Approaches to "Even Money Proposition," which first appeared in The Pallbearers Review.

Additional notes and thoughts on the items published in The Book of Numbers
http://www.magiccafe.be/drupal/content/book-numbers

From the introduction, by the author:

"This manuscript deals with impromptu memory work - specifically, the ability to memorize a group of 12 randomly arranged cards at a glance. It starts from a little-explored notion - one is always working with shuffled cards in no set order."

Each issue comes with some of the props necessary to perform some of the items included in the journal.

Subscribers to The Lowdown will receive ten issues, each about 20 pages, plus ten supplements on a variety of subjects. All of the material in The Lowdown #1 was written up in 2013 and printed in 2015.

Supplements included with Issue #1 were:
- Errata No. 1
- Early Indications No. 1
- Folderol No. 1

This book was followed by another publication, containing additional thought and notes, titled "The Book of Numbers: Supplementary notes."

http://www.magiccafe.be/drupal/content/book-numbers-supplementary-notes

Also see "A History of The Brainwave Principle"
http://www.magiccafe.be/drupal/content/history-brainwave

Also see "Worknotes on Brainwave"
http://www.magiccafe.be/drupal/content/worknotes-brainwave

Confident Deceptions is the latest hardcover release—240 pages, over 150 full-color photographs, with dustjacket. It is the stunning debut effort from Jason Ladanye, one of Darwin Ortiz’s star protégés. The material is a mixture of magic and gambling demonstrations, and in each of the eighteen routines, Ladanye demonstrates his ability to maximize the impact of an effect. Some of the effects are quite challenging, but each one looks absolutely impossible.

From Magicpedia:
Skullo-cation is a trick by Bill Nord, first sold around 1948. The performer places several cards in the mouth of a small skull key chain. He shakes the skull and all the cards fall to the table, except one. The selected card.

Many of the original advertisements for the trick quoted John Scarne as having said, "Bill Nord's Skullo-cation is the most terrific close-up trick I've seen."

The first of a series of three books. The other two volumes were titled "The First Addendum to Wonderful Routines of Magic," and "Wonderful Routines of Magic: The Second Addendum."

Notes From Bill Spooner:

Transpositions with cards and coins via legerdemain & craft.