Nick Sullivan (a drawing on the back of a signed, selected card changes in a poetic fashion):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHj2l_6LoDg

  • Genii, November, 1994 • Martin Nash's "The Very Best Tabled False Cut," from Gary Ouellet's Fulminations column, performed here as part of Ouellet's "Three Second Wonder":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVJ0PYtOW8#t=0m26s

  • Genii, September, 1993 • Homer Liwag's False Faro Shuffle (featured in Gary Ouellet's Fulminations column):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiD1_3dW7xg

  • Genii, November, 1992 • Jean-Pierre Vallarino's Rumba Count (featured in Gary Ouellet's Fulminations column), a false count that allows you to show the faces of all the cards in a small packet as being identical, when in fact they are all different (shown and cued here during a performance of Darwin Ortiz's "Jumping Gemini"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y-uHeX1ep0#t=1m22s

  • Genii, September, 1992 • Bob Farmer's "The Miracle of Life," performed by Gary Ouellet. The magician creates a little life between the palm of his hands:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugyjUN4Wy0

  • Genii, August, 1992 • Popeye (featured in Gary Ouellet's Fulminations column), performed here on a Penn & Teller special. An impromptu dinner-table gag in which you apparently jam a fork into your eye, causing it to explode in a spray of white goo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOgvk21rQE

  • Genii, July, 1991 • David Acer's "Around The World in 80 Dollars," a double bill-change routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06ggWqEYmI

1980s

  • Genii, May, 1988 • Gary Ouellet's "Flash Deck," an instant production of a deck of cards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVJ0PYtOW8#t=0m16s

  • Genii, May, 1988 • Gary Ouellet's "Silverdust" (a sprinkle of silver glitter shaken from a clear salk-shaker converges into a silver dollar, which vanishes once more to the glitter from whence it came):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVJ0PYtOW8#t=0m49s

  • Genii, November, 1986 - Shigeru Sugawara's "Night Passage," performed by Evan Shuster (a superball somehow passes through a finger ring):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onbZawznXGY